Being there.
If they could just mail me my checks and I never had to show up - I’d LOVE it!!!!
Out of a number of office irritants, I had four bosses during my career who caused us underlings to develop ulcers, suffer partial mental breakdowns and to undergo many sleepness nights. They were all idiots, but thought they were geniuses. I like to watch “The Office” now and then just to remind me about my four bad bosses, two of whom were as stupid as the boss in the TV show.
Google the hit show “The Office”. Every corp. type you can see in the full show videos. Just discovered this series. It’s hilarious.
Office spammers are irritating to me. These are the people who get ahold of the email group for the entire company, including the other divisions overseas, etc., and send their goofy emails about birthdays, holidays, urban legends, etc. Once we had a particularly egregious email about some scam, that caused a bunch of people to reply ‘to all’ that the so called scam was an urban legend. Shut down the email server.
“smoking breaks”
My boss went home early and didn’t want me to charge him leave since he said, “ I don’t eat lunch so use that as my time.”
I said you don’t eat lunch but you have a minimum of 4 smoke breaks a day instead of your lunch. He charged the time.
Anyone in a staff meeting.
Slow refresh of FR during the day.
There’s a bimbo whose office isn’t close, but she speaks LOUDLY on the phone, etc., in baby talk. She’s over 50. “Hewwo. How yeeeooou?” “Do you need a witto bweak?” Arrrrggh! Thank God for headphones and loud music, which doesn’t really drown her out — but it helps.
And then there’s the arrogant guy sharing my cube wall who peppers every conversation with malapropisms, and says “also too” at least 25 times an hour.
HELP ME!
And lastly, the illegal who does the work I refuse to do? :)
Nah, those schlubs just don't appreciate stimulating conversation.
Regards,
GtG
Very few, very rarely, and not for long.
No one.
I don’t allow people to have that sort of power over me.
I’m self-employed but what irritates me is people who don’t give me a complete shipping address and then complain when their package gets sent back or is late.
The one eyed, chronic whistler.
I work for a family owned construction related company that I have been with for 12 years now, the patriarch who is still seasonally involved is mostly relying on his son who is 6 years my junior to run it but he is spoiled and self centered caring little for his employees and everyday its a constant battle of me with my skills knowing every single facet of operations of a concrete batch plant and daddies little boy that wants to master it all and basically has little long term vision of running a business.
Partly by his error last week I almost lost my hand and only suffered a very macerated and broken little finger on my right hand because of him, now I am on workmans comp for 3-4 weeks because of a crushed pinkie and he is bitching at me that its nothing, sure and as the doctor told me “the bone looked like it exploded” they even put a couple of bandaids on it and wanted me to drive a 70,000lb concrete mixer, on ice, in Alaska.
Next spring I’m out of there.
The ones who send e-mail and have the receipt-acknowlegment activated.
And gossip! Good grief. We sit in absolute silence all day because nobody will say anything in front of her. Thank goodness she retires at the end of the month. I won’t have to wrap her in duct tape.
Anal-retentive political appointees are the absolute worst. And political appointees are not just in government positions. They are in school administrations, corporate offices, etc. They are the unqualified, incapable trolls who are given their positions because of nepotism, graft, and more often than not, an insidious agenda to do harm.