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.

dark I previously worked with one of those. No, it's fucking chaos and not the time to go clearing out old paperwork or doing routine tasks. Worst thing was the habit of starting something, or more often 8 somethings and then buggering off to something apparently important and asking everyone else if they could just finish off. Which invariably took longer than if she'd just left the task in the first place.

Making me wait until sunday before i know what hours or days im doing next week. Fuckers

Sending something to the printer and nothing happens, walk over to the printer and find there is a jam or it’s out of paper. I sort it, and then reams of other people’s printing comes out because no one else could be arsed to sort it.

Sorka sucking on plums! Made me snort, juvenile sense of humour.

lostmyfexkingkeys am guilty of syaing reaching out but only on emails - don’t know why I do it. Will need to keep an eye on my overt reaching 👀

People who jam the copier and then just walk away and leave it

People who then go to use the copier, see that it's jammed and then also just walk away and leave it.

My boss has a habit of asking several people to do the same thing. It is very annoying to have to stop what your doing, spend 15 minutes looking for a file, ask around to see if anyone has it only for them to say that they had also been asked to find it for said boss and he now has it.

Not putting things back where they are meant to be, taking the piss on breaks, talking to a customer for far too long just for the sake of not doing any work for a bit.

People who copy others into all of their emails for seemingly no reason, usually their manager or another persons manager

People who spray perfume at their desk

People who don’t partake in the water run, but expect theirs to be refilled

People who talk excessively loudly on the phone

The lady who used to sit behind me and ate hard boiled eggs at her desk every morning

People who don't put their phone number on their email signature. Drives me wild.

I'm retired now but the thing that used to get me was bitchy gossipers.
I never minded having a chat but how some people used to find the need to be so vey unpleasant about their colleagues and co-workers used to make me feel most uncomfortable.

People who come into work ill

I've only been at my new job 6 weeks and some twat came into work with D&V and I caught it with 4 other people

People who are inappropriately dressed for the office, and I mean both male and female. Shorts, revealing clothes etc.

Teacher's pets. The ones who always seem to get away with doing nothing, wearing inappropriate clothes etc.

I have to walk past reception to get to my office. I hate it when the receptionist tries to corner me on the way in, about something that can easily wait until I'm not dripping snow etc everywhere.

Adrianflank some people might come into work when they're poorly because any more time off might result in disciplinary procedures etc.

Breaking glass and leaving it Because lazy will sort it. It has to be disposed of in a very specific way. Colleagues who will never work an extra shift or an extra half hour because they are so busy, well aren't we all but someone has to help out occasionally.

You still wouldn’t come in when you have d&v though would you?

Someone once came into our office wearing a halterneck top - bare back and shoulders. It was a pensions department so it looked really out place!

Leaving the printer/copier jammed or empty! Makes me probably unreasonably angry.

Being nagged about not making teas and coffees. I’ve taught there for 5 years. I don’t like tea or coffee. I’ve never had a tea or coffee at work. Ever. And yet people will make comments about my never offering to make the hot drinks.

My boss always starts a new email thread so I can't trace the conversation back easily, copies in other people to his replies unnecessarily which makes me feel horrible, oh and c+ps part of what I have written into this new thread with others copied in so I am taken out of context. His email etiquette is fucking shit and I am so looking forward to switching off email during maternity leave soon!

People with zero personal hygiene. People who won't sit still (tattooing).

Talking incessantly when the day is over and I want to go home . Do people just like hanging around at work for no reason?

I sit beside a frequently used meeting room and the number of people who just have to finish their oh so important meeting right behind my desk is astounding.
They get told to jog on. Politely of course. But it still interrupts the flow of my day as I spend the following 20 minutes grumbling about rude, arrogant fuckers.

A special mention goes to people who forward emails which clearly contain the words "do not forward this email".

People who will always want tea or coffee when someone else is offering to make it, but never make it for everyone else.

People leaving a plate of left over food in the sink over the weekend and the cleaner being off sick. Ok this was a once off but it was fucking disgusting, our poor cleaner, I hope it doesn't happen often!

People who break or don't change cartridges or put paper in copiers and printers.

People who demand rather than request on email, start with no greeting or a curt greeting, or write "polite reminder" or "I need this by yesterday".

The area bully telling me I WILL provide cover for a shop a million miles away, I just have to tell my staff they ARE doing it. No I don't; of the 4 people who are free when you need cover, 2 are single parents with child care arrangements and you've given less than 24hrs notice to rearrange their very complex families, 3rd person won't cancel her wedding venue viewing for you and you've already pissed the 4th off so badly she refused to work for you in any capacity so she's "busy".

People buggering off and hiding in the stockroom.

Management princess implying anyone calling in sick for illness is exaggerating or faking... except when she calls in because she's got a runny nose and coughed one time in the last 48hrs.

People who don't handover or don't at least leave notes telling me when there's been a fuck-up. I love surprises...

Sodding micro-managers who can't let anyone take control of anything and charges in to take control of a perfectly under-control situation. Piss off with your Mary-Lou of the Chalet School act.

People who are "fully flex" in theory but in practice hog one particular shift set and refuse to change or amend rotas back in their own favour on flimsy pretexts. Or think that "you all know I don't work Sundays" means they don't work Sundays. Err, not if you didn't apply for exemption. Which you didn't. So stop whining and come in, I'd like one off for once.

People who clock watch your break but happily over-run their own.