What is your workplace pet peeve?
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Folks who are afraid to make mistakes.
We had better make mistakes and lots of them.... just be careful not to repeat them.
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katiesmom_99 wrote: »Sexist coworkers who think I am incapable of physical work without their assistance. I've been doing the job for four years. If I need help, I'll ask.
The inability of people to refill a soap dispenser.
The coworker who insists on trying to have a conversation while I'm trying to enter invoices and reconcile purchase orders. I love having to backtrack through several pages of numbers to figure out why they aren't balanced.
Funnily enough when I didn't use to offer to help some of the ladies with physical work or offer them my seat, I often got accused of being rude. Think it depends on the person-some people say they want equality of the sexes but in reality they just want equal pay, some want equality when it suits them and some actually are after equality.
I have at times second guessed my self; if I offer my seat on a train to a lady aren't i showing her special consideration just because of her sex (assuming she doeant have a disability or isn't less able to stand? I mean I don't offer my seat to men unless one of those two conditions applies.4 -
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@PAFC84Funnily enough when I didn't use to offer to help some of the ladies with physical work[/b] or offer them my seat, I often got accused of being rude.
Did you offer them assistance or shoulder them aside, even though the work was part of the every day duties, and you're both paid to do the same job? Do you automatically assume that just because she's female that she is a delicate flower incapable of lifting more than a frying pan or vacuum cleaner. That's the type of condescending treatment I am referring to. I don't hear the men telling each other "Be careful lifting that. You'll throw your back out."
Again, polite consideration and overt condescension are two different things.if I offer my seat on a train to a lady aren't i showing her special consideration just because of her sex (assuming she doesn't have a disability or isn't less able to stand? )
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My biggest pet peeve is when people ask me to like...do stuff.5
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two examples from my last job:
Guy who did 1/3 the work everyone else did because he was always watching videos on his phone,
Another guy who wasn't smart enough to do the work, who had little techniques to scam others into doing it for him. Gets away with it because he kisses upper management's butt. Chronic lying issues.0 -
Having to call people when they dont show up.
Having something re-done.
Waiting... ..... .
Mantrums
Micro managing others
Never being able to fully trust a job
Lol it's sadly and most definitely made me not like and trust people in general1 -
People that are chronically late to every meeting, keeping everyone waiting & wasting time! These also tend to be the same people that have questions or more info to offer at close of meeting....ummmm...you already wasted my time, enjoy the sound of your own voice elsewhere!0
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I used to work in a small office and now I'm working in a big plant in a building with over 500 employees. My pet peeve here is constantly having company. I walk in from the parking lot and so does ten other people, I go to the bathroom and so does ten other women, I take the stairs and so do ten other people. My family wonders why when I get home I want to be left alone:(6
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People that make a drama out of everything.4
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Being copied in to emails that aren’t relevant to me.0
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Co workers who come in sick. We get TONS of sick time, there is no reason to spread your nasty germs all over! Currently have THREE co workers who are sick so I am hiding in my office with my door closed.3
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Conspiratorial whispering.
My managers at my last job did this all the time. They were an item so we could never be sure if they were whispering about firing someone or just about where they were going to have dinner that night.1 -
laprimaJenny wrote: »Being copied into emails that are not relevant to me.laprimaJenny wrote: »Being copied in to emails that aren’t relevant to me.
This must really bother you, you said the same thing a month ago when the thread started.
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People who don't READ.
The number of times that I've written helpful information in an IT ticket, or an email out-of-office, or a document; and people have ignored it, and run into problems, and then blamed me for not telling them...
One of the worst ones was when the head of our software's installation team cornered me to complain that they hadn't known that a script name had changed and had had all sorts of problems as a result, and to ask me to put information like that in a document for them in the future.
I pointed out that the information that the script name was changing had been in the last three versions of the document that I already write for them. He muttered that they don't have time to read documents.
I may have got a bit sarcastic. Sufficiently sarcastic for an ex-soldier to back off...5 -
laprimaJenny wrote: »Being copied into emails that are not relevant to me.laprimaJenny wrote: »Being copied in to emails that aren’t relevant to me.
This must really bother you, you said the same thing a month ago when the thread started.
Yes, in fact it does and unfortunately happens too often.3 -
When co-workers from other departments call me and talk to me chomping food. Or crunch ice into the phone (I will hang up on you if you crunch ice in the phone - no warning I just hang up). This happens more than you would would think.0
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Good Lord, make a decision.... any decision.....
You know that you're getting paid to make decisions that lead to results, instead of sitting on your hands, right?
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When customers have bad breath1
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Avocado_AS5 wrote: »This is a public forum and I ain't tryin to get fired, but.... I have a friend who can't stand the sound of her supervisor's laugh. Also I've heard she hates how her supervisor acts like every issue she has is top priority over anyone else's. When it's usually very trivial. My friend wants to day drink.
I admit it! I'm the friend!
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People who walks in late to work and has the nerve to take a two hrs lunch grrr.. no work ethic at all0
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emeraldwoods4214 wrote: »When customers have bad breath
Body odor.
Women who pull money out of their bra. (Ever heard of a wallet, ya skank?)
People who insist on getting in your personal space (If it's not my spouse or child, my bubble is pretty big).
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having to *kitten* my soul to feed my body2
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People getting paid but acting as if they are doing favors....or something heroic, by just doing what they are getting paid to do.6
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your_future_ex_wife wrote: »having to *kitten* my soul to feed my body
Your posts have been resonating with today. 🙌 Solidarity!2 -
katiesmom_99 wrote: »emeraldwoods4214 wrote: »When customers have bad breath
Body odor.
Women who pull money out of their bra. (Ever heard of a wallet, ya skank?)
People who insist on getting in your personal space (If it's not my spouse or child, my bubble is pretty big).
OMG gag!0 -
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