More office pet peeves....

People who bring their babies to the office to show them off. These children are too young to do anything but crap, puke, and scream at the top of their little lungs. But these new moms insist that they bring them in so everyone can fawn over them. Grats, you had a baby. The office is happy for you (I don't really care, myself). But it's really hard to concentrate on getting anything done when your spawn is screaming in my ear.

(No, I don't have kids yet. Yes, I'm aware that my opinion is not very...popular. *Dons flame retardant suit*)

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.

Haahahahaahahaha!

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.

Wow, you must work with my husband!!!!! :laugh:

The guy that gossips all day long, listens in on conversations that do not involved him, tattles to the boss all the time, and shut off his compute an hour before work day is actually over...yeah this is all one dude. >:(

Hold up. The tax deadline is 14 days away.... we should change the entire process. Lets stop working and meet about it.

Loud talkers.

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!

this.

When they have that super loud laugh....like they want everyone in the building to know there laughing.... i dispise that!

As well as nail clipper people - SUPER GROSS!

OMG! If it was really funny, then I am guilty of the laugh. If it isn't then I just smile. :PThe nail clipper thing is just nasty.

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.

This!!

OK - I just read through the entire thread and figured I would add my two cents. I agree with almost all of these - some more than others. BUT, the opposite of the annoying "REPLY to ALL" is when people drop people off of email threads even though they really need to be on there. I work for a large bank, and my department's work often touches multiple departments. I try to include the key people, because there really is no other way to communicate quickly and effectively on certain questions or issues that come up. Then someone will reply, but drop off half the original distribution and add six more people from THEIR department.

Another email annoyance is when people only answer part of the question, or two out of three questions...it puts new meaning to the phrase "it's like pulling teeth" to get simple answers. I'll say "please provide the account number, date, and dollar amount that you want me to research", and the answer will be "$32.61". I'll reply and say " Can you let me know the date and the account number?", and they'll respond "Jim said it hit his account" (I have no more idea who Jim is than any of you reading this). Are they stupid? Pre-occupied? Just trying to be annoying for the fun of it???

And people who change the topic in an email thread but don't bother to change the subject...or forward an email a million times, even though the subject was completely ridiculous or vague to begin with.....I'll get an email with the subject "last year's expense report", and it turns out to be someone emailing about the company picnic.

People who bring their babies to the office to show them off. These children are too young to do anything but crap, puke, and scream at the top of their little lungs. But these new moms insist that they bring them in so everyone can fawn over them. Grats, you had a baby. The office is happy for you (I don't really care, myself). But it's really hard to concentrate on getting anything done when your spawn is screaming in my ear.

(No, I don't have kids yet. Yes, I'm aware that my opinion is not very...popular. *Dons flame retardant suit*)

thisssss^

They're young. They're not used to strange people crowded around them, or holding them, etc.... So then they get fussy, and then the screaming starts.... I'm glad you are all on lunch/break, but I'm not and trying to work. It's fine and dandy you brought your kid to show off, but at least take it to the cafeteria or someplace that's not where others are trying to concentrate and work.

(and also annoying when said kid is fussing and mommy/other people think it's just sooooo cute, so are still standing around for another 20 mins while the kid's having a fit, and all while people around them are trrying to work.)

i just thought of one that i forgot earlier...

people who deck out their offices/cubes/whatever as if its a nick-nack museum and/or make their personal space a cluttered sh-- hole. seriously, your collection of fuzzy pens, bobble heads, calendars, vendor toys, 13 photos of your dog, ect. and lack of organization with 47 post-it-notes everywhere, 20 thumb tacked documents and 12 inch high piles of papers/folders makes me want to slap you.

You would loathe my desk...and I mean hate with the white hot intensity of 1,000 suns...I have 5 Transformers, 3 rubber ducks, a sh!tload of stuffed animals, 5 Hot Wheels (including Grave Digger & Airborne Ranger), a slinky, a Mardi Gras mask, a Star Wars fighter...and of course, a ton of pix of my kids and a museum of their artwork.

My desk is surprisingly organized though.


<b> Everything has a place.</b>

correct, and that place is not your work desk.



sorry, but you're right, i would hate your work space. i would probably talk about it behind your back.

It's actually out in front of the office but the people from the office next door just came and parked so it reminded me of this thread.

There is limited parking and EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. they park their car, they park crooked so that at least one wheel is in the space next to theirs. LEARN HOW TO PARK!!!!!

I even took a picture right now.

I have a story. We have a guy here in our office who I'll call Pete. Pete brough a whole pallet of wheat grass to work once. He also brought a juicer. Pete made wheat grass juice right there at his desk every morning. One day, Pete decided it would be nice to add some flavor, so he added two HUGE garlic cloves to the juicer. The first couple of minutes after this, people were running out of the area with watering eyes. The next few hours, people were going home with stomach aches. The next few weeks, there was nothing you could do to get the smell of garlic out of your nose. It molecularly bonded to the cubicle fabric.

Pete will never live this down.

This is just one Pete story. He's infamous for this stuff.

It's actually out in front of the office but the people from the office next door just came and parked so it reminded me of this thread.

There is limited parking and EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. they park their car, they park crooked so that at least one wheel is in the space next to theirs. LEARN HOW TO PARK!!!!!

I even took a picture right now.

Ha! I saw a great photo on Pinterest, where they outlined a "special" new parking space (in sidewalk chalk) just for that car, and wrote something funny about the person's parking. I vowed to keep sidewalk chalk in my car for just that.