jeremy goodrich
msg:306687 | 9:47 pm on Sep 11, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Walking out of the kitchen with a full cup of coffee / and leaving 2 empty containers on the counter for the next person to fill up. Grr...still irritates, twice this week that's happened.
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SuzyUK
msg:306688 | 9:49 pm on Sep 11, 2003 (gmt 0) |
"Give me my pen back!"
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Vampyre
msg:306689 | 9:58 pm on Sep 11, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Breaking my computer. Yes Miles, you know who I'm talking about.
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RoadRash
msg:306690 | 10:04 pm on Sep 11, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Passing gas in my cubicle when asking me a question... "Cleaning" my desk without my permission... Talking to others when at the urinal...
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trillianjedi
msg:306691 | 10:05 pm on Sep 11, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Jamming the photocopier and *then walking away*. You know who you are. TJ
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buckworks
msg:306692 | 10:05 pm on Sep 11, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Not washing hands after using said urinal.
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Ally_Cat
msg:306693 | 10:07 pm on Sep 11, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Ignoring the phone - leaving me to either interrupt my work to answer it, or suffer through the incessant ringing until the offender deems the call worthy of being answered.
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hooloovoo22
msg:306694 | 10:08 pm on Sep 11, 2003 (gmt 0) |
touching the monitor to point at something and leaving a big nasty greasy fingerprint [edited by: hooloovoo22 at 10:11 pm (utc) on Sep. 11, 2003]
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edit_g
msg:306695 | 10:09 pm on Sep 11, 2003 (gmt 0) |
| "Cleaning" my desk without my permission... |
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That has got to be the worst one. I had a running battle with our office cleaner. I won in the end. I had four piles on my desk for around two weeks because I was too damned busy to file them any other way (completed contracts, signed and pending, waiting to sign and proposals) and the cleaner moved them into one big pile. I sorted them into piles again, and the cleaner moved them. This went on for three days. After 3 days I left a little note saying "These papers are in different piles for a reason. Please don't move them.". On my desk the next morning (and I kid you not) was a ring binder...
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ogletree
msg:306696 | 10:10 pm on Sep 11, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Putting bugers underneith chair or desk.
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trillianjedi
msg:306697 | 10:11 pm on Sep 11, 2003 (gmt 0) |
| On my desk the next morning (and I kid you not) was a ring binder... |
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Please sticky me the details of your office cleaner. I like their attitude. ;) TJ
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trillianjedi
msg:306698 | 10:12 pm on Sep 11, 2003 (gmt 0) |
| Putting bugers underneith chair or desk. |
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I was going to ask if you meant "burgers", but thinking about it, either way, I don't think I really want to know..... TJ
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edit_g
msg:306699 | 10:13 pm on Sep 11, 2003 (gmt 0) |
| Putting bugers underneith chair or desk |
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I was wondering about this one as well. I don't want to "hot desk" in your office... ;)
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ScottM
msg:306700 | 10:14 pm on Sep 11, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Page yourself over the paging system. Always good for a laugh.
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dmorison
msg:306701 | 10:17 pm on Sep 11, 2003 (gmt 0) |
You might hate it when you're there; but "the office environment" - the pranks and the banter, the daily interaction with other humans (assuming you're 30 odd and still single like me ;) is one thing that you really miss when leaving office politics behind to start-up on your own... [edited by: dmorison at 10:23 pm (utc) on Sep. 11, 2003]
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mivox
msg:306702 | 10:18 pm on Sep 11, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Ignoring my emails for weeks on end, and then trying to discuss a need for "improved communication" at a meeting a month later.
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DrCool
msg:306703 | 10:22 pm on Sep 11, 2003 (gmt 0) |
| touching the monitor to point at something and leaving a big nasty greasy fingerprint |
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This seems to happen to me a lot after lunch when a co-worker has just eaten a big greasy double cheesburger or a bag of potato chips or something like that. When it happens I always pull out a napkin and wipe the screen down while they are standing there but they never seem to catch on.
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ScottM
msg:306704 | 10:27 pm on Sep 11, 2003 (gmt 0) |
| but they never seem to catch on |
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Buy a box of latex gloves and hand them out asking, "...if they see anything else that interests them on the screen."
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Ally_Cat
msg:306705 | 10:31 pm on Sep 11, 2003 (gmt 0) |
I sometimes leave my computer on overnight - letting it work away on different tasks while I'm out of the office. Because the screen would go into sleep mode, the cleaners would come in and try to clean the keyboard, and in the morning my desktop would be a mess of different windows and tasks running. I started leaving them notes taped to my keyboard asking them to not disturb the keyboard - which worked for a while until I got a snarky note that "your precious keyboard will be just fine without the notes every night". Of course, every time they get someone new on staff, things get messed up again, and I have to call and ask them to PLEASE tell everyone on staff that my computer is NOT TO BE TOUCHED! Argh.
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Craig_F
msg:306706 | 10:47 pm on Sep 11, 2003 (gmt 0) |
stories about 'cute' children
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jbinbpt
msg:306707 | 10:49 pm on Sep 11, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Making a pot of that sissy coffee in the office machine
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miles
msg:306708 | 10:51 pm on Sep 11, 2003 (gmt 0) |
I think I got a bad rap for breaking computers......I mean its not like the lunch hour is used for anything else. BTW I have like 15 servers, the internet, 7 PCs and a other objects that I have no clue how to opperate. I guess if thar aint no instruction manual you should at least work on the destruction manual. In our office the bathroom door being left open is punishable by evil glares and almost certian flogging. My personal Peeves is someone fudging around with my keyboard or messing with the crap on my desk.
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EliteWeb
msg:306709 | 10:52 pm on Sep 11, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Opening E-Mail attachments.
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Goober
msg:306710 | 10:56 pm on Sep 11, 2003 (gmt 0) |
When someone leaves "wet" on the toilet seat. Or worse, absolutely fumigates the tiny room and DOESN'T turn on the fan.....ack!
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ogletree
msg:306711 | 11:05 pm on Sep 11, 2003 (gmt 0) |
People come to their desk after somebody else logged in that call and say my password does not work any more.
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4eyes
msg:306712 | 11:39 pm on Sep 11, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Talking to me. (Ok - maybe I have some issues of my own to resolve here - but you asked, alright! Now leave me alone!)
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PatrickDeese
msg:306713 | 12:13 am on Sep 12, 2003 (gmt 0) |
> my computer is NOT TO BE TOUCHED uh... password protection on the screen saver might help.
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mivox
msg:306714 | 12:15 am on Sep 12, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Is it safe to have the dogs relay messages to you?
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Hawkgirl
msg:306715 | 12:34 am on Sep 12, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Delegating responsibilities but not the authority to carry out the job. Seagull management. Micromanagement. Giving and revoking ownership of tasks at a whim. Practical jokes when people have deadlines to meet. Being late to a meeting because you're too disorganized to keep to a schedule. Starting meetings late because you're too disorganized to keep to a schedule. Having meetings run late because you're too disorganized to finish a meeting on time. Having meetings run late because you're goofing off too much. Getting too personal ("how's that gallbladder scar healing?"). It goes on and on.
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