Biggest office pet peeves

CNN Money ^ | 3/14/06 | Staff

[pissant]

If you take it up yourself, you won't have to worry about it. You'll be spittin with 'em.

[MotleyGirl70]

I also can't stand office gossipers....even though I've contributed sometimes to little annoyances, it bothers me and I try to stay out of it.

Women can be caddy and mean. I stay as far away from office gossip as possible.

[ChandyB71]

Office peeve - people who take my stapler...

[MadIvan]

1. Having three bosses who don't speak to each other nor care about each other's priorities.
2. Having to provide twice daily status reports to one or two or all three of them.
3. Not getting any praise when projects are delivered in spite of all this.

Regards, Ivan

[MotleyGirl70]

I hate when my boss asks me to come in on the weekends.

[retrokitten]

You casually ask them a question or mentino something in passing, and suddenly they want to tell you, and describe to you in detail, their entire life story and you can't shut them up.

I hate those people, too. It's like talking to Grandpa Simpson.

People who yell into the speaker phone like they are at a drive-thru window.

People who insist on eating really stinky food at their desk.

Layoff rumormongers. They insist that they don't care about the fact that they may be laid off, but interpret everything as a sign of impending lay offs. Then they spread it around that an insane # of people are going to get laid off. God help us if there is an actual layoff because then they will spread it around that that was not the REAL layoff. The real layoff will be later in the week.

[MotleyGirl70]

Lol!

[Horatio Gates]

Hmmmm....I'll have to give that some thought 8>)

[carlr]

People who claim that they love their jobs and want only the best for the company after they have predetermined that advancement for themselves is the only thing that is in the best interest of the company.

[ChandyB71]

Being told I don't have enough "flare"



Also, office equipment that is out dated and doesn't work properly, so you end up spending more time fixing it to finish your work, than actually doing your work

"PC Load Letter"? What the f**k does that mean?

[MotleyGirl70]

People who insist on eating really stinky food at their desk.

Microwave popcorn should be banned until after 11:00. That smell early in the morning is nauseating.

Also, when co-workers bring in fund raising stuff from their children's school and try to get you to buy crap and when you say 'no' they get offended.

Girl Scout cookies are the exception :)

[MotleyGirl70]

You're funny. Anybody who's worked in an office can relate to it.

I hate it when people can't pronounce my name.

[Dashing Dasher]

Must kill pen clickers and gum chewers.

[Hoodlum91]

Mine:

close-talkers

managers that don't have any idea what actually happens on their project - and yet try to manage it anyway.

our IT department (or lack thereof)

[ChandyB71]

our IT department (or lack thereof)

Exactly. Where I work, the brother of the owner is in charge and he does NOT know what he's doing. It's scary. Our servers went down last Sept and everyone lost all their emails and Outlook info because he didn't have it set up to back up.

Everyone always refers to it as "hurricane Jay", because that's when so much stuff got messed up...and now everyone is afraid to ask for him to fix anything.

[day10]

If it wasn't for headphones and and being able to lsten to MP3's/Wolfgang's Vault/Rush Limbaugh, etc. I would have long ago gone postal on the airhead in the cube next to me that NEVER EVER SHUTS UP and talks about only inane, mindless crap.

OK, I have vented now.......

[Millee]

Your biggest pet peeve has been corrected. You poor, misguided soul! ;o)

[Millee]

Amen on the loud talkers. That goes for people on their cell phones too. Ugh!

[Xenophobic Alien]

Where I work no one can fiqure out how to make microwave pop corn, like evryday someone walks by after burning it. I hate that smell.

[fishtank]

Peeve: People who get into the Failsafe box before you do.