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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
At least one person at my previous employer got disciplinged (and possibly sacked) by somehow emailing everybody in the global address book. That was over 100,000 email accounts.
Ring, zoom, teams or physically walk up to engage with me. I WFH majority of the time and it’s bliss, the days I am in the office it's so unproductive. Other problem is most people I work directlywith are in the US, with a chunk on West Coast, so while I start around 7:30/8am am frequently back on meetings after dinner - so the lack of awareness around calendar availability and local working hours.
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Office annoyances time on 11:06 - Nov 18 with 4915 views
People who simply call you on Teams without a cursory "Hi, you available for a quick chat" message firstly should be shot at dawn.
Initial bullets to the kneecaps before the kill shot to those who call you unannounced over the lunchtime period also.
Please note: prior to hitting the post button, I've double checked for anything that could be construed as "Anti Semitic" and to the best of my knowledge it isn't. Anything deemed to be of a Xenophobic nature is therefore purely accidental or down to your own misconstruing.
What can be equally annoying, especially in a small group (such as an executive committee), is individuals in the group responding only the sender of the email when what they send is relevant to the whole group, thus leaving others in the dark and sometimes having to reinvent the wheel.
As someone who was secretary of such a group, and so needed to know what was going on, I tried to stamp it out but with limited success.
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Office annoyances time on 11:18 - Nov 18 with 4787 views
My very worse annoyance was a guy on a nearby bank of desks who could only speak in tired management cliches. Every phone (and indeed face-to-face) conversation was a litany of 'we need to have that conversation', 'we are pushing the envelope on this', ' some blue-sky thinking is needed' and so on.
How I'm not serving time for battering him to death with a laptop is astonishing.
Office annoyances time on 11:19 - Nov 18 by leitrimblue
I'd like to add anyone who calls after 4 during the week or after 2 on a Friday to that list. Sorry, I'm just not answering
Leitrimblue for PM!
Please note: prior to hitting the post button, I've double checked for anything that could be construed as "Anti Semitic" and to the best of my knowledge it isn't. Anything deemed to be of a Xenophobic nature is therefore purely accidental or down to your own misconstruing.
Office annoyances time on 11:18 - Nov 18 by factual_blue
My very worse annoyance was a guy on a nearby bank of desks who could only speak in tired management cliches. Every phone (and indeed face-to-face) conversation was a litany of 'we need to have that conversation', 'we are pushing the envelope on this', ' some blue-sky thinking is needed' and so on.
How I'm not serving time for battering him to death with a laptop is astonishing.
I have PTSD though.
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Office annoyances time on 11:45 - Nov 18 with 4512 views
Office annoyances time on 11:23 - Nov 18 by giant_stow
Blimey, you have people well trained if you're pulling that off. Congratulations!
It's taking years of training Stow. Actually I got an email off a client at 5:35 on Friday.. I just completely ignored it and called him back at 11 today.
Puts manners on um..
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Office annoyances time on 11:45 - Nov 18 with 4506 views
I get really annoyed when Denis Lil (Casandra's Dad in Only Fools and Horses) hogs the coffee machine every morning. Surely 1 x Mocaccino is enough for anyone ?
Office annoyances time on 10:57 - Nov 18 by factual_blue
At least one person at my previous employer got disciplinged (and possibly sacked) by somehow emailing everybody in the global address book. That was over 100,000 email accounts.
Including the Secretary of State.
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But at least everyone now knows how good the recycling centre in Bury St Edmunds is from the benefits detailed in said email…
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.
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Office annoyances time on 12:01 - Nov 18 with 4306 views
Office annoyances time on 11:06 - Nov 18 by artsbossbeard
People who simply call you on Teams without a cursory "Hi, you available for a quick chat" message firstly should be shot at dawn.
Initial bullets to the kneecaps before the kill shot to those who call you unannounced over the lunchtime period also.
I work for a Japanese company and lunch hour is an unknown concept to them. I have blocked 12pm to 2pm out on my calendar to stop them scheduling meetings which could have been an email…
I also have an auto-reply on my Teams both stating my working hours and that I don’t respond to DMs. And if you send me a message starting “Yo EJP…” and then not saying anything else, then you won’t definitely won’t get a response now or indeed any time ever.
The 20% pension contribution by the company is the only reason I’m still there…
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Office annoyances time on 12:06 - Nov 18 with 4247 views
Calling anyone they vaguely think might have some interest in coming to a meeting when they might be better off getting one representative of that team to go along. And calling meetings During World Cup matches. Missed the first half of Scotland-Brazil in 1998 because of that.
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Office annoyances time on 12:09 - Nov 18 with 4196 views
Anyone scheduling a call before 9.30, between 12 and 2 and after 4.
Someone calling over Teams without any warning at all.
Someone asking if you can do something quickly for them even though they could have told you a month ago.
Someone asking if you can do something quickly for them when you asked them a month ago for the information you need in order to do that thing.
(For anyone who works on websites): “There’s an error on the website, can you fix it?” when what really happened is that you didn’t tell the web team that an important bit of information had changed.
Someone beginning a statement with “I’m sure I’m being stupid, but why…” when they’re not being stupid, they’re just being wrong.
Managers asking you to do something stupid because they haven’t had the time to research something first, or just couldn’t be bothered.
Away days.
Myers-Briggs tests.
Someone beginning an email with “As you know this was agreed with [insert senior manager’s name]” when they know you didn’t know that.
Someone looking at your calendar and scheduling a meeting straight after another one’s just finished.
A senior manager not bothering to check your diary and scheduling a meeting with them that clashes with another meeting that’s already in there.
Someone saying “You have to do this because [insert senior manager’s name] has said that’s how they want it done”, even though it’s clearly wrong and in your area of expertise.
Having a senior manager say “we should do x and y” and then forgetting they said it within a week.
Meetings without an agenda, actions or notes.
As you can tell, I really enjoy work.
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Office annoyances time on 12:22 - Nov 18 with 4033 views
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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