More office pet peeves....

SkyPixie

The guy who thinks he needs to bellow when talking to overseas colleagues

THE PHONES WORK FINE OUTSIDE OF THE UK YOU DON'T HAVE TO SHOUT !!!

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collinj8

We have two guys that use speaker for every conference call that are on together. They are literally one cubicle away from each other. I don't understand why they don't meet in each other's cube. The two speaker phones are like stereo annoyance for those of us who sit close.

I have to rat myself out. I get sleepy at around 2:00, so I get a cup of ice water. And I crunch the ice. That's right. I crunch the ice. It's not really that annoying because I have only one cube-mate and she does it, too.

One person mentioned the 10 minute scraping-of-the-yogurt-cup. We have the scraping-of-the-styrofoam-oatmeal-cup guy.

I also laugh at the 'TV Topics' groups. It used to be a 'Grey's Anatomy' group. Now it's the 'Walking Dead' and 'Game of Thrones' groups.

None of these things really annoys me. It work in IT and these are just the quirks of my work family. It's actually kind of endearing.

I work in IT as well. To me, it is just the users. Also note that only IT people and Drug dealers call their clients users.

shaynak112

the "out of office" message.


Yes, I get it everybody else is on vacation! grrrrrrr

I love the people who forget to turn their "out of office" off.

"so and so will be out of the office until Tuesday July 17" ... but I'm still getting that message on Thursday, Friday, etc. lol

bikermike5094

the guy who tells me all his weekend every monday. where he fished, how many fish he caught, how his boat ran, what tackle he used, where he is going fishihg next weekend.. yada yada.... I dont give a F**ck!! I dont fish, i dont care about your weekend exploits and I dont like you.

Temporalia

People who read your emails and never answer your request even if you've seen them around. I can see that you deleted it in the system :grumble:

I got the guy who eats fast food constantly, snores in the afternoon, swears loudly, talks loudly, i'm afraid to find him dead in his office one day :noway:

I also got the hoarder, that's a long story, but it smells bad and looks dangerous (they are working on it but still, it's there).

I also hate when people don't take their copies at the printer after a few hours, it clogs the machine and it's never picked up, why waste ink for something you don't really care about anyway? or that you'll reprint because you forgot you printed it :grumble:

nikinyx6

The fridge thief...

i work hard to make nice healthy lunches for myself each day...shame i only get to eat them every other day.

I did notice the gal in accounting is looking healthier, bet it's her....

Treece68

Public nail clipper guy....none of us wants to hear you clipping your nails, go to the bathroom or better yet...do it at home!

Do we work in the same office .... do you have a lady using what looks like a micro-plain on her crusty heels?

weeblex

The person who microwaves their leftover fish for lunch....COME ON!!! Or the lady who eats at the front desk and gets crumbs all over the desk ad floor beneath her chair.....

I know someone that this particularly annoyed. I kept a spare frozen fish meal in the office freezer just for days that they pissed me off! :bigsmile:

Dead_Darling

The guy who thinks he needs to bellow when talking to overseas colleagues

THE PHONES WORK FINE OUTSIDE OF THE UK YOU DON'T HAVE TO SHOUT !!!

Hehe I used to shout down the phone whenever I spoke to my colleagues in Hong Kong...the line was so bad!

And I can't stand the people who reply to all in a group email, when the response could be for one person - it's even more annoying when someone replies, "ok" to everyone -__-

Treece68

the "crop duster" ..you know the one ?? that guy who farts walking by your cube

THIS!

Im_NotPerfect

The girl who is contantly negative (hates everyone who calls her) and judgemental towards everyone who doesn't do things exactly how she does. Seriously...how can you be THAT pissed off every single day???

deadstarsunburn

Cold call transfers.

mmhm. I just ignore them most of the time.

10acity

for me, it's a BIGGER pet peeve if the person is out of the office and don't set the message, so you're continually trying to get an answer from them and you have no idea that they're gone and won't respond for a while....

I don't do that for safety reasons. It be annoying to my co-workers, but I don't want the whole world to know that I'm not home right now. Seems stupid, right?

The company I work for demands that you let everyone know when you are away. But, I disagree, I think personally, it's dangerous, not just for getting robbed, but it's also a little dangerous from a social engineering perspective. It's a bad policy and something that people shouldn't do. Instead, you just let a few people you work closely with know that you'll be out and that should suffice.

That's my $.02 on the topic.

just cause you're out of the office doesn't mean you're away from home. I don't give out my work e-mail to personal contacts, and I don't set a vacation notice on my personal e-mail.

My out-of-office message never says anything other than "I am currently out of the office. I will return on xx/xx". Why would anyone need to know anything else?

ChristyRunStarr

Public nail clipper guy....none of us wants to hear you clipping your nails, go to the bathroom or better yet...do it at home!

Ahhh! one of my friends at work does thi and it bugs the hell out of me! So gross :explode:

dmoses

the finger-snapper 2 doors down...

ewhirly02

People who talk on the phone or sing while they're in the bathroom at work. The nail clipper guys as well. Those are just the kind of things you should do at home!

pagingdoctork

The guy who always brings his kid to work, and instead of working, gives the kid golf lessons all day! (Especially since he's constantly berating the kid and/or his wife at the highest possible volume, ugh.)

weeblex

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Bilbobradshaw

The recently married middle-aged woman who tells the entire office EVERYTHING about her new husband--Rob--from the fact that he prefers spray-sun screen to lotions (and why), to describing in detail his successful trip to the eye doctor to get drops for his current eye infection.

I know more about Rob than I do about the man I've lived with for the passed year.

y0mbo

I also seriously hate people who really hammer their keyboard when they type. There is no need to bash the space bar so hard that the whole building can hear you.

You'd hate me then, I PURPOSELY bought a loud keyboard (because it has mechanical keys, and I can type faster with it).


Above all, thank goodness I work at home. I don't miss any of these annoying people at all.

weeblex

The fridge thief...

i work hard to make nice healthy lunches for myself each day...shame i only get to eat them every other day.

I did notice the gal in accounting is looking healthier, bet it's her....

Put a note in the fridge "To who ever is stealing my lunch. One in three lunches now include ex-lax. Do you feel lucky today?"

glonigan

The "supervisor" that responds to legitimate questions with non-related questions and then casts doubt on his responses before he walks away from the meeting to take an important call. I figure his phone must be on silent or something because we never here it vibrate.

( BTW - I'm laughing loudly at my cube this morning reading all of these and thinking of changing my out of office message, while I call my wife and talk baby talk to her about how the world is coming to an end at this company as I scrape every last bit of yogurt out of the bowl.)

chocolateandpb

Oh man, I could go on ALL DAY about this topic, but I'll start with one woman in the cube next to mine. She's a highly functioning alcoholic and she's DRAMA. She got divorced 7 years ago and hasn't gotten over it - she talks about it constantly, to me, and to anyone who will listen, and she calls her ex husband like 6 times a day "to talk about their daughter". Her daughter is 9 and is probably f***ed up for life because of her crazy mother. This woman usually quietly stumbles in around 9-9:30 (the rest of us start at 7:30-8), then goes down to the cafeteria for breakfast. She sneaks out at 5, or earlier depending on whether or not the boss is here, yet always claims to have worked 40 hours per week. She often comes in even later and blames it on her daughter.

Last week she came in limping and said she had done something to her foot but wasn't sure what. A couple days later, she admitted to me that she had tripped when she was super drunk and had still been drunk when she came to work the next day! Okay....and you're DRIVING like this?! And driving your daughter to daycare, no less?!!!

She is a complete brown noser with our boss and is ALWAYS in her office with the door closed, which makes it impossible for the rest of us to get in there to speak with our boss when we need to.

Last Friday afternoon I caught her sleeping! Yet she's always SOOOOO busy and stressed out and overwhelmed...b****, please, get some help and get over yourself. She's moody as hell and although she can be very nice at times, usually it's drama, drama, drama and I just try to imagine I'm in an impenetrable invisible egg and her bad vibes can't get through my shell.

Im_NotPerfect

Co-workers who think they know how to do your job better than you do!

Meatsies

1. Filthy b!tches in the bathroom. Have found everything from a full blown mat of pubic hair on the floor in front of the toilet to blood drips on the floor to a seat that looks like some chick gyrated her hips while peeing to ensure that every bit of the seat was covered. Nasty. Nasssssssty. Wenches.

2. The woman who sits across from me and spends all day...literally all day...on the phone for personal phone calls or looking at houses online. She was supposed to retire two years ago, but never did. She's the reason the company can't hire me outright (I'm a contractor and losing my position in October). If she would just LEAVE, they would be able to hire me within the budgeted head count. I do more work in one hour (even playing on MFP) than she does in a full week. No joke. Stop looking at houses online and BUY one already. Preferably in Tennessee. Far, far away.

3. Same woman as above. Different complaint. Noisy eater. Way noisy eater. I'm talking slurping and gulping and choking and grunting (FULL-OUT GRUNTING!) while she eats. Makes my stomach flip over every time. Blerrggh. And she's always talking to Jesus. For example, a conversation I just heard: "Mike, how old is your daughter now? Three years old? Oh, Father God, oh Jesus, isn't that wonderful. Three years old." (Keep in mind that Mike is walking away now...the conversation does NOT stop, however.) "Imagine that. Three years. Sweet Jesus. Jesus, Jesus. Three years old. Oh, Father, they do grow up fast. My grandbaby gonna be 1 next month. Father God, oh Jesus, they do grow. They sure do. Sweet Jesus." Nothing against Jesus, but please keep your thoughts to yourself. It's not a conversation anymore when the other person has walked away.

pagingdoctork

1. Filthy b!tches in the bathroom. Have found everything from a full blown mat of pubic hair on the floor in front of the toilet to blood drips on the floor to a seat that looks like some chick gyrated her hips while peeing to ensure that every bit of the seat was covered. Nasty. Nasssssssty. Wenches.

2. The woman who sits across from me and spends all day...literally all day...on the phone for personal phone calls or looking at houses online. She was supposed to retire two years ago, but never did. She's the reason the company can't hire me outright (I'm a contractor and losing my position in October). If she would just LEAVE, they would be able to hire me within the budgeted head count. I do more work in one hour (even playing on MFP) than she does in a full week. No joke. Stop looking at houses online and BUY one already. Preferably in Tennessee. Far, far away.

3. Same woman as above. Different complaint. Noisy eater. Way noisy eater. I'm talking slurping and gulping and choking and grunting (FULL-OUT GRUNTING!) while she eats. Makes my stomach flip over every time. Blerrggh. And she's always talking to Jesus. For example, a conversation I just heard: "Mike, how old is your daughter now? Three years old? Oh, Father God, oh Jesus, isn't that wonderful. Three years old." (Keep in mind that Mike is walking away now...the conversation does NOT stop, however.) "Imagine that. Three years. Sweet Jesus. Jesus, Jesus. Three years old. Oh, Father, they do grow up fast. My grandbaby gonna be 1 next month. Father God, oh Jesus, they do grow. They sure do. Sweet Jesus." Nothing against Jesus, but please keep your thoughts to yourself. It's not a conversation anymore when the other person has walked away.

I'm DYING! The last one is so funny! The things we all put up with for petty cash, eh?

gkwatra

Hahaha!!! Love it! Where I work, apparently there was one woman (she doesn't work there now, gee, I wonder why?) who thought everything in the fridge was free game for her taking. About once a month one of the warehouse workers would put on an awesome BBQ with chicken and burgers ... one time she took half the meat before it was cooked and hid it under her desk to take it home. Another time, she told another girl, "Hey I drank your last SlimFast so you'll need to buy more." Funny thing is, if you tried to take something of hers (just give her a taste of her own medicine), she would let all hell break loose. The sense of entitlement some people have really blows my mind.

At a previous place I worked, I swear one guy never wore deodorant ... I walked past my boss's office one day and smelled the rauchiest BO smell. I backtracked a little because I knew it couldn't be my boss, and saw this guy sitting in his office, arms lifted up, resting his hands behind his head while talking to my boss. Does he really have no idea???? :grumble:

mommasox

My co-worker HUMS all friggin day!!! :noway: :grumble: :explode:
I want to stab her with a fork

Yes... this. I used to have a coworker who hummed all day. WTH??? We also had the loud laugher. Umm hello??? Your in a work place and a call center no less.

mommasox

Low talkers.