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?

Oh god yes the perpetually cold people who sit with blankets and hot water bottles.

Cereal again.
also apples
Chewing gum

Also hate the radio being on.

I work in a call centre so it’s a noisy environment anyway but there’s a few people who are excessively loud (on all calls, not just occasionally if they’re speaking to a customer who’s hard of hearing) all the time. And because they’re so excessively loud all their little speech patterns get really irritating (if you’ve ever seen the episode of How i Met Your Mother where there’s a drinking game for every time Robin says “but um” it’s like that in my office minus the alcohol)

The ones who fart. Thank god we do agile working now. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Hugless crying with laughter and can only agree!

Colleague 1 who gives you chapter and verse about her entire family and other randoms, whether you want to know or not. Perpetually disorganised. "Runs" everywhere. Says she will make a drink and 4 hrs later we are still waiting. Colleague 2 who Never Stops Moaning. A total fun sponge with a face like a smacked arse. Colleague 3 who mansplains everything, but has no idea. She is very sweet but holy shit it's exhausting.

Ugh and colleagues 1 and 2 are the most tight fuckers on the planet. They take whatever is going in the office but only contribute a pack of cheap broken biscuits about once a year 🙄

People complaining all the time

If you don't like my farts, buy some earplugs

And if you don't like my lunchtime sprout curry, buy a nose clip

moaning bastards

IMPORTANT people having loud phone calls trying to sound impressive by repeating themselves

People not using proper words and WFHing (working from home)

People walking up and down the open plan office to get their daily step count

Incessant emails from facilities: "please be aware there is a sign on the stairs telling you not to use them as there has been a spillage" then "please be reassured that a cleaner is currently cleaning the spillage followed by "the spillage has been cleared and the stairs are fully operational". All in the space of 15 minutes. Similar communications warning that the regular fire alarm will take place as scheduled, then an email to say it will be 5 mins later than normal, then it has taken place with apologies for 5 mins delay. Argh.

Yvonne.

Prolific crisp eating, yoghurt pot scraping, false nail sucking, loud, oversharing creature

She describes her periods. Changes in colour/consistency - we all know about it.

She suffers from year round SAD.

She makes me fucking sad.

*to clarify: no problem with working from home, just calling it WFHing

People who shout at me across the office instead of coming over to my desk. I don’t do that to anyone.

People who can’t be arsed to clear paper jams/ refill the printers with paper/change toner cartridges. So often I send something over to the printer, nothing happens and when I have a look something needs doing and I sort it, then I have to wait ages while reams of other people’s printing comes out.

Anything food related, smelly food, talking about food constantly, constant snacking etc

Ticks/habits etc, like tapping the floor with your feet so the whole office can hear it All. Day. Long.

Hot desking and people who leave all their stuff on a desk on their day off. I may have hidden someone's laptop last week as revenge.....

I have a colleague that licks the lid of yoghurt pots and then does noisy scraping at the end.

Makes me murderous.

People who use loads of milk on their cereal leaving none for hot drinks.

People who open all the windows and then go home and leave me to close them. I'm quite short & have to climb on the desks to do it.

People who haven't worked out that leaving passive-aggressive notes never solves anything, and just makes you look like a twat.

Smelly people - if you work in close proximity to others, it's antisocial and inappropriate to stink.

I don't actually work in an office, but I did go over to the admin block a couple of weeks ago and overheard a row about how much paper was too much paper to put in a recycling bin marked "paper".

A girl in my office thinks shes beyonce or something. I cringe everytime she sings. And its painful and she tries very hard! There is also no music playing, she does it in an open office of about 30 people that is quiet.

Bitching and moaning about work, just get on with it.
Saying they are hating the day, find another job???

Whispering and laughing, annoying and immature.

Loud eaters too!

Ohhhh that felt good to get that off my chest! ha!

1. Disturbing me when I’m CLEARLY FUCKING CONCENTRATING

1. Asking me a build up /unrelatedquestion, in order to ask the actual question. For example

Phil: “ Binary, you know the other week when that pig flew over the Cooke buildings and it was a bit windy...?”
Me: ...yes. (why are you asking that?)
Phil: well, didn’t they decide that were banning pigs from entering the hangar?
Me: Yes... (god just ask the proper question)
Phil: what time is the helicopter meeting?

JUST ASK THE QUESTION!

I know I'm going to get some hate for this, but since you asked: women bringing their babies into the office and expecting every single woman in the room (but none of the men) to down tools and start cooing and demanding a 'little hold'. I'm self-employed now, but when I worked in an office I used to leave the room when that happened because I'm not maternal by nature and people watch me like a hawk around babies for so-called (and completely imaginary) signs that I'm supposedly 'getting broody'. I can't even put into words how infuriating it was.

People on email/instant messenger making small talk with you before asking you to do them a favour!! Cut to the chase and just ask me - I know you don’t care ‘how my day is going’

People who never ever make hot drinks but always say yes when someone else is doing it.

In my office there's;

1). The psycho keyboard basher (types one fingered like a hammer each time)

2). This woman talks loudly and constantly all flipping day on the phone to clients and in between calls she's moaning and bitching loudly and keyboard bashing whilst reporting others in the office for talking too much!

3). The woman who has stupid annoying LOUD sounds on her computer every time an email or Skype message is delivered ie bird song, cuckoo, bell etc omfg!!!

4). The woman who is a secret smoker and sprays herself with awful body spray every time she returns to her desk.

5). Working in hot stuffy office and the moaners refusing to have a window cracked open for fresh air.

6). The cold psycho loud snitchy moaner who also plugs in an electric heater beside her desk, in addition to the central heating being on, windows closed oh and door closed. God help me if I ever dare to open the door again so I could breathe!

I bloody hate that woman!!!

When someone sends me an email, and then walks straight over to my desk to discuss and explain said email.