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When an email is sent to a lot of people there are a couple of people in the office who response using a "reply all' so you get their reply even though the reply doesnt concern you and just clogs up your inbox
So annoying!!
Surely that should be a sackable offence??
what else you got for which colleagues should be instantly dismissed
Meetings late on Friday afternoon. A waste of everyone’s time bar critical emergency.
People who attend meetings who are not empowered to make a decision or able to contribute anything of value. Just send a tin of beans!
Meetings with more than about 8 people in the room. Beyond that it’s a telling session - I saw them with anything up to about 30 people sometimes. Total waste of time.
Meetings set up with no agenda and/or timings for items.
Stuff brought to a meeting that’s not relevant.
People being late. If you cannot be bothered to turn up on time, you are either a poor time manager or disinterested. Go away. Obviously, there will be the odd exception.
Badly chaired meetings. It’s really not difficult. That includes Chairpeople that talk right through the meeting. That’s a lecture ya boring f*rt.
Meetings with a politician in the room. They never end well.
Meetings with no outputs/timed action points.
Minutes that are just a meeting holders personal spin on the conversations and what they wanted to say. Minutes should be around decisions and actions. The rest is a waste of life.
Paper copies. In one job I had, the Programme Manager had us producing notes in paper form (despite word, computers having been around for years). For each 4 hour meeting the paper pile for each victim would be inches thick. Never read, 2 degrees on global warming.
People who dress inappropriately for meetings. It’s not a display session either for how good your Santa tie looks or how confident you think you are but aren’t.
Idiots that don’t mute their phone for meetings. Yes, you may be important, you may be waiting for a desperate call from the Dalai Lama but you can in advance warn the chairperson it might come in and leave the b thing on mute.
One for the Civil Service - if a meeting was booked for an hour it lasted an hour. If every item was dealt with in 30 mins, there was no ‘thanks, see you next meeting etc’. Oh no, the time was filled out. When I chaired them, if I could get through them quicker I would and end it. People would look at me like I was an alien form.
People who attend meetings, don’t read the supporting notes and ask questions already in the notes. Go away!
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Office annoyances time on 12:35 - Nov 18 with 1310 views
Followed by somebody replying with "reply-all" to ask people to not use "reply-all"
My personal irritant is people sending meeting invites with no agenda, purpose etc - at best a subject, often meaningless. Generally descends to a chat and a waste of an hour or so. I mark them as "tentative".
Office annoyances time on 12:37 - Nov 18 by Illinoisblue
Just being there, mostly. Also, extravagant email signatures. Shove your inspirational quotes and colorful fonts and fook off.
Once a week in a room I worked in 10 years ago somebody was nominated to put up on the whiteboard that weeks inspirational quote. Dear god. It was up there with ‘mission statement’ for cringe.
I alway went for something totally inappropriate or funny like a Grouch Marx. I was accused of not taking it seriously. Really?? My best bleak look was the response. They left me off the rota eventually.
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Office annoyances time on 13:01 - Nov 18 with 1245 views
Office annoyances time on 11:59 - Nov 18 by Churchman
The things that did my head in were:
1. People who were sitting a few yards away sending me an email - you have legs and the power of speech. Get off your chair and talk to me you dope!
2. Being copied in to messages I didn’t need to see. Useless tools that think that by copying in the world and his misses that they’ll cover their own @rse. Take some responsibility! It’s what you’re paid for!
3. People having a moan up about you on email and copying in third parties. It rarely happened to me but when it did I went nuts. Don’t care if they’re right or wrong or who they are - it ain’t happening!
4. See point 1. People using email unnecessarily when they can speak face to face or pick up a phone.
5. Twerps that send emails at 10pm on a Sunday evening copying in the universe just to prove how dedicated and hard working they are. No it doesn’t! It shows you are a clown that cannot manage your time properly at best or an inadequate, confidence free crawler at worst.
That’ll do for starters.
Can normally agree with all this
However
1. If it ain't written down it never happened - since someone tried to eff me over, I will have the conversation then follow up immediately by email. I've worked some back stabbing cn uts.
2. Often shows people don't know enough about their own process or organisation OR don't have faith in the recipient to get it done without oversight. That individual is usually an overpriced to55er.
3. Refer previously mentioned backstabber, who emailed the"world" a sarcastic response to me... without including me in the email. One of the few times I've been angry enough to passively aggressively threaten someone
5. Had a colleague who worked out how to schedule emails to make it look like he was in office on night shift when having an affair...
Office annoyances time on 12:51 - Nov 18 by Churchman
Once a week in a room I worked in 10 years ago somebody was nominated to put up on the whiteboard that weeks inspirational quote. Dear god. It was up there with ‘mission statement’ for cringe.
I alway went for something totally inappropriate or funny like a Grouch Marx. I was accused of not taking it seriously. Really?? My best bleak look was the response. They left me off the rota eventually.
That sounds hellish. Up there with “let’s go around the room and get to know each other.” No, let’s not do that.
Office annoyances time on 13:01 - Nov 18 by Pendejo
Can normally agree with all this
However
1. If it ain't written down it never happened - since someone tried to eff me over, I will have the conversation then follow up immediately by email. I've worked some back stabbing cn uts.
2. Often shows people don't know enough about their own process or organisation OR don't have faith in the recipient to get it done without oversight. That individual is usually an overpriced to55er.
3. Refer previously mentioned backstabber, who emailed the"world" a sarcastic response to me... without including me in the email. One of the few times I've been angry enough to passively aggressively threaten someone
5. Had a colleague who worked out how to schedule emails to make it look like he was in office on night shift when having an affair...
Agreed. No 3, that’d have been a very unpleasant conversation for the perpetrator had they done that to me.
Scheduling emails? What a berk!
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Office annoyances time on 13:28 - Nov 18 with 1172 views
Office annoyances time on 13:13 - Nov 18 by Illinoisblue
That sounds hellish. Up there with “let’s go around the room and get to know each other.” No, let’s not do that.
This.
Was at a meeting years ago with senior IBM people, senior people from the organisation I worked for and it was all, "Executive VP of this", "Regional Head of that", "Director of ..." and so on.
I was last and introduced myself as "YBR. I know my place"
Got some nasty looks and a proper telling off by the boss.
Office annoyances time on 13:13 - Nov 18 by Illinoisblue
That sounds hellish. Up there with “let’s go around the room and get to know each other.” No, let’s not do that.
How about the old ‘icebreaker’ at one of those truly appalling ‘away days’ where you are told to speak to the person next to you and find out something interesting about them to tell the audience.
How about I just stick pins in my eyes..
One of the worst was each table had to come up with a new mission statement for the team and represent it in plasticine form. Aaaaaaargh!!
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Office annoyances time on 13:32 - Nov 18 with 1160 views
Breakfast meetings. Why, just why?? Please nooooo. But oh yes.
Dragged to some venue at some unearthly hour miles away to listen to drivel over a not so good breakfast roll and tepid coffee. The only object of the exercise was to inconvenience the plebs and show how great the organiser was.
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Office annoyances time on 13:55 - Nov 18 with 1087 views
Office annoyances time on 13:29 - Nov 18 by You_Bloo_Right
This.
Was at a meeting years ago with senior IBM people, senior people from the organisation I worked for and it was all, "Executive VP of this", "Regional Head of that", "Director of ..." and so on.
I was last and introduced myself as "YBR. I know my place"
Got some nasty looks and a proper telling off by the boss.
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Classic.
Reminds me of the 'class sketch' with Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett and John Cleese.
Office annoyances time on 12:22 - Nov 18 by Steve_M
Incessant chatterers.
People who claim to be really busy and stressed but actually spend the large part of their days constantly talking crap or even when it's about work drag everything out rather than getting to the point.
No one works for every minute they are in an office (clearly!) but don't complain about being busy and annoy everyone else with your procrastination.
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Office annoyances time on 14:39 - Nov 18 with 943 views
Office annoyances time on 13:28 - Nov 18 by Dubtractor
Ice breakers. I bloody hate ice breakers.
I can manage to make conversation with people perfectly well without your stupid ice breaker activity.
Reminds me of school. We'll go around the room and everyone has to say something interesting about themselves. The next person will repeat everything said and then add their own.
Office annoyances time on 12:22 - Nov 18 by Steve_M
Incessant chatterers.
People who claim to be really busy and stressed but actually spend the large part of their days constantly talking crap or even when it's about work drag everything out rather than getting to the point.
No one works for every minute they are in an office (clearly!) but don't complain about being busy and annoy everyone else with your procrastination.
This is one of the reasons I like working from home, which I do about half of my time, as I don't get any of that distraction so end up being miles more productive.
So I guess that makes the office itself an office annoyance.....
I was born underwater, I dried out in the sun.
I started humping volcanoes baby, when I was too young.
But at least everyone now knows how good the recycling centre in Bury St Edmunds is from the benefits detailed in said email…
There is a major crisis for Suffolk Recycling. They currently have no contract for recycling hard plastics. You have to use the non-recyclable waste skip.
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