Am I the only one with stupid coworkers?

[DisgruntledVirus]

Yesterday I had an issue with one of my policies, and I had to send a request to another dept to correct the issue on it. I was unable to re-label the policy to that dept, because of said issue. Knowing how this hell hole I call a job works, I sent an email to my boss and the two people who do distribution saying what was going on with that policy.

Well sure enough omw into work today, I get an email on my Blackberry from one of the distribution people saying "PLEASE COMPLETE", but couldn't see the content of the email (as it was a screenshot she pasted into it). Immediately I am thinking that it's about that policy, and when I get to my desk and check email I see I was correct.

Oh and sent my boss an email last Friday asking her a question about this past Tuesday (which I needed to know the answer to before I came in Tuesday I might add), and about taking last Monday off. I came into work Tuesday, I still had not gotten anything.

Is it just my company that employees are unable to read their flippin email, or is this common in other offices as well? Now I remember why I didn't think about this place once in the two weeks I was out...

Cliffs:
Send email yesterday telling coworker about an issue with a policy
Coworker sends me an email this morning with the subject "PLEASE COMPLETE" about said policy

 

[rocadelpunk]

work rant or weak rant? yuk yuk yuk

 

[Pepsei]

no, there are some in the company, but i'm glad i don't have any in our department.

 

[LinuxIdiot]

Ours is similar. We have a scheduler for time-offs, breaks and making sure our phones are covered. You can request time-off a month in advance and you wont know if it has been approved until a couple of days before your scheduled request if not the day before.

 

[Deviant Grasshopper]

That isn't that bad at all.

 

[Gand1]

I like when you are on a conference call with about 29 other people and one ass decides they are going to go do something and instead of hitting mute they put their phone on hold. Hold music over a conference call is always entertaining! :roll:

 

[olds]

People have trouble reading email? Fuck, I had trouble reading the OP.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: Gand1
I like when you are on a conference call with about 29 other people and one ass decides they are going to go do something and instead of hitting mute they put their phone on hold. Hold music over a conference call is always entertaining! :roll:

Just a few days ago someone on a conference call answered a different phone, so we call got to hear him say "Company name, thank you for calling blah blah" before someone told him to mute his line.

 

[alchemize]

/embedded parody

Am I the only one with stupid employees?

I have this guy who sends out emails and copies me on EVERYTHING about stupid minor issues. Apparently he has the inability to pick up the phone or walk over to a desk and clear it up, he loves to "hide behind email". To tie it off, I'll discuss this issue with him and he rants off on some tangent about how I didn't respond to his "can I take a day off" email? Take the day off, you don't need me to micro-manage your life! Assume it's OK if I don't respond!

How did people ever survive before they could send an email and declare themselves completely resolved of all follow-up responsibility? Some of us have to nef on ATOT and can't be responding to every single email we receive!

/end parody

 

[CRXican]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
People have trouble reading email? Fuck, I had trouble reading the OP.

I have no idea wtf he's talking about.

 

[joesmoke]

thats nothing... the fat lady in the cube next to me makes calls to her doctor about when her vaginal creams arent working and she still has "itching and discharge". AND she always talks at full volume. stupidity is easy to ignore when one is puking into a wastebasket.

 

[pontifex]

stupid co-workers appear to be universal.

 

[ggnl]

There are a few people that I work with who are notorious for never answering email. It's mainly higer level people, peons like me could never get away with that shit.

 

[LinuxIdiot]

Originally posted by: Gand1
I like when you are on a conference call with about 29 other people and one ass decides they are going to go do something and instead of hitting mute they put their phone on hold. Hold music over a conference call is always entertaining! :roll:

Awesome this just happened today with a conference call of about 3 different departments concerning the way we do year-end surveys for employee satisfaction.

While the presenter is talking all of a sudden our hold-music starts playing everyone kind of giggles but he goes on talking. While my group (around 5 people) are sitting there you hear the hold music come off and all of a sudden you hear someone say rather loudly, "I THOUGHT I HAD MUTE ON", she goes on to say something else and then gets muted


My group started laughing right outside of our VP's office door for a good 2 minutes. It sounded so hickish.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Considering your poor English I can understand how you have difficulty communicating with your work mates.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Gand1
I like when you are on a conference call with about 29 other people and one ass decides they are going to go do something and instead of hitting mute they put their phone on hold. Hold music over a conference call is always entertaining! :roll:

haha, yep, i've seen (or heard actually) that happen at least once.

 

[effowe]

Why don't you respond with something like "PLEASE RE-READ ORIGINAL EMAIL"

 

[HammerCurl]

Originally posted by: CRXican

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
People have trouble reading email? Fuck, I had trouble reading the OP.

I have no idea wtf he's talking about.

True, you are confusing OP.

 

[zinfamous]

Am I the only one with stupid coworkers?

yes, you are the only one.

Oh, and here

 

[funkymatt]

engineers love to tell me to change the process of building code, even though it's nearly completely automated. After 4 or 5 code failures, they find the bug and resubmit... i try not to give them too much shit about it.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

Originally posted by: zinfamous

Am I the only one with stupid coworkers?

yes, you are the only one.

Oh, and here

Was posted after OP posting time.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

Originally posted by: effowe
Why don't you respond with something like "PLEASE RE-READ ORIGINAL EMAIL"

I sent a response saying "I sent you an email about this yesterday", and attached the original email.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

Originally posted by: alchemize
/embedded parody

Am I the only one with stupid employees?

I have this guy who sends out emails and copies me on EVERYTHING about stupid minor issues. Apparently he has the inability to pick up the phone or walk over to a desk and clear it up, he loves to "hide behind email". To tie it off, I'll discuss this issue with him and he rants off on some tangent about how I didn't respond to his "can I take a day off" email? Take the day off, you don't need me to micro-manage your life! Assume it's OK if I don't respond!

How did people ever survive before they could send an email and declare themselves completely resolved of all follow-up responsibility? Some of us have to nef on ATOT and can't be responding to every single email we receive!

/end parody

The only reason I use email is because it leaves proof of my actions for situations just like this.

For my boss, if I hadn't emailed her and she "forgot" we had the convo then I would have gotten an "occurance" (i.e. an absence above the # allowed out for a day). I was out of town, so I couldn't exactly "walk up and talk to" my boss. As for the phone, my boss doesn't answer most the time (not at her desk). I would leave a voice mail, but I still may not get a call back from her. As much as I wish we weren't micro-managed to this level, we are and I am covering my own ass.

The other coworker I wanted email proof of me informing her so it doesn't look like I didn't complete my work.

As for "before email how did people surivive", I would have scheduled the day off prior to leaving but our 2009 vacation calendar hadn't gotten to me yet. My boss was out for 2 wks prior to my vacation so I couldn't talk to her directly (and I like having proof to back me up).

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

Originally posted by: HammerCurl

Originally posted by: CRXican

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
People have trouble reading email? Fuck, I had trouble reading the OP.

I have no idea wtf he's talking about.

True, you are confusing OP.

Happens. I hadn't had my coffee yet when I posted that. Sorry lol...