Bastard ColleaguesYou've all known one. The brown-nosing fucker, the 'comedian', the drunk, the gossip and of course the weird one with no mates who goes bell ringing, looks like Mr Majika and sports a monk's haircut (and is a woman).
Tell us about yours...
Thanks to Deskbound for the idea
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chthonic, Thu 24 Jan 2008, 9:09)
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General IgnoranceWorking Nightshift with this guy was soul destroying. Nicknames varied from 'The Ginger Ninja' for his ability to sneak up behind you and then just 'hover' until you asked him what he wanted (this could be a long wait for him - meColleague kept him waiting for half an hour once).
'FourMore' - as in that's how many more brain cells he'd need to be considered animal rather than vegetable.
'Gerbil' - He looked like one sitting in the corner of its cage looking petrified.
The guy was (is, but I don't work there anymore) useless and a bona fide oxygen thief. He has somehow managed to procreate, so conversations with his kid probably go along the lines of "No, daddy, the square peg goes in the SQUARE hole!"
One night he sat and WATCHED as the channel he was looking after fell off air, oblivious to the alarms going off until meColleague got up, walked across the suite and pressed the button to fix it.
He rewound an episode of The Simpsons while it was on air ... TWICE!
He loaded a tape into a VT upside down because the barcode label on the spine was the other way up.
A message appeared on his screen to say "Load tape [whatever code] into VT" so he did ... Without taking the one that was already loaded out first!
The collective 'will to live' evaporated whenever he was on shift. Dear former colleagues I feel sorry for you.
Length? Not as long as a shift with him ...
(, Mon 28 Jan 2008, 13:25, 4 replies)
Hmm....Red Bee? And if so, I think I know who you're talking about.
God help us if there's two of him.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Mon 28 Jan 2008, 13:54,
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Other nicknamesA great nickname i heard for a bloke was the Bung, short for bungalow
(, Mon 28 Jan 2008, 16:24, closed)
Was this on UK terrestrial channels?I remember watching a Simpsons episode borking up -- I wonder if it was him.
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Bob Todd whee, Mon 28 Jan 2008, 17:32,
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@ScaryYou might think that, I couldn't possibly comment.
I also remember another incident where his monitor was 'broken'. I verified this by asking him to press Caps Lock - yep the light comes on.
Walked down the corridor, powered his monitor on, walked back to Engineering and went back to surfing b3ta.
(, Mon 28 Jan 2008, 21:16, closed)
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