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Stupid Stuff My Coworker Says

Anyone wanna play a round of stupid stuff their coworkers say?  It may help the day pass faster…

My coworker, the same one, has actually said all of the following.

1.  "What state is Vermont in?"
2.  "How do you spell comfortable?"
3.  "I don't know who Gabriel Garcia Marquez is."
4.  "I don't know who Miguel de Cervantes is."
5.  "What's Don Quixote?"
6.  "What's a Nobel Prize?"
7.  "What does, 'No bueno' mean?"
8.  "How come income tax is getting taken out of my paycheck?  I make less than 250k."
9.  "Oh, you're Portuguese.  That's, like, next to Puerto Rico, right?"
10.  "Why does it matter that the Russians are in Ukraine.  The Russians have a right to occupy a city in their own country."


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  • Hahaha those are great. I don't think my co-workers really say anything too dumb. I only have a guy that thinks he is god's gift to Earth and if things don't go his way you better run. Mind you, he is 37 and hasn't even been with the company a year yet.
  • I recently had a co-worker say that she couldn't come in to work because her eyeball hurt.... WTF?
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  • We're doing a Health Day next week.  Basically every teacher has to plan 1 lesson (given to them with ideas and possible lesson plans attached, they just need to put it together).  They then teach this lesson numerous times over the course of the day to different classes.  It saves them planning.  One teacher, who has taught Health before said yesterday, "You mean I have to plan for something I don't teach??  I didn't have to plan this last time".  IT'S 1 FUCKING CLASS YOU'RE PLANNING FOR!!!   NOT 7!!!!  She complains about everything to get out of doing work whenever possible

  • "Utah is on a fault" no sweetheart, the entire state isn't on top of ONE fault, if so, it would look like the Marinas trench.

    This was a favorite from my fiance. They work in finance, they constantly have to check to make sure people aren't wiring money to 'high risk' places like Iran or Nigeria. 

    So a client wrote down that they send money to Nairobi. Coworker didn't know what it was and didn't think it was a real place. She called BS on my Fiance when he said it was in Africa.  In trying to show her that it is a place in Africa, he sends a group chat to the whole team asking if anyone knows where Nairobi is. Most people had no idea where/what it was. 

    Obviously not NPR listeners. 
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  • Wow that is the stupidest, rudest, laziest auto-reply I've ever seen.

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  • lyndausvi said:
    Am I the only one who thinks just because you don't know comments 3-7 doesn't mean you are stupid?

    Because let me tell you I did not know what Don Quixote was either and I don't think of myself as being stupid.

    This is the auto-reply my co-worker sends out.  I finally hacked his email to stop the auto-reply in MARCH.     As you can see everyday I deal with stupid.

    Hi Everyone!

     

    Thank You for email!  This Message was sent automatically as a courtesy from me to you.  I’ll try to give you something better in the future.

     

    As of 12:00 PM on Monday, January 6, 2014, there are 142 emails that are unopened in my inbox.   

     

    Your email will be opened and responded to in the order it was received.

     

    I will open and reply to 20 emails between the hours of 12:00 p.m. and 12:30 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Central Standard Time on January 6, 2014. 

     

    In order to be a good guy for the Guests, this is most time I can dedicate to emails on a daily basis.  If you were in front of me, you’d hate it if I stopped talking to you to read and reply to an email.  So I really appreciate your patience. 

    I'm trying to pick my jaw up off the floor from that auto-reply.

    Wow.
  • Wow that is the stupidest, rudest, laziest auto-reply I've ever seen.
    Yep.   It went on for months.    I asked for the auto-reply stop the day it went out.  He excluded me from the auto-reply, but I later found out that EVERY ONE got this for MONTHS.

    Sadly, this guy honestly thought it was helpful.     He is horrible at answering emails.  I will get a reply from an email I sent 6 months ago.  Naturally, I've already figured out the answer by then.  






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  • @lyndausvi I can't answer the Don Quixote thing either (I could google it but I don't care that much).  I definitely don't think I'm stupid.
  • pinkshorts27pinkshorts27 member
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    freebread03 it is a character from a book published in 1605. I read it as a junior, but most public schools in my area aren't reading it anymore and I don't know the typical age for reading that. I'm also notorious for not knowing the name of authors. Names don't stick in my head very well. If they don't know who Don Quixote is then they probably wouldn't know Miguel de Cervantes.

    I don't think that the middle one's are "stupid" per say. I would say ignorant and it reflects where they grew up and what they were taught in schools. 

    ETA: don't know what is going on with fonts. 

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  • I have a couple!
    one coworker: Is that a motion detector? It's tracking my every move! (It's a carbon dioxide monitor)
    another coworker: My brother is dating a girl who is Lebanese whatever that is!
     
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  • I don't think not knowing 3-5 makes you stupid. I knew what and who they are but I also read a lot. If someone isn't an avid reader, especially of classic literature, then it would make sense that they might not know who they are.
  • From a woman born and raised in the United States:  "The only foreign country I've been to is Hawaii"
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  • jdluvr06 said:
    I don't think not knowing 3-5 makes you stupid. I knew what and who they are but I also read a lot. If someone isn't an avid reader, especially of classic literature, then it would make sense that they might not know who they are.
    This is why we need libraries! Sorry I couldn't help myself.

    My coworker regularly pronounces the Netherlands "the Neverlands." She doesn't have a speech impediment or anything, I think she just is talking fast when she does it and doesn't realize...but it makes me giggle (and wonder if she really loves Peter Pan).
  • CSunshine76CSunshine76 member
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    From the same coworker:

    - should I activate my iPad with a data only plan, or VOICE and data? (We work in telecom, this is our business!)

     - that link you sent me won't save to my Favorites, what am I doing wrong? The "link" was an email address. She was cc'd on the email (not just sent the address) and the @ should have been some kind of a clue.

    I could compile a book with the stupid crap she says/does.
  • I work with a lot of smart people but one of my coworkers occasionally says things that get under my skin:

    1. "I shouldn't have to do it that way- everyone in business uses a Mac now anyway"

    2. "I don't need a password on my computer, you can't hack a Mac"

    3. (said in a condescending voice) "why waste your time, they don't have any money anyway" - while I'm on the phone with a CEO's admin to schedule a sales call. The admin heard- and the call got canceled with a flimsy excuse as soon as it was booked.
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  • wow, while I'd give a pass from some of those, many of them would annoy the hell out of me
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  • I have a couple!
    one coworker: Is that a motion detector? It's tracking my every move! (It's a carbon dioxide monitor)
    another coworker: My brother is dating a girl who is Lebanese whatever that is!
     
    As someone who comes from Lebanese descent....im floored..and kind of offended....not by you..but the statement in general 
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  • Can we also expand this to stupid things our SO's say? We were watching AI from last night and Kevin Bacon came on the screen and FI goes "Christian Slater!"...umm no honey...thats wrong..try again. 
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  • My coworker has been with her boyfriend for two years. He does not work and hasn't since they got together. He asked to move in with her after 1 week. He pays no bills whatsoever. He makes her sleep on the floor while he sleeps on the couch. They've never been one one date. He makes her buy him marijuana for his "migraines". I asked her recently to switch 2 days with me, doing so would give her 7 days off in a row. She says she has to ask him first to see if he can stand her for a week. She tells me about these girls he talks to online from different countries, and they keep asking him for money. She was ok with it at first, but now she is having second thoughts because they tell him they love him. But she knows he would never cheat, these are just his friends. This is all information volunteered to me every time she comes to relieve me from a shift and I just want to bang my head on the fucking desk.

    Oh and she's constantly telling me to go on pinterest for plenty of wedding "IDEALS", and that I should go to "gofundme" because why should I pay for all the food myself.

    I've also received a thank you note with my very common name spelled completely wrong.

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  • Yeah, several of those in the OP do not make someone stupid not to know.

    I can't think of anything stupid my coworkers have said, but in high school I complimented a girl on her wardrobe and said she must have a lot of clothes because she always seemed to be in different stuff. Her reply was, " No, I don't have a lot of clothes. I just have a really long closet." Huh? That was over 20 years ago, and I've never forgotten it.
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  • When I was training a new intern on our operating system: 

    "Oh, I've never used a computer before, I only use a MAC. How do you turn it on?" 

    It was already on...quite obviously on.  I stood next to her for almost 2 hours telling her about each button on the keyboard and walking her through each process and which button to push when.  It's been 4 months and we still have to remind her how to sign on with her password.  

    This person is in her early 40s, shortly to complete her doctorate, and is in the top 2% of her class.  (The internship is required for graduation.) 
  • kkitkat79kkitkat79 member
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    lyndausvi said:
    Am I the only one who thinks just because you don't know comments 3-7 doesn't mean you are stupid?

    Because let me tell you I did not know what Don Quixote was either and I don't think of myself as being stupid.


    I think people often confuse ignorance with stupidity. It is ignorant not to know these things, but it's not stupid. Same with points 1 and 2 in OP. Lack of knowledge of geography and grammar is not an indication of stupidity I think.
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  • @kkitkat79 Not to beat a dead horse, but I really don't think it's ignorant to not know Don Quixote or other random facts.  Not knowing these things doesn't make me an ignorant person, just as not having great grammar or being great at geography doesn't make someone ignorant either.    Should I remember reading Don Quixote in high school?  Probably. But I read it in Spanish.  In my AP Spanish Literature class.

    I work with a lot of really smart people who aren't always great with geography, or don't remember reading certain books, or who famous historical figures were.  I don't find them to be ignorant OR stupid.  I just figure they don't remember, and realize they know a lot of other really awesome stuff that maybe I don't.  This all seems really judge-y.  But yes, a lot of those things that OP's co-worker said are stupid things to say for sure.

    My favorite dumb thing a co-worker ever said: I had just returned from a trip to Turkey, and one of the partners was planning a trip to Turks and Caicos.  One of the girls on my team said "Oh Turks and Caicos?  You should get recommendations from Freebread on things to do since she just got back from Turkey."   Turns out, co-worker assumed it was an island owned by Turkey.  It was pretty hilarious. 
  • @kkitkat79 Not to beat a dead horse, but I really don't think it's ignorant to not know Don Quixote or other random facts.  Not knowing these things doesn't make me an ignorant person, just as not having great grammar or being great at geography doesn't make someone ignorant either.    Should I remember reading Don Quixote in high school?  Probably. But I read it in Spanish.  In my AP Spanish Literature class.

    I work with a lot of really smart people who aren't always great with geography, or don't remember reading certain books, or who famous historical figures were.  I don't find them to be ignorant OR stupid.  I just figure they don't remember, and realize they know a lot of other really awesome stuff that maybe I don't.  This all seems really judge-y.  But yes, a lot of those things that OP's co-worker said are stupid things to say for sure.

    My favorite dumb thing a co-worker ever said: I had just returned from a trip to Turkey, and one of the partners was planning a trip to Turks and Caicos.  One of the girls on my team said "Oh Turks and Caicos?  You should get recommendations from Freebread on things to do since she just got back from Turkey."   Turns out, co-worker assumed it was an island owned by Turkey.  It was pretty hilarious. 
    One definition of ignorant is "lacking knowledge or comprehension of the thing specified".  I got that from Merriam Webster online.  So, yes, if a person doesn't know who Don Quioxte is that person is ignorant about Don Quitoxte.  It does not make them stupid it just means they don't have knowledge about that particular thing.  We are all ignorant about something.  
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  • mysticl said:
    @kkitkat79 Not to beat a dead horse, but I really don't think it's ignorant to not know Don Quixote or other random facts.  Not knowing these things doesn't make me an ignorant person, just as not having great grammar or being great at geography doesn't make someone ignorant either.    Should I remember reading Don Quixote in high school?  Probably. But I read it in Spanish.  In my AP Spanish Literature class.

    I work with a lot of really smart people who aren't always great with geography, or don't remember reading certain books, or who famous historical figures were.  I don't find them to be ignorant OR stupid.  I just figure they don't remember, and realize they know a lot of other really awesome stuff that maybe I don't.  This all seems really judge-y.  But yes, a lot of those things that OP's co-worker said are stupid things to say for sure.

    My favorite dumb thing a co-worker ever said: I had just returned from a trip to Turkey, and one of the partners was planning a trip to Turks and Caicos.  One of the girls on my team said "Oh Turks and Caicos?  You should get recommendations from Freebread on things to do since she just got back from Turkey."   Turns out, co-worker assumed it was an island owned by Turkey.  It was pretty hilarious. 
    One definition of ignorant is "lacking knowledge or comprehension of the thing specified".  I got that from Merriam Webster online.  So, yes, if a person doesn't know who Don Quioxte is that person is ignorant about Don Quitoxte.  It does not make them stupid it just means they don't have knowledge about that particular thing.  We are all ignorant about something.  

    Yeah, I don't think it's judgmental to say that someone is ignorant of something. Sometimes they just are. I am ignorant of a ton of stuff. And my point was that none of the statements in OP were stupid, but they were ignorant.
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  • smalfrie19 trust me i wanted to smack my head against a wall when she said that. but she is really useless so i'm hoping they fire her soon. to show how stupid she is she mixed up obsidian with quartz.  we are geologists so that's a major wft moment! heres a picture of quartz http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/geology/images/3quartz.JPG and this is obsidian http://geology.com/rocks/obsidian.shtml.
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  • smalfrie19 trust me i wanted to smack my head against a wall when she said that. but she is really useless so i'm hoping they fire her soon. to show how stupid she is she mixed up obsidian with quartz.  we are geologists so that's a major wft moment! heres a picture of quartz http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/geology/images/3quartz.JPG and this is obsidian http://geology.com/rocks/obsidian.shtml.
    I have no knowledge about rocks and you could put those two in front of me and I would know which is which...
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  • CMGragainCMGragain member
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    "I am I, Don Quixote, the Lord of La Mancha,
    My destiny calls and I go...
    Where the wild winds of fortune will carry me onward,
    Whither so ever they blow!
    Whither so ever they blow....onward to glory I go!"

    Sorry!  Drinking wine and watching "Ten Commandments" on TV.
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  • @smalfrie19
    exactly! i mean she thinks she can be a cowboys fan and a redskins fan at the same time too. Basically everything that comes out of her mouth makes my head explode urg

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