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Someone told me he saw the Senior VP doing it.
Leaving 1/3 cup of coffee in the pot, just so you were not the last to use it up.
Not leaving paper towels on the roll.
Getting within a few inches of me.
Talking about sports (except for worlds strongest man or Chicago Bears football)
Coming to my desk, in your F'n socks and putting them on my desk.
Talking about the things you would like to with/to females in our office/building.
Sitting on my desk.
Taking my last good black pen and leaving the cap!
Pretty much anything else, working in a cube sucks.
Oh, and people who come up behind you, and put one hand on the desk, and one hand on the back of your chair.. arrrgrgrgrgrgrggg
Back to therapy for me :)
Talking to me.
Is it safe to have the dogs relay messages to you?
Only if they are by e-mail;)
.....AND GETTING THE D****D WORDS WRONG
I'm surprised that nobody has said this: annoying mobile phone rings and people who leave their mobiles at their desks when they go to meetings to ring, and ring, and ring, and ring...
and even worse (IMO) people who decide that they want to change their ring .... and go through every single one - twice! before they get to the one they finally decide on.... this process usually lasts the entire train journey/bus journey/afternoon at the beach etc etc.
Office Offenses Punishable by Death...
;)
How people lose focus of the higher objectives in this life (has nothing to do with office culture or careers).
Leaving an opened orange juice carton in your portable fridge in your office while you go on vacation so it explodes with bacteria and turns the carpet and room into a rotting mess.
"Funny" forwards.
Telling me not to run Opera because it's not "approved software" while the network is plagued by bugs and worms and a manager just killed her computer with trusty government software!
Subscribing to spammy "daily joke lists" with your company email account, then leaving the company. Thanks, Diane.
Opening the same virus attachment repeatedly.
Leaving unidentified packages in the freezer.
Folgers instant coffee.
Wasting time chatting when there's ****ing web surfing to be done!
Getting within a few inches of me.
People needing something "RIGHT AWAY" after their own procrastination.
Getting called on the phone by someone I can hear talking 20 feet away from me.
Hmmm.....I think most of the others were covered.
People walking through while I'm working, as if it were a hallway instead of an office is bad enough, but the worst is when they have shouted conversations, across the room, over my head.
grr.
Oh, and I agree with fingers on my screen - pen can be pretty bad, too.
People walking through while I'm working, as if it were a hallway instead of an office is bad enough, but the worst is when they have shouted conversations, across the room, over my head.
2 words: Trip Wire.
