Little things at work that drive you nuts. I’ll start
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Anonymous
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The cold call when my status is busy or in a call. You’re interrupting me.
The message from someone who doesn’t understand the rules of asynchronous communication who just says ‘hi, it’s Bob’ ‘how are you?’ Or ‘can I ask you a question?’ And then waits for me to respond before continuing. Just ask! People (often men, not always) at my level who expect me to do admin work for them. One guy just asked me to summarize a Teams chat for him. Huh? What else? |
Anonymous
| Entitled entry level kids who think they deserve $100K salaries for doing the bare minimum or who don't realize how good they have it. |
Anonymous
can you summarize this post for me Honey. |
Anonymous
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My current gripe is a$$ kiss political types in corporate America (company politics I mean) who have been promoted again and again despite being weak employees.
I’ve been working with an SVP and an EVP at my company for the past two years, neither of whom has ever expressed an intelligent idea in my presence. The SVP likes to lecture people on totally obvious things as if she’s saying something brilliant, and the EVP says little until he can find a way to mention that his brother is so and so, or he knows so and so. Talk about failing upwards. |
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Not putting useful info in the subject line of an email and not making the content clear and easy to index.
Subject: Neat Idea For the meeting next Tuesday or is it Wed, we could order some food from the place down the street. Bobby has the allergy though. |
Anonymous
| People who speak loudly and cackle in open-office floorplans. |
Anonymous
Your second one about asynchronous is an Indian thing. I'm assuming you have a shared service center or Indian global delivery services type thing? There's something about the way they're trained or their culture. Also, they say, "Greetings of the day" a lot, which is weird. But they mean well and are trying to be polite. Tell the guy who asked you to summarize a Teams chat to learn Co-Pilot. It will generate a summary. My pet peeves are when my number ends up on some kind of call chart and suddenly my Teams starts blowing up with phone calls (it's linked to my office number) from people selling all sorts of services. I ignore and block the number after confirming it wasn't someone important. Ironically, the other pet peeve is young people who are afraid to call someone on the phone. I had a junior person in PR who I asked to contact a reporter who had called ME for information. Instead of picking up the phone, this kid sent the reporter a text using Whatsapp. She was absolutely MORTIFIED when I instructed her to phone the guy. He was expecting a call. |
Anonymous
But are the confident enough to speak on the phone? |
Anonymous
| I can't stand it when Janice in Accounting drops a deuce in the small bathroom and the hallway stinks for an hour afterward. That girl be nasty. |
Anonymous
| People who ask questions in meetings that they already know the answer to because they either 1) think it makes them look smarter than everyone else, or 2) they just truly have to hear themselves talk. |
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Consultant - Our offices HVAC broke recently so there’s a consistent slight whistling noise 24/7 from each of the vents. It enhances the experience of our RTO mandate. In general, going to a client site where the client is knowingly going to be unavailable because they’re in other work related meetings all day or they just leave right after lunch leaving us in their office alone. My bosses send us to show face and build the relationship while these client grunts where talking too do everything they can to avoid us face to face. |
Anonymous
| Co-workers who send emails "gently reminding" you of things that they didn't tell you in the first place. |
Anonymous
| 20 people starting Teams chains in a day about things that are not time-sensitive/require a less than 1 day reply |
Anonymous
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I’m a middle manager and somehow I’ve become the admin for my entire staff. When I started working 20 years ago we had secretaries who would do all of this stuff. But now they’ve gotten rid of any admin and now no one can figure out how to do anything.
-hey what’s the link to put in an IT ticket? -is your software program working? -can you review X for me? -can you order this for me? -can you sign my permission forms? I’ve been here longer than everyone who works for me and I’m hyper organized so I guess I always know the right answers. But I have my own work to do! I’ve created cheat sheets and given everyone a copy but that only stemmed a few questions before work changed how you find something or how to put in a ticket for something. I will say that I have the highest performing team in the org and a lot of it is because I prioritize their dumb questions and answer them. But #^{+%*%’!! |
Anonymous
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Gchat or Teams chatter
Group threads that are just nothing but yip-yap and emojis. I don’t mind in-person office jokes and side conversations and even the occasional gossip. But online jabbering is not the same and I can’t stand it. |