What’s given you the work ick?

People being rude tbh. I started a new job in April and I still can’t get over how some people think it’s acceptable to talk to others. It’s the thing that will make me leave. I love the work but the majority of people are gross.

I get into work about an hour before start time. This is for my benefit, traffic would otherwise be appalling and I get set up for the day, but my boss thinks it’s ok to come in multiple times to yap on about stuff. Send me an email, I’m busy! Same at lunch, spent at my desk so I can work. Leave me the heck alone, particularly when we have designated meeting times. Major ick. I’m planning on leaving next year.

A proper social sauna session takes several hours. You don't spend the whole time sitting in the sauna but take cool down breaks from time to time but very easily spend more than 30 minutes - 30 minute guidelines are for foreigners who aren't used to sauna, or small children, for everyone else you just stay as long as you feel comfortable.

Oh when ringing a certain bloke he’d ask “all right Cat?’ I’d reply yeh fine thanks, to which he ALWAYS said “good good”. Bore off.

People on a slightly higher pay grade who think they’re so much more intelligent than you. Being called collectively “yooos lot”. Being told not to worry if we aren’t with our friends on a hour’s training course (we are in our 50s not teenagers). Being told to save paperwork that’s years old in case someone ever needs it. (No one ever has). Loads more. I think it used to invoke rage and bewilderment more than ick.

Omg, does she also eat a yoghurt at exactly 3.58pm and fiercely taps and scrapes every single last morsel from the yoghurt pot until she reaches her protein allocation for the day?

Haha! If sharing a screen I always say ‘has she come through yet?’ If they don’t laugh then I automatically think dickhead.
Signing off an email with ‘best’ really gets me too especially when written by a man who wears double denim and his outlook profile pic is from when he was in his 20’s.
edited to say - I always sing l’ll be there whenever I too read reach out!!

😂, well important to integrate!

Thats fucking awful.

Can you report them?

Marking your email as Important (!)

They’re all bloody important…

Guidelines are no more than 30 mins

• 'Hi X how are you?' on Teams - just spit it out so I can decide whether to ignore you or not!
• "KR" as email sign-off
• "Safety moment" at beginning of meetings - never anything remotely relevant to our line of work
• Man in 40s who uses hashtags in Teams posts e.g. "Let's work together to meet this deadline as best we can #teamworkmakesthedreamwork"
• "reach out" - unless you're a member of the Four Tops, just say you'll email me
• LinkedIn nonsense
• AI meeting minutes (AI in general)
• People making noises when sharing screens and waiting for something to open/load - "I'll jeeeuuuuuusssst open it up...dum-di-dum...just opening.....fafafafaaaa....there we go"
• "You're on mute"

I've got another 30 years of this.

This sounds like the worst office ever

I have been moaned at for reading a novel in a corner of the break room during my lunch rather than, I don't know, putting on a one woman stand up comic routine in front of the kettle. What part of statutory uninterrupted break is difficult? Too cold to go sit in the park, can't sit at my desk or else work just drags on. I'm not rude about it but I get more than enough inane chit-chat during paid work hours. Sitting on your phone and scrolling through TikTok videos without headphones on is apparently socially acceptable, but not quietly reading...

Oh that’s awful.

I also have a new manager. There is pressure to do more…. But has also thrust a shit-tonne of extra unnecessary paperwork on us.

I mean, just choose.

We have a new HT (primary school).

The lessons we now 'must' teach every week exceed the number of teaching hours available. We used to get around this by rotating across weeks - eg RE one week and music the next in the same time slot so at least everything was covered across the term. But now everything has to be taught each week and will be monitored. But there's no time to actually do it.

Micromanagement is off the scale.

Working smarter has been removed in favour of working harder and practices that were abandoned years ago because they were just 'busyness' and had no positive impact on children's learning but increased teacher workload have been reintroduced.

I'm sitting in my car in the car park because I can't face going in just yet and my heart is already pounding.

Serious workplace ick.

Oh for the days turn up on time ,do your job,get paid at the end of the month.
And none of the wanky stuff in-between.

Agree with wanky LinkedIn. One of my coworkers copied and pasted her spiel from a well known colleague in our field. So embarrassing. Everyone thinks the sun shines out her arse.

Ugh this, has anyone noticed the more problems, the more they say this? And it feels like a stick to beat you over the head with - yes you will get sworn at by Tracey since we all know her stressful home life (bring your whole self) that was my experience - was an excuse to justify and not manage shit behaviour.

I'm British too, moved when I was 20 and it definitely took some time to adjust to getting naked with strangers in public saunas but now I'm perfectly comfortable with other women, whether its friends, strangers, colleagues, or, on one occasion, one of the teachers from DS's nursery

I wait for the inevitable second message when they get down to brass tacks.

Yes, I can't imagine it myself with male or female colleagues but I am British so that makes sense 😂

I do like the concept in general as it makes things more equal - everyone is equal in the sauna, but in practice it can shut women out which I don't like.

Agree. It means work later, work harder, make sacrifices, and treat work as of equal
or greater importance than home and family.

I’m all for supporting my colleagues and going above and beyond to get through a temporary pinch point, but I expect it to be recognised as ‘extra’, and not taken for granted or treated as a precedent. Pinch points should be foreseen and planned for.

They can fuck right off with their work family and bringing your whole self to work.
Usually it means they want you to do extra work for free.