People running in the office - does this annoy anyone else?

Thompson_NCL said:
Whether I am a 'hoot' or not is irrelevant, I am simply pointing out something which the OP could use to stop the running that is annoying him. I'd not care very much about the h&s angle myself, but I'd absolutely use it as a means to stop them if they were annoying me.
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Could even orchestrate what would henceforth always be known as "The Boiling Coffee Incident" to cement your point.
 
When I was on placement at Intel the plant was about 1 mile long from end to end most of it was two massive production facilities, the rest offices for the 5000 employees, all connected with corridors. I was based in the end furthest from the train station. It wasn't unheard for me to run to get the next train home.

There was a rumour of time trials and races from one entrance to the other at the far side but I never saw any of it myself.

When I worked in a supermarket as a student it was open all night but the attached shopping centre closed at 9, occasionally I the dead of the night shift we would test drive the mobility scooters at high speed around the empty centre. I know its not running but I thought I would share any way.
 
Gambisk said:
When I worked in a supermarket as a student it was open all night but the attached shopping centre closed at 9, occasionally I the dead of the night shift we would test drive the mobility scooters at high speed around the empty centre. I know its not running but I thought I would share any way.
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To make sure they were safe for use of course... ;)
 
I have one type of office personality I can't stand.

I work in support and when a user walks up to you and says "I know you're busy" then just carries on. This happens all the time with repeat offenders.

I hate it. I tell them nothing will be done unless they don't follow the official routes but then they come out with "Ok, I will speak to ***" *** being my boss... It's pathetic and childish. And then my boss gets up in my face asking why I refused to help people.

ARGH. Hate them, there is 3 of them, and it ****es me off. They are pushing in front of many other users just because they are lazy, pretend to be nice only to get what they want. BMW driver attitude.
 
I have no issue with the runners.. its the stompers that annoy me. I get motion sickness as they stomp past. Its not even that they are larger people.
 
agnes said:
I have one type of office personality I can't stand.

I work in support and when a user walks up to you and says "I know you're busy" then just carries on. This happens all the time with repeat offenders.

I hate it. I tell them nothing will be done unless they don't follow the official routes but then they come out with "Ok, I will speak to ***" *** being my boss... It's pathetic and childish. And then my boss gets up in my face asking why I refused to help people.

ARGH. Hate them, there is 3 of them, and it ****es me off. They are pushing in front of many other users just because they are lazy, pretend to be nice only to get what they want. BMW driver attitude.
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Those people are easy to deal with.

"Ok, I can see your problem is important, so I'll log it immediately"

It then gets logged under priority 4. Priority 4 is "I'll get round to it at some point when I've finished sorting everyone else's problems, had my lunch, played Minecraft for a bit, had a coffee while chatting to my mate and have absolutely nothing else to do."
 
agnes said:
I have one type of office personality I can't stand.

I work in support and when a user walks up to you and says "I know you're busy" then just carries on. This happens all the time with repeat offenders.

I hate it. I tell them nothing will be done unless they don't follow the official routes but then they come out with "Ok, I will speak to ***" *** being my boss... It's pathetic and childish. And then my boss gets up in my face asking why I refused to help people.

ARGH. Hate them, there is 3 of them, and it ****es me off. They are pushing in front of many other users just because they are lazy, pretend to be nice only to get what they want. BMW driver attitude.
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I get plenty of these types of people. I tell them to phone the service desk so that the job can be logged. There's service level agreements for a reason but you still have to try to assist.

Been front line support the last thing you want is your boss telling you to stop been un-helpful.

TIP: .... people working in support. Design a spread sheet for logging issues where people come up to you and what you do is ask politely if the user can write down their problem and extension number and you will get back to them as soon as possible. Works a treat if you are busy and you can let them do the logging. You then log it electronically at a later date or when you are not too busy.

Support jobs / customer facing are the harder types of jobs to deal with people as you always get people trying it on to get you to do things for them first. I actually get bribery where people try it on. For example 'biscuits / coffee / sweets' e.t.c... sometimes I actually take up the offers depends on who the other person is ;)
 
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Don't mind stompers.
Don't mind socks.

What aggrieves me is sandals. Just because we get a hint of sunshine, it's somehow acceptable to wear sandals with a tie?
 
We have one runner out of about 32 but since we've moved she now works upstairs but every now & then she comes down to use the scanner and runs to and from it.
She also does what nobody else does with the scanner, she stands up even if she is there for an hour.
I tried standing up for 2 minutes and it's just not ergonomic.

I'm also a barefooter in the office and wait as long as I can before putting my shoes on (with no socks).
 
I used to run around in the office,
I think the time spent between leaving my desk and getting to where I was going bored me, so I wanted to speed it up.
I was probably a bit oblivious as to how annoying it was :o
 
Doesn't bother me but I would ask them not run by the pool.

What does is people practicing their golf in the office by pretending to "putt". Why? Drives me nuts..

Some chap used to do it all the time next to me, so once I got up on, layed down on his desk an pretended to bench press. He actually had the audacity to ask what I was doing and not to be so stupid :p
 
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