Work Pet Peeves - Page 3

AKAngel904 · #31 11-07-2003, 11:01 PM

okay I work on the 10th floor of my building, i just really dislike it when people get on the elevator and ride it up one floor. That holds up the process of me getting to my office knowing that Im already late.

My other pet peeve is that whenever my little area has a gathering that involves food, you have these coworkers that can smell the idea of food and come over to my area and pig out and leave nothing left for the people that it was actually for. But when they have something in there area its all on the hush hush and they dont want to share any food. That lights a fire under my tush.

One more....when there is a pubkic printer and there are people who live by the copier and go through your print outs and ask "who did this power point?," "Who are you doing this for?." "Is this personal or business?"

Thanks I had to get that off of my chest

rho4life · #32 11-10-2003, 04:41 PM

This thread got me fired up!

I'm a salaried employee, and I often have to travel for work, so I don't punch a clock. The only people who need to be concerned w/ my time are the ones who write my check. It drives me insane when there are hourly people who see me leave and say "must be nice"

First of all, I WORKED HARD to get where I am, and if you weren't so busy drinking behind the bleachers in high school, then maybe you could have a better job.

Second of all, it's not "nice" to get up when it's still dark b/c I have to drive three hours -for work, do my thing for a few hours and drive home - in traffic.

The other thing that drives me crazy is a boss who says do this project......You turn it in and they say, oh, um, I wanted you to do it differently.....WELL, WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME THAT BEFORE I STARTED. I did not get a degree in mind reading!

Whew, I feel better now.

1savvydiva · #33 11-10-2003, 04:52 PM

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Originally posted by AKAngel904

One more....when there is a pubkic printer and there are people who live by the copier and go through your print outs and ask "who did this power point?," "Who are you doing this for?." "Is this personal or business?"

Ooo girl...I would be like

MIND YOUR DAYUM BIZ! People are a trip.

...and don't walk up behind me and stare at my computer screen to see what I am doing. I will minimize my screen and make it obvious that they are nosey as hayle! Nosey people make my nether regions itch (per CT4).

aephi alum · #34 11-10-2003, 05:38 PM

Can I vent too?

Some of my "favorites" that I've encountered over my career:

I used to work in an office that had a P.A. system accessible from anyone's desk phone. Some of my coworkers would make bizarre announcements, page people to the bathroom, play music, etc. over the P.A. With clients in the office!

I had a micromanaging client who would tell me to do something and then tell me, step by step, how to do it - even though it was something I'd done a million times before. Then he would want to know why it had taken me so long. Um, because I had to spend twenty minutes listening to you tell me how to do something I could do in my sleep!

When I was laid off from one job, there were about 8 people laid off with me. The office's general manager and HR director didn't even have the guts to speak with each of us privately. They just hauled us all into a conference room, gave us our pink slips, and told us to go clean out our desks.

Oh, same client I mentioned above - He could have written the book on clock watching. He accused me a couple times of arriving at 9:05am, leaving at 5:00pm, and billing for a full day. (a) not true, (b) he's worried about five minutes?? And one day he asked me to stay late (about 1-1/2 hours) to finish setting something up. Naturally I billed him for the time. He then told me that I should have worked that extra time for FREE and that "If you want a good recommendation, you will put in extra hours and not bill me for them." After he pulled that one - he became a former client.

AKAngel904 · #35 11-10-2003, 06:48 PM

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Originally posted by 1savvydiva
Ooo girl...I would be like MIND YOUR DAYUM BIZ! People are a trip.

...and don't walk up behind me and stare at my computer screen to see what I am doing. I will minimize my screen and make it obvious that they are nosey as hayle! Nosey people make my nether regions itch (per CT4).

OOOHHHH, I really really dislike it when people try to look at what is on your screen. Im like dang can you go and do some work and please do not step foot in my office until your presence is aknowledged and you receive an invite to come in.......

AKA2D '91 · #36 11-11-2003, 10:31 AM

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Originally posted by AKA2D '91
I know we all have something from our jobs that just make our @$$es itch.

2. When the kids do well in sports...Our team won district (we're in the playoffs) the administrators do not congratulate them. They always want to chastise the students for NOT performing.

This still happens. We didn't win district, but we are in the playoffs. Did they congratulate the boys for a job well done...HECK NAW!

Diva_01 · #37 11-11-2003, 11:49 AM

I am looking for a new job now as we speak...

Yes, my co-workers complain to my boss instead of me, for the exact same things that they do. Oh, we have visitors...well, why are you talking so dog gone loud?

I am usually on the phone a lot, but there is so much traffic by my workspace that I just want to "shut the heck up!"

My boss is so unorganized. This would be a great youth program, but since she likes to do things at the last minute, the kids are doing nothing.

Oh, by the way, how do you have a youth development program and forget to include food and transportation into the grants???

How come she left me here to work by myself for three days with NOTHING to do? Since she's so unorganized, my work is usually done in an hour, and then I have to find more work to do? Which I REALLY HATE...

How come she made me do a month's work of curriculum, and we haven't touched it?

How come she boos my ideas, and then she comes back a week later and says she likes it?

How come she waits until two weeks before the program starts to check on our space, which isn't finished, so I have to set up a different space two days a week until next month?

How come we are supposed to be teaching our girls how to use apple computers, digital cameras, and camcorders to make dvd's, etc, and we are four weeks into the program, and I don't even know how to do it?

How come we started out with three team members, inluding myself, and I am the only one left after 4 months?

Why? am? I? Here?