Things you hate about work [Archive] - Beastie Boys Message Board

Echewta

07-20-2011, 09:35 AM

Not the big things like maybe your boss, you don't get promoted, paid enough, etc., but the little things.

I've been at work for 30 minutes and already:

I get pissed that people use the red explanation point on all of their emails. Not everything you send is an emergency and just for that, I'll open it in a few hours.

The building I work in is old and has windows that open. The weather is beautiful here and we got a memo this morning saying that we need to keep the windows shut for A/C to work properly. Its like the memo that said don't walk on the grass.

Someone parked in the parking structure and got out of their car, kept their door open and went back to the trunk to get something out. All while blaring Nickelback. Totally ruined my Prodigy on the way to work buzz.

MC Moot

07-20-2011, 10:02 AM

Scammers,junkys,drunkards,client sense of entitlement,the eviction process,tenancy and family court...

Nuzzolese

07-20-2011, 10:07 AM

My keyboard tray squeaks

M|X|Y

07-20-2011, 10:10 AM

People not being themselves.

Guy Incognito

07-20-2011, 01:31 PM

People not being themselves.

Ddefinitely this.

Two faced, lying, back-stabbing, self glorifying, greedy, over ambitious, deeply shallow, bum licking, motherfucking bullshit merchants of the highest order.

I feel better now.

Myu-to

07-20-2011, 02:05 PM

The whole needing-to-actually-work-to-get-paid thing. I think people should pay just to be around me.

Myu-to

07-20-2011, 02:09 PM

Managers that micro-manage. No more pickles in the vending machines. Co-workers that aren't accountable, and have an excuse for everything. Wearing pants. People that talk too loud. Cubicles.

trailerprincess

07-20-2011, 02:19 PM

People who stick their oar in everything that I do when it has nothing to do with them. My peers talking to our boss about where my next move should be. General nosiness.

MC Moot

07-20-2011, 03:00 PM

I forgot about bed bugs and crying and tears...

MC Moot

07-20-2011, 03:04 PM

oh and also the 2 people who are incapable of managing/operating their blackberrys as well as being unable to manipulate a simple excel sheet...who the fuck hired these people who lack the basic skill set possesed by most teenagers...:confused:

miss soul fire

07-20-2011, 03:08 PM

Hmmm...nothing. I really love where I work. I have great friends there, my boss is awesome, work is ok. Maybe the cleaning girls. I hate the fact that they don't really clean eveything like they should. At least some of them. And they keep talking in the kitchen and interrupt us. Most of them are just very unpolite. That happens all the time, so that's not what you asked for.:D

Echewta

07-20-2011, 04:25 PM

People who don't reply to everyone in the email you sent out so then you have to forward it to the people who weren't on the reply. *claws eyes out*

M|X|Y

07-20-2011, 05:58 PM

When people make ridiculous excuses for being late.

Artificial work start times.

Artificial deadlines.

When people are huge sticklers for punctuality for the sake of punctuality in cases when there is no real reason for being punctual.

When people don't understand the difference between ^ that and when its SUPER important to be on time.

When people aren't on time when it's SUPER important to be.

People who are chronically late no matter what.

Echewta

07-20-2011, 06:00 PM

People who come in late with fresh Starbucks in their hands. Not an excuse for being late. "So sorry, the line was long and I just needed to have my coffee." *takes bat to windows*

cosmo105

07-20-2011, 07:47 PM

People that:

leave leftover food just open on a plate in the fridge

leave unwashed dishes in the sink (SERIOUSLY WHO THE FUCK)

ask for read receipts on emails (die)

send meeting requests for them being out of the office

Sort of an occupational hazard, but I literally cannot keep a shirt clean in this line of work. Even with my lab coat, I always end up screwing up clothes. I don't even bother dressing nicely anymore. Shorts, comfortable shoes and a t-shirt. Pretty much all my best shirts have stains on them now. Screw it.

Documad

07-20-2011, 09:11 PM

When people don't take initiative and instead forward their issues to me by email. I haven't figured out the best way to reply with "you didn't get this off your plate by sending it to me because it's part of your job and I'm not even going to read it."

Lex Diamonds

07-20-2011, 10:21 PM

Werk is for jorks.

Yetra Flam

07-20-2011, 10:33 PM

The majority of problems I have are caused by my customers just being stupid. And assholes. Being stupid assholes. They really do expect me to be a machine and do things absolutely perfect at all times, and in a really short amount of time. A lot of my customers are rude, pushy and act as if I am a servant. They dont listen to anything I try to explain to them, even though I'm a professional and I know what I'm talking about. (in this field) If I dont do things absolutely perfect and exactly the way they want it to be they come at me hurling insults, bad yelp reviews and recently, death threats. I've really seen the cruel, sadistic and nasty side of people at this job.
I guess the stress of this causes me to act shitty and snappy around my coworkers. Maybe I'm imagining this, but I do feel like they dont respect me or take me seriously because I'm a woman. And often I feel resentment because I make more money than them.
And I do have to deal with a barrage of what I consider disgustingly sexist remarks directed at me on a daily basis. At first I tried to fight back, but its pointless. I've chalked it up to "cultural differences."
The business owner is SHADY AS FUCK (probably pedophile, international criminal), and I feel like the place I work could topple over at any point.

Bob

07-20-2011, 11:26 PM

there's this dude that sits across the cubicle aisle from me that coughs and clears his throat, constantly, from the minute he gets in, to the minute he leaves, every day, all day. there's just no way that it's medically possible for a dude to have a through that clogged up with phlegm but apparently he defies it and makes me listen to him clear that shit with his coughing all day long, all day , every day.

we recently had our floor plan reorganized so the guy sits about 5-6 feet away from me, so every time he coughs or clears his throat, it's sort of the equivalent of someone lightly smacking me in the back of the head, which is rough, because my job requires concentration, which is hard to do when someone is lightly smacking you in the back of the head every 30 seconds for 8 hours a day

the worst part though? he's a really funny and cool guy and i hate that i hate him

Nuzzolese

07-21-2011, 07:26 AM

Bob he could have a nervous tic he can't control.

Myu-to

07-21-2011, 07:43 AM

Riiiiiiiicola! (http://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?p=ricola+commercial)

Kid Presentable

07-21-2011, 08:15 AM

I'm not like a dissident by any means, but on specific pieces of work I speak my mind, especially on how they could be improved or what has to be overcome and such and such. And I find that I work in such a plodding, deliberating, avoidant culture that it makes me sound aggressive. So I guess plodding and deliberating annoy me. Just get shit done, mahfuckas! Results!

I also don't socialise for the sake of my career, and have never really made huge amounts of my colleagues into my friends. I find that you can sometimes hear the gears turning when people 'befriend' their supervisors at work piss-ups. I suppose it's fair enough, just not how I get by. Really what I'm getting at here is phony people, they fucking shit me, and everybody wears their work face so I guess that's everybody (including me).

EDIT: and smelly lunches.

MC Moot

07-21-2011, 08:23 AM

Kid Presentable

07-21-2011, 08:35 AM

I hear this...today is the program leads birthday and every year he arranges his own pub night...he's announced it at the 9am meeting about 5 times over the past 2 weeks...sent e-mails and texts to all our partnering agencies...theres an expectation that everyone goes and rubs his ego...it's kinda sad as he has no mates but very annoying that he expects you to show...

Yeah you see to be honest I'd rock up to something like that if nobody else did, it's just all the 'networking' that ruins it. I know how to network, and I try harder at it than sucking the collective willies of people in my own organisation. There's being a sycophant and there's expanding your professional horizons, you know?

kll

07-21-2011, 08:48 AM

My gripe is that I am working a new job for the past 2 months. The girl that I work closely with STINKS. This is not B.O. I wish it was B.O. This is a dusty musty death smell that I imagine to be what a mummy smells like. It gets to the point where I am nauseated and looking for a trash can - just in case.

The main issue is that she has been written up for this smell recently, and at her last 2 jobs as well. The best part was yesterday, we caught another (foreign-born) employee taking a sponge bath with the toilet water, and the stinky girl actually had the gall to comment on how easy it is to grab a shower, should you need it, at a gym by paying for a day pass. Hello kettle!

The second gripe is that stinky girl is training me, so we can work side-by-side, but she's training me on the shithole jobs that she doesn't want to do anymore so we won't have the exact job, even though we do have the same title.

Time for work! Yay!

Nuzzolese

07-21-2011, 08:59 AM

kll Do you think she might actually work with mummies? Is she going to night school for archaeology or maybe putting herself through med-school and what you smell is the lingering odor of the cadavers she examines each night? How old is she?

I have a fear of smelling bad. I recently moved into a new house and the house has a smell. I don't like it. It smells musty, like old people or old stuff. There was a mold problem in the basement but I've been trying to get rid of it and I think I succeeded. I put once-used dryer sheets in amongst all my clothes, I use mini storage de-humidifiers and odor-absorbers, I have placed scented oil diffusers in various places, and generally I've been trying to vacuum and clean more than I used to. I think I've pushed the funky smell away...but this is my fear, that I haven't and I've just gotten used to it and it has absorbed into me and my DNA has meshed with the stink DNA and I'll be a stink mutant forever.

Myu-to

07-21-2011, 09:11 AM

You didn't get rid of it, you are just used to it. Anyone that comes over will think you're storing dead people or poo in the basement.

Nuzzolese

07-21-2011, 09:25 AM

Where do you store your dead people?

MC Moot

07-21-2011, 09:44 AM

There's being a sycophant and there's expanding your professional horizons, you know?

ohhhh word of the week!

"Synonyms: toady, yes man, flunky, fawner, flatterer"

(y)

Echewta

07-21-2011, 09:49 AM

kll Do you think she might actually work with mummies? Is she going to night school for archaeology or maybe putting herself through med-school and what you smell is the lingering odor of the cadavers she examines each night?

Ha!

Kll, try wiping Tiger Balm under your nose when you work with her. Could help.

I'm also a big fan of people who don't have a concept of time nor the hours I may work.
"OK, so if we meet you there at 6:30 p.m. could you show us the room?"
"No. I can't. That means I'll be working 10 hours today."
"Oh, well what can we do then?"
"Schedule a time within normal work hours."
"Oh, but this is really important."
What isn't important at work????? *shotguns Padster's moped*

Myu-to

07-21-2011, 10:17 AM

Where do you store your dead people?
Acid pools.

No odor.

No zombies.

cosmo105

07-21-2011, 10:59 AM

I also don't socialise for the sake of my career, and have never really made huge amounts of my colleagues into my friends. I find that you can sometimes hear the gears turning when people 'befriend' their supervisors at work piss-ups. I suppose it's fair enough, just not how I get by. Really what I'm getting at here is phony people, they fucking shit me, and everybody wears their work face so I guess that's everybody (including me).

I feel weird about socializing with coworkers. I had it bite me in the ass once when I had a huge falling out with the "queen bee" at work and that made everyone that was once my friend turn against me just because of this one person (and her being insane and telling EVERYONE). Not that I think that would happen again, but it's just...I don't know, I don't really have anything in common with most of these people and can't imagine hanging out with them outside of work. What really sucks is that my supervisor and I actually DO have a lot in common and could be great pals, but I feel really weird about trying to hang out with her (besides the fact that she does want to hang out with me often). We have a really close working relationship, but in the end she does write my reviews so I just don't feel right being buddy-buddy. I want to work objectively and not have to worry about hurting anyone's feelings when I disagree or think something could be improved.

Echewta

07-22-2011, 09:41 AM

People who put their email message in the subject line and then leave the body blank.

People who leave messages to call them back but don't leave the questions so when i call back and get their voicemail, i have to say call me back and leave the question.

Nuzzolese

07-22-2011, 09:46 AM

I feel weird about socializing with coworkers. I had it bite me in the ass once when I had a huge falling out with the "queen bee" at work and that made everyone that was once my friend turn against me just because of this one person (and her being insane and telling EVERYONE). Not that I think that would happen again, but it's just...I don't know, I don't really have anything in common with most of these people and can't imagine hanging out with them outside of work. What really sucks is that my supervisor and I actually DO have a lot in common and could be great pals, but I feel really weird about trying to hang out with her (besides the fact that she does want to hang out with me often). We have a really close working relationship, but in the end she does write my reviews so I just don't feel right being buddy-buddy. I want to work objectively and not have to worry about hurting anyone's feelings when I disagree or think something could be improved.

I find it really easy, too easy, to socialize with people at work and it's usually not a good idea because these people gossip and it could end up getting me into trouble. I don't like that I have to be careful about what I say casually.

Dorothy Wood

07-22-2011, 10:59 AM

bugs. first it was book lice (not actual lice, just lil mites that love damp paper); then the gas company had to tear up all the streets to replace the gas lines and unleashed a multitude of species of cockroaches, or the exterminator called them "water bugs". one day about 15 of them decide to crawl out into the store and keel over and die, so we had to go around scooping them up in front of clients.

now it's flies, flesh flies...they're like flying raisins with red eyeballs, and they ring their hands like nervous mothers, I think they understand english. and oh yeah, they eat rotting flesh.

this all relates to the laziness of the other tenants of the building, who throw away hot soupy food waste improperly in the dumpster in the alley we share. or sometimes they just pile it up on top or right on the ground.

other than that I hate that my boss can't give a compliment without also coming up with an idea for further improvement.

Bob

07-22-2011, 05:13 PM

I find it really easy, too easy, to socialize with people at work and it's usually not a good idea because these people gossip and it could end up getting me into trouble. I don't like that I have to be careful about what I say casually.

my supervisor has seen me get super drunk and do a fairly accurate rock lobster at karaoke

it was not a work event

kll

07-22-2011, 11:06 PM

Hi,

I wish it were as easy as her having a late night working with the MPS (Mummy Preservation Society), but no such luck.

I lucked out today because we had a 5* hotel from Paris come visit us, and brought a "room spray" for us. I went crazy in my work area. Co-workers in the know laughed hysterically, others complained that it smelled too much like Febreze. Whatever, fuckers, at least it's not dead bodies!!!

Echewta - my bf suggested the same thing. I have an appointment at the county morgue to purchase from their store tomorrow. Thx!

mikizee

07-23-2011, 07:19 PM

I'm a service tech that drives around repairing faults with slot machines.

Dealing with gambling addicts everyday is fairly draining. Especially when they come up and complain they've lost $800 on a particular machine ("and I didn't even get the free games ONCE!!") and expect me to do something about it/care.

Always trying to blame everything/everyone but themselves for their losses.

Or every second person asking me to rig their machines to win ("and we'll go halves!") Hey asshole, these machines are unriggable, and even if I could I wouldnt be going halvsies in the profits with YOU, fuckface. Or they say it as a joke and laugh as if I've never heard someone so witty before. "You can rig this one up for me, HAHA HOHO HEHEHEHAHA".

Or, gaming venues ringing up and logging a fault with a machine right at the end of my 12 hour shift just as I'm heading home for dinner. And when I call them they say 'oh, its been faulty ALL DAY!!" RRAARRGGGHHHHH that makes me the angriest, as I have to go out and fix it then and there. I've had nothing to do all day, HOPING for a callout, and its when I head home they decide to call up.

I feel better now

Yetra Flam

07-23-2011, 09:16 PM

finding things like this at my workstation

http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/284466_10150262204634757_851929756_7214070_173122_ n.jpg

NicRN77

07-23-2011, 10:08 PM

we are union nurses at my hospital...and it stinks that EVERYTHING is based on seniority. In October it will be 6 years I've been there...and I still feel like low man on the todem pole. I didn't get approval for any vacation time next period...I'm bummed. :mad:

jabumbo

07-23-2011, 10:51 PM

Thank god my office doesn't try to enforce a dress code, because there is nothing they could say to get me to follow it.

My biggest beef though is how the boss won't tell you about an upcoming project until the day before it starts and you have to run around trying to get ready so you don't look like an idiot when you show up.

jabumbo

07-23-2011, 10:55 PM

People who leave messages to call them back but don't leave the questions so when i call back and get their voicemail, i have to say call me back and leave the question.

My boss is great at this. He will call and say his name and company name and number as if I dont already know that stuff.

If I am out of the office, I refuse to answer calls from work after lunch. And since his voicemails are always so vague, is just wait until the next day to call back.

Lex Diamonds

07-24-2011, 08:07 AM

finding things like this at my workstation

http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/284466_10150262204634757_851929756_7214070_173122_ n.jpg
What's the story?

Yetra Flam

07-24-2011, 09:55 AM

What's the story?

It says "this is one of the reasons we can't use our phones at work, identical I believe". The exorcist photo apparently looks like me.

Kid Presentable

07-24-2011, 05:46 PM

It says "this is one of the reasons we can't use our phones at work, identical I believe". The exorcist photo apparently looks like me.

Are you the boss?

KingPsyz

07-26-2011, 09:02 AM

Managers that micro-manage. No more pickles in the vending machines. Co-workers that aren't accountable, and have an excuse for everything. Wearing pants. People that talk too loud. Cubicles.

woah woah woah...

PICKLES IN A FUCKING VENDING MACHINE?

MY LIFE FEELS SO EMPTY NOW...

KingPsyz

07-26-2011, 09:38 AM

Oh boy the things that bother me at work...

People who over inflate their job titles and place some kind of status in a meaningless title.

Severely inappropriate workplace discussions/humor that would a) get a guy like myself fired from any job b) and would make most customers hang up in horror/disgust if they ever heard it over the handset.

People who don't understand how to compose an email to a customer without it looking like an AOL chat log circa '94 and have the nerve to put "Senior Internet Manager" in the signature...

The best though is we recently hired someone who obviously stretched the truth in their application and us not realizing it until far too late. They were supposed to be bilingual, and I am pretty sure they're English as a third or forth language... Not so bad on it's own, but when we have to speak with customers in English and the phrasing is so off as to be counter to what they're trying to communicate it can get frustrating. They also seem to think they know the job better than everyone who's instructed them and now I help guide them as we go.

The latest hilarious/horrifying case of poor phrasing/heavy accent came when they we're asking me enthusiastically to have me show them some tips for the job. This instead came out as "SHOW ME YOUR TITS SHOW ME YOUR TITS SHOW ME YOUR TITS" followed by about 10 minutes of nervous/crazy laughter and them convincing me they didn't say anything weird... :confused:

But other than that it's fantastic(y)

venusvenus123

07-26-2011, 09:39 AM

It says "this is one of the reasons we can't use our phones at work, identical I believe". The exorcist photo apparently looks like me.

What did you do to the phones? I find it all a bit confusing.

Nuzzolese

07-26-2011, 01:40 PM

what's a rock lobster?

MC Moot

07-26-2011, 02:00 PM

Rock Lobster (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szhJzX0UgDM)...

Echewta

07-26-2011, 02:07 PM

One of the best songs to come out of the 90s

Bob

07-26-2011, 05:36 PM

Rock Lobster (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szhJzX0UgDM)...

i like this video better

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnU3WoQZHJE

fun fact about doing it at karaoke though, it's about twice as long as you expect it to be and about half of it is women making fish noises

still better than love shack though

Yetra Flam

07-26-2011, 10:41 PM

Kid P, i'm not THE boss, but I am in a position where I have a lot of sway as to what goes on.
What did you do to the phones? I find it all a bit confusing.

I guess mistakenly my coworkers assumed that I was the reason that they were no longer allowed to use their cell phones while working.
It had nothing to do with me though. Pah.

Echewta

07-27-2011, 10:55 AM

People who write "basura" on boxes or bags for the Janitors to pick up.

If you were smart enough to learn the word trash in Spanish, don't you think they are smart enough to learn the word basura in English?

Jane*

07-27-2011, 09:45 PM

People who don't read their emails, or those who read them too fast and miss important details.

Having to resend the same hyperlink several times to the same person.

Conference calls on speaker phone without closing your office door.

Catch phrases my boss uses to describe things: gangbusters, it's what's for dinner (when referring to Medicaid reform) etc.

I guess I mostly dislike my boss. She's a cantankerous bitch and not in a good way. She wears sleeveless shirts when she hasn't shaved her armpits in months, then proceeds to play with the hair on her head or rub her eyeballs so you're forced to look at said armpit hair; how she never picks up her feet when walking so you can hear her every shuffle throughout the office; how she brings her lunch to important meetings (not lunch meetings) and will proceed to eat and talk at the same time, when she puts on makeup for the media thinking it will make her look more professional when in reality she looks like she has two black eyes and clown lips....uh there's more I'm just blocking it out. OH WAIT and that she continuously brings her angry dog to work (they look strikingly similar), that lurches to attack everyone and has bitten at least 5 people.

I hate micro-managers and people who don't own up to their mistakes.

Man, may the job gods bestow me a blessing soon.