Things about your co-workers that annoy you

[mattd2]

...We had an end-of-year party. The cost was $40 per head. We asked each employee to kick in $20 to defray some of the costs. This included 4-hours open bar and a nice meal. The managers in the group picked up the other $20 per head. We only had a handfull of people sign up. Since there were so few participants the managers decided to just cover the cost of the event themselves. As soon as the word got out that the managers were paying for it everyone wanted to go. Ended up costing me a bundle.

I see what you did wrong, you needed to wait until during the party to tell everyone there that since there was such poor showing the bosses would cover everything

...For the record, I don't count the number of hours I work per week and niether do they. Their concern, and mine, is that I meet my obligations. If that takes 20 hours this week and 50 next week, so be it...

What happens when you only take 20 hours to get 40 hours of work done? Do you let them only pay you for that 20? If it is "swings-and-roundabouts" and you are working an average 40 hours then why do you fell entitled to compensation when you do work extra? If you work more than you salaried amount then yes compensation should occur - where I would this is either being paid for the time you work (for those that don't get an annual bonus), or it is linked to your bonus.

 

[DrunkleJon]

The propensity towards corporate salary hourly is kinda annoying. Basically you are an hourly employee, but you have to work 40 hrs/week. I mean if you had to leave an hour early one day you are required to take vacation for it, even going negative in vacation if you are out. If you work an extra hour or two you are required to take comp hours the same pay period. No leave without pay. I wish I could get OT for covering someone elses shift. Heck, I wish I could even get straight wage for working someone elses shift or being asked to stay a few hours over.

 

[b-boy]

Trust me, those guys are doing what they think is right. To them you are in need and they are trying to help you. Just them them thanks.

No offense, but this would annoy the hell out of me. Religion is a personal experience. I don't need to be badgered. I also don't need someone telling me that my lifestyle is wrong, even if they think they are doing the right thing.

A lot of problems are caused by people 'doing what they think is right'. I'm sure the Spanish Inquisitioners thought they were doing what was right. That doesn't make it right.

BTW it's possible, and historically normal, to accept God, enjoy science, and love beer.

Now this I agree with.

 

[tre9er]

I had an hourly job where you were expected to stay late if your project wasn't done on any given day. Sure, we got paid 1.5x for hours over 40, but eventually I was there late every night, and it was expected, let's just say you weren't going to last long if you left at 5 every day despite having work left to do. That did get a little old, it's like, why don't we hire more people instead of requiring everyone to work 12 hour days? Yeah, extra money is nice, but I had a newborn baby I hardly saw for two years. There were even mandatory Saturdays at times. I know, if you don't like it, quit...well I did leave.

Now I'm salary and basically they want you to work CLOSE to 8 hours each day. Have to leave an hour early or come in a bit late, no problem, just don't do it every day and let's try to make it all balance out by the end of the week to 40+ hours. They have only asked me to stay late or come in on a weekend once or twice in over two years. Heck, most days they don't even tell me what they want done today or if something HAS to be done by EOD...I just leave at 5 if there's more than 20 minutes of work left on the job, nobody ever complains or questions. It's nice, really. When it's slow half the people are on their phones or the internet, management knows, but these people sometimes work late or weekends, too, so it's like they understand the peaks and valleys of the industry.

It's a small company, 90 or so employees, family owned and operated. The owner is a cool guy, good businessman, works hard every day, knows everyone's name, and the company has made money even during the poor economy. So even though some of these jokers annoy the crap out of me, or disgust me with their habits...it's a pretty good place to work.

 

[tre9er]

Just got up to go to the bathroom and make my morning oatmeal. The 30' of hallway smelled of rancid B.O., as did the bathroom. Then I went into the lunch-room, which reaked of the same stench. I never saw him, but his presence was clearly marked. How fricking bad do you have to smell in order to leave lingering aroma everywhere you go?

I once overheard a convo he had on the phone with a rental car company. Apparently he had been to the location to look at options to rent a car while his was being repaired. The phone conversation went something like, "So you have cars available but you won't rent them to me?!?!"...............I wonder why....

 

[dkwolf]

We've been in a major office remodel for the past four months (as in gut the old office to the exterior walls and completely rebuild EVERYTHING). The first weeks that we were in our temporary office space, the whining about not having our layout spaces EXACTLY the way they were in our previous office about drove me crazy. (we went from each technician having about a 12'x12' area, to 10 people sharing a 20x30' room). Eventually people got used to it, and the whining subsided.

People started moving back into the permanent offices today. And guess what? The new desks aren't EXACTLY like the old ones, and will require a slight adjustment to the way we work.

You'd swear the world was f'n ending.

 

[Zuljin]

Just got up to go to the bathroom and make my morning oatmeal. The 30' of hallway smelled of rancid B.O., as did the bathroom. Then I went into the lunch-room, which reaked of the same stench. I never saw him, but his presence was clearly marked. How fricking bad do you have to smell in order to leave lingering aroma everywhere you go?

I once overheard a convo he had on the phone with a rental car company. Apparently he had been to the location to look at options to rent a car while his was being repaired. The phone conversation went something like, "So you have cars available but you won't rent them to me?!?!"...............I wonder why....

Since turning a fire hose on him is probably not good office etiquette, someone should leave a gift basket of all natural organic type soaps on his desk. It should be one person acting alone and without anyone else knowing.

 

[yummybeer]

How about everything about a particular co-worker? And I mean everything. To start off, he thinks he knows everything about anything and is never wrong about any of it.

 

[mattd2]

How about everything about a particular co-worker? And I mean everything. To start off, he thinks he knows everything about anything and is never wrong about any of it.

I'm guessing you mean he thinks he is never wrong... but most of the time he actually is

 

[DrunkleJon]

No I am not. I am always right.

 

[LovesIPA]

Here's one that gets me. "How are your wife and kids?".

If I wanted to talk about them I would work from home or bring them with me. No I don't have pictures, I know what they look like. Would you like me to describe them to you?

Jerks...

It's called civility. It falls under the umbrella of getting along with your co-workers. I bet you're a real treat to work with.

 

[TxBrew]

It's called civility. It falls under the umbrella of getting along with your co-workers. I bet you're a real treat to work with.

You make umbrellas? Can you tell us more?

 

[Airplanedoc]

We've been in a major office remodel for the past four months (as in gut the old office to the exterior walls and completely rebuild EVERYTHING). The first weeks that we were in our temporary office space, the whining about not having our layout spaces EXACTLY the way they were in our previous office about drove me crazy. (we went from each technician having about a 12'x12' area, to 10 people sharing a 20x30' room). Eventually people got used to it, and the whining subsided.

People started moving back into the permanent offices today. And guess what? The new desks aren't EXACTLY like the old ones, and will require a slight adjustment to the way we work.

You'd swear the world was f'n ending.

We did that a few years back, but we got relocated to a construction trailer.... We really played the whole thing up. Velvet Elvis hanging on the wall, pink flamingos out side the door, and a occasional bag of trash with a sign stating trailer trash untill the janitor figured out he needed to collect the garbage out there.

 

[Rhumbline]

We did that a few years back, but we got relocated to a construction trailer.... We really played the whole thing up. Velvet Elvis hanging on the wall, pink flamingos out side the door, and a occasional bag of trash with a sign stating trailer trash untill the janitor figured out he needed to collect the garbage out there.

Oh man, this is hitting close to home. Except I'm the one who's telling people they have to move to make way for new construction.

You'd think that professionals with multiple degrees, published papers, respected by their peers, would have some other measure of their worth to society than how many square feet they are assigned at work. True story, I got an indignant call from a senior VP who noticed that a subordinate VP had a private bathroom that was three square feet larger than his. Did we spend $30,000 to make sure his bathroom was bigger? You better believe we did!

I just want to say to them "Grow up princess, you can't have a pony"

 

[Beernik]

This isn't so much annoying as bizarre.

I don't know who this guy is, but he works on my floor. I think he's trying to look professional, but he looks like a clown. Seriously, a clown. Green and white checked pants. Pink shirt. Blue blazer.

Slap on some makeup, a red nose, & big shoes and dude is in a clown suit.

 

[GrogNerd]

This isn't so much annoying as bizarre.

I don't know who this guy is, but he works on my floor. I think he's trying to look professional, but he looks like a clown. Seriously, a clown. Green and white checked pants. Pink shirt. Blue blazer.

Slap on some makeup, a red nose, & big shoes and dude is in a clown suit.

WKRP in Cincinnati

Herb Tarlek?

 

[grathan]

I hate when people try to wholeheartedly own tasks that only pop up randomly, but pretty much avoid tasks that need to be done repetitively.

 

[Zuljin]

The mofo who always says how he would have done it different and better. And the mofo who waits for someone else to do something and then "fixes it". Do your own thing, sucka.

 

[Airplanedoc]

We did that a few years back, but we got relocated to a construction trailer.... We really played the whole thing up. Velvet Elvis hanging on the wall, pink flamingos out side the door, and a occasional bag of trash with a sign stating trailer trash untill the janitor figured out he needed to collect the garbage out there.

On the first Tuesday of the month at 10 am when the (tornado siren) AKA Air Raid Siren went off (which coincided with my bosses staff meeting time) I called my boss and told him I couldn't come to his staff meeting because you were supposed to get out of trailers in the event of a tornado, and go to a secure location.

I also came in out of breath a couple minutes late to his staff meeting once and gave him the excuse that they were filming cops outside and they told me it was a closed set.

It seems to me that both times his response was something not suitable for print

 

[forstmeister]

Another filthy sink incident from lazy coworkers:





This is one hour into the day. Nobody here should be that dirty yet.

 

[dstranger99]

I'm not sure who, and never will, This plant is open 24 hrs per day, but every night some ass-hat uses my desk phone, I know this because the phone is always turned around... And the image that goes thru my mind is of some sweaty dude sitting in MY chair, legs up on MY desk, using MY phone while jerking off with his other hand into MY trashcan....

 

[beaksnbeer]

I'm not sure who, and never will, This plant is open 24 hrs per day, but every night some ass-hat uses my desk phone, I know this because the phone is always turned around... And the image that goes thru my mind is of some sweaty dude sitting in MY chair, legs up on MY desk, using MY phone while jerking off with his other hand into MY trashcan....

Remove the cord to the receiver

 

[paulster2626]

People who call other people "big guy". Stop doing this. You wouldn't say "big girl" to a lady, so STFU.

 

[DrunkleJon]

Remove the cord to the receiver

Or smear the earpiece with peanut butter or shaving foam

 

[tre9er]

Would anonymously putting an air freshener, maybe a few of those hanging tree jobbies in the smelly guy's cubicle be an insult? Meaning, do you think he'd march down to HR? Maybe one could hide them really well so he couldn't easily find them. I'm thinking wedge them between desk and cubicle wall or tape under his chair?

 

[Subsailor]

I'm not sure who, and never will, This plant is open 24 hrs per day, but every night some ass-hat uses my desk phone, I know this because the phone is always turned around... And the image that goes thru my mind is of some sweaty dude sitting in MY chair, legs up on MY desk, using MY phone while jerking off with his other hand into MY trashcan....

Are you sure it's your trashcan and not your coffee cup?

 

[Darwin18]

There is a child running amok here. This is a professional office filled with engineers, geologists, and scientists. Just because there is one CAD guy in a back cubicle it doesn't excuse him for paying for daycare like everyone else. This is becoming a regular thing. I swear to R2D2 if I see a little head poke over my cubicle wall I'm going to throw my stapler at it. Go play in the parking lot.

 

[grathan]

One thing I do that annoys myself is refer to people as "you" and groups of people as "they". When I really should be saying "we".

 

[Whsoj]

Like the dude throwing staplers over cubicles while I'm back here trying to figure out how to use shell comand, on the coil of my wort chiller, on solidworks!

 

[MaxStout]

My pet peeve: passive-aggressive co-workers. Hey, if I did something to torque you off, just tell me and we can work it out, adult-to-adult. I'm reasonable, and I probably didn't even realize I offended you. If I farked up, I'll own up to it. But don't act like nothing happened, let it go unsaid, then undermine me just to get even.