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.

I work separately from the main office team, but I am in an office next door and can hear everything that’s going on.
I also don’t have a break during their staggered lunch breaks and listen to them all slagging each other off when one leaves for lunch.
When one returns, the next one goes and they do the same thing. I don’t think any of them think they are being ‘discussed’ when they are out of the office.

"Workstreaming".

Fuck off.

People who can’t be fucked
People who don’t like using efficient methods of procurement becuse well, I’ve not done that before and it’s just easier to do it the way I always have - shut up, don’t care, change your ways
People who silence fill. Fuck up.
Management who clearly can’t be fucked.
Casual racism
Casual sexism
Brexiteers who shout about it
Tories who shout about it
Ardent left wingers who shout about it
Eco warriors who shout about it
Parents who try to overrule holiday rotas
I think I don’t like people

I am a middle leader in a school. I lead a briefing for about 20 members of staff on a set day each week. If the briefing is not on, there is a notice on the board that everyone checks before they start work (well they should check it, I can't make them). Every week at least 5 people come and ask me if briefing is on. Just check the board ffs. If there's nothing there, it's on.

Colleagues who if they come in at 8.54 will leave at 17.24, who take exactly one hour for lunch, and who spend all day doing bugger all apart from bigging themselves up, who never do anything wrong but will be the first to blame someone else.

managers addressing everyone as staff err im sure they have names
managers telling the same person to do two different things because they all want a finger in the pie
managers trying to make their mark and asking you to investigate things that dont need investigating
the guy that lives alone and thus doesnt stop talking all day literally and no one does anything about it
the women who tells us every detail of her kids lives how clever they are what grades they got etc etc err we are trying to work and we are in the phone
same woman making loud personal calls to her husband at home instructing him on his chores for the day nothing was done about this either
women who eats smelly kale for breakfast and lunch
people who take their shoes off and walk around in their bare feet just no
managers who start a request with can i task you to do.... grrrr
cross team working ie find u load more things to do that you dont get paid any extra for and its a one way team working!!!
stretching objectives another way of saying do more
i love working in an office not!!!

Offering me a mint,then picking it out of the pack and handing it to me with bitten to the quick fingernails.

Working for a boss who actually could not give the slightest shit about the topic your entire department is about...
...but taking credit for the good stuff other people manage to do despite their inadequacy/incompetency/gross misconduct/mismanagement.
Boils. My. Piss.

DH's contribution: the eggers. People who eat hard boiled eggs twice a day, every day, and go on and on about their health/diet goals while they're doing it.

This. Don't think I need to say any more.

People who call 2 mins of sending an email to check I've seen their email.

People who say they weren't sure if they'd used the last of the milk for the coffee (you did if there's no more left in the bottle). It's ok to finish the mil but don't put the empty bottle back in the fridge.
People who brag about how swish their holiday was (Barbados) knowing full well I'm going to Norfolk. Which my boys love - big open beaches to run around on and fly kites.

People who just never shut the fuck up. Had one at my old work. Not even in my team, she was a few rows away, but she never stopped talking for a minute. If there was a lull, she would encourage her team to do top 5 lists, like their top 5 bands from the 90s. This is why I don’t work in an office anymore.

Desk eaters too. Nobody is so busy that you can’t spend 5 minutes eating your tuna salad in the cafeteria.

my list:-

The guy opposite me burps and farts all day long LOUDLY
He also snores very loudly when he puts his feet up on the desk, leans back in his chair and sleeps for about 3 hours.

The men use the only female toilet for their daily dumps and leave the toilet bowl stained and the loo all smelly

They also pee all over the seat

The car park is quite small and i get in very early before everyone else, one guy who is in meetings all day and is quite high up in the ranks always blocks me in. It doesn't matter where in the car park i choose to put my car, if there's no spaces he blocks ME in and then i have to interrupt a meeting to get him to move to which he responds "just after this meeting" half hour or so later....!

I'm glad i'm only in the office twice a week!

Chestnuts
ALL of that is horrific. You poor thing.

There was a contractor at my work who thankfully has finished now who used to sit and fart all day, pick his nose, sleep and snore (for £100 an hour!!!!!!) Loudly and also hum at the top of his voice 6 out of 8 hours a day.

He was a vile pig

Those who pounce on you with a question the second you walk back in the office.

Yes I'm sure it's urgent, but can it wait 10 seconds while I get my coat off?

Or... "I've just sent you an email" then proceed to tell you the content of the email. Why bother sending the email if you were just going to come over and tell me anyway?

IfAtFirst

Yy to these things. Are you me? Do you observe my office? These are the things most likely to drive me insane.

Also, people that arrive 15 minutes early for a meeting and just plonk themselves down at my meeting table, looking at my expectantly for attention while I am frantically trying to answer 300 urgent emails plus prepare for the bloody meeting because I only that 15 minutes in between the previous meeting and this one. Sometimes, they want a social chit-chat before everyone else arrives and sometimes they have taken it upon themselves to have a pre-meeting about something they don't want to talk about in front of other colleagues. I don't know which is worse.

Funny you should ask, this week a colleague has committed the sin of leaving a half-opened, very ripe Camembert in the fridge. Ultimate office crime.

Meetings that could easily have been an email

Teabags left in the sink boke

People putting on Facebook that they’re out getting pissed then calling in sick the next day and NO ONE SAYS ANYTHING!

Moaning minnies. We currently have a couple in the office, in the same department. They spend all day moaning, they have the most work than anybody ever, they spend half hour moaning about the task at hand - just bloody get on with it! Oh and if they stopped chatting, management might actually take note and let us have extra staff (it is a busy job). Drive me mental feel like telling them to either go complain properly or get another job.

I'm a teacher.

When you're struggling with a class/group/individual and another teacher smugly says "Oh they were always perfectly behaved for me!" 😡 Thanks for making me feel like shit. Especially annoying if they are a reception teacher and you work in KS2.

People who jam the photocopier and then run away without fixing it.

The colleague who always has perfect lessons. I shared a year group with someone like this once, you would have thought all his year 5s were ready to enrol in Oxbridge 🤔. Found this particularly annoying as sometimes lessons do not go to plan and it's good to have a colleague you can moan to.

When people email documents that you will need to print, using up your printing credits rather than their own, when it would have made much more sense for them to print.

The person who always asks a question at the end of staff meetings. I want to go home!

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

People who do not record leave properly so that they get extra days of leave. This is theft from the company.

People who work from home without accounting for their time or getting requisite approval

People who consider time spent on an plane to a holiday destination, apparently reading work materials, as "working from home".

People who structure their days so that they fall between the cracks. It is easier for jobs that require travelling or time out of the office a lot.

People who take on managerial roles but leave it to their subordinates to do all the heavy lifting while they swan around doing non-essential things, like attending conferences, approving the odd leave and brown nosing senior management.

Don't get me started on sick leave ...

Lazy people who overfill the copier trays so that the entire machine jams and refuses to work.