things at work that make you cringe?

People who act dull when they are actually intelligent enough to do work, they just need to be shown stuff for the nth time for reassurance purposes but won't admit to it.

And also the bitchiness work brings out in people. Just get on with it.


Oh yea. 'touching bases' lets not?
 
Lord_ZED said:
I ****ing hate most of Radio stations in UK....
Its same **** music on loop Or... People talking about **** i dont give a flying ****.....
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Haha! Tell me about I hate them all with a passion, and driven to madness at work. Dreading tomorrows Radio 2 assault already! Its gonna have that dumbass call-in quiz. "So..tell me a little about yourself I hear youre a DJ!" "Yeh yeh Im a DJ I play at weddings and stuff ya know been doin it 5 years now, the wifes bored of it but you know..." "Great great...well heres your topics...Panda bears or Turtles"

*Slam head repeatedly on keyboard*


hyperzed said:
"Going forward, let's touch base offline so that we can proactively come up with an action plan based on the lessons learned."
Managers :mad:
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Ugh I totally agree...I hate hate hate corporate-speak.

ElvisFan said:
Fags who have to carry a bottle of water with them all the time and then lecture me about not drinking enough water. I drink four pint-mugs of brickie's tea everyday so stick your water up your crack.
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Lol +1 ...I also chug a liter of tea from a flask but get the water lecture.

regulus said:
Banal job titles. By the Gods does this country love a good job title. Like the 'Senior Color Technical Adviser' aka, hair dresser down the road. Give it another year and she'll be a hair engineer.
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We have a Green Transport Specialist Officer. Shes in charge of about 15 bikes we have at work for staff use during lunch breaks etc.

Gooner Leroy said:
People who discuss work out of hours, such as in the pub...
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This is one I really hate. When 17:00 rolls around work stays in that office once the door closes behind me. I actually walk away from people who bring it out with them.
 
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pretty job specific, but HP imaging agent makes me urge/cringe. hate the smell of it.

edit: also, the smell of warming up U.V Gloss... ergh. the smell gets in your clothes too.
 
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"They used to put lead in PVC windows years ago and that's why they turned yellow. That's what the 'U' stands for in 'PVCU', unleaded"

:rolleyes:
 
I have a colleague that doesn't know how to use the word "Ironic" but she still uses it once a day on average. I really want to correct her but it's now beyond the point of no return. A regular example, "I was talking about so and so and then I bumped into them at the shops... that was ironic".
No dear, that's coincidence.
 
On the topic of having the radio on whilst working in the office, up to a couple of years ago I used to work with an admin manager who used to have only Radio 1 on, all day 9am-5pm Mon-Fri and it used to drive me up the wall, constantly having to listen to Chris Moyles and his clan (though I don't think he's too bad now), Sarah Cox and Scott Mills.

The one out of all of them I cannot stand the most and still now whenever I hear her annoying voice, is Sarah Cox. Gosh that bint does talk some complete ****.

As soon as my old admin manager left, that was it - I changed radio stations that day at work and never looked back. I still listen to Radio 1 in the car though occassionally.

Liam
 
My boss has no concept of personal hygiene. He always reeks of B.O and loudly clears his throat every five minutes or so.

He's also a chronic nose-picker / eater, refusing to stop even when talking to other members of staff. Occasionally, he will decide to shove a pen (or whatever else he can find) up there too! :mad:
 
On the subject of radio, my boss listens to some Florida station. Nothing quite like a bit of local news and adverts. Our local radio stations are complete and utter bilge as well.

He doesn't seem to like my choice though if he's in and out of the office all day. What's wrong with BBC World Service anyway? Worried he'd learn something probably.
 
infernox said:
Wanting to change all 71 of our meru dual band access points to 5.0ghz instead of both 2.4ghz and 5.0ghz. I made the case that everything needs to be N standard to support 5.0ghz

Unless we Use A, Which they suggested. I said no.

I had to argue for ages.... Christ.
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Off topic: We are getting Meru over the summer, how is it?

On topic: Things that make me cringe are basically anything to do with the senior managers where I work. So many issues I could reel off but cant because of the potential readers grrrr.

For example - New software package purchased (25k) which involves major server work and planning.

Date of supplier email sent for booking and info gathering -16 April.
Date of IT Manager (me) finding out about this work happening - 18th May
Due date of forms and information - 18th May

WHY TELL ME NOW!!!!

Related: I tell them it requires several shutdown and reboots of the database server to install and configure the software, along with the server being unavailable for the entire time (2 days) = "We are doing this in term time so cant do that MAKE IT WORK!"
 
So many things to write..

The managing director who wanted a very specific CMS set up, but refused to get one purpose built, instead insisting on using a basic one and trying to tweak it to fit our needs. Then complaining when it wasn't exactly right.

The area manager of a camera store who said that all the female staff should be banned from answering the store phone as they "didn't know what they were talking about". Despite the fact that all the female staff had photography qualifications, and the 2 male staff didn't and did genius things like the following...

The two of them spent an entire day (ignoring customers) trying to get the store printer to work. Uninstalled and reinstalled the software, went home to download drivers (no net access at the store), etc. All the time refusing to let any of the girls look at it because they said that if the men couldn't fix it then how would us girls be able to? When they finally left work for the day, promising to look online for a fix, we went over to the printer and discovered it just wasn't plugged in.

Then there was the customer who wanted to buy an SLR for his daughter's wedding. First colleague (we'll call him J) sold him an entry range SLR as the customer had never used an SLR before, and the customer went away. Customer came back the next day saying that the camera didn't work, either the photos were coming out really over exposed, or really under exposed. So J exchanged it for a new one.
Customer came back again the next day, this time he spoke to my other male colleague (this one we'll call M), he was having exactly the same problem again. So this time M exchanged the camera.
Customer was back again the next day, J served him again, this time he decided the best plan was to upgrade him from a £400 entry SLR to a £2000 professional SLR (with, crucially, no auto mode). Of course the customer came back again with, shock surprise, the same problem again.
Because he wasn't adjusting the camera for the different lighting!! So giving him a camera with no auto feature was totally useless!

One of these idiots got promoted to Assistant Manager. One day a customer came in with a memory card which didn't work, I tested it, it really wasn't working. Assistant manager had a go at the customer! Later on assistant manager was bitching about the customer and I pointed out that actually it was him who had been rude, so he started yelling and screaming at me, and ended up by throwing the large bunch of store keys at my head.

I used to run the footwear section in a fashion store, a hell of a lot of shoes were being nicked from the store room. Mon - Fri I was the only one with access to the store room, and knew it wasn't me, so I asked the manager to ensure only one person had access to the store room at the weekend. He refused. Wonder if it had anything to do with the Saturday staff being relatives of his... What do you reckon?
 
Keys being thrown at your head?

I'd have been taking the legal road pronto after that :/
 
So many people on here hate their managers and find them incompetent.
I'm totally the opposite; my managers are really hard working and on the ball and extremely friendly and willing to help. I must have got lucky.

There is one thing however; we work 9 day fortnights and have to make 8 hours in the 2 weeks to get the alternate Friday off. Our times aren't recorded and its all on a trust basis. 99% of the people stick to this. Theres a few people who take the **** with their times though and don't do anywhere near the required time to get their day off, but take it anyway. I feel like grassing them up sometimes!
 
People who get away with having smoke breaks during works time. i don't smoke & i don't get to bunk off for ten minutes three or four times a day.
 
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