Your Office Pet Peeves!

[ricosuave]

Originally Posted by Cal-Gal

I just point to my degree hanging on the wall. They usually get the hint....

haha good for you!

[ricosuave]

Originally Posted by enthused

People who take way too many smoke breaks. Your disgusting habit shouldn't be an excuse for not doing any work. Seriously. If people can go out that often for smoke breaks, I should be able to take as many "do whatever the hell I feel like" breaks.

LOL THANK you!

People ask why I have a sign on my bulletin board that says 'If only heroin use was more socially acceptable'

My biggest peeve would be the typical 'office' conversations about 1-the weather 2-the weekend 3-the workplace 4-the local sports team...

Come up with something ORIGINAL to talk about you vacant lemmings!

[calf]

People who can't take hints.

Like, if I'm concentrating on my work, have my headphones on, and someone will wave me over to look at something completely non-work related. Also similar is the guy that will come and talk, and continue to talk, and crack un-funny jokes, even after I turn away and continue working. The guys on the other side of the cubicle that will talk well above an acceptable "inside voice" level for at least 2.5 hours/day.

Or the guy that is obsessed with giving "the pound" whenever I see him, even though he gets the biggest "you're an idiot" glare or I don't even "pound" back.

The people who think all I want to talk about is Flames/Stamps.

Sandwich platters for lunch.

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally Posted by Harbourmouth

My biggest pet peeves is having to listen to receptionists yak all lunch. The way these people talk you'd think they ran the show. I don't even eat in the lunch room anymore. Sometimes I feel like just losing it and telling them they could replaced in 5 minutes with one call to a temp agency.

I'm sure they love you too.

[flames_1987]

Toby from HR

[FurnaceFace]

Originally Posted by Mango

I once worked with someone who cut his nails (toes included) in his cubicle. Every few days I would hear, "clip" "clip" "clip". It drove me up the wall and it was rather disgusting.

Did we used to work together? I working near a guy who did that all the time. He also had no clue about PCs and would always ask the guy beside him the simplest thing. The most bizarre thing about it is we was a midrange admin. Oh, and he also had some sort of allergy that made him sniff all the time.

other things:
Loud talkers
The sales dude who wanders around telling everyone he sold something big but we all know it's smoke and mirrors
The people who take an elevator up or down one floor
Bosses who are clueless
People who don't wash their hands after going!!

[Jiggy]

Originally Posted by Cal-Gal

I apologize in advance for the feminist rant that's about to ensue:

I'm the only woman that works in our office...all the rest are men. Sadly my male co-workers are under the misguided impression that because I'm the only female in the office, I must be the one who will do their administrative tasks or even personal errands for them.

"Will you book my flight?"...."Could you take this to accounting for me?"...."Would you mind faxing this for me?" I even had a co-worker ask me to pick up his suit from the dry-cleaners. I have nothing against secretaries, its just that, well, I'M NOT A SECRETARY. We NEED a secretary in our office, but my boss refuses to hire one.

In the meantime, whenever a co-worker comes to me with a clerical request, I just point to my degree hanging on the wall. They usually get the hint....

That is rough! I would be looking for another job if I was in your position...

[Reggie Dunlop]

I've pretty much come to the conclusion that every workplace is dysfunctional to a large degree. Randomly thrown-together individuals cooped up in the same place all day. Street gangs are likely better organized.

Best advice is to smile and keep your mouth shut.

[Jiggy]

Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop

I've pretty much come to the conclusion that every workplace is dysfunctional to a large degree. Randomly thrown-together individuals cooped up in the same place all day. Street gangs are likely better organized.

Best advice is to smile and keep your mouth shut.

Holy S$%^ ! Thats sooo true

[The Yen Man]

I've always hated the quote "working hard, or hardly working?" I mean, it seems like EVERYONE says that! Almost as bad as "someone's got a case of the Mondays!"

[Reggie Dunlop]

Originally Posted by Jiggy

Holy S$%^ ! Thats sooo true

Thanks.

You learn that sort of wisdom the hard way.

[BlackEleven]

- People who can't figure out the difference between the 'reply' and the 'reply-all' button.

- Smoke breaks. Its an excuse to work an hours less than non-smokers

- People that are on vacation that come in to say 'hi'. Do they come to rub it in? I don't get it.

- People that print thousand page documents and then don't pick them up, so I have to thumb through the giant stack to find my stuff.

[PowerPlayoffs06]

Originally Posted by Rhettzky

White noise generators.

Originally Posted by Bobblehead

...they brought in a white noise system in an attempt to "drown out" other sounds...

I don't work in an office, so I'm not really in the know about office-ly stuff. Do they actually have machines just to generate background noise? What exactly do they do? Make random beeps, phone rings, typewriter sounds and the hacking-cough-guy voice track?

[GirlySports]

There's a Printer and a XEROX beside each other.
People send their printouts to the XEROX and bitch that their print job is being held up because someone is standing there PHOTOCOPYING!

People who never say please and thank you.

Slackers that tease you the 1 minute you're taking a break and reading Calgary Puck.

Once I was carrying a heavy box and a guy walked by and said 'Hey, they're making you work for once!'

[Reggie Dunlop]

What's the opposite of "disgruntled employee"?

Gruntled, I guess.

I always smile an tell 'em I'm gruntled. Unnerves some of 'em.

Gruntled is a good word. More people should be gruntled.

[ricosuave]

Originally Posted by PowerPlayoffs06

I don't work in an office, so I'm not really in the know about office-ly stuff. Do they actually have machines just to generate background noise? What exactly do they do? Make random beeps, phone rings, typewriter sounds and the hacking-cough-guy voice track?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_noise

[PowerPlayoffs06]

Originally Posted by ricosuave

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_noise

Wow... Looking at that page made me dizzy. I guess there's a reason I don't work in an office.

[Reggie Dunlop]

The same people you have to put up with have to put up with you.

Good advice I learned.

Kinda difficult because there's more of "them" than you, but managable if you Bell Curve 'em.

[flip]

managing a drug store and being one of only 2 men on staff...out of 23, and the other guy is a night supervisor so i never see him.

don't get me wrong working with a bunch of hotties that i hired is cool but i hate hearing them talk about their nails and hair for 8 hours a day.

that being said the highlight of my career so far has been having the owner of my company (it rhymes with duper drug tart) come in and telling me that not only does my store look good but the eye candy is top notch. i was speechless. didn't know what to say. yes my hiring practises are biased, and they have worked to my benefit...

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by PowerPlayoffs06

Wow... Looking at that page made me dizzy. I guess there's a reason I don't work in an office.

When it was first turned on, we thought it was a problem with the A/C. It is just a constant SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

You know when you're in a room, and everything seems fine, then the fridge or compressor turns off and you realize how noisy it actually was? From that moment on, you really notice the noise. My office is like that. Every day.

I actually got a pair of active noise reduction headphones, just to try and make things a bit quieter. They don't work great, but they do cut the volume.
I'm used to it now. That doesn't mean I've come to like it.