What are you office/work pet peeves?

[dmslush]

I work in a non-profit and I'd be in trouble if I didn't reuse file folders - and anything else that can be reused.

I hate speakerphone too!

LOL, I do the same thing. I also work at a nonprofit, and we have to squeeze everything to get as much use as possible out of it.

I hate the my director is incompetent and doesn't do her job. She is horrible about 'faking it' for the board. My coworker and myself do the majority of her work, but for some reason, the board doesn't want to hear about it.

 

[cats7494]

My pet peevse:

A co-worker who barges into my office when I am obviously in the middle of a project or even on the phone and starts talking to me. Annoys the heck out of me.

Same co-worker who dominates meetings - I really wish my boss would shut her up.

And same co-worker thinks we are all interested in her life story and the stories of her children and grandchildren - now don't get me wrong - sometimes it is ok..but not EVERY DAY!

Can you tell I don't like this lady?

 

[crz4mm2]

excessive personal phone calls. Drives me nuts.

 

[ashjohnson80]

I hate it when customers come in, or the phone rings and....


that's all just when a customer comes in or the phone rings.

 

[stinkerbelle]

the guy across from me who has some serious snot issues and likes to "sniffle" it in every 45 seconds. so freakin' nasty.

parents who call their children at home...and "baby talk" to them...on speakerphone. I have no problems with them calling their kids...but whe your kid is 6 months old and all they are doing on speaker phone is crying...pick up the phone.

people who don't shower on a regular basis...'nuff said. Personal hygiene goes a long way.

OH - ETA - people who insist on CLIPPING their nails at work.
I mean, I understand if one breaks a nail and you whip out a clipper to cut it down (or a nail file). But I used to work with this guy who would clip all 10 finger nails on monday morning.
wth?
he clipped for so long I'm sure he went to town on his toenails too.

 

[Rhonda922]

Wow, you all must work at the same place that I do because I totally agree with all the complaints. I think all these things have happened at my job. It's a really really big company with a lot of knuckleheads.

 

[jcsbama]

#1 The lack of personal motivation and initiative to figure things out on their own or at least try BEFORE declaring "I don't know how to do that". If you want to get proficient at something, you have to learn to use some personal time and just practice. Don't always expect there will be someone else to do the work for you.

#2 Lack of communication

#3 The cattiness of some women. URGH!!!

#4 Disgusting, messy offices/workstations. Come on, you're not the only one that has to look at that crap. I would really hate to be married to some of these people or see what their house looks like. I'm not just talking about a cluttered desk. A lot of it is just junk. I continously have to reprint things because my boss loses them in his office.

 

[Missy1961]

My cubie is across from one of the supervisor's. Whenever she's not at her desk, why does everyone ask me where she is? They know I'm not her assistant.

I have a co-worker who sings along with the radio. She can't sing.

I have a candy dish that I put out after lunch. I put it in a common area near my desk, but everyone knows it's me that fills it up. So when I'm on vacation, why do people go thru my cabinets looking for the candy dish?

 

[phorsenuf]

People who don't work smart. This "new" guy, who drives me nuts (see old posts) had to file a bunch of stuff by town name. Instead of putting it in alphabetically he put it in folders, labeled them and then put them in the 4 cabinets. When I asked why he said he was going to put them in first than refile alpha. Why not just file alpha in the first place??? What a waste of time!

 

[delilah]

People who don't want to actually do their job. People who decide to make their own description of job responsibilities. Like the nurse who told me she was "too busy" to schedule an MRI for a patient (scheduling tests the doctor orders for patients she is seeing is part of her official job description). Or the nurse I worked with today who didn't weigh and measure the babies for well exams, or take their temperatures when they were in for a sick visit (getting vital signs is part of the job description--height, weight, temperature, bp, pulse, head circumference for young children; should be done for all patients, no exceptions). Or the anonymous nurse who "lost" the paperwork for a prior authorization for a patient's medication, so I had to wait on hold with an insurance company for twenty minutes to do it. I can't begin to tell you how much more expensive it is for the practice for me to not see two patients because I am on hold (probably a net revenue of $150), vs. 1/3 of her hourly wage (no more than $6). It is also more expensive for the practice to pay the workers overtime because I need to finish seeing patients after official closing time because I was on hold earlier in the day making a prior authorization call.

 

[alliecats]

Petty, passive-aggressive adults who act like 5th graders.

If you have a problem with something, strap on a set and handle it like an adult!!!!

 

[gypsydoodlebug]

The woman who sits on the other side of my cube wall stops and listens to all of my conversations -- personal and work related alike. I can hear her stop typing every time.

One woman at my work won't eat at chain restaurants, watch network television or listen to top 40s because they're popular and run by "the man." She has something smart to say about everthing people eat ("Do you know how much sodium is in that?" "I bet we all get diabetes from these doughnuts" "She could probably not eat for a week and still be fat") Same said woman loves Target, Hobby Lobby and eats McDonald's square fish sandwiches and Wendy's at least once a week. What a hypocrite.

Two other women count Weight Watchers points in everything and constantly ask me "how are you doing on your diet" and "Are you still doing Weight Watchers?" Do I look like I'm still doing Weight Watchers?!?! Mind your own freakin' business.

 

[tiggerlover]

My biggest pet peeve is uncleanliness, I just can't stand it!

 

[LadyyRedd]

OH - ETA - people who insist on CLIPPING their nails at work. I mean, I understand if one breaks a nail and you whip out a clipper to cut it down (or a nail file). But I used to work with this guy who would clip all 10 finger nails on monday morning. wth?

Ok, do you work at my old job??? The guy two cubes up from me did this every other day, we kept track. I don't know how he didn't have bleeding fingernails. We caught him doing his TOENAILS once!

Kimya

 

[Jeanny]

I've seen some people come into my office "to get a piece of paper".....they rip it out of the fax machine and wonder why the machine jams or can't "roll the paper in" because they've pulled it all the way out.

I get irritated when people come into my office (very small rectangle), pull a chair out, sit and do whatever they need to do, then get up and walk away and leave the chair out in the middle of the office... what?? push it back where I found it?? why? the magic chair fairy pushes it back.

I have one faculty member who comes into get a drink of water, he pushes the cold water on, watches it drip into the overflow container, then puts his cup under the spickot.... the overflow container is NOT a drain.. yes, the magic chair fairy comes in at this point and takes the overflow container to the ladies room (after she's spilt some of the water while walking!).

This same faculty member also drops pretzels, candy, candy wrappers and walks away... yet again, the magic chair fairy cleans up after him. If she says something, he looks at her like "what are you talking about???"

People who jam the copier, walk away without even trying to clear the jam, it's easier to leave it for the magic chair fairy. Don't worry, she'll fix it on her way to the ladies room with the water slaushing out of the overflow container.

We used to have a coach who would take the 100 lb weights from the Fitness Center and use them for his practice. Yep, you guessed it, he wouldn't put them back where he took them from, he'd leave them out and the magic chair fairy would trip over them as she was taking the overflow container to the ladies room.

 

[Chattyaholic]

I am a waitress and I only have one pet peeve and her name is Leona!!!

She receives several phone calls from her kids every shift. They will call for the stupidest reasons like: the VCR won't work, where's the mustard, etc. She gets exasperated with them but won't put a STOP to it. I am usually the one who answers the phone and I HATE the phone so it really bugs me that she gets so many personal phone calls every shift.

Also, same woman lets her kids come in all the time. They hang around, get pop whenever they want to, eat whenever they want to (and I am the one who gets to wipe the table when they leave) and just generally get in the way. One even brings her 1-year old baby and lets it toddle around in the kitchen!!!

Last week, Monday night Leona wasn't even working but yet she brought in her daughter, her daughter's friend, and the grandbaby and they baked Christmas cookies for 3 hours!! The next night Leona was working, and same daughter and friend came in for 3 more hours to decorate the $#%% cookies they had baked the night before!!!

Our boss has told her she can't have her kids there, but they come anyway.
It's getting to where I HATE working the nights I know she's going to be there. Oh, she even canned her tomatoes in the restaurant's kitchen in the fall. Took her several nights to get that job done. I just want to ask her, don't you have a kitchen in your house? I wouldn't dream of using the restaurant's kitchen to do my personal canning/baking, it's ridiculous.

This woman is planning to move to North Carolina in February, and I am praying she follows through!!!

 

[Galahad]

Or the converse - people who are 26 and can't believe the people in their 50's can possibly know what they're talking about.

 

[Missy1961]

I forgot about this one: I work for a family owned publishing company. We had some downsizing a few months ago. The people who were let go were people who weren't good workers--except for one guy. Well, it's had been rumored that he has some connection to the owners. On the day that we had the layoffs, we met with the owner in small groups. When we walked into the conference room, the owner shook that guys hand and said "hi, Paul". He didn't greet anyone else by name. And so now we're stuck with this guy---he can't do much of the complicated work, so one of us has to pick up the slack.

 

[Jeanny]

Chattyaholic~ you reminded me about personal phone calls....

although we are allowed to have personal calls, my neighbor, who is a SAHM and also home schools her two sons, thinks nothing of calling me at work "with a quick question"... thank goodness for caller ID... she won't leave a message when my voice mail comes on, she hangs up and calls back. If I still don't answer, she calls my cell phone (which I shut off when I'm in the office and have TOLD her that!!!); and it's usually a STUPID "quick question" which can wait until I get home. I've told her I'm in work and can't be on the phone with personal calls all the time, my other phones are ringing!. She still doesn't understand!!!

 

[Lachesis00]

People who try and act like a supervisor in which they are not! They are equal counterparts. She makes my life a living hell.

Same person who screws up way more then the supervisors know and never gets caught or called on the carpet for it.