annoying habits of your coworkers

There are a few people who sit right by me that seem to go out of their way to not acknowledge me and that really burns me up.

Clipping your nails in your cubicle is simply unacceptable

I used to date a girl who yelled at me whenever I clipped my nails in public. Then, 10 minutes later, she'd ask for the clipper.

Talking about yr kids is super-ultra-annoying.
My coworkers all have their own unique ways of being annoying.

GUY NEXT TO ME: STOP FARTING IN YR SEAT
YOU SMELL LIKE SHIT. GO TO TH EBATHROOM

Well maybe if you left the office occasionally you could get some fresh air.

har har

ok he's like consciously doing it, leaning and everything
hate this dude

does he lean the same way

each time

yes

That is kind of awesome, but I don't have a sense of smell so I am biased.

what colour is his chair? what you need to do (if it's black) is rub brown marker all over the middle of the seat while he's on lunch.
i'm sure you see where this is going.

I had a coworker who would suggest income-inappropriate "enrichment" activities for our clients' children, such as Broadway shows or art classes for children whose families struggled to put food on the table. I'd suggest something like "go to storytime at the library (free,)" and she'd be like "riding lessons are great!" It'd make the clients so uncomfortable.

There is this girl who runs the (short) length of our office hallway. Why?

In my last job one of the accounting girls did that! She was a short bouncy asian lass - very nice and friendly, but very touchy feely and a bit TOO chirpy, and she always fecking ran/bounced everywhere, which made this loud THUMP THUMP noise (nb she was not fat or anything).

i have one of those too. she's a model but thunders like the mighty rhinoceros when she runs!

It's the worst when she wears flip-flops: THUMP-thwack-THUMP-thwack! Makes me wanna string some fishing line between the cubicles...

A friend of mine that I work with will listen to music at her cubicle as she works, which is fine...but she sings along with it, and she has this squealy whiny voice.

What's worse is that she does it with the song on loop for about a half an hour and sings the same passage over and over.

OMG that is kind of awesome, but having grown up in a family of seven, I can tune out and/or appreciate the silliness of such repetitive noise.

well, wait until tomorrow when I bring my King Diamond cds in.....

talks with her mouth full
chews loudly
screams at husband on the phone
brings baby in sometimes
(used to) breastpump at desk everyday

UGH!

oh god, my graphic designer is set to bring in baby

oh yeah she also screams at her nanny on the phone a lot in her terrible highschool spanish

god i loath babies in the office.

We have a separate playroom for the childrens! Some days, I want to go in there, lay on the bean bags, and play NES.

My biggest pet peeve is the co-worker who asks random questions to the office at large? "What's the date today? .... ..... Anyone know?"

"Anyone see 'Lost' last night?"

look i understand when your nanny is sick at the last minute but you should never ever ever change a diaper in your cubicle ughhhhhh

Woman near me plays music on the computer at incredibly low volume = okay, whatever, who cares

Music would seem to come from some kind of 90s alt-rock internet radio channel = okay, whatever, who cares

But now it's been several months during which I have heard, each day that I am in the office, the following songs, sometimes multiple times per day: "Wonderwall," "Buddy Holly," "Been Caught Stealing," "The Distance" ...

Is this it, forever? The same 50 songs, every day, until one of us changes jobs? Will there never be a day where she comes in and feels like listening to jazz, or something? It's kind of weird.

The guy I had to share an office with 2 jobs ago kept the same Kansas CD on constant repeat all day long every day for 4 months straight.

same here but it's Jethro Tull all day every day

I'm the annoying coworker today. Can't get rid of hiccups.

"Roxanne" for 4th time today

I don't understand how they can justify playing music you have to listen to...? I wd like nothing more than to subject all my colleagues to like garage rock or Postcard or Flying Nun back catalogs all day but I wd be in big trouble!!

It is barely audible. Almost like headphone leak. I'm probably the only one who can even hear it. A normal person would probably tune it out, but if you happen to pay attention to music, it's in that range of softness where your ears keep pricking up and trying to detect whether that's really Billy Idol or not.

OMG "Roxanne" was followed by "Been Caught Stealing" and now it's "Roxanne" AGAIN

Is this a radio station?!

I assume some kind of streaming thing, but I guess one that lets you navigate through songs you like? Please god let it provide her with some kind of "if you like Oasis and the Police, you may also enjoy ANYTHING ELSE PLEASE, THERE ARE MORE THAN 50 SONGS IN THE WORLD" button

Yeah, most people don't know the difference between open and closed headphones.

This isn't headphones, it's just that quiet.

From now I'm going to pretend that she's listening to mixes given to her in college by a husband she recently left, and the ongoing repetition is part of a healing process

My biggest pet peeve is the co-worker who asks random questions to the office at large? "What's the date today? .... ..... Anyone know?"

"Anyone see 'Lost' last night?"

calls for post-it note action! You put a post it note on her screen before she gets in of a morning that says TO FIND OUT WHAT THE DATE IS HOVER YOUR CURSOR* OVER THE TIME AT THE RIGHT HAND CORNER OF THE SCREEN and another which says NO-ONE IN THE OFFICE WATCHES LOST EXCEPT YOU COZ WE ALL THINK IT'S CRAP.

* actually, better add: * NB the cursor is the little arrow that you can move around the screen using your mouse.

> There is this girl who runs the (short) length of our office hallway. Why?

otm

> Is this it, forever? The same 50 songs, every day, until one of us changes jobs?

sat in office where the testers at the other end have mobile phones playing a small set of test tracks at not quite audible levels day in and day out. 'tisk tisk tisk...'. and they've just bought a hifi and table football table for the games room, which doesn't have a door, and lunchtimes and evenings are now like working in a youth club.

need noise cancelling earphones... (am fine listening to stuff, mostly ambient and without vocals, but the meerest hint of bob marley (this morning), or anything else, as background noise drives me batty)

Noise canceling headphones = the shit! Truly magical!

Several:

--The people who stop the elevator at the 2nd floor to take it to the 1st, or the people who get on at the 1st floor to go to the 2nd. IT'S ONE FLOOR, TAKE THE DAMN STAIRS! it's no wonder that most of the people that do that resemble "Refrigerator" Perry (both males AND females).

--The people in the parking lot, who, instead of using the lanes designated for driving, drive THROUGH the parking spaces to save 20 seconds. During early morning, this is pretty dangerous.

--To piggyback on that, the people who want to back into a space but don't know how, so they drive through the space on the other side. Someone almost hit me doing this once because I had the audacity to try and park in a space properly and they tried to come through the other side.

--PEOPLE WHO PRINT MULTIPLE VERSIONS OF 100 PAGE DOCUMENTS AT THE PRINTER. ya know what, print it once, and photocopy it, and WHY THE HELL DO YOU NEED MULTIPLE COPIES?

--Lack of class. My friend told me once that she was in the ladies room and heard a lady in the john scolding her child on the phone while she was (audibly) dropping anchor. I swear to God...that kid will be messed up.

constant corny as fuck "jokes"

girl: hi this is avi, hes new and he'll be working in john's group.
annoying guy: Avi...... like an AVI! heheh
avi: yeah, A-v-i.
annoying guy: no see like an AVI file! like a dot-AVI! so just click on him and youll be watching a movie! heheh
all: uhh heh. yyyeah.

REALLY?? GOD SHUT UP YOU ARE SO LAME

Ahahahah! No srsly all I care about is will Avi be taking some of that 75-hr workweek?

ha, no, i'm not in john's group :p
ive been doing fewer hours but still need a vacation obvs ^^^

lets drink beer tomorrow

that's a great idea!

dude in the cubicle next to me has to sneeze like 18 times in a row but he always holds it in and just makes a "hut-NNN" noise instead of just sneezing. its so gross and makes me stressed out. let that shit fly dude

Dudes, the "secretary" in my office is flat fucking crazy.

Now, true - she lost her only daughter a few years ago to an unforeseen brain hemmorage, her older son is in jail, and her younger son (our file clerk) is an ex-tweaker who is a good guy, but is 25 with no high school diploma, a 3 year old son and another kid on the way, and she's in her second emotionally abusive marriage.

So, she's got a lot on her plate.

But, sweet Jeebus - she can't stop fucking talking to herself, whether its narrating what she types or finds out the internet (entirely unregulated); she never fesses to ANYTHING that she fucks up, but instead acts like this giant Telfon lump in the middle (literally) of the room that causes everything to careen out of control; and she's a total alcoholic. ALSO - she speaks like seven languages, and argues with people in all of them LOUDLY on the phone. Especially Farsi.

I had to leave or I would have strangled her yesterday.

BUT my boss loves her, so she's got a certain level of job security.