To ask what really annoys you at work?

[Auba14]

My Manager is great, I sit right next to her so she gets to hear me go to her when I’m annoyed with things. I have two main gripes at work.

1. When a member of a team chooses to come up to my desk, laptop in hand with an IT issue that they know needs to be sent via ticket. However they’re too lazy to do it so expect me to stop what I’m doing to submit the ticket for them. My Manager tries to put a stop to this when she’s around but when she’s not they take advantage.

2. This one is a constant argument with me and my Manager. When I e-mail someone, without a high importance flag, it usually means it’s something that isn’t requiring an urgent response and I’d expect the person to reply via email as that was my original method of communication. However I’ve found that recruitment agencies we work with specifically, I send an email and they will call me. Every time. Just to ask a random question that they could’ve emailed. My Manager thinks I should answer the phone, but 9/10 I don’t as then they’ll expect me to be constantly available for a chat. That one is probably unreasonable on my part but really annoys me.

So everyone else, on a Friday night after a long week at work, what’s your annoyances at work?

The people in the team I manage claiming not to know how to do certain jobs even though I have trained them on how to do it. Other managers have trained them on how to do it.

Our new starter, who has been with us 7 weeks, was today showing the person who has been with us 4 years how to do the job and they told her they’d never been shown before....aaaarrrrggghhh

The person who has been in our team for 4 years and still doesnt know what they are doing.

Managers using “dynamic phrases” that make no sense and leave you wondering what on earth they were talking about

People calling in sick then posting on fb about the fantastic concert they went to at the 02 arena.
People bringing their moods to work.
People who i offer a lift home, say they ll take the bus then passively aggressively post all over fb that they are so tired getting the bus and walking when everyone else has a car (not true).

Constant interruptions whilst I'm trying to write my notes (healthcare). Managers and trainers that delegate THEIR work to subordinate staff members.

I've just been made a manager (5 months ago) loads of people stopped talking to me because they wanted the job and didn't get it. There's this one girl who never ever speaks to me unless she wants something. It's so uncomfortable she'll be an absolute bitch to me and then be sickly sweet to me for 10 mins then ask me for something 🖕🏽🖕🏽

Disorganisation and never being able to find anything I need, whilst simultaneously being the person expected to know where everything is when everyone else asks. But organising things into a clear and marked system is met with hostility. Which is coincidently the same thing that annoys me the most at home. I work with my DP though, so I'm guessing there's a common denominator in there somewhere!

All the dickheads.

My Manager tries to put a stop to this when she’s around but when she’s not they take advantage.
How is it that you have witnessed your manager put a stop to this repeatedly, but have not learned from her example & now deal with the chancers yourself?

However I’ve found that recruitment agencies we work with specifically, I send an email and they will call me. Every time. Just to ask a random question that they could’ve emailed.
In your original email, ask that all correspondence is also by email.
If they ring, say you prefer email correspondence & cannot talk now.

There. Sorted.

People who say things like

I would of done it this way.
You could of done it this way.
But if it looked like this
Instead.

Does it really matter what you would of/could of/ should of done?

No

Because one...l am me not you

And two.....the job is done and if you don’t like it you should of done it your ducking self

And three......the end goal is the same it doesn’t matter what path you take.

Oh it’s been a long week.

People taking weeks to sort out stuff and then expecting me to drop everything to do my bit within the hour.

People bugging themselves up at interview stage and then being useless/ people in jobs twenty years still making mistakes by then you should have perfected your role and be mistake free. People without the foresight to think outside the box.

Constant feeling of never being taken seriously because I’m part time.

The people in the team I manage claiming not to know how to do certain jobs even though I have trained them on how to do it. Other managers have trained them on how to do it.
This ^^
It's almost willful pretend incompetence, but often the fake incompetence is only done to try and blame someone else.

I worked with a colleague once who used to claim on every data drop that they couldn't possibly manage to input it because they "didn't do computers". 🙄
It really wasn't that hard and it was a task done at least 15 times a year.

People who think that theyre MUCH busier than me. Our caseloads are similar though fluctuating. No I wont take any of your interviews for you. Im fully booked too. I dont care if you have a project to hand in on the course that work is paying for. If you cant manage your workload then you need to take it up eith our boss and you shouldnt have applied for further training.

The fact that children don't listen 😂

Oversharing their personal lives.

Swearing loudly in the department.

People assuming I ‘have a face on’ or there’s ‘something wrong’ or say I’m creating an environment in the office which is making people anxious when in fact - I’m just busy with work and I want to get my head down instead of chatting over mindless things with a brew in my hand all day.

I work with a medical team and every time I have an illness they ask me a million questions that I don’t want to answer, keep on pushing for it and then try and diagnose me - ‘you NEED a scan.’

No mate I don’t need a brain scan for my calves being achey, I just over did it with my fella at the weekend but I don’t want to openly admit that either

Having to rock up everyday and spend 7 and a half hours there when I could be doing something much more productive instead?!

I don't really want to go into too much detail about my job. But basically it involves telling people to do something they don't want to do. I probably spend more time speaking to people who don't want to do it and then don't do it. So the time I spent with them made no difference whatsoever. And the people who do go never speak to me. I just constantly feel like a salmon futility swimming upstream.

But it's down the road from my house and flexi time. So I'll stay for now.

I love working in my office, I really like the people I work with. They're a good bunch and we get on so well.

However, I have misophonia (certain sounds make me irrationally angry and it makes me feel physically ill). One of the triggers is that I can't cope with people eating near me and I struggle to eat in front of people too because of the fear of them hearing me eat.

My absolute pet peeve is someone eating something crunchy (like an apple) in the office. Which seems to happen on a daily basis. The guy who does it manages to crunch and slurp at the same time. Then puts his apple core in MY bin which is just for recycling

Note. I know I'm being completely unreasonable and it's my own issue with miso and food.

Huh, for your first issue you need to say sorry no but you need to raise a ticket for that. All smiles but to the point. That's not your job. It annoys ME when colleagues of mine take on other colleagues issues which impact our workload and mean we get behind, purely because they can't own their own workload and tell others where to go when needed because they feel the need to act like everyones friend. Sorry!

People passing off work they should be doing themselves is my biggest gripe really.

I've thought of another

When my boss asks me (or anyone else) to do something. If you stop what you're doing he complains and if you finish what you're doing and then do what he's asked he complains..

Corporate buzz phrases- they are generally awful and only get used sarcastically when they filter down

Acronyms. That get replaced by equally stupid acronyms that are strangely similar to other acronyms (we have 3 similar ones like JDGD, CDGD and DCJC I cannot bloody say them without stuttering)

Meetings where no one takes charge and they are dominated by small talk. Fine if we weren't busy but I will have to stay late tonight because I've listened to you waffle on about something irrelevant

Team building events for managers. Which is why I will never be in a manager. In our company they get sent to a tent in a field to reflect on their thoughts and present those reflections to the group.

Role plays. My brain just cant do them, it just screams 'you're adults and you're PRETENDING, it's NOT REAL!!!' the whole time

Optional socialising that you're put under massive pressure to join in with especially when it includes enforced drinking. I love a drink bit have been ill before and asked for a soft drink and explained I cant drink because I'm ill and the effects would likely cause me to be off sick...and thr manager comes back with a massive drink and tries to start a chant of 'down it! Down it!'...wtf

Being stuck in the lift with people you know only vaguely

Passive aggressive colleagues 'I suppose I could do this for you, I'll miss my daughters graduation but no it's fine, I'm sure I'll make it to my sons unless something awful comes up at work, but no dont worry about it'

The squabbles over milk etc in the communal fridge.

The politics. People saying things they dont mean and siding with people or things they disagree with purely for personal gain. I include in this people who manage people and obviously hate it, because it is a tick in their career box. Its peoples careers you're messing with

Being asked to do a task to save someone time but not given basic information.

For example, today I said I would get a load of certificates printed to take the job off someone's list. But wasn't told how many needed printing or which company card to charge them to so by the time I had got that information, the person I was supposed to be saving time for probably could have just done it themselves.

Yes to the "dynamic" phrases and the latest fad, posting cheesy vids on linkedin, that go something like this:

"Hi guys! I'm here its 7am get back to bed weirdo I've got my coffee and I'm powering on through today doing XYZ... Some random cheesy business motivational quote...So whatever you're doing today, have a great one and remember blah blah blah"

Oh and the most disgusting kitchen habits of people! Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

Somebody I recruited and spent 10 months training, is off to join another team. That's pretty annoying.

Especially as I plan to retire next year shhh nobody knows yet and there is literally no-one else to pick up the work I do. Like many jobs there is an annual cycle so I hadn't finished training her yet, and there's no way I'm staying on for another year to train someone else!!

If you're talking about everyday examples, it's the two men (never the women, trust me) who spend 5 minutes scrubbing their single plastic box clean at lunchtime, as if it's a religious ritual cleansing, thus hogging the sinks. While I'm waiting I wonder to myself if washing up is a novelty for them. Nobody who regularly washes a whole household's dishes would take that long on ONE item after all.