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It is in bad taste to post a huge sign by the coffee maker:
If it is before 10am, please make another pot of coffee.
I just got out of a headache inducing meeting (though I do feel WICKED smart) and I just want a FREAKING CUP OF COFFEE and there’s none.
WHO DOES THAT?!!?!
(sorry about the coffee related rants, but come on people, it’s called consideration)
I did place a sticky note next to the outlet as the offending party often unplugs the pot. Screw that.
Please note:
When you are finished with the copier, press the “clear” button.
I’d be willing to bet that you’re the same person who takes the last of the coffee.
It’s one thing to not care about problems related to your account, it’s quite another to root around other peoples mailboxes.
Especially the bosses.
Just so you know.
There are some people I just don’t like talking to.
It’s not that they’re bad people, it’s that everything they say is gloom and doom, even when it’s something that’s not all gloom and doom. Ya dig?
I.E.
Employee #1: “Hey there co-worker, how was your weekend?”
Employee #2: “Overdramatization of typical, yet tedious homeowner tasks.”
Employee #1:”Wow, sounds like you had a productive weekend!”
Employee #2: “I’m so tired/beat/overworked from lawn work/house work/spring tasks!”
Employee #1: “I agree, as I also did a number of the tasks that you mentioned.”
Employee #2: “But I did more and mine was worse. Woe is me. Exaggerated sigh!”
Employee #1: “Uh-huh….”
Another example
Employee #1: “Wow co-worker, you’re rubbing your temples for the umpteeth time this morning, are you okay?
Employee #2: “It’s just this mess I put myself in. I shouldn’t have done what I did and now I am going to walk around looking distraught until someone offers to assist in my hole digging.”
Employee #1: “I have to go over here now.”
Dear Fellow Office Inhabitants,
It is 9:15am.
Will someone please explain to me why the coffee pot is empty? Not only is it empty, it’s been rinsed out as if no one else will be drinking coffee today.
(While I asked this in another post, I am reposting as it’s own post. “say post again.” “post.”)
Dear Fellow Cuberats,
What makes it acceptable for an office person to be funny?
Why is it that some people (I’m talking about in the office environment) seem to be downright annoying instead of funny?
Is it delivery?
Is it something else?
Why is it that one person can say some, have it be chuckleworthy, but another person can say a very similar thing and you want to staple their shirt to the cube wall?
Thoughts?
Examples?
(I guess I didn’t realize how much my work mishaps interested people…)
A co-worker and I are walking outside, discussing the weather (it was a legit discussion!) and I hear a voice behind me talking as well.
It was mentioned that the parties ride had not arrived. I thought that there were two people behind us, so I paid no mind and continued my conversation.
When I got into the truck, I realized that there were only three of us in the parking lot.
You know that person (and you all do) who tries to wedge themselves into an “A” and “B” conversation, especially when no one was really talking to them?
I revert to my Brick Tamlin commentary.
“COUGH COUGH LOOK OVER HERE!”
Perhaps this leads into another topic…
At what point is joking acceptable?
Is it if you’re cute?
If you’re capable?
If it’s actually funny?
I ask as I began wondering if when I say things that I think are funny regarding causal observations, is it really funny?
Nemmie and I made a similar comment regarding something the other day. While I thought I was super witty, I rolled my eyes (in my head of course) at an almost similar response from them.
Perhaps I’m not as witty as I thought I was or perhaps I’m less tolerant when it comes from someone else… although all similar responses do not warrant similar behaviors. I guess what I’m saying is, if someone I don’t have such a cringe reaction from says something funny, I laugh.
What line in the sand differentiates?
P.S.
It should be mentioned that while Nemmie was singular in the past, I think that perhaps there’s some kind of mitosis going on…
I am so totally confused.
Is it just me or had there been a major recent flux in the rudeness/obliviousness spectrum?
For example:
We have some one who does things, I’m sure with all good intentions, which create giant problems for others in the sphere. It is quite a common occurrence and it’s like a trail of chaos will lead them back. Do they not realize that people are upset with them and their actions? The body language alone should be enough.
Another example:
One of the blue-collar workers comes in to get some water from the cooler. One of the newer white-collars says, in a way I though was condescending, “What? Do you think you’re special and can have the special water?”
BC: Mumble
WC: Yeah, thought you were special.
BC: Grumble.
WC: Help yourself to the special water.
Hello?
Is this a common ailment or is everyone concentrated in the vicinity of me?
I take that back… Allison had this problem.
Peeps is sayin'