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 make or take calls in the toilets and then tut at you for using the hand dryer.

My last boss called PowerPoint slides ‘charts’ even when there were no tables or graphs on them.

She was also a real cunt, so there’s that.

Presenteeism. Doesn't matter if there's no actual work to do, you must sit at your desk until 5 and look productive. Even if you're spending 90 minutes writing one email.

Tea rounds, milk rounds, endless terrible home bakes, charity begging.

Meetings
Petty office politics (not saying I escape it either)
Communal fridges - filthy and grim

Oh and Christmas parties

Christmas party on my day off at my boss's house which is $60 by uber. Each way.

Ice breakers - just fuck off

Oh and complaining about noise, it's an open plan office! Deal with it or find a shady spot elsewhere.

This sort of thing is why I'm an HGV driver. I did a month indoors shortly after DD was born. A fortnight of making up weekly tachograph wallets, enlivened only by a complaint of indecent exposure from a customer who objected to a case of "builder's crack".

”Mel” who on trying to print a document discovered the printer was out of paper.

She would then go round the office to find a printer with paper and send her printing to that printer so she wouldn't have to put the paper in the printer

Of course when the printer was filled it churned out the print queue with mostly ”Mel’s” prints

Being tied to a computer. I know that technically we can stand up during phone calls, but if the computer is there and my arms don’t stretch, I’m stuck.

Women going out to work, bloody menace. We have two jobs: the time invested in personal disputes, and the actual work. Exhausting and wasteful.

@HunnyMummy1993 Genius! That's my first task tomorrow morning. For some reason the stationery cupboard is full of green pens that no one likes. From now on all my pens will be 'green' .

Caroline. The micromanager. She who shouts across the office at anyone who she perceives is late back from lunch. However, if she goes to lunch with one if her favourites, it's fine for her and them to swan back in whenever they like.

Oversharing, e.g the colleague who sent an email to the entire workforce announcing her pregnancy and attaching a copy of her ultrasound scan.

Parking space wars: apparently anyone with a dependent relative of any description needs a parking space in case of emergency, although there is a taxi rank on the other side of the road.

For those sat by the photocopiers- have you not only found that everyone asks you if something’s wrong with it, but invariably you know how to fix it and they also come to you with any and all ICT issues?

Including turning on the screen but not the laptop with “my computers broken, no it’s not it’s not turned on” or “my computer just went shut down and won’t turn on again” because you unplugged the charger

My boss

The office is a fun place until she walks in the room, it then turns into a place of gloom and you can feel the anxiety. It's not good really hence my application for a new company which was sent on Friday. Wish me luck 🤞

I work from home three days a week and two days from office. Those two days and this thread make me think I could never go back to five days in an office even if they paid me more!! At the moment it's the constant loud sighing and competitive "I did 10 hours today" versus "I logged on at the weekend" that I find tiresome. Have suggested to line manager that she send them all on a time management course because it's so draining listening to it every team meeting.

Agnes where I last worked we had to call a PowerPoint presso “a deck”. It made me feel like a dick saying it for two years.

@MajesticWhine I so get the mug thing. Someone stole my mug recently with my full name printed on it and left it on her desk half filled with cold coffee for me to find and wash up. She Never Apologised 😡😡

Fish stew in a slow cooker plugged in next to the printers in an open plan office.

If I find a dirty mug on my desk or in the sink, I put them in the bin.

If I find a dirty mug on my desk or in the sink, I put them in the bin
We'd have none left by Friday. Ours are all company ones, we don't have our own so the real non-mug washing culprit, 'Dave', wouldn't be bothered. I usually say 'I'll put the kettle on, you put the dishes in the dishwasher' and then dump the washing up bowl on his desk. I might even do a tinkly laugh.

Strangely when our MD is in the office everyone is falling over themselves to wash up. (We do not desking and sometimes he sits with us).

I used to piss off one of my managers occasionally for a laugh. He left the tea stains from black tea in his mug so no one would use it. I’d sometimes “accidentally” wash up his mug.