Work-related things that make you don your judgey pants

[stealthsquiggle]

So far this morning (maybe it's just me being grumpy because it's Monday) I have been wound up by:

• people getting parochial about stupid irrelevant things and insisting on involving everyone they know (or once met) on a conference call so that there are more people on "their side"

• people who put their degree / professional letters-after-name on their email signature and business cards (in an industry where having such a degree/certification is the norm)

-people with oh-so-witty email signatures - I just received one which says (where normal human beings would put "regards") the following:

Best regards/Salutations/Mit Freundlichen Gruessen/Abracos/Cordialement/Vriendelijke Groeten/Med Venlig Hilsen/Pozdrawiam/Ciao/Shalom/Sayonara/Melhores Cumprimentos/Hwyl Fawr/Au Revoir/Hasta Luego/Ystävällisin terveisin/Go raibh maith agat/Salaam/Nakemiin/Yeiasou/Antio/Kwaheri/Íyi günler/ שלום/感谢你和问候

WTF?!

(that last bit was chinese (I assume) characters which looked OK when I C&P'ed them in)

poncy, needy, nerdy

I get judgey by people who do the email equivalent of running whingeing to mummy by copying in the management during a minor disagreement on policy.

And people who get stroppy when you ask them a question about something that isn't their 'thing' (in a company where its hard to figure things out) rather than just pointing you in the right direction

Email sigs and the degree thing wind me up too

Out of office emails - for no good reason wind me up because I'm at work and they're not!

LOL Wotz.

I do get wound up by out of office messages which say they will be back (as it were) 2 days ago, but they haven't turned off their OOO.

Oh god YES people who put their degree on their business cards.

People who default to a ridiculous swirlyu font on email, or have a dozy signature.

Loads of personal stuff all over the desk - specifially photos, collections of daft ornaments, a sign saying crap like 'you don't have to be mad to work here but it helps'

The card we were given for a member of the Management Team of a well known airline/transport/entertainment company is a classic. Just below his name he lists

"Cappucino: no sugar (in the mornings)
Tea: milk, no sugar (in the afternoons)"

Bleeuurgh. I'm pretty sure I know what else he gets in his tea and coffee.....

GOML - you'd really hate the cubicle of one of my US co-workers. She themes it according to the season, and has 'cute' candies on offer in a retro dispenser. And pretty pictures up.

Seriouslt Janin ? Is it supposed to be funny like the Disney shop employees having to have their favourite character on their badges ?

"cute" desk clutter is fortunately a thing of the past because no-one has permanent desks any more (except in the US, where horrors such as CMOTdibbler are commonplace)

horrors such as CMOTdibbler describes. I was not calling you a horror, honestly

People who put those 'Are you sure you need to print off this email? Think of the environment' meesages. Guaranteed to make me print ot off.

I am properly cross-judgy about people who are often late for meetings etc. when I have had to get up at 6 am and sort out 2 children etc. to get in on time and prepared.

I am amused-judgy about some female colleagues in tight low cut clothes who really do appear to see work as a potential dating agency, and about some male colleagues who do likewise (but without the funny outfits).

People I work at a senior level who don't want to take any decisions or discuss anything because they find that "personally quite difficult". And who want us all to spend a day in a workshop hugging each other, and opening up about our wants and needs (yes seriously!). If you can't take a decision, don't take your very handsome pay

LOL Chrysanthemum - what sector do you work in that still has time/money for opening up and talking about "wants and needs" ?

Seems to me there is one obvious target attendee - the instigator?

Latest on my long judgey list is people who think that I am so shallow that incredibly unsubtle creepy flattery will get me to do stuff for them. Just ask, FGS.

Comedy mugs

People who organise meetings about how busy they are and how they haven't got time to implement any changes, good or otherwise, then bugger off to lunch for two hours.

Bitter? Me? No......

Ps these are two different things.

Higher education! And we don't have money for it, and I suspect the interest level in day of hugging would be pretty low!

FGS that is my tax money they are proposing to spend on hugging . Spend it on chocolate and doughnuts instead - an infinitely better investment in team bonding and morale.

On my list of nuisances: When you've emailed something out to a large distribution list, and one person has a question or problem with the content, they copy their reply back to everyone.... that pisses me off. It's always someone trying to show off how much they know or enjoying making other people look bad.

People who don't reply to emails/phone calls and hold up my work. I get my own back on some at meetings with my file of evidence while they get quizzed.

The more I think about this the more I come up with

Another thing which makes me properly judgey is people who can't spell. I don't mean occasional typos - I mean things like their/they're/there. Especially when these are the same people who put their degrees on their business cards/email signatures. It does make me think less of them, and also makes me wonder what sort of degree you can get without a basic understanding of English grammar.

People that say they don't want any part-timers on their team, until they themselves have a child and then all of a sudden, working part-time is perfectly acceptable.

I'd agree re the degree etc after name, nobody cares and they only actually need a name and contact details.

Also hate the disclaimers and do not print etc at the end of emails, just makes them look longer and wastes papaer when you print.

Definately judge on clothing, its a work place not a night out.

People who eat, drink, slurp while on the phone at work - urgghhh
and

Loud people on the phone in a open plan office. Particularly when they have bluetooth headsets and walk around the office, standing behing my chair being loud. Piss off back to your own desk.

Non-English native speakers who "correct" an entire text I have written into American English as I have "made some spelling mistakes".
I have to keep telling myself: they don't know any better. But, I still find it arrogant!