What ticks you off at work?
 

-- Ooops, it's supposed to be "ticks", not "tisks", I can't edit the subject title now, too late. -- mw


OK, what ticks you off at work? Not the "lazy co-worker" thing, not the bad boss thing, not the no raise or bonus thing...

The, "Who the hell spit in the water fountain?" type of thing.

What disgusting, irritating, un-nerving, kind of thing just irks the hell out of you at work?

Is it the co-worker who doesn't wash their hands after goin wee-wee? The guy who coughs up lung chunks (sorry)? Or the bitchy woman who is the cashier in the cafeteria?

What is it, who is it, and/or what do they do?

Rule: No real names of employees, if you are refering to one, we don't want to open ourselves up to that.

Why do I ask this?

I went to drink out of the water fountain today, and someone had spit in it. Why? Why do people spit in foutains? It's sick. Atleast wash it down. (No, I'll leave it for the next person to look at up close) Ick...

That's my beef for today, what's yours?

Getting a one hour shift at 8 in the morning and then working from 9 to midnight that same night. That's my beef for the week.

Re: What tisks you off at work?
 

Ayup...i know where you work :)

Mine happens to be the 'need' to occupy the stall beside me in the ladies' room. Now really, if I wanted company, I'd ask for it, why must someone pick the stall beside the ONLY occupied one in a somewhat large facility?

Dagney

who's just FULL of gossip today

Not having any co-workers at all.

Re: Re: What ticks you off at work?
 

Yep, but I'm trying to figure out your location :)

Somewhat large facility, in VA?

Re: Re: Re: What ticks you off at work?
 

Nope, little further north, 2nd offical "location" of the cat herders. Have been around since Ross :) Our site just turned 40 actually..right after the company did.

Dagney

the fucking coffee in the break room. i swear, i walked into the break room one day and the coffee smelled like tuna fish.

~james

[rant]Too much work, with too few resources.

Having only one doctor available for evaluations, even when faced with 5 patients arriving within an hour of each other, and knowing that there are 4 more circling the drain, waiting to pounce.

Knowing that of the above-described 9 people, 2 need psychiatric treatment, and 7 ran out of money for drugs and are pretending to be suicidal for three hots and a cot.

Mindbogglingly stupid people that seem to exist solely to irk me and waste my time.

Being on hold for 45 minutes with an insurance company.

Having to redo something three times ... on paper, on the 'old' computer system, and on the 'new' computer system because we are technologically backwards.

Visitors.

People who are incapable of doing the job in the first place applying for the job. Additionally the inability of the people who do the hiring to recognize this at the first interview. Or during training. Or at the time of the probationary review.

Not getting to go to lunch/dinner/break. EVER. [/rant]

(can you tell I just got home from work?)

Trade you. If I could sustain/improve my lifestyle, I would be there. Yes, I understand what a drag it is having to do everydamn thing yourself, from prospecting leads to changing the roll in the potty, but I haven't ever had that opportunity. I'd like to try it.

I'm the office manager for a moderately large commercial roofing firm. I frequently have to hire large numbers of roofers all at one time to meet staffing demands when big jobs are starting up. It is really irritating on several levels:

1) Many literally cannot tell time, or fail to feel bound by scheduling requirements. You tell them show up at 8:00, they show up at 10:30 and act as though you've inconvenienced them.
2) They argue with you when you tell them the way something is going to be.
3) They ask for an advance in pay or a letter stating that they've been working there for (insert number here) weeks.
4) When told to completely fill out an application, they don't.

There's lots more, but these are the biggest pissers. And this is people who are *trying to get a job from us*, not the guys we already have working. That's an entire other layer of BS.

You forgot one, El ...

5) Guaranteed to either drink or do drugs on on the job. It is unclear whether this is dependence, mere recreation, or a desire to be better able to fall off a roof to generate a workmans comp claim along with a liability suit.

(I have met a lot of roofers in the course of my job. They are generally part of the seven of the nine, not the two.)

My only problem with the roofers is when they bang out "I'm going to kill you" in morse code.

(Emo Philips)

It takes a special brain chemistry to do that job. My house is a 12/12 pitch so it was a mother to do. But after a couple days on it I was comfortable, which probably made me dangerous.

--People that vocalize when using the bathroom

--People that talk about reality shows (Survivor, American Idol, etc.)

--People that don't wash their hands after using the bathroom, then try to shake someone's hand

--People that just throw their cigarettes to the ground when there is a perfectly good ashtray next to them (although I am guilty of this from time to time)

Yep. For the longest time I was utterly content not seeing anyone. But lately I've found myself hanging around the cellar too much, so I'm making some changes.