#850

One of my team who is constantly moaning about their workload (despite it being the same as everyone else’s and they’re unwilling to change their approach to help better manage it) has taken on a completely unnecessary HR investigation and then got pissy with me when I told them it was a poor use of their time.

IRKED.

#851

Thought I’d finally managed to convince a colleague to send me things with tracked changes (because I need to file both the clean and tracked versions). Turns out he’s just underlined things and changed the colour to red etc.

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#852

What are HR investigating you for?

#853

My organisation has adopted a creative response to recent hard times.

In essence we’ve had a lot of “cost saving initiatives” “challenging” us recently. A decent analogy would be something like “to save costs we’ve decided every manager should punch each member of their team square on the nose”.

Then a few weeks later we’ll get an email saying “we’re interested in your feedback on our recent punching initiative” and then a link to an online survey which will contain only the questions “did you get a punch on the nose?” and “was the punch delivered within the seven day allotted time window?”

#854

at work and irked

solution: worked out i am 62.5% of the way through my shift (about 5 hours)

thus if i had bought a game and i was 62.5% complete after only five hours, i would feel ripped off

net result: not irked (as much)

all about the psychological games you see

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#855

Went for an interview last week, job would have been (at worst) a decent payrise, and exactly what I want to do. Didn’t get it, which is fair enough as they probably had really good applicants, including one internal one. Irked about the feedback at the interview, which was basically that I took too long to answer questions. I mean sure I paused for quite a while, but would you rather get a good answer or a quick babble? And last time I looked, answering behavioural interview questions quickly wasn’t a core responsibility of the job. IRKED. (Minor in the scheme of things but I needed to vent. Thanks).

(Also still IRKED about the ongoing noise in the office but that’s just background radiation right now).

#857

Yeah, I mean the job was a research job where I’d be answering questions under time pressure, but I feel like there’s a difference between answering questions about an area of expertise, and answering questions about myself and my work history.

Also that introverts prefer to have questions in advance so they can reflect, and generally aren’t as good in the live situation - and as it was a library research job you’re going to get a lot of introverts :). (Sounds like you might be one too, and I agree, reflecting is a good quality in many cases)

#859

I’ve been made responsible for a technology portfolio that I know very little about, and haven’t really thought about since the first year of my undergraduate degree.

Our academic collaborators that I will be dealing with in this area are - because the universe has a perverse sense of humour - literally the same people whose lectures I didn’t pay attention to at uni.

Well played, universe. Well played.

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#860

Exactly the same thing again today. Said I looked like “John Belusky” when questioned.

#861

Am I your workmate?

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#862

I came into work ill (Just a cold). Everyone complains about it. People are disciplined for taking time off. Don’t moan to me for working ill, moan to the company bosses for having an absence policy that persecutes ill people.

Is persecute the right word to use?

#863

people with unnaturally loud voices chatting shit in the office. I’ve got one in front and one behind me. I’m going to explode with rage very soon.

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#864

used to have someone on my floor who would regularly burst into song. nobody in her team seemed to question her about it. she’s moved jobs now though.

#865

coastguard?

#866

we’ve had that since moving to our new office but I’m glad to see so far it’s not been particularly enforced/wouldn’t be a problem with people having fruit etc anyway.

#867

that sounds like it could be amusing once or twice but extremely irritating from there onwards.

#868

Please add heavy footed people to my list of irks today. No need you flat footed pricks.

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#869

don’t mind people chatting here and there but when it’s a sustained babble of bullshit i become irked

#870

agreed. The lot in front tend to go on for half an hour at time on occasion. Does my nut.

#871

I’ve got the opposite issue. The office I’m in most these days is like a library. Never any chat. I mean all things in moderation but it breaks up the day a bit.