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.

Lateness at meetings or in joining conference calls.

People eating noisy/smelly food at their desks - I’m not sure why anyone needs a pretty much full roast dinner at lunchtime but if you do there’s a sodding lunch room.

People who only ever work their exact hours, take lunch at the same time etc regardless of workload.

People taking personal calls at their desk.

People who witter on inanely about tea runs or their fucking holibobs especially early/late in the day when it’s clear you’re only there because you have a deadline to meet.

Performance coughing/sneezing, dramatic medicine taking and other martyr type behaviour - we get it, you’re not feeling well.

Reply all to some rubbish about running out of milk or similar.

People who don’t do their share or kitchen tidying, bin emptying etc.

People who ‘borrow’ your equipment but fail to return it.

Remind me why I work in an office again...🙄

Anyone who runs in the office. Absolutely no one needs to do that. Your meeting will wait. Those photocopies don't matter. Be more organised. STOP FUCKING RUNNING.

People talking about their latest diet and how good they have been this week YAWN
People moaning about how hard up they are money wise when you suspect (know) they are just bad with money. People who are really hard up usually keep quiet about it

People who have another question at the end of the meeting.

People who can't make a decision.

People making the pc decision rather than the right one (office politics arghh)

Colleagues who think sick allowance has to be taken like annual leave.

Pregnant colleague who since she announced her news has done nothing other than talk about babies. Fuck off. No one cares.

Office manager who clock watches her admin team on their 30m lunch but goes out for over an hour most days herself.

The people who do fuck all or very little drive me crackers but more so the management who do nothing about it. Cut the dead wood!!

Tube station environment, so a bit different. The Tube runs on TEA, then ELECTRICITY, so if you use the milk, replace the milk!

Lateness. Especially handing over to the night shift.

Sexism. Too much to list here. I always call it out.

Instead of replying to one person by email REPLY TO ALL so I get to know if Joe Bloggs has haemorroids and can't make his shift at Stanmore tonight (and I'm at Hammersmith).

People using up supplies then not bothering to order more. Or not charging the lamp batteries. Or not filing a frigging thing. This list is not exhaustive.

Agree with the poster who mentioned porridge, especially the sweet smelly one

People who use the last of the milk but leave a teeny tiny amount in the bottle so they weren't the one to use 'all' the milk

The CF porridge eaters who use the tea/coffee milk without replacing it/contributing

Being copied in, unless it's directly relevant

People who forward emails with no message!

Read receipt requests from people in the same office

Loud sneezers/coughers

Anyone beginning an email with “Team”

Anyone wanting to “leverage” my ideas and/or experience

My colleague never ever admitting when she's made a mistake, I only point them out if absolutely necessary ie it's been coded wrong and gone into the system wrong and will need correcting, but she will talk and talk and wind it round to somehow being someone else's fault and then spend a week pointing out the smallest mistakes I've made. So I don't tell her anymore and the cfo finds her errors instead 😏

Also “gentle reminder”. That really fucks me off.

I work from home and have the delight of conference calls quite often. Why it takes some people half an hour brief about something that should take a minute or two is anybody's guess. Very annoying.

I've been nodding my head at most of these posts actually.

People who leave the staff toilets in a disgusting state, if I could hold on all day and not have to use them I would.

People who faff around for a good 15 mins after they should have started work making a drink and logging on their computers etc.

I have a colleague who constantly moans how much she has to do but then just talks about everything and distracts everyone. I think to myself if you just shut up and get on there won't be a problem. Same colleague also is constantly eating, brings in huge slabs of Brie and massive box of crackers and just troughs all day. The annoying thing is she has a great figure. Those of us who are efficient and get our work done just then get more work piled on us while she gets away with doing very little !

Aargh the person who regularly emails me at 8.15am to ask if I have got her report prepared yet, despite my having told her several times that I do not start until 9am

Air con wars.

99% of us sitting in 4,000 layers and one arsehole insists on putting the poxy air con on

People who can't be bothered to wash up their cup/stick it in the dishwasher/seem to expect others or the cleaner to do it for them.

Previous workplace, micromanaging attitude. Eg If you are in 30 mins late due to gp visit, which they have had prior notice of, you lose half a day holidays . Not ok to make up at end of day. Fuck off - next time I'll just call in sick.

Emailing me then coming over to tell me they've emailed. One or the other feckers. One or the other!

People who "reach out".
People who "revert" rather than come back to you.
People who do a "deep dive"
People who send their board paper to you at 5pm despite the deadline being 9am which means you have to stay until 9pm to reformat their crappy report and pull the board pack together but it doesn't matter because you are single with no kids so you obviously have no life and don't mind working a 12hr day.
People who call you a "star" for pulling together the board pack.

Male Engineer, the same grade as me used to leave paperwork on my desk with a note saying "file this". I used to write "file it yourself " and put it back on his desk.

Eventually complained to the boss about him. Nothing was done.

I hated working there.

Tosser!

People taking my food and pregnancy cravings out of the office fridge.

The milk - we have two separate departments and one shared kitchen. I've taken to writing on my milk 'Blue's Cereal Milk Keep off' as I don't drink hot drinks and don't want people I don't know using it as that's not fair.

My biggest one is people who have to fill in a silence. So everyone is head down, quiet, radio quietly on and then all you hear is 'Blueeeee' in a whiny childlike voice to ask a fucking question she already knows the answer to but needs to have noise!!

People who do not read emails/briefings properly and therefore miss deadlines or leave things to the very last minute and then complain/huff and puff that they are so busy/over worked/have so much to do.

They also complain that the tasks expected of them are pointless/unreasonable - they aren't , they are just panicking because they left it so late.

Really irks me!

People emailing the whole company to say "cakes in the kitchen" etc when we are fifty miles away in a different office.

Colleagues deleting emails from head of department or ceo etc and then asking you what they said....fecking read them!

People who are apparently incapable of summarising a scenario/headline of their issue in an email and insist they need a phone call or meeting. Usually this means they haven’t really thought about it and want to ramble on to me before they work out why they need my input
See also- people who forward an email string with an email saying “see below” because I have that well known job title “mystic meg” meaning that 5 emails between 3 staff with no context or request all I need to understand£ your reason for contacting me

People sending me invites to meetings without checking in my calendar to see whether I am free and then getting huffy when I inform them I cannot actually be in two places at once

People who walk past the EMPTY dishwasher to place their dirty crockery/cups etc in the sink