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

[it’s not been changed?!]

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

I also forgot “can I borrow your charger?” Either for their personal phone or their work phone. One person took their work phone charger home because it works with their personal phone. So now they ask for my charger regularly. I need to bring it home with me and forget to bring it back

 

[Samf2020]

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


Arghhh

I had a collegue come to my desk and ask for paracetamol, took out a strip of 12 and he went to take the whole thing. Was very unhappy with me when I said no. He said he might need more so I told him the location of 3 chemists nearby where he can buy whatever he needs. The level of entitlement with my younger colleagues in staggering. I will only help certain people now.

 

[EvilJigglypuff]

Someone asked me for ibuprofen the other day and took three out of the packet. TAKE TWO LIKE A NORMAL HUMAN, you’ve left me with one now

 

[it’s not been changed?!]

Another petty thing that wound me up.
I was a minute late (there was an accident further up the road) the other day and I got a passive aggressive comment. Lazy co worker turned up 7 mins late (he doesn’t come the same way as me, so can’t use the excuse). Nothing was said to him.
I should have said something back to her at the time, but i just ignored her. The next time, I need some comebacks… any suggestions?

 

[cowtastrophe]

One of my colleagues has contempt for nearly everyone he works with and makes it clear. On Sunday morning, he told me that he’d removed himself from the team WhatsApp group (which is an operational group, not chatter and memes) because apparently we all talk tit and he’s not interested in anything we say unless it relates directly to him. This would explain why he failed to deal with a serious issue posted on the group on Saturday which I couldn’t deal with as I was already on another job. I’m sick of his rudeness and disrespect so I escalated it to the head of operations who is apparently furious with him.

 

[EvilJigglypuff]

Does anyone else have a workplace where all the male leadership refer to each other by their initials? “Thanks BD, handing over to TJ”. Makes me wanna be sick.

 

[pinkmug]

“Will you send me the email?” You were already copied into it. Ffs. Just look in your inbox.

This, and asking me to send it again instead of doing a quick search in their inbox. Ffs.

Similar to this: asking me questions that would take them maybe 6 seconds to Google. I don't know the answer either yet when I say I don't know, they ask me to Google it quickly. Do that yourself, it's faster than asking me about it and waiting for an answer

 

[EvilJigglypuff]

This, and asking me to send it again instead of doing a quick search in their inbox. Ffs.

Similar to this: asking me questions that would take them maybe 6 seconds to Google. I don't know the answer either yet when I say I don't know, they ask me to Google it quickly. Do that yourself, it's faster than asking me about it and waiting for an answer

I get so annoyed with this, people ask me questions all the time despite Google and the internal knowledge site both being free

When people ask me how to do stuff on Excel I’ll help them but then tell them to Google formulas and how-to’s, that’s how I learned

 

[OliveOil2020]

I had a team member escalate something to me. He's waiting on a payment to be made by company A and 2 emails have gone unanswered. Company B, the recipient of the money is complaining. I asked if he's tried ringing company A and if not to do so. Of course he hasn't because that would fuse some effort. When he (reluctantly) rang, he'd mistyped the email by one letter (his error) and they agreed to deal with urgently. The payment is being processed and will be with company B by tomorrow. An absolute waste of my time for something so basic

 

[RainbowFuzz]

I had a team member escalate something to me. He's waiting on a payment to be made by company A and 2 emails have gone unanswered. Company B, the recipient of the money is complaining. I asked if he's tried ringing company A and if not to do so. Of course he hasn't because that would fuse some effort. When he (reluctantly) rang, he'd mistyped the email by one letter (his error) and they agreed to deal with urgently. The payment is being processed and will be with company B by tomorrow. An absolute waste of my time for something so basic

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!

 

[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!

 

[RainbowFuzz]

Guilty of this as I hate talking on the phone!

Oh I do too, but if my manager has specifically asked me to call someone to sort out a problem I'd do it

 

[EleanorRigby]

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!

Especially if it's urgent. Emails can be easily ignored. Phone calls can be much more effective, if you can get hold of the right person.

 

[RainbowFuzz]

Especially if it's urgent. Emails can be easily ignored. Phone calls can be much more effective, if you can get hold of the right person.

You can't read tone in an email either, so much easier to call I think

 

[katz2022]

bleep at work told me and colleagues to be quiet today. Now, I know how annoying people are, they regularly get on my bits but we weren’t right near her, we were talking about work and it’s an open plan office (that we’re made to attend to “network”). She then proceeded to rabbit away to her neighbour!! Went on the seating plan go clock her name so I don’t book a desk near her again (or apply for a job in her team)…. Also overhead someone in the team say they’d been told off for having a 35 minute lunch break!

 

[MediumLoad]

bleep at work told me and colleagues to be quiet today. Now, I know how annoying people are, they regularly get on my bits but we weren’t right near her, we were talking about work and it’s an open plan office (that we’re made to attend to “network”). She then proceeded to rabbit away to her neighbour!! Went on the seating plan go clock her name so I don’t book a desk near her again (or apply for a job in her team)…. Also overhead someone in the team say they’d been told off for having a 35 minute lunch break!

I was complained twice for "Talking on his phone". I was working on a bleeping helpline at the time so it couldn't be helped.

The complainant spent her day boring everyone to death with her moaning and half-witted reckons and was constantly being threatened with PIP for being tit at her job.

 

[Harlot O'Scara]

Does anyone else have a workplace where all the male leadership refer to each other by their initials? “Thanks BD, handing over to TJ”. Makes me wanna be sick.

Just wait until they hire a Bob Johnson

 

[it’s not been changed?!]

I’ve purposely started leaving it to the last minute to let my TL know that I’ve got time booked off. (It’s on the system anyway when the LM approves it and we have a manual spreadsheet anyway) because I can’t be arsed with the questions why I’m off. I know it’s not very professional, but i don’t care anymore

 

[TheDragonWithAFlagon]

'I've heard you're proposing this. It's a massive task, requires thousands of changes and a) isn't feasible in the time you seem to think it is and b) is pointless at this stage. If you want it, fine, it can be done at x point when similar changes are scheduled and can fit into the new structure as there are specific restrictions that mean x cannot also be y, for example. It's about 300 hours work and won't fit in with the other time critical tasks being done at that point, either. Oh, and if you do insist upon imposing this, I will be seriously reconsidering my employment - that's how much impact it will have.'

Goes quiet.

'Here's the spreadsheet of the changes, please do for Monday'.


<pause>
<read>
<blink>
<read again>
<go for a break to check thinking>
<read again>
<ask colleague if I'm imaging it or whether they have actually gone mad this time>
<thank colleague for confirming that yes, they have actually gone mad this time>
<go for another break to think of ways to tell them that they have actually gone bleeping mad this time without actually saying it>





'Here's your spreadsheet back with all the occasions highlighted where this inherently will not work because you've put x and y together in them. It will also determine f,g,h,k,t,v,w and half the Greek alphabet as well, what's more, you'll also have to get z to make multiple changes taking around 45 hours and deploy those 48 hours in advance, then once the changes are made, you'll need c,d and f to do around 30 hours of work between them in order to roll the changes out, plus create a new 10 hour task each for another 85 people in addition to completely changing everything they've done for the last seven months. Oh, and I'm not available to make those changes anyway because, as I told you, I have <these non negotiable tasks and deadlines> to complete'.

'Can you stay late for a meeting to tell people this and help them fix it for you to do it <ignoring the rest of the massive changes and workload it requires> tomorrow?'

'I'm off for five days as of ten minutes ago'.

 

[allthingschocolate]

One of my work colleagues emailed me yesterday asking if I could help with x,y,z as I was on administrative tasks which I thought was really cheeky of her given this person never helps if she has any spare time so I just ignored it and thought nah you can sod off luv