To tell my colleague to stop..............

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Humming an out of tune song it's driving me insane!!!

Any of your work colleagues annoying you today?

My boss phones me and will eat a packet of crisps down the phone.

She also picks stuff out of her eye and eats it.

People who shout on the phone when others are around them on the phone are insufferable.

Openly coughing and sneezing without making any attempt to cover their mouth. Sending detailed instant messages about how busy they are. It takes longer to send the instant message than to complete the task FFS.

A smelly man in our office .... he’s been spoken to by his line manager .... his response was that he sometimes forgets to wash . He’s in his 40s, not 13!

I used to work in an office where the staff room was attached (e.g, not an actual staffroom, but a tiny room with just a kettle and microwave, no chairs, no door)

One colleague would bring in large amounts of fish and seafood to eat throughout the day. It was the only thing she would eat. She used to get up, multiple times a day to heat up her food. The smell was so awful, it sometimes used to make me vomit. I used to go home and smell of fish. I once had to take three days off because she heated up gone off fish/seafood and the smell was so, so bad!

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Isn't it time for the 2019 reenactment of the Great Drawing Pin Mega Box Spillage Disaster ?

many years ago I used to work with a girl who sang "baby love" (Supremes) over and over all day - not the whole song, just "baby love" this was almost 30 years ago and me and DH still joke about it now - I wanted to kill her

someone eating and talking at the same time....over my shoulder. Gross.

There’s a guy in my office who rollerblades into work. He doesn’t take off his roller blades till he’s at his desk so I often see him whizzing past my desk in the mornings, on the way to his desk. I find it very annoying that he doesn’t remove the roller blades when he enters the building and am astounded this hasn’t been picked up by health and safety 🤦🏽‍♀️😂

Picks her eye and eats it

When I had an office job I sat next to someone who was CONSTANTLY on personal phone calls. She was a nice person, we were actually friendly but OMG. Loud, long conversations all the time, some trite, some intimate, some arguments - she didn't care! God knows how she didn't get sacked for doing no work.

She was v v posh and I can still hear her roaring "D'you fancy coming for SUPPAH!?" to numerous friends.

I shared an office with a very overpowering woman who was loud and I think my mental health too a dip in the months I had the misfortune to share a space with her. I knew way too much about her social life, whether she wanted her husband to defrost the pork for dinner or the beef, if her grown up son should get a take away or wait for her to cook something, and all her loud dealings with other work colleagues in person and on the phone. Absolutely no self-awareness whatsoever. She would also yawn loudly, be on the phone while munching her lunch, floss her teeth, she became utterly repulsive to me and it got to a point where I couldn't even listen to her voice anymore. She was also a bully.

I once worked with someone who constantly prattled on about soap operas. At first I thought she was talking about her family, then began to recognise some storylines and realised it was all about soaps. She liked them all, but Hollyoaks was her favourite. It got to the point where I stopped watching hollyoaks because I always felt like I was watching a repeat.

As I'm reading this DH is humming.
I don't have a patio, maybe need to get one installed...

I've worked with people who-

• had long nails that clacked on the keyboard every time they used it
• didn't just breathe out normally but did a bah-bah-bah-bah noise with their lips every time. Like daylight snoring
• coughed before they said anything. This actually worked in meetings because before they said anything there was The Cough so you could jump in while they were doing The Cough and get your point in.
• inhaled crisps and yet, strangely, crunched them at high decibel levels at the same time
• smacked their lips when they were thinking
• prayed for guidance when making decisions. Eyes rolling back, muttering, "look at me i am praying" type of praying. The ultimate in passing the buck. God says we should do X. Yes but what do you think?

I do not work with other people anymore.

My last ndn whistled loudly, my dh randomly whistles out of tune and randomly sings out of tune (sometimes in public).

I do feel for you with your work noise, but at least you can go home and get away from it at the end of the day, I am stuck with it at home.

One redeeming fact is next door is currently empty so don't have his whistling, but I am dreading a 'sold' sign going up as new neighbours are an unknown. Hopefully they will be quieter than old whistler (he was otherwise good, but whistling loudly at 7am on Saturdays was not my idea of a good start to the weekend.)

My DH often hums/sings "The Godfather" theme badly and only the opening line. One of our 3 DDs told me recently that it's only since she's grown up and seen the film that she realises it is a proper tune - she thought he was just being randomly tuneless She also said it was odd he never went on to the 2nd line of the theme as it is so much more interesting (she's very musical)

Oh and while we're on this subject, commuters, if you're on public transport, listening to music with earphones and eating, chances are you're chewing disgustingly loud and are blissfully unaware of how repulsive you are to your fellow commuters. And breath.

I don't think I will Survive until 5pm without committing a hideous crime against my co worker sitting opposite.

Chewing, I'm Sorry not Chewing more Slushing a pack of digestives around his gob!

Close your mouth! & Stop making unnecessary slushing noises

Is it just me? can anyone relate to hearing people chew or slush their food around their mouths the most irritating noise in the universe, makes me want to rip their faces off!

Making a quite unbelievable racket when eating her lunch. Even when she moves on to soft fruit. I've come across camels than can eat more quietly.

One of my colleagues got very flustered yesterday when I went out to fill my travel mug with water from the kettle at 12.55..... he said I've just boiled that as we only get half an hour for lunch and the others will need it.

It's my DH's business just to clarify. I nearly said "and your lunch break starts at 1pm so why are you standing out here warming your lunch and boiling kettles.........."

But I smiled instead and waited for everyone else to have their mug of tea......

I've come across camels than can eat more quietly.

haha Nearly spat my tea out! Might use that as an insult to them!

Omg Mandy I could've written the exact same thing! Her husband rings at least once a day to ask how she slept and what's for tea so I get the joy of overhearing that conversation amongst other things. She has zero self-awareness. Thankfully their sex life seems to be off topic now. The impact on my mental health has been massive and I desperately look for ways to avoid contact.

Oh lord! Clearly they read MN in lunchbreak here too. Just been asked if I can stop sniffling! 'Tis a cold!

People who nitpick. Get on with your own job. You are not my supervisor and I have been doing my job carefully for many years now.

People with incessant relationship crisis. I was sympathetic for the first few months. I am now fed up of the cycle not to mention he is abusive and quite clearly messed up. Step away, find a hobby, become a nun, try another person who treats you as you would like to be treated. Do not go over and over what he said/did to hurt you this time. I am bored of the drama and you should be too.