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OK, I'm having one of those days where I just want to carry out an office genocide. I need stories from the hive to make me feel better and to curb these homicidal urges.
What set me off: I cannot STAND when, just because I have a cubicle and not an office with a door, people interrupt my lunch hour while I am blatantly eating (literally, food in mouth, chewing) and ask me to do things. It is the HEIGHT of rudeness. I don't barge into your office when you're on your lunch hour with your door shut and ask you questions, do I? No. Why? Because i respect people's personal time and space. Just because you have an office and I don't doesn't mean that I am not as deserving of simple common courtesy and respect. SO INFURIATING. I wish I had spat out my Indian food all over her stupid ugly face.
OK, your turn...
I am tired of people gossiping...I mean everyone does it once in a while but geesh give it a rest! I am also tired of one fellow manager that thinks his staff can do no wrong. I mean when we have worked on a project for almost TWO years and the company wants to thank us by taking us the the Cheesecake Factory, his staff wants to know why they are bothering them and interfering with their personal life!!! I am so glad to be moving out of my cube into an office far away tomorrow!!
I dont have any really bad stories, but I think it's interesting that you both have complaints about cubes...I'm in an office for the first time at my new job and I feel so lonely and isolated being here instead of cubicles!
That stiiiiiiiinks! I would make a quick sign with tape and a piece of paper going across the door that says "out to lunch" and stick headphones in my ears. Even if you don't have anything playing and hide the end where a media player *might* be hiding, at least people would hopefully get the idea that you are taking some down time. That way, if someone is calloused enough to STILL bother you, you can not take your headphones off, look at them and say "did you see my sign?" I really hate being bothered on *my* break, so I totally feel you!
@Kittyachi: is there anywhere else you can go to eat lunch? Like a cafeteria or something? Or put up a sign on the front of your cube that says "Kittyachi is <span style="text-decoration: underline;">OUT" ;)
I don't have any real complaints about my current job, except that I have to pay $35 grand per year to attend it. ;) In past jobs, though, my biggest gripes were nearly ALWAYS with the temperature. At one job, I had to work in turtlenecks and scarves, and sometimes even GLOVES, during 90 degree summer days. It was so cold!!
I usually go out to lunch. This is why. There is a communal kitchen area with a table in the office but that is even worse because then I have to make small talk with random office people. Sorry, I don't want to hear about your cat's digestive problems while I'm eating... I don't know if it's just my office or if this is relatively common, but the people here have like NO sense of what is socially or professionally appropriate and it drives me CRAZY.
@LatteLove - wanna switch? Please?
I have so many office annoyances, it's not even funny:
1. NO ONE takes a lunch! Everyone eats at their desks, which is fine, but we all work in customer service, and even though I'm a manger, I still have to answer our phones, even when I'm eating. We don't have an eating area, and I feel guilty when I leave for a half hour, which I know I shouldn't. So, since no one else leaves for lunch, I never feel like I should, either.
2. We all work in an open office with no cubes, just desks. I have one coworker who continually takes lengthly personal calls that are not emergencies. Fine, talk all you want, but leave the office and talk on your cell because I don't care about your blood pressure or your Vitamin D levels or that your golf score was off this weekend.
3. I'm in charge of our main phone at work, and so when it rings, and I'm not here, someone else has to answer it (it's ridiculously archaic, and we're getting a new system). But when people answer the phone at my desk, they totally mess it up. Pens everyone, stealing my post-its, writing on papers, I'm, I dunno, USING FOR WORK, and sometimes, they plain knock stuff over, like my pencil cup, etc. It's so annoying, and rude.
4. Our CEO always makes our holiday schedule "tentative" until a few weeks before the holiday, which is annoying because we never know if we can travel or not. This includes Christmas and Thanksgiving. We're really pushing him to create one at the beginning of the year, and then stick to it because it's created a few problems in the past.
It sounds like I work in the worst office ever, and sometimes, I feel like I do. But actually, it's super casual that most of the time, I'm happy. We have a lot of great company perks and bonus programs, too. But gosh, it really drives me nuts sometimes.
This could make you laugh or throw up in your mouth...But someone in my near cubicle likes to chair f*ck people. He literally stands behind your chair with his lower half of his body up against the back of your chair. Sometimes he even moves our chairs with his hips (UGH) swaying side to side... None of us have said a peep but we have purposely moved our chair back to give him a hint and NOPE, no reaction. It just continues. Now, I never have my back to him. If he is helping me with a problem, I just turn my chair to the side.
Well, I could start with the fact that my job bores me nearly to tears and is probably killing off my brain cells, but other than that...
I don't even have a whole cubicle; I have half of one that only covers the back of my desk. My computer screen faces a central area of the office through which people walk all the time. If I'm doing anything non-work-related (like I am right now), I keep it in a tiny window on the bottom of the screen.
It is *always* cold in here. Even in the summer, I always have to bring a sweater.
It really irks me when people blatantly violate the dress code. We have a fairly casual environment, and I can wear many things here that I wouldn't be able to elsewhere. But still, no one is supposed to wear jeans or flip-flops or anything overly revealing, and I see people violate this every day. Just because you're wearing a skirt does not mean your $5 Old Navy flip-flops are work appropriate.
I also have a few very annoying co-workers, but the majority are lovely, so I won't get into that.
OMG LOL RoddyBride that is SO ridiculous. What is WRONG with people?!? I mean, I'm no stick in the mud in my personal life but there is a LINE when it comes to professional environments, however casual the office is.
For example, I do NOT need to know that the freakazoid a few offices over pays for sex on Second Life and that she has a cat avatar with "realistic fur" which she also pays extra for. I am kind of intrigued as to how virtual cat sex works, but not enough to continue that conversation any longer than I have to. Also, she has a yeast infection, in case you were interested. I wasn't. ARGH.
Oh my ... I am so so so having one of these days to! Seriously! It may be that I just came back after a 10 day vacation ... but it's killing me! All of the things I was worried about having to face when I came back are here - right where I thought they would be! We recently hired a new lady ... and she just DRIVES ME CRAZY! I know that sounds awful, but it's true ... sometimes she never shuts up ... sometimes she just doesn't do her job. She was hired from within so there is no reason for her not to know how to do her job. And I'm so sick of having to repeat myself 100000 times to get through to her how to do stuff. However, in my absense, it seems she's become the office favorite ... which is fine ... for now ... but so many things didn't get done here without me and well, the sun does not shine out of her a$$!
Well, this may offend some people, and I don't mean to hate on smokers, but I used to work in an office where probably 50-60% of the employees smoked. So, they would always go up on the roof for smoke breaks. It was kind of a customer service heavy job, and we were always getting phone calls - if you leave your desk you turn your phone off so that incoming calls don't get routed to you. So, whenever anyone left for a smoke break (and took 3-4 other people with them because they said "hey, I'm going up, you want to come?"), all of us who don't smoke would answer a ton of calls. And I hated answering the phone.
Eventually, I just started going up to the roof on nice days to sit there for 5 minutes at a time.
Kittyachi - I totally hear you!! I used to have a cubicle and people would come up to me all the time while I was eating and just start talking. Rude!! I'm in an office now and trust me it's not much better - I close my door when I'm eating but I'll just get a 'knock' warning and people walk right in. People walk in when I"m on the phone and just start talking to me too, even though my door is closed it's so annoying!
I also get VERY annoyed when the other women (and some men) in my office comment on what I'm wearing and ask me if clothes are new. Trust me - I'm always dressed very conservative and modern, there's nothing wrong with the way I dress. I just think it's a rude question and kind of intrusive. I like to be able to wear new things without other people announcing them!
LOL RoddyBride...that's friggin' hilarious!
I have a co-worker who whispers every phone call she gets. Now, we're all in cubicles, so I can understand the need to keep things as private as possibe...but I'm not kidding...EVERY phone call. It makes me nervous lol. Like she's telling secrets or something. And when ever she talks to us about someone else in the office, she also whispers. It feels like we're all doing something wrong!
RoddyBride, you poor thing!
Kittyachi-- Virtual cat sex?? Realistic fur?? WTF? I can't even begin to imagine. If that was part of my virtual personal life, I would certainly never discuss it with my coworkers.
I work in the department that EVERYONE complains to, so it's a real PITA to listen to everyone whine and when they act like their problem is my problem. The worst is when building management has done something wrong, and I get the brunt of the abuse for something I didn't even do!
I also get interrupted when I'm eating pretty much every day. "You're eating...but I still need something now, kthanx." Yeah, no.
My trip to the women's bathroom just reminded me of another pet peeve - WIPE THE SEAT! And ladies, if it's your time of the month, I don't need visual confirmation when I go into the stall. For grown women, these people are PIGS. I'd hate to see what our men's room looks like.
OMG, some of your stories are scary!!!!!! i really like my staff, i think they are good people that do exceptional things some days.... yesterday i even cashed in our amex points to purchase $3200 in gift cards to hand out to them.
@Gingerlex... work with the public!!! yikes, i could NOT do that!
edit: well with the exception of the supply guy that stands jingling the coins in his pants pockets when he talks to you... i told him i dont appreciate him drawing focus to his groin when he does that & its really freakin annoying so hes getting better
Wow, not too many crazy stories for me. I do hate when people come into my cube to chill and ask me for stuff while I'm eating. Come back in 30. In fact, shoot me an email!
And don't make fun of me for eating very healthy lunches and not going out to Burger King every day. I don't want to gain 50 pounds cuz i have a desk job. Sorry, new clothes would cost way too much money!
WOW! I feel so lucky -- no one I work with annoys me. I might annoy some people because I'll laugh or "awwwwwww!" about something I read on the boards of the sites I work on (there are five sites total).
Anyway -- Roddybride, maybe I'm a fuddy duddy but that sounds like sexual harassment to me, especially if it makes you or any of your co-workers uncomfortable. I can't beleive anyone would behave that way!
Kittyachi - LOL re: virtual cat sex! That cracked me up (which probably annoyed MY co-workers!) 
Because I'm more in the lines of actual food service, I get grumpy people all the time. They complain when it rains, they complain when it's hot, they complain when it snows...and then they take it out on you. I've seriously had at least 1 person throw a drink back at me because another Barista wrote the wrong ID code on it, so they got the wrong drink. I mean, WTH?
@Barista, not only do you work with the public but you work with the caffeine deprived... you should get danger pay!
omigoodness i won't even begin to tell you horror stories of waiting tables for 4 years. they're. so. bad.
i'm very lucky now - while I LOVED my old position, i LOVE my new position even more...and have finally moved cubicles far far FAR away (ok, not that far, but far enough for me! lol) from one of my old co-workers...
long story short - he is the most "whipped" man ever. seriously - his wife stubs her toe and he runs home to her (not joking or exaggerating). i think his attendance has gotten a bit better - but literally he was gone EASILY 3 days a week because of her. and when he is at work - his wife calls him to discipline their children over the phone because she can't do it...so he's sitting there AT WORK on the phone telling his toddler to "listen to your mother"...and other things.
and what sucked the most was that HE is the "senior" position in that department - yet had the WORST quality factor because he would literally do his work and never look over for errors (we have standards we must adhere to...) and instead would rather have the "quality control team" (who "grades" our work) just bring him back his errors and he'd do them then instead of taking the time to do it right the first time!
but ahhhhhhh i'm no longer over there!!! :D
course, now i'm on the team that would "QC/grade" HIS work! lol. once i'm fully trained, this'll be interesting! :P
thanks for letting me get that out! sorry about your work woes!!!
@eloping-totally! That reminds me. Last week my FI and I had to meet w/ our insurance company. Apparently My job is more dangerous than my FI's (he's basically a stock boy for Fred Meyer), so he's able to get disability insurance, but I'm not even elligible. lol.
@June Bride-that's insane!! I couldn't imagine if my boss was gone 3 days a week for something so silly! And personal phone calls at work? Wow!
My office is not too bad, but I do have to be picky about when I take lunch because of the whole break room small talk thing. Sometimes I don't mind it, but there are a few people who can be REALLY annoying. Like the lady who talks too loud with her mouth full CONSTANTLY. Or the lady who, whether or not you encourage her, tells you ALL about how her kindergartner wet her pants, or kicked a little boy in the nuts, or did something else equally precocious and adorable. Then there's the absolutely unpredictable mood swings in one department... three post or almost menopausal women, who for no apparent reason can go from sweet and motherly one day to absolute b*tch queen the next. And the little red-haired intern who I don't know WHY she still has a job here. She is out at least 3 days a week, unpredictably (either that or the supervisor doesn't tell those of us who, oh, I don't know, have to DO HER JOB when she's gone), and then when she is in she won't come in until well past noon and then scamper out to go shopping or whatnot at 3 or 4. So since I don't know when she's coming, she might just be coming later in the afternoon, and I don't want to start doing her job in case she shows up... but then if she doesn't I'm screwed. All this because her stepdaddy is somebody important in a government agency we work with. Oh, and there is also the lady who talks about sex and her daughter's sexting, and tells coworkers that "Oh, your thirteen year old son is DEFINITELY doing it, believe me" and all about how she encouraged her children to start being sexually active mid highschool. And now she's pissed that her daughter is pregnant out of wedlock. WTH??
There's a generation gap at my office. The "younger" generation that comes up with innovative, timely ideas and the "older" generation that likes to reject them...so annoying!
My worst work story: A couple of years ago I was assistant to this real A**. One Friday he had flown to Copenhagen w/ his gf for a long weekend. As soon as he touched down at noon, I got a frantic call saying he had forgotten his "vital" medicine at the security check at the airport. To make a long story short, he made me go to his doctor for a new perscription, to the pharmacy to buy new medicine, then I had to rush to the airport, take a 3pm flight to Copenhagen, give him his medicine and promptly turn around to catch a flight back to Paris 30 min after I landed! To top it off, I was having friends over for my b-day that night and had to call everyone and tell them to come later! I was pretty livid that he made me do all this, especially when I found out exactly what his "vital" medicine was: Anti-depressants and sleeping pills!!!!!!!!
Seriously, WORST BOSS EVER!!!
Kittyachi - girl, I have a sign that says I am at lunch. If I am asked to do something - even by my boss - I politely but firmly repeat over and over that I am at lunch. Eventually, they understand that 30 miniutes won't kill whatever it is they need from me.
It may seem rude to tell someone to bugger off if you're at lunch, but it is worse to ask someone a question much less to do something when they are very clearly eating. You're not alone. Great stories, everyone else.
Ok Miss Paris what exactly is in your "job description" because I think you win
just to clarify - this isn't the boss in that department...it's the "senior" position (just meaning he's second to the boss when it comes to being in charge) but in no way shape or form is he a supervisor...
he actually DID apply for the position when our boss got promoted - but then she and the company decided she'd remain as supervisor over that department AS WELL AS her new department. thank god! :)
@ejs4y8--my boss just ridiculed me for not eating a donut. OMG, I don't want a freaking donut!
And eating something green every and recycling does not make me a hippie (my office is super, super religiously conservative...they actually refer to our President as the antichrist...in meetings! Thank goodness I wasn't here during election season!)
um virtual cat sex? the fact that such a thing exists...but that you learned about it in the office??
and i'm worried about saying the wrong thing at work??
our staff is very small and great and we laugh a lot - but i do have a client that likes to talk about his involvement in the BDSM community at every possible opportunity! nothing graphic, he just inserts BDSM in conversation a lot!!!
@Lorienne - You may be right. I honestly don't think he knows what he is doing though. In other words, I don't think it is intentional. This only happens when he needs to get close to our computer screens (guys and girls) to see what we are having issues with.
oh boy...i could write a novel, but yeah...
i work in guest relations, so we always have our fair share of crazy happenings, but a recent one that comes to mind is related to the OP's situation - during breaks, we don't have our own 'space' - rather, shared with whatever location we might be assigned to that day. so, when i work in this one area, i take breaks with all the transportation folks. mostly old boat captains. they are all annoying old men, but mostly harmless - but there is one in particular that, without fail, each time he sees me, will ask, "hey, are you still engaged?" to which i reply, "yup, getting married in november," and he'll say to the other guys, "see! I still have a chance!" blahhhh!
Oh I've got one related to that. There's this one guy who is older and has some sort of young trophy wife and young kids and even before I got engaged even though I had a serious bf he would always refer to me as "single" which really pissed me off because, um, I'm not single. Maybe LEGALLY yes, I'm considered single. But, um no. Have a boyfriend. Yet he would always say things like "Oh to be young and single again" and ask me if I go out and stuff in NYC (I work outside the city) and he is just always so blatantly trying to live vicariously through me, yet I'm like the worst person in the world to do that through because FI and I are homebodies and enjoy our couch time. So then he is always like OH ENJOY IT WHILE YOU CAN WHILE YOU'RE STILL SINGLE. Argh. Then, once I got engaged, now he is always makng little comments about marriage and "Just you wait until the honeymoon is over" and "When you have kids you won't be able to do anything" etc. etc. and I just want to be like DUDE why the f**k did you even get married? All you seem to do is talk about wanting to be single and you have the whole "ball-and-chain" mentality. It's SO ANNOYING. Like, hi I'm sorry I'm young and in love and HAPPY about being with someone and getting married. Sorry you're old and bitter about your life.
I'm going to add another to this...remember my office? Lol I do too...I guess I'm not getting it any more. I'm not sure yet but I just found out a senior executive apparently had plans for it for a NEW employee he was hiring. THIS SUCKS!
@Britshiningstar - at the time I was a 'production assistant'. Needless to say, door-to-door delivery of sleeping pills to Copenhagen was not in my contract!
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