Office pet peeves
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| Tue, 10-16-2007 - 12:35pm |
Little things about my coworkers are making me crazy today (well, always, but today more than usual). Instead of stewing about them, I thought I'd start a list of the most annoying habits of coworkers. I will start, but please add to the list. :)
Mine:
- Office neighbors who listen to their voice mail on speaker at full volume
- Coworkers who spray perfume or cologne in their offices, several times a day (gag! hack! wheeze!)
- The girl who always has to move my lunch in the fridge so it gets crammed and smashed in the back, just so her designer pink lunch bag gets a priority shelf location
- The girls who seem to think the printer outside my office door is actually a conference room and stand there and gab for 20 minutes
- Coworkers who can't possibly get up to go talk to a colleague and shout their business down the hallway for the whole world to hear
- The office neighbor who doesn't close her door when she carries on personal (and I do mean personal) phone calls with her boyfriend
(All of these things have happened already today, and it's only 10:30. SIGH. Can I please telecommute??)
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What are yours?

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Coworkers that share details of their sexual exploits...TMI TMI TMI!!!
Coworkers that take multiple days off, leave early, come in late and then wonder aloud why they can't get their work done.
Helpless coworkers that can't figure out that when you open the last box of copy paper to write it down on the order list that we need more paper so we don't run out, everyone just expects everyone else to do it.
Coworkers that are so lazy they literally sit one chair length away from the printer but will print an envelope and it will beep for the envelope for hours because they are too lazy to get off their arse to put an envelope in the printer, so if I go up there to print something and an envelope is in my way I delete it out of the que so I can get whatever I print...too bad so sad if you are too lazy to get up, you should have to print again...yeah I'm that witchy.
Smile,
Deirdre
Mine may be slightly different from other people's lists, simply because about 80% of my coworkers are male.
1. People who feel the need to yell their conversations, whether it be in person or telephone conversations.
2. Food seekers who show up every day looking for freebies and then complain when you didn't bring in something for them when they never contribute themselves.
3. People who never refill the community candy dish, but who regularly take from it.
4. People who turn their lunches from home into science experiments in the community fridge.
5. People who show less respect for the quality of work for the opposite gender, simply because it's field in which that gender is a minority.
6. I work in a cubicle environment, and can't stand the people who congregate in my quad talking loudly for hours on end when they're not even talking to any of the 4 of us who sit there.
7. People who steal credit for other people's work.
This one is rampant in our office. We have tons of meetings here, both internal and external groups, so there's always food. The thing is, there's an unwritten rule that the people who host the meeting (and clean up afterward) get first dibs on the leftovers, but there's always a group of scavengers who swoop in as soon as the meeting lets out.
AJ, enjoying life with C.
I remember that from when I worked in the private sector. Some people would go through the building searching for leftovers.
...and it doesn't matter if they ate 15 minutes ago. Yep, they'll eat anything free, any time.
AJ, enjoying life with C.
I hate, hate, hate for people to hang out in the restroom and hold conversations. When I go in there, I want some privacy. Today, some chick was in there on her cell phone, gabbing away.
Do you just have problems with the female co workers?
AJ, enjoying life with C.
I now work from home, so I no longer have to deal with:
1. Co-workers who listen to music on their headphones, but WHISTLE and HUM to the music, even when you ask them to stop. Or worse, play head-banger/grunge music on their CD player (without headphones) and whistle and hum.
2. In a cube environment, people who have long, loud conversations next to you.
3. In a cube enviroment, excessive use of speaker phone. Oh, and while talking very loudly, play with a bottle cap on their desk the whole time.
4. People who microwave FISH for lunch.
5. People who throw their lunch away in YOUR trash can.
>>The thing is, there's an unwritten rule that the people who host the meeting (and clean up afterward) get first dibs on the leftovers, but there's always a group of scavengers who swoop in as soon as the meeting lets out.
Oh, and it's always the people with money (in my experience).
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