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

Our GDPR officer who monitors unlocked computers by sending stupid emails to whole office from the unlocked computer.

Colleagues half-arsedly doing their bits on a file before passing it to me.

the chat between my two upper-middle aged female colleagues, it. is. painful.

Colleagues newly-promoted to one grade higher, treating you like a piece of shit on their shoe, and floundering in their new job constantly expecting you to bail them out at the last minute when they've got themselves into a mess. Then reporting you up the line because you said no.

And getting blamed for not doing something you were asked to by email last week. Despite the fact the sender sent the email to, say, Jill in Accounts (not me) instead of Jill in Marketing (me). So I knew nothing about it. But its still my fault I haven't done it because I am totally to blame that Jill in bloody Accounts didn't forward the email to me.....

Lateness.

Office being too cold, all the time, and no-one being able to do anything about it.

People asking me questions before I've made my cup of tea and switched my computer on.

Voicemail. Just why would you? Just email.

Being expected to share a brain with my job-share partner. We are not literally the same person. Doesn't help that we have the same first name!

@NeopreneMermaid I think you are one of my irritators - if you have a load of complicated stuff to hand over, why would you not just put it in an email anyway? I'd I'm going to be held to account I want the task set out in writing by the person setting it, I don't want it handed over in a casual conversation where I might miss something!

Older colleague who refuses to learn how to do anything but the most basic word processing on her computer because “Ooh I’ll be retiring soon, so there’s no point”. She is 59 and likely to be doing the job for another decade, while I have to pick up the slack from everything she doesn’t know how to do. She’s meant to be my line manager and earns a lot more than I do.

Being told the night before a department audit about last year's strengths and weaknesses..... Helpful

Being expected to deliver a debrief on what I did at the weekend, first thing Monday morning when it was an effort to do more than grunt a hello. (Thankfully I'm self-employed now.)
Endless wittering about babies, diets and the royal family (ditto sports talk, before people accuse me of being sexist. lol)
People bringing babies in and all the women being expected to down tools and coo while no such expectation is placed on the males.
Colleagues refusing to close the blinds when the sun's getting in people's eyes because 'it's a pity to waste the sunshine'.
Air conditioning. Triggers my asthma and then I have to feel bad about my cough distracting people.
Passive-aggressive cc'ing of emails to a whole shit ton of people that don't need to know.
Fucking team-building hoop-jumping compulsory 'fun' (that inevitably tilts the playing field in favour of people who are good at sports).
Being expected to show 'commitment' by starting early and leaving late while tolerating shit pay and conditions. retail

And that's just to scratch the surface. I'm so happy I went freelance now I've written all this out.

@RedSheep73 agreed but if someone has asked me to explain something, they'd better be taking notes rather than expecting me to explain and then put it in an email. Grr.

People who use a Casio calculator to do their work . We work in STEM, get the f*ck out!

People who take screen shots of data, 'cos they are too lazy. We work in STEM, get the f*ck out of here!

People who wear tight bodycon clothes when they have to present data, that they don't know anything about, then complain that the computers were either not working or all booked up. Close the door on your way out.

People who wear flip flops in a research laboratory, because they have just had their pedicure done (I kid you not).

People who spend every single living moment of their time on facebloodybook.

People who get their car rims delivered to the office.

People who book a flight in the afternoon and spend the morning saying that they can't do anything because they are flying that afternoon.

Managers who don't say shite all to the same person above, because their work is sponsored by a huge pharmaceutical company.

The environment where even the slightest hint of initiative or helpfulness is shot down in a blazing column of napalm, especially if it's a suggestion to do something in a very slightly different way that saves time, money, stress and keeps others happy - but after you accept that and do things their way, you then get pulled up for 'not being proactive'.

Customers who ask "do you work here?", no I just wear the uniform and stand at the till for a laugh.

Nothing. At all.

I left a job I was in years, it irritated me to such an extent I was taking beta blockers to cope. Now I have a new job I don't even think about them.

People who expect you to be a mind reader, and who blame you for not knowing something you couldn't possibly have known because they didn't tell you.

People who can’t or won’t think through and do stuff properly, independently.

People who say "I've not stopped all day" despite taking their breaks and lunch hour. Your wages haven't stopped either.

Smokers stinking the place out and hanging their stinking coat over mine on the coat hook, so my coat now reeks of stale fags. Might as well bring smoking magic trees into the office.

Endless smoking breaks.... when are you intending to make the time back up?

Printer paper tray roulette. I watch with some amusement people go to a printer and find their document has not printed because it has run out of paper. So they then go and take half the stack from the next nearest printer, rather than going to the stationary cupboard to replenish the paper. I then watch the next person do this, and then another, and then another. Eventually, the person who did this first finds all the printer trays empty and exclaims "Why does nobody ever refill the printers round here?". Then sits down, without refilling the printer.

"Sorry to grab you before you've taken your coat off"

No you're fucking not. Piss off and let me get a coffee.

People who promote themselves into head of x when their job title and behaviour would indicate something far different.
People who meddle in order to claim glory for my work.
People who talk incessantly about food
People who are downright manipulative and nasty

When I get bollocked for not doing X on Saturday, when X is, and always has been, in the book as a Wednesday job, and I wasn't in on Wednesday.

The constant battle around what temperature the office should be.

People. Moaning and complaining all the bloody time. Interfering when you are dealing with a situation, butting in and taking over anything so they can suck up. Being rude to other colleagues in front of 'clients'. Trying to act like they know what they're doing so they get brownie points from management, when they have no fucking clue, only report to management that they dealt accordingly when they fucking didn't. Not actually doing what's on their job description. The list is endless...

Colleague who sits on their mobile phone most of the day whilst whinging they are busy

Manager who refuses to tackle said colleague but pulls the rest of us up on the slightest little thing

Running around doing my job plus 50% of managers job without a single word of thanks and yet earning far less than idle colleague on their mobile all day

Yes, being pulled up on slightest thing but others getting away with it. Blatant favouritism.

Former manager who says, "I don't know how to do that," when it's something he should know well and have been telling his team about. Fortunately I now only have to work with him, not for him.