Annoying things your work colleagues do all the time?

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When they ask how your weekend was or how your evening was, but they're not really listening they just wait for you to stop talking so they can tell you all about themselves.
I used to work with someone who would complain if I didn’t ask how her weekend was.
 
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When they ask how your weekend was or how your evening was, but they're not really listening they just wait for you to stop talking so they can tell you all about themselves.
Oh gosh. This is the most accurate thing I’ve seen about colleagues. So annoying. I keep it brief and just say yes all good thanks HOPING that they will also keep it short and leave me alone
 
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Maybe shouldn't have opened my mouth yesterday. I now have to have a mediation meeting with my massive witch colleague. Already looking for a new job because I don't feel like it's going to get better for the last of our contracts and the commute on days at work is killing me 🙄

Edit**Cba to explain moment for moment but she reported me for rejecting her idea, I was called into a meeting with my manager, got asked to explain and I basically told my manager the colleague is a pain (less kindly) so we now have to have the meeting**

apparently I'm too sarcastic and unprofessional. Ok thanks for noticing bby x
 
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I'm on annual leave this week and next but received calls/texts from a colleague to "keep me up with the gossip". I don't care I'm on holiday! We get on inside work and like a good chat but we aren't besties or someone I would socialise with outside of work. I wouldn't dream of calling him for a work gossip chit chat whilst he is on holiday.

My fault for answering I suppose.
 
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I'm on annual leave this week and next but received calls/texts from a colleague to "keep me up with the gossip". I don't care I'm on holiday! We get on inside work and like a good chat but we aren't besties or someone I would socialise with outside of work. I wouldn't dream of calling him for a work gossip chit chat whilst he is on holiday.

My fault for answering I suppose.
One of my colleagues did this when I was off sick with COVID and I was fuming. Telling me how the others thought I was faking it (never taken a sick day in my life before this so ok 🙄), and bitching about how lazy they are (I know, because I’m the one who deals with it the most). Like you said, my fault for answering the phone but I swear these people have no respect. Outside of work, I do not care.
 
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Used to be in a work whatsapp group that was constantly on the go. It ends up blurring the lines of work/home life. Most of it was just pure nonsense. The one I'm in now isn't too bad and I just mute it when I'm on AL. But if one ever got like that again I'd probably just leave it
 
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I've muted all my work groups/apps. I have checked my emails a couple of times on my app just to see how things are and tbh it has been pretty peaceful. I wouldn't have answered if I had known it would be a 30 min call to moan about the last 2 days :cautious: :cautious: It is annoying because I know when I get back to work, I have a big project to start working on straight away so this is the only real downtime I can foresee for a few months. I know it isn't like I am abroad but it is still my time away from work. I might mention it to my manager when I get back to work.
 
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I muted my old work WhatsApp group too. Most of them left the company and carried on messaging. Nah just piss off 😜
 
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I muted my old work WhatsApp group too. Most of them left the company and carried on messaging. Nah just piss off 😜
I soo agree. I left the WhatsApp group at my old company without saying bye. You're exactly right! There were so many hanger-ons that just wanted office tea. Get a life peeps 🙄
 
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Work WhatsApp groups sound like a HR nightmare!
I am so glad we don’t have that where I work...personally I wouldn’t accept the group invite. I don’t have a work phone so couldn’t make me join it either 😂
 
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Work WhatsApp groups sound like a HR nightmare!
I am so glad we don’t have that where I work...personally I wouldn’t accept the group invite. I don’t have a work phone so couldn’t make me join it either 😂
I worked in HR in the one I'm taking about! 😂 It was called something along the lines of "sanity chat"
 
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When some plonker totally messes up his computer then phones tech support under the bizarre belief that we have a little magic button that we can just press to make everything all right again.

And of course the five most dreaded words in the English language “Can I give some feedback?”.

No you can’t. Can I fart in your face?
 
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:oops: Did she think your life was so empty that you were actually interested?
I couldn’t stand her. She was incompetent so not only did I have to do her work but I also had to concern myself with her social life too. Urgh.
 
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I couldn’t stand her. She was incompetent so not only did I have to do her work but I also had to concern myself with her social life too. Urgh.
Ah on of THOSE. There’s usually a word for employees like that. I think it’s managers.
 
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I know I've said this before but I've been working for about 20 years now and I swear it's not the work that makes people wants to retire, it's the annoying work colleagues, the politics and the commute. Sad really.
 
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Been in my current role for 2 years and have just had to have my first period of sickness since starting.
During my return to work meeting the form specifically asked "what impact did this absence have on your colleagues?".
I refused to answer and told them that I was disgusted. Not only is it not my responsibility or pay grade to ensure that it has no impact on my already strung out colleagues, but when I logged on I discovered that although I had been given assurances that the few bits I had (that just needed to be kept an eye on) nothing whatsoever had been done for 2 weeks.
 
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Used to sit next to a colleague at my current job who would noisily crunch a whole bag of raw baby carrots mid-morning. It was UNBEARABLE. She said she did this to fill herself up so she wouldn't want unhealthy snacks, well she was still overeating! Thankfully, she retired recently so she won't be there when I go back to the office

I once worked in a small branch of Boots that was part of a retail park in a quiet suburb. The store was too cheap to hire real staff, so instead we had a lot of schoolkids on work experience placements, or people on workfare schemes. Many of them stole from the store. The staff would have our bags searched at the end of each day to prevent theft, but that didn't stop them thieving before then. Someone we had for about three months (workfare) would stuff things down her bra all morning, put larger items in her bag during her lunch break, then go to the Starbucks next door where she would meet the same woman for lunch every day (presumably her girlfriend/wife or housemate) who would take her loot home for her! The manager knew all about it and didn't care. She stopped accepting work experience kids from one particular local school because pretty much every one they sent was a thief, but generally she felt the cost was outweighed by the savings of not paying a salary
 
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