Anyone else work with someone who does things that defy logic?

[luvwinnie]

There is just th emost recent of a long string of odd things, but I am home sick today and emailed asst. saying to call MY HOUSE number if she needed me...so of course she calls my cell and leaves a message (I didn't hear it) " I didn't want to call your house number, thought i'd try your cell first." WHY?? WHY??? WHY??? I SAID call my house!!

 

[kejoda]

I don't work with someone, I live with him. I shake my head so much there are times I'm afraid its going to fall off.

 

[luvwinnie]

Hahahaha!

 

[Missy1961]

Hope you're feeling better soon!

I work with someone that will ask you a question, you give him an answer, he still does it the way he wanted to. And his decisions are usually wrong.

 

[da-winnie-pooh]

Well, when I was much younger and still lived at home, my brother had a friend coming over. His mom called and asked for directions. I told her to turn left on Second Street (names changed to protect my parents who still live there) and she said, "You mean First Street." No, I told her you pass First and turn on Second. Well, she was late, and she said, "I'm so sorry, I turned on First Street." DUH! It's one thing to totally disregard someone's directions (and yeah, I was a teenager, but not an idiot!) but to then tell them???? Please!!

Anyway, if she's still working, her coworkers know what you're talking about!

 

[Laura]

I had to share a computer with another co-worker when I started at my current workplace. She could just log my profile out and herself in, and not mess with any of my settings, but did she do that? Nope, she would go in, change the speed of my mouse pointer, the double-click speed, the key repeat rate speed, etc. etc. just to use the computer for five minutes. She would then change it back, but often would forget something. Geez, if it's THAT important to change those settings, why not just log me out and pull up your own profile?

Fortunately, she got her own computer a few months later.

 

[dreamalittledream]

we have an assistant at the office who transfers clients to the salesperson's cell phone without warning. It looks as if the call is coming from her number and is actually "Mr. Client". I have learned not to pick up her calls if I can't talk at the time and call her back or pick up the VM.

 

[ktulu]

There was a guy named Frank Grimes who used to work at a power plant, he died because he could not believe what this other guy, Homer, would get away with. He finally snapped and ended up electrocuting himself while imitating Homer. Very tragic Yes, there are people at every workplace that defies logic...

 

[Laurajean1014]

Yes, but only he things it.

 

[Mr.MouseFan]

My boss is a real dolt. We're not allowed to tack anything up on our cubical walls...even though the walls are bulletin boards. She doesn't want them ruined. Also, if we're on break we're not allowed to eat at our desks. We have to move to someone else's desk. (and mess up theirs instead)

 

[musclecar_72]

I work in an office full of women, logic isn't something they're familiar with!

 

[kelleigh1]

At my last job, we hired someone to replace me. I was responsible for training her. Boy was that fun. I finally just gave up because she didn't want to learn anything. And I'm talking about someone who was in her 50's, not some kid out of high school / college who's only working because their parents made them get a job.

So I'm trying to teach her Excel because she needs to use it in order to do the calculations for the benefit programs that we quote for clients. We go through an entire day of training and she says "can't I just use a table in word?" Um no, because word tables won't calculate for you. It was like this with everything. I'd teach her and she'd ignore me.

What I really liked is right after she started, our corporate office hadn't approved her hiring yet so she didn't have an email account yet. She asks me "so how am I going to email my friends?"

UGH!!

 

[Mary Ellen]

There are just some people too stupid to realize that they are stupid. Case in point:

I attended the wedding of a half-sister (I live out of state from the rest of my family). Another of my half-sisters (Alicia) was introducing me to her MIL as her sister. The MIL corrected Alicia and told her that I wasn't her sister, but her Aunt. I can't imagine correcting someone about a close relationship - maybe a 9th cousin 7 times removed... but something as close as a sister/half-sister? It isn't a complicated relationship to figure out. There is a reason that Alicia's DH is known in the family as 'Sluggo' or 'slug-boy'. He didn't fall far from that tree. Actually, he is the only one I've ever heard of, who admits to scoring less than 100 on an on-line IQ test. The only thing we can think of is that (in his mind) the 90s are close to 100 and as everyone knows, 100 is 'perfect' - and he believes he is PERFECT.

 

[barkley]

we occasionaly had employees that had to go to another office to work on a case and we paid their travel time to and from, it always amazed me when they put up a HUGE fuss when i (as their supervisor) made them put in a timecard to dock their check when the normal 10 minute drive took them 45 minutes to an hour "but the traffic was heavy, i could'nt find a parking place here..." and as they whined away they were still holding in hand, the bag from mcdonalds and another from a deparment store along the way