Petty work grievances

[Anonymous]

Coworkers (we all work remotely) who email the entire team to let us know that they will be stepping away from their computer for 30 minutes. I’m like, would anyone even notice? If it’s a couple hours it makes sense, but 30 minutes? It’s not like they’re announcing their lunch break.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Endless repetitive useless and at times offensive DEI training. Sorry.

OMG - I hate this too. I get it. I got it the first 78 times.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Constantly REPLYING TO ALL!

Then, 2 minutes later some cranky colleague will REPLY TO ALL admonishing us to STOP REPLYING TO ALL!

Hilarious during Covid when we’d get very general work updates (front liners) like location or staffing changes then immediately a REPLY TO ALL with highly personal details outlining why an employee will be absent. MY BABY HAS COVID AND I’M EBF. ATTACHING MY MOST RECENT PHYSICAL SHOWING HIGH BP AND LIST OF MEDS AND COVID RESULT.

Does this still happen? It's not 2003.

Yes. But I work in local government.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My youngest coworkers want to share every file etc via Teams and won’t email unless you request it. I hate having to look through old chats on Teams to find what I need.

Fun fact, if configured correctly there’s full inter functionality between teams, share point, and one drive: you don’t have to search only in Teams.

Another fun fact. Your youngest coworkers are leveraging the very best security protocols. It's much easier for a corporation to support (and turn off) access to files on Teams rather than free floating files attached to everyone's inbox. It's actually a requirement at companies who take security seriously. Bonus, it also helps with versioning if you access the link and the file on Teams and not your own version.

You know you can click on the link to view the file, right? And when you view the file you can check out the path and where it's stored and favorite that folder and (gasp) even use it yourself as a repository of files?

Just typing all this, I wouldn't want to work with you and I'd never send you a file attachment. 😈

I feel seen. Can I hire you?

Yes. I need full reign to whip everyone into shape with lots of sarcasm. The results will be worth it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Constantly REPLYING TO ALL!

Then, 2 minutes later some cranky colleague will REPLY TO ALL admonishing us to STOP REPLYING TO ALL!

Hilarious during Covid when we’d get very general work updates (front liners) like location or staffing changes then immediately a REPLY TO ALL with highly personal details outlining why an employee will be absent. MY BABY HAS COVID AND I’M EBF. ATTACHING MY MOST RECENT PHYSICAL SHOWING HIGH BP AND LIST OF MEDS AND COVID RESULT.

Does this still happen? It's not 2003.

Yes. But I work in local government.

😭😭😭 I'm sorry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are 2 Gen Z colleagues in my office and they never send messages or emails. They will come to my desk to ask questions no matter how minor. I asked one of them once why he doesn't use email and he said it's faster to ask in person.

He's not wrong. Start answering your emails.

- Gen X'r

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are 2 Gen Z colleagues in my office and they never send messages or emails. They will come to my desk to ask questions no matter how minor. I asked one of them once why he doesn't use email and he said it's faster to ask in person.

Good for them

[Anonymous]

People who look for every loophole in every policy to avoid doing any work. I agree with taking mental health days, but taking a day to organize your closet because it’s affecting your mental health is a stretch.

The prevalence of this type of stuff has increased significantly in the post-pandemic return to office era. At least when people WFH I didn’t have to worry how they spent their days as long as work was getting done.

[Anonymous]

When a lower ranked employee (eg, an admin) asks me to review something and get it back to them on their timeline when I know it has no due date. You work for me - I do not work for you.

[Anonymous]

I do something that is Petty.

I generally on late Friday afternoons I mean between 4pm and 6pm go through everything I need for next week. I start sending out requests.

If people don't log in over weekend they are already 3 days behind on Monday.

Even worse at Prior job I start setting up Jira tickets that have SLAs on Friday afternoon. The clock would start ticking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are 2 Gen Z colleagues in my office and they never send messages or emails. They will come to my desk to ask questions no matter how minor. I asked one of them once why he doesn't use email and he said it's faster to ask in person.

Called Facetime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do something that is Petty.

I generally on late Friday afternoons I mean between 4pm and 6pm go through everything I need for next week. I start sending out requests.

If people don't log in over weekend they are already 3 days behind on Monday.

Even worse at Prior job I start setting up Jira tickets that have SLAs on Friday afternoon. The clock would start ticking.

3 job guy is back!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do something that is Petty.

I generally on late Friday afternoons I mean between 4pm and 6pm go through everything I need for next week. I start sending out requests.

If people don't log in over weekend they are already 3 days behind on Monday.

Even worse at Prior job I start setting up Jira tickets that have SLAs on Friday afternoon. The clock would start ticking.

3 job guy is back!!

I am going to assign you an epic in Jira, shoot you a few Salesforce and Service Now tickets, Send you a Google Hangout and Jabber message and start poking you in Slack at 2 am. Then maybe start updating your google docs and shooting out Teams messages. My kills shot will be a fax dialing your cell phone on auto redial all weekend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are 2 Gen Z colleagues in my office and they never send messages or emails. They will come to my desk to ask questions no matter how minor. I asked one of them once why he doesn't use email and he said it's faster to ask in person.

So just last week, one of these colleagues come to my desk with a printed document and asks if this is the section I want removed. I respond that I have no idea what he is talking about. He says I sent an email about this document and I reply that I have not emailed him in a couple of weeks. I ask him to find the email in question and forward it to me. He goes back to his desk and I haven't heard from him since.

I emailed the other colleague that there is something our supervisor has asked me to train him on. It will take about 30 min and please let me know when would be a good time. That afternoon he comes to my desk and says now would be a good time to do the training. I'm like, I'm in the middle of something right now. Let's do it first thing tomorrow morning. I expect that he'll come to my desk first thing the next day. He comes by at 10:40. I tell him that I have a meeting at 11 and he says 'that's fine, we can it done by then'.

[Anonymous]

One of our sales guys sends every email in all caps, with 50% of the text highlighted, tagged "high importance." Every.single.one. I've started answering him in all caps just to amuse myself.