To wonder what your colleagues do that drive you insane?

[RainbowBriteUk]

My office is open plan and my colleagues are wonderful BUT there's this one person who eats nuts with the crispy edge. I don't know what they're called but they're so noisy to eat and to add, he's not the quietest eater at the best of times so the horrid crunch sound and then the wet eating sloppy sound drives me insane. It's at regular intervals of the day too! I take myself off for a long poo at these times when it gets too much!

This morning the one who greeted me with “Oh so (winners name) won Bake Off last night then!” even though we’d had a discussion the bloody day before about how much we were looking forward to watching it and how I’ll have to watch it on catch up the next day as I had to be in bed early.

I even told them I’d be on a complete media blackout until I could sit down with a cuppa and enjoy it!

Strop. I work in an office with a lot of under 30's, lots of young 20's ....and the
Stropping that goes on is off the scale. Asked to move desk: strop
Asked to turn the radio down: flounce
They need to get a grip!!
I wasn't like this when I was that age.

Constantly moans and let's out a groan every 5 minutes. Has the easiest job in the company yet still fucks it up. Constantly complaining that's she's soooo busy or that she or her poor husband are poorly(I couldn't give a shit). Constantly calls in sick for the slightest niggle yet when she was coughing up a lung with covid she came in and had to be sent home 😡. Funny thing is we really don't need her and carry on as normal when she is off (weekly occurrence), her job is really not needed as the little work she does do can be spread out so thinly across the rest of us that it really wouldn't add any extra workload.

I have a colleague who is lovely but... every song she likes on the radio.
She whistles along.
Really badly.

I know it is a pretty trivial thing but she wrecked Bon Jovi Bad Medicine today and it was the final straw
A slight resemblance to the song but just monotone and out of tune.
It honestly drives me crazy.

They’re all lovely, but in small doses! We have someone who narrates everything she does. Same one, asks for help to reply to an email, gets the answer, then asks another colleague who gives the same response.
Another who talks really loudly despite making it obvious that people are trying to concentrate.
Another who interrupts any conversation by moaning.

I work with a mix of qualified and unqualified colleagues.
The unqualified staff try and tell the qualified ones what to do.
Mostly early 20's and very new to the job.
Just a lot more gutsy than we were at that age

I had an ex-colleague — a perfectly healthy man in his early 50s — who, every time he did something like come back from a routine meeting or complete a piece of admin, would do this exaggerated drop-jawed panting face, and let out several loud breaths, as if he’d just run a fast 10k. After a while, it got so I wanted to staple his testicles to his chair.

All previous jobs THANK GOD

Worst - Mr Sniff. All day, every day. Sniff. Sniff. Sniff. Sniff. Sniff. I was murderous. He also regularly took credit for my work.

The woman in the staff room at lunch time who performance consumed her lunch daily, lips smacking, loud chewing, all the whole still managing to talk at the top of her voice to her colleague who was right next to her.

The one who engaged in competitive sickness. Constantly ill and sorry for herself. If someone had the flu she’d be sure she was coming down with double pneumonia. Someone had a cough, she had bronchitis. I was off sick having surgery for endometriosis and she had to tell everyone all about her long list of gynaecological issues which were so much worse and how she just knew she’d never be able to have children (in the end she conceived the first month of trying). Never took a day off actually sick though, as then she wouldn’t have been able to be a martyr.

Joins in every conversation even when it has nothing to do with them, they work in a totally different role to me but we sit opposite each other, if someone comes and asks me a question they butt in with an answer when they have no clue! If I am not at my desk they will try and answer the persons question for me….drives me insane

Whistling, though, should be a sackable offence. Gross misconduct.

The one who eats noisily at his desk every afternoon...

And the one who can't stir his coffee without clanking his spoon against the inside of the mug 40 gazillion times

At my current workplace, least favourites have been:

• someone who would come over to your desk to ask something but would do it with this massive rambly preamble leaving me thinking 'Just get on with it!'
• people who interrupt you for no good reason other than to point out something inconsequential, e.g. a noise outside. I DON'T CARE.

@sammylady37 madness! What age is she? Is it a regional accent thing?

Makes constant noise all day long. Clicking fingers, humming, whistling, shouts out odd words, scuffs feet when walking, endless noise. I want to rip my ears off…. Wait that’s my H, tbf he is working at home and I’m trying to study and have had enough. He’s off again next week then back for 6 weeks over Xmas. I told him to find a spot at the HO downtown, no space he says, of course
He didn’t even bloody ask, just expects me to put up with it. Worst Colleague ever

Previous job: the man I sat next to was a very loud eater and snacked constantly. I kept earplugs in my desk that I put in at the first rustle of packaging. It was either that or he died a grisly death at my hands.

Current job: another team I work closely with seem to have zero initiative or problem solving skills. I often get asked to help them out with stuff that has such obvious answers if you could only apply a bit of brain. They seem to think that if it isn't explicit in the guidance, there is no solution.

Conversely, I also get pretty regular emails from more distant colleagues asking things which ARE explicit in the guidance if they would only bloody read it. Guidance that my team faithfully update every year and start with cheat sheets for those who cba to read the whole (admittedly large) document. 😡

Insists on everything being done by phone instead of email. I work much better with things written down, especially since we are discussing really technical issues and he has a tendency to gloss over details. I’ve taken to just stopping the conversations saying I have to write this down to confirm I am getting it correct, putting it on the shared screen. Half the time once it is in black and white we can reach the correct conclusion within moments.

One of colleagues doesn't have her own opinion, she just repeats what you've just said back to you. She's absolutely lovely bout omg it gives me the rage!

Also have one who has a tantrum every time he has to move wards. And another who complains of some sort of ailment every single shift. Maybe I should start a sweepstake like a PP!

Oh and she’s ‘scared’ of going upstairs and point blank refuses to walk upstairs even tho she’s fine in our upstairs staff room

Could it be that she has some physical co-ordination difficulty with stairs, rather than being scared of being upstairs? Is she nervous about walking downstairs as well, as that would usually be more problematic for someone with such difficulties than going upstairs? I have mild co-ordination difficulties and don't have problems with walking upstairs, but need some help going downstairs on some staircases.

Colleague 1:
Asks me a question. I say I don’t know the answer. Asks me same question again.
Repeat x 5 until I lose it and snap ‘I STILL don’t know!’

Colleague 2:
Can’t type. Tries every possible way to make me do it for her while she watches / dictates me typing up her forms etc. Earns more than me. I wouldn’t mind if I was her secretary or PA, or if my job was any form of admin but it’s not: I’m a teacher.

Colleague 3: refuses to do between 50 and 99% of the things I ask her to do, all perfectly reasonable and in her job description (though she will dispute this til the cows come home…). And I’m her line manager.

Standing over me when I'm working! And the worst offender that way was super-ready to complain if I did anything that might disturb her.

Giving me unwanted advice, especially if it's not about work as such but about how they think I should organize my life or my diet.

Coming into the office on Nov. 9th, 2016 and exclaiming "Oh, I'm so relieved that Trump won the election!"

MintyGreenDream

Po-hay-hoes 🤣

Honestly, it’s infuriating. There isn’t a jury in the land that’d convict me if I killed her over it.

Ohhhh this made me laugh

So many things...

Asking me if they can ask me a question before asking the question.
After I answer the question, states "Yes, I knew that, I just wanted to check"

Never ever takes a break from work. Even on days off, still answering emails and doing the admin tasks etc. The only difference is they are showing as offline on teams rather than constantly available.
Then complains how exhausted and ill they are ALL THE TIME.

Different colleague. Starts late, has extended lunches, leaves early then requests help with tasks as cannot get them completed by the deadline.

One of my colleagues is one of those who likes everyone to know when she has a cold

My biggest pet peeve is the counterpart of that! People who make an exaggerated loud pitying fuss when someone (e.g. me) has a hoarse voice, culminating in 'Well, at least it must get you lots of sympathy!' I have always disliked this, and especially since a friend had a prolonged hoarse voice resulting in a throat cancer scare (fortunately he turned out to be fine.) This hasn't happened in the last two years, probably because people are too scared of catching Covid to want to stand fussing over people with any symptoms whatsoever.