Working with stupid people.

lazygal · 13-04-2012 03:31PM #1

Have you ever worked with someone who is just stupid? And wondered how they got the job at all? I've had a few different jobs in my time, in the public and private sector, and each time I've come across a colleague who is so blatantly stupid I wonder how they even managed applying for jobs in the first place.

Here's a short list:
The retail manager who couldn't use a printer to print off information signs, she left it all up to me 'because you're a whizz on computers'.
A classroom assistant who misspelled potatoes. Spelled it potatos.
A current colleague who can't (or won't) work with an IT upgrade, so her work has to be edited every time its submitted as its not compatible with everyone else's.
A colleague I have some interaction with (thank goodness not on a daily basis) who works on a switch board and can't transfer people's calls, instead he cuts them off. Every time.

AngryBollix · 13-04-2012 03:32PM

everyone is stupid

Mr Benevolent · 13-04-2012 03:33PM

But you're perfect, right?

lazygal · 13-04-2012 03:33PM

Confab wrote: »

But you're perfect, right?

Yes. It's good to be me.

ThinkAboutIt · 13-04-2012 03:34PM

I once worked with this Gal, she was very lazy, we used to call her LazyGal, and daaaayum she was stupid.

Babybuff · 13-04-2012 03:34PM

I can't do the fone thing either.

dulpit · 13-04-2012 03:35PM

My manager is properly stupid, she doesn't follow the processes she sets out but murders everyone else for not following them (she "forgets"). Oh and she can't spell, but sends out emails to important clients without using a spellchecker.

I have no idea how she got her job, I should probably ask her brother, the managing director, to see if he knows...

Gee Bag · 13-04-2012 03:35PM

50% of the worlds population are below average intelligence. Try as you might one of them is going to cross your path at some point

Revolution9 · 13-04-2012 03:36PM

ThinkAboutIt wrote: »

I once worked with this Gal, she was very lazy, we used to call her LazyGal, and daaaayum she was stupid.

If you ThinkAboutIt you'll realise who he is talking about.

dulpit · 13-04-2012 03:36PM

Oh and our finance girl manages to break the printer at least twice a week... And can't use our phones...

Seachmall · 13-04-2012 03:36PM

lazygal wrote: »

A colleague I have some interaction with (thank goodness not on a daily basis) who works on a switch board and can't transfer people's calls, instead he cuts them off. Every time.

Same thing happens in my office.

Press the button once to ring, twice to transfer.

Not that fucking hard.

Gee Bag wrote: »

50% of the worlds population are below average intelligence. Try as you might one of them is going to cross your path at some point

*49%

Sky King · 13-04-2012 03:38PM

I have said it before, but I would literally scrub toilets before I would work with handicaps.

I don't know how people do it.

Plazaman · 13-04-2012 03:38PM

I think this is an urban myth but a guy I used to work ("John") with swears it happened to him.

John was leaving the Office late one evening when he sees his bosses boss standing beside the shredder. He asks John does he know how to work "this infernal machine". John takes the page he was holding and feeds in into the shredder. As he's about to walk off, the bosses boss says "Ah good man, will ya make me two copies of it".

FatherLen · 13-04-2012 03:42PM

Sky King wrote: »

I have said it before, but I would literally scrub toilets before I would work with handicaps.

I don't know how people do it.

i am not usually involved in the P.C. argument but........... wow

foxyboxer · 13-04-2012 03:45PM

The company runs training courses for external people at times.
One of the regular staff joined in on the course for the week.

Gave the door codes to the externals who came in early the following day.

Cue, the alarm going ballistic.

Stupid is as Stupid does.

Fizgig Bandicoot · 13-04-2012 03:45PM

Sky King wrote: »

I have said it before, but I would literally scrub toilets before I would work with handicaps.

I don't know how people do it.

Yes, i'd say they'd hate to be working with a stupid person such as yourself.

BizzyC · 13-04-2012 03:53PM

We had a woman in our office who gave out that she wasn't able to connect to the office from home with her RSA token.

As it turned out she didn't have an internet connection. She thought she could magically connect to the work network and proceeded to give out to the tech guys cause the process was stupid.

Latchy · 13-04-2012 03:59PM

From my own expierences , some of the dumbest people I've ever worked with were managers who had no idea of how to ' manage people ' but then you realise it was for their nasty personality , not their brains they were given the job in the first place .

Ficheall · 13-04-2012 04:13PM

Seachmall wrote: »

Gee Bag wrote: »

50% of the worlds population are below average intelligence. Try as you might one of them is going to cross your path at some point

*49%

*50%

(unless you're claiming that you're using some complicated weighted method based on IQ or somesuch, in which case I couldn't be bothered arguing with you.)

(ag glacadh leis nach bhfuil tú ag baint úsáid as modh casta éigin le meacháin bunaithe ar IQ nó rud éigin mar sin. Sa chás sin, ní bheadh aon suim agam argóint leat.)

Fizman · 13-04-2012 04:14PM

Temp girl that started here about 2 months ago. When it's her round for a cuppa.......EVERY time I give her my mug (it's black, and quite large), I get back a completely different one (white, and regular size)!

It makes me so mad, sometimes I just feel like pjlaefrh-9874rt-wetfgh[[se087=08=87rwq3rfQAWFPOHSAGDFO-HASRGF-Hdaw

mackg · 13-04-2012 04:15PM

Sky King wrote: »

I have said it before, but I would literally scrub toilets before I would work with handicaps.

I don't know how people do it.

mikemac1 · 13-04-2012 04:16PM

BizzyC wrote: »

We had a woman in our office who gave out that she wasn't able to connect to the office from home with her RSA token.

As it turned out she didn't have an internet connection. She thought she could magically connect to the work network and proceeded to give out to the tech guys cause the process was stupid.

I must be stupid also
What is RSA?

edit, I'll find out, not requesting a technical explanation of RSA here

But I don't think that's so stupid,
If you're not in a technical role then you expect things to work, it's not for you to understand how they work

Teyla Emmagan · 13-04-2012 04:16PM

foxyboxer wrote: »

The company runs training courses for external people at times.
One of the regular staff joined in on the course for the week.

Gave the door codes to the externals who came in early the following day.

Cue, the fire alarms going ballistic in the city centre.

Stupid is as Stupid does.

I don't get this. Why were the FIRE alarms going off?

Stark · 13-04-2012 04:21PM

mikemac1 wrote: »

I must be stupid also
What is RSA?

This yoke: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SecurID

Susie_Q · 13-04-2012 04:26PM

This is the communications system in the office where my friend works:

Emails come in for the director. Each email is printed off by the secretary and left on his desk. Director reads the emails and HAND WRITES a reply to each one. Secretary collects papers back, types emails and sends replies.

This usually takes a full day, if not more, depending on the volume of email.

mikemac1 · 13-04-2012 04:29PM

Michael O'Leary?

He doesn't use emails

He's right too, people are too fond of them.

foxyboxer · 13-04-2012 04:29PM

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

I don't get this. Why were the FIRE alarms going off?

Mea culpa. Fixed.

superstoner90 · 13-04-2012 04:33PM

Sky King wrote: »

I have said it before, but I would literally scrub toilets before I would work with handicaps.

I don't know how people do it.

"handicaps" as you call them, acually refers to a person with a disability.
I know a person with a disability, hes one of the smartest people I know.
I think you mean stupid people.

Now that reply wasent very smart? Was it? :rolleyes:

Genghiz Cohen · 13-04-2012 04:34PM

Ficheall wrote: »

*50%

(unless you're claiming that you're using some complicated weighted method based on IQ or somesuch, in which case I couldn't be bothered arguing with you.)

(ag glacadh leis nach bhfuil tú ag baint úsáid as modh casta éigin le meacháin bunaithe ar IQ nó rud éigin mar sin. Sa chás sin, ní bheadh aon suim agam argóint leat.)

0-49 below average.
50 average.
51-100 above average.

Also, what I love is the Dunning Kruger effect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyOHJa5Vj5Y

Bit based in religion but the main point is fantastic.

charlemont · 13-04-2012 04:35PM

The useless people seem to get away with being slack in work, Those of us who show initiative and competence in work have more expected of us. :mad:

westcoast66 · 13-04-2012 04:43PM

Plazaman wrote: »

I think this is an urban myth but a guy I used to work ("John") with swears it happened to him.

John was leaving the Office late one evening when he sees his bosses boss standing beside the shredder. He asks John does he know how to work "this infernal machine". John takes the page he was holding and feeds in into the shredder. As he's about to walk off, the bosses boss says "Ah good man, will ya make me two copies of it".

I was working in a place where the boss asked me to network the shredder. No idea why....

Working with stupid people.

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