The lady in the adjacent cubicle talking to one of her kids: "Did you do your homework?.......................Sometimes dogs drink from the toilet. Did you do your homework?.....................That'll clean up OK. Did you do your homework?......................Put a band-aid on it. Did you do your homework?..........................Well shut the toilet lid, then! Did you do your homework?.........................
Emily68
· 1 year ago
I used to work with a woman who'd ask her kids on the phone, "Have you had your ice cream yet?" I'd always think that every kid should have a mom like that.
SociologistTina
· 1 year ago
Although I really don't care for passive-aggressive behavior (to say the least), I can totally relate to what Chris is talking about. I also work from home, and can't seem to function in a conventional office environment. It's comforting to know that those whom I admire share this "weakness."
Perhaps its an indication of one's intelligence and creativity.
judybrowni
· 1 year ago
I Don't Play Well With Others, either. Work at home, thank the good goddess. Offices always drove me mad, unless I was a temp, left on my own and to my own devices.
Meetings were my bete noir -- in a more executive function, those once a week meetings, in which all the heads of department got to comment about that which they knew not -- everyone's business but their own.
Both boring and annoying.
But I'm afraid that I was the yo-yo who put the hardboiled egg in the microwave.
SociologistTina
· 1 year ago
LOL! That's great! Thanks! Another fellow creative type!
Hangtown Danile
· 1 year ago
I don't work currently as I am in school, but when I finish I will be working in a hospital. Have worked years in hospitals as a CNA. Care givers all have one thing about the human body that makes us gag. For me it is drool. Blahhhh!!! I will ask my wife what she thinks.
JustAGuy
· 1 year ago
File this under: get me out of here before I cut my ears off !!!
I work in an office with many different departments sharing the same floor. Recently, a group from another building was moved next to mine. This group of people have obviously been working together for a long time... since no subject appears to be off limits. Also, they appear to all be very hard of hearing, since they shout across the hallway at each other rather than walking over and conversing at a normal volume. Over the last 3 weeks, I've been forced to learn:
Each of their vacation plans Who is having their period Who's boyfriend/girlfriend is cheating on whom What last night's dinner did to one of them (gastroenterologically) Confidential customer information (shouted across the hallway)
Given this situation, I'd have to say my biggest office pet-peeve would be loud, inconsiderate, juvenile, incompetent jackasses.
-S
Ricky
· 1 year ago
I can't think of anything more annoying than working with people who think they know how to fix their computers when they start acting up by downloading upgrades, patches and drivers without asking first. They rarely know what they're doing and end up farking up their computers worse than before they started trying to fix them.
I can't think of anything more satisfying at work than getting a call from our office "Download Queen" informing me that her computer was dead and unusable. I dropped everything I was doing so that I could walk over to her cubicle, sit at her computer and type "FDISK C:" followed by "FORMAT C:"
It was better than sex.
Shannon
· 1 year ago
Biggest annoyance is the office romance............nothing gets done except that especially if they are married to someone else.......
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
Gossip. And people who derive their whole social lives from the office and think a work day is supposed to be one big party because that's where all their "buddies" are.
Oh, and guys who think women are "fair game" just because you work there (usually the same insecure social types who couldn't get a date outside the office).
bluestockton
· 1 year ago
Co-workers who wear flip-flops. Who wants to look at someone else's feet?
Hawk
· 1 year ago
They get nothing done, they're not very productive!
It has towards the bottom and the owner has a plug with a lock and key that he can remove so other people can't use it.
KerrynowCampau
· 1 year ago
People that bring their children in the office and expect everyone to drop everything and pay attention to them.
SouthernYankee
· 1 year ago
I hated working with a bunch of women in an office. I worked with a bunch of guys in an office. It worked in a reenlistment office for the army. The guys were nice to me and they liked working with me because I was blunt to the point. If they slipped and said a bad word I didn't freak out and passed it off. I was fun cause you didn't have to worry about back stabbing. I was in my 30s women. I am 60 today and I still find it easier to work with guys than gals. It is less drama.
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Perhaps its an indication of one's intelligence and creativity.
Meetings were my bete noir -- in a more executive function, those once a week meetings, in which all the heads of department got to comment about that which they knew not -- everyone's business but their own.
Both boring and annoying.
But I'm afraid that I was the yo-yo who put the hardboiled egg in the microwave.
I will ask my wife what she thinks.
I work in an office with many different departments sharing the same floor. Recently, a group from another building was moved next to mine. This group of people have obviously been working together for a long time... since no subject appears to be off limits. Also, they appear to all be very hard of hearing, since they shout across the hallway at each other rather than walking over and conversing at a normal volume. Over the last 3 weeks, I've been forced to learn:
Each of their vacation plans
Who is having their period
Who's boyfriend/girlfriend is cheating on whom
What last night's dinner did to one of them (gastroenterologically)
Confidential customer information (shouted across the hallway)
Given this situation, I'd have to say my biggest office pet-peeve would be loud, inconsiderate, juvenile, incompetent jackasses.
-S
I can't think of anything more satisfying at work than getting a call from our office "Download Queen" informing me that her computer was dead and unusable. I dropped everything I was doing so that I could walk over to her cubicle, sit at her computer and type "FDISK C:" followed by "FORMAT C:"
It was better than sex.
Oh, and guys who think women are "fair game" just because you work there (usually the same insecure social types who couldn't get a date outside the office).
http://www.slipperybrick.com/2006/12/coffee-cup...
It has towards the bottom and the owner has a plug with a lock and key that he can remove so other people can't use it.
Got to Data Lounge Search:
http://www.datalounge.com/cgi-bin/iowa/search/i...
Search the word " cubefrau "
and you will know exactly what my office peeves are.