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Idiots you work with

At work I set up a fellows personal laptop so he can use it in the office. I installed everything from Windows XP to applications. It was working good. I inform him that he should use it as is and that if he wants to install something let me know and I will gladly do it for him.

Well, he doesn't like iTunes and prefers another program. So he decides to install the other program. Oh oh, conflict. Now he tries to delete (uninstall) iTunes. Something didn't uninstall cleanly.

Then he goes and installs some other stuff and uninstalls some things. He is a gamer, so he tweaks things to improve his system.

Now it doesn't work right and he wonders why. Of course he wants me to fix it. I refuse to fix his system the second time after he hoses it.

Some people...
 
Oh lord, I could go on forever about the idiots I work with but my first attempt at this post was more of a rant. My boss, albeit a complete and total jerk that I just wanna smack, is actually quite a brilliant business man. But all the people under him...holy crap. Like I said he is brilliant, because how our company makes the money it makes is beyond me. They are all freaking morons.
 
We had inventory discrepancies. Butterflies (a kind of needle we use to draw blood from patients with small veins) were missing. One suspicious employee searched a bag of another employee and found two boxes of Butterfly needles mixed with other personal belongings. Security was called and the employee suspended. We couln't fire him because security said that technically, the other employee had no right to search his bag. Also, since the property was still on the premises they weren't stolen yet. The employee said he "found them and was going to return them." Our Human Resources Dept. said there was nothing they could do.

He was eventually fired a few weeks later for being late too many times.

He applied for a job at another hospital where I happened to have a second part time job and they asked me about him. I told them to pass. He didn't get away with it afterall.
 
Occassionally I am forced to work with myself.

editHang on this is the Working With Idiots post, I thought it was the Genius's one.

Although not really idiots, me and two mates turn each others computers off in class. It usually takes half the period before I am logged in.
 
Wouldn't if be ironic if co-workers unknowingly post in this thread over time, and they're from the same office? :eek: :D
 
I only had one real idiot at my workplace, and she quit today.

I never actually worked with her, but for whatever reason she was very much against me, and had somehow decided I was a bad person. She proceeded to tell all of my coworkers, manager and boss that I was a bad person and shouldn't be given as many working hours as she was.

Then, she started repeatedly badmouthing me to my other coworkers...people I consider friends. They stuck up for me to an extent. I was going to go in on a day when she was on shift and talk to her about the situation this week, but she quit today, so I'm clear. :D
 
erickkoch said:
We had inventory discrepancies. Butterflies (a kind of needle we use to draw blood from patients with small veins) were missing. One suspicious employee searched a bag of another employee and found two boxes of Butterfly needles mixed with other personal belongings.
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:confused:
Why would someone steal butterflies. I can't imagine shooting up with them... Well maybe... It would get the heroin into your system so slowly it would feel like Oxycodone...

On topic.
Former coworker (tier 2 call center!) was told and believed that the network was crappy because of the argon leaking out of the ethernet. Since the building was about to be replace, all new wiring etc. that we were just topping up the argon instead of finding the leak and fixing it. He repeated it to managers.
 
Well... more of a costumer but this one lady on my paper route is really annoying. She makes me walk all the way up to her house (it's on a hill so theres like at least 30 steps up to it and then 10 more up to her porch and then put it in a trash can on her porch (dont ask) and after I do all this work not one tip. :mad:

And then in my (ex)class there was this girl who used to masterbate DURNING class!!!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: I guess she got bored or something! ;) But it was all the time. Its like gosh, if your going to do that do it in PRIVATE!!!!
 
MongoTheGeek said:
:confused:
Why would someone steal butterflies. I can't imagine shooting up with them... Well maybe... It would get the heroin into your system so slowly it would feel like Oxycodone...
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I was told that he had a part-time job at another facility where they didin't provide butterflies, so I'm guessing he had to use syringes and 25 guage needles or something.
 
Stupid Folks...

A long time ago I worked for a company that built financial information products and sold them for large amounts of money. My role is always in Data Prep and getting data where it needs to be. A co-worker (very well connected in the company) designed the user interfaces to present the data. The product was distributed on CD's (we are talking around 1989).

I found out through the grapevine that 3000 of our customers got a virus and that my co-worker was telling the CEO that it was caused by a VAX virus that did the data prep since he used a shared drive to backup his software (Sort of like OS/X giving Win XP a Virus through bootcamp).

After getting my ass chewed out for about a week, I did some research and found the guy was downloading Gay Porn (He wasn't Gay... or was he?). I even found the source of the virus. I guess he didn't realize I could see the data from my side...

I showed my Boss who informed his boss and the whole thing was quickly hushed up.

I still laugh about it! It was the Dreaded VAX Virus!

Mike...
 
pilotError said:
I still laugh about it! It was the Dreaded VAX Virus!
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There's be what? one? ever?

erickkoch said:
I was told that he had a part-time job at another facility where they didin't provide butterflies, so I'm guessing he had to use syringes and 25 guage needles or something.
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Okay. I guess that makes some sense. I would just figure he could just make do in that instance. Never actually stuck anyone but seen it done to me enough that I've almost grabbed needles from people who just couldn't manage.
 
Years ago a person was hired to lead the tech training department... and was dumbfounded to learn that you had to do something like "double-click" to open a program or document. I kid you not.... of course they are gone now.
I'm not sure if they were the idiot, or the person that hired them was.
 
Ok, this one is coming in at almost real-time, as I just heard it being said.

A certain co-workeer of mine, one who constantly refers to himself as a "gentleman and a scholar" that reminds you at least 6 times a day that he's in law school, and is a self-proclaimed computer geek, says the following:

"Well, we should probably put it on a CD. It looks like it was made with Flash 8, and my flash drive is a little older than that...."

Apparently there is a connection between Macromedia Flash 8 and thumb drives I was never aware of....
 
Any idiots in your life, you have attracted into your life.

You can't really ban me for telling the truth can you?
 
macgeek2005 said:
Any idiots in your life, you have attracted into your life.

You can't really ban me for telling the truth can you?
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So when you get a job, and they hire an idiot, that's your fault?

Interesting.
 
Josh said:
So when you get a job, and they hire an idiot, that's your fault?

Interesting.
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PM me if you're interested in knowing how the human mind works, and how the universe works. It's the truth. Your mind is connected to the rest of the universe, you create what happens in your reality.

For example, in my reality, I won't get a job because i'll have too much money to need a job.
 
macgeek2005 said:
PM me if you're interested in knowing how the human mind works, and how the universe works. It's the truth. Your mind is connected to the rest of the universe, you create what happens in your reality.

For example, in my reality, I won't get a job because i'll have too much money to need a job.
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......

*crickets chirping*

How many trillions of years ago did Xenu blow up the volcanoes, I can't remember?
 
w_parietti22 said:
And then in my (ex)class there was this girl who used to masterbate DURNING class!!!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: I guess she got bored or something! ;) But it was all the time. Its like gosh, if your going to do that do it in PRIVATE!!!!
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i work with many idiots, but tell me that the girl you are reffering to is hot, and I will forget all about the idiots for now!!!!!!:eek:
 
There's this really rubenesque+obese (really fat) teacher we have at our school. He tough us in a subject called "Data" in 7th grade (I'm in 9th grade now). He was supposed to teach us about computers, and:
1. He didn't know **** about computers. He thought VGA ports were for mice:D
2. He always walked with his hands down his pants (on the backside:eek: ). Then he would walk over, put his stinky hands on the keyboard, and crack up the program. He would say "It's a test to see if you know how to handle this":p .
3. In the summer his shirt would be all wet from sweat, and he stank like coffee and old deodorant.:mad:
4. He told me once when I asked him whether my Mac could go on the internet through the schools network, that it would crap up all the windows machines because macs are bad. He nearly touched my baby:( But I just put my MB back in my bag, and walked. Then he gave me D-, though I know 10 times more than him about Windows and Macs.:p
 
macgeek2005 said:
PM me if you're interested in knowing how the human mind works, and how the universe works. It's the truth. Your mind is connected to the rest of the universe, you create what happens in your reality.

For example, in my reality, I won't get a job because i'll have too much money to need a job.
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Oh I get you now. You see yourself as some form of Sai Baba type figure. Good luck with that :cool:
Why is there no sarcasm smilie?
 
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