What’s given you the work ick?

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I’ve started a new job recently and was surprised at how quickly I lost respect for certain colleagues. My manager regularly doesn’t show up for meetings she scheduled and just leaves you sitting there. Another colleague vapes through every meeting like it’s completely normal. It’s not the end of the world but it definitely gives me the ick and now I can’t take them seriously.

So AIBU to feel this way? And what are your workplace icks?

I have been moaned at for reading a novel in a corner of the break room during my lunch rather than, I don't know, putting on a one woman stand up comic routine in front of the kettle. What part of statutory uninterrupted break is difficult? Too cold to go sit in the park, can't sit at my desk or else work just drags on. I'm not rude about it but I get more than enough inane chit-chat during paid work hours. Sitting on your phone and scrolling through TikTok videos without headphones on is apparently socially acceptable, but not quietly reading...

This sounds like the worst office ever

• 'Hi X how are you?' on Teams - just spit it out so I can decide whether to ignore you or not!
• "KR" as email sign-off
• "Safety moment" at beginning of meetings - never anything remotely relevant to our line of work
• Man in 40s who uses hashtags in Teams posts e.g. "Let's work together to meet this deadline as best we can #teamworkmakesthedreamwork"
• "reach out" - unless you're a member of the Four Tops, just say you'll email me
• LinkedIn nonsense
• AI meeting minutes (AI in general)
• People making noises when sharing screens and waiting for something to open/load - "I'll jeeeuuuuuusssst open it up...dum-di-dum...just opening.....fafafafaaaa....there we go"
• "You're on mute"

I've got another 30 years of this.

Guidelines are no more than 30 mins

Marking your email as Important (!)

They’re all bloody important…

Thats fucking awful.

Can you report them?

😂, well important to integrate!

Haha! If sharing a screen I always say ‘has she come through yet?’ If they don’t laugh then I automatically think dickhead.
Signing off an email with ‘best’ really gets me too especially when written by a man who wears double denim and his outlook profile pic is from when he was in his 20’s.
edited to say - I always sing l’ll be there whenever I too read reach out!!

Omg, does she also eat a yoghurt at exactly 3.58pm and fiercely taps and scrapes every single last morsel from the yoghurt pot until she reaches her protein allocation for the day?

People on a slightly higher pay grade who think they’re so much more intelligent than you. Being called collectively “yooos lot”. Being told not to worry if we aren’t with our friends on a hour’s training course (we are in our 50s not teenagers). Being told to save paperwork that’s years old in case someone ever needs it. (No one ever has). Loads more. I think it used to invoke rage and bewilderment more than ick.

Oh when ringing a certain bloke he’d ask “all right Cat?’ I’d reply yeh fine thanks, to which he ALWAYS said “good good”. Bore off.

A proper social sauna session takes several hours. You don't spend the whole time sitting in the sauna but take cool down breaks from time to time but very easily spend more than 30 minutes - 30 minute guidelines are for foreigners who aren't used to sauna, or small children, for everyone else you just stay as long as you feel comfortable.

I get into work about an hour before start time. This is for my benefit, traffic would otherwise be appalling and I get set up for the day, but my boss thinks it’s ok to come in multiple times to yap on about stuff. Send me an email, I’m busy! Same at lunch, spent at my desk so I can work. Leave me the heck alone, particularly when we have designated meeting times. Major ick. I’m planning on leaving next year.

People being rude tbh. I started a new job in April and I still can’t get over how some people think it’s acceptable to talk to others. It’s the thing that will make me leave. I love the work but the majority of people are gross.