What irritates you at work?

[themuttsnutts]

Mine are:

Managers saying 'can you just quickly...? and it taking half a day

Faffy work colleagues

Lazy people who don't pull their weight

People who ask pointless questions or talk non stop when you're busy

Stressed our managers

And people who print 100 page documents on the only working printer, forcing you to wait when you only have a page

I’m 33 weeks pg and getting more intolerant by the day...colleagues who say “oh, pinkpanther” and try and hand me a post it note —talk to me at all— before I’ve got my coat off and connected my computer up are getting the death stare recently

People who cc you into the whole back and forth of something you aren't even involved in. Their pretence is "just to keep you up to date". The subtext is "look at this problem I found and am solving".

I don't give a shit Joan, it's not my problem. Stop copying me in to 37 emails I don't need to read.

Fuck Joan.

Fucking hotdesking.

There’s not enough time to list everything.
The major one is lack of common sense, customers and Collegues, how some of them make it through life is beyond me.

Being paid well below the living wage as established by the Living Wage Commission and having 1.25 hours stopped from my wages for breaks while actually having 40 mins worth of breaks

Weirdly my current gripe is that my office is too quiet.

My whole department has recently moved and some people who were previously in their own office are now working open plan. I was open plan before and found the general hum and low level noise and chat the office really quiet pleasant. Now it’s more like a library with everyone terrified of pissing off the new open planners.

The other day I was told to talk more quietly (I’d been discussing work matters) so now speak to everyone in a volume not much above a whisper.

I miss my old, ‘bubbly’ office

OMG Bernadette we have a ‘Joan’ too

Patronising Paula the new supervisor..no Paula I won't be asking the new trainees I have if they know how to use scissors and knives safely...the fact that they are fully grown adults would indicate that they do! Her annoying "how are WE today." "hope WE all had a good weekend" etc, really boils my piss. The word you're looking for Paula is "YOU"
Paula annoys me.

Oh god yes the office singer ! Mine is a guy , I wouldn't mind so much if he sang a song or even a bit of a song repeatedly but he choses to repeat the strap line of adverts .
ANY advert , cars , insurances, baby stuff, god help me when the Christmas Ads come on .

There is a thread on here somewhere about a office chair getting wee'd on so I guess things could be worst < not .

People who think their lack of forward planning constitutes my emergency.

I can't think of anything. Which has now got me into a spiral of paranoia - maybe I am the singing, stinky, onion-eating, patronising, useless moron in our office

I once got copied into an email by mistake because I had a similar name. I initially replied to the project manager pointing it out and thought that was the end of it. But no, I kept getting emails for BlackAmericanoWithSugar for the entire duration of the project, I kept pointing it out and the client would get it right for a few days but then revert to me. It was surprisingly annoying, not least because I worked part time so sometimes there was a delay before I forwarded it on to the correct person and somehow that was my fault.

The fact that we are all paid the same now. There used to be a pay grade scheme. So the lazy cow that's sat on her arse for more than a decade and the work shy teenage boy (who desperately needs to wash) are paid the same as me who runs round like a loon to get everything done.

Customers who don't say please and thank you. One day I will correct someone like they are an errant toddler.

Customers who don't read the obvious terms and conditions and suddenly it becomes my problem. On the plus side I've become Teflon coated to this kind of behaviour.

The psycho manager. How she got so far is anyone's guess.

The giant, inflated egos. All men. Have to be putting you in your place all the time to show up that they are important.

People who microwave fish or other strong-smelling stuff. So anti-social.

I challenged a woman for doing this once: she had come up from a different floor to microwave her stinky lunch. Unbelievably, when asked to desist or use the microwave on her own floor, she said that she couldn’t because her colleagues objected to the smell. What should that have told her?

The customers who are licencing experts and quote incomplete, or completely wrong licence laws at me. I'm the fucking DPS, I applied for the twatting licence, I know what the fucking thing says and what it's limitations are and the fact it's me that faces the concequences, not you having a tantrum over being refused another pint because you can't stand up or it's after time, or you can't prove you're 18. Get a grip for the love of God, I'm refusing you alcohol, not life giving elixir, you won't fucking die without it.

People who deliberately organize and participate in all sorts of useless meetings to appear like they are superbusy and important but are actually hiding they are underperforming because they don’t actually work.

When I started working at a company in the past I had just broken up with my ex, and I would introduce myself to my new collegues they wanted to know if I was in a relationship. I never understood that, who I am shagging in my own time is my business and if I want to share anything regarding my love life with people I work with, I will take the initiative for it, not the other way around.

Also, bad smelling co workers and rotating work places you have to share with people that don’t wash their hands after going to the toilet.

I'm very lucky compared to the rest of you, but my gripe is:

political CC'ers

Luckily I am long enough in the tooth to be able to call this bullshit out when I have it directed at me, so most people only ever do it the once

The girl who sits opposite me with a face on her all day, looks down on everyone else, refuses to join in conversation or anything then complains to HR that everyone is ‘bullying her’.

People who don’t clean up after themselves, leaving their cups in the sink or next to it rather than washing them up or putting them in the dishwasher.

Constant CC’ers when it’s totally unnecessary.

The woman who monitors everyones time keeping when it’s got fuck all to do with her. She then reports it to HR if someone is late or goes over their break. HR tell her to mind her own business, but she carries on.

The senior management team and their ridiculous phrases of encouragement.

People who think they are higher than their job role.

People who think they are more important than others.

When my food is in the communal microwave and "bings" - 20 second later the office idiot (we shall name him A) removes my food from micro and puts his own in. Actually GTF! I now just walk over and remove his, put mine back in for longer and leave his sitting. Don't touch my food!!!

When I am walking back to my desk, A decides that is the moment he must rise from his chair and walk across the office, blocking my path and making me wait for him to get by me. I'm certain he does it on purpose.

Infact, all my office grievances are A-related.
Whistling, coughing, sniffing, inappropriate comments/conversations, crisp munching, loudly guzzling massive bottles of pop at his desk, loudly faffing with wires for no damn good reason, staring at my computer screen for no reason, bending down to eye level to talk to me when I'm at my desk (off you fuck), Sends email and asks 1.5 secs later if I got his email. Gaaaaaahhhhhhh

Higher up members of staff looking at you like are shit on their shoe

Princess Same happens where I work. Pathetic really, isn’t it.

I think it would be easier for me to list what doesn't irritate me at work.....

oh my god theres 2 middle age women with me who drag every imaginable scenario out to death

i dont know how they are able to talk about a printer not working for 3 hours straight ??

incompetent "old school" male managers who think they are still in summer camp and try to shirk responsibility at any given opportunity despite being paid 40 - 50 grand a year

oh and

jobsworths

When I take the time to phone someone or see them in person to explain something, they listen for the entire explanation and then they say, "Thanks, could you put all that in an email please?"