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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.

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[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

For me, it's situational. I'll ask if I can borrow them for a minute, and it's usually a small question, not a request to do a task. I'm fortunate that I work on a really good team and we are all decently close and respectful to one another, and everyone likes helping each other out when they can. I would say our culture is a bit of an anomaly.

I've asked people in other departments for small things and been told to create a ticket. That's fine, I'm not going to be upset about it, but if that person is just sitting and sitting the shit, it is irritating to force extra steps when it's not necessary.