Office Pet Peeves

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This lady that sits near me clears her throat incessantly, all day. :explode:

Cellphones in the stall bother me....Some loud talkers that just have no respect for anyone. OHHH and the on that really gets me is when my co-worker is sitting on the same conference call i'm on and they put it on speaker because they don't want to pick up the phone/headset....then i get to listen in surround sound!!!!!!argh

Well lets see:

Guy across - wife calls ALL DAY LONG. When said wife isn't calling, she's texting him ALL DAY LONG. When said wife isn't calling or texting him, he's SNORING.

Girl behind - slams her pen ALL DAY LONG. If she's not slamming her pen down, she's talking on her cell phone and when she get's off the phone, she announces her conversations.

Woman beside - NEVER MOVES from her desk. NEVER. Sits there ALL DAY LONG.

Guy on other side - smokers cough ALL DAY LONG.

The moment I am not smiling, for example when looking at a computer screen or dealing with something taxing, a certain co-worker sneaks up behind me with a "What's wrong?"
Nothing is wrong! I do not have permasmile and I am hard at work!

Oh my Lord... I have a coworker (female) who burps constantly. Not once does she ever say excuse me. Hey, typically it doesn't bother me, but really? In the office? I thought I was going to die when I started here and she was training me...

I have a coworker who has gained some weight and apparently the only pants that fit her are corduroys. Hearing that zip-zip-zip all day multiple times a week as she walks through the office makes me nuts.

One of my office mates comes into our area and says a loud Rick Flair style Woooooooo quite often. Why do you need to do that? Of course he's p'd me off so many times for other reasons I get angry if he says good morning.

Another guy talks on speaker phone a lot.

It's one of those days... co-workers are annoying the heck out of me!

And... her most delightful habit... talking on her cell phone while using one of the stalls in the bathroom. :huh:

Please tell me I'm not the only one with co-workers that annoy them...

Groan. These are annoying, especially the talking on the phone in the restroom. Too bad phones don't automatically turn off as soon as someone walks past the doorway. I wish I could throw the phone of everyone who did this in the toilet. Preferably in an unflushed bowl.

I don't usually have a shy bladder but for some reason it's hard for me to go if someone's yapping on the phone in the bathroom.

However, I think the thing that drives me the craziest is one of them breaths like she is CHEWBACCA!!! The heavy breathing gets under my skin bad. With that she tends to suck her snot back in…. Talk about wanting to toss my cookies! YUCK!!!!

I feel your pain.

There was a woman I called Snot Bucket because of how much she snorted her mucus back up, every single day. Instead of using a kleenex like a normal human, between inhaling her snot, she'd wipe her nose on her sleeves and palm of her hands. She always had a runny nose, probably because she spent all her time fighting her body's urge to get rid of bad mucus.

So many times, I almost slipped and called her Snot Bucket to her face or when talking to someone else in the office. To this day, I'm not even sure I remember the woman's real name.

My work life is so much better since our department moved locations and now I'm in an office with one other person who's a good friend. Unfortunately since she doesn't drive me crazy, by the law of statistics that must mean that *I'm* the annoying one!

Before that, she and I sat in an area with 2 other co-workers who won the annoying prize hands-down. They were so hateful and negative that we nicknamed them Statler and Waldorf (from The Muppet Show). Also, one was a massive throat-clearer and the other one talked to herself nonstop. Even composed emails out loud.

The woman opposite me talks incessantly and loudly, often to herself, e.g "AH, NOW THAT'S INTERESTING." Anyone in her vicinity feels,obliged to say "Really, what is?", then the entire bank of desks (I'm currently working a contract for a big UK insurer) is treated to a lengthy 100 decibel diatribe of why some trivial point of research is not interesting at all.

She's opinionated and crass and laughs for far too long at things only she finds funny. I can't stand the woman.

Other than that I'm pretty tolerant...I recall a throat clearer in one place, and another girl who said everything which should have been in her head out loud and irritated the sh1t out of all of my staff. Didn't bother me, I just ignored her.

Guy in our kinda little office burns popcorn on the daily. I got him back today, I opened a can of sardines and dumped it in the trash can next to his desk.

Pen clickers SUCK! A woman in our office eavesdrops all the time. I just find that annoying! Yes, we could include her but don't hahhaa

ok, that hair one made me gag.

off topic slightly -
I was in kindergarten with a girl who would suck her hair. her name was Cindy.
we moved away when I was 8 or so and eventually moved back (Thank you USAF/Daddy!).
When I was 19 I got a job at a restaurant working with a chic named Cynthia. She was super sweet.

... we got to talking and she mentioned something about school.

it was the SAME GIRL! and I said "OMG! I remember you! you used to suck on your hair!"

She admitted she did and that her parents hated that habit.

I have one who won’t use her head set and is on conference calls often on her speaker phone.
Then there is the guy who runs the fantasy everything league and the office brackets and has a crowd at his desk all day long.
As someone already mentioned there is a creepy people who never seem to leave there desk.
What about the ones who have so many knick knacks and crap on their desk that they have no space to work?

There is nothing wrong with being on conference/speaker but if 4 people in the cubes surrounding you are all on the same call, WHY can they NOT go to a conference room??

On the last floor there were probably 100 cubes... with tall walls even.