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People with kids thinking they own the annual leave chart!!

A woman started in my office about a year ago. She’s 50+ but came in at entry level. I was senior to her when she started and shortly after earned another promotion and she has a massive chip on her shoulder about it (I’m in my 20s). She constantly tries to undermine me and make little digs. It wouldn’t bother so much if she wasn’t so terrible at her job . She always refers to herself as an “older woman” and thinks she should be treated differently and given undue respect just because she’s 50 odd. Don’t think so hen

EyeSpy88 said:

There’s a lady in my office who thinks she’s the best at her job (really not) loves loudly pointing out other people’s mistakes across a full office (before wfh) really makes sure everyone can hear!
So rude when she’s not great either!
I had a clanger of a mistake she made, but I still thought it would be petty of me to publicly shame her

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I too have somebody like this! She LOVES to send an email to the person who made the mistake with the rest of the team copied in stating "copying the team in so you're all aware not to do this " It really annoys me. If I were to make a genuine mistake, I would be all for somebody quietly pulling me aside and showing me the correct way, in fact, I'd appreciate it. But the way this woman loves to publicly shame people is wrong.

She once copied one of the partners in on her email correcting somebody (obviously thinking it made her look really good) and he commented that "he doesn't need to be copied in on things which don't involve him". I was so pleased she didn't get the reaction she had hoped for

ChloChlo said:

Fish eaters do my nut in. There is no need to bring things into an enclosed space which contains that awful tuna mayo smell or sushi. Like egg.

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Someone in my office brought in their leftover Octopus and heated it up in the microwave

This one might be relevant to my specific workplace only but we'll see.

I work as a legal secretary whilst I'm doing my own law degree for a solicitor. He's a very old school solicitor and clearly thinks he is something special. So much so that he won't even engage properly in conversation with people beneath his paygrade. For example, yesterday the office needed some toilet roll, tissues and milk. I was the only secretary in so it fell on me to sort it. Rather than just politely asking me to go and get them, he came and placed a note on my desk (I was sat there at the time) that simply said "Shop - toilet roll, tissue, milk - need this morning". Before walking away he tapped the note three times - no words were spoken. He does not say hello when he arrives and neither does he say goodbye when he leaves. He kept forwarding emails on to me which he was receiving and putting "print for file". When I asked him if he knew how to print said emails (just in case he didn't!) his reply was "yes I do, but that's an admin job which I won't do".

Now, I know when you reach a certain level that some jobs do fall to those beneath you, and as a secretary filing is part of my role however to ask me to print an email which he is currently working on, and has the file himself is just lazy imo. It's taken more time for him to forward it on to me that it would for him to just click print. I also don't care how high up you are in your role, basic manners cost nothing so greeting people hello and goodbye is not beneath you. Nor is politely asking somebody to do something rather than shoving a note in their face!

Just everyone. Everyone and everything they do is annoying.

I overheard three colleagues discussing and laughing about my body shape today. I am quite pear shaped and they were discussing how I have a small head and fat arse. Feel like shit now to be honest!

I work in a school BTW and the bitchiness is something else.

I have a woman who reads out her emails out loud to herself. Then when she writes out the replies, reads them out to herself, as she types. USE YOUR FUCKING INSIDE VOICE YOU BELLEND.

My colleague really doesn’t understand personal space

When I'm on tattle and colleagues disturb me with really important work related issues.

Black.bird said:

I can't get over how many people play a different role in the interview (i.e., their best selves), compared to when they get the job.

Our past few hires have been impressive at interview but then once they get the job they are anything but. I don't get it - we've done all the background checks which they've passed with flying colours, yet as soon as they get their feet under their desk it's like they're swapped out for someone else - a less energetic, interesting version of themselves.

We always mix our interviews up with a couple of different interviewers - alongside me ... it seems wrong to blame the candidates, but I'm not sure what we could do differently.

We're also facing a lot of resistance from people who won't consider a job unless they can work from home 100% of the time.

To align with market trends we have agreed to a hybrid working arrangement (3/2 one week, 2/3 the next, repeat ...), but it comes with conditions, one being that you must get up to speed and show us you're trustworthy to work from home, first (depending on the person, this could take weeks or months). Plus, you must attend the monthly staff meeting (which concludes with drinks - it's as much about briefing everyone on what's happening as well as team building). Candidates have actually turned jobs down because they aren't prepared to agree to these terms.

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To be honest, that happens on both sides. The interviewers drone on about why they love working at such a kick ass company and how many exciting projects there are for the right candidate to take on. New employees starts to a weak AF onboarding, a disinterested manager who deserts them in lieu of weeks of online compliance training, and as the novelty wears off, the new hire ponders whether they were actually better off where they were.

At the end of the day we all bring our best selves to the interview. Candidates and interviewers. The truth lies beyond the exaggerated BS.

Most employees want hybrid or remote. All the lunch n learns, culture weeks and motivational speakers are no substitute for extra hours in bed/gym/with kids etc and comfort of your own home instead of asinine chit-chat with lacklustre colleagues.

Hybrid/remote isn't a trend. It's a smarter way of working that's here to stay. Gens Y & Z won't do 5 days in the office again.

For collections at our work place it’s always a fiver. Every bloody week there’s someone’s birthday, getting married...wiping their arse lol. I wish you could choose what to put in, depending on how much you like the person lol. At Christmas it’s always a tenner for the boss, who lives in a mortgage free house and taking in ten times more salary than me. Me, bitter? lol noooo.

I have two (actually I have many as im a moody sod!)

One is someone I work with closely who sings every last word of every sentence. Stop it ffs, no one is that happy!

Second one is a lady that I work with who asks me every time I see her (every few months) when im having kids, why im not pregnant yet, got to hurry up as im old etc. My husband and I are dealing with infertility and every time she questions me about this it makes me cry but im also ridiculously private about that stuff so never know what to say. I work from home majority of time even before covid so at least I don't get to see her often.

Never get why that stuff interests people so much - piss off.