Irritating Office Behavior

elen

I could love this thread.
I can't stand (in no particular order):
- cauliflowers in the microwave: ok, it's winter and there isn't so much choice but... every day?
- complaining coworker if something has to be done in this way
- same complainig coworker if something has to be done in THAT way
- restrooms left in unbelievable conditions, mostly by women... no words
- receptionist who doesn't understand the name of the callers 90% of the time: isn't it your freaking work?

Empty Glass

Since we're talking microwaves....if you have fish for dinner the night before and have leftovers, eat fish for dinner the next night. Don't bring your fish into my office and stink the place up

HughFreakingDillon

yeah, anything that once lived in water being reheated in the microwave is off limits for the office. or should be.

elen

My coworker listens to all my work phone calls and makes comments during the calls. I hate that.

PJSiren

Sales reps who don't or can't read my effing emails and send me an email 5 minutes later asking for the info I sent out already that I know they got.....I work with idiot sales reps and whiney drivers....lol

HughFreakingDillon

PJSiren said:

Sales reps who don't or can't read my effing emails and send me an email 5 minutes later asking for the info I sent out already that I know they got.....I work with idiot sales reps and whiney drivers....lol

a girl who I knew was an airhead and repeatedly asked questions that were already answered in the email thread annoyed me one day to the point where, when she asked me a question, I simply replied "scroll down" and I had changed the font size of the answer she didn't read from a 12 to 72. and she was all pissed at ME. LOL. stop wasting my time, airhead.

PJSiren

paulonious said:

PJSiren said:

Sales reps who don't or can't read my effing emails and send me an email 5 minutes later asking for the info I sent out already that I know they got.....I work with idiot sales reps and whiney drivers....lol

a girl who I knew was an airhead and repeatedly asked questions that were already answered in the email thread annoyed me one day to the point where, when she asked me a question, I simply replied "scroll down" and I had changed the font size of the answer she didn't read from a 12 to 72. and she was all pissed at ME. LOL. stop wasting my time, airhead.

Lol...that's a good one....a lot of the time I just forward the email I already sent to the idiot sales rep in question and they are quiet after that....

HughFreakingDillon

PJSiren said:

paulonious said:

PJSiren said:

Sales reps who don't or can't read my effing emails and send me an email 5 minutes later asking for the info I sent out already that I know they got.....I work with idiot sales reps and whiney drivers....lol

a girl who I knew was an airhead and repeatedly asked questions that were already answered in the email thread annoyed me one day to the point where, when she asked me a question, I simply replied "scroll down" and I had changed the font size of the answer she didn't read from a 12 to 72. and she was all pissed at ME. LOL. stop wasting my time, airhead.

Lol...that's a good one....a lot of the time I just forward the email I already sent to the idiot sales rep in question and they are quiet after that....

yeah, I've done that one too!

RP112579

My boss constantly texts me when I'm at home because he doesn't know how to do something or can't find something. The more i responded to the texts, the more it kept happening. I don't even bother responding anymore. I'm not on call for him while I'm not working just because he's an idiot. Fuck that.

ldent42

In a previous office job I had a coworker who used to talk to himself. I say talk to himself, but what I mean is answer himself. He would be sitting at his desk affirming statements no one was making. He was also hard of hearing, so if you interrupted his one sided conversation he'd turn around or look up and yell "WHAT?" at the top of his lungs cuz he didn't hear what you'd said. Further to this point, he'd yell 24/7 even on the rare occasion he wasn't arguing with someone. The only time he wasn't yelling was when he was talking shit about people. And he complained about everything, all the time.
Another one had the snot-sucking issue. He just made all kind of awful bodily noises, snot sucking, burping, throat clearing, nail biting (yes it WAS audible) etc.

I probably wasn't the best office mate either. I'm a loud typer. An unapologetically loud typer.

RKCNDY

Indifference71 said:

People that take conference calls at their desk. Go into a fucking conference room....the whole floor doesn't need to hear it.

one guy at an office I worked at would use speaker phone...ALL THE TIME, EVERY SINGLE CALL...and he had an office, and left the door open.

also cannot stand:
*clipping nails at their desk and letting the nails fly everywhere
*heating up lunch and letting it explode all over the microwave and not cleaning it up
*making microwave popcorn-pushing the 'popcorn' button, and walking away.
*when the reps would come in and it was my day off...they would leave me a little gift, and the other employees would open it, eat it, or whatever, and I would find the half eaten box of chocolate or opened gift on my desk.
*people who go through my desk and steal shit, good pens, notepads (ones that I bought, not provided by the company), CDs, mugs, lotion, lip balm, etc.
*eating my lunch for me-whether it be leftover teriyaki or brought from home, and leaving the empty container in the fridge so I thought I still had a lunch.
*waiting until 10 minutes before I leave to tell me they need something (that takes 30+ minutes to do) done...*now* -everybody knows everybody else's schedule because it's posted on the fucking wall
*when I would go somewhere for lunch and someone would always say, "oh, you should have told me you were going there, I would have asked you to pick something up for me"...'uh...*you* never tell me when you're going out to get lunch'

Hobbes

Never worked in an office. But this thread makes me want to watch old episodes of The Office.

Jason P

We had a guy that would steal lunches from the fridge (not mine, but we have shift workers that do pretty tough jobs). Someone hid their phone one day and hit record and they found out who was doing it. I heard he got a prison style beat-down.

RKCNDY

Jason P said:

We had a guy that would steal lunches from the fridge (not mine, but we have shift workers that do pretty tough jobs). Someone hid their phone one day and hit record and they found out who was doing it. I heard he got a prison style beat-down.

I was on the verge of making ex-lax brownies...

HughFreakingDillon

one guy I worked with for a while would just yell "HOMER!" or "BART!" in a really bad Marge Simpson voice. out of nowhere. all the time. completely random. it was W-E-I-R-D.

hedonist

Jesus, you people work with some loons.

Although...years ago I was office manager for a real estate company. One day, found one of secretaries wasted and passed out - excuse me, "sleeping" under her boss' desk. And we had another chick there who would flash her southern business to our leasing reps. Pretty girl but skanky as hell.

HughFreakingDillon

RKCNDY said:

Jason P said:

We had a guy that would steal lunches from the fridge (not mine, but we have shift workers that do pretty tough jobs). Someone hid their phone one day and hit record and they found out who was doing it. I heard he got a prison style beat-down.

I was on the verge of making ex-lax brownies...

one girl I worked with in a warehouse once told me this (I assume it was a) tall tale about how someone would always steal her pepsi can from the fridge. one day, she injected it with a laxative. she found out who it was by who was running to the bathroom after lunch.

true or not, made me laugh.

HughFreakingDillon

RKCNDY said:

Indifference71 said:

People that take conference calls at their desk. Go into a fucking conference room....the whole floor doesn't need to hear it.

one guy at an office I worked at would use speaker phone...ALL THE TIME, EVERY SINGLE CALL...and he had an office, and left the door open.

also cannot stand:
*clipping nails at their desk and letting the nails fly everywhere
*heating up lunch and letting it explode all over the microwave and not cleaning it up
*making microwave popcorn-pushing the 'popcorn' button, and walking away.
*when the reps would come in and it was my day off...they would leave me a little gift, and the other employees would open it, eat it, or whatever, and I would find the half eaten box of chocolate or opened gift on my desk.
*people who go through my desk and steal shit, good pens, notepads (ones that I bought, not provided by the company), CDs, mugs, lotion, lip balm, etc.
*eating my lunch for me-whether it be leftover teriyaki or brought from home, and leaving the empty container in the fridge so I thought I still had a lunch.
*waiting until 10 minutes before I leave to tell me they need something (that takes 30+ minutes to do) done...*now* -everybody knows everybody else's schedule because it's posted on the fucking wall
*when I would go somewhere for lunch and someone would always say, "oh, you should have told me you were going there, I would have asked you to pick something up for me"...'uh...*you* never tell me when you're going out to get lunch'

where in the fuck do you work? people steal shit? people open your food and eat it and leave evidence without giving a shit? jesus. that's harsh.

the fat girl who works the front desk is always giving me shit when I come back to the office with a bag of food for not telling her where I was going so I could pick something up for her ("I would have gotten you to stop at such-and-such). you have legs. you have a lunch hour. fuck off. get your own shit. I'm not running errands for you. pig.

PJ_Soul

I'm dealing with a really fucked up temp right now. He's not stupid or anything. But he's got a completely defective personality. He is SUPER unfriendly, never talks to anyone even though he's sitting right in the middle of all of us in an open concept office, has no emotions besides arrogance and and I think smugness - he is completely stone-faced unless rolling his eyes or rudely smirking - and he clearly has a problem with authority. He seems to think he knows how to do his job better than the person training him to do it (that would be me). When you try and engage him in conversation he just gives one word answers and that's it... no reciprocal questions, NOTHING. So basically the worst conversationalist in the entire world. I'm really starting to hate this dude! I'm trying really hard to give him a fair shake and not be too judgmental of his shitty personality and overall bad attitude, but this is getting ridiculous. He's been here for almost a month now, so none of this can be chalked up to nerves or anything. And he's on a 3 month contract, so we can't get rid of him for a while. Sigh. Can't wait for him to go away. There are few people I have met that are more unlikeable and BORING.

Last-12-Exit

A guy in my office screams on the phone. It's impossible to talk to someone else when he is on the phone because he talks so loud. I have told him that they can hear him if he talks normally. He says he's hard of hearing and can't hear himself talk. But when he's not in the phone, he talks in a normal voice.