# Things you wish you could say (at work) **URL:** \ **Category:** george\ **Created:** [August 24, 2013, 4:17pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/things-you-wish-you-could-say-at-work/435 "2013-08-24T16:17:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 27
**Author:** ![moufassa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/moufassa/32/41_2.png) [@moufassa](https://cog.discourse.group/u/moufassa)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 10:37pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/things-you-wish-you-could-say-at-work/435/529 "2014-10-23T22:37:49Z")
Oh FFS, I just want to **read** support information on a forum - why should I have to log into an account to do that? Cisco, Adobe - I’m looking at you buggers. ---
**Author:** ![Woodman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/woodman/32/24_2.png) [@Woodman](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Woodman)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 12:20pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/things-you-wish-you-could-say-at-work/435/530 "2014-10-24T12:20:54Z")
If you turn trap remixes of dubstep up loud enough on your headphones you can both drown out the noise around you and physically drive a headache out of your head… And… I’m not finding errors in almost every case I’ve taken over form my cow-orker while she is helping another department. In the busiest season of the year already. Yes, I not only love doing twice the work, I love redoing what’s already done… ---
**Author:** ![dakboy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/dakboy/32/68_2.png) [@dakboy](https://cog.discourse.group/u/dakboy)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 12:38pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/things-you-wish-you-could-say-at-work/435/531 "2014-10-24T12:38:59Z")
> [@moufassa](#): > > Oh FFS, I just want to read support information on a forum - why should I have to log into an account to do that? sqlservercentral is that way too. Have to log in just to read articles they post. ---
**Author:** ![ClockWorkXon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/clockworkxon/32/593_2.png) [@ClockWorkXon](https://cog.discourse.group/u/ClockWorkXon)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2014, 1:25am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/things-you-wish-you-could-say-at-work/435/532 "2014-10-25T01:25:23Z")
> [@dakboy](#): > > sqlservercentral is that way too. Have to log in just to read articles they post. I get a word a day from Visual Thesaurus, since I bought the software. But because I bought the desktop version (because, duh, I can actually work without being on the internet), I can’t view the articles promoted at the end of that email. ---
**Author:** ![MikeP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MikeP](https://cog.discourse.group/u/MikeP)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 7:59pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/things-you-wish-you-could-say-at-work/435/533 "2014-10-28T19:59:24Z")
It’s great to have hand washing instructions as I’m sure that a lot of people don’t know that you should use hot water and scrub your hands for 20-30 seconds. But it’s pointless putting those instructions up if your bathroom sinks only have cold water and the taps shut off automatically after 5 seconds. ---
**Author:** ![ClockWorkXon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/clockworkxon/32/593_2.png) [@ClockWorkXon](https://cog.discourse.group/u/ClockWorkXon)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 8:06pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/things-you-wish-you-could-say-at-work/435/534 "2014-10-28T20:06:24Z")
> [@MikeP](#): > > your bathroom sinks only have cold water and the taps shut off automatically after 5 seconds. Could be worse. The cellphone company job, the cold water was more likely to spray the entire front of your body. ---
**Author:** ![RoadRunner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/roadrunner/32/63_2.png) [@RoadRunner](https://cog.discourse.group/u/RoadRunner)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 8:17pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/things-you-wish-you-could-say-at-work/435/535 "2014-10-28T20:17:38Z")
> [@MikeP](#): > > bathroom sinks only have cold water Truth. In my primary office’s building, the sink is only hooked up to the hot, but it takes F O R E V E R to get anything other than ice water out of the tap, even in the middle of summer in Texas. Really frustrating. ---
**Author:** ![MSUAlexis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/msualexis/32/7_2.png) [@MSUAlexis](https://cog.discourse.group/u/MSUAlexis)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 11:28am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/things-you-wish-you-could-say-at-work/435/536 "2014-10-29T11:28:54Z")
We are having no trouble hiring people. It’s a breeze! The candidates are all fabulous! I can’t keep up with all the awesome!! ---
**Author:** ![Woodman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/woodman/32/24_2.png) [@Woodman](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Woodman)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 12:02pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/things-you-wish-you-could-say-at-work/435/537 "2014-10-29T12:02:51Z")
> [@MSUAlexis](#): > > We are having no trouble hiring people. It’s a breeze! The candidates are all fabulous! I can’t keep up with all the awesome!! Hard to believe we have a high unemployment with millions dropped out of the workforce. The people we were interviewing last year were shocking. And the applications of the people we didn’t even interview were worse. I’ll give you one typo on an resume, shouldn’t be there, but shit happens. But several misspelled words and then some obvious typos… c’mon man. It was also shocking how badly some people interview; “um” should not separate every other word. Did you practice this at all? WTF? Did you read the job description? Do you even know what we do here? ---
**Author:** ![Woodman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/woodman/32/24_2.png) [@Woodman](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Woodman)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 1:25pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/things-you-wish-you-could-say-at-work/435/538 "2014-10-29T13:25:43Z")
I didn’t find out what I would do if I dropped my wallet into a toilet with my own excrement in it. I did not react so quickly that I didn’t even think about it, and I don’t have my wallet on my desk drying out now. I am not grossed out now. And I’ve never put money in my mouth when I need to make change or something. And I’m not almost gagging now because I always forget how nasty money is and this wasn’t just shoving that in my face. And I can’t lay it out so it will dry quick because someone will ask me then, but I have this huge urge to tell someone so I have to tell you guys. OMFGWTFBBQ ---
**Author:** ![Nabiki](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/nabiki/32/935_2.png) [@Nabiki](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Nabiki)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 2:29pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/things-you-wish-you-could-say-at-work/435/539 "2014-10-29T14:29:13Z")
I’m soooo glad I don’t put money anywhere near my mouth. Now I feel a moral obligation to tell others this story if I see them do it. 🙀 ---
**Author:** ![dakboy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/dakboy/32/68_2.png) [@dakboy](https://cog.discourse.group/u/dakboy)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 2:46pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/things-you-wish-you-could-say-at-work/435/540 "2014-10-29T14:46:25Z")
> [@Woodman](#): > > Hard to believe we have a high unemployment with millions dropped out of the workforce. The people we were interviewing last year were shocking. We had someone leave just about this time last year. It took us about 4 months of searching to get 4 candidates we could bring in for final interviews, were only able to give an offer to one of those people, and that person left within a couple months. I think that person was planning on it being a very short-term job from the beginning, based on behavior in just the first couple weeks. That person’s replacement was easier to find, fortunately. ---
**Author:** ![dakboy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/dakboy/32/68_2.png) [@dakboy](https://cog.discourse.group/u/dakboy)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 2:46pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/things-you-wish-you-could-say-at-work/435/541 "2014-10-29T14:46:59Z")
I think @Woodman just won this thread. ---
**Author:** ![MSUAlexis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/msualexis/32/7_2.png) [@MSUAlexis](https://cog.discourse.group/u/MSUAlexis)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 4:23pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/things-you-wish-you-could-say-at-work/435/542 "2014-10-29T16:23:30Z")
> [@Woodman](#): > > It was also shocking how badly some people interview; “um” should not separate every other word. Did you practice this at all? WTF? Did you read the job description? Do you even know what we do here? Dude, we are hiring people to walk dogs and clean up poop. Sometimes they’ll have to restrain an animal. There’s laundry to do. Simple simple tasks. We’ve been hiring for six months. We have fired five of the six people we have hired during that time period. I almost think we should all just have our kids come in and do it - they’d have to be better than what we’ve found so far… ---
**Author:** ![Woodman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/woodman/32/24_2.png) [@Woodman](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Woodman)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 4:38pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/things-you-wish-you-could-say-at-work/435/543 "2014-10-29T16:38:22Z")
> [@MSUAlexis](#): > > Dude, we are hiring people to walk dogs and clean up poop. Sometimes they’ll have to restrain an animal. There’s laundry to do. Simple simple tasks. We’ve been hiring for six months. We have fired five of the six people we have hired during that time period. I almost think we should all just have our kids come in and do it - they’d have to be better than what we’ve found so far… My daughter was one of seven hired at the same time at Rue 21. She was complaining about getting shitty hours, like 12 a week, and I told her to hang on. It’s now three months later and her and her BFF are the only two left from that hire, and like 4th and 5th on the depth chart under management for seniority at the store. She’s getting 20 hours a week now, and getting calls when other people can’t make it. I told her all she has to do is show up for work on time for another month and she’ll be third assistant manager in charge of stupid T-Shirts. My oldest worked at my wife’s office for six months or so and everyone was shocked that she had so much free time. She was doing what the prior person had been dong for 5 years, plus helping someone else out, then changing paper and cleaning the kitchen because she was bored. The prior person couldn’t keep up with just her stuff. Now, frankly at 19 $15 an hour will motivate you to do some shit that it won’t at 30, but she did well enough that they wanted to offer her a real job there, making real money. Starting at 35k a year is pretty damn good at that age, but she turned it down for baby time. You should each bring in a kid a day, even if they can’t do all the duties it will do everyone good. ---
**Author:** ![ClockWorkXon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/clockworkxon/32/593_2.png) [@ClockWorkXon](https://cog.discourse.group/u/ClockWorkXon)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 4:41pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/things-you-wish-you-could-say-at-work/435/544 "2014-10-29T16:41:19Z")
> [@MSUAlexis](#): > > I almost think we should all just have our kids come in and do it - they’d have to be better than what we’ve found so far… I can think of several very good reasons for that, if you can manage it without getting into trouble regarding the child labor laws. I’m not sure if you could manage the “volunteer that gets a small stipend” dodge, not being a non-profit. Then again, you might be able to offer the kids school credits; you’d need to discuss that with the schools. One of the very good reasons being the “OMG, Mom works so hard all day, no wonder she’s grump/tired when she gets home.” Another would be saving some poor schmuck in the future from having to have your kids act like that at an interview. 😆 ---
**Author:** ![ClockWorkXon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/clockworkxon/32/593_2.png) [@ClockWorkXon](https://cog.discourse.group/u/ClockWorkXon)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/things-you-wish-you-could-say-at-work/435/545 "2014-10-29T16:44:44Z")
> [@Woodman](#): > > Rue 21 Checking reference… Oh dear light and shadows, Merry-Go-Round has been reincarnated. ---
**Author:** ![Woodman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/woodman/32/24_2.png) [@Woodman](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Woodman)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 5:49pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/things-you-wish-you-could-say-at-work/435/546 "2014-10-29T17:49:15Z")
It’s like The Buckle for people who can’t buy $150 jeans. And for people who don’t care if their $5 shirt falls apart in two months because it’s not cool by then anyway. At least it isn’t Wet Seal. ---
**Author:** ![RoadRunner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/roadrunner/32/63_2.png) [@RoadRunner](https://cog.discourse.group/u/RoadRunner)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 6:10pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/things-you-wish-you-could-say-at-work/435/547 "2014-10-29T18:10:30Z")
> [@Woodman](#): > > Rue 21, The Buckle, Wet Seal > [@ClockWorkXon](#): > > Merry-Go-Round Stores You Don’t Know for $1000, Alex Wet Seal was the only one I had even heard of, but it isn’t like I’m the target demographic for any of them. ---
**Author:** ![ClockWorkXon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/clockworkxon/32/593_2.png) [@ClockWorkXon](https://cog.discourse.group/u/ClockWorkXon)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 6:54pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/things-you-wish-you-could-say-at-work/435/548 "2014-10-29T18:54:03Z")
At the time that Merry-Go-Round was first begun, I was the target demographic… Except the nerd part, but that didn’t stop me from trying anyway. [Previous page](https://cog.discourse.group/t/things-you-wish-you-could-say-at-work/435.md?page=26) [Next page](https://cog.discourse.group/t/things-you-wish-you-could-say-at-work/435.md?page=28)