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fat mac moron · Oct 30, 2002, 12:48 AM

I work with an EX-postal employee with a gun fetish. How scary is that?

I'm thinking of wearing Target� shirt to work, but that might be in bad taste.

ThisGuy · Oct 30, 2002, 12:52 AM

Originally posted by fat mac moron:
I work with an EX-postal employee with a gun fetish. How scary is that?

I'm thinking of wearing Target� shirt to work, but that might be in bad taste.

i work for a high school district with a really poorly trained IT staff. the tech support specialists(ladies in their 50's with no drive or future) can't run Norton or DiskWarrior properly.

oh, and there is also a guy there who comments on how good some of the 14-18 year old girls look. it really creeps me out.

fat mac moron · Oct 30, 2002, 12:55 AM

Originally posted by ThisGuy:

oh, and there is also a guy there who comments on how good some of the 14-18 year old girls look. it really creeps me out.

lol

Mark Tungston · Oct 30, 2002, 12:59 AM

i used to work with a Christian and he tried to convert me. it was a part of his religion and it was only one time in the beginning.

he was actually cool but we were never allowed to curse or do anything fun when the dude was around.

he actually preached on the trains and stuff.

ThisGuy · Oct 30, 2002, 01:09 AM

how about a new thread about the best employee you work/worked with?

my vote would then go to my boss immediately after i graduated from college. she and i used to go out to lunch together...yada yada yada... she gave great head.

ThisGuy · Oct 30, 2002, 01:10 AM

Originally posted by Mark Tungston:
i used to work with a Christian and he tried to convert me. it was a part of his religion and it was only one time in the beginning.

he was actually cool but we were never allowed to curse or do anything fun when the dude was around.

he actually preached on the trains and stuff.

zealots scare me.

philzilla · Oct 30, 2002, 01:24 AM

this is parallax using zilla's login again. i just wanted to say i think demonhood should do his hair in a different style, or his butt is gone from this outfit.

sorry 'bout that phil, elz h4x0r3d my login and i knew your password was still 455m45+3r. i'll make you a mod next week, fer sure, d00d

DaKiwi2788 · Oct 30, 2002, 01:32 AM

The overacheivers who are opsessive compulsive and literally vacuum under you while you are eating just to catch the crumbs.

What's worse is when they are in the same room as the underacheivers who call in sick for 2 weeks claiming to have a sister with cancer who is on her death bed....and then he is found trout fishing by the boss man. Oops!!!

I love my job!

LeftWingLock · Oct 30, 2002, 10:33 AM

We have a perpetual hypochondriac who is suffering from every new and trendy ailment (carpal tunnel, Lyme's disease, chronic fatigue, etc.) who is always threatening to bump other people from their positions even though she is barely qualified for her own and chews with her mouth open at lunch.

pixelghetto · Oct 30, 2002, 11:57 AM

I used to work with philzilla, 'nuff said!

philzilla · Oct 30, 2002, 12:14 PM

Originally posted by pixelghetto:
I learnt everything i know, from philzilla, because i used to ask him questions all bloody day and get him to help me with everything. 'nuff said!

i used to work, you used to sit "learning" AIM

2002 update: nothing's changed, other than our locations

pixelghetto · Oct 30, 2002, 12:15 PM

I never did aim then, i wised up since!

boardsurfer · Oct 30, 2002, 02:11 PM

I work with a guy that has a voice so freakin low that I NEVER NEVER NEVER understand a word he is saying. AND, he mumbles. It drives me absolutely batty. Even worse, he answers the phones here. His desk is about 10 feet from mine in an open room, and while he answers phones all day, I never actually hear a word he says until he turns to me and says something. I never know what he is saying, so I just pick up the line that is on hold assuming that is what he is telling me.

Oh and as far as bad co workers go: The Chronicles of George

I know its been talked about before...

Korv · Oct 30, 2002, 03:04 PM

I would revile you with woinderous tales of woe about the f*cked up people I work with...

if I had a job.

digimage · Oct 30, 2002, 03:57 PM

I was hired to do photoshop/illustrator work for a local defense contractor. They were stoked when they found out I knew after FX and 3D as well. Went great for 3 weeks, then, all of the sudden, I was handed a framemaker (ancient page layout program) project with a bunch of engineering schematics.

The guy that put this together was crosseyed and mumbled more than milton from "office space". I was expected to take the entire 400 page document and make individual illustrator documents. 1 document=1 page! And he wanted this in 1 week. :-\

He wanted to print posters of each page, and thought it would "print better in illustrator". My boss just shrugged her shoulders and said "do it". I found out later he was buds with the owner.

I printed out 3 posters from his framemaker document, showed him, and was told to do it his way-or leave.

Naturally, he had "just a couple" of changes and wanted to sit on my shoulder and "manage" them. (he had thousands!)

The only words he ever said, and I am not making this up, were:

"comment, comment, dataword, dataword". and "in order to receive the response, we must first apply a stimuli at this time".

Needless to say, I found something else and got out of there 2 days later. My boss was so pissed. She went on a psycho rampage and threw her day-planner at me. What kills me, is I asked her when she hired me if this was strictly an illustration job. No page layout, no word processing, no leaving the group and being assigned to anyone else for any reason. She said "strictly with me, strictly illustration".

She had to be hospitalized at a booby hatch. She had apparently been working 120 hour work weeks and being the owners b!tch even on the weekends; he'd call her at home and make her come in on pain of being fired.

I heard they recently folded.

Good.

This is really extreme, but in the DC area, this crap happens all the time.

Phanguye · Oct 30, 2002, 04:19 PM

i worked with this kid at my school one year... he was such an idiot... me and my friends got him fired by telling him the way to fix the computer he was working on was to type 'deltree C

*.* /y" in the command prompt on the principals computer

needless to say anyone who would believe that deserves to get the boot

DaKiwi2788 · Oct 30, 2002, 05:54 PM

Originally posted by Phanguye:

i worked with this kid at my school one year... he was such an idiot... me and my friends got him fired by telling him the way to fix the computer he was working on was to type 'deltree C*.* /y" in the command prompt on the principals computer

needless to say anyone who would believe that deserves to get the boot

Oh wow...what a stud! Where are you from in Indiana?

Phanguye · Oct 30, 2002, 06:31 PM

Originally posted by DaKiwi2788:

Oh wow...what a stud! Where are you from in Indiana?

i am originally from Zionsville which is right outside Indy... now i go to the good college in Indiana, IU.

macvillage.net · Oct 30, 2002, 06:36 PM

I have a 2 way tie from when I was lifeguarding:

One girl would talk about her sex life from the night before "Me and my boyfriend went a bar with one of his friends. I got so drunk I had sex with him, his friend, and a few guys we just met at the bar. It was so much fun that we continued well after we ran out of condoms".... THIS WAS A CASUAL CONVERSATION BEFORE THAT.

Another was a Peidophile. He would comment about how good very young girls looked (or would look in a few years). It was funny at first.. But after a while I just wanted to kick him when he commented about a 12 year old. I still don't know if he was jokiing or not... but my guess is he wasn't.

Saw a lot of disqusting things on the job.... But sometimes the employees took the gold.

wdlove · Oct 31, 2002, 10:22 AM

Those that are controlling or looking out for themselves! Difficult to work with someone that doesn't do their job.