The "Complain About Your Fellow Coworkers" Thread

[BlackHawkPaul]

Sometimes we need an internet water cooler to talk aboot the dead weight that "work" with us.

Fire away.</p>

 

[ytsejam]

On it!</p>


The guys in my department are great.</p>


But the kid that works under me, Erik, has a tendency to bullshit too much and not work enough, but he is getting better.</p>


He does really good work but one thing pisses me off about him.</p>


He is too friendly with this lowlife lazy motherfucker from a different department.  This fucking guy, lowlife Matt I will call him, has been at this place longer than I have and has gotten moved around to many different jobs.  Not because he's versatile, but because his uppers get tired of hearing him blab and use any excuse to do anything but actually fucking work.  He is on his third "last chance" now I believe. </p>


For one, I don't want lowlife Matt in my part of the shop.  I am a real asshole to him to discourage visits with Erik.</p>


I can't tell Erik who he can or can't hang with or talk to in an official sense, but I have told him again and again.</p>


"Don't hang with Matt, don't talk to Matt.  He is a stupid, lazy ****.  You outclass him by miles and hanging with him just makes you look bad. You should feel nothing but contempt for a jackwagon like that."</p>


Erik doesn't see a stupid, useless twit when he looks at lowlife Matt.</p>


He sees a guy that has done little more than **** off and bullshit for YEARS and still has a job.</p>


That encourages him to do the same and I have to do my best to break this shit up so Erik can keep his job and not have his bosses pissed at him so often.</p>


And a while back, near end of the shift, lowlife Matt happened to be working near where Erik and I were trying like hell to nearly finish a really hot job by the end of the week so my 2nd shift kid, Derek, could finish up on his shift.  My boss called Erik and I over and said something or other, then said, "Derek better not call in tonight and **** us."</p>


As Erik and I were passing by lowlife Matt on the way to DO SOME FUCKING WORK, lowlife Matt asked Erik, "What did he say about Derek?"</p>


Grrrr!!!!!</p>


Erik almost stopped to answer but I was behind him and nudged him along and said we had shit to do.  Then I told lowlife Matt that what was said to me and Erik, by our boss, was none of his business, he isn't qualified to carry Derek's jock, and to stop bothering people that actually do shit.</p>


**** lowlife Matt.</p>


Erik has skills, Derek has really good skills.  They both have knowledge.</p>


Shit, I am a badass at what I do and Derek impressed me from the start.  Younger version of myself, maybe even a bit more knowledge than I had at his point.  I fought like hell to get him rehired when he got out of jail.  The 8 weeks without him sucked!</p>


I want those guys to be arrogant, condescending pricks to no skill, no nothing, fucksticks like lowlife Matt as well as some others.  And at least to half of the welders.</p>


Being an asshole isn't really in my job description, but it sure makes my job easier!</p>

 

[BiscuitintheBasket]

Constant popping of bubble gum, including the oh so annoying chewing with the mouth open rapidly and throwing in a few pops along the way (usually the rapid ones).  Yup you can get pissed at me all you want after I close your office door....but you have been warned for years.</p>

 

[MassHavoc]

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Constant popping of bubble gum, including the oh so annoying chewing with the mouth open rapidly and throwing in a few pops along the way (usually the rapid ones).  Yup you can get pissed at me all you want after I close your office door....but you have been warned for years.</p>
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Wait... this is still a thing? And people still call it bubble gum?</p>

 

[jaxhawksfan]

Went to a trade show in Ft. Lauderdale this past Friday, Sat and Sun.  My bosses are such assholes they forced me to go out to party two of the nights and listen to shitty music.  I fucking hate VIP sections of night clubs.  I would much rather sit at a pub with my beer, where I could have a conversation with a lady instead of trying to scream at her over the shitty music.</p>

 

[TSD]

In the world of handling defects for obamacare.  There are so many that people are just trying to get them off their plate and are passing defects on to me that aren't my area or resolving/rejecting defects without verifying they even work.  I spend half my day sending emails calling bullshit on people, I hope they don't extend me at the end of the month.  I intend on taking a month of vacation time and putting this fucking debacle in my rear view.</p>

 

[BigPete]

We have an asshole in my office...shit he's been here for three years...</p>


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The office I am in has about 11 desks.  And about 20 various people have worked in here over the three years that I have been sitting in this room.  We all agree about this guy.</p>


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This asshole used to sing all the time every day, horribly I might add, and we would all tell him to STFU the instant he started singing.  It took about two years of us yelling at him, giving him death threats, and pleading with his supervisor to counsel him on it.  Now he loves to tap on his desk and occasionally hums.  He also talks to his wife and adult kids multiple times a day and has to say, "Okay then" over and over about 20 times before finally getting off the phone.</p>


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Lately he has been loudly berating a newer employee for her work quality and he isn't even her supervisor.</p>


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I hate this MFer.</p>

 

[the canadian dream]

I have no issues with any of my coworkers. THe one person i did have an issue with is gone from the company because he was a creepy ****** and it was bound to happen. I have been lucky to never really work with anyone who was a dick. But I also tend to work jobs where I am working independently on my own. Only real issue I ever had was actually working with an old close friend of mine doing dry docks on cruise ships. Not sure why we butt heads but we did. I chalk it up to working too closely with good friends. I don't think that is ever a good idea. Co-workers shouldn't become your best friends and best friends shouldn't be working in close quarters with one another in my opinion. I know a lot of people who feel different about that though and who can handle working with really close friends. I can't do it.</p>

 

[jakobeast]

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I have no issues with any of my coworkers. THe one person i did have an issue with is gone from the company because he was a creepy ****** and it was bound to happen. I have been lucky to never really work with anyone who was a dick. But I also tend to work jobs where I am working independently on my own. Only real issue I ever had was actually working with an old close friend of mine doing dry docks on cruise ships. Not sure why we butt heads but we did. I chalk it up to working too closely with good friends. I don't think that is ever a good idea. Co-workers shouldn't become your best friends and best friends shouldn't be working in close quarters with one another in my opinion. I know a lot of people who feel different about that though and who can handle working with really close friends. I can't do it.</p>
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Well luckily we arent friends. Now you can get me a job.</p>

 

[ytsejam]

I'm going to Minnesota when it gets warm to see an old friend that is running a machine shop up there.  He had been trying to get me to come work with him a few years ago, but that was in South Carolina, **** that.</p>


My job kicks ass, I am treated well by everyone, worshiped as a god by others.</p>


Gonna have fun in MN, drink beer, play shit load of disc golf, drink more beer, see friend's shop, maybe find job for 150% of my current pay.</p>


Too bad it is even fucking colder there.</p>


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I think Pete should kick that guy's ass, and TCD should make some damn friends already. Smoke some good BC shit with a coworker or something. That's how I made friends with the guy that is now my boss at my kick ass job.</p>

 

[The Mule]

The other day at work someone said she prefers the Demi Lovato version of "Let it Go" over the Frozen movie version sung by Broadway legend Idina Menzel. I didn't set her on fire or punch her, even though she deserved it. And I deserve a cookie for being so cool about how lame she is.</p>


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Is this the right kind of complaining?</p>

 

[BiscuitintheBasket]

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Wait... this is still a thing? And people still call it bubble gum?</p>
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Well, it ain't chewing gum if you are popping it  rcs-buttshake:

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[BiscuitintheBasket]

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The other day at work someone said she prefers the Demi Lovato version of "Let it Go" over the Frozen movie version sung by Broadway legend Idina Menzel. I didn't set her on fire or punch her, even though she deserved it. And I deserve a cookie for being so cool about how lame she is.
 
Is this the right kind of complaining?</p></blockquote>

<span style="color:rgb(238,130,238);">Demi's version is not so cabaret</span>

 

[Tater]

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I have no issues with any of my coworkers. THe one person i did have an issue with is gone from the company because he was a creepy ****** and it was bound to happen. I have been lucky to never really work with anyone who was a dick. But I also tend to work jobs where I am working independently on my own. Only real issue I ever had was actually working with an old close friend of mine doing dry docks on cruise ships. Not sure why we butt heads but we did. I chalk it up to working too closely with good friends. I don't think that is ever a good idea. Co-workers shouldn't become your best friends and best friends shouldn't be working in close quarters with one another in my opinion. I know a lot of people who feel different about that though and who can handle working with really close friends. I can't do it.</p>
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I have that exact same problem at work now (working with a friend). We've had some huge fights (work related) but some far we've remained friends.

We are good at separating the two almost like the old sheepdog/coyote cartoons. They try to kill each other all day, but when they punch out at the end of the day and chat like nothings happened.</p>

 

[LordKOTL]

I'm in the same boat--the people I work with I tend to not have issues with. It's usually people on the periphery, or those high up in the adminisphere, that I do.</p>


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Either way it distills out to them know what I bring to the table and delivering it, and them getting me what I need.</p>


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It could be a hell of a lot worse, and I keep that in the back of my skull.</p>

 

[BlackHawkPaul]

I get along with my bosses, however I see it when they decide to micromanage my fellow coworkers. Things that I get away with (albeit small) will be pointed out for someone else. My coworker does make it worse for himself, because I feel that he has an issue with females being in an authoritative position. 

On occasion I will be late. Not an issue. My coworker late- huge issue. I feel for the guy, but he makes it worse by putting his foot in his mouth by petty arguing, then it turns into some real interesting unprofessionalism on all sides.


Which leads me to my next point. If I'm working for you I am 100% professional. If it's us having beers off the clock, the poop jokes are in full force. I know the lines, I don't cross them. I have issues with unprofessionalism with my bosses. I could care less if they make asses of themselves when I'm not around, but I've been a bystander when they decide to lose their collective shit over basic things. I am then giving the "I'm not with her" gestures, or slowly walking to the nearest exit.</p>

 

[LordKOTL]

^^^I've had to be the same out of necessity--where there's a "switch" for work where I have to back my personality off a shit-ton lest I get fired.</p>


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There's some of my black humor that passes muster at work--like when my supervisor was late to a meeting assisting someone in our water department (we were in telecommunications at the time), and when asked, on the day that the earthquake destroyed that japanese reactor and there was a tsunami warning all across the west coast, where he was, I blurted out, "He's baling out water."</p>


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But some of my usual humor--like "Ya gotta think positive!" "You mean like Greg Luganis..." or the hyper-offensive stuff needs to be completely shut down and kept "professional".</p>


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I've seen people canned for e-mailing stuff that's a bit over the line, and let's be honest--I like my job and don't want to lose it. </p>

 

[TSD]

and son of a ***** they extended me to april 30.  **** Obamacare.</p>