Your pet peeves at work?

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Pawnless Endgame

Pawnless Endgame

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Office environments, construction sites, catering, retail, HGV drivers... we all have our pet peeves. What are yours?

I have 2 main peeves (office environment):

1. Corridor-hoggers. This is where 2 or more people hold a "meeting" at a choke-point. That could be right in front of an entrance, corridor corners, outside an office (so blocking it), a fire exit, or in the corridor where it is at its narrowest. In the building where I work, the corridor is wider (indented) every approx. 2nd or 3rd door. Use it! Or use an empty room... plenty of them. It happens at my current workplace and every previous place I've worked, both private sector and public sector. CORRIDOR-HOGGERS ARE ALWAYS MALE!

2. The food police. For those who eat in the office, the food police will ask what they've had, even if it's in plain view. It's the same obsessive-compulsive conversation every day without fail, that it cannot be good for their mental health. For those who don't bring food to the office, it's still the same conversation except that it's past tense. Just buy the bloody thing if you are that inclined, it's only £2.75 from the canteen. The menu's on the intranet. THE FOOD POLICE ARE ALWAYS FEMALE!

And when I am in the canteen... chair-scrapers. People who press the chair legs hard against the floor while dragging them to deliberately produce a louder noise than the room's accoustics is designed for. CHAIR-SCRAPERS ARE BOTH GENDERS! :p
 
I don't like people who critisise clothing choices when your following dress code anyway - I wear jeans and a t-shirt on dress down Fridays, get no end of stick for it, dress code for Fridays is pretty much just stated as no beachware or gym/sports kit in company handbook, I find it utterly baffling
 
Whispering

People who put a wet coffee spoon in the sugar

People who don’t tidy up the kitchen when they’ve finished making dinner

Eating smelly food for lunch

Leaving half open tins of tuna in the fridge and when you open the fridge you get blasted by the stench
 
People who hold lifts. As an engineer in a 12 storey building we rely heavily on lifts and waiting for them whilst people ask each other what they did over the weekend makes me want to murder a kitten.
 
People who walk into the canteen and see you are having your break, only for them to walk out and leave the door open :mad:
 
Thankfully I get to work alone 95% of the time, sharing a van when I have to annoys me as mine is spotless inside where as the others treat theirs like a kennel and stink inside with crap everywhere, sharing or borrowing theirs annoys me.
 
People who put 'food spoons' in the 'used spoon' tray without washing them. There's a limited amount of clean spoons and a pot for 'used spoons'. All for hot drinks. Not being fussy, most people just got with either pot for a quick swirl. Then you get a big blob of yogurt in your cup. There's a sink for washing them, right there!
 
When my coffee cup gets empty so I have to leave my office at the back of my house and go to the kitchen to brew another...

Oh yeah... Meetings. At the end, when that one moron says, "Just one quick thing...." NO! NO NO NO NO NO! Will take hours longer now!
 
Staff - useless morons that break things, go on sick leave, sleep in, basically do **** all for their pay. Makes me want to vote Conservative.
 
When people, usually in office jobs from what I've noticed, explain periods of absence by dramatically declaring "the lurgy".

Riiiight.
 
When I worked at a warehouse in Chesterton it was the dirty sod who, for some reason, always used to have sloppy ***** and always used spray it all over the cubicle - ceiling, walls, door everywhere. **** knows how he did it and **** knows how he never got caught.

We had a kettle ****** at one place too.
 
The late 50 somethings who are almost retired so do **** all but chat crap all day and complain. Either do some work, sort the problem or Quit already. People are really going out of their way to not fire you and everyones sick of your moaning.
 
Monthly 1-2-1 meetings..... just eurghhh!!!!

Pointless tick box exercises (see above)

The serial sick note workers who are signed off work every other week for 'something'

Timesheets

Managers.... all useless the lot of them
 
The shrieking, howling malcontents who insist on holding hour long Skype calls in an open plan office. They are without fail Business Analysts (who I always thought were the quiet type) and Project Managers (who are objectively awful human beings). Thank God I got some sweet new katanas for Christmas.
 
People who would approach me when I was sitting on a rank, reading a book, and say, “How much would it be to X?”
My initial thought would be, if you have to ask, you can’t afford it, but I’d never say that, I’d make a ball park guess in my head, and add maybe £5 or £6.
Hopefully, they’d purse their lips, take a sharp intake of breath, and go away to annoy someone else.
If they said, “Fair enough, will you take to X please?”, I’d take them and hope that I’d overestimated the fare, that way they’d be overjoyed, and likely use a Black Cab again.
 
Noises from peoples personal phones, alarms... notifications ... letting it ring ... Must resist putting it in their drink....
 
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