Little things at work that drive you nuts. I’ll start

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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 #^{+%*%’!!

This is what managers at my company do because they are the only ones with spend and admin rights.

[Anonymous]

When customers order steak medium rare because they heard James Bond order it like that on tv. Especially when I know good and well they are going to send it back because it isn’t done.

[Anonymous]

When I go to lunch with a coworker out of obligation and they leave a 10% tip and I have to add to it.

[Anonymous]

“Happy Wednesday!”

No. No it isn’t.

[Anonymous]

The c-suite at the company I am leaving in 2 short weeks CANNOT speak like regular human beings. Everything is headwinds and synergy and crap that doesn’t MEAN things.

Whatever happened to clear, concise, coherent language?

[Anonymous]

When you’re in an office wide training and the trainer says let’s take a 10 min break and it ends up being a 20 min break. Happened twice today and I was so annoyed. Start on time people!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“Happy Wednesday!”

No. No it isn’t.

Happy Fridays though. Yes. Yes they are.

[Anonymous]

I'm on a new team and everything is done via Teams group messages. Like dozens of different group chats with various combinations of people, sometimes on the same topic across different message groups. All of it is so much better suited for email; it's so hard to follow what's going on and to search for the latest on things when it's in a group message. (And this is with people of my level/approx. age in the company - so it's not entirely an age cohort thing.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm on a new team and everything is done via Teams group messages. Like dozens of different group chats with various combinations of people, sometimes on the same topic across different message groups. All of it is so much better suited for email; it's so hard to follow what's going on and to search for the latest on things when it's in a group message. (And this is with people of my level/approx. age in the company - so it's not entirely an age cohort thing.)

This is how we work and I prefer it because it keeps my email inbox clean for important, relevant emails. You can mute your chat, turn on busy or DND status or have notifications on so you can see how many red numbers there are for missed chats. It helps to make teams chats their topic as well. It’s very organized versus emails stacking up all day. I do still get an absurd amount of emails, it is just easier to manage external versus internal conversations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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 #^{+%*%’!!

You sound nice!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm on a new team and everything is done via Teams group messages. Like dozens of different group chats with various combinations of people, sometimes on the same topic across different message groups. All of it is so much better suited for email; it's so hard to follow what's going on and to search for the latest on things when it's in a group message. (And this is with people of my level/approx. age in the company - so it's not entirely an age cohort thing.)

This is how we work and I prefer it because it keeps my email inbox clean for important, relevant emails. You can mute your chat, turn on busy or DND status or have notifications on so you can see how many red numbers there are for missed chats. It helps to make teams chats their topic as well. It’s very organized versus emails stacking up all day. I do still get an absurd amount of emails, it is just easier to manage external versus internal conversations.

+1
I like a chat better than an email. Teams actually has channels that the PP might like if you can get people to use it. We started off with topic-specific channels and then everyone devolved to the meeting chats which is bad discipline on our parts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

And instead of coming to me to get help to be better at their jobs, they come to me to feel better about themselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
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.

As the client, the reason I hire consultants, aside from independent opinions, is that they have in house expertise to complete their job without asking me a lot of questions!! You are defeating the purpose here 😆

[Anonymous]

After a long day, I forget where I parked. Wandering around in the lot is embarrassing.

[Anonymous]

Dave who is so effing loud in everything that he does. Also Dave who speaks to our immigrant coworkers in broken English.