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

[Norfolking Good]

Having run training I’ve had staff pull out their laptop at the start thinking they’re going to be able to do their work whilst I’m teaching! I have a strict laptops closed rule because frankly it’s incredibly rude. Either attend the training or leave as the tapping whilst I’m talking is so off putting

 

[EvilJigglypuff]

Cheeky bloody sods!! If you aren’t being paid extra for the times you’re stepping in to the management role I hope you stop doing it for them!

I’m not going to be doing it anymore, and I certainly won’t be training whoever they hire. I hope they are really really good

 

[Sir Lancelot]

Putting plug-in heaters on in the office when it's warm and sunny outside and warm inside.
STOP IT!
If you're cold, put a jumper on.
I can't just sit here with my tits out if I'm warm!
Hmpf.

 

[OwlHen]

I think most meetings are a waste of time.

 

[Pinkstuff]

I had a situation yesterday. I went above and beyond helping another manager with a task as she was swamped with her workload. However, she decided to only publicly thank another manager for their support yesterday. This infuriated me as I postponed some of my tasks to support her. Teamwork. Won’t be going above & beyond for her again. The least she could have done was thank me also so our manager could see I was also helping her. Dreadful…

 

[emmer_moans]

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.

I do the same, I have allergies so easier to justify, I guess, but I have my own coffee, which I bring in my own flask so I don't have to use the manky limescale encrusted kettle. I've seen how the milk in the fridge gets used by the thieving staff from second floor who don't contribute the the milk kitty. I also just bring my chilled lunch in a little insulated lunch bag that sits under my desk because the fridge STINKS as people leave tupperwares in there for days. Also the communal catering sized 1000 bag of teabags gets left wide open to the air all day long, and the coffee jars have water from wet spoons all down the inside where the coffee has disolved and then crusted. Kim and Aggie would have a field day on the communal yellow dish sponge. I don't clean my mug at work, it comes home in my lunch bag every day. I just...CAN'T deal with the communal sponge. Bleugh.

 

[DA Stella]

Having different people ask me to do something I already said I can't do won't result in a different answer. I can't do it. No matter who asks.
In the time you've expended getting different people to ask me you could have submitted the formal request to the appropriate department like I advised you to do a week ago.
Also, people who send me alleged "urgent" requests via chat message when my status clearly says I'm in a meeting. Send an email! I'm not going to drop everything just because you used chat. And stop with just typing "Hello <My name>". Just say what you want, this isn't social hour!
Finally, the "must be done TODAY!!!!111" thing from a week ago that requires input from five different people still isn't done. Guess it wasn't that urgent after all.
And... I'm so glad it's Friday because obviously I am feeling quite cranky.

 

[J3N1800]

I got a passive aggressive comment from my TL for being 1 minute late. Lazy one was 7 mins late. Nothing gets said. I’ve just walked past them and they’re both on their personal phones. Every time i turn round, the TL is on her phone. Must be why she never tells off the lazy one when her bestie who sits next to her keeps telling the that he is on his phone all day. get me out of here.

Seriously though, its these little discrepancies and double standards that you witness repeatedly and slowly burn a hole of resentment.

 

[DA Stella]

Stop asking me to send you things I already sent! Just because you're too lazy to search your email.

 

[BoogleC]

Does anyone else stick to a job because they don’t know what else they’d do??

yes and I also feel at a point in my career now that I’m trapped by my earnings, so to start something new I’d be taking a massive pay cut and a single income household my outgoings are very dependent on my current salary. I’d love to have the freedom to try something new and I have great admiration for people who take the risk it just wouldn’t be me

 

[Hollie Day]

No I haven't read your email that you sent two minutes and three seconds ago. Piss off!

 

[DA Stella]

Tell them you have explosive diarrhea and a period that's like a garden hose going full blast. I guarantee they'll stop with the intrusive questions.

 

[cowtastrophe]

People are disgusting. I cleaned out one of the work vehicles yesterday and it was a disgrace. Mud on the back seat, the footwells clearly hadn’t been hoovered for months, old tissues in the glove box, two empty coffee cups under the seat. I had a moan about it in the office and someone piped up, ‘Well, we can‘t change our shoes every time we get in and out of the car.’ No, you twat, but you can use a hoover and a bin.

 

[Phil Anne Throw Pee]

I’m in England. I’m sure it’s legal to have time off sick. The two bosses say it isn’t allowed and manipulate by saying, if you call in sick think of everyone else, I’d drag myself in etc. but I was madly distressed early last week and she told me to my face I wasn’t allowed time off. She was nice to my face and said she didn’t want to send me home in case I felt worse sitting around but this was after she told me I wasn’t allowed anyway!

Get in touch with ACAS. This is a tribunal waiting to happen. Statutory sick pay is a legal right and this person is on a hiding to nothing.

 

[Popcornshovel]

Emailed my line manager telling them I’d be wfh this week and told them why. He’s on leave anyway, but at least I covered myself.
Text my TL this morning letting them know as I wasn’t feeling 100% and they replied asking what’s wrong. Ffs.

In my work they always ask what's wrong and then it'll get repeated to the whole team (with a guess of when the person will be back)!

Like 'Dan's off today cos he hurt his leg playing football at the weekend, so he might be off the rest of the week depending on what the x ray shows'

Or 'Sarah's sister died suddenly of a heart attack so I expect she'll be off for a few weeks'.

Colleagues absolutely do not need that level of detail about why someone is off!

 

[DA Stella]

People who Teams call me when my status clearly says out of office. There's even a purple banner that tells them I am out of office and may not respond. But they call anyway, I guess thinking I might be walking around carrying my laptop on and open?
Someone even "suggested" I bring my laptop with me on vacation. "Just check it every so often!" they (not) helpfully said. That's a "No Way".

 

[DA Stella]

Funny how the same people who take weeks to complete tasks or respond to my emails (or just completely ignore them) want me to immediately jump on their requests. I should make them wait weeks like they love to do.

 

[it’s not been changed?!]

The sooner I leave here, the better. The other Friday, I logged off early due to a dental appointment that I reminded my TL about the day before. I left my laptop on and just went. When I came back, I sent the TL a message on teams saying I was back. She said “*insert co worker’s name* asked where you were and I said you were at the dentist”. So my teams status was being checked even though “it’s not accurate”. The co worked must have been trying to stitch me up, but she got egg on her face as my whereabouts were known, ha bloody ha. The week after when we were in the office, she asked me how it went at the dentist. I so wanted to ask how she knew, because I hadn’t told her. She goes offline for lengthy times throughout the day, but I don’t try and “snitch” on her to the TL. They’re bum chums, anyway

 

[ChastityDingle]

I could count on one hand the good people managers I encountered over a long number of years. The other types seem to be far more common. Promoted beyond their abilities, and spending their time nitpicking those who are conscientious, while blatantly ignoring those who swing the lead.

I lost any shred of respect I ever might have had for managers of that ilk.

 

[DA Stella]

I was asked to "continue to chase" someone to do something I originally requested three months ago and already repeated the request twice more. No, I will not "continue to chase" a grown ass adult. They'll either do their job or they won't. I refuse to beg people to do what they're being paid (quite well) to do. If they don't do it, oh well.