She won't leave me alone!

[krazytired]

Have you ever had one of your coworkers "hover" around your workspace just to see "how you're doing" on a job you're doing for him/her? I have a super-impatient one that's bothering me right now. Plus she's eating all of my chocolate Riesens from my candy dish!!! Egads!

[jessicam]

Yes! And I started hiding my food when my lovely co-workers ate all of my 7 dollar can of almonds in about an hour. GETCHER OWN DAMN FOOD. LEAVE ME ALONE TO WORK.

[Jackimalyn]

I HATE when poeple look over my shoulder, because they dont know what Im doing. Theyll point at things, "why dont you put that there?" IM GOING TO!!! or "why dont you change that font?" Cuz Im the designer! agh! critique me at the end. leave me alone now!! agh!

I feel for ya

[krazytired]

I did hide another bag in my desk. How rude! I'm working on a six-page brochure (4th version), and she keeps changing her mind on what content she wants. And her changes AREN'T easy -- lots of clipping paths to make, layout changes, etc. She's so impatient that if she asks me to print out something, she expects it in less than one minute, even if it's a multi-page color printout. Unfortunately, I can't tell her how I really feel because she's the boss' wife. Y'now what I mean!!!

[cornfed]

I generally find that if you tell someone they have halitosis, they go away. You could say "Are your sinuses dripping or something?"

[krazytired]

Good one! Unfortunately, I'm not that courageous.

Thanks for the support. Needed to whine a little...

[krazytired]

Everyone thinks our job is making this "pretty" -- they don't understand the design principles we put into everything we do. Just leave it to us, y'know?

[Jackimalyn]

i do. and now i could really go for some rasinettes.

[cornfed]

It's a hard thing to tell someone krazytired. Fortunately, I have a solution for you - a bad breath-o-gram!! I had one sent to my sister as a joke!!

Here ya go!
http://www.badbreathogram.com/

[krazytired]

Have you tried the new dark chocolate flavor. They're to die for!

[krazytired]

Oh my! Someone has LOTS of free time to create this site!

[reuber1]

Strategically placed bear traps work wonders. So does flatulence, particularly the post-baked-bean variety.

[krazytired]

you gotta be a guy, right?

[Logo-Mechanix]

Just eat something that gives you horrible gas and let nature do the work for you, SBD my friend, SBD.

[Navian]

Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans (Jelly Beans (http://jellybelly.com/Cultures/en-US/OurCandy/BertieBottsEveryFlavorBeans/Bertie+Botts+Every+Flavor+Beans.htm) from Harry Potter)

Pick out the good ones, leave the nasty ones like: booger, dirt, earthworm, earwax, rotten eggs, soap, or vomit flavors.

[Virgo Nightingale]

^^That should at least curb her habit of snacking on your candy! I wonder if they actually taste like what they describe, especially the vomit ones. Might not keep her from looking over your shoulder though...

[cornfed]

It could be that the vomit ones induce vomiting...thus filling your mouth with vomit taste!!

[Virgo Nightingale]

So what happens when you eat the other ones? :confused:

[budafist]

I can give you some special chocolates to swap with the chocolates in your dish. Sharmi my bunny makes heaps of them.

http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/6473/dscn1340qv9.jpg

[tuliptree]

It sounds like the Riesen's are what's attracting her to your desk.

I suggest putting a dish of them far away from your desk, and then at your desk make a mix of Sharmi's replacement Riesen's and the Harry Potter gross jelly beans. Perhaps something will go off in her mind "...this desk...good, this desk...not good...avoid..."

[Navian]

It sounds like the Riesen's are what's attracting her to your desk.

I suggest putting a dish of them far away from your desk, and then at your desk make a mix of Sharmi's replacement Riesen's and the Harry Potter gross jelly beans. Perhaps something will go off in her mind "...this desk...good, this desk...not good...avoid..."


HAHA! I just figured out what you can do with those chocolate easter bunnies that you stashed 2 years ago (yeah the rotton chocolate). Give ol' Sharmi's replacement riesens a perfect cover up. Just avoid the bowl they are in.

2 year old chocolate covered sharmi riesen replacements.. ew.

[DonnaL]

My boss..... goes over headlines just before sending to press......









I have dried SPIT on my monitor!!!!

[fredrich]

My boss..... goes over headlines just before sending to press......









I have dried SPIT on my monitor!!!!

That, and people actually touching the monitor when pointing, is really annoying. There's no need to push the pixels through the LCD for me to see where you're pointing your finger at.

[PrintDriver]

Where is she while you are writing this???

[budafist]

Hovering and eating chocolate?

[PrintDriver]

Well, the chocalates were out in the open in a dish saying "eat me". I keep my edibles in a desk drawer if I don't want to share. Which is most of the time. I even took all my toys home to keep people from staying and playing. And we removed the extra chair. No place to sit? Awwwww.....
But the boss drew the line at the "Go Away!" door mat. LOL!

[Patrick Shannon]

I used to have this problem back at my print shop job. If I "felt" their stare too long, I would turn my head back and stare at them, prompting them to say something like "Oh...sorry!" and they'd go away.

[budafist]

I have clients that wait for a job to be done. I tell them to come back in an hour. They go "oh, will it take that long? Can I just wait?"

[psycho scream]No! Go Awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!!!!!![/psycho scream]

[CatintheHat1]

I was doing a job for a friend, who, because he obviously didn't have enough enemies, actually brought a man into my house to "supervise" what I've been doing for 26 years and the mor....guy...had been doing for two (and my land, was he bad at it). Anyway, I was typing stuff for this flyer and had dingbats on the font, I was just going to finish typing and then flip the font so the text would appear. Well, my land. My uninvited supervisor got all excited, he'd never seen Zapf Dingbats and started jumping behind me, pointing and shouting..."oh, something's wrong, you have a problem, look, something's wrong with your system, stop typing...." OMFG....I could have slapped him. I looked at him and said, "it's a font, relax" and changed it (giving him my evil eye). So, my friend gives the webdesign job to Supey Supervisor...what a flippin' useless mess that site is. They deserve each other.

[designerstacie]

I have never "enjoyed" anyone looking over my shoulder while working on a project. I definitely will use the bad breath scenario next time....! Thanks for the idea!

[krazytired]

My boss does the same thing, too. They usually wait until after we create the final page PDFs. Even after seeing the page twice. I also have a coworker who finds the pickiest "mistakes" at the very end, no matter how I try to trick/distract her away from the printouts. When I say "let it go," she harps and harps about it. When she's here until midnight, I give her NO sympathy! At least she gets paid overtime. I'm salary (sucks being in "middle" management"), so I'm extra-motivated to get out of work at a reasonable time.

[Yossarian]

It's always awful when someone art directs over your shoulder. Especially when they see you make some changes instantly and get the false impression that ANY changes can be made just as easily.

[Typically]

yea i hate when people watch over my shoulder. this should be over here and it shouldn't be that big ugh! i'm the one you're paying please let me do what you're paying me to do. if i was ready for you to look at it i would call you over or give you a print out. i don't stand over your back saying that number doesn't go in that cell.

[BlueRidgeFabrication]

I'm lucky, because I work for myself now, but at my old job...one of my coworkers would come over and start rearranging the things on my desk and talking non stop. I had to ask her to stop...I was VERY nice about it, but she still seemed resentful after that. Some people are just strange. I can't feel free to be creative with someone standing over my shoulder.

[John G]

Well I was hired to do the "3d" thing where I work (imo not so much because it was needed, but because it was "cool"). Anyways, my boss fancies himself a "3d" person as well (retired Colonel) and I get to do what I could only describe as "tutorial days". Where I stand over his shoulder and try and tell him how step by step do some animation for something that will probably never be used (because the business is still in the "3d is great lets put it in everything" rather than "if we used 3d for this would it enhance such and such").
Anyways, if you didn't know, telling your boss instructions for days at a time is really not fun.
"k, now lets rotate the object to the left...
little more..
little more..
k, a little back..
now we're going to add a keyframe lets drag that slider over one spot..
see, that was 2 spots, lets just go back one.."

and so on.
I can't stand it, I don't know how he does.

[Logo-Mechanix]

Yeah! try telling your boss how to attach a file to an email over and over again until you are ready to vomit.

Back on topic, I'm telling you people horrible flatulence gets 'em everytime.

[krazytired]

An update... she insisted on sitting right next to me this morning while we made yet MORE changes... UP a little, this BIGGER, THAT in a different color, etc. THEN, after I printed it out, she found even MORE stuff to have me change. I explained, nicely yet firmly, that I could only devote one hour to this project before starting the next issue, yet she continues to interrupt me. She has no self control -- a nasty mutant of a perfectionist.

I just had Taco Bell for lunch... Waiting for it to kick in ;-)

[Typically]

haha t-bell is always good for excess flatulence =]

[reuber1]

haha t-bell is always good for excess flatulence =]
Yeah, no kidding. Taco Bell is also good for excess 'amount of time planting my ass on the toilet due to imminent diarrhea'

Never eat there again.

[Typically]

hahahaha see that's your problem. taco bell requires a learning curve for your stomach. you have to eat it multiple times before your stomach can actually digest it. once you get past the 3rd or 4th time you'll be fine just a bit gassy =]

[Logo-Mechanix]

Just be careful you don't get cut short.;)

[Tsmalldon]

yea i hate when people watch over my shoulder.
Funny, my boss (one of the three I have) just came in and walked behind me, he always does and I mean its not like he sneaks up behind me, my office is 18 feet long and my desk is at the back 4 feet, so he literally has to open my door, walk in 14 feet to get behind me, its ridiculus and hes doing it constantly, so I just asked him why he feels the need to stand behind me and he gave me some brutal excuse about how he just likes to see what im doing.

Well you weirdo i'm surfing porn so leave me alone! The work just magically gets done, even though im surfing porn all day

BAH!

[morea]

are riesen individually wrapped? Cause if they're not, you can just take one (when you're sure she's watching), put it in your mouth, then drop it back into the dish and stir them up.

That usually keeps people out of my candy...

[Virgo Nightingale]

*makes a mental note to never eat from morea's candy dish*

[frankster]

Or feign a huge sneeze, turn your head so you don't sneeze on the monitor, but accidentally sneeze all over the bowl of sweeties.

Or if you're feeling really stroppy, just pick up a handful, lick across them all and chuck them back in the bowl right in front of her.

reminds me of the story my dad told me involving the old lady who always tried to give people bags of almonds because her daughter kept buying them for her and she didn't like them. When asked why she didn't just tell the daughter she said "Oh I like the sugar coating, just not the almonds inside, so I just suck off the sugar"

[Logo-Mechanix]

are riesen individually wrapped? Cause if they're not, you can just take one (when you're sure she's watching), put it in your mouth, then drop it back into the dish and stir them up.

That usually keeps people out of my candy...

This my friends, is freakin' brilliant.

[Virgo Nightingale]

Or feign a huge sneeze, turn your head so you don't sneeze on the monitor, but accidentally sneeze all over the bowl of sweeties.

Or if you're feeling really stroppy, just pick up a handful, lick across them all and chuck them back in the bowl right in front of her.

reminds me of the story my dad told me involving the old lady who always tried to give people bags of almonds because her daughter kept buying them for her and she didn't like them. When asked why she didn't just tell the daughter she said "Oh I like the sugar coating, just not the almonds inside, so I just suck off the sugar"
Utterly. Disgusting. :eek:

[frankster]

are riesen individually wrapped? Cause if they're not, you can just take one (when you're sure she's watching), put it in your mouth, then drop it back into the dish and stir them up.

That usually keeps people out of my candy...

ahhh, you're one step ahead of me!

[morea]

I think it's a time zone issue. ;)

[Logo-Mechanix]

Don't feel bad Frankster, you don't get to 28,000 posts by being slow.

[Typically]

ohhhhhh burn!

[Riya]

Everytime someone comes in the frame shop to watch me finish thier project, I get in a hurry and usually end up cutting myself on the glass or pinching myself with the nailer. Then I have to tell them that it is going to take longer so I don't bleed all over thier artwork.

[Gromit801]

I just stop working, sit back, and ask how they're doing. When they say they need that job in a hurry, I tell them that as long as they're going to visit, we'll have a chat. If they want me to work on their job, they need to leave.

[urstwile]

^^^nice:D ^^^

[budafist]

I just stop working, sit back, and ask how they're doing. When they say they need that job in a hurry, I tell them that as long as they're going to visit, we'll have a chat. If they want me to work on their job, they need to leave.

I wish that worked around here.

[Yossarian]

Ask for a shoulder massage?

This one could backfire in a few ways though.....