Things or processes that irritate you at work

[BuzzShitbagBobbly]

For me it's when I tell someone that I will send updates e.g. on a payment being made. And then the next day they ask me if I have any update.

OH YES I DO I WAS KEEPING IT SECRET

Constantly being told that we need to change our practice to accommodate the latest fad from government / academy improvement team / consultants / Uncle Tom Cobbley and all.
Then being told we need to do it all over again 12 months later.
(Teacher)

Everything we do or touch is oriented and logged then scanned to a virtual system. We have some lengthy transaction which become a file as thick as an old phone book. Every form, letter,e-mail and checklist goes into the file. Once the transaction completes we then put a sheet in the front and send it to be scanned onto the virtual system and the paper is binned. Utter waste. Why we can’t update an online file with everything then save it on the virtual system at the end I have no idea. We also have graded paper for letters and invoices and print tons of this. I pointed out if we had a way of putting the info onto electronic headed paper it would save a fortune. Someone wants a copy invoice, great let me load it, print it on headed,scan it, attach it....pointless. Have a headed paper online so we can use that, time saving, cost cutting...

People who don't understand how to do things properly and refuse to learn, and instead spend all day moaning about "the system" not working.

A poor carpenter always blames his tools!

The strange receptionist in one of a group of seven buildings in my organisation that uses the global email to let everyone know the most inane tripe like:

Just to let everyone know there is a wasp in the ladies toilet on floor 3 of this building. Facilities has been informed but they told me they make repairs and don’t come out to kill wasps so please BE CAREFUL WHEN VISITING THIS TOILET!

Colleagues
Face fitting
Different metrics for different departments with clear favourtism
Managers who treat smart colleagues badly because they are threatened by their experience (no not me!!!)

Schmucks

We had a crazy electronic in/out board that showed the exact second everyone logged on to their computer each morning and off each evening. Sadly, it became a tool for petty monitoring of others' attendance even if it was none of the monitoring person's business. Senior managers and HR would get petty emails "ratting" on other workers for being 5 minutes late.

Thankfully the program had an option to turn off the time column on the standard display so you couldn't see what time your arch enemy Suzy logged on or off.

People sometimes.

Hot desking, with a clear des, policy

Particularly when you are in the same office most days, have loads of paperwork, and there a 10 month at least wait for lockers.

I have to completely set up my desk, monitor, paperwork every morning, and then pack it al, away in my rucksack in the evening, only to set it all up again the next day. Normally at the same desk as I get in early..

Office I used to work in had (morning) tea @ 10 meetings for staff to update a white board with whatever job we were doing - this was twice a week.
Firstly, the novelty went off pretty quick so we ended up with constant latecomers or no-shows, those who couldn't remember, & those who often just wrote "lots". Others just went straight to the tea room.
Found it a complete waste of time to listen to all this blah blah blah - we were supposed to tell everyone what job we were working on, supposedly for support/other info from other team staff.
6 minute timesheets was another bugbear, particularly if you'd wasted God knows how much time already in stupid meetings.
Just let me do the job I came here today to do 🙄 (used to do, lol)

I'm NHS coalface, with the now usual eye wateringly poor, under-skilled, combative, aggressive, bullying middle management in which the NHS now excels; where the concept that Targets supersede anything else. Patient safety, staff safety- all swept away in the tide of 'productivity'.

I daren't start about 'what annoys me', as it's more 'what makes me incandescent with rage', and I'd break MN with my rant.