When coworkers get on your nerves.

As some of you know, I'm a Tech Support Analyst with a firm here in Dallas. Today, I am at home helping to nurse my family back to health, and I am working remotely trying to help people with tickets and all.

So I get an email from my system admin stating that a computer in the training room is stuck on installing a program that I began the installation on yesterday late right before I left for the day. It's a program that can take awhile to install.

So apparently it's still stuck today trying to install and they are needing that program to train some people. I my system admin asks what is going on, and I tell him honestly that I started the install yesterday, but well, I guess it got stuck.

He then emails back asking me, how did I teach them to login for the first time if I realized that the program was not updated? I mean, here I'm thinking, "umm, it's possible to verbally walk people through it" which we did and everything worked out fine. I told him as an alternative, he could have the person leading the training hook up their laptop to the projector, and she could use her program to train.

He responds back basically questioning my integrity on when I started the install, as if it matters now?!! Also stating that she's started the training, but her computer is stuck on shutting down and he cannot go in there. Now this is where I'm thinking the following.

If the training computer is stuck installing, why not abort and try again.

As for her personal laptop, if it's stuck, not much training getting done now is there? Walk in, and fix it.

I mean cripes people, what is wrong with some people...

 

Is he/she a Tech Support Analyst aswell, cause if he/she is, he/she's not much of one, having to come running to you all the time, plus her LT is stuck and he/she can't get that sorted herself, just sounds like a whinger to me, and maybe brown nosing it with the bosses while your not there !
People like him/her just get on my nerves mad !

 

no, the guy whining is the system administrator.

 

So why don't he get HIS act together, what a pr**k, he's brown nosing motc7 as i said earlier, system administrators, i've :crap em, :-D and i've only been at the game two minutes !

 

Oh btw, most honest to god "system admins" dont do shit for users trouble tickets or user training, as they have bigger issues, the term admin at the end of system tends to indicate bigger management responsibilities. Usually theres a helpdesk or support person thats actually incharge of repairs to end user systems, and usually in the larger companys i see/work for we have dedicated training officers, thats all they do is train people.

 

The co-workers I can't stand are the ones that add unnecessary drama to everything they do. Had one at my last job and she was SUPERGLUED to the place, the boss wasn't going to send her on her way no matter how many other staff departed because they couldn't put up with her B effen S!

 

I have a co-worker who is in LOVE with titles. We could care less. Once upon a time I was half of accounting, the everything computer person and a corporate officer. I signed a million forms and returns and I had to have a title and so Controller was bestowed upon me.

Eventually, we grew too big, added more staff. The person who *hhmmm* inherited my controller title has rolled out a few good ones lately. She's the CFO :confused and I'm MIT (manager of ONE) and then there is the PM of another self-made-up "department" and again, manager of ONE. I crack up.

All of the top people all now also have some sort of VP and C** title that floats around. I'm surprised that I don't have one of those yet. Is there a Chief of Information Systems? Don't tell her that, I'm going to see an email that I'm cc'ed on to contact me since i'm the CIS!

I want to scream -- people, do your job really well, get your check, go home and have a LIFE. Who cares what name you put on it?

 

Really, you had a WOMAN coworker who caused drama?? Gasp! Did she also complain that she wasn't appreciated or paid as much as her male counterparts too? Sadly, there is always more than one of those at every job. They make working with women annoying and unprofessional. I want those kind of coworkers (men and women) to go home and be housewives but they are always the ones who are very attached to having a job.

I'd love to hack away half the staff every year. There is a really good business speaker named Glenn Shepard. He has a website, a REALLY great weekly newsletter and a motto -- Work is not for sissies! Check him out and sign up for his newsletter if you could use a weekly boost of professionalism and feeling like someone gets it. His theory is to remove the bottom 10% of the staff every year. I say heck yeah, I'm with Glen on that one!

 

It was more complicated than that. She'd been with the firm a long time, possibly longer than the boss himself.
This was a computer firm based on the campus of a major university here (info enough for the detectives out there to track the company down) and Drama Queen had been dealing with all the different faculties since God knows when. The boss had it in his head that if he lost her he'd lose a lot of academics' business.
DQ was a sales rep at the time I worked there. She was demoted to being another rep's assistant about six months after I joined, but that made absolutely no difference to her daily routine. She just did her own thing as if SHE was the one in charge and did the assistanty-type stuff only under duress. DQ wore out two assistants of her own that I know of. She had that satanic gift for complicating even simple affairs and even the people who didn't work directly with her couldn't stand her.
She had the devil's luck too.A few years before I started the firm was bought by a larger firm, who kept the boss in place as managing director. The new owners started to draw up a list of which staff they wanted to keep and which they didn't. DQ was very high on the second list - unfortunately the new owners themselves have a fearsome reputation in this town, and so many of the workers they would have kept jumped ship that they HAD to hold on to DQ just to ensure a little continuity.
Drama Queen would be close to retirement age now but I'd bet she's still in there driving everybody nuts.

 

System Admins, only slightly less useless than Geek Squad. But way more expensive, so it balances out.

(More useful than Geek Squad because they can assign permissions. But that's it.)

 

While this is true, we are a two man operation. Even if I'm in the office, typically it's expected that if I'm engaged with someone else on a problem ,he has to help.

He was just being a fartleberry...nothing more.

 

I had no idea what I fartleberry is until a search was found in the Urban dictionary.

eeewwww :-D TMI :eek

 

OMG, I am next door to a person who will throw you under a bus for an 'ata boy'. She is always looking to make herself look good and you look bad & we don't have the same job, but she noses her way into everything!!
She puts question marks at the end of EVERY sentence.
"[re] get the mail tomorrow?" not "can you get the mail?"
I delete them so fast or I'd have more examples.

 

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