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cherylpf
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 Posted: 07/20/04 - 15:31 Post subject: cant. handle. coworkers.
I can't. I'm going to lose it. They are driving me insane. Emotionally high strung guy is currently wadding his panties and fighting back tears because I didn't respond to his non-work-related email (that he put a read receipt on, weird) fast enough for his tastes. I was on the phone with our boss, dude, calm down  Then, ultra creepy 'no clue about personal space' 400 lb sidler boy just literally cornered me in the print room because 'we hadn't chatted in a while, how are things going?' all while standing WAAAAAY too close. Dude, we never speak, why now when I'm clearly in a hurry? Move your belly. then there are the ones who literally make my salary times 100 who want me to do their work on top of mine (I actually have some to do now) so that (I assume) they can go get botox over lunch. Excuse me, you already are unable to blink, this is why you have an intern put visine in your eyes. I read in Vogue that 78 is the age you start to come to grips with wrinkles. Think about it.
Same stuff, new day, its just really annoying me today for some reason. Whats new in your cube land?
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DCRunningDiva
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Posted: 07/20/04 - 15:37 Post subject:
 Uh uh uh...thinking thoughts like that will move you right out of purgatory and into the "under levels!" 
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akern
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Posted: 07/20/04 - 15:38 Post subject:
You need to quit wearing that phermone perfume.
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jrjo
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Posted: 07/20/04 - 15:43 Post subject: Re: cant. handle. coworkers.
| cherylpf wrote: | | ... botox over lunch. Excuse me, you already are unable to blink, this is why you have an intern put visine in your eyes... |
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rolling rock
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Posted: 07/20/04 - 15:44 Post subject: Re: cant. handle. coworkers.
| cherylpf wrote: | | I can't. I'm going to lose it. They are driving me insane. Emotionally high strung guy is currently wadding his panties and fighting back tears because I didn't respond to his non-work-related email (that he put a read receipt on, weird) fast enough for his tastes. I was on the phone with our boss, dude, calm down Then, ultra creepy 'no clue about personal space' 400 lb sidler boy just literally cornered me in the print room because 'we hadn't chatted in a while, how are things going?' all while standing WAAAAAY too close. Dude, we never speak, why now when I'm clearly in a hurry? Move your belly. then there are the ones who literally make my salary times 100 who want me to do their work on top of mine (I actually have some to do now) so that (I assume) they can go get botox over lunch. Excuse me, you already are unable to blink, this is why you have an intern put visine in your eyes. I read in Vogue that 78 is the age you start to come to grips with wrinkles. Think about it. |
and THIS--THIS is precisely why i never returned to cube land after having my first child. being driven to the brink of insanity is never worth the measley pittance they threw at me for being a cube farmer. i couldn't cope.
it's been 16 years, but it's all coming back to me in waves.
the woman who used to pick at her zits in her cube with a mirror on a stand
the guy that cornered me in the elevator and told me i'd lose my perky tits now that i was pregnant.
the bad breath of my manager who believed me when i told him i was quitting to join the circus and perfect my trapeeeze skills
and that wretched ZEROX machine. that filty wretched ZEROX machine.
i have no fond memories.
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airehead
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Posted: 07/20/04 - 15:44 Post subject:
A donut might help. It always helps.
Good luck. 
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robp
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Posted: 07/20/04 - 15:46 Post subject:
I came into work completely clean shaven for the first time in I don't know how long yesterday. Today my bosses boss was walking down the hall next to me chatting about something ignorant, reaches over and runs his hand over my day old growth and says I didn't stand close enough to the razor this morning.
Damn dude, keep your hands to yourself. That kind of stuff creeps me out.
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cherylpf
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Posted: 07/20/04 - 15:51 Post subject:
| robp wrote: | | Damn dude, keep your hands to yourself. That kind of stuff creeps me out. |
Oh. my. gah.
the day someone reaches over and touches me (or 'accidentally' rubs their swollen belly on me) is the day I commit an act of workplace violence.....
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bpdou
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Posted: 07/20/04 - 15:53 Post subject: Re: cant. handle. coworkers.
| jrjo wrote: | | cherylpf wrote: | | ... botox over lunch. Excuse me, you already are unable to blink, this is why you have an intern put visine in your eyes... |
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yeah that TORE me up too...
that's classic stuff there...
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coachmarkos
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Posted: 07/20/04 - 15:58 Post subject:
At my old school, the science teacher, whose room was next to mine...on the first day of school....literally the first day of class for both of us at the school. Chewed me out on my way to school mass...because I left the lights on in my classroom. Ummmm. excuse me....what are you in charge of?
She also made a big stink about having to come back for teacher work day on the Monday after school got out, proclaimed out loud to the entire staff, "We Can't Work That Day! It's Memorial Day."
It was then pointed out to her that Memorial Day was the next Monday. What an idiot. If she didn't know, which she obviously didn't...why would she say anything? Because that was her....I'm glad I don't have to see her rotund shape every day. She was a downer. The guy that took over Social Studies for me last year was ready to kill her after nine weeks.
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bpdou
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Posted: 07/20/04 - 16:10 Post subject:
Personal Favorite: I witnessed this first-hand.
Bernie (Bernadette) walks into her cube to find Barry, her boss, elbow deep in her purse. "What the Eff are you DOING?"
Barry doesn't flinch and continues to dig. "I'm looking for a piece of gum..."
"Well get the Eff outta my purse! What the hey do you think you're doing? That's like me going through your pockets!"
Barry stops as the purse is snatched away from him. "Well I don't get it, I'm confused. Sue [his wife] doesn't mind, you do mind, which is it?"
Bernie was quite clear: "THERE is your problem... I'm NOT your FREAKING wife!"
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akern
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Posted: 07/20/04 - 16:13 Post subject: Re: cant. handle. coworkers.
| rolling rock wrote: |
the bad breath of my manager who believed me when i told him i was quitting to join the circus and perfect my trapeeeze skills
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He probably went to every circus since, searching for the object of his desire.
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bpdou
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Posted: 07/20/04 - 16:14 Post subject: Re: cant. handle. coworkers.
| cherylpf wrote: | | Emotionally high strung guy is currently wadding his panties and fighting back tears because I didn't respond to his non-work-related email (that he put a read receipt on, weird) fast enough for his tastes. |
I put a receipt on it cuz you never write back...  sorry...
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suburbman
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Posted: 07/20/04 - 16:17 Post subject:
| Quote: | | Same stuff, new day, its just really annoying me today for some reason. Whats new in your cube land? |
God! Don't get me started. The list is too long I swear. I love my veal feeding pen, can't you tell?
Some great stories here. Anyone else work in an environment (development) where English is not the first language? They put you all close together so you can work as a group and share ideas and things but I don't speak the language their all speaking, so how can I work as a group? And please, stop heating that stuff up in the microwave for lunch, it stinks.
How about popcorn eaters? Anyone else go insane when someone microwaves a bag of popcorn and then eats it in the cubicle beside you so all you can smell is this hazy, buttery popcorn smell for the whole afternoon. Aaaaarrrgghhhhhhhhh!
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HYPERASHEL
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Posted: 07/20/04 - 16:17 Post subject: Re: cant. handle. coworkers.
| akern wrote: | | rolling rock wrote: |
the bad breath of my manager who believed me when i told him i was quitting to join the circus and perfect my trapeeeze skills
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He probably went to every circus since, searching for the object of his desire. |
The trapeeze is part of his fantasy.
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