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.

People who don’t check the calendar before booking holiday and then acting as though they are being victimised when they can’t have the time off.

Policy clearly states only 1 off at a time.

Also people who can’t open a printer and remove jammed paper and then simper ‘oh, I’m useless with technology’

When people ask where a colleague is and I tell them they're WFH that day, and they proceed to tell *
me* what it is they want to find out with an expectant look on their face.

Don't tell me. In fact why are you still at my desk? Go ring the actual person you need to speak to. They are working from home, not the moon, they will answer your call!

What annoys me more is other members of the team who will actually pick up other people's work. We all enjoy the benefits of WFH but that shit reinforces the idea that some people have (in our organisation) that presenteeism is everything.

The colleague whose constantly says “Pacific” when they mean “specific” drives me insane every time and after 8 years I have give up trying to correct them.

Blame culture. One of our sites in particular is chock full of people who like to make out that them doing a terrible job is somehow everybody's fault but theirs.

People ignoring my emails.
People replying to all when they don’t need to.
And yes people not putting a subject line in!
My job isn’t even that email based but these things all wind me up.

Expecting ‘someone else’ to clear up. Plates in the sink, dirty cups on the side, dishwasher not emptied, empty toilet roll in the loo. HOW DO THESE PEOPLE LIVE AT HOME!!

Copying in my manager or, worse, the CEO for absolutely no reason other then to make me look like a knob when replying to my email.

People breaking the photocopier then scarpering. Or using all the paper and instead of going to track down more they leave it and expect their copying to be put in a safe space when somebody else goes and gets the paper. I’m not even going to talk about toners.

Liberation of supplies, especially if they’ve been bought by a member of staff and not supplied by school.

Copying in my manager or, worse, the CEO for absolutely no reason other then to make me look like a knob when replying to my email

YY

Endless freaking fag breaks. If I had half a pint every time my colleague all went for a fag during a 5 hour shift, I'd be totally bollocksed half-way in.

The "back of house tidy" which seems to mean putting objects in piles and hiding them in random cupboards rather than any logical sense. Often done without notice.

Agree with subjectless emails or people who write the entire email in the subject

Also, people who start emails with just my name i.e.

Rainboho.

Bring the minutes from the last meeting.

So fucking rude!

Actually I just hate everyone at work at the moment.

Twatty reply-all emails

People who cc in others to make themselves seem more important than they are

Pleasedontdrawonyoursister I'm with you. Our kitchen at work is a fucking disgrace. Working with animals

People who don't empty the shredder when it's full, I know they can see the huge flashing red light.

I sit next to a woman who is up and down CONSTANTLY. Our desk is right against the wall so I have to squeeze in every time she goes past as there’s only a narrow space between our chairs and the wall - it drives me insane as it disturbs my work. I want to grab her by the shoulders, plonk her down in her chair and very firmly say SIT DOWN.

A whole canteen of cutlery has gone missing from our kitchen at work that our admin lady provided

I once sent a (genuinely) urgent mail and flagged it High Importance. The recipient flagged his reply Low Importance.

I almost kind of admired his passive aggressive stance

Saying that, a knobhead at another office had his emails set to High Importance as a default. Tosser.

Also can’t stand kitchen small talk. I’m all for a how was your weekend convo but I hate being cornered by the office bore 😂 I wait until he’s finished in the kitchen before I make my tea!

Yes to the starting emails with your name!!!!!!!! SO RUDE. Would it kill you to say "Good Morning Pomeranio"?!?!?!

Pomeranio.

Did you do x?

Fuck off.

I’m so glad I don’t work in an office anymore

all of the above!!!! office work trys my patience big time!!!

Lateness! When called out on it they reply with i left 40 mins ago the traffic was bad! You live 10 mins away!!!!
She's does this every shift and never utters the words 'sorry I'm late'

Also.

"As discussed, I cannot do X until you compete and return X form to me for authorisation as per company policy"

Reply (copying in all and fucking sundry) "Pomeranio, I am extremely busy and do not have the time for such beauracry as forms. I have a £44926milliom (exaggeration) project on and numerous staff on holiday, as well as blahblahblahblah on and on and on for seven fucking paragraphs"

You literally could have completed the bloody form 17 times in the time it must have taken you to type that email you complete and utter incompetent knob.

Emails with only subject lines really annoy me and I don't know why!