What is your workplace pet peeve?

Keto_Vampire

People constantly breaking machines, not attempting to fix, not even having the decency to tell anyone else or ask for help & just leaving for myself to discover & fix. Ok, I'm fine with fixing things (I'm the honorary computer/technology guy where I work); just communicate things better...takes twice as long solving all these "mysteries" of the abandoned broken printer, etc. because I have to spend additional time investigating what happened in the first place in order to fix something (root cause analysis).

Magic gnomes at work when said employees return the next day & stuff is suddenly functional

RAinWA

My boss trying to talk to me about a client while I'm on the phone with said client. If you want to talk to the client I will transfer them to you, otherwise STFU and go back to your office.

floofyschmoofer

New one: People who talk loudly (especially about non-work related things that could wait a minute or 2) when I'm on the phone with a patient, in clear sight, within 5 feet of them.

Motorsheen

work.

Derpes

Nail clipping

When the heat is set above 70 degrees

Stop and chats

valerieg78

People chomping on ice next to me!

stephanieturner0122

Whistlers.

katiesmom_99

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.

thanos5

there's a dude that i work with that goes to starbucks every morning and gets a giant cup of ice. just ice. then he slurps on it all morning as it melts. drives me f'in NUTS

Steff46

The coworker that wants to stop me and chat about himself for 30 minutes....yes I've started doing the "keep walking thing" to him.

The coworker in the next cube who has the squeaky chair and seems to squeak it to his headphone music! Yes, you left early today and I WD40'd your chair.

Motorsheen

Folks who are afraid to make mistakes.

We had better make mistakes and lots of them.... just be careful not to repeat them.

PAFC84

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.

katiesmom_99

@PAFC84

Funnily 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."

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? )

Again, polite consideration and overt condescension are two different things.

gallicinvasion

My biggest pet peeve is when people ask me to like...do stuff.

gallicinvasion

thanos5 wrote: »

there's a dude that i work with that goes to starbucks every morning and gets a giant cup of ice. just ice. then he slurps on it all morning as it melts. drives me f'in NUTS

Whaaat?! Why doesn’t he just make ice in his freezer??

smantha32

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.

perezlau

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 general

JeBeBu

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!

Steff46

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:(