Pet-peeves in the workplace

BrYaN19kc · Post by **BrYaN19kc** » 2003-05-27 06:23pm

People who consistently screw up their workstations. If they don't know how to use a computer - they should leave them alone!

Next of Kin · Post by **Next of Kin** » 2003-05-27 06:30pm

My pet peeve is someone who is a messy eater in the staffroom. When I used to work for Staples, there was this one cashier that disgusted the lot of us by always eating a jelly filled doughnut by biting into it and then slurping the jelly filing out! Blech!! I had enough! One day, I took a straw and went back to the lunchroom and found the box of doughnuts and sucked out the filing for each donut. (The doughnuts were usually free) To my delight at lunch, the cashier took a bite into the doughnut only to find air! She bit into 4 doughnuts before she left in a huff! Who'd have thought that revenge was so sweet!

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2003-05-27 08:43pm

During silly season at the bicycle shop, I can't sit down and eat lunch uninterupted. Our shop does not have lunch breaks, so if a customer comes in while I'm having lunch I gotta go help him. During silly season, which is right now it's not unusual for my lunch to get interrupted 5 times or more to deal with customers and fix their bikes or do sales up front.

On the bright side the fact that we don't have lunch breaks means we get paid for eating lunch and even the time it takes to drive out to the take-out place to pickup lunch.

Post by **Zaia** » 2003-05-27 08:45pm

Next of Kin wrote:My pet peeve is someone who is a messy eater in the staffroom. When I used to work for Staples, there was this one cashier that disgusted the lot of us by always eating a jelly filled doughnut by biting into it and then slurping the jelly filing out! Blech!! I had enough! One day, I took a straw and went back to the lunchroom and found the box of doughnuts and sucked out the filing for each donut. (The doughnuts were usually free) To my delight at lunch, the cashier took a bite into the doughnut only to find air! She bit into 4 doughnuts before she left in a huff! Who'd have thought that revenge was so sweet!

....Ewwww.

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-05-27 08:49pm

Stupid fucking people who wonder why hotmail is a shitty slow and completely unreliable service then come and bitch to me when it doesn't work.

Also the people who come up to pay and complain that its expensive. Well shit, you looked at the prices before you hopped on the computer, then while you were on it you had a timer and "total cost" display on your fucking screen, so don't bitch to me about it.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-05-27 08:50pm

Like my location says...clients(for many reasons...and some of them including paying on time to just start of...I save your ass from the IRS and you think it's okay to go "Ooops forgot to pay you?!!!")

Ravencrow · Post by **Ravencrow** » 2003-05-27 09:18pm

My office email. It's slow, it looks like hotmail, and it's inaccessible most times of the day.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-05-28 12:13am

The phone, the phones oh how I hate the PHONES!!

I work in a hosptial pharmacy overnight. On normal nights there are only 3 of us in there at a time maximum. However, the system is set up for the day shift which is much more heavilly staffed. So we are stuck having more phones than we have people at night. Plus some of those phones have multiple lines so even though you are on that phone talking to someone it can still be ringing.

Oh yeah, most of the time the calls are for crap or because someone is just being lazy. It's just easier to call the pharmacy.

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2003-05-28 01:38am

I work at a helpdesk, and needless to say there are a higher proprotion of nerds with no social skills. 'Nuff said in that regard...

Managers who play favoritism and who basically are clueless about what they need to do. And who are lazy. And then *don't* want to be told/informed/suggested to them what is really going on...