I received no less than 7 emails this morning from our office administrator who was trying to change a room for one of my meetings. WHY are people who are supposed to be experts at Outlook - but are NOT - given jurisdiction over Outlook?
I was chatting with some coworkers last week and one (who regularly brags about having gone to a $60k/year college) talked about rehoming several dogs. And as if that weren't enough, she started arguing that it's "stupid" to keep domestic cats indoors, because she's got a big piece of property and they'd just love to be outside and it's cruel not to let them roam free. "And it's not like there are any predators out there to get them! Just raccoons. And foxes. And sometimes we get coyotes." WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK A "PREDATOR" IS, DIPSHIT.
(Also, WTF did they teach you at that college, lady. I went to a shitty cheap state school and yet every single thing out of your mouth makes me want to weep.)
Our office admin thought the state abbreviation NE stood for New England, and also doesn't know there's a difference between standard time and daylight time (as in she schedules everything in "eastern standard time" or "pacific standard time" all year round).
Post by delawarejen on Mar 30, 2015 13:01:26 GMT -5
I work with a lot of stupid people. The one next to me routinely astounds me with both her stupidity and her laziness/inability to figure anything out for herself, combined with her need to shout every stupid thing that comes into her head over the wall. Google is a wonderful thing, try it sometime!
"What's today's date?" and "What day of the week is it?" - this information is on our deskphone display, in the bottom corner of our monitors, or you can check your cell phone.
There was an entire conversation this morning about how she couldn't find coarse sugar at the store, complete with people having to explain the differences between coarse, granulated, and confectioners' sugar.
She's on the phone now trying to understand why her own spreadsheet of vacation time doesn't match the new system. Dude. They started tracking in minutes instead of decimals rounded to 2 places. They explained this. You're an accountant. This scares me.
See my Monday random that a coworker wanted me to notarize a document that wasn't signed in my presence. No.
People are dumb.
Last week I had one of my co-workers email me a scanned doc that someone else signed that they wanted me to notarize for them. LOL no.
Part of our clearance requirements include a valid government photo ID and an accompanying form, notarized by 3 specific people who work for the agency. A few weeks ago I received a document accompanied by a student ID card (with no picture), and a form that had the word "notarized" scrawled on it along with an illegible signature. It turns out it was "notarized" by the applicant's mother.
Notarized. I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Post by cattledogkisses on Mar 30, 2015 14:30:17 GMT -5
I worked with someone who called himself a vegetarian but ate fish. I used to needle him about this.
The Catholic Church subscribes to the "fish are vegetables" mode of thinking too with the "no meat on Fridays during Lent but fish doesn't count" thing. Lol.
Our office admin thought the state abbreviation NE stood for New England, and also doesn't know there's a difference between standard time and daylight time (as in she schedules everything in "eastern standard time" or "pacific standard time" all year round).
I am pretty sure that I'm your coworker... I never knew this and I write EST constantly.
I worked with someone who called himself a vegetarian but ate fish. I used to needle him about this.
The Catholic Church subscribes to the "fish are vegetables" mode of thinking too with the "no meat on Fridays during Lent but fish doesn't count" thing. Lol.
Which is really, literally, the least amount of "fasting" you can do. Oh, you can eat ANYTHING but red meat and poultry on Fridays, and then literally ANYTHING including red meat and poultry for the rest of Lent? Ramadan this is not.
Last week I had one of my co-workers email me a scanned doc that someone else signed that they wanted me to notarize for them. LOL no.
Part of our clearance requirements include a valid government photo ID and an accompanying form, notarized by 3 specific people who work for the agency. A few weeks ago I received a document accompanied by a student ID card (with no picture), and a form that had the word "notarized" scrawled on it along with an illegible signature. It turns out it was "notarized" by the applicant's mother.
Notarized. I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Our office admin thought the state abbreviation NE stood for New England, and also doesn't know there's a difference between standard time and daylight time (as in she schedules everything in "eastern standard time" or "pacific standard time" all year round).
I am pretty sure that I'm your coworker... I never knew this and I write EST constantly.
How embarrassing.
I'm a dummy too. I always say EST, CST, PST all year round.