What's your biggest pet peeve?
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What's your biggest pet peeve?
| Thu, 03-21-2013 - 3:38pm |
One of my biggest pet peeves about working in an office is when I would be on a phone call, and someone from corporate would have me paged to answer their call that went to voice mail. It just aggravated me that they thought their needs were more important than whomever I was on the phone with.
What's one of yours?
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I currently work in a home based position, but I have to say that I find it much harder than working in an office. I hate that, seemingly, when people don't have to see you in person, they feel much more comfortable complaining about you or talking about you behind your back or making up things, despite you having an email chain to the opposite, that indicate you aren't doing your job when they're actually not doing theirs. It's a lot easier to dishonestly blame others when you don't have to ever look them in the eye after such blame is laid.
Liz
Clinical Research Associate
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Coworkers who constantly bring their personal lives into work. it drives me nuts when I have to listen to people on the phone dealing with their personal issues (all the time). I don't understand why they can't handle things at home, in private? I know way too much about my coworkers (and I don't want to). What is even more annoying is that they spend so much time on their personal issues, that their work falls behind. These are people who never take a proactive stance in their job, or want to improve their job skills, it's as if work is just status quo, but in their personal lives they are always trying one thing or another (not that it changes anything, the problems still exist).
Ugh. I can understand your frustration, ITChick. I will admit, though, that when I was young and "babysitting" (I didn't get paid--it was just a family role) my brothers, I know we called my mom several times a day while she was at work. Looking back, I can't believe how she put up with it, and I wonder how her coworkers felt about it. I guess it was part of the price of not actually paying for childcare, though.
Liz
Clinical Research Associate
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