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.

[Anyat212]

@NormaBean

Although the thought of working with Yvonne myself has turned my stomach, your reply has cracked me up 😂


I agree with fish in the microwave & tbf people eating anything with a smell at their desks.

The people who barge into your office who demand work / help from you ASAP despite not giving a shit about it - only because their LM has given them a nudge about it.

[Sparklingbrook]

People that don't put a whole ream of paper in the photocopier, or mess with the default printer settings.

[OverthinkingThis]

Office feeders - mostly women, bring in lots of cakes/biscuits/snacks for the office and pointedly hover around them saying that they aren't going to have any themselves as they are 'being good', but telling everyone else to dig in

[GiveMyHeadPeaceffs]

Absolutely agree with hating meetings that are utterly pointless. I sometimes think they're arranged because the person calling the meeting has fucking nothing better to be at.

Eating my lunch in the stupidly short period of time I get and still someone wants to ask me about work.

In my job things change constantly...to the point that tomorrow I'm back from a fortnights leave and I've been told I'm managing a new team.

Oh and work contacting me when I'm on leave...

[TubbyMcTat77]

I have an Yvonne in my office too

[hotdogwoof]

I know an Yvonne like that too.

[WhatchaMaCalllit]

• Meetings for the sake of having a meeting (i.e. one where it could have just as easily been sorted by sending a few emails or having a quick phone call)
• Colleagues with body odour/bad breath and they know about it but don't wash frequently enough. I under no circumstances am putting people who have a condition and they can't do anything above what they are already doing. I'm talking about lazy washers. Don't wash their clothes, don't change their clothes, don't care.
• Colleagues who can see that you're busy but don't care that they are interrupting you so they do it anyway, even if you say "Can I get back to you in a few minutes, I just have to finish something that I'm right in the middle of?", they want you to drop what it is you are working on and focus on their stuff. Could be peers, could be management.
• People who you have demonstrated how to do a particular task to, asked them to take notes while you're doing the demonstration and don't bother to check their notes, so they check directly with you. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
• People who have been given job aids to help them with their task but do not check the job aid when they get stuck.
• People who don't read the screen that is in front of them to find out if you've done something that they should have done but haven't and the customer is asking about it so you do it and then the staff member says "Have you done that? I'm getting back to you about the email you sent me last week.", well, yes. I've done it because you didn't and the customer was asking about it.

That's just the tip of the iceberg.

[SuperMeerkat]

Oh yeah and taking the initiative only to be told just not to bother because ‘I’m doing that’ Then if I don’t take the initiative ‘why aren’t you doing XYZ?’ It’s like I can’t get it right either way so I might as well do nothing. Got a job interview on Monday for a job that pays £15k more 😬 Would be ace to get it.

[Enb76]

Colleagues who let others carry them and then fall to pieces when asked to complete any task at all.

How did they get hired? Were they ever competent? How did they get through probation?

[Mollpop]

People who can't be arsed to walk over to someone's desk to talk to them and just shout across the office.

[SuperMeerkat]

@Mollpop Or one’s who are sat next to you and send you and email! WTF is that all about?!

[Mollpop]

Pointless meetings. Smelly food. Office politics. Endless 'fuddles" bake sales, Keith, who perves over all the young girls, winks at them and is just generally creepy.
People who do things to draw attention to themselves/to get sympathy. Drives me crazy.

[LonginesPrime]

Calling PowerPoint "slide decks". When did that become a thing??

When the phrase 'death by PowerPoint' started to take off and people had to rebrand their precious presentations to avoid looking boring.

Didn't work.

[SuperMeerkat]

Haven’t heard slide deck yet. Is this some sort of politically correct bullshit? It normally is 😂

[WhatchaMaCalllit]

At the moment our office is going through a service provider switch over and there are step by step instructions on what each staff member has to do in order to switch service provider. I have lost count of how many have phoned me up and said "I don't appear to have switched service provider, can you help me?" and I find out by a process of leading questions that they haven't followed the step by step instructions that they were given.
FFS! READ THE INSTRUCTIONS. FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS. STOP ANNOYING ME!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SarcasticMrKnowItAll]

All the people

[jaffacakeany1]

Me: I'm hot
Colleague: It's not hot in here
Me: I DIDN'T SAY IT WAS, I JUST SAID I'M HOT!!
I'm a little menopausal so slightly touchy too and not suffering fools easily 😡

[BourbonAndTea]

People who 'Reply All', with the most useless information (their own dietary requirements for example, or a solitary 'thanks' to the original sender...)

[RedRec]

Yvonne

[Thistly]

saying that they aren't going to have any themselves as they are 'being good', but telling everyone else to dig in

Gah that sounds dire. What do you do? stand there and eat 4/5 of the goodies on offer, and then whinge about feeling sick and having ‘been bad’ all day?


I love my job and my colleagues. My only pet hate is the tangled-up telephone cord.

[wouldyouadamandeveit]

1. David
2. Big gob bloke whose voice travels the entire office.
3. Others butting in on conversations between me and the person sitting next to me.
4. Mrs know it all

[Rockbird]

People nicking my pens. My desk is the nearest to the front reception desk and people turn round to my desk to grab a pen. I fill the pot up on Monday and by Friday there's one broken pencil left!

[HerBigChance]

People coming up to me in person to let me know they've sent me an email.

Fuck.
Off.

[Esiotrot87]

The office ‘toilet ghosts’... people who occupy a cubicle but sit there in silence for ages.

Also people who make personal phone calls in the toilets (I always make sure I dry my hands on the loud hand dryer for longer than necessary to disturb their phone call )

Fish eating colleagues

People who book meetings after 4pm

[CoolcoolcoolcoolcoolNoDoubt]

Having to write extensive handover notes when you're about to leave a job, even though nobody held your hand when you started.

Then being asked to have meetings with people about tasks, rendering the handover notes you spent time producing, completely pointless.