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 ? 😂

Erm do these actually work?

Remember the days when you had a desk work phone / work mobile phone and it just rang without any warning ?

that flipping tune.

And why does it let people phone in when you’re already on a completely unrelated call.

Bog off

FYI The main reason people just type hi in chat is to establish whether you are available for a two way conversation

Totally agree! And "circle back" is nearly always said by people who have no intention whatsoever of ever re-visiting the issue.

I would actually find this amusing

Omg that would make me wanna be sick 🤢

That colleague that complains about others’ inane chat, then proceeds to inane chat themselves…… apparently it’s not inane if it’s about them.

The manager that gives you a score you on a number of cases you do. Who is supposed to dish out the correct number of cases and has a spreadsheet to help calculate this, but can never give you a straight answer about how many cases you should have 😂.

2% pay rise.

A 2 hour monthly meeting where a manager pretty much reads out staff announcements and emails. And trains us on out of date stuff.

MS teams ringtone.

MS teams group chats.

Manager who sends keyboard warrior emails to try and deal with stuff.

Trying to learn a job where no one seemingly has a clue. Joke.

i agree but when I want to ask someone for something I feel compelled to do this too. Maybe we should all have a badge which indicates that we don’t want social niceties with requests lol

I work in HR supporting managers and hear long winded moans about how shit their staff are, and when I ask if they've even spoken to them about it they'll say oh well there have been performance issues for YEARS! Well why haven't you bloody done something then, why is this the first time I've heard their name! It's public sector too so it pisses me off how many crap employees get away with it for so long

People who earn four times my salary stealing my milk, teabags and coffee out of the communal kitchen. 😡

@HolyPeaches I work with 3 people who have started using two of the odious jargony expressions I've ever heard. I've made over £100 so far charging them 50p every time they use one of them!

A boss who asked me to pass him something and ended the sentence with
”quick”. The something he wanted was already in my hand because I can read his mind. I did tell him “don’t quick me, that’s very rude!”
The same boss who told me I shouldn’t really work through my lunch hours ( I only do it when he’s off so I can get off early) because legally I should take a break. Then asked me to work through my lunch hour because he wanted to see a patient that we couldn’t fit in as quickly as he wanted.

sense check
temperature check
going forward
let's rewind
let's take 5

no let's fucking not

Lateness. Enabled by those who say 'let's give it a couple of minutes'.

I host a daily meeting (it's a call). It starts on time. Guess what, everyone knows that, so 99% of the time everyone is there on time.

Yes.

We waited 8 minutes for someone the other day - I could have made and eaten a sandwich in that time

People who put “fun stuff” in their signature block.

A manager who encouraged all her direct reports 'don't send an email, just pick up the phone'.

No. What they want from me is going to need them to give me some numbers / facts, which can usefully be written down for my reference instead of me having to take notes; and can be done when I am ready to do it not exploding into the middle of the thing I am concentrating on every 5 minutes.

I did actually say this in the all hands meeting just after she had done the spiel, don't think I was 100% popular.

Yes this but most importantly HOLLY HOBBY! My god I'd completely forgotten about Holly Hobby stationery!!

Also back at you all; I dislike people who treat teams chat like an email. It's actually a real time conversation in writing. I am perfectly fine with someone just opening 'hi' to see if I am free.

Bringing your whole self to work and sharing in role plays. No thanks I’m here to work not talk about my personal life. This year has been a shit show so I made something up

This and forced fun
like please just no

I have a work colleague who took several years before acknowledging being in a same sex relationship. I would not want her to have been forced to say anything about this if she did not want to.

My (relatively new) boss genuinely believes he's a fair and democratic leader who takes everyone's ideas and opinions on board. In fact, he only takes on board the stuff he agrees with or that correlates to whatever decision he's already made and literally ignores everything else.

He also says incredibly twattish things straight from Leadership for Dummies like "how can we get a better result next time?" and "what can we change to make sure things work out better next time around?" It makes me want to punch him.

They do for me.