Office Pet Peeves . . . .

[Flashpoint]

Interrupters.

[Maritime Q-Scout]

Originally Posted by DuffMan

People who start conversations with... "I have a quick question"
Unless they are expecting a yes or no answer they should just ask the freakin question.

Every yes/no question I ask I premise with "I have a quick question for ya" because I want a quick answer.

Also, when asked a question... answer the freakin' question. I have perfected the dumbfounded look when I ask a question and the answer is no where near what I'm looking for, and then replying "That in no way answers my question what so ever"

For example:

Me: "What are you drinking?"
Someone Else: "Oh I'm on my last one for the night"
Me: "That in NO WAY answers my question"

[VANFLAMESFAN]

This is straight outta Office Space, the electric shock I get when I go to open the door after you have been typing for a really long time. It only happens on 2 doors in the entire building, the entrance and the washroom. So bloody annoying, Im gettin to the point that I wanna avoid the electric shock so bad, I try and time it so that someone else opens it for me................

[Cheese]

People who dont understand I have to post on CP...they burst into my office demanding answers to problems associated with work! morons.
Is it Friday yet...I feel a cold coming on!

[Mango]

The loud talker is at the top of my list, followed closely by the person who always eats at their desk. Usually, the scent of microwaved leftovers fills the office air. Nasty. For some reason, I'd rather listen to loud vegetable crunching rather than smelling that stuff.

[return to the red]

I have a sales rep that always calls me and puts me on speaker phone, drives me freakin nuts!! Plus people that always say "i'm so busy" and then you see them doin personal stuff or hanging around the water cooler...BTW I'm so busy so I shouldn't be posting right now

[Tron_fdc]

Speaker phones make me nervous. I find I watch what I say a lot more, due to the fact that chances are more than one person is listening. There's a greater chance you'll get held to your promises, and as a good sales rep I'll be the first to admit I'm completely full of sh*t.

[JBR]

My pet peeve is when my boss comes in and gives my crap to do while I'm trying to post.

[calf]

close-talkers annoy me the most. There's 2 kinds of close talkers in my office:

1) those that I run into in the hall and will get right in my personal space...it's not that loud of an office, you can talk to me from 1.5 feet away, I can still hear you.

2) when I'm sitting at my desk (cubicle), ones that will get right in there instead of standing in the aisle between desks...I can also hear you from 1.5 feet away there. Also, even though I have a spreadsheet open, I don't want you to see that I have CP minimized.

[MickMcGeough]

This is pretty job-specific, but my biggest pet peeve is the "computer guy" effect. That is, because I work with a computer at work, I must be there for any employee to pester about their flaky mouse or missing email or whatever curveball the computer gods have thrown them that day.

And I will probably punch the next person who tries to get me to fix their home computer after hours for a case of beer. Hey, why don't you do my taxes and if you do a good job I'll give you a coke and a pat on the back.

[mykalberta]

Originally Posted by return to the red

I have a sales rep that always calls me and puts me on speaker phone, drives me freakin nuts!! Plus people that always say "i'm so busy" and then you see them doin personal stuff or hanging around the water cooler...BTW I'm so busy so I shouldn't be posting right now

The HR/Office Manager lady where I work is the same way - it ****es me off to no end. I dont mind it if I know they have their own office but.

MYK

[mykalberta]

Originally Posted by MickMcGeough

This is pretty job-specific, but my biggest pet peeve is the "computer guy" effect. That is, because I work with a computer at work, I must be there for any employee to pester about their flaky mouse or missing email or whatever curveball the computer gods have thrown them that day.

And I will probably punch the next person who tries to get me to fix their home computer after hours for a case of beer. Hey, why don't you do my taxes and if you do a good job I'll give you a coke and a pat on the back.

I was just about to post the same thing.

My job is managing 3 Exchange Servers in Canada (Edmonton/Calgary) and the disaster/backup recovery operations in both cities (2 Scalar 24 Tape drives and 3 single SDLT drives). Because IT is normally seen as a cost and not a resources we only have 2 IT person(s) for 645 current active Email accounts so we do it all - lost start bar, file recovery cause I accidentally hit delete and dont know what the undo command is, and dealing with Enmax when they shut the power off for 9 hours on the block where I work this weekend so now my GF is ****ed that we cant do anything till sometime after 5pm on Saturday.

The whole fix home comptuer for a case of beer also ****es me off. I have my own buisness that is unknown to everyone I work with with the exception of the other IT guy which I get to help installing Wireless Networks in Apartments. Unless its a sngle hottie/MILF I refuse any home comptuer repair. If its a hottie I think about it then say no
I dont know why people are upset - they buy garbage from FutureShop/BestBuy/Stooples/CompuSmart etc for 500 and wonder why its a piece of crap. I tell them I own 3 comptuers, 1 home built, 1 Dell D400 that I use as an FTP server - doesnt have a monitor plugged into it and my Voodoo CrimsonBlue baby. Home built was roughly 1400 when done, dell was 300 plus 50 for 512 upgrade and 100 for 200 gb drive, and Voodoo was 2600. And I wonder why they are having problems with their shat PC.

Its not wonder people gasp when they ask for comptuer purchasing I tell them Dell or Voodoo or take your chances.

MYK