Working with C**TZ

Cerveja69

I’ve just started a new job and the atmosphere is very strange. I work in a team full of women and nobody speaks to each other.

It’s deathly quiet in here, you can almost hear yourself blink!

My boss axed me the other day how I’m settling in and I mentioned that I find it really quiet. She agreed and said she’s aware how unfriendly the team are and how they don’t speak to each other. She suggested bringing in a radio to liven the place up but warned me that the team would complain about it.

So she brings in a radio and puts in on at a really low level. She told the team she thought it might create a nicer atmosphere.

She hadn’t left the office when 5 minutes when one of the girls goes to me ‘Will you please lower that I can’t hear myself think’. It wasn’t loud at all.

I lowered it to a barely audible level and she goes ‘ God, can you just turn that off, I can’t concentrate!’. Every-time I look at this stupid b*tch she’s messing with her phone.
It’s a civil service job so it’s not like she’s doing any work anyway!

I emailed my boss, who’s a really cool woman and said ‘Well our radio joy was short lived. Sarah was the first to moan in a record 2 minutes!. What’s her problem?!’.

Next minute I get a call from my boss saying her emails are linked up to Sarah’s as Sarah manages her diary. Yikes!!

I came in today and the radio is gone. I axed where it is and she smugly said ‘Oh, I ‘flagged’ the issue with health & safety and they said I was to put it away’.

What a f*cking C**T. Now errrbody on the team is giving me dagger looks and I’m some kind of hate figure for wanting some f*cking background music on!!!

Anybody else work with complete d*cks? Have you ever emailed the wrong person at work. I’ve done it a few times at this stage!

Philo Beddoe

I hate you for using the word 'axed'.

jimgoose

I'm not paying you to listen to the radio. Now quieten down and get back to work. What do you want, a disco? A birthday party every morning?? Jaysis...

davo2001

I think everyone, in some way shape or form works with a cu*t. Unless you work for yourself, then you work for the biggest cu*t of them all :-P

Sir Arthur Daley

Maybe they aren't Ray Darcy fans.

Cerveja69

Philo Beddoe wrote: »

I hate you for using the word 'axed'.

I only use it in jest, quit raggin' on me playa!!

Mr. CooL ICE

Working with cartz is only annoying if you are a horse. Or the village blacksmith.

wazky

Working with a team of women?, the way you bitch you'll fit in perfectly.

Faolchu

maybe you need to axe this sarah one in the back of the head with a sharp object like an axe

Cerveja69

It's seriously silent in here. There is zero atmosphere. I just thought a bit of background music might be nice. How is it a health & safety issue?! How is it in any way dangerous or unhealthy? It's so ridiculous ;(

The Backwards Man

I can ONLY imagine the empathy that millions of people around the world that work in places such as coal mines, ironworks and waste treatment facilities have for your plight OP.

AdolfHipster

errrbody.......

Macavity.

Why don't you invite her over to dinner. Turn her from an enemy to a friend. Then when she's not expecting it... bam! The old fork in the eye.

KeithM89

Headphones and an iPod aren't an option it seems.

Hootanany

Civil servants no work to do sounds about right to me

catallus

If you go onto the radio forum you'll quickly learn that having a radio on at work is not a good thing, people get really riled up by radios!

Sauve

Kill them with kindness OP.
A big smiley 'good morning' to everyone, doughnuts on a friday, the odd heartfelt compliment when someone gets a new hairdo.
Be a little ray of sunshine. It'll push them over the edge

Cerveja69

I've never worked anywhere before where the people don't speak to each other. They're all glued to their desks. Nobody says hello or even looks at you when you come in. I can hear every tap of the keyboard. Nobody would ask if you plans for the weekend or how you are. It's really unfriendly!

Pumpkinseeds

Jesus, it sounds as if your boss is bad at her job if she's running such a hostile working environment.

jimgoose

Cerveja69 wrote: »

I've never worked anywhere before where the people don't speak to each other. They're all glued to their desks. Nobody says hello or even looks at you when you come in. I can hear every tap of the keyboard. Nobody would ask if you plans for the weekend or how you are. It's really unfriendly!

Sounds like a sort of professional Valhalla to me! :cool:

Philo Beddoe

Sauve wrote: »

Kill them with kindness OP.
A big smiley 'good morning' to everyone, doughnuts on a friday, the odd heartfelt compliment when someone gets a new hairdo.
Be a little ray of sunshine. It'll push them over the edge

Either that or they'll think you're a serial killer, and not with kindness.

Foggy Jew

Sauve wrote: »

Kill them with kindness OP.
A big smiley 'good morning' to everyone, doughnuts on a friday, the odd heartfelt compliment when someone gets a new hairdo.
Be a little ray of sunshine. It'll push them over the edge

Dexter (my current Netflix binge) also brought doughnuts into his office.... Only sayin'.

_Kaiser_

Hootanany wrote: »

Civil servants no work to do sounds about right to me

I was just thinking "Public sector" as I was reading it alright - I've worked in an office like that before and there were times it was deathly quiet save for the soft sounds of 2fm or whatever!

*backs away from the can..worms everywhere!*

bumper234

Cerveja69 wrote: »

I’ve just started a new job and the atmosphere is very strange. I work in a team full of women and nobody speaks to each other.

It’s deathly quiet in here, you can almost hear yourself blink!

My boss axed me the other day how I’m settling in and I mentioned that I find it really quiet. She agreed and said she’s aware how unfriendly the team are and how they don’t speak to each other. She suggested bringing in a radio to liven the place up but warned me that the team would complain about it.

So she brings in a radio and puts in on at a really low level. She told the team she thought it might create a nicer atmosphere.

She hadn’t left the office when 5 minutes when one of the girls goes to me ‘Will you please lower that I can’t hear myself think’. It wasn’t loud at all.

I lowered it to a barely audible level and she goes ‘ God, can you just turn that off, I can’t concentrate!’. Every-time I look at this stupid b*tch she’s messing with her phone.
It’s a civil service job so it’s not like she’s doing any work anyway!

I emailed my boss, who’s a really cool woman and said ‘Well our radio joy was short lived. Sarah was the first to moan in a record 2 minutes!. What’s her problem?!’.

Next minute I get a call from my boss saying her emails are linked up to Sarah’s as Sarah manages her diary. Yikes!!

I came in today and the radio is gone. I axed where it is and she smugly said ‘Oh, I ‘flagged’ the issue with health & safety and they said I was to put it away’.

What a f*cking C**T. Now errrbody on the team is giving me dagger looks and I’m some kind of hate figure for wanting some f*cking background music on!!!

Anybody else work with complete d*cks? Have you ever emailed the wrong person at work. I’ve done it a few times at this stage!

And which suburb of South East LA is it you work in? :rolleyes:

Cerveja69

bumper234 wrote: »

And which suburb of South East LA is it you work in? :rolleyes:

Y'all need to stop raggin' on ma kewl street lingo

Turtyturd

I'd kill for an office where nobody talked to each other.

I work in an office with a manager whose career is her life. She is like some ADD stricken child in a middle aged woman's body who expects everybody to give her their undivided attention and clean up her mess, and will actually get in a strop if her ideas are not listened to, and will spend the rest of the day bitching about the other people in the meeting.

I the other corner is the stereotypical civil servant, who shows up about 9:45 because her manager comes in at 10. Goes for tea at 10:30 til 11:30, lunch 13:00-13:30, nap 13:30-14:15, and tea 15:30-16:30. Time in between is spent running errands, and every time the manager is out the door she just starts complaining about her to anyone who will listen.

Give me quiet any day.

The Diabolical Monocle

Shaniqua done axed her boss bout gittin a weave.

ummmm hmmmm.

bucketybuck

In my youth I temped for a few days in an accounts office for an insurance company, an office with about 20 people in it. The people weren't nasty or anything, it was just deathly quiet all day, no talking, no banter, just 8 hours sitting in a big office where you could hear a pin drop.

I found it a horrible atmosphere to work in, added to the fact that they didn't need a temp anyway so I had absolutely nothing to do, my head was melted after only a few days. Its easy to point to a mine or something and say you should be grateful, but mental health is important too and sitting in a quiet room all day drives people insane. There is a reason they use quiet padded rooms to punish prisoners and crazy people after all.

Besides, its an awful experience having to fart in a crowded but quiet room.

SaoirseRose

Cerveja69 wrote: »

I've never worked anywhere before where the people don't speak to each other. They're all glued to their desks. Nobody says hello or even looks at you when you come in. I can hear every tap of the keyboard. Nobody would ask if you plans for the weekend or how you are. It's really unfriendly!

Sounds perfect to be honest, that fake 'morning! how are you? how was your weekend? ' bollox at 8am wrecks my head.

Turtyturd

SaoirseRose wrote: »

Sounds perfect to be honest, that fake 'morning! how are you? how was your weekend? ' bollox at 8am wrecks my head.

Likewise the 'how was your weekend?' but I am only really asking so I can talk about mine.

AgileMyth

Sing loudly and badly. Tell them you'll stop when the radio comes back.

o1s1n

Protip OP - don't try to change an office environment when you are still relatively new. Especially if the idea involves noise.

Maximus Alexander

Cerveja69 wrote: »

It's seriously silent in here. There is zero atmosphere. I just thought a bit of background music might be nice. How is it a health & safety issue?! How is it in any way dangerous or unhealthy? It's so ridiculous ;(

Can you not get yourself a pair of headphones?

Mo Lester

Im a civil servant and I hav to share a quad with a 35 yr old s.o who is nothin short of an absolute simpleton. He attempts to hang me every single day to the heo (because im the competition in upcoming promotions). Heo is wise to him. across from me is a fella n his mid 50s wit age issues who fancies himself as an intellectual...makes snow balls for da fool beside me to throw (takes spotlight off himself).Where we work we are busy but the 35 yr old narsacist does nothin only keeps talkin rubbish and constantly needs attention. No interest in women/men, unable to part take in sports, lives between home and a rented room n goes on holidays with his sister. Likes talkin shop but can flip the other way when it suits. When u look and listen to this guy i just think....what kinda eejit is this clown. Total fool.
This guys hole life is passin him by. Atmosphere is rubbish and im stuck sitting here. Its da most abnormal workin atmosphere that I hav ever experienced. .i have never seen anything like it in previous private companies.
The service is full of individuals like who hav nothing going on outside work. A lot like above r total misfits in society. no focus placed on a happy balanced lifestyle. There a lot of he said she said. These people wud not hold down a job outside of the civil service. i just wanna go in do it and not have to listen to constant jealous bitchin and negative talk and go home. Its pathetic and I don't entertain them as I wud not like to turn out like either of them. Not an oz of self respect

Gandalph

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I can ONLY imagine the empathy that millions of people around the world that work in places such as coal mines, ironworks and waste treatment facilities have for your plight OP.

What about all the starving kids in Africa that don't have jobs? Could you not identify them through that smog of self righteousness amassing around you?

Get out of here with that BS.

Neyite

I love blinking.

o1s1n

Mo Lester wrote: »

Im a civil servant and I hav to share a quad with a 35 yr old s.o who is nothin short of an absolute simpleton. He attempts to hang me every single day to the heo (because im the competition in upcoming promotions). Heo is wise to him. across from me is a fella n his mid 50s wit age issues who fancies himself as an intellectual...makes snow balls for da fool beside me to throw (takes spotlight off himself).Where we work we are busy but the 35 yr old narsacist does nothin only keeps talkin rubbish and constantly needs attention. No interest in women/men, unable to part take in sports, lives between home and a rented room n goes on holidays with his sister. Likes talkin shop but can flip the other way when it suits. When u look and listen to this guy i just think....what kinda eejit is this clown. Total fool.
This guys hole life is passin him by. Atmosphere is rubbish and im stuck sitting here. Its da most abnormal workin atmosphere that I hav ever experienced. .i have never seen anything like it in previous private companies.
The service is full of individuals like who hav nothing going on outside work. A lot like above r total misfits in society. no focus placed on a happy balanced lifestyle. There a lot of he said she said. These people wud not hold down a job outside of the civil service. i just wanna go in do it and not have to listen to constant jealous bitchin and negative talk and go home. Its pathetic and I don't entertain them as I wud not like to turn out like either of them. Not an oz of self respect

I can't believe I just read all of that.

Hootanany

Mo Lester wrote: »

Im a civil servant and I hav to share a quad with a 35 yr old s.o who is nothin short of an absolute simpleton. He attempts to hang me every single day to the heo (because im the competition in upcoming promotions). Heo is wise to him. across from me is a fella n his mid 50s wit age issues who fancies himself as an intellectual...makes snow balls for da fool beside me to throw (takes spotlight off himself).Where we work we are busy but the 35 yr old narsacist does nothin only keeps talkin rubbish and constantly needs attention. No interest in women/men, unable to part take in sports, lives between home and a rented room n goes on holidays with his sister. Likes talkin shop but can flip the other way when it suits. When u look and listen to this guy i just think....what kinda eejit is this clown. Total fool.
This guys hole life is passin him by. Atmosphere is rubbish and im stuck sitting here. Its da most abnormal workin atmosphere that I hav ever experienced. .i have never seen anything like it in previous private companies.
The service is full of individuals like who hav nothing going on outside work. A lot like above r total misfits in society. no focus placed on a happy balanced lifestyle. There a lot of he said she said. These people wud not hold down a job outside of the civil service. i just wanna go in do it and not have to listen to constant jealous bitchin and negative talk and go home. Its pathetic and I don't entertain them as I wud not like to turn out like either of them. Not an oz of self respect

nelly17

OP you should Talk to Joe

The Backwards Man

Gandalph wrote: »

What about all the starving kids in Africa that don't have jobs? Could you not identify them through that smog of self righteousness amassing around you?

Get out of here with that BS.

You'll have to speak up, my radio is too loud.

Neyite

Sauve wrote: »

Kill them with kindness OP.
A big smiley 'good morning' to everyone, doughnuts on a friday, the odd heartfelt compliment when someone gets a new hairdo.
Be a little ray of sunshine. It'll push them over the edge

Oh I did this to perfection with a team who were essentially bullies.

It was such fun to see the ringleader seethe with jealousy when my home-baked goodies went down a storm. And the darker her face grew with her thunderous, murderous rage, the more Pollyanna I became.

nelly17

o1s1n wrote: »

I can't believe I just read all of that.

Gave up aftr de 1st Paragraff

humberklog

Think how nervous your colleagues must feel having to work with an ask murderer.

bumper234

Neyite wrote: »

I love blinking.

Grayson

Sauve wrote: »

Kill them with kindness OP.
A big smiley 'good morning' to everyone, doughnuts on a friday, the odd heartfelt compliment when someone gets a new hairdo.
Be a little ray of sunshine. It'll push them over the edge

and hum. Just very quietly hum.

I Heart Internet

Mo Lester wrote: »

Im a civil servant and I hav to share a quad with a 35 yr old s.o who is nothin short of an absolute simpleton. He attempts to hang me every single day to the heo (because im the competition in upcoming promotions). Heo is wise to him. across from me is a fella n his mid 50s wit age issues who fancies himself as an intellectual...makes snow balls for da fool beside me to throw (takes spotlight off himself).Where we work we are busy but the 35 yr old narsacist does nothin only keeps talkin rubbish and constantly needs attention. No interest in women/men, unable to part take in sports, lives between home and a rented room n goes on holidays with his sister. Likes talkin shop but can flip the other way when it suits. When u look and listen to this guy i just think....what kinda eejit is this clown. Total fool.
This guys hole life is passin him by. Atmosphere is rubbish and im stuck sitting here. Its da most abnormal workin atmosphere that I hav ever experienced. .i have never seen anything like it in previous private companies.
The service is full of individuals like who hav nothing going on outside work. A lot like above r total misfits in society. no focus placed on a happy balanced lifestyle. There a lot of he said she said. These people wud not hold down a job outside of the civil service. i just wanna go in do it and not have to listen to constant jealous bitchin and negative talk and go home. Its pathetic and I don't entertain them as I wud not like to turn out like either of them. Not an oz of self respect

The country is in safe hands. Your comment makes perfect sense.

keith16

The Diabolical Monocle wrote: »

Shaniqua done axed her boss bout gittin a weave.

ummmm hmmmm.

Oh no, she did not.

House of Blaze

I once emailed my boss an apology intended for my girlfriend...

Aglomerado

Neyite wrote: »

Oh I did this to perfection with a team who were essentially bullies.

It was such fun to see the ringleader seethe with jealousy when my home-baked goodies went down a storm. And the darker her face grew with her thunderous, murderous rage, the more Pollyanna I became.

Brilliant!
My secondary school principal (legendary gentleman) had a plaque in his office "Love thine enemies. It will drive them crazy!"

Stheno

Cerveja69 wrote: »

It's seriously silent in here. There is zero atmosphere. I just thought a bit of background music might be nice. How is it a health & safety issue?! How is it in any way dangerous or unhealthy? It's so ridiculous ;(

It's seriously annoying having to listen to the radio all day in work. Get over it op, get some headphones

o1s1n wrote: »

I can't believe I just read all of that.

I stopped after the first line.

Birneybau

Cerveja69 wrote: »

I’ve just started a new job and the atmosphere is very strange. I work in a team full of women and nobody speaks to each other.

It’s deathly quiet in here, you can almost hear yourself blink!

My boss axed me the other day how I’m settling in and I mentioned that I find it really quiet. She agreed and said she’s aware how unfriendly the team are and how they don’t speak to each other. She suggested bringing in a radio to liven the place up but warned me that the team would complain about it.

So she brings in a radio and puts in on at a really low level. She told the team she thought it might create a nicer atmosphere.

She hadn’t left the office when 5 minutes when one of the girls goes to me ‘Will you please lower that I can’t hear myself think’. It wasn’t loud at all.

I lowered it to a barely audible level and she goes ‘ God, can you just turn that off, I can’t concentrate!’. Every-time I look at this stupid b*tch she’s messing with her phone.
It’s a civil service job so it’s not like she’s doing any work anyway!

I emailed my boss, who’s a really cool woman and said ‘Well our radio joy was short lived. Sarah was the first to moan in a record 2 minutes!. What’s her problem?!’.

Next minute I get a call from my boss saying her emails are linked up to Sarah’s as Sarah manages her diary. Yikes!!

I came in today and the radio is gone. I axed where it is and she smugly said ‘Oh, I ‘flagged’ the issue with health & safety and they said I was to put it away’.

What a f*cking C**T. Now errrbody on the team is giving me dagger looks and I’m some kind of hate figure for wanting some f*cking background music on!!!

Anybody else work with complete d*cks? Have you ever emailed the wrong person at work. I’ve done it a few times at this stage!

Play on playa.

B!tches be crazy! :rolleyes: