Difficult work colleagues

[Shockwave]

Nothing to do with demos or coding but I was just thinking back to when I had my first proper job.  I was an insurance man for an oldschool mutual insurance company called Royal London.  For a 20 year old it was a great job, I only had to report to the office once a week so I would collect my round as quick as I could, write a little bit of business and then basically take Wednesday to Sunday off!

My boss was an ancient, doddering old dinosaur, the archetypal insurance manager...  We never really got on too well and I think that he found my lack of sales unacceptable so after a while of my slacking he used to arrange to come out with me to go selling in the evenings and impart his infinite sales knowledge.. The joke was that he had such a strong Coventry accent that nobody could understand him anyway.

He was as bald as an egg so I'd always have my sunroof open when it was hot to burn his head.

The most cruel incident and the one that still makes me laugh when I remember it was the time when I took out an envelope of Andrews liver salts to spike his Guinness during the post-sale pontification in the pub..  I remember him commenting that his Guinness was a bit fizzy, I even bought him a packet of cashew nuts because they are hooked and I figured that they'd hurt him the most when he started shitting... Which actually happened a lot faster than I thought because in the space of a couple of hours he looked decidedly green around the gills and he never came into work the following day.

He used to suffer terribly with Haemorrhoids so it must have really hurt the poor old bastard.
I have one or two beauties working with me too.. These days I'm more tolerant and I've just reconciled them so no more tricks from me..

Anyone else committed a bad deed to a deserving colleague?

[combatking0]

Not quite work, but when I was at school, I had to put up with a racist bastard from the age of 7. When it came time to go to secondary school at the age of 11/12, I ended up in the same registration group, so the misery continued until I was 17/18.

Then one day, I turned on the tears to a teacher after his gang were throwing fruit at me. We'd both been studying for our A-Levels, 18 months through a 2-year course.

He got thrown out of school. No qualifications higher than GCSE's for him And his gang backed off as well. Pussies.

A quick check of the electoral roll has revealed that he still lives with his dad - who is also a racist shit. They must gather in groups or something.

[jace_stknights]

Ahah I'm working since about 17 years at the same place, in the national social and health services. There are about 1200 colleagues. And got hundred of so called histories to tell...

The worst situation is about the network manager... unbelievable... This asshole was saboting the connexions to make our work stop. Just because we were making "best" things than him (this is what he thought). And as he wants no one to "be a star" like him (or perhaps he wanted to prove that he was ... GOD), sometimes, when we have to finish a project or make a showing, the servers are crashing. And then he was telling everybody this was because our apps were bad. Sometimes, he was making our database corrupt... yep !
This situation was possible just because the CIO was a complete noob in computing (he was near to retirement and this job was a gift for his long career). And this stupid was believing him and not us...
We have to wait until the new CIO arrived and understood how the situation was turning, that is to say about 5 years!
(and he never be fired!!!)
Now the motherfucker is unmasked... but for how many years? This kind of person is always making dirty tricks, spending his time to think to a way to highlight... 

[Shockwave]

Now the motherfucker is unmasked... but for how many years? This kind of person is always making dirty tricks, spending his time to think to a way to highlight...

I could comment on this butI'm not going to! .. Not in public anyway but I understand your annoyance.

[combatking0]

I now remember a workplace related incident:

One of my previous jobs was in a City Learning Centre - a building full of computers and assorted educational equipment where schools bring pupils to do something a bit different.

I was hired as a receptionist / catering assistant, but as time wore on, our manageress noticed that I had "skills", and I was given various other responsibilities, such as making sure equipment was working, batteries were charged, the fire alarms were checked, and that health and safety standards were being maintained.

Our manageress must have thought I possessed super speed, because there weren't enough hours in the day for me to get my jobs done.

One day, I was given a budget of £150 to buy in props for an amateur film project. Amongst the items I ordered was a realistic looking polystyrene house brick. When they arrived, I practised on my colleagues before our manageress arrived. I told them to catch it, without telling them it was a fake. After they laughed off the panic, they went back to their offices while the manageress walked in.

Without any warning, I threw the brick across the reception area, and when she saw it coming, she dropped everything she was carrying to defend herself! After it bounced off her arm, she saw the funny side of it.

She didn't get the message though, because after our network manager left, she wanted me to fill the role.

So I left, and she had to replace me with 3 people.

[Shockwave]

Not quite work, but when I was at school, I had to put up with a racist bastard from the age of 7. When it came time to go to secondary school at the age of 11/12, I ended up in the same registration group, so the misery continued until I was 17/18.

Then one day, I turned on the tears to a teacher after his gang were throwing fruit at me. We'd both been studying for our A-Levels, 18 months through a 2-year course.

He got thrown out of school. No qualifications higher than GCSE's for him And his gang backed off as well. Pussies.

A quick check of the electoral roll has revealed that he still lives with his dad - who is also a racist shit. They must gather in groups or something.

Shows that personality traits run through families.. It sucks that you had to put up with that.

[combatking0]

Thanks Nick. Our Primary School head teacher told me that his sort of behaviour is the norm, and that I'd have to learn to put up with it, which is why I kept quiet most of the way through my secondary education as well. My naivety knew no bounds through those years.

Thankfully, my primary head teacher is an idiot, as I've only had 3 racist encounters since leaving education, all of them young idiots who seem to think WWII didn't end.