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Annoyances in the workplace
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that does not happen in IT sections us IT nerds can place every dead pixel and mark our chairs out so we know
"tobefirst" being a Mac user myself i seem to get all the Mac questions for our building , and i love talking to fellow Mac'Heads
No, when I'm complaining about the cold I'm already either wearing my coat or wrapped up in a pashmina thing.
"tobefirst" being a Mac user myself i seem to get all the Mac questions for our building , and i love talking to fellow Mac'Heads
Want to come work for my hospital?
Seriously, it's not (usually) the mac/pc thing that frustrates me...it is how they can get away with being as rude as they are.
that's about 98% of IT people - the people who can fix your problems generally don't have a girfriend and do not get out much - the one's who are good to talk to ,have a wife or a girlfriend and a life
i can see about 20 IT techs right now who are single BTW ( for the record i gotta wife
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The guy who sits in the office next to mine has sinus problems. Bad, chronic sinus problems. You can figure out the rest. They don't make walls thick enough to block out that sound.
I seriously do not have enough spare time tonight, and i dont know if MR has enough space for me to list mine. Lets just say, if anyone knows of any good jobs going in and around Stoke On Trent, then please let me know
Stoke-on-trent? you guys have some weird city names
Peculiar, Missouri
Frankenstein, Missouri
Now who has weird city names?
And another annoyance: people who smoke - in my building they're not allowed to do so inside, but they go out 4 or 5 times a day for 10 minutes, while on the clock, then come back stinking of cigarettes!
My answer to this: I have four or five MacRumo(u)rs breaks a day
Peculiar, Missouri
Frankenstein, Missouri
Now who has weird city names?
Touche.
But Missouri's weird to begin with
Its the only way work gets done in my office if the relevant superiors are copied in all the messages. The inboxes do tend to fill up quickly.
Draughting complaining they are over worked, like who isn't?
Other people changing my drawing without my consent.
Speaker phones in an office environment.
People who do not dry their hands after washing up and opening the door in the restroom, at least I hope its water.
All the spoons in the kitchen are kept in a glass of water, by the end of the day the glass is a mixture of sugar and coffee
I.T department, H.R department need I say anymore.
you guys seem to have some pretty crummy work places.... maybe its an american thing, all my friends working in europe work in posh offices.
then again, my one job as a legal researcher in at a big law firm was posh...
my job in dc was pretty darn nice too... i like all my co workers as they are always professional and well kempt, well dressed, polite individuals
then again, my one job as a legal researcher in at a big law firm was posh...
my job in dc was pretty darn nice too... i like all my co workers as they are always professional and well kempt, well dressed, polite individuals
The #1 complaint in every office is that it's too cold.
#2 is it's too hot.
Once had a co-worker who clipped his nails at his desk. I put an end to that.
People who bring in leftovers that smell.
I agree. At my old office the guy at the desk next to me did that- I put an end to that immediately. Other horrible things I hate in offices:
-The kitchen. Seriously. People are so damn messy it's disgusting. I refuse to eat anything out of there, it's quite sad.
-The bathroom. Same.
-Cell phones. I haven't had a ringtone since I was 17. This is an office, people- use vibrate.
-People that make disgusting sounds- i.e. random throat loogie type sounds, snorting sounds, birps, any body sounds.
-Hitting the keyboard. Seriously- my boss does it all the time and it's VERY loud and distracting
-Load personal phone conversations. I really don't care what you do outside of work- I don't need to hear it.
-People who have their wife, son, family member call more than once every day. You have a cell phone- if you have to have them call every day, call that number instead- just make sure it's on vibrate!!
-People who are clueless that everyone doesn't want to hear their stupid stories every day. When someone doesn't laugh at your stories and doesn't respond, we aren't interested!!! This one guy would seriously talk for more than 20 minutes without anyone so much as looking at him or acknowledging him talking.
And other things.
Wow, you guys must work at lame cubicle jobs A good chunk of the problems probably could be solved if you had your own separate offices
My only complaint from the years I have worked part-time (being merely a student) is when it's humid 95 degrees on a day like today, my co-workers complain that the A/C at a comfortable 72° is cold. Eventually someone turns it off, and I get to sweat it out.
At the university, I monitor the computer lab. It's unfortunate we have like no power as far as helping with IT problems. Even the IT department we're hired by doesn't have any real power over things. There's a whole separate entity that does the actual computer repairs, hard drive reformatting, the printing accounts, etc. All I have to do is load the printer with paper... Just kind of inefficient.
I'm sure I can add complaints when I actually get a job for this summer.
A good chunk of the problems probably could be solved if you had your own separate offices My only complaint from the years I have worked part-time (being merely a student) is when it's humid 95 degrees on a day like today, my co-workers complain that the A/C at a comfortable 72° is cold. Eventually someone turns it off, and I get to sweat it out.
At the university, I monitor the computer lab. It's unfortunate we have like no power as far as helping with IT problems. Even the IT department we're hired by doesn't have any real power over things. There's a whole separate entity that does the actual computer repairs, hard drive reformatting, the printing accounts, etc. All I have to do is load the printer with paper...
Just kind of inefficient.I'm sure I can add complaints when I actually get a job for this summer.
yeah, you do that.Wow, you guys must work at lame cubicle jobs
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I'm sure I can add complaints when I actually get a job for this summer.
let us know how that personal office thing and complete avoidance of people at work pans out too, ok?
I'm still laughing at this as I quote it.
Maybe you need to wear less clothing so the maintenance guy will listen to you instead.No, when I'm complaining about the cold I'm already either wearing my coat or wrapped up in a pashmina thing.
Mine are like that too, as long as I'm working from home. Otherwise they're all a bunch of losers.
Sorry, I should have specified.
The Lined Paper is 8x10 and not 8.5x11. It seriously annoys the crap out of me. It also does not come hole punched. And even more annoyingly, at the end of the year when the run out of paper (they buy it all at the beginning of the year for some reason), they stick a piece of it in the photocopier and make copies of it.
Wow, you guys must work at lame cubicle jobs
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I'm sure I can add complaints when I actually get a job for this summer.
So you don't even have a job and you're calling ours lame?
I had a few jobs where I wasn't confined to a lame cubicle. Too bad the first one I kept saying "Would you like fries with that?" Then it went on to "Would you like paper or plasitc?" My last job where I wasn't stuck in a lame cubicle was "Would you like to save 10% by opening up a Target Visa account today?"
Now, I have a "lame cubicle job" and make more money than I did before and enjoy my job more than I did before. Sure, I may never get my own private office since those seemed to be reserved for the higher ups (even my boss and his boss have a cube), but I'd much rather have this "lame cubicle job" than any other job out there.
This has nothing to do with other employees, but I work at Taco Del Mar, and we close at 10pm and I hate it when people come in at 9:50pm because then it makes us stay even later.