Annoying things your work colleagues do all the time? #9

[Hollie Day]

More disgusting than annoying. Colleague brought in a buttercream sponge cake that she made for another colleague's birthday to have at lunchtime - she left it on the work top in the staff kitchen
She went to make a drink and found that someone has lifted the cake box lid and swiped their finger through the buttercream.

 

[EvilJigglypuff]

So I went for the promotion. Was knocked back, not even offered an interview. For a job I’ve already been doing. Trying not to rage cry right now because wtf

 

[DA Stella]

That old "you're just an admin" mindset. I couldn't possibly know something that these people with their advanced degrees don't know, so they feel free to disregard everything I say. And it comes back to bite them in the butt every time.
I'm an admin because I'm good at it, not because I'm too stupid to get a "better" job.

 

[BoogleC]

I find collections really uncomfortable because people have their reasons for not wanting to or being unable to contribute and I don't always think it's a reflection on how valuable the colleague is. I've felt pressured into contributing to a bloody wedding present for someone that actively disliked me and when I flat out said I couldn't I was completely ostracised. Whenever I've moved roles I always firmly say I do not want a leaving gift I am happy to bow out unchecked to avoid people feeling like they have to give something but also to avoid the humiliation of getting nothing lol

 

[BoogleC]

I have a colleague who dominates all our team meetings, talks over everyone, rambles on and on to the point you see everyone else visibly disengage. they were off last week and the difference in the meeting was like night an day, people were more relaxed and there was a chance to talk and ask questions without them taking over and showing that they know best about everything. it's exhausting.

 

[Naffdoff]

As a senior member of staff who only goes into the office 1 day per week every Thursday nearest to pay day I paid for the junior members lunch either eat in or takeaway venue of their choice which I don’t have to do but I think they are all treated pretty poorly by the co. Last week went in was not near pay day & 1 of the junior members had arranged a lunch out for everyone apart from me. Well that tells me everything I need to know about what she thinks of me so that is going to save me some cash every month cos I shan’t be doing it again!

 

[EvilJigglypuff]

Chased at 9:19 for something that was requested by email at 17:15 on Friday. Get the fuck out of here

 

[TheDragonWithAFlagon]

Trouble is for some of those women, they're being told to train somebody who is just as likely on more money than them, for no additional salary and will then see the new, shiny ones promoted over them because 'they want to progress' as though nobody over 30 has ever wanted to do that themselves.

It's hard to be enthusiastic when you're painstakingly explaining to somebody how to do something, answering every question nicely (if there are any, often they just sit there in silence), they go away and you don't see them again until there's some utter drivel complete with a few possessive apostrophes and confusing their, there and they're on the company website, only to see them getting employee of the century three weeks later because they made a poster in AI. Which also had the same spelling errors. And then they're suddenly barking orders at you as though they've been made your supervisor.

 

[DA Stella]

Coworker sent a confidential, government restricted document to the customer via unsecured email and copied about a dozen people, including some of our managers and multiple others outside the company.
That's grounds for immediate termination.
JFC

 

[OwlHen]

My annoying thing today is people using the kitchen as a meeting room for calls then getting annoyed at me for using the microwave because it's noisy

 

[90% grifter]

I work as part of a stores team and as such we have scissors all over the place for getting into boxes etc, one of my colleagues cuts his fingernails with these on a regular basis-nail clippings on the floor, scissors put back in the pot. Grim. Needless to say I have my own scissors which stay in my pocket!

 

[DA Stella]

Someone had a tin of sardines for lunch and then left the empty container in the communal trash can in the hallway
I love sardines but I am considerate enough of my coworkers not to bring and eat them in the office!

 

[qqwertyy]

People are absolute animals when you see how some people behave at work and the state of workplace bathrooms and kitchens it makes you wonder what they’re like at home.

 

[quinzel]

People just don't like calling anyone anymore, I quite often have to say "call the haulier and ask about xyz" and the next thing you hear is tapping on the keyboard because their emailing! Just pick up the phone and ask the question!

Guilty of this as I hate talking on the phone!

 

[TheDragonWithAFlagon]

I would never join in anything involving money at work money is evil

I wasn't popular when I pointed out that I

a) didn't drink milk
b) didn't eat bread or anything else containing gluten
c) would therefore not be in need of a bread infested tub of I Can't Believe They Flog This Shit As Butter or stale cornflakes
d) had seen the roach and rat traps behind the dishwasher and (filthy) microwaves
e) brought my own coffee in to use with my own kettle in my own working area
f) wouldn't touch their crappy coffee, decaff coffee, crappy teabags, their even crappier decaf teabags, herbal teabags that tasted of corpse dust and mummy sand if my life depended upon it
g) was paid roughly 23% of the next lowest paid worker's salary
h) had approximately £28 left per week after bills until next payday
i) would rather remove my left eyeball with a soup spoon than socialise in my unpaid break with people who thought that they were too important to stack a dishwasher and switch it on when they could assume somebody else always a woman would come in, clear and scrape their dirty plates and deal with their mess for them

and therefore would not be offering a 'voluntary' contribution of fifteen quid a month towards staffroom food and drinks 'because it's called being a team player'. It's not, it's called Being Taken the Piss Out Of By Entitled Twats.

 

[cowtastrophe]

A former manager had a small safe in the kitchen which he kept his special coffee in. One day, the safe was kidnapped and a ransom note was left on his desk (not by me). He absolutely flipped his lid. It was hilarious.

 

[The Devils Arse]

Another complaint about the next generation.
Doesn't drive but takes a job miles away. Then complains that the role isn't hybrid - it was never advertised as hybrid.

Comes to work and moans she ha no life as it takes her so long to come in on the bus each day. Also says she has no intention of learning to drive.

Asks for flexible working, so always agreed a 15 min shift slide so she doesn't have to wait around so long for the bus at the end of the day, but we all have to leave at 1700 and sit in all the traffic. She's now started and finishing earlier, but we aren't allowed to as the office is open until 5. Did I mention we all sit in traffic as everyone is kicking out at that point?! And even when she is WFH as we are now hybrid, still starts and finishes earlier. But when we are WFH we are having to do 9-5

Dunno if it's just me, but if I didn't drive, the first thing I would do is see what my journey would be like. Then if I made the decision to work there, I wouldn't then demand to work different hours, whilst those of us that have been there years have to work a bit a normal shift. Part of my admires it, mostly harry it though as it fecks everyone else over.

 

[BoogleC]

Ok this is going to sound bad but annoying things my colleagues do all the time…breathing.

Sitting next to my manager and the breathing sounds are so loud and distracting. It’s driving me mad.

Oh and the slurping of any hot drink.

 

[MediumLoad]

That is madness.

I think sometimes, even in the public sector (with its clear HR rules and HR departments), some managers go rogue and try to impose things which aren't in line with the actual rules.

And those are the type of managers who have to stand up at employment tribunals!

One of my brother's inlaws works in local government.

During Covid, their manager was so determined to get everyone in his department back into the office that he was making up fake email chains pretending they came from upper management saying that WFH rules didn't apply to his department.

When he got found out, it was only a verbal warning as, "He was so passionate about the job that he wanted to do what was best for everyone."

 

[EvilJigglypuff]

I work as part of a stores team and as such we have scissors all over the place for getting into boxes etc, one of my colleagues cuts his fingernails with these on a regular basis-nail clippings on the floor, scissors put back in the pot. Grim. Needless to say I have my own scissors which stay in my pocket!

We once found an envelope of someone’s fingernail (and toenail!!!!!) clippings during a desk move. People are absolutely fucking rotten.