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?

People emailing me for little things that take 2 minutes but they're too important to do it themselves so I have to even though I'm drowning in work and always stay 1-2 hrs after finish and they leave bang on 6

Oh just everything.

Working for a living has lost its shine!

The very specific thing that is annoying me at the moment is that a job has become available that would be perfect for me, but I have just been given a new project which is supposed to be something to ‘stretch’ me. And the recruiter hasn’t come back to me with the info I asked for. It’s an internal role, a step up and a six month secondment so if I hate it it’s not a big deal.

Assholes and cliques. Toxic people and ass lickers.

Lazy people who do very little and get away with it because they're popular.

People who are meant to train new staff but don't, and just throw people they have taken an instant dislike to under a bus.

The common theme is people

@LemonPrism don’t you say no? You don’t have capacity right now, if they want it done then you have time in three weeks?!

I never stay late unless there is a clear business need. Which is rarely.

Colleagues who seems incapable of following written instructions on a form. And use basic company knowledge/it file structure to find information needed. For example our insurance details will be in the main drive folder called insurance, out certificates will be in the folder certificates - how bloody more obvious can it be?

Slightly different as I'm in uni but all our timetables are online. With room numbers. Without fail one girl says every day what room are we in next?
Why not have a look on your fucking timetable? It is confusing as it seems to change regularly so at the end of the lecture I check my timetable!
I have started replying 'I'm not quite sure what does your timetable say'? Pure laziness

For me :

It's the RELENTLESS laziness of the branch manager and the way that has trickled diwn over the last 2.5 years to a staff team that by and large phones it the fuck in.

I'm not saying I'm The Best (i'm not) but the overall apathy that has become intrinsic to the team attitude is so disheartening

Even The Best team member (IMO) is allowed to cherry pick what she will and won't do and just when I think how great she is, will absolutely floor you with her complete lack of a shit

One day I accidentally ran into someone whose family business once was a client

She said "oh it's a shame we can't work with you anymore but you don't provide X and Y"

We provide both. Manager just flat out fucking lied to be rid of client who brought in a lot of money, was demanding, but reasonable in line with the pay.

Sheer fucking laziness again.

Can't wait to leave

I have an older male colleague who is nice but he doesn’t make any effort to remember how to do tasks he’s not interested in - these are normally small things like converting a PowerPoint to a pdf, how to order the in-house catering etc - I’ve shown him these things on many occasions but he never remembers next time. I wouldn’t mind as much if he made an effort, such as writing notes on how to do it or trying to do as much of it as he can by himself, but it’s all very ‘ohh sparkle please help me with this’ as in - please do this for me. He seems to think it’s beneath him so not his job to do it. I get a bit resentful as he’s a senior manager on a very high salary but can’t complete very basic tasks by himself. As yes I know he has expertise in other areas which is why he’s on good money, but it really isn’t difficult to remember how to save a PowerPoint as a pdf..

Also people who always ask for a tea when you’re making one but never reciprocate...

People still trying to pass issues from
My old role on to me instead of my replacement. I cannot do 2 roles at once, o have my new role now, ask my replacement that shit ffs and it's been 19 months 🤯

Oh and I work with two utter arseholes

One male, one female

On any given day it is a toss up as to who I hate more

Sending emails with “high importance”. Sorry. I’ll decide.

That one person who copies you in on an email to the manager which says something like "oh are we doing it that way now? Because we always used to do it this other way but maybe you've changed your mind?" And referencing one little thing I've missed in a process I've recently learned since joining the organisation (into the job she wanted). It's just so blatantly pas-ag and I wish I could rise above it!