workplace annoyances

[Shifty]

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.

Hmm, I love my job as well. I work with great people and usually  have a great day at work. Of course I hated my last job so bad, maybe I just think I'm happy now................. Going to look for something to piss me off.






Nope everything's still great!:aok

[FBBone]

I hate when I'm trying to read or post to the BBS and some dolt comes in INSISTING[/u] that I do some work.   The nerve of some people!

[SIK1]

Hey I never said I didn't like my job. I've been here for over seven years so yeah I like my job, just not all the time.  

There are days when I can't wait to get out of here, and then there are days when I can't believe that it's already time to go home.

[Dichotomy]

oh my job isn't bad at all I just have little patience for laziness, incompetence, not working through a problem, taking some initiative, and outright rudeness, of some of the people I have to deal with on a daily basis.  

Quite frankly I'm compensated substantially well for what I'm expected to actually produce.

[texasmom]

Actually, now that I had a trip to the dentist, I'm nice & grouchy. I can now think of some workplace annoyances (or any other annoyance, for that matter).

I hate it when people use the word "issues" in a professional document.  I edit it out every time I run across it (if it's something I'm allowed to modify). This is a business, not a club ~ just use proper english.

I don't like it when there's smudges on our glass entrance doors. But I'm the one who's supposed to clean those up... so I guess I shouldn't complain about that one.

I don't like telemarketers. I'm usually not nice to them. Why are they interrupting my work day with that garbage?

sitting... sitting...sitting...
Hm... I guess that's all I could think of.

[eagl]

Originally posted by SIK1


I catch you sleeping otj you are gone, if you are that tired don't come to work.  

Bosses that don't understand the concept of "siesta" tick me off  I'll work an extra hour or two, if I can take a little nap after lunch.

[Blooz]

I hate when my co workers leave boards with nails sticking pointy end up on the ground/floor.

I hate picking up an empty nail gun.

I hate cutting plywood.

I hate not having a restroom.

I hate fiberglass.

I hate having to work in the rain, snow, heat, cold, mud, dust, water and noise of a construction site.

I hate not having medical insurance.

I hate not having a retirement plan.

I hate not having a comfy chair to sit in (we do get to sit down for a quick 30 minute lunch and two 10 minute breaks during the day).

[Meatwad]

I hate looking for tools in the shop that the last person who used them didnt put them away in their correct spot

We are a farm co-op, but we have more junk tires lying around then a garage, tire center, and dealership have together.

The boss doesnt throw anything away. We keep busted hydraulic lines, scrap metal, sheared bolts, dead trucks, junk, and anything else you would find in a salvage yard. We tried and tried to get him to let us take them to a scrap yard and get some cash for it, but nope he wants to keep it.

WE HAVE NO USE FOR A FREAKING DENTED FULL-OF-HOLES STAINLESS TANK THAT WILL HOLD HALF ITS CAPACITY!  Lets take it to the salvage yard. "Nope, I may need that for something"

[Dichotomy]

okay here's one.. happened yesterday

coworker who has FULL INTERNET CAPACITY comes in my office and asks me if I know how to convert kilometers per hour to miles per hour.  

'sure' I say somewhat condesendingly

bring up google

find the equivilent

open excel

write a quick formula

email it to him under the name kilometers per hour to miles per hour calculator

'now you can too'

[Sandman]

Originally posted by Dichotomy
the out and out laziness of my coworkers never cease to astound me.  Hey I DON'T WANT TO WORK EITHER but, until I win a lottery,  I'm going to be here doing what I do and going home every night.  Now I'm a pretty genial guy but I do have a couple of quirks that I don't consider unreasonable.  I've politely informed my coworkers that certain things annoy me.  These are

1) I have an in basket on my desk.  I look at it often.  If you need me to do something for you put it in my in basket.


2) I like my screens free of smudges so please don't put your finger on them nor should you ever put a sticky note on the screen.  If you want to inform me of something and I'm not available please use email or place the sticky note on my desk pad.  I assure you, as I'm a neat freak, I'll notice your urgent sticky noty.

3) Stay out from behind my chair.  Don't lean on it, don't tap it, don't pull back on it.

Now I think these are reasonable requests

All three have been violated already this morning.  If you hear about a rampage in Haltom City TX it might be me.  I have access to schedule 40 pipe and I know a couple of people who need a good beating

So, What are your workplace quirks?  What makes you want to stab your coworkers in the eye with a #2 pencil?

I'm just wondering what kind of reaction we would get if you found a **** (starts with T, ends with D, UR in between) on your desk.

[Dichotomy]

well I'd probably take you to lunch, buy you a few beers, and swap AH lies

[Sandman]

Oh... I should add... a few years ago, before a long weekend, we put a live chicken in a co-workers office.

We left food and water and then closed the door.

[DREDIOCK]

I knew a neat freak once when I was a teen. with him EVERYTHING had to be just so.
 His brother and I used to delight in messing up his room..
Nothing destructive. Just things we knew would annoy the crap outa him.

Like one day he returned home to find all his posters hung either upside down, or crokken.
And entire half gallon box of BBS dumped in his shag carpet
His phone cord wrapped around his lamp and all twisted upAnd his bed messed up and about 100 empty cigarrette packs he was collecting  mixed in with the sheets and blankets. His school looseleaf binder all disorganised.
(math in with his history work and vise versa,etc etc etc)
All his LP records in the wrong sleeves and out of alphabetical order.

Man we used to take delight in messing with him.

Im still that way.
Be happy I dont work in your office. Giving me a list like that is like wearing a sign telling me what buttons to push.
You'ld come back from lunch one day to find about 1,000 post its all over your desk. LOL


Consider this. I once used a screw gun to screw my bosses lunchbox to his desk.

[DREDIOCK]

I dont have much in the way of pet peeves as long as the work is getting done in a timely manner.

Take a break, take ten breaks or none at all. so long as the work gets done as fast as I think it should be getting done.
I do allow for the occasional bad day so long as its not habitual.

The only "pet peeve" I have is guys getting and responding to text messages at work.

Last week I'd had enough.

"Text your friend back and tell him to tell everyone your working.
I see you flip that phone open one more time today and you can go home."

Just for the record. I follow my own standards. I dont like being phoned  or text messaged when Im working from people other then customers.

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Sandman
Oh... I should add... a few years ago, before a long weekend, we put a live chicken in a co-workers office.

We left food and water and then closed the door.

LOL the cleaning crew is gonna just LOVE you