Office Pet Peeves

Talking over me and therefore not listening to what I say. Drives me nuts!

^^This. If someone tries to talk over me I simply ignore them.

I know exactly who is coming down the hallway to my office by the sound their high heels make on the floor. (I work with 4 ladies) Please get some shoes that don't clomp...please! Clomp clomp, clomp, those shoes might be fashionable but you shouldn't sound like a horse when you walk.

I've gotta post again here because this thread's totally giving me flashbacks from past jobs and insane coworkers :-D

I worked with a woman (in a mental health clinic) who would call her husband, and receive calls from her husband, at least twenty times per day and she spoke extremely loud and in "baby talk" to him and called him Daddy. "I love you Daddy" was something I heard at least 60 times per day. No joke. This woman was in her late 30's, wore her hair in pigtails and chose to wear scrubs with cartoon characters on them. No one else in her position wore scrubs and there was no reason she needed to (didn't work hands on with clients, didn't dispense medication, didn't even clean anything as part of her job).

The same woman sang loudly to most songs on the radio, causing the clinic to ban music. It was a state funded program and NOT religious based in any way and she started telling clients "Jesus loves you and so do I" and telling them she loved them and hugging them and she told every caller on the telephone to "have a blessed day" until others (I may have been one of them, along with two psychiatrists on staff) raised a formal complaint about it and she wound up getting fired because she refused to stop spreading the Good Word.

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

Oh my gaw! I know how you feel its irritating to the bone

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...

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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.

Oh I totally agree with you. If your office environment allows music from speakers at a reasonable volume then I see no problem but I think headphones are pretty weird and unprofessional honestly. I've never worked anywhere that allowed them. Although I did work in a social service agency where everyone blasted music in their offices...luckily the walls were almost totally sound proof for client confidentiality but when anyone opened their door you got a taste of Bob Marley, Dolly Parton, Kiss, or Crystal Castles (mine) coming out.

OMG, I can't believe I forgot the stompers. The people who have to stomp when they walk. We call them frankenstein. Drives me freakin' crazy!!

This thread makes me really appreciate my job. The one annoying person left. The rest of us work hard and laugh at random stuff all day. It's pretty sweet.

What about the shufflers? The people who are too lazy to pick their feet all the way up when they walk!

People who stand at your cubicle even though they can see you're on the phone. They just wait and wait. What part of "I'm on a work call now and will talk to you later" don't they understand?

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.

I used to work at Macy's and there was this lady that was on her cell phone in the stall next to me. It was obvious that she wasn't going to shut up so I knocked on the wall and loudly said, "can I flush yet??" She got super embarrassed and told the person that she was going to call them back.

That is Fantastic!