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8/17/2010 10:26:57 AM

5-inch-long millipede underneath my coworker's chair

8/23/2010 11:53:08 AM

What's not annoying. Co-wokers Members FML!!!

8/23/2010 12:06:42 PM

I am starting to get extremely frustrated that the vast majority of suggestions I make to improve our work flow, products or anything else are 1) totally ignored, 2) vetoed for crap reasons, or 3) met with enthusiasm in theory and then in practice --> 1.

8/26/2010 2:19:30 PM

My 11am meeting was canceled at 11:35am

8/26/2010 2:27:10 PM

bttt

11/8/2010 2:44:36 PM

^

I hate this job sometimes. We have a search engine on our site that consistently gives outdated information, then customers get pissy with me when I can't sell them tickets for the price found on the website. If you have a problem with it, take it up with the airlines that constantly change their prices throughout the day

11/8/2010 2:46:02 PM

students who seems to completely lack an internal monologue

11/8/2010 3:12:10 PM

two of our paralegals who engage in a daily battle to make it out the door closest to 5:00p.m., and not a single millisecond later.

11/8/2010 4:10:08 PM

My office has a raised floor for running electrical/telecom wiring (the entire office, for some reason), and it's so shitty that the entire thing vibrates any time somebody walks by. Since most people are heavy with their steps, your day can go from a mild vibration (monitors shaking slightly) to a god damn earthquake (like seat going up and down and monitors shaking and bumping into each other). The larger individuals are some of the worst offenders.

It's also kind of funny that they didn't upgrade our chairs or ever bother to get the right monitor stands for us after the expansion. Both things were promised. I don't really care that much, but corporate politics are annoying sometimes.

11/8/2010 7:32:48 PM

when its cold as shit

11/8/2010 7:33:36 PM

Gaudy email signatures
People not washing their hands in the restroom
Loud ass cell ringtones (would vibrate kill you?)
Nail clippers
Anyone who complains about being busy with an arrival/departure duration of less than 9 hours
Read receipts on every email
When people reply to an email and the preceding email is automatically attached
People who confuse the subject and body of an email
Blue pens
Finding out an expo marker is dead, only to put it back on the board
People who wont stop talking when youre blatantly trying to do something
People who put conference calls on hold instead of mute

11/8/2010 7:53:23 PM

one of the ladies in purchasing has this as her email signature, all in some illegible shitty cursive font

Firstname "Tink" Lastname (btw, no one in the office calls her tink)
job title
local company phone number
1-800 company phone number
fax number
email
company website
company logo
random inspirational quotation
random bible verse
a bajillion smileys

11/8/2010 11:46:33 PM

^ http://theoatmeal.com/comics/email

Scroll to "I hate your email signature"

11/9/2010 12:00:09 AM

Dude I work for asks for the same stupid shit like every day. Please email this, please email me that, please email this. GET IT YOUR FUCKING SELF DOG!

11/9/2010 12:26:37 AM

^^

DAMN YOU. I just spent like, a solid 40 minutes on there now.

11/9/2010 12:38:33 AM

Someone sends me something to edit. I do. I send it back. Later on they realize they need to change something, or they need to use much of the same text in another place. They make their changes to the original and send it back, telling me they made changes and could I please look at it again to make sure nothing else needs to be changed. Usually nothing new needs to be changed, but I have to make the same edits I made before again.

11/11/2010 2:15:11 PM

when this older lady's computer does not immediatly respond to her mouse clickings, she'll tap her mouse on the desk in 2-tap bursts. She did this 4 times within a minute today. That has quickly become the most annoying sound I've ever come across. I just want to grab the mouse out of her hand, slap her with it a couple of times, and say "1) Doing that is not going to speed your shit up. 2) Your farmville is not going to destruct without your immediate attention."

11/11/2010 2:33:48 PM

The chick in the office closest to mine gets up all the damn time to go to the bathroom, the kitchen, talk to somebody else, go to the copier


it doesn't sound like a big deal but when I want to slack off in the afternoon and do absolutely nothing but wolfweb or play a game, I have to keep pretending like I'm working by shuffling papers around, it's a nuisance

11/18/2010 3:17:19 PM

The main door to our office suite has this stupid ass doorbell chime that goes off automatically every time the door is opened.

We have a side door that makes no sound, and is just as easy to get in and out of (leads to the same hallway), yet half the doofuses in here exclusively use the main door, which means that doorbell haunts my dreams.

11/18/2010 3:21:10 PM

I HATE our corporate email signature.

First Last
Job Title Irrelevant To What I Actually Do
Company name
Corporate Logo which contains company name
Office Number
Mobile Number
Fax Number
Website
Every | City | We | Have | An | Office | In

Useless five line statement about how this email is confidential and if it wasn't intended for you, immediately delete it or face penalty of water boarding.

11/18/2010 4:48:23 PM

I love your enthusiasm, Harold, but putting "Hell to the Yeah" on the contract does not constitute a legally binding agreement

11/23/2010 11:21:56 AM

I'm seriously about to go Office Space on this fuckin' printer!!!

11/23/2010 11:31:25 AM

All of 4 people in the entire office today, myself included, and someone two doors down is on the LONGEST, LOUDEST SPEAKERPHONE CONFERENCE CALL I've ever heard. They have a door, it isn't shut.

Look for someone else posting here in a few minutes:

All of 4 people in the entire office today, myself included, and someone two doors down is playing music so loud that it is interfering with my conference call that is on speakerphone.

[Edited on November 24, 2010 at 12:26 PM. Reason : -]

11/24/2010 12:23:04 PM

im sure it's been posted before (prob even by myself) but:

-People who leave their phone at their desk all day with the ringer on full blast.
-People who leave their ringer on loudly at work, keep it with them, and just look at their phone when it rings but don't silence the call and don't do anything about the volume
-People who leave their phone on vibrate but leave it on their metal or wooden desk all day so it is just as loud as if the ringer was on

Seriously, the amount of annoyances relating to cell phone etiquette is ridiculous in the workplace it seems like.

11/24/2010 12:48:12 PM

Oh lawd my boss is arguing with the telephone company about how to split her phone line from the parent company we're currently under. She has zero clue what she is talking about and I can tell these dudes are getting really frustrated with her

11/29/2010 2:22:15 PM

The fax machine and I still have not reconciled our differences.

11/29/2010 4:09:44 PM

Guy here prints out the email I just sent to him then comes to my office to talk about it..."Here, I printed you a copy, too."

Like I forgot what I typed 5 minutes ago.

11/29/2010 5:35:35 PM

Quote :

"People who put conference calls on hold instead of mute"

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11/29/2010 5:39:37 PM

^ aha, i've done that before. we have hold music though, so everyone on the line and in the conference room hosting the meeting could hear the music from my phone.

11/29/2010 6:28:43 PM

I hate loud offices. Some clients I call up have so much noise in the background. I don't know if they are using speakerphone but it just sucks. Then there are the guys working from home and you can hear crying babies in the background. Oh, and mouth breathers. Fucking mouth breathers...

11/30/2010 11:08:51 AM

I have been dealing with a complete and utter bitch customer the past two weeks. Now she's trying to blame her screwup on me I hope she never uses our company again so I can stop reading her whining emails.

12/2/2010 10:00:25 AM

cube farm = germ incubator

12/2/2010 10:19:04 AM

The Internet is being soooooo slooooooooow. I wish I had a paper dictionary, because M-W online is not being friendly.

12/2/2010 10:40:02 AM

1. http://www.google.com
2. type- "define: insert word here"
3. delete "insert word here" and type in the word you want to look up
4. enjoy the new millennium

12/2/2010 10:45:19 AM

Except publications have one dictionary that is standard accepted form, and that's what I was looking up.

12/2/2010 10:46:15 AM

Our secretary sent an email yesterday detailing that she'd be out of work because her daughter "had diarrhea and vomit all night."

I don't want to know that.

12/2/2010 10:51:42 AM

people that always peep in your office when they walk by it.

12/2/2010 10:54:26 AM

never mind I'm inserting words that aren't in the sentence

[Edited on December 2, 2010 at 10:56 AM. Reason : a]

12/2/2010 10:55:08 AM

last year i had to miss a meeting (that wasn't critical or all that important) because i was sick and sent my boss an email to let him know and cc'd my group. he replied all and kind of bitched me out, so i replied all describing how i was simultaneously peeing out of my ass and vomiting.

12/2/2010 10:55:12 AM

I keep pointing out problems and only get "we aren't going to deal with that at the moment" or "well that shouldn't be happening ..."

I KNOW it shouldn't be happening. That is why it's a problem! Ugh.

12/3/2010 3:21:47 PM

I think they're trying to hint that you're doing it wrong.

12/3/2010 3:41:18 PM

No, it's that we have publications on our site that don't exist anymore, and that people keep leaving public comments when they think they are e-mailing the story to a friend. Yes, they are stupid for doing it, but they are still doing it, and I think there is something we can do to help.

12/3/2010 3:46:53 PM

There are finite resources. Other issues are higher priority (at least in opinion of the people in charge).

12/3/2010 3:52:31 PM

Sounds like my work. I keep getting a message popping up in my system and when I ask my boss what it means she just goes, "Well I don't know what that means, but I guess it's not important."

I will not be surprised AT ALL if we end up accruing fines because of whatever this message means. This is why you should train people before piling on a bunch of responsibilities they've never been trained for

12/3/2010 3:55:00 PM

^Where's the fun in that?!

12/3/2010 3:55:45 PM

Just got Office Spaced.

I'll be here bright and early tomorrow.

12/3/2010 3:57:07 PM

^^ ahahaha true

12/3/2010 3:57:23 PM

Getting to work before 6AM, only to have the keycard + number pad for the lock on the door not work correctly.

FML

12/9/2010 9:10:39 AM

I love the women in this thread. Every single one of their "annoyances" stem from the fact they are inefficient at their jobs.

The Kitchen ladies, lot less stress for EVERYONE.

[Edited on December 9, 2010 at 9:37 AM. Reason : fg]

12/9/2010 9:26:28 AM