What annoys you about people you work with?

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For me

• diet bores
• people who refer to ‘my husband/partner/boyfriend’ I’ve known you for 5 years if you say ‘John’ I know who you are talking about!

Annoying groups -
Can't you see that your constant loud voices, standing up inches away from people in a group talking loudly affects concentration of staff? And staff in your team are struggling to concentrate;
Chatting loudly about non-work shit for two hours a day;
Why do you think that other people have to wear head phones?
Having lots of staff while the rest of us are under-staffed.
I hate the fucking office environment.

Simon that behaviour goes well beyond a simple annoyance. Nobody should have to put up with that.

I’ve got colleagues who don’t do my job and have absolutely no idea how to do my job, but still feel that their contribution is required when I’m discussing a technical aspect with someone who does actually understand what I’m talking about. And when politely told that their suggestion won’t work, demands an explanation (which they also won’t understand) why not.

I work with Foghorn Leghorn who has no volume and goes from desk to desk, repeating the same, incredibly boring story again and again. By the time they get down to my end of the office, I’ve heard it 26 times already.

I also work with the ultimate mansplainer who has opinions on everything from childbirth to leg waxing and who loves to share his expertise.

I love weekends.

A roll on, retirement!

Nothing as I work on my own in my own office lol

Staff who, when they had children, benefited from flexibility and worked at a time when it was not an expectation that work would be taken home. Now that they are in management, their children are grown, and they no longer have to juggle, they think everyone should do as they are doing, working every hour God sends and not caring about work/life balance.

Managers who quickly forget what it's like to be a front-line member of staff, and create lots of ridiculous policies they think will make them look good, forgetting completely about the additional work/stress/pressure this creates for the staff beneath them.

My ex colleague would bore me senseless the 2nd I walked in the office about her useless male chauvinist/ homophobic/ racist husband and grown up children who hadn't grown up if you know what I mean . I'd feel sorry for her if she was a bit nicer but in all the years I worked with her she never asked after me or my family . One time I mentioned my husband John ( not his real name ) she said who's John . I'd worked with this lady 8 years by this point and had mentioned him many times not that she listened.
Current job supervisor so annoying. Examples are
Talking down to you about your job even though I've done it for years .
Asking where you've been if you are 2 minutes late back from lunch .
Sending a email to staff when speaking will do and it's usually something petty .
When your speaking to a colleague ( about work ) she will interrupt and ask if such and such is done .
Doesn't listen and is a bitch she also has a rubbish husband so my theory is these people that are horrible and talk down to you have a shit home life so speaking to colleagues or less senior colleagues like shit makes them feel better .

-BO. I used to feel physically sick with one guy that used to sit opposite me.
-people who have such 'witty' conversations that everyone has to scream with laughter every 5 seconds

• people who 'work from home' when they are clearly doing something else so they don't have to use up their annual leave, or when they're ill so they don't get a disciplinary after a certain number of sick leaves.

I work in an office where we all do one ‘late shift’ a week until 7pm. I have a male colleague who for some reason never got put on the rota for lates. I didn’t think much of it at the time, as he would talk about his family life, refer to his little boys and partner and any time the late shifts were bought up he would brush it off and say that he’d see if he could rearrange things at home.

We had a pretty rubbish manager at the time so nothing ever got done about it even though another colleagues youngest child was about 4 at the time and she had to pay through the nose for a childminder to ensure she could do the late shift.

It’s recently come out that his two ‘little boys’ are both at high school and his bloody partner is a teaching assistant at a primary school round the corner from their house so is always home when the children finish at school.

Needless to say the CF now does a late shift like everyone else and doesn’t talk much about his family life anymore.

The people who do their morning shit in the one toilet. Every morning.
They are also very stinky and messy shitters so that you can smell it through two double le doors until lunch time.

Mansplainers
Men who make silly noises all the time - tuneless whistling, beeping, horse noises, tapping/drumming and singing three words of a song over and over
Milk stealers

I use my lunch hour to read my book. If anyone needs to ask me about work stuff I’m more than happy to oblige, but one of my colleagues can’t seem to stand the sight of me with a book. She constantly asks “don’t you find that boring?” (Well no??? Obviously not???) or says “I don’t know how you can read, I never read.” It’s like she thinks I’ve only picked up a book because she hasn’t supplied enough conversation. It drives me insane but going elsewhere for lunch isn’t really an option. I used to respond to her but now just say ‘mmmm’ to whatever she says and keep my eyes firmly on the page. I really want to tell her that my book is always infinitely more interesting than anything she has to say!

The men who say f and c as every second word purely out of habit, and when one starts they all do it.

The toxic gossiping.

Queuing for the fridge/hot tap/microwave and the general soul destroying mediocrity of it all.

I used to work in a nursing home. One of the carers used to work very hard to avoid work. I ended up saying to him one day 'If you worked half as hard at doing your job as you do trying to avoid it, you'd be doing pretty well'. Everyone else would moan behind his back. I started getting him to work with me on the residents who needed two!

People who come in exactly on time but waste the first 20 mins eating a big bowl of cereal at their desk

Clutter, I job share and the person I share with have so much crap!! Multiple of everything!!

you can smell it through two doublele doors until lunch time.
So gross. Would management put in another extractor fan?

Are you working in an office set in the 1950?*
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You'd think so. I have a theory. All of them have wives that stayed at home to look after their kids so they got to work and do their career thing, no childcare, sick kids, housework etc etc so when use women have to juggle everything they don't get it. They cannot organise shit. I swear if we weren't there the place would grind to a halt.

I'm getting stressed reading about all this! I live in a house which is half a mile from anyone else and work from home for a national charity, meeting my colleagues 3 times a year. It's brilliant.

My colleagues are very lovely but the one who sits behind me loudly sighs and mutters complaints to herself about the emails in our shared inbox. We work in a library and there's really nothing worth stressing about!

I die a little inside every time coworkers send an instant message that just starts with "hi", especially if they just leave it there until I say some inane greeting back.

I guarantee it's not a secret or emergency time sensitive message you cannot type out if I don't reply immediately. For fucks sake just say your fucking thing!

@BobbinThreadbare123 Men who make silly noises all the time - tuneless whistling, beeping, horse noises, tapping/drumming and singing three words of a song over and over Yes! It's just another way men impose themselves on everybody else in my opinion 🤷‍♀️

People who talk constantly all day, take forever to make a drink or take a loo break and then claim x amount of hours in overtime every week. However the people who get the work done and don't talk aren't able to claim overtime as they are salaried differently. Infuriating!

Ive only been in my job for 8 weeks but so far its:

the milk thieves, leave a fresh pint of milk in the fridge and by lunchtime half has been nicked. So i now leave it on the window sill outside. Need plan B by summer.

The post girl. She comes round 3 times a day and shows everyone pictures of her dogs. On the bed, on the beach, playing, eating...,,,

People bragging how many unread emails they have like it displays how busy and important they are rather than how incompetent they are. I work in construction and really like the people I work with but there are a few who do this.

Oh the milk! Yep I can relate - but then also security admire the rebels who sit there eating a big bowl of cereal with the milk that is only for drinks! (I don’t get involved in the milk/drinks politics at all)