My coworker is an idiot. Or other venting.

I'm tired of my co-worker coming in sick, coughing up a lung and blowing his nose at his desk. Yes he knows this annoys me but continues to do so.

Oh gross. Is there ANY other place you could move your office to? I'd rather trade places with the janitor closet than listen to that all day. Ask your supervisor if they'd be willing to trade you offices and explain why. Maybe they can come up with a solution if they realize the ick factor that you have to deal with. 

Thankfully I am two cubicles down from our hallway door (also the men's room door).  A co-worker often times comes over dying because of what she also hears.  She knows every man's secret here..... who washes hands etc.  There is this one guy who works in another department (upstairs from us) who comes down every morning like clockwork. We don't understand why he uses the one closest to people. Gross for sure

I can relate to these coworker complaints. I saw a meme the other day that said "the more time I spend with my coworkers, the more I understand why Batman worked alone." I get it! 👍

It's "bawling," not balling.

I don't understand people who claim to value education but won't take the time to educate themselves. They take memes as the gospel truth simply because it paints someone on the other side as evil/bad.

You guys are reminding me of how lucky I am to work from home! Private bathroom is supreme!

Wow, these are all making me remember my time at USAID and State Dept., and glad I'm no longer in a office like that! When I'm on call at the hospital there's usually no one else in the chaplain's office so it's all for me, and anyway I don't spend much time in there. So happy I'm out of the office environment. 

My vent of the day would be about traffic in Northern Virginia. Which is of course a vent I often have. ugh. I drove about 4 miles this morning to a local diner place to meet a friend for breakfast. We get together regularly and we alternate between two places since one is closer to me (probably about two minutes, literally) and the other is closer to her (about five minutes). So today was her place. Thankfully rush hour was mostly going in the other direction from whatever street I was on, but still omg people drive like they're the only ones on the road. You know...their time is more important than anyone else's. So by all means switch lanes at the last second and nearly cause an accident, and of course SPEED along in the left lane and then jump in front of someone all to save yourself a few feet (but then of course everyone is stopped at the red light so that didn't really get them anywhere). And I got honked at as I was passing a school (no school is not out yet here) and the light was flashing. In that stretch it means 20 mph. So I was going 20. This idiot behind me honked and swerved to go around me and the other cars that were obeying the law and zoomed along in the other lane. Where's a police officer when you need one? 

I did enjoy breakfast though when I got there. 

My co-worker is an alcoholic.   Every afternoon he and his besties from work disappear and come back totally blitzed.  Every freaking day.  He thinks I'm stupid and can't tell that he's blitzed. He's an idiot.

He also goes home and drinks more.
  
That results in sick days and non-sensical emails where he won't be coming in the next day.

Yesterday his dog got bit at doggy day care so everything was dropped to go rescue the dog (AGAIN).
Today at 730 came the text that he has to go back to the vet and since doggy can't go to "school" today, he has to stay home with him because it's too hot for dog to be in the garden (which is shaded with a pool, gorgeous).   He emailed this same message to his supervisors this morning - ummm so yeah, your doggy unable to go to school should never be an excuse - good grief, come up with SOMETHING!!  I die.  

Everyone knows there's a problem and everyone turns a blind eye.
I've told him to his face that he's not going to get a promotion he thought he'd get due his drinking - he was surprised I knew.  More surprised that I actually told him (as a friend).
Like I said, he's an idiot.

Oh gosh. That's awful.

I actually left my office this morning and claimed the rest of today as a mental health day before I told one of my partners to F-off. We've had a lot of turmoil lately and I have picked up the vast majority of the administrative crap associated with it. If you don't like the way I do it, then you can f'ing do it yourself. Otherwise, shut your piehole.

On the bright side, at least I don't office near a bathroom. (But I won't touch any publication in my office because the guys take them in there.)

I have been working as an accountant for four months now and I still haven't decided if it's more frustrating to be off by a miniscule amount that almost isn't even worth looking for or by $52 million dollars as I was today. There was a perfectly good explanation for it. But I wasted several hours thinking I had done one thing wrong. And my DD was in an accident this morning and caused significant damage to her car. So my day started bad. It ended bad. And now I'm having a drink.

I'm on a huge project at work. Like super-huge. "oh it's our priority, we need to get it done, blah, blah, blah". Yet they won't allocate anyone 100%. This project requires a minimum of 8 people and we have 3 total FTEs. Yet we still have to get all this done by August. Their answer is "we need to find more people with skills". We HAVE people with skills, but they keep taking them away to work on other things. Throwing new people won't help with all the business knowledge.

So frustrating.

I hate my boss.

That is all.