Given that office work is a common form of employment on Lemmy, and given our higher-than average technical ability, I’m interested to hear what bothers you most.
For me: coworker says “I’m old fashioned” and refuses to employ the simplest keyboard shortcuts (using arrow keys to navigate excel, using Ctrl+C instead of the mouse, et cetera) and then complains about how much their wrist hurts because of their mouse.
People who talk excessively loudly and can be heard across the entire office.
I had a pair of coworkers that would chat over slack all day. One of them had a laugh. My other coworker at the other side of the large office would message me “what’s so fucking funny over there?”. I never knew because they never shared.
People who hate on their spouses, bragging when they’re “in the dog house”. Divorces exist, Brent, you don’t have to stay married to a person you hate.
In a similar vein, people who comment about work being a “break from the family”. I had my first kid a year or so ago and one person at my new job said how it must be nice to “get away for awhile”.
I actually said “no, I love my family and enjoy my home life.” They avoid me now.
I have friends with kids and are in happy living relationships, but they’re definitely not upset to get some away time from the chaos of young children when they go to school or daycare. That’s not to say they don’t love them or love being around them, but it’s a lot of work and a break isn’t inherently a negative thing.
I don’t like boomer humour like making constant insults about one’s in laws or their spouse. I do think that your coworker definitely came with the wrong tone and probably fits that bill. Solid in you for shutting that shit down.
I 100% agree that a break isn’t a negative thing and I thank my mother in law every time she watches our kid.
Never in my life will being at work be better than being at home. Regardless, It’s the same guy who makes off hand comments like my wife “wears the pants” and “is the boss”. I use to ignore the comments and just carry on but I didn’t hold it in the last time.
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I get it. More people need to push back on that kind of stuff. I jokingly refer to my wife as my accountant when the discussion of money comes up, but it’s because she’s literally an accountant. I then give her all of the accolades for why we are financially stable and get to do fun things. Nothing demeaning, and always followed up with high praise.
Nice win for you. Congrats on the new family.
“Let’s go around the room” #killme
Reheating seafood. Don’t think I need to elaborate.
Does that mean if it’s the first time I’ve heated this canned tuna I’m in the clear?
People who cough and splutter at their desks instead of staying home until they stop.
People walking by in backless shoes that slap against their feet with every step.
Meetings where all the managers say their own thing about cheering on the company.
They should use a vertical mouse at least!
What? The mouse came waaaay after keyboards and shortcuts, that makes no sense. They are just lazy and stupid.
That not everyone has reached the blatantly obvious conclusion that offices are an anachronism, especially those eye sore tall buildings that lay half empty.
It is somewhat defensible, but installing a coffee machine and not letting other people use it. I am willing to provide my own coffee and clean everything, but it is too tempting to have an espresso machine and not be able to use it.
This one is entirely defensible!
You are willing to provide and clean, everyone else will not.
Karen from accounting will come use up the high-dollar beans you received as a present, make it wrong, leave a mess, and then claim her Starbucks mocha-choca-itchy-gitchy-ya-ya was better anyway…
This is a pet peeve on myself. I’m in a supervisor position and sometimes I will get frustrated at people because they have a bad work ethic. I have to remember not everyone has the same work ethic as me and I also have an irrational fear of being fired/laid off.
When I say something like “^” and they type “caret”. Why…
Also putting drinks in the freezer to get them cold faster. Even if you remember 99% of the time: A. No you don’t. 2. That’s still at least 2 exploded drinks in the freezer every year.
Having to hear conservatives and liberals talk about their politics all day. How they think their stupid ideologies will fix the United States.
I didn’t much care for office lunch events, but the free food usually made up for it… except that time the boss got Chipoltle or whatever its called.
Chipotle is one thing. Chipotle catering is another thing entirely, and for the worse.
