workplace annoyances

[storch]

actually very few of ours are actually annoying.  I just thought that to be a comical quip.

[ChickenHawk]

Originally posted by Dichotomy
I like my screens free of smudges so please don't put your finger on them  

This is a big one for me but at home.  I've yelled, pleaded, threatened and instructed the wife and kids not to touch my beautiful precious flat glass monitor but to no avail.  It's constantly smudged with finger prints.

At work it really bugs me when someone bothers me during lunch while I'm reading my book.  It's my half hour and if your board or need something done, go bother someone else and come back later.

[Dichotomy]

oh some customers can be quite annoying

1. 'what do you mean it takes five days to get drawings?'

well, for one thing, I have to design it, have the plans reviewed by a professional engineer, drive to his house on my personal time to pick up your drawings, take them to the DHL office, and overnight them.  Sure you're my most important customer with your whole one order a year but I'm not his and he does things in his own time.  

2. 'we had these delivered six weeks ago and now we can't find the hardware'

it's banded to a pallet that came with your order

'we didn't get any pallet'

do you have anchor bolts in the ground

'yes'

then you got a pallet.  Did someone secure the area or take the hardware back to your office

'nope cause there wasn't any'

and it didn't occur to you to talk to me about this six weeks ago

'I didn't know I wasn't on the site'

Okay well I just emailed you a signed bill of lading with a picture of the truck with the pallet of anchor bolts that your contractor received six weeks ago.  You'll note that the hardware is on the pallet next to the anchor bolts.

'oh... ya'

So obviously someone in your organization misplaced it or it was stolen off the site

'well yes I guess... umm can you send me some more hardware'

sure.. that'll be $264 plus freight

'WHAT?  YOU MEAN I HAVE TO PAY FOR IT????'



ya customers can be annoying as well

[Chairboy]

Originally posted by ChickenHawk
At work it really bugs me when someone bothers me during lunch while I'm reading my book.  It's my half hour and if your board or need something done, go bother someone else and come back later.

I used to have this same issue when I lunched at my desk.  I figured out that spending the lunch break elsewhere was the best way to avoid this, either in a different part of the building where nobody knows me or offsite.  Just a thought.

[SIK1]

Originally posted by Chairboy
I used to have this same issue when I lunched at my desk.  I figured out that spending the lunch break elsewhere was the best way to avoid this, either in a different part of the building where nobody knows me or offsite.  Just a thought.

Yeah, I never eat lunch at work anymore. For some reason everything is an emergency when I'm eating my lunch. (and that's after I told them that an emergency was the building is burning down, or someone is dieing, if they have already died it is no longer an emergency.)

Funny thing is when I started eating off site no more emergencies.

[Vipermann]

I can't stand when people come into my office while I'm on the phone and stand there and stare at me or pace around waiting for me to get off the phone.

I finally got a small dry-erase board and put it on the wall and point to it when they walk in.


Then I got the guy down the hall who punches out if he feels he's not working to his full potential. He punched out today at 10:30 and is still here working. Heck I think he gets more done off the clock than on!

[Nilsen]

I work from home, and the missus knows not to disturb me during the day in my office, and i dont disturb her in her office (she also works from home)

The one thing that really sets me off, is when im in my office "working" on the spitfire or lala infront of me, and some dolt calls me on my worknumber and wants something.

[storch]

Originally posted by Nilsen
I work from home, and the missus knows not to disturb me during the day in my office, and i dont disturb her in her office (she also works from home)

The one thing that really sets me off, is when im in my office "working" on the spitfire or lala infront of me, and some dolt calls me on my worknumber and wants something.

that is very very annoying

[Dichotomy]

absolutely no respect.. I'd let the answering machine get it

[SIK1]

Originally posted by Vipermann
Then I got the guy down the hall who punches out if he feels he's not working to his full potential. He punched out today at 10:30 and is still here working. Heck I think he gets more done off the clock than on!

Ah, I need to talk to this guy.

[texasmom]

I love my job ~ I love the people I work for ~ and I love the people I help at work. I love the customers ~ and I love punching out at 5:00 each day & going home to the best husband & kids in the world.

[Dichotomy]

STOP IT... HAPPINESS IS NOT ALLOWED

[texasmom]

Also, I work alone. Me & two managers. Each have our own separate areas. All of our employees are elsewhere, and all business w/them is over the phone & by email.  That makes it lots easier to love.

[Curval]

Originally posted by texasmom
I love my job ~ I love the people I work for ~ and I love the people I help at work. I love the customers ~ and I love punching out at 5:00 each day & going home to the best husband & kids in the world.

I'm going to hurl.

[flakbait]

Originally posted by Dichotomy
STOP IT... HAPPINESS IS NOT ALLOWED

While I was working for a certain company in their paint dept. I had a boss who actually did say that! We (myself and two other folks) were telling jokes to pass the monotony. Face it, plastic welding the same points on several hundred parts is boring as all hell. So we'd crack bad jokes, discuss cars or aircraft; anything to get time moving. In the midst of a good zinger, with us all laughing quietly, the boss walked up. All 5' 3" of him. And he literally screamed " Stop telling jokes! You people are too happy!."

He was red, we were blinking, and then we were on the floor! Fifty-plus people heard him yell, and at least half of them were laughing so hard they had to either sit down, or hold themselves up. Funny thing was, his boss also heard that loud exhortation. Ready for the punchline? Elmer Fudd not only still works there, he got a bonus that month. The rest of us got talked to.




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