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Annoyances in the workplace

Lyle said:
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.
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Oh yes they do. Your bosses are just to cheap to pay for them. If you want soundproofing, let me know. I'll work up a proposal. ;)

I guess my job is pretty good then, after listening to y'all. Sure the kitchen is kinda nasty, but I just avoid it. People here smell decent, aren't overly obnoxious, generally have funny stories to tell, and are pretty enjoyable to work with.

My work space is generous, my job is always challenging and different every day, I'm not asking anyone if they want fries with that, and I'm largely in charge of my day-to-day schedule. I've got a ton of responsibility ($16 million worth of construction under my watchful eye at the moment) and it's just a damn exciting field to be involved in.
 
iBlue said:
yeah, you do that.
let us know how that personal office thing and complete avoidance of people at work pans out too, ok?
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yg17 said:
So you don't even have a job and you're calling ours lame?
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It's not like I said your job was worthless. I just said it was "lame" because it sounds like your typical cubicle job a la TV commercials, Dilbert, Office Space, etc. :rolleyes: Hence, I said I am unemployed because I'd rather have a lackluster job than none at all. But, I digress.

No sense of humor around these parts these days. Everybody likes to hang on every word in these forums.
 
This thread is like therapy. :)

- We have a girl who insists the volume on her cell is broken... so it's the world's loudest cell phone. Shes never actually at her desk when it rings.

- The hoverer- one guy has made quite the habit of just coming into my office and hovering. I know he's just avoiding his work. Pisses me the ^&*% off.

- The meetings about meetings about strategies for meetings. (let's meet on that)

Lastly, and most important- the people you know make more than you but are absolutely incompetent in almost every way. Why are you here? How did you get here? Are you leaving soon?
 
I get the daily Dilbert cartoon sent to me via email... I often wonder if Scott Adams is spying on my office and colleagues - it's so uncannily accurate.

It seems that once you reach a certain level of seniority, you get 'teflon trousers' and absolutely nothing sticks to you, even if you make the most horrendous botch of a project.

I've heard it said that [name deleted to protect the guilty] "wouldn't know a deadline if they tripped over it."
 
I've been bothered lately by the fact that my boss puts me on the schedule to work, forgets to tell me that she added me to the schedule, and then gets angry when I don't come in to work. :rolleyes:


iKwick7 said:
-People that make disgusting sounds- i.e. random throat loogie type sounds, snorting sounds, birps, any body sounds.
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These are potentially the most offensive people to work with and be around. In a quiet environment absolutely nothing gets me more riled up than people who make strange and gross noises. They also get very offended if you ask them to be quiet.

In addition to the normal gross noises people who eat loudly really bother me, as do people who sit around making little chirping or sighing sounds. Gah.
 
OutThere said:
These are potentially the most offensive people to work with and be around. In a quiet environment absolutely nothing gets me more riled up than people who make strange and gross noises. They also get very offended if you ask them to be quiet.
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The lady next to me clears her throat every few minutes ... she went on vacation and I stopped being used to it ... now I have to get used to it again.
 
people who just don't give a crap and do a crappy job, forcing me to clean up after their work.

people who get riled up at the slightest deviation from the norm, thus delaying things and increasing my workload because they're in a panic.
 
cycocelica said:
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.
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I work at CVS and when I got to lock the doors at 10Pm, people will still line up outside and bang on the door as if I'm going to go unlock it for them so I can hang around even longer. Some people are just plain stupid.
 
Wow. I feel really, really sorry for you guys. Sounds like it must be hell at some places you guys work at. The closest thing I'm getting to as far as getting a job is being an eBay middle-man for my mom's bank since they repo'ed a lot of crafts and what not from a store.

The annoyance I may have when I start working there: the fact that I know my mom is watching me.
The blessing I may have when I start working there: the fact that I know my mom is watching me. :D

I'll post annoyances that I may encounter. Until then, I hope your jobs' get better soon.
 
I won't have to worry about cologne guy or any of the rest any longer. Tomorrow is my last day and then I start an amazing new job on the 3rd. Yay me!:D
 
zflauaus said:
Wow. I feel really, really sorry for you guys. Sounds like it must be hell at some places you guys work at. The closest thing I'm getting to as far as getting a job is being an eBay middle-man for my mom's bank since they repo'ed a lot of crafts and what not from a store. .
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thats a tiny bank! to hire someone to ebay crap for them?
 
another one is when people send e-mails to say they're "out of office"

Outlook's calendar and out of office feature are enough, don't send an e-mail to the entire IT department please!

And, some of my coworkers don't just send those when they're going to be gone all day, they'll e-mail us to tell us if they're going to be 10 minutes late or are leaving a few minutes early. i'm surprised they don't send e-mails to the dep't when they're going to the crapper.

i should probably set up an outlook rule to direct anything with "OOO" in the subject to the trash :D
 
LifeIsCheap said:
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I'm glad you refuse to eat anything out of the bathroom!
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Heh. Me too!

Actually, oddly and disgustingly enough, I have seen candy wrappers and other food garbage in the garbage in the bathroom. Ugggh. Seriously, who eats candy in there, regardless of how clean it might be???

That reminds me of sporting events. I really don't know how anyone brings beer into the bathroom. It's extremely disgusting in there, it's always like 15 degrees hotter in there because there's just so many people, it smells bad, it's steamy, and that's just plain gross. And then people put there beer on the urinal while they do their thing! Horribly nasty.
 
There's a lady in the cube about 5 feet from mine who has some sort of a device that has an alarm set for 4:45pm. She has a couple of phones and a Blackberry, so I don't know the culprit (it may be something else in her purse). But, she is never at her desk from 4:45-5 or 5:15. And the alarm doesn't stop playing after a minute. Oh no - I learned one day that it goes for an hour. And the alarm is some stupid cymbal and snare beat. And it repeats every 10 second or so. And it goes on. And on. And on.

But she just got back to her desk. All better now.
 
Used to work for McDonald's . Busses would show up 5 minutes before close time, with 50-75 people on it (or however many on the team), then complain that there was not food ready (Of course not! We're closing!)

Shared an office with 3 ladies. The two ladies and I got along wonderfully. The third thought she owned the place. We would turn off the lights, because we had 5 windows, roughy 30 x 60 inches, that let in GOBS of light all day long. She would walk in flip on the lights (24 x 30 watt flourescent lights). We would say, turn them off, she would say, it's my office too, leave them on. BTW, white walls, white floor (waxed) white ceiling. Very, very bright. She would also play her music, at a volume where we all had to hear it. She would get mad at me when people would come to me for help, instead of her (they would walk right past her.) Fortunately, she was eventually transferred to another office.
 
Well let me tell you my college job, at a County Library. There was girl drama I would just hear "Ahh Hell no that b*%&#*$# did not just put books on my stack" stupid petty things that never ended. There was a feud over FREE Thanksgiving food one time because someone got Jelly and another person wanted it causing 2 months of people not talking to each other. It was so much drama among them.

Then my boss had mistress and baby-momma drama when she came to complian how bad of a father he was. She has sent letters to all the libraries in Los Angeles saying "under the daughter's name" how bad of a father he was. Then my boss was a total idiot to add to that we are thinking how the hell can he have a mistress being so stupid. He does not know how to count money and he has MBA. Sad part the mistress went crazy ran off to Washington committed suicide, the daughter was put in foster home because my boss did not want her or his wife did not want her. Which is pretty sad, I still do not know how he can live life.

Also I had a second boss who was so lazy would just tell people that they do not have the book just so she wont get up.

Then of course the nasty crap people do to the items when they return them to the library.

Now my current job after college. People are disgusting sometimes in the lounge area, leaving half eaten food there. The fridge, come on people this is not a storage place.

My biggest problem is a girl who works in another department on another side of the building, I am a corner office. OMFG I do not need to hear her talk about her personal life, she projects so loud.

Everyone is nice and everyone says hello or good day but this lady she stares at me sometimes, I think "time to say hello" the moment I open my mouth she turns her head another way. Like she wants to tease me or something, like I really am after her.

It could be worse my co-worker is always being hit on by the gay guys and single desperate significantly older women, he says he hates it but I know its all the ego feeder.

Thats my office hate/drama and other stuff.
 
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