Things about your co-workers that annoy you

[GrogNerd]

there is no one on this earth I need to speak to with enough urgency to do it while either of us are on the throne

 

[TorMag]

there is no one on this earth I need to speak to with enough urgency to do it while either of us are on the throne

Exactly.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Extremely non-confrontational people in positions of authority. They either can't or won't tell the people under them to stop screwing around & do their damned jobs. Put me in charge, I'll get that $hit squared away right quick.

 

[schematix]

There is an extremely obnoxious woman in a cubicle near me who has a habit of tearing her husband a new one everyone she talks to him on the phone. Yesterday he was having some difficulties with his e-mail and called her.

These are actual quotes taken within a span of about 90 seconds.

"WHY DO YOU KEEP INTERRUPTING ME I DON'T UNDERSTAND"

"STOP INTERRUPTING ME"

"JUST LET ME FINISH TALKING. I DON'T GET IT, WHY DO YOU DO THAT?"

1. Take care of your personal issues on personal time.
2. Don't yell so loud everyone in the office can hear you.
3. Stop being such a c u n t.

end rant.

 

[TexasDroughtBrewery]

There is an extremely obnoxious woman in a cubicle near me who has a habit of tearing her husband a new one everyone she talks to him on the phone. Yesterday he was having some difficulties with his e-mail and called her.

These are actual quotes taken within a span of about 90 seconds.

"WHY DO YOU KEEP INTERRUPTING ME I DON'T UNDERSTAND"

"STOP INTERRUPTING ME"

"JUST LET ME FINISH TALKING. I DON'T GET IT, WHY DO YOU DO THAT?"

1. Take care of your personal issues on personal time.
2. Don't yell so loud everyone in the office can hear you.
3. Stop being such a c u n t.

end rant.

Man I feel bad for this guy...stop calling this B! Literally ask anyone else first.

 

[NothingRhymesWithCurtiss]

There is an extremely obnoxious woman in a cubicle near me who has a habit of tearing her husband a new one everyone she talks to him on the phone. Yesterday he was having some difficulties with his e-mail and called her.

These are actual quotes taken within a span of about 90 seconds.

"WHY DO YOU KEEP INTERRUPTING ME I DON'T UNDERSTAND"

"STOP INTERRUPTING ME"

"JUST LET ME FINISH TALKING. I DON'T GET IT, WHY DO YOU DO THAT?"

1. Take care of your personal issues on personal time.
2. Don't yell so loud everyone in the office can hear you.
3. Stop being such a c u n t.

end rant.

I worked with a guy that used to do this whenever his wife called. We worked in an office that did not allow personal calls and this piece of work would pace around the office on his cell, tearing into his wife.

"Why do you not understand how the snow blower works?"

"The baby has a rash. The doctor said it's a rash. Stop worrying about it."

"No, we're not talking about this when I'm on lunch, because I'll be eating then. We can talk later... I don't know. Tomorrow. Next Week. Just not now!"

 

[hunter_le five]

There is an extremely obnoxious woman in a cubicle near me who has a habit of tearing her husband a new one everyone she talks to him on the phone. Yesterday he was having some difficulties with his e-mail and called her.

These are actual quotes taken within a span of about 90 seconds.

"WHY DO YOU KEEP INTERRUPTING ME I DON'T UNDERSTAND"

"STOP INTERRUPTING ME"

"JUST LET ME FINISH TALKING. I DON'T GET IT, WHY DO YOU DO THAT?"

1. Take care of your personal issues on personal time.
2. Don't yell so loud everyone in the office can hear you.
3. Stop being such a c u n t.

end rant.

Yup, we work in the same place. Almost every day.

 

[sablesurfer]

So, worked on a project for over four months. Many many many meetings with some members of management as we work out plan, execute plan, and authorize plan. Was all finally wrapped up and approved two months back.

We went with option 2 for this plan.

Today, I get an email that includes BOTH managers asking...do we have any option 1's in place for the project.

!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

 

[Zuljin]

Extremely non-confrontational people in positions of authority. They either can't or won't tell the people under them to stop screwing around & do their damned jobs. Put me in charge, I'll get that $hit squared away right quick.

We have one of those. The man is great at process. A regular wizard. But he is not a personnel manager. Or really any kind of manager. He's was installed in his position due to a lack of options at the time and there being a boss above him who was running the department by proxy. They wanted a yes man on the ground and he fit the bill.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Dude who walks around with the collar on his polo shirt "popped" all the damn time. Seriously, dude, that was a fad for all of about 3 months... 10 years ago. Let it go!

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Anyone in my office wearing a costume today. You're an adult. Or at least I used to think you were.

 

[jbunton]

I have a costume every day. A balding chemical worker lmao!

 

[Qhrumphf]

When the people who close up at night don't do their f***ing job and I'm left to put out their fires in the AM. Especially when their incompetence compromises the product.

We make the product you sell and make your tips off. Respect us.

 

[FirstAidBrewing]

I am getting a new job. Gave my current employer 2 months notice and my last day is the end of the month. I put in for some final Vacation around Thanksgiving and was told that since I wasn't finishing out the year, I am only entitled to half the remaining vacation I am supposed to have.

Half annoyed. Half relieved that this situation gives me leave to no longer give a rip about this job. Jokes on them, I'll be treating the rest of the month like a vacation and not doing jack bone.

 

[TexasDroughtBrewery]

I am getting a new job. Gave my current employer 2 months notice and my last day is the end of the month. I put in for some final Vacation around Thanksgiving and was told that since I wasn't finishing out the year, I am only entitled to half the remaining vacation I am supposed to have.

Half annoyed. Half relieved that this situation gives me leave to no longer give a rip about this job. Jokes on them, I'll be treating the rest of the month like a vacation and not doing jack bone.

Giving notice is is such a double edge sword. On one side you an employee who actually wants to do the right thing and give proper notice and not burn any bridges and leave with some dignity and respect. Yeah they have to question is my employeer going to allow me to give proper notice? Will I be effed over or even just flat escorted out? Maybe I shouldn't give notice?...

On the other edge you have the company who has to decide is this guy going to screw me over? Maybe I should screw him over first?

So at the end of the day ties do end up getting cut and it becomes endless cycle of people getting jacked around.

I personally think the company should be the bigger person and give the employee the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise so that proper notices don't become a thing of the past..which they are slowly becoming.

 

[Onkel_Udo]

Giving notice is is such a double edge sword. On one side you an employee who actually wants to do the right thing and give proper notice and not burn any bridges and leave with some dignity and respect. Yeah they have to question is my employer going to allow me to give proper notice? Will I be effed over or even just flat escorted out? Maybe I shouldn't give notice?...

Yep...unless you find yourself "business critical" as I did in two of the last three jobs I quit. The first one convinced me to stay on an additional 6 months (generous bump in pay and promise they would fix the issues...which they did not). The second one paid for an additional week of pay, a generous "demob" fee, a week of per diem AND covered a hotel/meals/etc if I stayed an additional week to train my replacement.

My current contract...I think there would be a knee-jerk reaction where they would want to kick me to the curb because the boss thinks we all believe we are "family" but then he would come to reason and try to retain me. I plan to test that theory next year without warning the consulting company I technically work for.

 

[danszabrew]

First off, I'm not a coffee drinker so this might annoy some more than it annoys me... The company that I work for graciously provides free coffee for all employees. The coffee machine is right behind the water fountain.
Not once, but twice in the same week while filing up my water bottle I caught someone emptying the coffee pot and looking around the room to see if anyone saw them so they wouldn't have to refill it.

I mean, c'mon it takes like 30 seconds to empty the coffee and change a filter and then turn the machine on.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Giving notice is is such a double edge sword. On one side you an employee who actually wants to do the right thing and give proper notice and not burn any bridges and leave with some dignity and respect. Yeah they have to question is my employeer going to allow me to give proper notice? Will I be effed over or even just flat escorted out? Maybe I shouldn't give notice?...

On the other edge you have the company who has to decide is this guy going to screw me over? Maybe I should screw him over first?

I've also known that some companies, if you give notice, will escort you out that day. But they'll keep paying you for the next two weeks of your notice and your actual termination day will be 14 days out.

Basically they know you've mentally checked out, so there's no need for them to keep you in the building. But actually terminating you officially that day causes all sorts of headaches (and if they terminate you before your notice they might need to pay severance/etc depending on the state) so they'll just write off that 2 weeks of pay as cost of business.

 

[TorMag]

First off, I'm not a coffee drinker so this might annoy some more than it annoys me... The company that I work for graciously provides free coffee for all employees. The coffee machine is right behind the water fountain.
Not once, but twice in the same week while filing up my water bottle I caught someone emptying the coffee pot and looking around the room to see if anyone saw them so they wouldn't have to refill it.

I mean, c'mon it takes like 30 seconds to empty the coffee and change a filter and then turn the machine on.

The last company I worked for and my current company have solved this age old work problem. They have both gone to individual coffee servings similar to Krups. You brew your own cup. Much better for everyone involved and you get a fresher cup of coffee.

 

[kristiismean]

My job when i give notice is 3 days of 10 hours of "knowledge base training" where I get to train someone, then that's it. Still get a month severance and a handshake.

We solved the coffee thing. While work supplies the coffee, we like our coffee, so we personally buy peets, starbucks, lavazza, and between 6 of us, always have something good on hand. (even cafe bustilio does the trick and it's cheap!)

Now, what annoys me is the small talk with someone I don't know when they want something. get a lync message, "hi dan" and that's it. so of course, respond back "hello", then get the "how are you" will my response effect the outcome of what you are going to ask me? ask me how I am doing in person, lync, spit it out, I am busy person...

and of course that one person who is on homebrewtalk all day....

 

[Inkleg]

and of course that one person who is on homebrewtalk all day....

Yeah, that guy is a total a**hat.

 

[Onkel_Udo]

11/3/2016 email to all users "We are migrating to a new environment 11/18. The system will be down from 5 PM 11/17 until some point midday 11/18. Please send me a time I can install a cert on your computer between now and then. This will take 2 minutes"
11/14/2016 email to all users "As mentioned last week...(same content as above). Only three users will be able to access the system on 11/18 unless you have the cert installed."

One co-worker stops me in the hall that afternoon "So when do I have to do what?"

11/16/2016 email to remaining five users not yet prepared "As we all know, I am not authorized to work the week of 11/21-11/25. All of you are. Here are the instructions to install the cert yourself. I am still available until 5 PM tomorrow to assist with this."

28 users total. 22 emails between 5 PM last night and 6 AM this morning "Why can't I get into the system?" 4 emails "I cannot get the instructions for installing the cert to work for me."

People basically suck. What sucks more is the fact that I am on forced leave (which I am actually looking forward to) and these folks will have no support because Management decided all non-essential personal could not work for two weeks through the end of the year...and announced it on 11/7/2016...after the go/no-go date for the migration.

 

[Baja_Brewer]

11/3/2016 email to all users "We are migrating to a new environment 11/18. The system will be down from 5 PM 11/17 until some point midday 11/18. Please send me a time I can install a cert on your computer between now and then. This will take 2 minutes"
11/14/2016 email to all users "As mentioned last week...(same content as above). Only three users will be able to access the system on 11/18 unless you have the cert installed."

One co-worker stops me in the hall that afternoon "So when do I have to do what?"

11/16/2016 email to remaining five users not yet prepared "As we all know, I am not authorized to work the week of 11/21-11/25. All of you are. Here are the instructions to install the cert yourself. I am still available until 5 PM tomorrow to assist with this."

28 users total. 22 emails between 5 PM last night and 6 AM this morning "Why can't I get into the system?" 4 emails "I cannot get the instructions for installing the cert to work for me."

People basically suck. What sucks more is the fact that I am on forced leave (which I am actually looking forward to) and these folks will have no support because Management decided all non-essential personal could not work for two weeks through the end of the year...and announced it on 11/7/2016...after the go/no-go date for the migration.

Screw 'em. You gave ample warning.

 

[Roland_deschain]

You don't seem 'non-essential' to me when so few of them seem to be able to follow basic direction.

 

[rhys333]

Unqualified charlatans that schmooze their way into cushy jobs, talk down to coworkers as a way to impress superiors, and blame others for their mistakes.

 

[badgerfan79]

When they tell the boss I've been on Brewers friend making a recipe all day

 

[schematix]

Two guys in my office, who are sitting within normal speaking range of each other, are talking via speaker phone. Lazy obnoxious rude fux.

 

[GrogNerd]

as for the converse: things about me that annoy my co-workers

me to boss: the hell? customer from Birmingham, AL sent email asking for help. it's 3:20 here, they're in Central time zone and close at 4
boss: so you're telling me the earth is spinning backwards?
me: the kind of day it has been, I wouldn't be surprised

I annoy my co-workers because I'm an idiot

 

[rusty_tlc]

To the OP: Thanks for this thread.

After reading many of the post I am grateful for the few foibles I have to put up with from my co-workers. Compared to what I've read here I work with a group of saints
Unless I'm the di$85 head in the group??????

 

[dkwolf]

The company I work for has increased in size DRAMATICALLY in the last 5 years. Work for a consulting engineering firm; 2011 we had 40 employees. Jan 1 2012 we merged with another firm that had 60 employees.. 100 total. Later that year, we acquired another firm, bringing us up to the 120-130 range. We've been hiring like crazy, opened three more offices, and just acquired another firm. Sitting right around 250 now, and a lot of those people are used to a "whole office" distribution list getting sent to the people in the one office they work in, not the whole company.

It's not FREQUENT, but often get "Whole Office" emails like "The color printer on 5th floor is down", or "There's fresh fruit on the break room table" from someone in an office 500 miles away. Or this morning, a running "reply-all" chain between Vikings and Packers fans (we have offices in both cities). Great, it's banter back and forth between a handful of employees...that the other 230 of us don't care about. But every 5 minutes, my phone is buzzing for a new email in the chain.