Annoying work colleagues habits

Thought only office jockeys were affected by this kind of thing not farmers

Enough of these worker threads, I can't find a job so can't take part in these discussions, welcome to the real world.

A co worker sprays deodorant twice a day sitting at her desk. It’s an open plan office so can be over powering.

I had an ex-colleague (3 of us sat in the same office) who was uncomfortable with silences. Lovely guy, good at his job, but just coulnd't handle more than 30 seconds of silence.

So he would talk all the time, often just absolute rubbish but in his head it would fill the silence. Whilst I'm not an introverted or overly quiet person, I do need quiet periods to concentrate especially when working on something complex, so I found this really annoying. Took to wearing headphones a lot but kept having to pull them off so I could answer or reply to something he was discussing. He's left now and the long silent periods are bliss.

A person I work with mumbles all the time. Not to themselves but while you are talking to her. You ask a question and she starts explaining but when it gets to any precise detail she mumbles so you don't get the answer. Ask her to repeat and she starts off again then mumbles the detail. Ask again and she does the same thing. Eventually you have to tell her which bits you need to be said. Half the time she doesn't have the answer and we have to explain that not knowing is a valid answer.

She also mumbles emails to herself when reading them.Lack of confidence is part of it but she is a manager

Co-worker points out the most obvious of things.

Me coming up with the post in the afternoon: "Oh the post arrived"

Hanging a poster on the wall: "Oh your hanging up a poster"

Doing my cleaning rota: "Cleaning your section, I see"

Printing out a document: "Printing out a document?"

Christ.

The loud phone talker (LPT).

Every open plan office I've worked in seems to have one.

I'm not sure if the current LPT is deaf or just doesn't trust the technology. Today's conversation with a colleague in the Cork office hardly necessitated use of a phone as I'm sure he could have been heard down there.

Road-Hog wrote: »

Cnuts who continually use acronyms and ‘business speak’ phrases such as singing off same ‘him’ sheet, break it down to granular level, let’s look under the bonnet, bio-break time, tic tac with someone, that’s a take away / something g to talk about off line (question you can’t answer), boiling the frog,..etc etc.

Boiling the frog??? Dare I ask?

In some places you have to "one up guy" (normally a guy), you've done something good they've done better, you've climbed a mountian they've climbed a bigger one twice - that sort of thing.
In my place we have a woman who's husband is the one up guy. Someone went to a football game, her husband went to a world cup game, someone ate some food, her husband ate 200 chicken nuggets (he's a 6ft, played rugby of course he can eat 200 chicken nuggets!). I dont know if any of it is true but it is really annoying.

Icaras wrote: »

In some places you have to "one up guy" (normally a guy), you've done something good they've done better, you've climbed a mountian they've climbed a bigger one twice - that sort of thing.
In my place we have a woman who's husband is the one up guy. Someone went to a football game, her husband went to a world cup game, someone ate some food, her husband ate 200 chicken nuggets (he's a 6ft, played rugby of course he can eat 200 chicken nuggets!). I dont know if any of it is true but it is really annoying.

AKA "The Topper", cos they have to 'top' whatever anyone else does.

One who thinks making as much noise as possible equates to doing work. Putting something on a desk? Nah,hold it 4 inches above it and drop it. Need to put something on the floor,why leave it down gently when you can do the same as the desk technique. Closing a door,why do it like everyone else when you can slam it.
The confrontational personality doesn't help when someone says something to them.
They'd be better suited to breaking rocks where they could make as much noise as they like.

I used to sit beside an Indian Lad who used to wear earphones and play Punjabi MC all day, it was so load the sound overspill was fierce annoying, lovely chap otherwise but there's only so much Indian dance music you can listen to all day every day

I work opposite a lovely woman, mid 50s, she works 3 days a week, we work in the engineering sector, lots of documents. Bless her, she is absolutely useless at technology and even the most basic Windows functions eludes her. She sits down and narrates everything she does, she has a list of instructions on a Post IT taped to her computer. So she sits down and it starts "Ok, so ctr alt and delete for logging on, ok so open a Word Doc...ok so File Open, now what do I do now...", totally oblivious to the fact she is SPEAKING ALOUD.

When it first happened I thought she was taking the mick, but now I put in headphones and problem solved. Weird the people you meet in offices...

Whatsisname wrote: »

My boss sits next to me and has the most infuriating habits. He constantly drums along to songs hitting the desk as loudly as possible, usually completely out of time with the song. This is then accompanied by him humming along in the highest voice he can possibly do. He also doesn't ever wear his shoes so I can receive the gift of the smell his feet for 8 hours a day. We often have meetings in our office, so one day we had a client due in, she comes in the door and he stands up, puts on his suit jacket and goes over to introduce himself. In his socks.

Do you work in Wernham Hogg?

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

I work opposite a lovely woman, mid 50s, she works 3 days a week, we work in the engineering sector, lots of documents. Bless her, she is absolutely useless at technology and even the most basic Windows functions eludes her. She sits down and narrates everything she does, she has a list of instructions on a Post IT taped to her computer. So she sits down and it starts "Ok, so ctr alt and delete for logging on, ok so open a Word Doc...ok so File Open, now what do I do now...", totally oblivious to the fact she is SPEAKING ALOUD.

When it first happened I thought she was taking the mick, but now I put in headphones and problem solved. Weird the people you meet in offices...

Just a typical woman with technology. Give her a break!

castletownman wrote: »

Co-worker points out the most obvious of things.

Me coming up with the post in the afternoon: "Oh the post arrived"

Hanging a poster on the wall: "Oh your hanging up a poster"

Doing my cleaning rota: "Cleaning your section, I see"

Printing out a document: "Printing out a document?"

Christ.

I literally cannot help it. I do this. I can't stop it.

We’ve a HR girl who runs everywhere in the office - in heels. She can’t just walk to the canteen or reception or the toilet. She runs as fast as she can in her little high heel shoes. Not annoying, just strange.

We also have total freak show you could write a book on. He is quite possibly the worst person in the world. I can’t say too much, because he’d be easily identified. I stay away from him mostly, but sometimes you run into him in the toilets. He’s like a fücking tornado, you can hear him from out in the office floor. He goes into the cubicle, BAM! Slams the door. Bashes the lock closed. Kicks up the toilet lid. Farts and squirts like his guts have been liquified from Ebola. Runs of a mile of loo roll. Punches the toilet into flushing. Kicks the door back open then never washes his hands.

Years ago he broke his wrist, and had a cast on it. I was in the canteen one day making tea. He barges in front of me and puts his giant sausage fingers into the teabag box. They were literally black, like he’s been mining coal with his bare hands. I said to him “What the fück? Your hands are filthy! You can’t be touching stuff in the kitchen!”. He tells me that the doctor told him not to get his cast wet, so he hadn’t showered or washed in 3 weeks. His elbows had literally turned green.

He’s been up with HR loads of times about his smell, his ear-splitting sneezing and his bizarrely inappropriate comments. One time a previous HR girl was pregnant. Instead of asking her when she was due, he asked her when her last period was - I assume he was going to do the calculation himself. For some reason he’s been kept in in the company for over a decade, and it’s not like his job requires any special skill at all. I think they feel sorry for him, because he’s never be employed anywhere else.