Office Pet Peeves

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.

oh my, can I vent, I have a co-worker that we call "Charles in Charge" because she knows all, sees all, and does all. she is driving me to drink today! and her laugh, I want to rip her vocal chords out! I have never heard such a fake loud laugh...
and had to interrupt anyone talking about something to someone else...because she knows it all.... her voice is finger nails down a chalkboard, I would love to gouge out my ear drums....

okay, I feel better, thank you..

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

Bathroom phone conversations are my #1, all-time office pet peeve. I respond to those people by sitting in the stall next to them flushing the toilet repeatedly so they can neither hear nor be heard. I realize it's a waste of water. I'll feel bad about it later, but aklsjdlkajsdasd.

Another office pet peeve: whistling. WHY ARE YOU WHISTLING IN THE OFFICE? Stop. Whistling. Stop it.

GUM! oh my god, GUM!

or, rather, chewing it like cud. if I can hear the saliva squishing out of it across the room, you're doing it wrong! squiiiiiiiish, SMACK, squiiiiiiiiiiish, SMACK.

*twitches* gah!!

[end nonsensical rant]

I hate when people steal my pens or mess up my organized stuff.

GOD YES THIS!!!! I HATE PEOPLE TOUCHING MY DESK!!!!

I am so big on this that when a new person is hired the others in the office pre-warn them about not touching my pen...unless they want to die!

Even my boss is careful to make sure when I am on vacation, he put things for me to handle in a nice neat pile. Since I control his work life, keeping him organized, and moving in the right direction he appeases my OCD tendencies...lol




OOOOOOH! Also can not stand that girl who wears SOOOOOOOOOOOO much perfume she could suffocate you. Then 3 or 4 times a day sprays more of the hideous S@#T she wears. Cause you know since she obviously can't smell it anymore....... so then it must no longer be strong.

I know this is so petty and unimportant, and it doesn't even relate to anyone in my current office...but I'm kind of a neat freak, so it drives me nuts when people bring in too much personal stuff for their offices.

It doesn't even matter if it's a large, spacious office or a tiny cubicle...but enough with the framed photos, vases, fish bowls, potpourri burners, bags of chips, candy dishes, extra jackets, decorative chairs, electric toothbrushes, exercise equipment, snow globes, figurines, prescription medications, scented candles, 19 Miche purse shells in their original packaging stacked beneath your desk, pet rocks, healing crystals, etc.

And yes I have seen ALL of those things in coworkers' offices over the years.

It's your work space...not your apartment/home away from home...

:laugh:

I've worked with people like that. I still pass cubes that are decorated to the max. It's like a dorm room, not a cubicle in a professional setting. It doesn't bother me that much though. I used to have a colleague that kept three Diffenbachia plants in pots. The plants were each about 6 feet tall. It blocked most of the entrance to his cubicle, so he had a lot of privacy. After about a year of this, the supervisor asked him to get rid of the plants.

What bothers me are people who listen to music with headphones while they're working. It takes a while to get their attention. They don't always notice you standing at their cubicle and some get startled when they see you there. They obviously don't hear you walking over or making noise to get their attention. Then I feel like I'm bothering them from their music. Might get flamed for this, but listening to music when you're working seems unprofessional. There are lots of other occasions where you can listen to music, but during core work hours? I work in a very conservative profession. It's not some creative field either.