Working with Idiots - The Rant Thread

Cogliostro

I thought that since I haven't seen one for a while, I'd go ahead and create a thread for ranting about your co-workers who piss you off for whatever reason - don't be afraid to rant even if it's a stupid little thing.

I'll go first!

So as some of you know (because I've not shut up about it), I'm in Texas doing my Paramedic internship. There are three main stations that I'm assigned to. Today I'm at Station 21 which is way out in a town called Willis. It's about as yokel as you can get near Houston. How it works is that each truck as an attendant, usually an EMT Intermediate, and an In Charge, always a Paramedic. The In Charge for my truck is what's called an FTO - Field Training Officer. That means he can precept paramedics, new employees, etc. The In Charge for this truck is pretty cool, easy going but doesn't really let me run calls as I'm supposed to, that's okay. And he doesn't like intubating patients who clearly can't control their own airway, which is not cool.

My real problem is with the attendant. This guy has a huge chip on his shoulder - he was fired from his fire department for incompetence and came to work for the ambulance service I'm interning at. The first time I ran a call with him it was a lady with chest pain. I start my usual questioning, gathering history, etc. He busts in the middle and starts asking the same goddamn questions. Okay, fine. Maybe he didn't hear me. We get the lady in the back of the truck and before I can resume questioning about allergies, where the pain is, etc he starts throwing medications at me to give to her. Aspirin and Nitroglycerin specifically - both dangerous if given in the wrong situation, such as this lady who was having abdominal pain.

Now I haven't seen a blood pressure, asked if she has allergies (some people have an allergy to aspirin) or anything and he's throwing meds at me to just give to her. Now I would've been fine with this had he not done it every fucking time we ran calls. Later that day he stops giving me a chance to even start questioning. He runs into the house and starts rapid firing questions at these poor old people who might be having a heart attack (we ran all cardiac calls that day). Not allowing me to get a word in edgewise (since I'm supposed to be running these calls, it's kind of important that I ask questions, y'know?).

So I'm back here today and he's started to call me 'junior' and order me around. What the fuck? Oh no he di'int. He's a goddamn Intermediate... even though I'm a Paramedic student, I've still got more scope of practice and knowledge than he does. Not to mention I'm supposed to be running the scenes? Fuck that in the fucking poop hole. I'm considering requesting reassignment. I'm literally spending thousands of my dollars to come here to learn and the only thing I'm learning here is how to deal with jackasses - not patient care. I already know how to deal with them, I don't need practice in that.

TL;DR: Idiot EMT is a fucking douchebag and is pissing me off by being a condescending jackass.

Post your rants, SE++. I want to make myself feel better by reading worse stories than mine.

trentsteel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obyVWv94dWc&feature=related

Start at 00:43

Butler

Wait, they're charging you money to drive to people's houses and rescue them?

trentsteel

Uh. Your coworker sounds goddamn dangerous.

Seriously get him in shit before he kills old people.

Cogliostro

I'm just an intern here... the in-charge is supposed to be riding herd on him. I just wish the in-charge would grow a backbone and confront him.

If I ask for re-assignment I'm going to tell them why. He's up for in-charge medic, too once he passes his paramedic exam.

Iskander

Seriously doin't just have ourself reassigned like a pussy. Report that idiot or something

trentsteel

Yeah, just phone the dude above your in-charge.

BYToady

You're in a van full of syringes and potentially lethal levels of drugs.

I'm sure you can figure out the math.

Jedoc

I actually like most of the people I'm working with right now. Pretty much everyone in the department is an MLIS student, and our actual librarian is on sabbatical. Happily, we're hiring three new people next week, so maybe one of them will be terrible enough to give me a story for this thread.

Cogliostro

not enough ranting going on here, people! Goddammit, there has to be at least one in your office!

Khavall

Um.


One of the people I work with baked me chocolate chip cookies so.

Yeah I got nothing.

Jordyn

I work down in the basement by myself now. It's pretty nice.

But there is this one guy upstairs. First, he likes to crank the air conditioning down to about 70, even now in fucking October. The fuck. Secondly, he has a ummm smell. It likes to linger whenever he walks through an area. He's also annoying as fuck.

The other day he messages me that he needs to print 3000 tickets for a producer, and that he's come downstairs and do that in a bit. This is dumb for several reasons. The first being that in my new position, I'm supposed to be in charge of all ticket printing. He seems a little unclear on that. The second being that he shouldn't have to come downstairs, he should be able to send a job to the printer from his desk. But no, he insists on coming downstairs. I grit my teeth and say fine, since I was just working on fixing some of the spare printers.

He logs into my computer and before he prints a single ticket, breaks something and cannot do anything on the computer. He starts complaining that firefox lost all of his bookmarks and he needs to go through and get them all again. He's messaging the computer guy and the boss and I'm thinking "you don't need your fucking bookmarks to print your fucking tickets!"

He told me he would be downstairs for 30 minutes. Two hours later, and with me stomping back upstairs constantly to complain to a coworker (who would then message one of our bosses), he finally gets the fuck out of my area, without printing anything.

I get back to my work of fixing printers and he messages me the print job saying he needs it by 3pm. This is at about a quarter to 2. I start the printing and it gets done at about 10 after 3. The whole time I would get messages from him. "How's the printing going? Almost done? How are things going down there? I need those tickets by 3!"

Fuck you. If you had just sent me the print job in first place like you are supposed to, your fucking tickets would be done by now.

tl;dr I work in tickets.

Druhim

so


tickets :winky:

laughingfuzzball

Thaere's this guy I work with, Bailey. He thinks he's hot shit because he was a National Merit Scholar in high school. He's dumber than the guy who recently admitted to being clinically retarded. If you just tell him what task needs to be done, he'll have no idea how to do it, even if it's something he's done every shift since he started. If you tell him exactly what to do, he'll still have to ask a barrage of the most retarded questions (he actually asked how long he had to scrub the chopping block once) and he'll usually have to ask at least one other person to help him.

On top of that, he has absolutely no communication skills. He can't form a cogent sentence, and often times when you give the ridiculously specific directions he requires, he'll have no idea what your talking about (he actually says "I have no idea what your talking about" more often than anything else), even if you put i in the shortest, simplest terms possible.

He's decided that since he's been there longer than a couple people now, he's going to start telling them what to do. I've been telling all of those people that he's stupid and that if they're doing what he says they're probably doing something wrong. It's completely true.

Jordyn

Druhim wrote: »

so


tickets :winky:

"slide the tickets firmly into the loading throat,..."

Air

if a coworker is crap at their job then you should perform a lot better to make up for it and ensure that things continue to run smoothly

of course this is hard to do if you are also crap at your job and also a whiner

Druhim

laughingfuzzball wrote: »

Thaere's this guy I work with, Bailey. He thinks he's hot shit because he was a National Merit Scholar in high school. He's dumber than the guy who recently admitted to being clinically retarded. If you just tell him what task needs to be done, he'll have no idea how to do it, even if it's something he's done every shift since he started. If you tell him exactly what to do, he'll still have to ask a barrage of the most retarded questions (he actually asked how long he had to scrub the chopping block once) and he'll usually have to ask at least one other person to help him.

On top of that, he has absolutely no communication skills. He can't form a cogent sentence, and often times when you give the ridiculously specific directions he requires, he'll have no idea what your talking about (he actually says "I have no idea what your talking about" more often than anything else), even if you put i in the shortest, simplest terms possible.

He's decided that since he's been there longer than a couple people now, he's going to start telling them what to do. I've been telling all of those people that he's stupid and that if they're doing what he says they're probably doing something wrong. It's completely true.

sounds like he may be 'spergin

Weaver

My top engineer can't even make a miniaturized arc reactor.

The technology is right there.

potatoe

i mean come on

i could probably build one in a cave
with a box of scraps

Butler

Druhim wrote: »

sounds like he may be 'spergin

spergin dumb everywhere

Wevs

I embrace all kinds of diversity including the diversity of the differently skilled.

Weaver

high five potato

laughingfuzzball

Actual stories-

One guy is showing him how to scrub the chopping block. That isn't something most people need to be shown. There's the block, there's suds, there's a scrub brush. Self-explanatory. After he spends about five minutes showing this to him, he asks "So, how long do I scrub it for?" You clean things until they are clean. That is what cleaning is.

Another time, he had a customer order a tube of ground beef. He hadn't been here long at this point. Long enough that he should have known what to do, but not long enough that he did. He got all confused and befuddled, so I told him they were in the cooler. He said he didn't know where they were. I figured he meant "where in the cooler", it's not hard to find stuff, but we all knew by this point that he was pretty incompitant, so ii told him they were in the cooler, on the left, in the box marked "ground beef 81/19". He repeated that he didn't know where they were at. I repeated that they were in the cooler, on the left, in the box marked "ground beef 81/19", and told him to bring one out.

He had to ask someone else who was in the cooler where they were. Even that wasn't enough, they had to open the box for him, get one out, and hand it to him.

sdrawkcaB emaN

As most of you know, since like Cogliostro I never stop talking about it, I work for the Obama campaign in Ohio. So most of the people I worth with are very intelligent, hard-working, and share my politics (and know and talk about politics), which is fun. Probably the biggest downside is that everyone's under 30 so there's just an incredible amount of hot ass that is in my face all day. Literally, like, lots of young women who come stand near me to to talk to someone and their perfect ass is just right at eye level and it's just torturous.

But other than that, there is one co-worker who is intolerable.

First, she is a farter. She farts every day in the office. Audibly. We all ignore it, like the wife and children of a closeted gay man in the '50s. It's not a secret to anybody but you just don't talk about it. Thankfully, they don't smell, but there have been several instances where I've had to leave the room because she lets out some seismic event of a fart and I just lost my shit laughing.

She also burps, and fondles her gut which has become increasingly large and disgusting in just the three months we've been here. This is not aided by the fact that all her fucking shirts are too goddamn small.

Her laughter is that horrible nerd laughter, the sharp, high-pitched inhalation that sounds like a person just resuscitated gasping for dear life. And she has the worst sense of humor. Oh, a field organizer is marginally incompetent, and has a silly request. THE HEIGHT OF ABSURDITY. LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT IT. OH AND THEN LET ME RETELL IT TO EVER INDIVIDUAL PERSON IN THE ROOM. DID YOU HEAR ABOUT HOW THE GOLDFISH OF THE PERSON I'M STAYING WITH DIED? CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?!?!?! A GOLDFISH DIED! ON MY WATCH! UNTHINKABLY ABSURD! A CAUSE FOR UNENDING MIRTH!

And the worst part is that she has to pause every four words to wheeze her horrible gasping laugh because she finds these episodes almost unbearably hilarious, while the rest of us try to politely ignore her and keep working, maybe offering a "oh yeah that's pretty funny huh" to humor her.

She eats crap. We generally order as a group and take turns buying food, and I remember taking her order one time:

"Hey sam, can you get me a Chicken Ranch Club, extra ranch, no tomatoes onion or lettuce, with a side of onion rings and extra ranch on the side? Three cups would be good."

I couldn't bear to ask for the extra ranch when ordering. I just couldn't. I tried but I felt the bile rising in my throat and I just couldn't. I told her they forgot it, those bastards. Re-reading it even now makes me want to vomit.

She goes to KFC thee times a week, taco bell and arby's similarly often. She refuses to eat vegetables of any kind. Seafood, spices, sauces -- flavor in general is simply too much for her to handle.

She listens to Bon Jovi.

She is in fact, everything wrong with America.

laughingfuzzball

Druhim wrote: »

laughingfuzzball wrote: »

Thaere's this guy I work with, Bailey. He thinks he's hot shit because he was a National Merit Scholar in high school. He's dumber than the guy who recently admitted to being clinically retarded. If you just tell him what task needs to be done, he'll have no idea how to do it, even if it's something he's done every shift since he started. If you tell him exactly what to do, he'll still have to ask a barrage of the most retarded questions (he actually asked how long he had to scrub the chopping block once) and he'll usually have to ask at least one other person to help him.

On top of that, he has absolutely no communication skills. He can't form a cogent sentence, and often times when you give the ridiculously specific directions he requires, he'll have no idea what your talking about (he actually says "I have no idea what your talking about" more often than anything else), even if you put i in the shortest, simplest terms possible.

He's decided that since he's been there longer than a couple people now, he's going to start telling them what to do. I've been telling all of those people that he's stupid and that if they're doing what he says they're probably doing something wrong. It's completely true.

sounds like he may be 'spergin

Aspergers the internet's excuse for everything. This guy is just stupid. Also lazy.

Threadbare Sock

I don't get along well with people whose default answer to any sort of problem or hiccup is to ask someone else how/what to do rather than attempting to analyze and figure it out for themselves.

I can understand referring to others if you tried and couldn't figure it out, but fuck off if that is the first thing you do.

Casper

One of the people I work with dropped a loaded firearm the other day.

I hate people.

Oski

i used to work in a deli
the family deli

my boss was my fucking cousin. and i started hating him because everytime the one fairly attractive customer would come in he would start bitching

"vy are the floors not mawped?"

"i just mopped them, mehran"

"ya but i just valked on them didnt i?"

he kills me inside

Defender

Pretty much everyone at my job is really smart. Many of them have experience and skill beyond what I do. I feel good on the rare occasion that I have the best idea out of the group to solve a problem. Although I'm doing well, apparently. Well enough that they trust some fairly major game systems to me.

Wombat!!

I have a coworker who is a really, really devout Christian. I like to talk about what people know, so I struck up a conversation about religion when the newest Indiana Jones was coming out.

It eventually got to the Holy Grail, to which I referred to as the last cup of the carpenter, and she looked at me with the most dumbfounded look I have ever seen.

"Uuh, what's that?"

"You know, the holy grail? Kept in the Arc of the Covenant?"

She didn't know what it was. This is the same girl who is going to an "advanced bible school" for a year, costing over $10,000.

BYToady

Maybe its bibble school.

Stormin Joe

Wombat!! wrote: »

I have a coworker who is a really, really devout Christian. I like to talk about what people know, so I struck up a conversation about religion when the newest Indiana Jones was coming out.

It eventually got to the Holy Grail, to which I referred to as the last cup of the carpenter, and she looked at me with the most dumbfounded look I have ever seen.

"Uuh, what's that?"

"You know, the holy grail? Kept in the Arc of the Covenant?"

She didn't know what it was. This is the same girl who is going to an "advanced bible school" for a year, costing over $10,000.

Wait, the grail wasn't kept in the ark

Druhim

guys, I have a little news flash for you

the "holy grail" isn't mentioned at all in the Bible
so there's no particular reason she would have known about i

Wombat!!

I thought that it was, along with the commandments and the staff and shit.

I might be the wrong one.

Defender

Stormin Joe wrote: »

Wombat!! wrote: »

I have a coworker who is a really, really devout Christian. I like to talk about what people know, so I struck up a conversation about religion when the newest Indiana Jones was coming out.

It eventually got to the Holy Grail, to which I referred to as the last cup of the carpenter, and she looked at me with the most dumbfounded look I have ever seen.

"Uuh, what's that?"

"You know, the holy grail? Kept in the Arc of the Covenant?"

She didn't know what it was. This is the same girl who is going to an "advanced bible school" for a year, costing over $10,000.

Wait, the grail wasn't kept in the ark

Yeah, wait a minute. Those two relics are milennia apart. Isn't the Ark kept in the temple in Jerusalem? I don't recall a part in the Bible where someone sneaked Jesus' used wine cup into the Ark. Also I'm pretty sure that the Grail wasn't kept inside the Ark in Indiana Jones, either. For that matter, the Grail only seems to be a big deal in Arthurian legend and Indiana Jones...I don't recall the Bible describing the cup itself as being important, compared to the symbolic blood of Christ.

seizureorbs

yeah, but come on

who doesn't know about the holy grail anyway

Defender

Wombat!! wrote: »

I thought that it was, along with the commandments and the staff and shit.

I might be the wrong one.

Yeah, I think you might be.

I still don't know how she's never heard of the Holy Grail, but maybe YOU should read a Bible.

Raneados

how come you people never TELL the people you don't like that they're being idiots

Druhim

seizureorbs wrote: »

yeah, but come on

who doesn't know about the holy grail anyway

but considering he mentioned how devout a Christian she is, it's relevant to point out that the grail isn't mentioned in the Bible at all
since he apparently thinks her faith is somehow relevant

Defender

Actually there's one guy who has fucked some stuff up in my opinion, but he is several steps above me on the hierarchy and has been with the company for a long time, so I won't say anything because there is no way for that to result in anything good for me.

redfenix

what would you learn at a bibble school