Irritating Office Behavior

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  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    yes! thank-you!

    I stayed late yesterday...worked 8 hours straight with no break. Today my boss just keeps coming up with stuff for me to do, and she has me sit on the phone while she's at home and logs into my computer and looks over the email box, "what are you going to do with this email? how are you going to respond?" "what's this? have you taken care of this?" "ok, this is important, write this down, this is how I want you to answer this person, write this down, are you writing this down?"

    I *have* to write it all down, because then she comes in, "where is everything I told you to write down?" Then she asks me, "why haven't you got this done?" uhhh...because you had me sit on the phone with you for an hour while I had to go through each and every email with you...you do realize if I quit, you'd have nobody to do anything for you and you couldn't run your own company because you refuse to learn how your company is run...I've been here for 5 months now, I think I can handle the office.


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  • PJSiren
    PJSiren Salem, OR Posts: 5,863
    This one supervisor just can't do his job right and it is really annoying as hell...he's lazy and it shows and the drivers know it and he's nonchalant about his job and it's pathetic, and i just don't get why he hasn't been fired yet....it's not fair to the drivers who have him as a team leader, it's not fair to the other supervisors who have to pick up his slack, and it's not fair to me who also has to pick up his slack....
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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    edited August 2015
    Our company is nice enough to bring in lunch to celebrate birthdays each month.

    Without fail, our accounting department descends on the food within a minute. OK, fine. Maybe working with numbers makes one extra-hungry. However, afterward they squirrel away the good amount of leftovers, leaving nothing for anyone else. They even did it with my b'day lunch stuff last month when I thought I maybe might bring home dinner for my guy and me.

    Nothing left. They do this EVERY FUCKING MONTH.

    Obviously not the end of the world, but irritating as hell!

    (I may have posted about this before but it happened again today. Argh :pirate: )
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,649

    I sent someone an email today with instructions on what needed to be done, the date it needed to be done for, and the file number. She emails back with "sure, I can do that for you. I'll just need the date you need it by and the file number".

    ?? So you stopped reading after the first six words or so and just blatted back a reply?

    a girl I used to work with was like that. She was always asking questions that was verbatim in the original email. I once replied with "SCROLL DOWN" and highlighted the part she didn't fucking read. She replied "thanks a lot.....was that necessary?".

    Obviously, it was.



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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,649
    hedonist said:

    Our company is nice enough to bring in lunch to celebrate birthdays each month.

    Without fail, our accounting department descends on the food within a minute. OK, fine. Maybe working with numbers makes one extra-hungry. However, afterward they squirrel away the good amount of leftovers, leaving nothing for anyone else. They even did it with my b'day lunch stuff last month when I thought I maybe might bring home dinner for my guy and me.

    Nothing left. They do this EVERY FUCKING MONTH.

    Obviously not the end of the world, but irritating as hell!

    (I may have posted about this before but it happened again today. Argh :pirate: )

    as an accounting professional, I can tell you, working with numbers does not make one extra hungry. it makes one extra thirsty.

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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524

    hedonist said:

    Our company is nice enough to bring in lunch to celebrate birthdays each month.

    Without fail, our accounting department descends on the food within a minute. OK, fine. Maybe working with numbers makes one extra-hungry. However, afterward they squirrel away the good amount of leftovers, leaving nothing for anyone else. They even did it with my b'day lunch stuff last month when I thought I maybe might bring home dinner for my guy and me.

    Nothing left. They do this EVERY FUCKING MONTH.

    Obviously not the end of the world, but irritating as hell!

    (I may have posted about this before but it happened again today. Argh :pirate: )

    as an accounting professional, I can tell you, working with numbers does not make one extra hungry. it makes one extra thirsty.

    Ha! My husband is in your field as well and would likely agree (though he doesn't even drink).
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,748

    hedonist said:

    Our company is nice enough to bring in lunch to celebrate birthdays each month.

    Without fail, our accounting department descends on the food within a minute. OK, fine. Maybe working with numbers makes one extra-hungry. However, afterward they squirrel away the good amount of leftovers, leaving nothing for anyone else. They even did it with my b'day lunch stuff last month when I thought I maybe might bring home dinner for my guy and me.

    Nothing left. They do this EVERY FUCKING MONTH.

    Obviously not the end of the world, but irritating as hell!

    (I may have posted about this before but it happened again today. Argh :pirate: )

    as an accounting professional, I can tell you, working with numbers does not make one extra hungry. it makes one extra thirsty.

    :lol: I know that my drunkest week nights are definitely the ones that follow a day of reconciling and book balancing, lol.
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  • FrankieG
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    Finding out about a management change through the grapevine before finding it out through my supervisor....
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  • PJSiren
    PJSiren Salem, OR Posts: 5,863
    Came in this morning to discover my ENTIRE huge block of sticky notes on another person's desk in my office....it's one thing that they use them...I understand that and don't care...but don't effing take them off my desk and not put them back, that shit pisses me off!!!
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  • hedonist
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    The weird guy in my office who loves women with big biceps eats with his mouth open. And talks while eating.

    I guess it's not so much irritating as it is disgusting (moreso in the morning when I'm just trying to put a schmear of cream cheese on my goddamn bagel).
  • ldent42
    ldent42 NYC Posts: 7,859
    hedonist said:

    The weird guy in my office who loves women with big biceps eats with his mouth open. And talks while eating.

    I guess it's not so much irritating as it is disgusting (moreso in the morning when I'm just trying to put a schmear of cream cheese on my goddamn bagel).

    there are few things on earth more irritating than people who chew loudly/with their mouth open/while talking
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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,649
    ldent42 said:

    hedonist said:

    The weird guy in my office who loves women with big biceps eats with his mouth open. And talks while eating.

    I guess it's not so much irritating as it is disgusting (moreso in the morning when I'm just trying to put a schmear of cream cheese on my goddamn bagel).

    there are few things on earth more irritating than people who chew loudly/with their mouth open/while talking
    I once flipped out on a friend of mine at work. He was smacking his entire mouth, eating like a bloody cow. I finally had enough and said "TREVOR! CLOSE YOUR MOUTH WHEN YOU CHEW!". he looked at me like I was an alien. but it's fucking gross.

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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,748
    edited October 2015

    ldent42 said:

    hedonist said:

    The weird guy in my office who loves women with big biceps eats with his mouth open. And talks while eating.

    I guess it's not so much irritating as it is disgusting (moreso in the morning when I'm just trying to put a schmear of cream cheese on my goddamn bagel).

    there are few things on earth more irritating than people who chew loudly/with their mouth open/while talking
    I once flipped out on a friend of mine at work. He was smacking his entire mouth, eating like a bloody cow. I finally had enough and said "TREVOR! CLOSE YOUR MOUTH WHEN YOU CHEW!". he looked at me like I was an alien. but it's fucking gross.

    I had to call out a friend who does this in public not too long ago. It was really awkward and his feelings were hurt I think, but it simply HAD to be said. It was so that I couldn't even eat with him because it was making me sick to my stomach, and it was extremely embarrassing too, since others in the restaurants can see and hear it ..... The brutal thing is that calling him out once wasn't enough. I had to call him out a again some time later. And even more brutal, he STILL does it at least half the time!! I guess eating with an open mouth and slurping and loudly sucking on fingers, etc etc can be an actual habit for some people, like nail biting, and habits can be hard to break. All I know for sure is that both his mother and his wife seriously dropped the ball.
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  • jervin007
    jervin007 Posts: 3,182
    RKCNDY said:

    People who don't bother coming in to work or even call to say they can't make it in.

    This happened to me today actually. Unacceptable.
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  • ldent42
    ldent42 NYC Posts: 7,859
    PJ_Soul said:

    ldent42 said:

    hedonist said:

    The weird guy in my office who loves women with big biceps eats with his mouth open. And talks while eating.

    I guess it's not so much irritating as it is disgusting (moreso in the morning when I'm just trying to put a schmear of cream cheese on my goddamn bagel).

    there are few things on earth more irritating than people who chew loudly/with their mouth open/while talking
    I once flipped out on a friend of mine at work. He was smacking his entire mouth, eating like a bloody cow. I finally had enough and said "TREVOR! CLOSE YOUR MOUTH WHEN YOU CHEW!". he looked at me like I was an alien. but it's fucking gross.

    I had to call out a friend who does this in public not too long ago. It was really awkward and his feelings were hurt I think, but it simply HAD to be said. It was so that I couldn't even eat with him because it was making me sick to my stomach, and it was extremely embarrassing too, since others in the restaurants can see and hear it ..... The brutal thing is that calling him out once wasn't enough. I had to call him out a again some time later. And even more brutal, he STILL does it at least half the time!! I guess eating with an open mouth and slurping and loudly sucking on fingers, etc etc can be an actual habit for some people, like nail biting, and habits can be hard to break. All I know for sure is that both his mother and his wife seriously dropped the ball.
    I've done that too. But I'm rude about it. cuz I'm kind of a jerk. But I'm also a giant hypocrite cuz I chew gum like a cow.
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,748
    ldent42 said:

    PJ_Soul said:

    ldent42 said:

    hedonist said:

    The weird guy in my office who loves women with big biceps eats with his mouth open. And talks while eating.

    I guess it's not so much irritating as it is disgusting (moreso in the morning when I'm just trying to put a schmear of cream cheese on my goddamn bagel).

    there are few things on earth more irritating than people who chew loudly/with their mouth open/while talking
    I once flipped out on a friend of mine at work. He was smacking his entire mouth, eating like a bloody cow. I finally had enough and said "TREVOR! CLOSE YOUR MOUTH WHEN YOU CHEW!". he looked at me like I was an alien. but it's fucking gross.

    I had to call out a friend who does this in public not too long ago. It was really awkward and his feelings were hurt I think, but it simply HAD to be said. It was so that I couldn't even eat with him because it was making me sick to my stomach, and it was extremely embarrassing too, since others in the restaurants can see and hear it ..... The brutal thing is that calling him out once wasn't enough. I had to call him out a again some time later. And even more brutal, he STILL does it at least half the time!! I guess eating with an open mouth and slurping and loudly sucking on fingers, etc etc can be an actual habit for some people, like nail biting, and habits can be hard to break. All I know for sure is that both his mother and his wife seriously dropped the ball.
    I've done that too. But I'm rude about it. cuz I'm kind of a jerk. But I'm also a giant hypocrite cuz I chew gum like a cow.
    Really? Why do you do that?? :lol:
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  • ldent42
    ldent42 NYC Posts: 7,859
    Environment bro.
    But then I'll catch myself doing it and consciously stop.
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  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,913
    People who constantly take conference calls at their desks. Get off your lazy ass and go to a conference room!
  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    people who call to 'ask for a few questions' and eat while rambling on and on about work...for over half an hour.
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  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    ^^^and it's your day off.
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