Odd and slightly irritating things at work.

[SummerLobelia]

My last job I worked in an organisation where the boss used to insist that anyone getting a cup of tea then had to refill the kettle and reboil it immediately. Apparently this reduced the time the next person would be away from their desks waiting for the kettle to boil. If the water was in any way cool (maybe because no-one had gone to the kitchen for a bit.... ) he would send snotty e-mails to everyone reminding them.

Way too much time on his hands for a CEO of a large corporation, but never mind.

(Too much time, or too much of a control freak... hmmmm...... )

Talk about control freak!, It takes 3 mins tops for a kettle to boil so you mean to tell me he wants you in and out in 45 seconds? I would sent a snotty email back and quite immediately lol. I'm so grateful for my organisation, so relaxed and chill.

I worked somewhere that expected you to put in holidays 8 weeks in advance, even if its just a day off! SO if something came up last minute you couldn't have the day off, I don't think I lasted 6 weeks in the company and made a big scene about it as well. Colleagues that we're still there told me they later changed the policy soon after I left!

Colleagues 😆

we have to check leave with everyone and then request it, 6 weeks in advance.

I had a boss once who sent a snotty email to us all reminding us to use staples and not paperclips as staples were cheaper. I mean, if we were sending out a million docs requiring paperclips every day she might have had a point, but not the odd paper document

My husband has to check leave with everyone in his team. I just ask my boss, in my opinion it's her job, not mine, to see if anyone else in the team is off before accepting my request.

Oh also, I work for a local authority. We use this terrible quality recycled paper that is like newspaper. It's exactly the same price as the normal looking recycled paper, but the powers that be think that is we use the shitty paper it looks like we are spending less money.

Years ago I worked as a temp secretary for a company where you had to re-use envelopes if you were sending something internally. CEO wouldn't buy those orange internal use envelopes, you had to save things that you'd received in the post.

If you had the temerity to use a new envelope to send something, he would phone you up and bawl you out for wasting resources.

It certainly cost more of his time as CEO than he saved by shouting at his staff.

We still reuse old envelopes for internal stuff in my part of the NHS!

The company i last worked for, you had to give THREE MONTHS for annual leave, even just for a day.

Three months notice i meant !

When I was a student I worked part time in the university doing odd office jobs. I had to staple papers together for the student union elected person for that year (can't recall what they call it... they're a student too). I just stapled them randomly, kind of side angled, perfectly normal! The admin person told me to take them all out as the student president liked them all neatly across the top 😳🙄

At my last job, they changed our seniority ratings from numbers to letters. So if you were a level 6 XYZ then you became a grade E XYZ. If you referred to your level under the old system, lots of people would get very shirty with you.