Office Idiot jobs - who has them?

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Just curious as to how many of you out there have office-space type jobs, and if you could possibly hate it as much as I hate mine. eyeswear2allthatsholy

you probably dont work with any office idiots do you?... lets hear some stories to numb the pain. :wasted

 
Oh, yeah, I work amongst the idiots. The lady in a cube ajoining mine, peridically falls asleep at her desk and comes crashing into the cube walls. I got this stupid girl 2 cubes away from me that sounds like her parents scraped the algae off the shallow end of the gene pool when they made her. I got another chick that announces every single minor occurance to every single customer as the most fantastic/catastrophic event ever. I got "Blue" from Old School's look-a-like that goes to a local tavern over lunch every day and comes back sauced. Our finance people, one is bi-polar, one is lazy, the other one has a stuttering problem. So, when I have an issue with them, I have options; do I want a surprise, do I want to talk to someone's voicemail, or do I want to have a 20 second conversation that lasts 4 minutes.

 
Oh, yeah, I work amongst the idiots. The lady in a cube ajoining mine, peridically falls asleep at her desk and comes crashing into the cube walls. I got this stupid girl 2 cubes away from me that sounds like her parents scraped the algae off the shallow end of the gene pool when they made her. I got another chick that announces every single minor occurance to every single customer as the most fantastic/catastrophic event ever. I got "Blue" from Old School's look-a-like that goes to a local tavern over lunch every day and comes back sauced. Our finance people, one is bi-polar, one is lazy, the other one has a stuttering problem. So, when I have an issue with them, I have options; do I want a surprise, do I want to talk to someone's voicemail, or do I want to have a 20 second conversation that lasts 4 minutes.
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:rollin :rollin :rollin killing me DJR. I love it keep em comin. however, the lady that comes periodically crashing through your cube walls sounds horrifying.

 
Just curious as to how many of you out there have office-space type jobs, and if you could possibly hate it as much as I hate mine. eyeswear2allthatsholy
you probably dont work with any office idiots do you?... lets hear some stories to numb the pain. :wasted
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Ah, just do what I do - shut the door and tell the secretary to hold all calls.

Simple solutions to simple problems! :lol:

 
Just curious as to how many of you out there have office-space type jobs, and if you could possibly hate it as much as I hate mine.  eyeswear2allthatsholy
you probably dont work with any office idiots do you?...  lets hear some stories to numb the pain.  :wasted
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Ah, just do what I do - shut the door and tell the secretary to hold all calls.

Simple solutions to simple problems! :lol:
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ask the secretary to bring in coffee and doughnuts close the door and have your way with....ooooops wrong thread

 
At a prior job I held (Phone Tech for PCs) I trained all new techs and ran that department.

I was training some new techs. One of the techs had a very bad temper. I was trying to teach him how to handle the stress of the job. In the first 6 mo of this type of job you either become very good at it or fail misserably. This tech was headed for the later of the two. He would constintaly push the mute button and swear like a sailor, either at the customer or just in general about the call. Therefore I had to listen in on his calls to help him and make sure he keeps his anger in check. Then came the day....

A customer called and his operating system crashed. The correct thing to do is to talk the customer through reloading the OS. This may date me but this is when we used floopy disks. :lol:

Tech: We need to reload the operating system. You need to get out your packet of floppies labeled OS.

Customer: Which set of disks???

Tech: The pack marked OS, get them

Customer: Does it say OS on it?

Tech: YES!

Customer: Ok I have them

Tech: Put disk 1 in the floppy drive and turn on the PC

Customer: k, done

Tech: Now put in the disk marked Select

Customer: Select??

Tech: Just put it in the drive

Customer: shouldn't i look for the disk marked 2??????

Tech: (hold button) Just put the fu*king thing in the drive

Customer: OK OK I WILL

I jumped in a fixed the situation as best I could. Obviously the hold button didn't work.

Now that is a dumb a$$!!!! :clap :clap :rollin :rollin :clap

I have a ton of hillarious memories from that time. :lol: :lol: :lol:

PS This tech was VERY intellegent! He was just not cut out for Phone support. I moved him to Product Research and Development. He did an oustanding job there.

 
That's awesome. At my last job, I worked at Outback Steakhouse. I didn't have any idiots working there, but my boss was a pain in the arse. When there was nothin to clean off, I would lean against this wall. He would always come out, when I had nothing to do, saying random things. "Pretend this wall is lava and you will get burned" or "The customers don't want you standing here staring at them. Those were wierd times. You're story is way better though.

 
Sounds very familar to my job though I don't have a cubical, my desk is in a large room with 3 or 4 others. Surfing the internet, thinking about working but not actually doing any. Don't get to be nude, though at times I wish I would.

 
Sounds very familar to my job though I don't have a cubical, my desk is in a large room with 3 or 4 others. Surfing the internet, thinking about working but not actually doing any. Don't get to be nude, though at times I wish I would.
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What - you don't have Casual Fridays?????

 
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