What is your workplace pet peeve?
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When people try talking to me when I'm busy and they try to gossip to me about other colleagues and I don't fricken care, the saddest thing is that I'm the youngest employee here and I don't participate in any of this
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@kds10 very miserable. I often just shake my head, and walk away, and try to remind myself that the only reason she latches on and criticizes me is because she is very unhappy in her own life. But it is so annoying.3
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How about showing up to work after three days off and all your co-workers are either sick, not motivated or mopey. Come on people, you just were given three days off bring your A game. I worked, by choice, all day Saturday and for a bit Monday and I'm here bringing it.
edit: Although I am posting on MFP!3 -
A newbie who admits she doesn't have the background to do her job but thinks so highly of herself that she dominates meetings which end up being unproductive. She publicly humiliated me in front of my clients and thinks smugly of herself for her "one liners" without any reflection as to how immature or unprofessional she has acted.7
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@sammidelvecchio wrote: »@samtarlyonadiet battle mode engaged
I wish you good fortune in the wars to come4 -
sammidelvecchio wrote: »At my new job there is really only one. And that is a lady who works with me. She obsesses over everything I do and usually makes snide comments about it, whether its when we are planning a lunch and she has to tell everyone i'm on a special diet??? Which I am not. Or my boss told me I could leave early on Friday (he told her too) and when I actually did she complained to HR. There is nothing in our dress code about wearing shirts with words on them, its a very, very casual office but she always tells me she thinks its unprofessional when I wear them. I have a hoop ring in my nose and she casually mentions in front of my boss that facial piercings on women are unattractive. I have so many more examples and I've only been here 10 months.
Just go ahead and vote her off the island.
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@floofyschmoofer You know, every time I turn my ballot in to my boss he just looks really confused and throws it away. I'm going to keep trying though.4
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i just came in to complain about my nosy never minds his own business co-worker...
**reads @sammidelvecchio's comment**
nevermind, i have nothing to complain about. yeesh.3 -
If you really want to lose faith in humanity, work in corporate America. I have seen the worst of the worst. Not just the petty aggravations, e.g. the woman who microwaves fish, and her even more loathsome counterpart, the idiot who burns popcorn (and then sends a passive aggressive email to the entire department. "Yes, that is my popcorn that got burnt in the microwave. Deal with it."). Not just the person who eats lunch at her desk and smacks her lips while she chews or the person who insists on holding the elevator door for their slow friend (who ain't exactly rushing) when you've got a minute left to log in. I've worked with them all. The rude, the loud, the smelly and the clueless. But even they aren't as bad as the petty politicians, the weepers, the whiners, the bearers of tales. The sneaking, the conniving, the backstabbing. The drama queens, the manipulators and the Constantly Out "Sick". I would rather pick up cans on the side of the road than ever go back there again. At least it has more dignity.10
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sammidelvecchio wrote: »@floofyschmoofer You know, every time I turn my ballot in to my boss he just looks really confused and throws it away. I'm going to keep trying though.
You have to take a tiki torch in there with you and put it out in front of him.4 -
My boss regularly clips his nails at his desk. It's disgusting.2
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There's some office mates that constantly shoot rubberbands over the cubicles at each other. And someone always gets annoyed because of their immature game playing and keeps all the rubberbands shot into her cubicle.
It's me, I'm someone.1 -
sammidelvecchio wrote: »Re @corinasue1143 - it still blows my mind when I hear that people eat other people's food from work fridges. Its so bold.
It's been a problem in almost every office I've ever worked in. It's unbelievable what people will stoop to. The worst was a smallish company I worked for about 20 years ago. We had important clients coming in for a meeting later in the day and the Vice President's secretary had gone out to a rather fancy local deli and picked up an array of sandwiches and sides to be served to them. She stored them in the refrigerator in the employee kitchen, the only place there was to put them. To everyone's astonishment, someone managed to walk out with all of it before the clients even got there. I don't know how they got them out the door without anyone seeing but I wasn't even surprised, considering we had employees who would bring empty Tupperware containers to office potlucks and pack them with food "to take home to my kids" before everyone had even been served.1 -
@ultra_violets wooooow. I now feel very lucky I have never had to worry about this up to now!
*cuz I would have very little patience for someone stealing my food1 -
Chronic lateness.
No shows.
People who try and monopolize my time.
Conference calls.
Travelling.
The lateness is what sets me off though. Now my whole day will be behind.
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sammidelvecchio wrote: »@ultra_violets wooooow. I now feel very lucky I have never had to worry about this up to now!
*cuz I would have very little patience for someone stealing my food
I would get medieval on someone stealing my food. People are shameless. I also vividly remember a co-worker who was a struggling single mother, and she really lived paycheck to paycheck. I mean, this woman had a small child, a daughter, and she lived on next to nothing. And I remember one lunchtime she just broke down and cried because someone had stolen her box of Hot Pockets from the employee freezer. It was all she had and she was hungry. We all chipped in and bought her a nice lunch but damn. What is wrong with people? We had to write our names and the date on everything we put in that refrigerator, so the thief would have known it was hers.7 -
Related just to things that have come up today:
1. Employees can get ridiculously high raises (talking 5 digit raise) for being terrible at their jobs, just because they aren't easily replaced. Mgmt knows they suck at their job, and the people covering their workload do NOT get raises.
2. Salary people don't get OT, but are forced to use PTO if they enter less than 80 hrs, regardless of amount of work done.
3. That my boss will edit my emails before I send, or dictate what I should say, but won't speak/email employees directly. His wording is usually a lot more harsh/making assumptions instead of asking, and puts employees on defensive. At me...5 -
Nosey people! I am NOT here to be your friend & my life is NONE of your business!!!
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People who act like EVERYTHING is an emergency
Unrealistic expectations and deadlines
When the supervisor wants us to "work as a team" but continually has individual meetings with people and tells them all different things, so then we are all confused and have to keep clarifying what he wants3
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