The office.......what is yours?

I must be really lucky, because I've worked at the same place 11 years, and don't have many complaints. The only thing is that I work right next to the time clock/entrance door, and that's where people hang around to talk, and when I'm on deadline it gets distracting.

One of my pet peeves is loud co-workers

My desk right by the restrooms and also the door to the other section of the office. The back of my cubicle is the wall by the restrooms. I hate when people stop and start yakking up a storm when I am on a call. I hate it when I am on a supervisor call, trying to calm down a irate customer and some loud mouth starts in. There are signs posted telling people not to stop there but they ignore it. I have had to put the caller on hold, stand up and tell these people to be quiet as I am taking a sup call. I shouldn't have to deal with it at all.

Another pet peeve is people that ignore me. I try to talk to some of my co-workers during the lulls and they just look as if I have a hole in my head and just ignore me. This past weekend I cut about 4 inches of my hair and dyed it a dark chocolate brown. I did have it dyed a lighter red. Did the girls sitting in my row notice? NO!!!!!! But my boss did! He liked it... LOL And a few others commented on it.

I can't think of anything, everyone works hard. but with the canines they love to spread their crap especially cow dogs all over their kennels and you need to make it sparkle and shine but it takes like 10 minutes to clean it. (I work for the local animal shelter. )

so you have to make sure everything is neat and clean which I love but it's hard when the poop hardens on their kennels. they are cleaned daily and given fresh food and water and their kennel decks and kennels are scrubbed down throughoughly and they get a new blanket and a toy everyday.

I work alone ... but I am a vendor and some of my stores seem to think that means... OH YOU can do the JOB WE are supposed to do....lmao... the get rude awakenings ... I only go out of my way for stores that do what they should ... then I will find away if they need something over what my job really is

lol when they come into the office.
there is a reason i work alone most of the time

I work alone, but hate when others come into my office and steal my stuff - pens etc.

I envy all of you people that get to work alone.........

I hate when people sneek up behind me then comment on what I'm doin on the computer... Cripes people don't scare me and it's none of your business

I really, vehemently despise when the guys from the floor come into my area and, instead of calling out my name or just looking for me, they whistle for me like I am their pet dog.

I refuse to acknowledge people that do this until they speak to me like I am a person.

I also hate it when people go into my weld booth and re-arrange my tools. I have them all laid out in certain places, facing in certain ways so I can reach out and grab them without having to look for them.

Oh, one last pet peeve...I answer the phone in the lab if the lead guy is out and, for some reason, people expect me to be able to recognize their voices when they don't identify themselves. grrrrrr I have been there for almost two years, but that doesn't mean that I can identify your voice on the phone...sorry

Originally Posted by kittylover4ever

I envy all of you people that get to work alone.........

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It does sound like it has some advantages huh?


I guess my big co-worker pet peeve at my last job was my boss who didn't show up at the office till 11am if at all (checking e-mail from home counts as work I guess???) and who would then take personal calls on her cell when you were in the middle of trying to update her on work related things or solve a work related problem... I swear there was more than a few times I wanted to chuck that stinkin cell clear to the next county... And it happend every single day....I swear I used to wonder if the womans mother and husband needed her permission to use the rest-room or something!

Ahh I sure don't miss her. And I'm sure struggling to not laugh so much when I find out things aren't going her way there so much since I've been gone. (Like having a higher-up find paperwork inside her desk that had been 'missing' and that she would always accuse another co-worker, who just happend to be my mother, of not doing. Oh did I mention she doesn't like that higher up who's covering her maternity leave? I don't really believe in karma per se, but this sure sounds something like it!)

Just remember everyone, what comes around, goes around.....all these lousy coworkers will get theres someday!!!

I go to a lot of meetings for my job and I mean a lot of meetings. There are days when I can have 10 meetings scheduled.

My biggest pet peeve is when I am invited to a "mandatory" meeting, and that meeting is at the same time as 2 other "mandatory" meetings. People think that their particular assignment is more important than anything else in the company and think everyone else should drop their priorities to meet theirs. Doesn't work that way. Nothing is mandatory and I simply decline the meeting. The bigger pet peeve is when they "snitch" on you for missing their meeting, then you have to explain to your boss why the other "mandatory" meetings were more important. A waste of time if you ask me.

Oh yeah, and right now I'm working with a team that are very busy (as we all are), and they are calling meetings in the evening, cause they can't fit them in during the day. Right now they are pushing to have meetings on Thanksgiving day. I was supposed to take vacation next week and I'm already booked into their meetings all week long.

Ooops - I'm off to another meeting now!