Uh Oh, Richard, I think you started a topic here that I will be ranting in for quite some time. I can totally relate to IOI (In-Office-Idiots)!!! Ugh....first...
LOL LOL Cheshirekatt, I totally know what you mean. I don't know how many times I found myself wiping off the counters in the kitchen. Coffee was always spilled and sloshed all over the place, and what's annoying is we actually shared the building with another company and they would be griping that my company was the one to make a mess. I don't think so. I don't know how many times I saw an employee from that other company spill stuff, and not clean it up. I was constantly making sure things were nice and tidy.Originally posted by Cheshirekatt
Here's my rant:
Is it really that hard to pick up after yourself? Our sink in our breakroom has never had a garbage disposal. Never. Yet it turns into a swill bucket every day because someone puts their dirty dishes in there with the food still on it.
Perhaps a garbage disposal will magically appear???
Why is it necessay to leave your cell phone on the table in the room while you're NOT THERE?? So everyone else has the joy of listening to the stupid ring? Again, and again and again......
Next time that happens it's getting tossed into the swill bucket.
Why do people complain about things being broken yet no one bothers to inform anyone of the broken appliance?
Again, is it going to magically fix itself??
Ok, I'm getting all worked up so I'm done!
The company we shared the building with was really...uh...anal in where things were to go that they actually had YELLOW tape around the locations where things were to go with LABELS! For example, there would be yellow tape around the coffee pot labeled: Coffee Pot, or in the bathrooms there would be yellow tape around the Kleenex box and the soap dispenser labeled as such.Personally I thought all that tape and all those labels made things look sloppy and dumb.
Now, onto rants about fellow employees (and upper management). Now, I'm not bitter or anything about my getting laid off, but why is it that the good people are always laid off while the a-holes get to run the business into the ground??!!
The company I was previously working for started in 1999. I was there from the beginning. Within the last year, we merged with another company, which was a really bad move, and basically the people from that company just took over and laid off the people in the original company and now it's back to being that company. It's so stupid. (there were originally 50 people in our US office here, and now it's down to 7) Plus, one of the VPs thinks he runs the place, and the worthless President lets him, and he spends like we have unlimited funds! I don't think so! He goes on trips, spends money and charges drinks to the company. I organized a tradeshow back in April in Washington DC and I spent less money in 5 days, then he did in 2. That's rediculous!!
Plus, if you're a President (CEO, whatever...) and you have a degree from Stanford (or some other so called "elite" school), wouldn't you at least learn how to type there??? It pained me to watch our President type. He doesn't do anything anyway. So, I get laid off (Thanks for being here from the beginning, caring about the welfare of the company and working your butt off! No severance for you!), and I was the ONLY person in Marketing and Customer Support. That scares me: don't companies need marketing and customer support?? But, our VP can still go on trips to Australia??!!
OK, I'll get off my soapbox now....I'll rant about more stupidity later!
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