To ask about your biggest office pet peeves?

[SharronNeedles]

For anyone lucky enough to work in an open plan office or even just share an office with other people, what drives you mad?

My boss has to be one of the most annoying people to share an office with. She is always eating crap, slurping pop, burping and sniffing (you know, the wet sounding kind of sniffs when you have a runny nose) and has recently started wiping her nose on her hands. Literally makes me Bork!!

Anyone else?

I agree about singing!
We have the radio and several people will sing along loudly, out of tune, wrong words, doing their own voice warbles and generally making me want to jump out the window

And also biggest peeve by far is the word GDPR used as an excuse for all manner of crap this week for example
Can you phone boss X on their mobile they need budget figures for meeting
What’s the number
Can’t give it to you
Why not
GDPR
But it’s a business phone and legitimate business need
No sorry GDPR can’t give it to you
Why thank you helpful receptionist gossip I’ll just contact them telepathically
FML

Any unnecessary noise. Pen clicking, tapping feet, people who press too hard on their keyboards (surely this must hurt??), crunching/chewing/eating noises. The list goes on.
We also used to have a man who talked his way through every task. Ie - "so, I'll just open this email. Click on the attachment. Ah, download pdf, yes please. Downloading....hum hum hum. Ah, complete. Let's open you up then. Have a little looksy!" It went on, and on and on.
Nice bloke though. Unless you mention you thought the bible was a really good story written a long time ago. Then he'd have you. Whoops.

People eating cereal at their desk for breakfast

Just eat at home

Late breakfast eaters at their desks.

Heating up fish in the office microwave for lunch.

Shouty loud women.

Air con rage.

You cannot possibly be cold it's 26 fucking degrees in here.

Oh god the cold people - wrapped in blankets / wraps

Stupid personal ringtones and text notifications that have not been muted. People who always have to sit at one particular desk in a hot desk environment. And another vote for people who talk really loudly on the phone. Particularly when it’s really banal conversation that distracts you from your work. Oh and people who only talk about themselves/ their own work and how busy they are. Plus bringing fish and chips into the office yuk. Slightly concerned that I might be a pps cereal slurper though.

Yogurt pot scrapers
Colleagues talking to me with food in their mouths. It sounds and looks minging

People talkingto me on the phone while eating
Cig breakers fucking off every 15mins for a cig.
My office is like all glass fronted-people asking me what I'm eating...if i dare have a snack..
I moved desks by about a meter, i kid you not i had about 16 people come in pointing this out to me.

People looking at your desktop whilst talking.

People looking at/touching documents on my desk.

People hovering in general. Coming in without knocking.

Fridge étiquette - whole other thread really.

ATM we also have an office 'ghost' who sneaks into offices and does stuff : refilling paper clip fountains, folding scarves etc and shit.

Loud music
People eating smelly food
People eating loud food
People opening the windows when it's cold
People putting the air con on low
People not respecting other's space
People taking personal calls in the office
People tapping their feet loudly
People singing/humming
People banging their mouse
People having their keyboard
People whispering to themselves

People who don't understand how the password system works and keep locking themselves out and asking me to reset it.

People who keep sending attachments of documents instead of linking it to the actual document on the shared server.

People who don't bother filing stuff properly on the shared server.

It's the eating though. It's just awful!

Anyone here eat at their desk?

My manager has her breakfast when she gets in, then a snack, then has to be first out for lunch, then snacks all afternoon!!
Just feckin eat at home!!

We aren’t allowed to eat at our desks, only in the kitchen, that would solve most of the issues on here, plus stops you eating loads as well

The none knockers are rude AF.

Ill just walk into your house then while your watching TV then shall I????..

I'm now in a job where I have my own office but bastard people still manage to nick my bastard pens. They come in for a chat and then they stroll off with a Bic. Bastards.

People who have long loud skype meeting in the open plan area when there are about 50 BILLION meeting rooms, focus booths, break out areas etc.

Partners who speak ridiculously loudly on ALL calls - because they are partners you see.

The guy who takes LONG con calls using his headphones but walking around the office talking at the top of his voice as if the whole 15th floor is his private study

and breathe

Yep "penchers" can fuck off too, one nearly made away with my uni ball pen the other day. I literally chased after them.

I am very much in the minority as a woman. So when people come into the office area I work, they will interrupt me to ask for directions or perhaps ask me for stationary. This doesn’t happen to my male colleagues. I’m not on a reception desk: I just clearly give off an aura of being so.

Office politics.

People using internal email to slag people off... and then sending it to the person they were slagging off by accident.

People commenting on what I am/am not eating, or telling me how many calories my biscuits contain.

Duchess

I actully had a male colleague walk into my office, saw me eating a pack of malteasers and said "little pickers, wear big knickers".

Ive lost 1st since captain ball stain said that.

Him with stinky BO
Her who can't stop talking because she's got fuck all to do but then goes into a tizz when she has more than 2 things to do by next week
Him who stares at your boobs when he talks to you
Him who eats a packet of wotsits every fucking morning at about 1030 and then another one at about 3.30PM.
I really like wotsits.
Her with a horrible artificial chemical smelling spray that she sprays on her desk every day.

But I think the dental flossing one of a previous poster stands out for me. That's remarkable behaviour in an office, like brushing your teeth or putting deodorant on.

The fucking radio. Blaring out stupid, banal, endlessly repetitive pop music all fucking day every cocking day. I fantasise about smashing the bastard thing into a hundred pieces with a hammer. Whenever I rebel and switch it off or, worse, retune it to R4 the admin ‘girls’ moan for the rest of the day that it’s ‘booorrinngg’ like whining 9 year olds.

Open plan offices are hell.

Yep, noisy eaters. We've got a noisy one who's oblivious.

People who turn the heating up because they're cold. Put a cardigan on, it's not cold! & other people are hot but can't undress.

People who put calls on loudspeaker while its ringing until someone answers. No need.

When people use the last of the milk & don't go to grab more (from downstairs, not the shop.) on a similar note, people who leave the printer without paper/toner & just expect someone else to sort it.

Apart from that, I like working in an office :D

When people get sniffy about you sending an email rather than speaking face to face. The next time you make the effort to speak to them personally and they suggest you send them an email instead.

When people bring in shit cheap cakes and make you feel like the bad person for turning it down.

People assuming I know how to fix printers, or that I know where people are.

Generally getting interrupted about trivial things that could be answered by looking on Google.