<ul><li>CEOs who just don't seem to get it <li>Air-conditioning set so high that you need to keep a sweater at work <li>An HR attitude that all problems can be fixed by making new office rules. <li>Refusal to give us the day off to go to the Rockets victory parade.</ul>
We do have on perk here, if you don't use the sick days, you get paid for them added on to your Christmas bonus.
Smelly co-workers who save p*rn in your folder, and lean on your desk sweating their filth on your desk and talk about every sport known to man like I care!! GET AWAY FROM ME STINKY!!! I love sports, but damn! I DONT WANT TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT IT!
When your entire office gets an email that pertains to you and your supervisor sends you an email 1 minutes later asking "Have you responded to them?"
People who get group emails and respond to everyone 7 hours later with a different response, even though the discussion has been resolved and forgotten about. People who take more time to forward emails to me to handle (adding long convoluted messages of their own), than it would take to just answer the question themselves.
The guy that knows everything, and when you correct him, he says "That's what I meant"... Or The guy that always says he's busy and you swing by his office and he's always reading the paper...No matter what time of the day it is...
Do you guys happen to work with a guy named Brent? Most of everything mentioned qualifies for him. It don't bother me much anymore. A little thing called acceptance.
This one stupid b**** that on every single call with a client says "and, uh, ya know....'cause, uh ya know..."NO THEY DON't KNOW b****! That's why they called! She's right outside my office and I've asked 100 times, but NO, I am not allowed to kill her! SUCK! Also, why you parking cross 3 spaces, ****tard?
Laying off quality people during economic downturns because they make "too much" only to hire back a couple of less talented people when things are going well that don't even do the work of the one person they layed off and their combined salary is MORE than the quality person. On almost every project I've worked on, I'd rather have one, expensive, quality employee than 3-4 mediocre ones. Also related: Mediocre talent somehow makes it through lay offs because they know someone, don't make much, or are just lucky and laying off effective, quality folks instead.
I gotta say, the sneeze person or the person with the running nose shouldn't be a pet peeve. What are they supposed to do? Kill themselves so you don't have to be annoyed? Call in sick and waste a sick day because they are sneezing? Sheesh.
The guy who schedules a meeting for 1:30 and doesn't show up... then sends an email at 2:03 saying "let's reschedule the meeting for 2:15."
Here's another: the workout guy/girl. They go to the gym during lunch or before or after work, but they have to get dressed at work, and they make sure everyone sees them in their workout gear. And another: The dullard, who seems to single out one person to tell about the virtues of their new carpet or the highlights of their marathon WOW session the weekend before, even though that person is clearly ignoring them. Yet another: The packrat who has been there for 20 years and their office/cube looks like a storage unit. Throw out the stack of string cheese coupons from 1999 already.
Add to this the one who is constantly talking to me about his workout exploits and his waist size. I DON'T CARE
LOL, you would never make it at my company....... Bosses who forward you email addressed to everyone in the company. Uh....hello? I work for the company too, therefore, I already got this email 3 minutes ago. Why are you forwarding it to me????
