More office pet peeves....

...that the guy down the hall from me eats lunch at his desk... and I can hear him CRUNCH and SMACK his food all the way in my office...

...the guy that stands in my office steady digging in his nose... eeewwwwuh!!

There is so that loud smacking girl in my office too! Makes me want to puke!

When people are standing at my desk talking to me and start reading and looking at the stuff on the desk. Then, some will even pick up a paper and say "Oh, what's this?' I'm a teacher so it's usually not anything major but it's soooo nosy and irritating.

My co-workers. Let me introduce them to you.... "Gloom, "Doom" and "Despair". Two conspiracy theorists and one guy who is so depressed I want to slit his wrists for him.

The downward spiral of the person who "responds to all" on a company wide email...then the annoyed person who "responds to all" on that persons email spouting some tirade about not responding to all... etc etc etc

lol that's always fun! :laugh:

In my last job, it was the guy who was the "one-upper". You know that person. You tell a story or some kind of anctedote and one-upper guy has to tell one ten times bigger than YOU!

Then there was the woman who would sit on her phone all day and make personal calls about this trip, that trip, her kids, her husband, that friend, this friend ... and then at 5pm go "Oh jeez, I have so much work to do." Huh.. wonder why?!

The food thing annoys me --- if it smells, keep it at home! No one wants to smell your leftover indian or fish products.

I used to piss this one older woman off all the time. She'd shut the door to our one closet, where the fridge and microwave were located, so when I'd go make something, I left the door open. She'd see it open from her cubical and would fly over and shut it. So I would hear it, get up and open it. One day she flipped her **** on me and I was like "Seriously, I can't hear the microwave buzz when you have the door shut. Maybe I need a hearing aide. Can you recommend a good place to go?" That stopped her in her tracks.

We have a woman that snorts and sniffles all day during allergy season. GET A TISSUE!!!

Mine is the passive-aggressive office 'huffer'. No... not the kid in the mailroom that sniffs glue to stay awake for his third job of the day and make ends meet -- this person feels that you should read their mind because being psychic was one of the job requirments. They don't know what they want and are unable to successfully communicate what they want even when they might have a slight idea.... then, THEY HUFF **short silent inhale, then Huuuuuuuuuuuu** OMG! So, I didn't read your mind and now you're all frustrated.... whoop-te-freakin-doo, how about we discuss what you like and don't like and see if we can figure out where the miscommunication was? Could we do that, ever? No, because all this person knows is that it's wrong and the don't like it, but they are completely bumfuzzled as to how to tell you what or why or anything but being fuming mad over nothing and breathing heavy in a corner.

Christ on a cracker, take a chill pill and figure out your crap before you make me the fall guy!

Or when they list who to contact in their absence. I contact the back up...the back up doesn't know how to do what I need. So I'm stuck waiting for the original person to return from vacation anyway...

Or worse, you get an out of office message from the back up. Who in turns says to contact the person that told you to contact them.

YES! How do you not communicate with someone who is supposed to be covering your *** while you're gone?!

My biggest office pet peeve currently is people who are privileged enough to have actual offices acting like they don't have doors. It's lovely that you can sit there and type emails/surf the internet while you put a telecon on speakerphone-- close your freakin door! I have actually started to close others' doors for them. ha!

I also hate pretty much everything about the shared office kitchen. You have to leave your empty Splenda packets on top of the microwave every day instead of tossing them into the trash can you PASS on your way out? Really? I shudder to think what some of my coworkers' homes look like.

Yes the shared kitchen area. This is not your home. I am not your mommy or your daddy. Clean up after yourself.

I have been known to pick the trash up left behind from a person and collect. Then come in before them and leave it all over their desk with a note. "Forget something?"

I'm on holidays and reading these responses has reinforced why I don't want to go back to work!!! I do have one to add though....

We have one bathroom for the ladies and one bathroom for the guys. Not the stall types, just one bathroom that opens into the main hallway and does not have a fan. I understand that sometimes 'when ya gotta go, ya gotta go' but give me a break!! Every day, twice a day? Poop at home!! and if you can't then stop drinking so much Tim Horton's coffee!!!!!! Wipe the *kitten* off the seat and buy some damn air freshener!

Ok, I feel better now

I also get very irritated when I spend a whole week covering the workload for the girl who sits opposite me while she's on holiday, but when I'm on holiday, she doesn't do any of my work so I've got stack to do when I get back.

She's on holiday next week so I shall be far too busy to cover for her.

Or when they list who to contact in their absence. I contact the back up...the back up doesn't know how to do what I need. So I'm stuck waiting for the original person to return from vacation anyway...

...or when their back up is also on vacation. I swear, yesterday I went through a chain of 4 people who kept designating an alternate contact who was also on vacation.

All of these are just too hilarious and makes me completely thankful that I don't work closely with people like this! Of course we aren't a perfect group, but most of the quirks I can just let roll off my back. I don't think I could stand half the things people posted and not sure I would last long! LOL

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

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 have a co-worker who likes to have conversations with people in the hallway right in front of the bathrooms. It blocks the hallways and the bathroom doors. It's so awkward and he does this like every single day. Why don't you move the 3 feet down the hallway to your office and have your conversation there, instead of blocking the hallway and everyone's access to the bathroom?

We also have a habitual food stealer from the fridge in our office too.