What drives you nuts at work??

[FazerChic]

Why is is that people insist on listening to their voice mails loudly on speakerphone, only to bitch at the person on the message while they are listening to it?? Like I care who's calling you!! I just want to say SHUT UP!!!!!!!!

[SSearchVT]

Or, the people that insist on using the speaker phone for all their calls. It's no wonder I sit at my desk with ear plugs in.

[OreoGaborio]

EVERY time i'm talkin to someone & they have me on speaker phone i tell em to take me off... i don't know why everyone doesn't do the same. 1/2 the time you can hear your echo and they always sound like they're in a small bathroom or a fuckin tin can.

luckilly i don't have to deal w/ that much... all i gotta deal with is a fuckin telephone that constantly rings w/ no one on the other end ("scream alarms" installed in the parking garage are too sensitive... constantly going off for no reason... they'll never fix it so i usually just take it off the hook )

[benVFR]

We have to use speakerphones in conference rooms all the time.

What annoys me is our new office has these Shit Lucent phones rather then the ones designed for meetings.

So we have the volume cranked all the way and can't hear anything the people on the other end are saying.

[patricia929]

i hate speaker phones. if the guy always uses it to listen to his voice mail then perhaps someone should leave him a message saying that his veneral disease test came back positive - maybe that will teach him to listen to his messages in private.

[ChrisNoF4i]

They are so busy that they need both hands free to do whatever it is they do while listening to whoever it is that is calling them.

I find this to be especially true with many 20-somethings in the business world. They want to project the image that they are important. They tell me, "I have to call this guy and that lady and I have to do this and go here. I'm so busy!" So why the crap are they taking the time to talk to me and tell me how important and busy they are?? Especially when they know that I don't like them and I don't enjoy their un-witty banter. Get a grip folks. I think you could hear that speaker phone a wee bit better if you removed your head from your anal tube.

[highsider]

When I worked at a law office, lawyers would call up and talk to me on speaker phone. Even if I could hear them perfectly well, I would pretend that I couldn't until they picked the phone up.

[CitizenFrye]

The Burr under my saddle is co-workers that can't pull thier own weight...

[SSearchVT]

Last Friday we had our 8th round of layoffs. Most of those people are gone.

[Nikon]

i hate when I get puked on at work...or get bottles thrown at me from some prick in a crowd that isn't manaenough to say shit to my face - they have to throw bottles from behind a crowd. I hate that

[FazerChic]

And another thing (yeah, one of my co-workers is grating on my last nerve this morning)....the same one who insists on listening to VM on speakerphone just yaps and yaps and yaps! She doesn't shut the F up - EVER! She tries to use 'big words' that half the time are completely out of context, and she spends about half her day making personal phone calls. She constantly fights with her husband on the phone so everyone around her hears her conversation whether you want to or not. She is such a complete bitch! God, I can't STAND HER!!!


***end of my rant. Thanks for letting me get that off my chest!***

[SSearchVT]

I work in a cube farm. The guy over the divider from me just had his first child with his wife. Congratulations...

His wife is working from home and watching their daughter. She calls just about every hour to chat about the latest diaper change, what she ate, how she looked at the fricken cat, etc... The worst is when she puts the phone up to the baby's ear so he can talk baby talk to her. AHHHHH!!!!!

[FazerChic]

Originally posted by SSearchVT
I work in a cube farm. The guy over the divider from me just had his first child with his wife. Congratulations...

His wife is working from home and watching their daughter. She calls just about every hour to chat about the latest diaper change, what she ate, how she looked at the fricken cat, etc... The worst is when she puts the phone up to the baby's ear so he can talk baby talk to her. AHHHHH!!!!!

I know exactly how you feel. I also work in cube hell. The lady behind me wants a boob reduction, the woman diagonal to me complains about everyone around her, the guy next to me tells me every single minute detail of his gay relationship, and the list goes on and on......

[CitizenFrye]

I'm kind of luck with the noise thing.. ( no I'm not deaf) but I keep my ipod on.. so they have to contact me with IM if they want me.. Phone call isn't going to work

[RandyO]

what drives me nuts?

employees that don't get it, need constant supervision, and make the same stupid mistakes over and over

[sahd03]

I don't have cubes anymore, used to, though, so I feel that bit of pain.

My current rant is this big, fat guy who wlkas around all day pulling up phlegm from god-knows-where... it's particularly bad first thing in the AM... and when you are at work at 6am, a big, fat slob and phlegm are the last things you want to listen to!

OH! Or how about folks who use the kitchen area and can't seem to clean up after themselves and expect the next person to do it?

[benVFR]

Either you guys have it really bad or you're easily annoyed cause you're going into work hung over all the time.

None of my coworkers are anywhere near annoying.

I will give you that having to listen to people talk about boob jobs, gay relationships, etc.. is pretty bad, why don't you tell them to get back to work or tell Human Resources that they are offending you and they need sensitivity training.

[ftrain]

I am tired of all these women at work. Why are they here and not at home cooking and cleaning?

[CitizenFrye]

ooohhh And we have a intranet base change managment system for approval or denied so we can get rid of the meeting.. But we still have to have the freaking meeting to justify having the changemanagment folks around..... So why even have the tool... 1 more hour of my life I will never get back

[Honclfibr]

purple monkey dishwasher

[Little John]

There's a 20-something female over the wall from me who still speaks like a 16-year-old. "Like, I finished, like, that spreadsheet you wanted? And, like, I couldn't get the numbers to, like, add up? So I'm not sure what to do?"
Shut the f* up and tell your frickin' stories, don't ask them! Idiot! She's still better than the guy I used to sit near who told exciting stories about how his "buddy has a boat", clearing his throat every 5 seconds.

[Dianne]

I gotta admit that the folks I work with now are pretty decent people, but throughout the years I have run in to quite a few, perhaps stereotypical, types that drove me up the wall.

Such as:

"GOD'S GIFT TO WOMEN": The big, burly boss man that likes to throw his weight around in front of everyone and calls his female employees "hun" and "babe", talking to their chest, not their eyes. Also can be confused with the stereotypical workplace pervert who sends emails asking to touch your nipples and "what are you doing after work?".

"CATTY, BACK-STABBING WORKPLACE GOSSIPS": This can be a female or male or plural of either. The type that smiles and says "good morning" but the second you walk away they are running their mouths. Then later in the day, they try to immerse you in the latest gossip and bitch session about so and so. When you refuse to be part of the gossip crowd, you inevitably become their next victim.

"THE SEXIST MORON": I've run in to a lot of these, both coworkers and customers in my line of work. These are usually men (although they can be women as well) that think because you are a woman you haven't a clue of what you are doing and you are there in your workplace for purely decorative purposes. Most of these types of people only have to be told or shown once before they get the idea that you do indeed know what you are doing.

"THE MOOCH": The coworker who always seems to have a hard time making ends meet from one week to the next and is always talking about their financial hardships. Dont get me wrong, we have all been there before but is this something you really need to share with everyone at work? This type is often prone to phrases such as "Hey, can ya spot me a 20 til Friday?" or "Sorry I cant join you guys for lunch, am broke again because blah blah blah blah blah". You get the idea.

"THE THIS PLACE IS NOTHING WITHOUT ME TYPE": I have run in to quite a few of these type of people. Always trying to look busy but never really getting much done. All the while, they make sure they let everyone know that the employer would be so screwed without them. What this type usually doesnt realize is that most others they work with know better and laugh their asses off at them when they aren't around.

[HBerry]

My boss makes me get paid to work out during the day, and he only lets me surf this site for a minimum of 3 hours a day at work, and he and I get into small fist fights some times.

[Jenn B]

I hate those big fat bitches with their weight watchers cups and their stupid "I lost 5 lbs" pins. If they lost it I'm sure as hell it will find them again.

[ftrain]

Originally posted by ilcl75
"THE SEXIST MORON": I've run in to a lot of these, both coworkers and customers in my line of work. These are usually men (although they can be women as well) that think because you are a woman you haven't a clue of what you are doing and you are there in your workplace for purely decorative purposes. Most of these types of people only have to be told or shown once before they get the idea that you do indeed know what you are doing.

Haha why do you think they always have good look girls at the front desk. It is like a house plant, just something to decorate the room with.