Aibu to ask for your pet peeve at work

[Whisperingwinds]

What’s the one thing that your colleagues do that drive you up the wall - emails without subject lines does it for me.

Management consultants being brought into the NHS to improve efficiency.

You all know what I would have written, so I won't waste your time.

Unlike the above who waste a lot of workers' time and NHS money on unnecessary meetings, but at least those look good on the invoice.

I'm sure that happens in a lot of work places, but this is the NHS where money and time really matters.

As many have the said "reply all" email. I work for the NHS and the last time someone replied all it broke nhs.net.

Funny thing was that people kept replying all asking it to stop which is was broke it.

what broke it

Having to chase people...and chase them...and chase them, for sign-off on something which they then moan about if it goes out late because they didn't approve it in time.

Pointless meetings and having to travel halfway across the city for a half-hour catch up. There's this amazing thing called conference calling, you should really try it!

And YY to everyone who's mentioned people who don't fix paper jams!! If I ever decided to change career I'd be a printer/copier engineer as I wouldn't even have to train

The ones that believe that 'bum on the seat' equals working .
Management speak, particularly 'going forward', being CCd in to everything, sloping shoulders. .
I do love my company though, honest!

The unknown person who uses the last teabag in the caddy and doesn't refill it. And probably it's the same person who, instead of emptying the dishwasher, just takes out a cup and spoon for themselves, every time!!

VanGoghsLeftEar I don't work on the Tube but do work for the company and I get ALL of those 'reply all' emails so I feel your pain there, even when I'm riveted by the fifth 'the gateline is down at Wembley Central so we're letting everyone through' email of the morning...I set up a rule so they mostly go to a special folder but the odd one gets through so I'll still end up finding out if Upminster managed to get cover for the late shift

When you're struggling with a class/group/individual and another teacher smugly says "Oh they were always perfectly behaved for me!"

Bollocks. It usually means that in previous classes the TA's had identified and absorbed the additional needs of the individual.

People with no filing system for their emails so ask you to send a mail from a couple of weeks ago again as they 'are sure they have read it but can't find it'
FFS set up some folders and use them, how do you think I find the email to send it again!

People who join a business and apply for promotion almost immediately. How about learning to do job 1 properly first. Dick!

People who insist that anyone who exceeds their targets must have taken shortcuts/have terrible quality. Nope sorry, I'm just much better at this than you are

.....and breathe

I’m responsible for doing the shopping for our office- buying tea/coffee/sugar/washing up liquid etc.

One of my colleagues has taken it upon herself to top up the washing up liquid with water, all the fucking time. So when someone uses a small amount of washing up liquid she’ll appear immediately after and fill the bottle to the top with water.
So it becomes all diluted and half of it’s tipped away when the next person uses it. Then she’ll top it up again. So what you’re left with is pale green water in a bottle that does fuck all!

I’ve said to her about it and she said this is what she does at home to make it go further. Errrr no it doesn’t make it go further!

Drives me nuts

Meetings that overrun unnecessarily because someone likes the sound of their own voice too much.

I work with a "huffer"

She huffs and puffs and sighs loudly in the hope that eventually someone will ask her what is wrong, and then it will be something utterly mundane, like an email was undelivered.

And I have misophonia so if anyone eats at their desk I have to make a choice between running away or killing them.....

People OK, one person who put their head in the sand and whose sloping shoulders can be seen from the moon, ignoring email after email sent specifically to them over several months asking them to take specific action, by a deadline, which is in their job description. I can't even remember how I found out about this, but now I'm landed with doing it instead. The thing isn't in my job description (not even close) and the plonker doesn't report to me in any way shape or form. I will bust a gut to do the thing, despite being unlikely to get any reward, recognition or acknowledgement.

This is the second time I've had to pick up the pieces for the same person (completely different 'thing'). It won't be happening a third time.

Glad I got that off my chest!

Oh and my new boss, who raised someone else's expectations based on a completely erroneous assumption about the timescales involved, making me look bad.

My colleague discussing her bowel movements with another colleague for good 30 mins. Seriously?...

People who reply to an outlook meeting request to decline a meeting, however don't suggest any alternative dates/ times when they are available.

God yes!!!! So rude. Especially when their entire diary for that day was completely EMPTY.

Argh! People who don’t realise the “etiquette” of the lunch table.
We all have “our place” to sit as no one in my department has their own desk/room so we eat in the staff room at the table there. The spaces are sort of designated so those of us who work 5 days a week will always have a space. Then there’s 3 “floating” seats which are used by a senior member of staff on a Friday and four other women in my department on every day alternately. Essentially this leaves us with 1 spare chair.
So when we get two or three people who decides not to use their normal room/wants to “get out” or whatever they tend to take up all the chairs around the table. Meaning members of my department are stuck eating their lunch standing up.
Would be easier if everyone just stuck to their own rooms and let my department eat our dinner as normal!

People who moan about their colleagues behind their backs.

Yes - I am referring to the bunch of charmers on this thread.

Sneaky/toadying BCCing fuckers
People who clearly haven't a scoob about something but won't ask because it might m̶a̶k̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶i̶r̶ ̶b̶o̶l̶l̶o̶c̶k̶s̶ ̶d̶r̶o̶p̶ ̶o̶f̶f̶ undermine their credibility (they think; quite the reverse, Sonny Jim, quite the reverse. It's the fuck-ups arising from ignorance that undermine it)
Fuckwits incapable of keeping mental track of the time differences between the UK office and the ones in other countries and timezones. Yes, US team, I'm talking about you.

Learned helplessness: nooo, I can't change the toner/bind my presentation because I am far too l̶a̶z̶y̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶i̶n̶e̶p̶t̶ important so one of Kung's team will have to stay really late just in case because I didn't get my shit together on content and then thought I could just ignore the requirement for it to be signed off. Yes, I am paid ten times what the person being required to lose their evening is. Am I going to thank them? Why should I? It's their job. Is Kung going to hunt me down with dogs and make my corporate life a misery? You bet.

Client-facing staff who do not set up useful and informative OOO messages
Senior idiots who promise the client the moon on a stick in the way of data and analysis without knowing whether in fact such data and analysis is available/feasible/meaningful and then weasel away from it, leaving Kung to pick up the pieces
Various colleagues continuing to breathe is quite annoying, too

*People who moan about their colleagues behind their backs.

Yes - I am referring to the bunch of charmers on this thread.*

Well aren’t you Ms Perfect?

If our colleagues didn’t do moaning-worthy stuff, we wouldn’t need to moan
But some of the behaviours mentioned here (Grim/lazy/dishonest) - they wouldn’t do it at home so why do they think it’s okay to do it at work?!

People who leave my classroom looking as if a barbarian horde have galloped through it.

Milk - do I look like a fucking milkmaid? Don’t put the empty carton back in the fridge and why don’t you chase around informing the relevant person that we need more milk to be released from the locked cupboard. Btw, the fact we have to lock the milk away speaks volumes, dear colleagues.

Pointless meetings held at times that make it nigh on impossible for me to attend due to childcare being unavailable that early. Last time I checked my start time was 8.30, not 7.50. Likewise afterschool ‘training’ (aka watching someone I actually taught lecture me about teaching) which finishes at 6pm. Childcare shuts at 6pm.

Being barked at by people who mistakenly think that teaching is like being on The Apprentice. Let’s start with,’Good morning. How are you?’ shall we? I don’t care how high your heels are or how posh your suit is - your staff will work better if you speak to them politely.

People who seem incapable of using the staff toilet without weeing on the seat and strewing toilet paper all over the floor.

ToffeePennie

Your post is the kind that annoys me at work. Pettiness

People who don't clean up after themselves in the staff kitchen

People who microwave smelly food and don't close the kitchen door and use the extractor fan.
Earlier this week I became 'that person' who left a note on the microwave to a) clean it after use and b) close the door/use extractor fan... To mitigate, I'm pregnant and the various smells make me feel sick... so I felt justified!

I have a few....
Managers who gripe if you want to occasionally change work pattern, eg wfh days, but then casually announce 'oh yeah i'm wfh tomorrow as i have a delivery coming'.
People who get easily distracted, if i'm talking to you/training you please don't be looking atound my head saying hi to people as they walk past.
People who work 'compressed hours'.... i've never seen one yet not have their non working day even though holidays/illness mean there is no way they have made up the hours they need to.
And finally people who say of course i can do that for you but forget to point out that in less than an hour they are off for a week
That feels better