How boring/interesting is your work environment?

plasmaguy

My work environment is very boring.

I sit beside my team lead and this person hardly says anything from the start of the day to the end. In fact she seems to have a thing against talking of any kind.

She surfs the net a lot of the time, but complains if I do the same.

She gives monosylabic yes or no answers to most questions, and attempts to talk to her ususally hit a dead end right away.

She has no interest in being sociable, won't go for lunch with anyone in our team, only with her friends on another team.

She is the most boring person I have ever sat beside in a workplace, and there is zero craic. It's not helped by the partitions which mean the two of us share the same partition and are seperated from other people.

Anyone else work in a similarly bad situation?

Dubh Geannain

I have no Windows and I don't mean the OS

Ruu_Old

It changes for me, sometimes I am at the checkout desk for a few hours dealing with patrons and then in the depths of the library where we check in books, etc. My co-workers are like cartoon characters so makes work interesting, never boring.

CreepingDeath

plasmaguy wrote: »

I sit beside my team lead and this person hardly says anything from the start of the day to the end. In fact she seems to have a thing against talking of any kind.

Move on and try boning another girl from work instead.

mikom

plasmaguy wrote: »

How boring/interesting is your work environment?

Very boring.................... I'm a woodworm.

petes

Dull as fcuk. Get me out of here.

Fago!

I work here with my hippie of a boss.

It's awesome. You should try it.

The only thing you need to do to get in is this.

Cheap Thrills!

Most of the people I work with are sound.

But isn't there always one ar$eh0le............

Ours is a brown nosing cnut whose trousers are a good 3 inches too short. Evidently he works out a lot with the result that he looks disproportionately wide, I imagine he does this to compensate for his short stature. But it just emphasises it as do the short trousers.

Such a square cnut in so many ways.

He is constantly incredibly pained and martyrish. Will blank and snub you for weeks and then one day will randomly say hello or strike up conversation. Attention seeking tool.

I cant stand that inconsistant sh1t either, just always be rude or never be rude. He always has to be the centre of attention in the office, shouting loudly on the phone, yet ordering others to be quiet when they are not even being noisy. Butts into every private conversation unwantedly. Constantly making heavy weather out of everything.

He takes on way too much work as he wishes to be highly visible and is obviously ambitious but then looks for sympathy when he can't cope with the work and bitches and moans about it to unimportant lesser mortals.

If you offer to help he acts as if you have stabbed his first born. He descends into rages if you take notes but also descends into rages if you get anything wrong or do not have a photographic memory. When training he fails to tell us vitally important information evidently presuming we are mind readers.

But later acts as though we have forgotton the info he never told us and throws a huge melodramatic diva strop over it. He is pleasant and friendly to some people (who think he is a lovely man altogether) and reserves his tantrums and rages and snubbing for others. No-one can find a pattern to his random hatred of certain victims.

There is no rhyme or reason to his actions. He is just an attention seeking twat who enjoys bullying people at random whom he thinks will not stand up to him or are of no importance to the upper echelons.

He loves to feed false reports of how indispensable he is to management and what a cross to bear everyone else is.

He has been known to train someone up in work and abandon it half way through and leave the person doing the work for weeks without informing them that he changed his mind about it and they didn't need to waste their time doing it.

When he is not in the office everyone is happy but when he is there the atmosphere is suicidal, even the people he thinks like him despise him.

I should hate him but I couldn't be bothered which of course enrages him.

ha ha

Closed ac

Dubh Geannain wrote: »

I have no Windows and I don't mean the OS

If you don't mean the OS then why did you capitalize the "w"

Dubh Geannain

DKZ wrote: »

If you don't mean the OS then why did you capitalize the "w"

To emphasize their importance why do you think?

Surely not a typo

On the plus side I do get to see things going on fire quite often. But unfortunately I've no windows (small 'w' this time) to jump out if things get out of hand.

high heels

Im paid to watch sports. 12 hours a day Thats all I do...


Only problem is I hate sports..

Spear

high heels wrote: »

Im paid to watch sports. 12 hours a day Thats all I do...


Only problem is I hate sports..

Hmm, sounds familiar, work in Prince's Street South?

CrazyRabbit

plasmaguy wrote: »

My work environment is very boring.

I sit beside my team lead and this person hardly says anything from the start of the day to the end. In fact she seems to have a thing against talking of any kind.

She surfs the net a lot of the time, but complains if I do the same.

She gives monosylabic yes or no answers to most questions, and attempts to talk to her ususally hit a dead end right away.

She has no interest in being sociable, won't go for lunch with anyone in our team, only with her friends on another team.

She is the most boring person I have ever sat beside in a workplace, and there is zero craic. It's not helped by the partitions which mean the two of us share the same partition and are seperated from other people.

Anyone else work in a similarly bad situation?

This 'Team Lead' isn't really a team leader. Team leads would interact heavily with their team, raise moral & address any issues. And a good team lead would never have free time to be messing about on the internet. I suggest the raise the issue with her manager.

Captain_Generic

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

This 'Team Lead' isn't really a team leader. Team leads would interact heavily with their team, raise moral & address any issues. And a good team lead would never have free time to be messing about on the internet. I suggest the raise the issue with her manager.

Send a strongly worded email to the Team Lead complaining about the lack of leadership while she's sitting beside you, it would raise morale

TestTransmission

Dubh Geannain wrote: »

I have no Windows and I don't mean the OS

I hear ya,

pretty-in-pink

Iwork in.....an office.

Its boring work,work mates pretty ok, some good, some awful (oh little miss dalkey I so despise you). On the whole its just dull though. No pretty colours or making things. Just money, money, money, insurance, money, solicitors. Big Yawn.

barakus

I work in a canteen. Staring at hot women all day long while cooking chips. Fairly stimulating work actually:D

gerry28

plasmaguy wrote: »

I sit beside my team lead and this person hardly says anything from the start of the day to the end. In fact she seems to have a thing against talking of any kind.

I have the complete opposite of you.... the girl i sit beside doesn't stop talking from the moment she sits down till she goes home, I try to ignore her for my own sanity.
She sits shouting across the room and joins/butts into any other conversation at all. I'm at my wits end with it. I'd love some silence.

The work is very very boring too.