Office life- What is your pet hate?

[SuperMeerkat]

Mine has got to be meetings where nothing ever actually gets resolved. Too much time is spent letting everyone have their say and ideas are considered that we then need another meeting to decide on what to do 😡😡 If anyone actually dares to be decisive then everyone looks at them like they’ve just kicked a puppy.

people who regularly stomp past my desk
people who talk loudly on their mobile phones whilst walking through the office who are they no one seems to know
People who consistantly come in late because the train was late errr get an earlier one then!!
People who hog the kitchen cooking their spicy food in the microwave which seems to take forever just when you think they have finished yet another dish goes in this is not an Indian takeaway grrrr
People who micro manage
Managers that come up with all these different rules that dont seem to apply to them

Obtuse chatters
People who chat to you when you are clearly busy and working to a deadline.
We had one in the staff room, we were a friendly bunch and all chatted to a degree, but the rest of us picked up the obvious clues when one of us was busy.
She was going through a tough time for years with her dad being poorly, which I’m obviously sympathetic to, but the worse thing was when you were racing to finish something and she’d sit down heavily and sigh loudly, then say “We had an awful time with dad last night ...” - of course you can’t ignore if you are the only other person there at the time, and then you are sucked in and the minutes tick away.

I also agree about the cunts who microwave anything involving fish.

The bloke at my place who loudly announces the time to the whole office every so often. For no reason. “It’s 2pm”... I don’t care!

@Cruddles ah shite I work with a Linda too! Permanently complaining about the IT being poor but actually it's her grasp of using it that is less than zero poor

people who come in with walking sticks that they wouldnt need if they lost some weight
People who have endless paper folders dating from 1980
People who continually talk about their kids and their kids endless achievements
People who never bring any cakes sweets etc in for any occasion but endlessly help themselves
middle management!!!

When people call, then keep calling. It’s evident I’m already on the phone or busy so just e-mail. I’ve told people so many times to email in the first instance and they still complain I don’t answer the phone instantly!

The office radio - I’ve been playing CD’s for the past few day’s as I was about to throw it out of the window listening to Smooth/Capital

Colleague who says, while I'm working to a deadline, 'I haven't got much to do today so I'm just going to hang around your desk and bug you'.
Colleague who has been allowed to create her own job of driving the whole team to meet our deadlines, constantly putting in extra meetings so we can all report against her spreadsheet. We were doing fine before.
Colleague who talks non-stop about her children and has never once asked a thing about mine. Same colleague very judgemental of lovely other colleague who has DC with anxiety and sleeping disorders. 'well my children just know that they have to go to bed and sleep through. I don't know why it is all such a big deal for her'. Tinkly little laugh.

People who attempt to use false flattery to get you to do something they don't know how/don't want to do - "oh but you're so much better at it than I am!". Now met with very clear "well you need more practice then, off you go..."

People who expect you to magic a meeting room from your arse because they (or their inept PA) hasn't bothered booking one.

People who don't check their turds have flushed away properly.

People who ask you if you watch such and such tv show and then, when you say no, still go on to talk about what happened last night.

Oh who am I trying to kid...it's just bloody PEOPLE FULL STOP

I’m kind of missing working in a large office after reading this thread! I have four immediate colleagues and they all have their annoying as hell days but I miss the phantom poo person and the toilet hogger (well we do have one but we know who she is, 4 x 20min toilet trips per day). Take me back to a big office!

Our kitchen sink is full of
Mugs (with tea in)
Porridge encrusted bowels
Rice (lunchtime).
Nobody puts a new loo roll on, I must do it twice every day.
Fag butts stuck in the picnic table slats (there’s a butt pole right next to it).
Being asked about the printer/scanner just because I sit closest.

I don't drink hot drinks so when I go into the office I take cans of pepsi max (3 per day maximum).

If I had a pound for EVERY FUCKER who says "ooh you drink a lot of pop don't you" usually as they are on their way to the kettle. They don't like it when I respond with "ooh how many cups of tea is that?"".

Also - have you noticed how no one wants a cup of tea until someone gets up to put the kettle on then suddenly everyone wants one.

And listening to the same tale 16 times as people have different flexi-time starting times but have been Yvonned* by her telling them about her latest period (usually embellished with each telling).

*illustrative purposes only.

And sitting by the bastard photocopier does not mean I am a photocopier engineer.

People who come into your office and stand and talk at you for ages in work time, not picking up on any hints that you need to get on!

Ridiculously loud eating of crisps and endless scraping of yoghurt pots or Tupperware 😤😤😤

Lunchtime meetings, usually called by senior management, at which attendance is mandatory, so no-one gets a lunch break.

@maddiemookins16mum Sat 02-Nov-19 20:30:57
"Our kitchen sink is full of
Porridge encrusted bowels"

I thought our place was bad but porridge encrusted bowels in your sink is totally inappropriate!

People who talk about work when I’m on my break.

People who don’t wash up or turn on/empty the dishwasher. Same people leave their dirty mugs on the desks or just NEXT TO the sink.

Hearing the same boring story everytime someone else arrives in the office. Downside of being one of the first ones in!

The woman who gets herself involved in every one elses business and goes to HR to complain about someone taking an extra 2 minutes on a break.

The person opposite me who turns every story/conversation from someone else into something about herself.

I just don't bother talking any more

Woman sitting diagonally opposite me who chews her fingernails for hours in end. I have to shift my monitor and chair to block out the disgusting sight

DH had Fake Tan Woman.
Apparently her keyboard and phone had big orange stains on them from the tan.
There was also Jeff. Jeff worked there since the paeleolithic and apparently knew everything. However if you wanted information he had and he wasn't there then checking the paperwork on his desk was like something out of Indiana Jones. Who knew what strange archaeological finds could be hand under the stratified mess.

Used to have Yvonne as a manager.

Complete cunt of a person so she was!

I think I might be Yvonne

@Rockbird i had that problem. I swapped all the pen inners round, so,all,the red pens wrote black and the black pens wrote red etc. Stopped immediately.

The insecure manager who sternly warns us from doing something that we had no intention of doing and keeps repeating that.

We have a Linda as well, forgets her password whenever she has more than a week off.

The managers who ring you on a non-working day for their organisation (when you’re working for another company) and start with “sorry to bother you on your day off”....

Bureaucracy for bureaucracys sake. Just rules and rules and layers of approvals and meetings, minutes, reports, forms, etc for any tiny thing. Nobody knows exactly what needs doing or how long it will take. So pointless and ineffective that most people ignore the rules and either don't do anything ever or do whatever they want, whenever they want.