Asklemmy

I have a coworker who's doing all of our UI and screen designs. Every time he has finished a design he immediately wants to talk about it and randomly calls. Sometimes when he spots small errors in a live project ("this looks a bit wonky in Safari", "the headline here needs three pixels more margin"), he wants me to immediately fix them and gets pissed when I finish my current task first.

Dude, we all have work to do here, yours isn't (always) the most important one. I am very close to escalating this to my boss, because it gets increasingly difficult to ignore it and sometimes it feels like he's cosplaying as my manager.

In short: I hate getting interrupted when I'm in the middle of a task and I hate someone breathing down my neck. I'll get to it when I get to it.

Not being able to deliver bad news / admit when something has gone wrong

lol this thread is so funny to me. i don't work "in" an office, but I handle the maintenance/operations of a few large office towers. the worst is office workers who think that they are superior to blue collar workers like us or the custodians and think that the temperature not being perfect or the mess they made not being cleaned up fast enough is a war crime. then on the flip side sending in ridiculous maintenance requests for simple things like a wobbly table, flipping a breaker because there's too much shit plugged in, or a sock on the street, which just makes me laugh.

When people get upset that I bought durian to the office, I was going to share the durian with every one.

I had a very nice coworker, who I got on really well with. But he has the disgusting habit of eating cereal with an open mouth. I could hear it through my noise cancelling earbuds. Great guy, but that really bothered me.

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.

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 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.

People who cough and splutter at their desks instead of staying home until they stop.

Reheating seafood. Don't think I need to elaborate.

What? The mouse came waaaay after keyboards and shortcuts, that makes no sense. They are just lazy and stupid.

"Let's go around the room" #killme

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.

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.

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.

Having to be in it.

People who talk excessively loudly and can be heard across the entire office.

• poor heating/cooling. Usually offices aren't a comfortable temperature for everybody.

• not getting compensated for the commute. It's a pay cut. Fuck you, management.

• people that just walk up to your desk and start asking questions. Send a message like "can we talk about XYZ?" and I'll get to it when I get to it. Though this maybe is a learned behavior from people who are bad at responding to messages.

I hate it when people kick off their shoes and put their gross ass feet up on the chairs and desks 😩

coworker says “I’m old fashioned” and refuses to employ the simplest keyboard shortcuts

Which do they think came first?

They should use a vertical mouse at least!

Dirty lounge chairs because people sit on one and prop their feet up on the next

Verbal abuse.

Patronising tours on your first day where they boast about the great facilities but also lecture you about how to keep the place clean, being considerate to coworkers, not being too loud, etc. I'm not a 8yo.

That not everyone has reached the blatantly obvious conclusion that offices are an anachronism, especially those eye sore tall buildings that lay half empty.