Annoying things people do at work

[Ritascornershop]

I know I’m being unreasonable, but my coworker is driving me round the bend. Some of her crimes are;

1. every time she enters a room she shouts in a sing-songy voice “GOOD MORNING, GOOD MORNING, GOOD MORNING”, or when the interminable morning is over she shouts “hello” 3 times.

2. wears flip-flops from the pound shop even during snow storms. Doesn’t affect me,
   still annoys me (she’s loaded, she just likes them).

3. Yells “YO! SUNSHINE” at the teenagers we work with (pretty sure it’s because she can’t remember their names - they are all too polite to complain).

4. has 2 subjects of conversation: her adult children and meat. She is obsessed with meat and orders meat-themed cookbooks & has them sent to work. Then wants to talk to me about meat and her love for it. I’m vegetarian, it’s not a conversation I can keep up for months.

What annoying things are your coworkers doing? Go on, have a venting session.

Have you posted about her before? Or is there another meat obsessive?

People who constantly talk about food/calories/syns and how much weight they have lost/gained OMG I don’t care!

That over the to cheeriness bugs me too but it is better than coming in with a face like a wet weekend .

The yo sunshine is just rude unless you have lots of staff going through quickly and she doesnt have time to lean the names,

Every time I see one of my work mates she goes into a huge amount of detail about her DCs and has told us all repeatedly her DS is expecting a child soon so we have 7,5 months of I am going to be a Dgm , god knows what it will be like when her Dgc is born

Flipflops in the snow? Doesn't she get chilblains?

She parks really close to the front door, but yes, I do not get how it’s comfortable to have exposed feet in the winter. If I liked her I wouldn’t notice.

I may have mentioned her before, the meat thing is so weird. I wouldn’t rabbit on about sugar to a diabetic. Unless you and your coworker are similarly into pickles/cheese/sushi/cakes it gets a bit dull.

And yes, the bloody adult children. I’ve never met them, she doesn’t talk about them in an entertaining way, in fact (light dawning) she bores me in the same way my mum did when talking about her old lady friends.

I wish the kids would complain about being called Sunshine. It’s bloody confusing for the kids who barely speak English when she stands there barking “SUNSHINE!” at them, they must think “why is this mad woman yelling about weather?”

Eat loudly. Yes, Caroline, I do mean you.

Also eating smelly stuff at work. I worked with a woman who would microwave sardines in the staff kitchen: pure evil.

I have a co-worker who I think is geneuinely addicted to her phone. She just mans the phones so if they do not ring she has not alot to do (although she could do filing, archiving or making the drinks). She is honestly one of the laziest people I have ever met.

When my other colleague does handover she is scrolling on her phone and grunts. Then can't remember what she has been told.... so she mjight look up from her phone and say 'where is so and so' and we say 'Um- annual leave - as you were told). She is also apparently incapable of looking at the staff calendars on outlook.

One time I was on the phone to a really difficult client taking a really difficult call and she came over to me shoved her phone in my face and said ' look at this picture I took coming in today'.

I wanted to brain her. Problem is our senior management is so piss weak they don't do anything about it. They only make passive aggressive comments about it.

OP, you really dislike this lady don't you.

I can assure you calling foreigner sunshine won't confuse them.

Apologising at the start of every sentence then interrupting whilst I’m explaining something (we are handing over for my mat leave)

Continuing to apologise and interrupt despite me saying you don’t need to apologise all the time and let me finish explaining as I’m already answering your questions

Continual complaining that everything isn’t as perfect as it should be “IT want me to wait for this to be done” “I couldn’t get the company car I wanted” “the room is too small” like a beleaguered member of staff that’s been there 20 years not 5 days

Commenting on literally everything I eat and drink. No Bob not everything I choose to eat is “your fault” if it’s anything other than a salad

Constantly telling people I’m leaving in a way that’s like I’m leaving and never coming back. I’m going on mat leave for a few months.

God that was ranty but felt good to get out!

Colleagues, who think they're the office police....

*The colleague who sings religious songs all day, everyday at an annoying low level (but just loud enough that I can hear).

*The lazy colleague who has managed to get away with doing nothing and regularly going missing from the officer for the last 4 years.

*The admin worker who does as little as possible, is rude to staff and clients, constantly goes off sick and regularly accuses others of racism when her behaviour is challenged.

*The aggressive senior manager who doesn’t know the very basics of the work we do, accuses staff of not doing stuff, only to find that they have but she hasn’t known where to look on the system for it.

*The colleague who leaves their dirty cereal bowl soaking in water on the kitchen window sill for a week .

*Any colleague that microwaves fish or broccoli in the staff kitchen.

*The colleague that pees over the toilet seat every day 🤮

@WingingIt101 - it is good to get it out!

@Christmastreedown - how do you know what confuses them and what doesn’t? How peculiar you think you do as you have no idea of their English proficiency. Some of these kids are only here for a few months, arrive and leave with very little English, and (for all I know) using the term “sunshine” as a form of personal address is not universal so could be quite confusing. If I was a teenager shipped halfway around the world and a woman I didn’t know started shouting single words that seemed out of context, I think there’s a good chance I’d be baffled and stressed by it. It’s hard enough being a teenager without adults behaving oddly.

Someone I work with is just so - grim!

When I joined she complained because I wore perfume (just a tiny bit, I don’t bathe in the stuff), she can talk about her weekends away but if anyone else mentions having been out at the weekend, she scowls and tuts.
She wears jeans every day and makes her contempt known to anyone who dares to be a bit tidier for a customer meeting.
She is totally joyless and I don’t get why. She is well paid, quite senior, happily married two grown up daughters....just grim.

Ritascornershop

Because myself and my sisters were teenager foreigners, you made foreigners sound stupid, to us, it was quite lovely to be called sunshine, lovely etc. You sound really negative about this cheerful lady.

Well, that’s you. With respect, you don’t represent all English language learners. I woke with these kids and some are incredibly fluent and some barely understand any English at all and I can see how baffled and flustered they are by her shouting at them.

She is cheerful, but she also will not brook any lack of cheerfulness in staff or students. If someone is ill, or has a low mood, she tells them “cheer up, things could be worse!” I find that sort of insistence on pretending to be happy a form of bullying.

I work with someone who coughs repeatedly without covering their mouth. I've been sprayed before when standing too close.

"She is cheerful, but she also will not brook any lack of cheerfulness in staff or students. If someone is ill, or has a low mood, she tells them “cheer up, things could be worse!” I find that sort of insistence on pretending to be happy a form of bullying."

Bullying, seriously? Irritating yes, but bullying?

@bluesheep - I used to work with a winter cold sneezer who wouldn’t cover their mouth 😷

Yes, I do find it to be bullying. You may not feel bullied in a similar situation, but I do. She gets very sulky if other people don’t agree with “aren’t we all lucky to be here?!!” I don’t feel that being incredibly falsely cheerful for 8 hours a day is part of what I was hired for, but we get the silent treatment if we are more reserved, have a personal situation that is causing us to have a slightly lower mood, etc.

Do you not say anything when people cough or sneeze in your direction without covering their mouth? I’ve only had to yell tell people not to do this once. 😷

Chew gum, mouth open, all day. Even when delivering training or talks.

ritascornershop yes the coughing and sneezing is not just plain ill mannered, it's downright disrespectful. And I understand what you meant now about the forcing people to be cheerful thing now you've explained it - it could really upset someone if they're only just keeping a lid on things they might be coping with privately. I see that now.

britneypeed I have to confess I haven't said anything. I just tut and glare.

People who think they are the boss when they are the same grade as you. You know who you are!!!

I have a colleague who moans constantly about feeling ill. I avoid her.

As above permanently "ill" colleagues...go off sick you idiot an do us a fucking favour!!!!
Colleagues mild form of bullying by disagreeing with every fucking thing you say, even mild stuff like the weather as an eg....just fuck off then!!!
Manager always talking about work on breaks, never every making the effort to bond...go fuck yourself!
That's probably it for me