Things that really piss you off at work

[Tank Girl]

people leaving the heating on full blast overnight

 

[kea]

i've been pissed off with various aspects of my work/office/etc for so long that i think i've passed into that unnatural calm that lies on the other side of madness. i'm in such a constantly irked state with pretty much everything that i've become basically catatonic about the whole thing.

 

[Numbers]

I absolutely hate and cannot for the life of me understand why people leave the coffee area all messed up, we're lucky in that we have free vending machines with some pretty decent coffee and tea to choose from, at least 20 different types but the mess some people leave the area in is baffling.

But what pisses me off most is how some men use the toilet, if they use a cubicle, don't lift the seat and piss all over it and leave it, or don't flush... it really really gets on my goat.

filthy bastards, excuse my language, but some people are just pigs.

 

[dolly's gal]

i've been pissed off with various aspects of my work/office/etc for so long that i think i've passed into that unnatural calm that lies on the other side of madness. i'm in such a constantly irked state with pretty much everything that i've become basically catatonic about the whole thing.

this is true of me. or at least it was. i am now so pissed off about everyone and everything that i have completely detatched myself from the office, the people, even the building! however, i'm less languishing in a state of catatonic stupour these days, but more running about in a catatonic haze of excitment whereby i have bouts of hyperactivity with no real aim or purpose. sometimes i love my colleagues, other times i hate them. this work-place bi-polar behaviour has become so erratic that i can have really good days like today and absolutely awful days, like tuesday, where i cry in the loos for no reason and sit slumped in my chair all day, not motivated to do even the simplest of tasks. the majority of my work mates ignore me now and that is sometimes fine, but sometimes leaves me in tears. time for a new job? yes, i think so

 

[baldrick]

Just eat a fucking cake and shut up about it for once

that's the other thing, her and her team eat ALL THE TIME. for people supposedly on a diet, it's like sharing an office with a herd of grazing animals.

 

[Andy the Don]

People who after you have explained to them for the umpteenth time how to run merged queries from the databases still look at you like you are talking a foreign language & then say..

"ohhh.. its far too complicated for me.." or "why has everything got to be so complicated.."

Its not complicated everyone else understands how to run them you are just to lazy to pick up the training manual & run through a couple of examples..

SMT members who pass their work load onto you & then go home to pick their children up at 4pm, after getting in at 10 & taking a lunch hour (I get in at 7.30 & do not take a lunch hour), yes I have a child to which I have to pick up from child minders..

Christ I could go on like this for hours..

 

[dolly's gal]

that's the other thing, her and her team eat ALL THE TIME. for people supposedly on a diet, it's like sharing an office with a herd of grazing animals.

jesus yeh tell me about that one!

 

[chieftain]

the wankers who act surprised and loudly say "see yu then" when you say bye at 5.30ish...........

If I've finished at 5.30 im off, if I havent finished then I'll happily stay but i'm not staying for the sake of it.

fucking go home you sad work loving stuck in the 80's bone heads

 

[chieftain]

Also pleople who get in early everyday...... fuck off

 

[Cunning Stunt]

'Managers' who get paid far too much to delegate all of their work to receptionists and then sit in the office all day drinking copious amounts of coffee complaining that they have too much work and not enough time.

Meetings which are full of women! I'm a woman but my god, the idiots I work with don't seem to be capable of making sound decisons without it resorting to personal chatter. (whoever disagrees gets bitched about afterwards).

I hate the way my General Manager turns into a lap dog when her boss or anyone else important from head office turns up. It's sickening. Why do people kiss ass so much? If you can't do a job without brown-nosing then move out and let someone who is prepared to get their hands dirty move in!


Grrrr!

 

[Shirl]

People who work in London and get paid more for having the good luck to have easy access to galleries, shows, bands, PRoD etc.

 

[cyberfairy]

The fact i got paid twice as much as I do now when unqualified but was working in London and this sounds awful but I am the only worker without kids and have to work unpaid overtime constantly when they have to pick their kids up etc. I wouldn't mind this but if i need or want to leave early for my own personal family reasons, it seems as this isn't as important...and i'm not bitching about mothers or kids in the slightest but surely we should all have family rights instead of just maternal rights-seems silly if you're frowned upon to have time off to see a sick father but a nativity play is acceptable oh and being told you're not a team member if you don't do loads of unpaid overtime on the weekend and if you fuss, made to feel really bad by the people who seem happy to do it even if it's not hugely important....

 

[WasGeri]

People who work in London and get paid more for having the good luck to have easy access to galleries, shows, bands, PRoD etc.

Yeah but they have to work in London - and it's hectic and loud, and hectic, and busy...and they probably have to commute for hours a day from some Godforsaken shithole on the outskirts, because house prices are too expensive to live in the centre of the city. And people run up the escalators and shout at you for standing on the wrong side

 

[Cloo]

Well, we are moving offices in 4 weeks, but in the meantime we've reached ciritcal staff:toilet ratio that means there's never enough loos and you have to run up and down the stairs looking for a free bog.

Also we have a senior editor who is generally a lovely guy but he keeps cheerfully overruling our complaints that two/three months is not enough time to get a book from manuscript to print, dammit!