office pet peeve

[Anonymous]

you know, the one office pet peeve I have is this:
the cheap coworker.

there, I said it. Everyone here knows what everyone makes (fed office, very small, only 4 civilians). The maxed out GS15 is the CHEAPEST MF I've ever met (outside of the cheap ass USAF O5 who just left who when was told his contribution to something was 3.89, he asked for his 11 cents back....who does that?).

We have a guy who ALWAYS takes takes takes - you bring in cookies, or there's an office birthday with cake and he gets two slices. He takes and NEVER brings in. Well, one time he brought a 3/4 eaten Costco cake leftover from a family function.

I used to bake a lot for our office just because I like to have fun in the kitchen but don't always want baked goods in the house - I stopped once I realized I was spending all this money to feed other people. He was like, "why don't you bake things anymore?"

Sorry to vent, but I just HATE the cheap people. The ones who don't contribute to the water fund then use the water when they think no one is looking? I mean really, people - it's ok to be frugal - I appreciate that, as the lowest paid person in my office I really can appreciate frugality. But cheap? That's when people talk about you!

[Anonymous]

That stinks. My office pet peeve is interrupters. It seems to be rampant in my office and makes me want to pull my hair out and smack these people.

[Anonymous]

office pet peeve - older coworkers coming to you with the dumbest "IT" questions even though you aren't in IT whatsoever but just happen to be sitting near them. and since you know how to help them you do, but it is a waste of 10 min of your life trying to explain how to "undelete" an email that they accidentally deleted. shoot me.

[Anonymous]

Office pet peeve: people who bring in candy and baked goods then complain that others don't. Maybe we don't want to get fat eating birthday cake every week or have to resist the temptation not to grab candy from the candy jar!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Office pet peeve: people who bring in candy and baked goods then complain that others don't. Maybe we don't want to get fat eating birthday cake every week or have to resist the temptation not to grab candy from the candy jar!

Me too. It was your decision to turn yourself into Holly Hobbie and not have a life and bake the weekends away. Not mine. I have better things to do than single-handedly try to mother the office. I don't respect females who try to be the little cookster/friend-maker of the office. Just do your work.

[Anonymous]

I dislike people that bring in stuff they bake too. It is not that I do not want to get fat or I am too tempted, it is just that you cooked it yourself and I know for a fact you don't wash your hands after you use the bathroom and I just saw you pick your nose without a tissue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I dislike people that bring in stuff they bake too. It is not that I do not want to get fat or I am too tempted, it is just that you cooked it yourself and I know for a fact you don't wash your hands after you use the bathroom and I just saw you pick your nose without a tissue.

This aspect doesn't bother me. It's really the Holly-Hobbie-ish aspect that bugs me. It's a job. Just do your work. OR, fine, if you want to bring in stuff, that's fine. But that's yoru decision. Now you have to get your knickers in a twist, b/c you want everyone else to do the same thing too? That is babyish/insecure thinking: "Everyone has to do just what I do and be just how I am." A more mature thinker would recognize, "Hey, this is something I am doing just b/c I like it. But that doesn't mean everyone else has to too."

[Anonymous]

People who don't close their door when on speaker.

[Anonymous]

OP here - I'm all for NOT eating it. It's like office birthday cakes - I don't partake in them for health reasons. However, the PEEVE is when they eat 4 or 5 slices/pieces, ask when you're bringing something in next, drink the office water that you pay for, and then NEVER contribute.

We have an office jar of mints since we interact with outside people all the time (fresh breath is moderately important, at least to civilized folks). We contribute to it. Except for a few people who don't, yet they consume.

THATS the peeve. The peeve isn't someone choosing to not consume, that's their own right and doesn't bother me. If you don't drink any office water or chew mints before a meetings with the outside world, that's totally fine - don't contribute to having them around. However, if you don't contribute, you KNOW people are footing the bill for you to consume, how is that not annoying? Or having the nerve to say, "hey, I notice you don't bring in food for the office anymore...are you going to bring anything in soon? I need some chocolate". Really?

I'm happy to be immature about cheap ass people. Because everyone knows they're cheap and everyone mentions it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here - I'm all for NOT eating it. It's like office birthday cakes - I don't partake in them for health reasons. However, the PEEVE is when they eat 4 or 5 slices/pieces, ask when you're bringing something in next, drink the office water that you pay for, and then NEVER contribute.

We have an office jar of mints since we interact with outside people all the time (fresh breath is moderately important, at least to civilized folks). We contribute to it. Except for a few people who don't, yet they consume.

THATS the peeve. The peeve isn't someone choosing to not consume, that's their own right and doesn't bother me. If you don't drink any office water or chew mints before a meetings with the outside world, that's totally fine - don't contribute to having them around. However, if you don't contribute, you KNOW people are footing the bill for you to consume, how is that not annoying? Or having the nerve to say, "hey, I notice you don't bring in food for the office anymore...are you going to bring anything in soon? I need some chocolate". Really?

I'm happy to be immature about cheap ass people. Because everyone knows they're cheap and everyone mentions it.

How about you don't contribute to the office mint fund and just bring in mints for yourself?

[Anonymous]

OP again - if you forget your ID and we have to buzz you in to the office, it's a $1 penalty. It's just office culture. Even our boss does it. Our last deputy used to forget his ID so often he prepaid into the "forgot my badge" fund. It's building policy that you can't walk the hallways without ID, so this has been the office culture since before I got here. I pay into it, everyone does.

Except 2 people don't. Because they don't want to pay. Yet we still have to stop what we're doing to buzz them in. One forgets his ID at least once a day.

It's just living off the system and generosity of others. Funny how these are the most right wing people in my office (including making jokes about how they wish they had the names of black women so they could get favorable small business loans). People notice cheapskates and don't want to include them in anything. If you're the one left out, I apologize.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
How about you don't contribute to the office mint fund and just bring in mints for yourself?

I'm all for that. Some people do that just because it's easier to have them with you. They don't - they just walk by, grab a handful of mints, and keep going. Yet someone's providing those mints (a group of people who contribute). I don't contribute nor do I use the mints. It's not that difficult to know that others paid for these things, if I'm not contributing ever, I shouldn't contribute. And one or two offenses....overlooked. It's the same cheap ass people that do all of these things combined.

Water, mints, coffee, food...if all you do is take and never contribute, you're cheap. Not frugal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
How about you don't contribute to the office mint fund and just bring in mints for yourself?

I'm all for that. Some people do that just because it's easier to have them with you. They don't - they just walk by, grab a handful of mints, and keep going. Yet someone's providing those mints (a group of people who contribute). I don't contribute nor do I use the mints. It's not that difficult to know that others paid for these things, if I'm not contributing ever, I shouldn't contribute. And one or two offenses....overlooked. It's the same cheap ass people that do all of these things combined.

Water, mints, coffee, food...if all you do is take and never contribute, you're cheap. Not frugal.

Sounds like your boss needs to give you more work to do. You have too much free time at work to monitor others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP again - if you forget your ID and we have to buzz you in to the office, it's a $1 penalty. It's just office culture. Even our boss does it. Our last deputy used to forget his ID so often he prepaid into the "forgot my badge" fund. It's building policy that you can't walk the hallways without ID, so this has been the office culture since before I got here. I pay into it, everyone does.

Except 2 people don't. Because they don't want to pay. Yet we still have to stop what we're doing to buzz them in. One forgets his ID at least once a day.

It's just living off the system and generosity of others. Funny how these are the most right wing people in my office (including making jokes about how they wish they had the names of black women so they could get favorable small business loans). People notice cheapskates and don't want to include them in anything. If you're the one left out, I apologize.

Simple solution. Don't buzz them in.

[Anonymous]

sadly, the highest paid person here doesn't have enough to do he has time to ask me when I'm bringing him food. Sounds funny when you skew it that way, huh?

Hey, keep thinking people don't notice when you do it.
Our office doesn't even provide tissues, so if I bring in a box of tissues for my desk, and one day when I need one, they're all gone and that coworker says, "hey, have any more tissues?" I'm pretty sure I'm going to notice.

Welcome to people noticing you're a cheapass!