Work AIBU.. no im not.

[susanfromHR]

This is a safe space for all of us who want to rant about work things that irritate us without being told we are unreasonable.

Share how Susan from HR takes the comfy chair in the staff room every lunch, how your manager drives past you at the bus stop every time it’s raining and waves without offering a lift or how Linda the cleaner throws things away they deem are rubbish without asking but are actually the countries nuclear codes.

I’ll go first- I work with kids and have this parent who is so intent on making sure their child isn’t criticised that they say ‘that’s okay’ to everything. I’ll say ‘they’re tired’, ‘they’ve chosen their own outfit today’ ‘they pronounced xyz word in a cute and funny way today’ always with a ‘well that’s okay’ YES I KNOW, I’m simply observing and most of the time Saying it with the intention of boosting or complimenting your child argh.

It’s every day and it drives me crazy. What’s yours ? 😂

Even worse than the 'Hi Dollop' Teams messages, are the

'Hi Dollop, how are you?'

or

Hi, did you have a good weekend?'

Cut to the chase, we both know you couldn't give a shiny shit about my weekend? Just tell me what you want me to DO FOR YOU. I won't think you're rude for just getting to the point, in fact it will make me like you more, and do THE THING YOU WANT ME TO DO more quickly for you!

I admit, I have typed a 'yes thanks' and then put my status to Away for 30 mins before.

Kevin who picks his nose and eats it as his desk. Every single day.

Or the snooty cow who takes all of the red chocolates out of the roses tin at first dip because 'they are the only ones she likes and you guys can eat all the rest of them'

selfish wanker

I better not start, I might not finish.

But, the two right now.

1. Don't make us do some new stupid system and then moan when we don't do it in the way that you never told us to.

2. Stop moving your goalposts depending on what you want.

People who organise a meeting and don't lead it. You called me here, you tell me what you want me to talk about. Likewise meetings with no agenda - I don't need pages and pages but 2-3 bullets of what this is about wouldn't kill you.

When you send out a very simple communication e.g. confirming the date a new system will start and you get a stream of emails asking questions that are answered in the email like when will the new system start.

The bitchy clique who talk about everyone behind their back then smile and act friendly to their face. The ringleader of said clique thinks she is in a position of power above the rest of us (she isn't) and spends most days floating around kissing up the arses of the bosses and talking with her clique. I didn't experience this in high school and I didn't expect to be dealing with it from a bunch of 40 year old women

Oh GOD I’m glad it’s not just me.

See also Hi Empressaurus! Hope you’re doing well!

teams- I hate it and why do people message you on it 😳

Working alongside someone who doesn't even use the most basic of spellchecks so it takes a good 5 minutes to decipher what they are actually trying to say.

Oh and people demanding money for people's birthday/leaving gifts despite never contributing themselves. Bonus points if they request a certain amount too, 'oh we've agreed to chip in £25 each' no we fucking haven't!!

People (usually managers) who NEVER say please. I don't care how high up and important you feel but just be bloody polite.

100 times this. Someone on my team is notorious for this - she thinks her job ends when she's sent the meeting invite.

Any one else got someone who sends every single e-mail with high importance?

I set up a rule to remove it, I hate seeing those little red exclamation marks in my inbox!

Or have asked for read notifications and delete ones, it doesn't even involve me Bob, so no I'm not telling you that I have deleted it.

The new male recruit whose job is admin only but still thinks it’s below him to open the post when there are women who could do it 😡 those envelopes aren’t going to open themselves 🙄

I have a colleague who insists on answering customer enquiry emails but has the grammar of an ape.
"Hi what was you looking for sir?"

We have a standard corporate template for email signatures, so that when we email external contacts the communication looks professional and consistent. Except some people still fucking insist on creating their own ‘personal’ versions in stupid colours and naff fonts, so it looks like an email from sent from your auntie in 1998. We’re a regulator for a professional body, ffs. Nobody wants to be emailed about an investigation into potential malpractice by someone who signs off their email with their name in a cutesy handwriting font, you absolute melt. I don’t give a shit what Anne-Marie from Hearings Admin’s personal favourite font is; you’re sending a professional email on behalf of your employer so don’t make it the electronic equivalent of the Holly Hobby notepaper you got for your birthday in 1982.

Also if the facilities team could just stop blue-tacking badly written laminated signs on everything in the fucking building, that would be great. I don’t want to see a bit of laminated A4 saying “WE POLITELY REQUEST THAT ALL COLLEAGUES ENSURE ANY PERSONS THEY HAVE BRUNG INTO THE PREMISES IS WEARING THE CORRECT SECURITY PASS THANK YOU FOR YOUR CO-OPARATION” stuck to a cupboard everywhere I look, thanks

No idea what a KIT day is but am guessing ML is maternity leave? So she sat in a hot desk you like, and came into the office earlier than she needed to? Hardly sounds unreasonable to me, and not sure what maternity leave (if that what it means) has to do with it. Changing her hours I can see might be annoying but maybe her manager agreed it?

Instead of replacing another member of the team when they go off sick or leave, they just expect me to do it. Just do two jobs

a colleague emails me then messages me to tell me he’s emailed me, he then repeats the subject matter of the email on the chat, with a new message for every line of it, so my computer pings about 40 times, genuinely. No exaggeration. Sometimes I get over 60 messages in a 20 min window. Which just repeats the content of the one email.

I’ve told him, I’ve told his boss, everyone agrees it’s annoying as fuck. And still he does it,

"Keeping in Touch" day.

I did say it was irrational.

And, no, she hasn't agreed those hours with her Mananger.

Oh so many…
someone instant messaged me earlier to tell me that they are going to send email about something later today 🤦‍♀️
then proceeded to try and discuss it on instant messenger when I had none of the details… because they hadn’t yet sent the email!

Yes, I'm not keen. To me, it's checking up on you to see if you are there.