Work Pet Peeves

[Gina1201]

I know this is an OLD post but I had to vent

My coworker yells at her computer EVERY day. She knows that the internet connection is slow at work, and yet EVERY day she complains about it. Uh hello? The internet connection is slow for a reason, it is not supposed to be used for personal use. While I do use it for personal use (gotta check out GC), I don't complain!

Also, asking me who is on the phone when I answer it. Chick, if it's not for you don't worry about it.

[9dstpm]

I hate co-workers that have a problem with something you are doing and instead of doing the mature thing and talking with you about it directly, they go straight snitching to the boss. That really burns me up!! Tattletales are for kindergarten kids!!

I am a subsitute teacher and I hate it when the administration gives lots of applause to the athletic teams and none to the kids that are doing well academically. I mean, the football, basketball, baseball and track teams get a big dinner while the honor roll students get about 5 funky little minutes at the end of the assembly program at school.

Co-workers who have a double standard b/c of your status. Example: I used to be a medical secretary. On my shift, my immediate supervisor is the charge nurse. We BOTH are supposed to follow the same rules on the floor in regards to phone and internet use during down time: no more than 10 minutes on the phone and 20 on the internet, no chatting or shopping. Well, why is it that it's cool for the charge nurse to sit on the phone for hours on end talking to her hubby and ordering baby stuff on the internet and reading magazines on downtime, but I get wrote up for using that SAME time to study for a class or to talk to my husband and son for two minutes to see how they are??

Bosses who do not support their staff. My old boss at the hospital would not say anything to the doctors that would verbally abuse the staff. She was too busy being their boot-licker that she would let us suffer so that she can get some recognition with the docs.

[jll79]

I really don't like my boss so I plenty of pet peeves but I will only give you a couple:

I hate it when my boss talks to me about my coworker.....why would I give her that info especially since that is not my business to give.

I hate it when my boss gives me work to do and says that it's first priority, but comes back hours later and gives me something more and then labels that as first priority.

I hate it when my boss uses equipment that she knows she does not know how to use and BREAKS it!!! Which delays my work load.

[Gyrl7]

I have a serious problem when people come to work sick with a cold, the flu, or bronchitis(sp) and wait till they get near my desk and start either caughing or hacking!


I hate it when people see my light on my phone lit, but manage to call anyway and keep calling until I pick up and WANT NOTHING or people will see me on the phone with a customer and just stand there until I get off and still WANT NOTHING OR SAY ANYTHING IMPORTANT!

Some co-workers instead of having the nerve to ask you to do something, they will drop all these hints out loud to other co-workers.

Or co-workers who have a question, but they have to be all up on you while asking it!

Or those who complain about what they are gonna do, what aint right about the company, how they wish the supervisor would right or say this and that to them and how they will do whatever if they do AND when the time comes they sit there looking stupid!

[Kisha]

I hate it when coworkers come to my cube to talk to me or ask me a question, but his/her EYES are roaming around my desk trying to see what I’m working on. Look at me when you are talking to me, not files on my desk or my computer.

[BabyBlue91]

When co-workers get grade school-ish. My fiance just called. It's snowing today (in April -- go figure) and people in his office (which operates 24/7, by the way) are already (12:30 p.m.)asking their managers if they can go home. Hello!

[Ideal08]

Ok, yall, we are having some email issues at work. Apparently, some of us have not been using the proper protocol when it comes to email. THERE IS NO EMAIL PROTOCOL!!! How can you expect me to follow something that doesn't exist??? And why are you scared to put what you have to say in email? You afraid to have your words documented? Is that what it is? Whatever it is, if you want to have a protocol, then have one. Create one. Put it in writing. Then (and ONLY then) you can tell us to follow the proper protocol. Dang.

[BabyBlue91]

My biggest pet peeve (on the job or anywhere else) would have to be last-minute shiznit. My school is doing departmental presentations this week, something we all knew or should have known about since March 18. At no time did anyone approach me about helping to create a presentation for our department. Since I hadn't heard anything about it, I presumed (wrong!) that everything was under control.

This morning we're sitting watching the other departments make their (very pretty) PowerPoint presentations, and my boss (a woman) hands me a note saying, "After lunch [Director's name] said he needs us to put together a presentation for him by tomorrow [his presentation is in the afternoon on Thursday]. He said it doesn't have to be PowerPoint."

In that instant, my afternoon was shot. Instead of staying through lunch, we ended up leaving immediately before lunch (and a sister had NO money today!). I came back and spent the next two hours scanning and cropping catalog covers, and then this cat went home without approving it! I didn't have time to take lunch until 4:00, and of course by then I had to hit the ATM and spend my own money! My fiance called to tell me that his father had just found out he had diabetes, and I couldn't stay on the phone.

I actually came back to my office and slammed the door, something I never do (childish, I know). I put something together in about two hours. It won't be PowerPoint (which Director barked at us to learn), but it will be colorful and informative.

[DeTeRm1NaT1on]

I hate it when I take the time out and make detailed plans for activities (that the facilitator of the program asked me to do) and then she totally changes them at the last minute. Then she has the nerve to say that her programs aren't organized. Hmmmm, I wonder why!!!

[Dedicated1]

I hate it when you have a boss who clock's every minute of your one hour lunch break and then they turn around and take a 2-3hr lunch break when they only have an hour.

[Dancerella1908]

Work Pet Peeves...Here's just a few

-co-workers standing over your desk to be nosey and find out what you class is doing for school wide presentations.

-parents/guardians that do not take an active part in their childs life.

-administrators who have been out of the classroom setting sooo long they are out of touch w/ the students needs.

-co-workers trying to take all of the credit for your ideas.

-receiving hand outs(especially ones that contain info. for the following day) to go home w/ the students 5 minutes before dismissal.(then the parents are upset w/ you because the students are late)

-administrators that do not listen to their staff.

-attending field trips on substandard buses.(they always break down)

[1savvydiva]

Hmmm...to sum it all up, my biggest pet peeve about work is everything!

Right now if I had a backup plan I would really tell these people to kiss my grits!

-nosey co-workers

-stupid emails

-last minute instructions

-fake concern of management (you aren't your usual chipper self, is there something we can do for you? )

-lies (oh, we didn't quite make incentive (bonus), this month, but we are starting out really good for next month! )

-chief wannabe's....(Tooooo many damn chiefs, not enough indians) I had to tell one chick, "If you want to be a supervisor, then it would behoove you to put in an application, and once you SECURE that position, then you come tell me what I should be doing...until then I don't wanna hear it, mmkay?"

This place is getting to me more and more everyday. I've noticed that I have a headache everynight, and I wonder if it is all mental and not sinus related!

[CherryPepsi]

social work... Its anything except social...thats why I dont do it anymore...you wanna keep smokin crack an wonda why you cant keep your kids....whatever

[1savvydiva]

Okay, so you know I was mad at sooooomebody, if I went back and pulled up an old post...it didn't even fit in the HC thread.

My biggest pet peeve with patients who are in this ER can be summed up with one word: RUDENESS.

Two people in a row just did this to me...if I am sitting here speaking with a patient, do NOT just come up right behind that patient's chair and try to ask me a question...I will either ignore you or embarrass you (depending on my mood). In some rare instances (like tonight), I will ignore you until I am finished with my patient and THEN I will embarrass you.

I'm getting this woman's info, and this guy comes standing almost ON her chair saying he's going for a smoke if we come looking for him, that he's outside. He's like, "Ma'am, did you hear me?" I refused to look at him, I just finished registering my patient. Only AFTER I was finished with her and she had gotten up from her seat, I addressed him. "It's quite rude of you to SEE that I am speaking with someone and to insist on making your presence known...and to address your concern--if we call your name and you are not here, they will call the next patient in line. If you are sick and really need to be seen, you will have a seat and not go meandering through the hospital."

I really HATE people sometimes!

[nikki1920]

Can a new worker get a Standard Operating Procedures manual?

Can a new worker get some of the workers that have been here for 10+ years to give her some help?

Can the director of the council that the new worker is responsible for ANSWER HER EMAILS IN A TIMELY FASHION??!! If you know the meeting is in two weeks, then why are you giving me stuff to send out about the meeting the week before it? And then have the nerve to catch an attitude b/c I started working on another council? BINCH, that is YOUR fault?!!!!

And can you not go running to the Dir of Admin everytime I do something "wrong"?! If no one has shown me what the procedure is (refer to first issue noted here, please), how the hell am I supposed to do it "right"? How bout you get off your ass and help me?

Lordy...I need a drink