What’s given you the work ick?

The bosses son who joined in a position which was due to you know, nepotism rather than ability who had been working in America and used loads of coporate bullshit. Proceeded to try and manage me despite me a) working under my own steam for the 4 years before he joined and b) having 20 years more experience than him. Started his TEAMS messages to me with 'yo xy' (initials) and then 'can I drag this up your list' followed by 'no need for you to issue it, if you can send it to me I can send it out (i.e. I don't know what I am doing but want to look like the big I AM with the client). I didn't last long!

Managers whose sole purpose is to receive an email from their manager, and pass it on to the team. They add zero value themselves.

Myself also that's how I recognised it👍😁

I used to do this as a cover for sloping off and getting a coffee as I was bored - worked every time 😂

And in days gone by .. with sheets of paper in hand.

People walking around at top speed with earnest faces as if they're the busiest people in the world ever.

No! Susan.

He's not called Heath is he?

Manager who starts our Monday morning by going round the table and asking everyone what they did at the weekend. Same manager who takes a day off and puts "so sorry to be letting you all down" on our WhatsApp group. You don't do anything when you are in anyway, literally nothing changes when you take a day off, get over yourself.

The time wasters

These are the ones that suck up 85% of the managers time for nothing

It's all about them and their issues (which are mainly ones they've either brought on themselves or others wouldn't give a thought to) or looking at everyone else's behaviour,waiting for an opportunity to squeal on them

We have two (makes it worse that they are married)

For example,I'm always early,not once had I been late until a few months ago and our area had flooded

I'd set off with plenty of time to get to work but I couldn't get through the floods,so I rang work to say id be a few minutes late-all fine

These two went mental that I was 90 seconds late and spent over 3 hours trying to get the manager to fire me,or at the very least to give me a warning

They spent weeks trying to get the management to fire a lad for not cleaning a table (he'd cleared it and wandered off to find a cloth to wipe it)

They are the ones that claim mental health issues every 7/8 weeks and go on the sick for as long as they can before coming back for their 4 hours a week shift

The weak management can't seem to get rid of them,it drives the rest of us insane as when they are in work,they don't do any but spend their time whinging about their problems (99% of which are based on stuff they've made up in their heads) while walking off into the office for a whinge at the managers

Workaholics who expect everyone around them to be the same.

One of our SLT used to have another ick of sending a deadline date but not a time. The unwritten rule was it was for 4.30pm if no time specified but this member of staff would email at around 7am on the deadline day and say “just a reminder x document is due at 9am today” with no prior mention of 9am.

We had a lengthy document due in that I had finished but wanted to proof read. Two days before the deadline I emailed to clarify the time it was due. Instead of emailing me, he came to see me to ask why I needed to know the time. I explained that the document was finished but I wanted to proof read it before submitting but that I had no free periods for the next couple days and that my next free period was the morning of the deadline so I was just trying to plan when to check it over.

He then said with such disdain “don’t you do any work when you’ve put your kids to bed? I get most of my work done after midnight.”

Well no, I don’t. I’ve been in work 7.30am-5.30pm and I’m adjusting to life as a full time working parent (my son had just turned 1), by 9pm I’m done for…definitely no good for proof reading. Just tell me the time the document is due! Or perhaps address why a head of department doesn’t have a free period for a 2.5 day period to get management tasks done.

I o longer work thank god, but people who called across the office to ask me something, rather than walking over to my desk. So fucking rude, They’d never do it to their superior, only an underling.

Definitely ice breakers, tell us something wacky about yourself.
I said, I like cats. There was complete silence 😂 Im not going to tell complete strangers anything weird about myself.
The colleague who picks her nails all day and chews what's left to the bone.

Starting messages with Hope you’re well! No they don’t care if I’m well. They just want me to cover absence and think nothing of sending personal texts on my day off trying to guilt trip me. When they have no plan in place!

When did twats start saying around instead of about? It seems ubiquitous among twats. "There's no information around..." do they HEAR themselves?

People having loud and lengthy personal conversations in the office on the phone so everyone knows they had sex / are arranging a mortgage/ are a Manchester United wanker, then suddenly it's time for their meeting / presentation, they haven't done a second of prep for it, and they barge over to you demanding your materials / input/ précis just as you are heading into the fucking meeting or presentation in question.

I think we had the same boss.

Oh god yes, this is all so painfully accurate! 😬

Holding things like "Wellbeing days". My boss scheduling a meeting over the lunchtime yoga session I'd booked onto.

The way no one is brave enough to speak up to the person in charge so his cockamamey ideas that we all have to carry out go on regardless, unchallenged

I think what makes it an ick for me is how unbothered she seems, it’s like it’s totally normal for her to ghost her own team. That kind of disregard just puts me off.

I would say that to her in more or less those terms. I'd refuse to have any more meetings with her until she can prove she isn't going to waste my time.

@wfhwfh this may be for you! I see it in people’s Teams status

no-hello.com/

Well being and safe spaces that goes right out the window when restructuring comes around commonly known as redundancies are in the post.

Not expressing gratitude after Iliterally had no choice but to do their work for them because they are too busy dating another equally lazy coworker.
Not responding to messages.
Glorifying admin line they're gods. (I work in a learning centre)

This made me laugh, like a scene from The Office.

People who are never out of a new line manager's office trying to be spokesperson for the whole place and trying to get said manager round to their way of thinking.