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Poll: What Office Behaviors Annoy You?

uniquely-ironic posted on Nov 08, 2007 | views: 471 | Tags: office etiquette, annoy, office, manners, annoying, rudeness
This morning I went to use the copy machine in the main supplies room.  I was very annoyed to find that the last person who had used the machine had left flecks of white out on the glass.  WTF?!!!  Who on earth decided it was acceptable to leave the copier all messed up and just go about their business?
 
If this only happened once I suppose it wouldn't push my hot button so much, but it happens regularly here.  I've never been able to figure out who does it, because I'm not shy about talking to people about their shitty business ettiquette.
 
This got me to thinking about other behaviors that annoy me at work.
 
1. People who promise to take care of a problem, but need to be nagged consistantly to actually do what they promised to do.
 
2. People who leave food in the breakroom fridge until it becomes an OSHA issue.
 
3. People who use the last of some supply and then don't let the office services people know to order more.
 
4. People who send long boring emails that don't really pertain to your work function even when you request that you be dropped from their weekly updates.
 
5. People who send all of their emails as urgent, even if it's absolutely not urgent.
 
How about you?  What office behaviors get under your skin?


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  • quietone said on Nov 08, 2007....
    Well uniquely, I don't work in an office, but on a shop floor.  I find the biggest issue, the most anoying is
    #1 by far...people (the boss) any boss who say "I'll look into it"... and yes "promise" to "take care of it"...like I believe THAT!!
    2. people who leave the breakroom tables, chairs, floor a mess and don't pick up after themselves...I mean what do they do at home??  Its gross
    3. The rest of the "world at work" thinking 3rd shift people are stupid and don't know a thing. 
    4. Oh, and Management making a "huge" deal out of safety, but don't follow through until someone gets hurt..breaks a bone or looses a finger.
     
  • uniquely-ironic said on Nov 08, 2007....
    quietone - I think the bosses who don't follow through on promises is the most common complaint.  I also have experienced the safety issue thing, which is annoying and painful.  As for the 3rd shift people, I was a 3rd shifter for awhile and I know it takes incredible discipline to do that shift.
  • silverwhisper said on Nov 08, 2007....
    people who adjust the thermostat without consulting others.
  • quietone said on Nov 08, 2007....
    Oh, good one...ed...that reminds me on the same note...people who blare the radio on the shop floor w/o concideration to others.
  • uniquely-ironic said on Nov 08, 2007....
    SW - OOOHHHH!!!  That drives me to the edge of my sanity. 
     
    quietone - I don't like people poluting other peoples work space with my music, and I will get pretty vocal if they invade my space with noise.
  • silverwhisper said on Nov 08, 2007....
    quietone: holy crap, i've never worked anyplace that was permitted!

    ed
  • uniquely-ironic said on Nov 08, 2007....
    SW - when I worked at the sheriff's department the person with the most seniority got to pick the radio station.
  • beyondtheveil said on Nov 08, 2007....
    unique- So many have been mentioned I'm going to grab one that applies not only in the office. My wife who is a district manager has this happen often- people who will not let you off the phone. Why does anyone need to discuss the same six things six times? Both of us use the same polite (get me the hell off this phone) phrase which is "well, I'll let you go now"- and it is as though you never said anything. 
  • uniquely-ironic said on Nov 08, 2007....
    BTV - I've had those people call me too.  I'll use the "let you go" line, or "I won't waste more of your valuable time" line, but they cling to you like a tick.  Not a good combination with my short attention span.
  • lfbno7 said on Nov 08, 2007....
    I think I find "loyalty" issues the most important. What I find most annoying is people who turn on you. To me, a civil work environment is one in which everyone has everyone else's back, and nobody is trying to stick a knife into it.

    Last week, someone apologized to me for making a mistake on one of my cases. I didn't blame him at all, and just reassured him that everyone makes mistakes. I told him it's nothing. Later that week I made an even bigger mistake on the exact same case and it impacted his job and made him do extra work to fix my error. Today he came by my office to talk about mixed martial arts.
  • uniquely-ironic said on Nov 08, 2007....
    Mr7 - Loyalty among coworkers is a dying concept.  I've been in a few jobs where people have actively worked to undermine my work even after I helped them and in one case recruited them to that employer.  Luckily my job here is pretty secure, though I try not to test that security often.
  • Eilan said on Nov 08, 2007....
    I worked in a medical office when I was in college--part-time during the school year and full-time in the summer.  My immediate supervisor and her supervisor were smokers.  Every hour on the hour, they, and the handful of smokers in the department, would go out and smoke for 10 minutes.

    Okay, fine.  What really pissed me off, though, was when my immediate supervisor would watch the clock whenever we nonsmoking peons would go on break.  She'd make snide comments if anyone took, say, a 16-minute break or a 35-minute lunch hour.  Never mind that she was getting 80 minutes (110, if you counted her lunch hour) of break time every day, well beyond what our employer allowed.

    The smoking didn't offend me.  The overblown sense of entitlement did.  I once joked to my ex that I should take up smoking so I wouldn't have to work as hard.
  • Brunettebmshell said on Nov 08, 2007....

    1. This lady who I share a desk with, (we work seperate hours, she works mornings, I work afternoons), she leaves her dirty snot rags in a pile on the desk! Utterly disgusting...

    2. Having work passed off to me because they were too lazy to get to it, and they know I'll get it done.

    3. Having someone cook stinky food across the hall, then bring it in to the office and eat it!

    4. People eating at the front desk while there are clients in the office.

    That's about all I can think of... and now I'm ticked after thinking about this! Haha.

     

    BB

  • Twylarants said on Nov 08, 2007....
    I work in a supermarket, but jerks are jerks no matter where they work.
    You can't cure stupid!
    1. people who don't flush the toilet.
    2. people who call me from a distance. Am I supposed to walk to them?
    3. people who ignore customers because they know I won't.
    4. people.  In general.
  • minniemouse said on Nov 09, 2007....
    burning popcorn in the micorwave at work and stinky food......ugh....Why should you torture the rest of the office with your burnt popcorn?  or your stinky lunch?  Ugh.....MM
  • uniquely-ironic said on Nov 09, 2007....
    Eilan - I've run across that too.  It always made me angry that a supervisor would set such a poor example.
     
    BBS - Those are disgusting habits!!  I'd probably flip out at the snot rags.  Maybe get one of those red biohazard containers and put a "snot rags" sign on it.
     
    Twyla - That toilet thing has always been a mystery to me.  How did some mother raise a kid who leaves their "deposits" in the bowl and doesn't flush?  There were a couple of years with the kids (like when they were in grade school) that I'd run across that and let the offender "have it".  They are trained now.
     
    MM - LOL I have to laugh at the popcorn thing.  One of my coworkers (the one directly across from me) likes his popcorn slightly burnt.  He does it on purpose.  It bothers me, but since I'd rather have a good coworker with disgusting eating habits than a bad coworker with good eating habits I tolerate him.
  • moonriver said on Nov 09, 2007....
    moonriver k'ung fu-tzu say, me hate people who talk too much at work. me think 3" duct tape dispenser should be standard fixture in office.

  • uniquely-ironic said on Nov 09, 2007....
    moon - me thinks you need wider tape.  You'll never cover a moving target with the 3" width.
  • moonriver said on Nov 09, 2007....
    uniquely -- me work in office with limited budget and unlimited verbosity, so me see what you mean. first thing tomorrow morning, me go to staples and buy me 5" roll... lol.

  • uniquely-ironic said on Nov 09, 2007....
    moon - good luck, send pictures.
  • desertsienna2 said on Dec 03, 2007....
    1.  People not showing up;
    2.  People faking sales to get ahead before quitting;
    3.  People phoning their relatives all afternoon and night;
    4.  People complaining that they don't sell;
    5.  Fake claims of sickness, family emergency and friends dropping by for
    dinner;
    6.  Constant complaints of boss when nobody else has worked there consistently for months and
    there is one person on nights;
    7.  People quitting without a few day's notice.
    8.  Construction;
    9.  Garbage;
    10.  Cold.
  • uniquely-ironic said on Dec 03, 2007....
    desertsienna2 - wow, I take it you work in an office of monkeys?

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