What's your current work gripe?

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Come on, let's get these work frustrations off our chests!

Here's mine...

One of my colleagues is incredibly lazy, he completes work in the fastest time possible, but has zero attention to detail so the person who picks it up ends up spending more time correcting it than he did creating it.

He also never takes any accountability for his faults and is always looking to blame something/someone else, whether a computer failure, a technical glitch, not getting clear instructions.... argh! Not only that, he's constantly complaining about his work and personal life and is just a drain.

He keeps saying he wants a higher paid role. I wish he'd hurry up and find one.

The 60% of time in office malarkey.

They've been clear it is days and there's no official definition of a day. So go in 3 days a week. That's the policy.

Obviously there are jobs where one is on the phone lines etc all day but most team have flexible working.

So many managers worried their staff will only come in for half an hour that they've put in a huge load of rules about minimum hours, latest start time, earliest finish time, minimum people at any one time.

This has just upset staff without any cause and they're all asking for the official guidance that says this, putting in complaints about micro management and generally feeling aggrieved.

The teams just left to get on with it have very, very few instances of staff taking the piss, and even then they are still getting their work done.

So many of us wasting our time having to deal with it.

The colleague who is on maternity leave, but sends voicemail messages reminding us to do things, and "Hope you've all had an absolutely fabulous week!" type texts when we've had the week from hell.

It's not cool.

That the big box of extra thick chocolate biscuits given to our small team of six was secreted away by a member of admin staff who ate the whole box by herself 😭

No one will make a feckin decision.

I daren't even start or I would be here all night... and probably into tomorrow. Toxic shithole.

Lazy fuckers, who are holding everything up. But the lazy fucker also likes to point out everything that needs done, but never takes the initiative and does it themselves! She just sits back expects the magic work fairies to do it all for her.
Then we have a manager who won't hold anyone to account. No strategic direction and no individual objectives, no consequences for missed deadlines or never delivering. Manager knows I'm carrying the team but isn't doing anything about it. I wish I could also sit back and be lazy but it's just not me, I like to do a good job.

Extremely patronising kmow it all line a manger with zero understanding of the industry she's in

She will bark and people to order them around.
I just have to keep reminding myself it's not just me others find her extremely challenging as well.

It's a shame because she has this nice side to her but she's so cocky and bossy.

Went on maternity leave and when they came back my older woman colleagues had been replaced with 22 year old men. Now I have to put up with their arrogant bollocks all day. Boo.

i cried at work a week ago tomorrow

The people on the highest salaries in the place who - no, actually, if I started, I wouldn't be able to stop without providing sufficient ranting that they'd be easily identifiable.

But the loan of a 7 year old to teach them how to read a 3 x 2 table would come in handy, as I just do not have the patience to explain it for the tenth time.

Clients who want our expertise but won't then listen to our advice when we give it to them....then coming running back to us to fix it when it's all gone pear shaped because they didn't listen to us....and assume that we'll do it for free!

And external people who are not our clients demanding that we do things for them NOW and being rude to our admin staff when they can't get hold of us. It's the last part of that that's really annoyed me today. I've had to speak to my counterpart in another firm today to object to his client's behaviour.

Unrealistic expectations from our "customers" and unreasonable expectations from Head of department. Always

Currently that 3 out of four reasonable adjustments cannot be made at work and I'm expected to just get on with the stuff that makes me ill

Listening to men mansplain (in monologue format) the basics when I have asked\ queried a decision or statement they have made. Just the endless drivel they seem to think I like listening to.

(Caveat- I work in a male dominated environment so tend to listen to men. I totally accept women can talk utter bollocks on repeat as well).

'Piggyback customers' or 'touch and feel merchants' (in retail).

The busy-braggers. Usually the same people who only do the nice/rewarding/easier tasks.

The myth of time going quickly when it's busy. Actually I've noticed it drags more.

Favouritism and double standards.

Endless chats about dogs and holidays from the more senior and better paid team members (especially insensitive when many jobs are under threat where we are as well as some of us struggling with COL)

Ooh I have one! A colleague who is more junior than me but who refuses to accept that I, the deputy director of the team, have any authority in the team. Every time I respond to one of her questions, she won't accept my answer and will go and check it with the director. Or she'll ask the director questions about my area/work, circumventing me. Which he then just forwards to me and defers to my opinion. I find other people's blatant attempts to suck up to the director incredibly wearisome.

Responsibility without authority.

Culture of expected one sided loyalty (especially in smaller businesses with poor job security).

Colleague has come back from mat leave. Didn't have the best relationship before she went off. All she does is talk about herself and her kids. Doesn't do any bloody work nor show any interest in anyone else. Can't stand her.

Team of 6 where only 3 of us actually perform. Manager who is lovely but useless and will not a) tackle the lazy ones about their lack of input or b) treat the non-lazy ones any differently from the lazy ones. This has recently resulted in one lazy one and one non-lazy one having their contracted hours increased. Therefore lazy one and non-lazy one being treated equally and lazy one actually being rewarded for doing fuck all.

A new woman started a few weeks ago. Today she came up to me and asked "Have you ever had training in graphic design?" I'm a graphic designer and have been for 15 years. She's in a completely different department and hasn't been involved with any of my work. Why on earth she thought that was an appropriate question is beyond me.

My work are so vague about pay. They sent out a pay calculator so we could calculate our new pay but everyone’s still confused. They never answer queries about it and it’s just annoying.

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Also - and I'm on a roll here - the stupid things they put on at huge expense to 'lure' people into the office. We have a hybrid work policy but also a very expensive to maintain office but instead of just saying 'ok, in the office two days out of five' or similar they pussyfoot about spending money on pizzas, or ex-rugby league players coming in to do a talk, or coffee vans, or making Christmas wreaths. Don't bother. Just tell people you want them in the office and pay us all a bit more out of the gigantic coffee-van-and-rugby-player budget.

People who ignore emails because they're managing their work load and do it to 'protect themselves' and put their 'well-being first'. How about considering others wellbeing when they are waiting for responses in order to do their job properly? Whether you get 10 or 50 emails a day, it's part of your job and the fact someone has emailed you means they need your response!!

Double standards, an incompetent and very didactic immediate line manager who has refused all the suggestions of help offered and wants to know where we are at every minute of the day and barely lets us go to the loo in peace yet says we don't need to know where they are and passes our work off as their own without accreditation, and ludicrous workloads because aforesaid manager won't muck in and keeps piling on stupid grandiose unnecessary task, making sure they turn up for the photo op though.

I have a theory they don't know how to send a Teams invite as in almost nine months they've never once done so, along with other basic skills you'd expect someone at that level to have. They are truly brilliant at sucking up to senior senior management though, who seem incapable of seeing through their bare faced lies and industrial strength exaggeration.

Their manager is doing sod all about it and HR are taking their usual kitten heeled pink and fluffy ineffective response after the team has raised issue after issue and is at the end of its tether.

Manager currently on Christmas leave for three weeks and the atmosphere is bliss, it's like working in a different organisation.

Depending on what happens in January I'm seriously thinking of looking for another job even though I like the organisation, mostly, and most of the rest of the team.

We’ve had quite the shift of management, from March to July we had the manager, and 2 assistant managers leave and then another supervisor in October. We’ve had a new manager (old manager returned) and 1 assistant manager who I was aware of and a new supervisor. He is a twat of the highest regard. Everyone hated him, I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt but he’s gone too far the last few weeks. First thing, having a go at a colleague on the shop floor in front of others and customers, fair enough she was late, she has been a few times but then be professional and take her out back to have a word.
he had a massive go at a guy (he’s been with us for 4 years and is the nic3st guy, very reliable, helpful, not the best at his job but we all love him) who’s never done stocktake, who told everyone he wasn’t comfortable, they made him scan and this supervisor had a massive go at him the next day for fucking it up. He an absolute bellend and actually told one of the girls he likes being a dick. Apparently he’s applied to be on the police force so hopefully he fucks off sooner rather than later.