things at work that make you cringe?

oldbag said:
Worst things i've experienced:

1. People nice to your face, say that they understand a certain situation, etc. Then after, backstab you to your boss via e-mail, "because this is why I cannot do my job today, it's HIS fault".
2. People that copy in every manager they can find as a prod to attempt you to do things faster.
3. The fact you can trust no one at work because you know whatever you say will be passed on.
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I get this day to day. Annoying isn't it?
 
well i learnt a usefull piece of information from the 'manager' today that i was completly oblivious to, and in fact had been living with false knowledge. i thought i would share this wisdom with you so you do not make the same mistake i did.
on the back of a pc you have 3 audio sockets. pink, green and blue. (this much i already knew, but this is where my knowledge had been miss guided for years). the pink is for a microphone (right, so far so good), the green is for speakers (woohoo i might just pass) the blue is for headphones (YES 3 out of....oh what?!? headphones?!? i was sure it was line in). then, and again, still in shock from my realisation that i had only ever truly known what 2 out of the 3 sockets were, he then proceeded on telling the customer another nugget of wisdom i did not know, the green and blue sockets however, sometimes get swapped around by the computer, so sometimes green is headphones and blue is speakers, and this can happen out of nowhere, without any kind of warning or message.
now this i felt was too much wisdom to take in, so i felt i needed a break. so i thought, maybe some of you had been living in total unawareness of what these sockets were, just like i was. maybe on monday i will here what the grey, black and orange sockets are on super duper sound cards.
 
Working in Child Care, seeing people really take the **** and not CRB'ing their volunteers. When I started at said place, they didn't even ask for my surname, address, photo ID or anything. And then they left me alone with the kids a lot.

Left that place pretty sharpish.
 
mrk said:
Keys being thrown at your head?

I'd have been taking the legal road pronto after that :/
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Wish I had! Went to the area manager about it, but as you've probably already gathered from my previous post, he's was as much of an idiot as the assistant manager. I ended up moving to another store. Where I had more run ins with the area manager..
 
Empusa said:
Wish I had! Went to the area manager about it, but as you've probably already gathered from my previous post, he's was as much of an idiot as the assistant manager. I ended up moving to another store. Where I had more run ins with the area manager..
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I did work in retail (part-time) for over 2 years when I was at college so can completely understand how frustrating it can be working with people who are supposed to be senior level yet show no sign of it in competency or personality :(

It's no different in other sectors though but thankfully as you work your way up you tend to shuffle past them at a steady pace :p
 
Being asked "can one of your resources work on this ?"

A resource ? You mean a stapler ? How about a desk ? Don't think they'll be any use !

Oh, you mean a person
 
The guy who sits I front of me farts all day & its ****Ing toxic! :mad:

I spray my perfume around whenever he does it. Today my Director asked what the lovely smell was... When he disappeared we confronted the guy... He denied it!!! Blatantly was him!

At least he's aware now lol...and will get ribbing everytime it happens...

BB x
 
"Why's that job taking you so long"

Nothing at all to do with the fact you didn't order the parts when I asked for them, don't have the right manuals for it, haven't fixed the lights so I have to work with a torch and you keep taking me off the bloody job to do something ****ing else..

"But it needs to be done by Saturday"

Oh ****off..
 
When people say 'action' instead of the appropriate verb.

You need to action those reports.

I've actioned the booking request.

Go action yourself mate.
 
"Ok good point - let's calendarise that to discuss!"

Ok, so I know you're my Director and you're an enormously talented and well-paid guy but 'calendarise' is not a word. No, it is not :mad:
 
Most of the pain i suffer at work can be summed up by the following incident:

I have a file on a usb stick and i want to email it
but USB ports on the computer are disabled
so i have to raise a request to temporarily enable it complete with 3 parahraphs that need writing stating the reason, business case, and potential risks of doing this.
then it needs to be approved by:
- my boss
- my boss' boss
- it security manager
- it compliance manager
after that a guy comes down to my desk, enables USB ports, copies file, disables usb ports

except that the request got denied at the first stage because my reason wasn't good enough.

ffs i'll just wait until i get home then...
 
mrk said:
I did work in retail (part-time) for over 2 years when I was at college so can completely understand how frustrating it can be working with people who are supposed to be senior level yet show no sign of it in competency or personality :(

It's no different in other sectors though but thankfully as you work your way up you tend to shuffle past them at a steady pace :p
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Worked in retail for 2 years full time, lets call the shop...."urtons". I was always brilliant with my customer service, taking as long as the customer needed to find what they where after. I was told by my manager that I was spending to long with people, although I always got glowing praise.
I was manager of the shoes (different company), The suits (different company) and worked for "urtons". The split was 20 hours shoes, 10 hours suits and 7.5 hours "urtons". Yet I was expected to drop everything I was doing and help out incompetent co-workers who regularly had break downs/temper tantrums. I practically ran that store.

When I left I was told I had been royally backstabbed, Told I was rubbish and also was the main reason we had no profit margin.....that must be why I got 2 cheques for £200 each for making huge profits on the shoes and suits....I hate retail, I find it hard to even shop in high street stores now.
 
Empusa said:
Wish I had! Went to the area manager about it, but as you've probably already gathered from my previous post, he's was as much of an idiot as the assistant manager. I ended up moving to another store. Where I had more run ins with the area manager..
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Jessops?

I used to be a branch manager for them
 
DiCe! said:
Worked in retail for 2 years full time, lets call the shop...."urtons". I was always brilliant with my customer service, taking as long as the customer needed to find what they where after. I was told by my manager that I was spending to long with people, although I always got glowing praise.
I was manager of the shoes (different company), The suits (different company) and worked for "urtons". The split was 20 hours shoes, 10 hours suits and 7.5 hours "urtons". Yet I was expected to drop everything I was doing and help out incompetent co-workers who regularly had break downs/temper tantrums. I practically ran that store.

When I left I was told I had been royally backstabbed, Told I was rubbish and also was the main reason we had no profit margin.....that must be why I got 2 cheques for £200 each for making huge profits on the shoes and suits....I hate retail, I find it hard to even shop in high street stores now.
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Pretty much this applied to the 1st line support role I had when I first started an IT career.

My customer service experience was rather good and I spent time explaining issues to our customers and what they can do to avoid having to call us up every other week for repeat problems but apparently spending more than 2 minutes talking to a customer is not acceptable yet you’re supposed to get positive customer feedback which goes towards your annual review…Yeah that combination works well :p
 
Hamish said:
Most of the pain i suffer at work can be summed up by the following incident:

I have a file on a usb stick and i want to email it
but USB ports on the computer are disabled
so i have to raise a request to temporarily enable it complete with 3 parahraphs that need writing stating the reason, business case, and potential risks of doing this.
then it needs to be approved by:
- my boss
- my boss' boss
- it security manager
- it compliance manager
after that a guy comes down to my desk, enables USB ports, copies file, disables usb ports

except that the request got denied at the first stage because my reason wasn't good enough.

ffs i'll just wait until i get home then...
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If you do work in a high security environment such as government or financial services then it may well be that your request was denied for a reason, and "getting around it" by taking the stick home isn't solving the problem. Might just be meaningless bureaucratic nonsense too of course.

I do wonder though, what is on the stick and why do you need to transfer its contents into the environment ?
 
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