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

[DA Stella]

I get this sometimes and it immediately results in the email being categorised as low priority.

I get people who email me a task and then immediately Teams chat me asking me to complete the task. I saw your email, you don't need to bug me to do my job. I just ignore the Teams chat message.
Although in their defense there are a shocking number of people who do not bother to complete their tasks so I can understand why they do this. That's why I don't respond with "I saw your email, no need to bug me over Teams about it".

 

[Rosco]

I get this sometimes and it immediately results in the email being categorised as low priority.

Yea, that's what I do. Straight to the bottom of the pile, small wins and all that haha.
I've never heard it before though, sounds like something they'd teach at a clerical school in the 40's/50's or something.

 

[Popcornshovel]

What about when someone tells you either verbally/on teams/in an email 'I'm going to send you X in a minute and it's urgent by the end of the day'.
Then you're sitting there waiting and nothing comes through!
Usually they send it through at like 6pm after I've logged off which is way too late.

 

[DA Stella]

Usually they send it through at like 6pm after I've logged off which is way too late.

I get this a lot. Send me something hours after I'm out for the day and include a note saying "do you think you can get this done today?" Um, no, I don't.
My status is clearly offline and my work hours are posted but it's always surprising how many people don't bother actually reading the information they're provided with.

 

[EleanorRigby]

Yea, that's what I do. Straight to the bottom of the pile, small wins and all that haha.
I've never heard it before though, sounds like something they'd teach at a clerical school in the 40's/50's or something.

I think it might be an AI thing, certainly judging by the syntax of the rest of the emails. It's not something humans would say.

 

[TheDragonWithAFlagon]

I think it might be an AI thing, certainly judging by the syntax of the rest of the emails. It's not something humans would say.

Nah, it's angry pre-boomer speak. Used to deal with tit like that all the time in the 1990s. Mostly from men in their 60s but a fair number of women enraged that I'd turned down their insurance claim for forty grand's worth of jewellery they put into hold luggage expecting it to still be there once it reached their cruise departure point. For a Silent Generation, they had a fuckton to say at people they saw as inferior to them.

 

[BettyRose]

I get people who email me a task and then immediately Teams chat me asking me to complete the task. I saw your email, you don't need to bug me to do my job. I just ignore the Teams chat message.
Although in their defense there are a shocking number of people who do not bother to complete their tasks so I can understand why they do this. That's why I don't respond with "I saw your email, no need to bug me over Teams about it".

I have a colleague who will forward an email to me about something, and in the same minute ring me to tell me she's forwarded me an email. I'll then get a task pop up on my "to do" notes, to say that an email has been forwarded by her and can I reply to it.

 

[DA Stella]

I have a colleague who will forward an email to me about something, and in the same minute ring me to tell me she's forwarded me an email. I'll then get a task pop up on my "to do" notes, to say that an email has been forwarded by her and can I reply to it.

I'm so glad the company I work for did away with desk phones. The only way to voice call is over Teams.

 

[traceymrsd]

I have a colleague who will forward an email to me about something, and in the same minute ring me to tell me she's forwarded me an email. I'll then get a task pop up on my "to do" notes, to say that an email has been forwarded by her and can I reply to it.

Then 10 mins later I get the "have you read the email I sent" teams message yes I saw it along with 25 other emails thst I also need to find time to read!

 

[Ann97]

Yep, HR is not your friend!

my very wise HR employee sister reminds me of this all the time. Union reps should be first port of call. But also pay union membership through standing order from your bank account so employer doesn’t know you’re a member.

 

[Pinkii]

I have a colleague who will forward an email to me about something, and in the same minute ring me to tell me she's forwarded me an email. I'll then get a task pop up on my "to do" notes, to say that an email has been forwarded by her and can I reply to it.

I have a colleague that will forward me an email that im already CC’d on!!!!!!

We’re in the middle of a handover and she is getting some of my clients, I have handed everything over but in the system they are still under my name but internally everyone knows its under her so they will email her ( but CC me for system clarity)

Anyways think her point of cc’ing me is thinking I will be picking it up, and then some stuff doesnt get picked up cause its not my account and then when she is asked about it internally she will message me and say you were CC’d, did you not pick it up?

ITS NOT MY ACCOUNTTT

 

[Phil Anne Throw Pee]

my very wise HR employee sister reminds me of this all the time. Union reps should be first port of call. But also pay union membership through standing order from your bank account so employer doesn’t know you’re a member.

In my experience, Unions are useless, totally captured and are just in cahoots with HR anyway.

 

[Rosco]

I think it might be an AI thing, certainly judging by the syntax of the rest of the emails. It's not something humans would say.

Definitely not AI, as she's been using it way before AI was even a thing. I just think she believes she's living in Victorian Britain, and she's addressing a lowly workhouse boy.

 

[ChastityDingle]

I used to work with a (young) guy who used 'kindly' in emails. 'Kindly do XYZ'. I always thought it sounded like something a bank manager of many decades ago might put in a letter to a customer who owed money. 'Kindly make repayments'...

 

[Fillyjonk]

A guy I work with goes through about an hour of intense throat clearing every day after lunch. It’s like somebody trying to start a car.

 

[MyLittlePony25]

I have one colleague who clears his throat, fidgets constantly and scratches his butt (hand down the trousers) multiple times a shift

 

[EvilJigglypuff]

I used to work with a (young) guy who used 'kindly' in emails. 'Kindly do XYZ'. I always thought it sounded like something a bank manager of many decades ago might put in a letter to a customer who owed money. 'Kindly make repayments'...

I saw someone doing this today as well and it really irked me! They are not from the UK though so possibly a cultural thing for them as I’ve seen it from other staff based in this place too

 

[it’s not been changed?!]

“Can I use your nail file?”, “do you have any tissues?”, “do you have any paracetamol?”


Arghhh

 

[DA Stella]

"Sure, I just used the nail file on my toenails but you're welcome to use it." "I only have tissues that have been in the bottom of my bag for months. They might be slightly dirty but you can have them." "I have some super heavy duty tranquilizers, want one of those?"

 

[EleanorRigby]

“Can I use your nail file?”, “do you have any tissues?”, “do you have any paracetamol?”


Arghhh

Sadly this is indicative of the lack of self-responsibility that plagues society nowadays.