Things people do at work that ANNOY you - lets make a list (money, conference)

[montanamom]

Anyone ever have to work with a Bridezilla? I once worked with another secretary who talked endlessly about every single aspect of her upcoming wedding for the ENTIRE YEAR she was engaged prior to the event. I mean everyday for A YEAR it was constant updates of every minute detail from what kind of engraved matchbook covers she chose, what flowers she was thinking of choosing, her dress/shoe/color choices, which caterers they were considering, what food for the reception, and on and on and on. She spent way more time on her "wedding planning" than on acual work related activities, and I had to take up the slack. I attended the wedding, it was very mediocre, and I was never so glad to see something finally over with!

I also don't like to hear constant details about someone's pregnancy. I've had two kids, I know how it works, they're not going through something particularly "unique", it's how we all get here after all!

MY LAST RANT - in the job I have now, we all have to eat in the same breakroom. I always seem to choose to go to lunch at the same time as the most OBNOXIOUS eater does. This man makes more noise chomping, chewing, and slurping his food, I just want to scream! I am usually reading the paper and trying to eat my lunch at the same time, it's all I can do not to say something. I've tried to make some loud chomping noises myself just to drop the hint! I've often cut my lunch short just to get away. He's married and I have to wonder how his wife put's up with his PIGGY eating.

[ComputerUser000]

Originally Posted by JaxMover

I'll start:

It drives me crazy when this one co-worker ALWAYS has to announce to the world what she smells.

"I smell whiteout. Is someone using whiteout?"
"I smell coffee. Is someone drinking coffee"
"I smell cologne. Is soomeone wearing cologne"

OMGGGGGGGG.... I just want to slap her!

I had a co-worker I wanted to PUNCH!

I was working in the Upper Plains for a 3 radio station group. Two FM's and 1 AM.

We had a guy who had been oding the Morning SHow o nthe AM station for years and was EXTREMELY popular but he left his on air job to do sales. .and was good at it. He hadn't been on the air in 6 months, but people still stopped him aorund town asking, "Why haven't we heard you on the air?"

Well, he wans't my boss.. but thought he was. The General Manager was my boss.

This guy, who was just now a sales person, would come in my on air studio during my breaks or after my show and tell me "Never backsell a song, always keep things forward moving and front sell" (Never announce what you just played, only annoucne what you will play).

I also liked leaving my studio door open and he'd WALK in in the MIDDLE of a live break I was doing and while I was LIVE on air, he'd shut my door.

He also, on one or two occassionas, actually walked up to my studio console and while I was live on air, turn one of my audio sources down because I was too loud.. WHILE I WAS LIVE ON THE AIR, Talking!

He also had a habit of telling me that basiclaly, this is the way we do things out here and you were taught wrong back in the Northeast. Keep in mind, he'd never lived or worked anywhere else but where he was there.

He would tell me how to prepare my live breaks, how to talk, what to do, etc....

One day, I was in a particularly bad mood for some reaosn (Don't remember why) and I was making it thru my show just fine... but I sat there reading the paper during an extr along music set to relax. He walked in and with my face buried in the paper, started telling me what to do , how I should do it, what I shouldn't be doing, etc.

I almost told him, "DON'T YOU DARE Bother me while I'm on the air AGAIN. Get the F&^K out of my studio and don't you DARE fu&^@ng come back till I'm off the air. It isn't your f&#^%g place to tell me what to do either"... but that would've gotten me fired. I just sat there, agreeing with whateve rhe said and going, "MMM HMMM"

By the way, I never said anything to the General Manager, but one day when walking down the hallway, the GM eventually pulled us both into my studio and said, "I've heard you are telling him (pointing to me) what to do.. you aren't his boss and it's got to stop.. NOW!"

Another time........... we had some severe weather coming through the area later that night. The only person on duty wasa part timer who was running the board for a local baseball game. I lvied closet to the station so I thoguth id meande ron down there and check on her, to make sure she was OK and knew what to do.

I went on the air on the FM station tp update people, as the FM station was my primary responsibility. But I also kept an eye on the AM station as well since it was just the Part timer there that night.

The play by play announcer, during a commercial break, asked one of us to go on the air even thoughwe had a weather service that could.. and was brekaing in from their office, live over the phone.

The enxt day, I walked into the production room and said hello to the Afternoon guy on the AM station, the person who is last on the AM, live.. and I aksed him how things were going.

He basically proceeded to tell me, "DOn't you ever f&$^%g step foot in the AMstudio again. You were hried to work down the hall at the FM station. What goes on down here isn't your concern and you don't need to be worried about it!!"

I said, "Well, I'm sorry, but I did what I THOUGHT was right and just wanted to keep an eye on things." and he then said..

"If you EVER step foot in that f&$^%g studio again, I will throw your f&$^%g ass down the hallway"

I told him, "Well, you were the last person on the air at the AM station, so I figured you'd be the first one back in the case of severe weather". He didn't show up the night before during the bad weather or even call to see what was going on and if we were OK.

[jhlcomp]

Two things:
1. Personal problems
2. gossip

[therewego]

Oh, gosh, I just remembered, the person that had bad Body Odor and how I would just shut my door to avoid her....nasty....

[bibit612]

Originally Posted by montanamom

Anyone ever have to work with a Bridezilla? I once worked with another secretary who talked endlessly about every single aspect of her upcoming wedding for the ENTIRE YEAR she was engaged prior to the event. I mean everyday for A YEAR it was constant updates of every minute detail from what kind of engraved matchbook covers she chose, what flowers she was thinking of choosing, her dress/shoe/color choices, which caterers they were considering, what food for the reception, and on and on and on. She spent way more time on her "wedding planning" than on acual work related activities, and I had to take up the slack. I attended the wedding, it was very mediocre, and I was never so glad to see something finally over with!

I also don't like to hear constant details about someone's pregnancy. I've had two kids, I know how it works, they're not going through something particularly "unique", it's how we all get here after all!

If your name was not Montanamom, I could have sworn we worked in the same place. The woman who gave us the blow-by-blow of her wedding was the same one who gave the blow-by-blow about her pregnancy! Oh, and there was the intervening buying-our-first-house gig between the wedding and the baby. Everyday, she would bring me swatches of paint and fabric to help her choose colors. That's outside of all the Pottery Barn and Restoration Hardware catalogues. The clincher was when she actually brought in tile samples so I can help her choose the one that should go in her kitchen! The most irritating thing was she never listened to one word of my suggestion, but it boooooorrred the bejesus out of all of us! When we see her coming, we scamper away!

[NOEM1226]

Originally Posted by beckycat

That reminds me. There are certain people who get away with murder, but if you do one small thing, you hear about it.

This is BEYOND irritating! If the "chosen one" in my office makes I mistake she can just say "Well, I was so busy" or "sometimes that happens,we'll work around it" and if she REALLY slips up-she just places somehow stretches the blame and puts it off on some unsuspecting co-worker.

In the meantime, I have to be constantly paranoid of ANY mistake since she will do everything short of typing and distributing a memo to make sure everyone knows exactly how inferior I am to her.

[ELOrocks17]

Things that annoy me:

People who put microwave popcorn in the microwave, set it for 10 minutes and walk away.

People who use the elevator to go up 1 floor

people who put thier $%^$%^ cooler bags in the fridge (are they trying to keep the cold out?)

People who take the last of the coffee and not bother to make more

People playing "Gangsta rap" on thier radios

People spitting sunflower seeds all over the place

[ecam222]

I can relate to nearly everything already mentioned. I'll spare you all the details...this time. I used to work in payroll. Every so often, there would be someone who'd try to find out what so and so makes. I never budged...and they hated that.

[Tarastomsgirl]

nosey people and your job actually KNOCKING ON YOUR DOOR to tell you to come in! My husbands coworkers are SO nosey it drives me nuts.. They actually had the nerve to ask WHY he didn't want everyone knowing why he's taking a personal day.. I mean are you serious? Then we went on vacation, he came back they said rumors have been going around that we're moving back to fla (we are) and that we didn't go down for vacation he went down to look for a new job (he did and he got it). My husband laughed and said what I do on vacation is my business, so one guy plainly asked, well did ya right AFTER my husband just told him its our business? To which my husband replied what did I just say... Then a couple days ago my husband turned his cell phone off because it was the start of his days off and he didn't want to be bothered. Loe and behold 6:45 am and they have one of the cops knocking on our door telling us my husbands been ordered to work and since they couldn't reach his cell phone they came to our door.. I mean wtf.. just becasue we live in a small town doesn't mean you can come knock on my door everytime you're short at work. Needless to say me answering the door in my pjs, and makeup still on from the night before added up to one pissed off wife, one sorry officer and one husband who could only smile and shrug.. No he did not go in that day..

WHY they feel the need to know every aspect of our life is beyond me. Thats what happens in small town I guess. We can't even talk outside our house because the neighbors work directly with the Police dept and relay everything! They told the PD we left on vacation early and had to hear it when we came back.... Jerks..

[bobmulk]

I dislike it when people bring their kid's sign up lists for cookies, wrapping paper, etc. from school. There should be a corporate rule against this. The kid is supposed to do this work on his own. Instead mommy and daddy are taking the little darling's place and doing the work for them. Why? To make as much money as possible? So their kid will win first place?

I understand that schools are in a perpetual need for money. The reasons for this are arguable. What is not arguable is people cornering their co-workers with requests to buy this crap. Here's an idea people--keep it at home. WE DON'T WANT IT. WE DON'T NEED IT AND WE DON'T LIKE BEING GUILTED INTO BUYING THIS JUNK.