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What are some annoying things about your job?
For instance, these things really annoy me:
1. People who kill the joe and don't make more.
2. People who barge into my office without knocking and want to talk "just for a second." First off, these talks NEVER last "just a second" and second off, it takes me a good 15 minutes after the person leaves to get reorganized and to figure out what the hell I was doing before they interrupted me.
3. While we are on it, people that barge into my office and sit down without asking if they can do so (sit down, that is).
4. The office TattleTail. The office TattleTail is usually the person that roams around the office and complains about how much he/she is working. Because no one else is working as hard as them, of course. (I am currently dealing with an office TattleTail at work...Loooooooord help us all)
what do you all got?
Re: What are some annoying things about your job?
My biggest one right now is the co-irker who cusses way too much. I'm okay with maybe some curse words slipping out every so often, but almost every other sentence? I believe there is a time and a place for that. You especially don't say it on the phone with a customer (even if that customer is as lax as ours).
People who don't pick up after themselves in the breakroom. There are only 2 females who work in this office so I don't know if the rest of the office and warehouse expects us to clean up after them. After lunch the breakroom looks like 2 year olds went in and just wrecked it some days. Dirty tupperware in the sick, trash is overflowing, and empty cups and napkins on the tables. We do have signs up that tell you to pick up after yourself, but it doesn't look like that's working very much.
Crude customers. Being a female working in the oil field supply industry has it's disadvantage. One of them is some of the customers who come in here. Really, when they look at you it's just feels dirty. I especially hate it when I am called "baby", "sugarpie", "honey", or "sweetheart". I have a name please call me by it. Makes my skin crawl.
My pet peeve: People who do the least amount of work possible, avoiding "pitching in" when others need help. If you'd rather sit at your desk and facebook all day long while others are busting their a$$ trying to meet deadlines, you are dead weight. Also I get annoyed when upper management turns a blind eye to those who consistently show up late to work and leave early on a daily basis. I hate to be a stickler for time, but if you don't have enough to do to keep busy for at least 40 hours a week, I can fix that.
Oh, and these are the people who complain that they are always maxed out on PTO. Mostly because they are not properly documenting their time.
People who supervise an area that they have no contact with, don't know rules and regulations, and don't know how it operates. How on earth are you supposed to supervise if you don't know what's going on?? Don't tell me (or others here) how to do our job when you have no clue how it's done! We've been doing just fine without you the past ohhh 3 years.
This same person is screwing us on PTO's. Way too long to put on here. But dangit, don't come in and change crap when you don't know how it was going beforehand.
Oh sh!t. Do we work together? Although I don't think I am screwing anyone on their PTOs, so maybe not.
THIS:
People who barge into my office without knocking and want to talk "just for a second." First off, these talks NEVER last "just a second" and second off, it takes me a good 15 minutes after the person leaves to get reorganized and to figure out what the hell I was doing before they interrupted me.
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Due to the placement of my office (the sucky new person office), if our admin. isn't in, I end up getting asked all of the secretarial questions. I understand why, but 1., I don't know any of the answers and 2., I'm only in my office a few hours/week, so when I'm in there, I usually have a lot to do. I used to try to look up answers for people (answers which I didn't have better clue how to look up than they did,) but I've gotten more protective of my time now and either tell them to come back when the admin. is in or refer them to the website. My goal this year is to keep my door half closed all the time so I avoid eye contact with people coming in to the office, which will hopefully cut down on that kind of stuff.
I'm not a fan of getting stuck with something that's someone else's job. Doesn't happen at my current job, but at my old job, it happened ALL the time. Somebody got "too busy" to do it, so I had to do it. I always did it, but I let it be known it wasn't my job and I wasn't happy about it.
Oh boy, here we go. I've dealt with all of these here.
1. People who steal your food/drinks/whatever from the fridge/your desk.
2. People who admit to stealing said food from your desk and never even bother to repay you.
3. Supervisors who gossip about their own employees to people who work with those employees on a daily basis.
4. Supervisors who ask their employees, "If you could fire anyone here, who would you pick? Want to know who I would fire? So-and-so."
5. People who sneak around the office trying to bust other people not doing work.
6. Employees who are salaried who sneak out of the office as soon as their supervisor or another superior leaves.
7. Employees who form cliques and make it just like high school all over again.
8. Upper-management who dress... inappropriately. If I can tell you're wearing a leopard-print bra, you need to re-evaluate your wardrobe choices.
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Okay, this one is really mean but totally a Puppy Wuppy complaint:
Invest in Spanx. I don't care if you are 100 pounds - if you are wearing something form fitting - you need to have them on.
So, I have no co-workers. I talk to my boss through e-mail mostly, or the occasional conference call. I don't really even communicate to any other employees of the company. I don't really have a set schedule (ie, I just have to be "in the field" for 6 hours... Doesn't matter when it happens- and that's 6 hours from leaving my driveway and returning to it.) Sometimes if I've already done all my work, I run errands to fill that 6 hours.
It's amazing how productive you can be when you don't have people bothering you or office politics to deal with.
All of that being said. I loathe being in my car all day long... I can't think of a worse job to have with road rage. Also, I get really lonely on the job. I mean, unless I go out to lunch with a friend, I don't see anyone all day.
I'm not challenged in any way, shape, or form... Commercial real estate photography has got to be the least satisfying, "creative" work a photographer can do. Oh, and what I do at my job will never change. Like, I can get "promotions" and raises, but I will still do the exact same thing all day, every day. However, the perks of this job are SO amazing, my husband would kill me if I ever thought about quitting. I get annoyed with my job on pretty much a daily basis, but quickly remind myself that compared to other professions, I've got it made.
. I feel ya on the management gossiping about employees though ginger. The job I just left was alllllll about that. it encourages gossiping and backstabbing and I hated it.
Pencil skirts are office appropriate. Pants are office appropriate. Even if a skirt or pants aren't skin tight, your lumpy cellulite can still be seen. If you don't have any idea what I am talking about then you are fine. Probably.
Oh I know another one! How could I forget? FIRES that always start right at lunch time!!
Last Friday I was to meet a friend for lunch. Everyone knew this because when I scheduled the lunch, I checked with the other members of the team. I am not kidding - I got up at 11:45, grabbed purse and said "I am going to lunch - see you in an hour" and one guy got this panicked look on his face. I went to the bathroom, come back to my office and all of a freaking sudden - FIRES everywhere that need to be put out RIGHT NOW. Are you kidding me? This usually happens around 5:30pm as well which is why I usually work a 12 hour day.
I was gone an hour and a half. Because I am sh!tty like that.
No way, jose. No spanx. Nosirree. But luckily at my new job, I can wear jeans!
My coworkers: One just annoys the hell out of me. She makes a grand entrance every morning by coming in and slamming the door, followed up with a *huge* sigh as she plops her butt in her chair.
The other highly annoying lady comes in and immediately turns on the gospel channel full blast and yells "hallelujah " and "amen" at the TV. She also has a habit of speaking in tongues when she really gets into it. This happens on the days she actually comes to work and isn't dealing with her drama-filled convict boyfriend stealing her car or such.
My other complaint is the that I spend 75% of my time fixing other peoples mistakes. My work load would be so easy if I wasn't constantly chasing people down trying to get them to fix things.
Thanks for letting me get that off my chest!
ROTFLMAO.
DH used to work with a girl like this. She would also have really loud conversations on the phone with her sister about her yeast infections. She got them quite frequently which I still can't figure out. We called her "Yeasty."
Why do people think things like that are okay? barf!
The coffee bar: not replacing the empty roll of paper towels when you use the last one. We have a whole cabinet full of more. Just open it up and get one out. Not closing drawers and cabinets all the way. Why start closing it then decide to stop, leaving it open 2 inches?
The people: The know-it-all who has to volunteer his opinion every time, even when he has no clue what he's talking about. A person who consistently takes off early and then answers email from home so it looks like he's still working. Then I go to ask him a question and he's not in his office. The guy who consistency needs clarification and asks 20 billion questions until he understands- which is good he asks, but he does it in the middle of meetings, prolonging the meeting for all of us, instead of clearing up some of his questions later one-on-one.
I hope men at my oil company don't treat women this way. From what I've met of them in classes and meetings, most of our field guys are really nice and polite.
Oh my god, you just described my boss to a T!! LOL!
This reminds me, My husband and some of his co-workers went to lunch one day and their waitress asked how they were doing and they said fine. They then asked how she was and she went on to tell them that she had a really bad UTI and it was pretty painful and she was having a hard time getting rid of it
SERIOUSLY??? Who does that???
Thought of another one.
People who dial out on the phone but use the speakerphone button instead of picking up the receiver and then they don't dial anything that seems like a full minute. Our office doors are always usually open so I can hear the horrible dial tone going on and on.
Oh sh!t. I use speaker phone all the time. It helps me to multi-task.
Yes, but I'm sure you don't let the dial tone just go for over a minute though. I don't have a thing against speakerphone just the insanely loud dial tone.
1. Helicopter parents, or lawnmower parents.
2. Being expected to stay late or work a weekend event because I don't have kids.
3. Some of the faculty treating me like a pee-on since I work in admin.
4. Students who come in with an entitlement attitude.
5. Pay in higher ed is not too great. Especially for the amount of work/time we put in.
I agree about the turd in the punchbowl that's running around trying to bust people. Seriously. We have a nurse in our office that is young (think-took LPN classes 2 weeks out of HS, not even drinking age young), and her mother happens to work for the office as well, but not in an advisory type position. But mom happens to be friends with the boss lady. I swear to you, this girl runs to mommy about something every.single.day. And what baby wants, baby gets... drives me nuts!
Also, the "we're going to have an office weight loss challenge" announcement from the chick that weighs 4lbs. Gimme a break tiny. You're gonna lose the "challenge" anyway. And eff you for bringing donuts 3 days after this announcement!
I hate, hate, HATE it when patients call 10 min til 5 on Fri afternoon after all the doctors have dee'd out wanting one controlled substance (party candy we like to refer to it) or another and get p!ssed because we can't fill it without doc's permission. I refuse REFUSE, to call a doctor after he/she has left the office because his/her patient can't be responsible enough to know that she has been out of pills for 4 days and might die over the weekend from left pinky finger pain. (Wow... apparently I feel strongly about this one..)
I can't stand people who don't pitch in when they have nothing to do. If you're pal is drowning in charts, and you're nonchalantly placing staples in your stress ball for fun... get off your skinny butt and do some work!
I'm not a stickler for "time" so much. I'm never like uber late... but if I'm 3 min late because I got stuck behind a tractor on the highway, the world WILL NOT end. I'm usually there at least 3 min after "quitting time" so eat my shorts.
And lastly... I could do without the obligatory stage 4 clinger that every office seems to have. You know... the one who wants to be your bff, and spends half the day trying to talk your ear off about how Aunt Bertha's pot belly pig took a dump in the dining room floor four years ago... I'm good with having friends at work. But let's have some healthy boundaries, eh?!
**and because I'm curious... what exactly are helicopter/lawnmower parents?**
What do you mean that's the wrong side? Tastes great to me!