My co-worker is...

[Miss Phode]

an idiot.







That's all I have to say.

[Ralynda]

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LOL I have co-workers like that too!

[Miss Phode]

Re: My co-worker is...

I figured maybe if I wrote it down, it would stop bugging me so much. So far it hasn't worked. LOL

[ladyinred]

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Maybe you need to tell us all the gory details. Come here and lie down on the couch.....now tell us....what is bothering you?

[kkat55]

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Yes, we're all gathered around on our own couches and want to hear your story...

Wait! Let me get some cream and cocoa (w/Splenda) to pass around.

[boonie stomper]

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Someone get Richt on this - we need 2 polls, "My co-worker(s) is/are (choice)....(multible choices possible)"
and "My boss is ....(choose one)."

I've got one like Miss Phodes, too. I don't know how she keeps her job!

[Miss Phode]

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Basically he was one of these people that as a great employee before his 90 day review. Now he's a less than mediocre employee, with a bad attitude. He's really whiney. I can hardly look at him anymore. He's like a crotchety old woman and I just wish he'd move on already. I have no respect for him. My manager can't stand him either but doesn't care to do anything about it I guess. Maybe she has no grounds. I think you have to do something really terrible, like possibly commit murder, to get fired from this place.

[Lisa M]

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I'd say, "this too shall pass", but it looks like it'll take more then that to get this guy a life and figure out that he needs to ______ or get off the pot.

[staziaw]

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Ah, Miss Phode . . . I'm so sorry. Hopefully, if given enough rope, he will hang himself!

My co-worker . . . on the other hand . . . is a pretentious little 25-year-old poptart who thinks he knows absolutely everything about everything, and needs to answer all questions, whether the question was directed at him or not. Grrrrrrrr!

XO
Stacy

[Miss Phode]

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Likely, I'll leave the company before he does. I think he's perfectly happy doing as little as possible here.

[Miss Phode]

Re: My co-worker is...

Ah, Miss Phode . . . I'm so sorry. Hopefully, if given enough rope, he will hang himself!

My co-worker . . . on the other hand . . . is a pretentious little 25-year-old poptart who thinks he knows absolutely everything about everything, and needs to answer all questions, whether the question was directed at him or not. Grrrrrrrr!

XO
Stacy

Pretentious little poptart. That made me laugh.

[kkat55]

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Hum...I guess the challenge of getting a good review is over and he's slacked up. Maybe you ought to remind him that he'll get another review at the beginning of the year (or whenever they do it).

Men don't get hints, so you couldn't "hint" anything to him.

What else can you do?

But, I agree, he'll eventually hang himself.

[DragonflyMoon]

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I think you need a good laugh... these things always crack me up:

Fun Things To Do in the Office ~ Author Unknown

Page yourself over the intercom. (Don't disguise your voice.)

Find out where your boss shops and buy exactly the same outfits. Always wear them one day after your boss does. (This is especially effective if your boss is a different gender than you are.)

Make up nicknames for all your coworkers and refer to them only by these names. "That's a good point, Sparky." "No I'm sorry I'm going to have to disagree with you there, Chachi."

Send email to the rest of the company telling them what you're doing. For example "If anyone needs me, I'll be in the bathroom."

While sitting at your desk, soak your fingers in "Palmolive."

Put up mosquito netting around your cubicle.

Put a chair facing a printer, sit there all day and tell people you're waiting for your document.

Arrive at a meeting late, say you're sorry, but you didn't have time for lunch, and you're going to be nibbling during the meeting. During the meeting eat 5 entire raw potatoes.

Insist that your e-mail address be "xena_goddess_of_fire@companyname.com"

Every time someone asks you to do something, ask them if they want fries with that.

Put your garbage can on your desk. Label it "IN."

Send e-mail messages saying free pizza, free donuts etc... in the lunchroom, when people complain that there was none... Just lean back, pat your stomach, and say, "Oh you've got to be faster than that."

Put decaf in the coffeemaker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.

Compose all your e-mail in the form of a Haiku.

Every time someone asks you to do something, ask them to sign a waiver. Include a piece of your children's artwork as a cover page for all reports that you write. (If you don't have children, draw stick figures yourself.)

Schedule meetings for 4:14 pm.

Agree to organize the company Christmas party. Hold it at McDonald's Playland. Charge everyone $15 each.

When in conversation, no matter where you are in the office, mutter, "I think my phone is ringing," and leave.

Bring in dishes that you tried to cook but didn't turn out quite right as special treats for your co-workers.

Send out flyers to your entire department/division announcing a required staff development program. When everyone arrives, show them slides from your vacation.

Tell everyone that you are quitting. At your going away party, announce that you were just joking. Make sure to take their presents.

Take a picture of your boss and have it framed. Display it in a prominent location on your desk.

Whenever a fellow staff member sneezes, quickly yell "SHUT UP!" If they sneeze a second time, follow up with "I SAID SHUT UP!". A third time, leave the room crying while saying "NO ONE EVER LISTENS TO ME!".

Leave the copy machine set to reduce 200%, extra dark, 17 inch paper, 99 copies.

Reply to everything someone says with "that's what YOU think."

Highlight irrelevant information in scientific papers and "cc:" them to your boss.

Staple papers in the middle of the page.

[vJosie]

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Sorry, Phode, about the idiot. We all have them. Fortunately, mine doesn't work in my department so it's easier to avoid contact (lest it turn out to be contagious).

Those were hilarious, Dragonfly. How appropriate. I teach. Last year, I stuck woopie cushions on a lot of coworkers' seats. the best part is that the joke fell on, not only the teachers, but on my students who got blamed for it! ::evil evil laugh:: I'd ask some of my more deserving students... "So, tell me... who did you say you have for math...?"

I've also always wanted to call the faculty lounge with prank calls. Like the running refrigerator or something equally cheesy.

[13_jane]

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We have an idiot like that in our office!! He's one of the bosses!! He told me at the last xmas party that I make the worst f***ing tea he's ever tasted!! Big Mistake!!! I now do the most outrageous things to his tea!!! I've lost count of the different "foreign bodies" I've put in his tea!!!! It sure makes me feel soo much better when I put the cup on his desk!! hehe!!