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Overbearing, obsessively rude, noisy, and opinionated – there are so many things that can be found annoying in that one person in Office. So, what actually are some of the ‘universally’ bad behaviors for office work? Here’s a look at the top 10 annoying office habits…
1. Office drummers - There are lesser annoying office habits than the person who has to tap out a rhythm while waiting for their brain to submerge into the work they’re assigned.
2. Foghorn phone voice – The breed of office worker who raises their tone several decibels as soon as they pick up the phone.
3. Pod pong - Well, these are those people who marinate themselves in perfumes overnight.
4. Key smashers – All offices have at least one person who appears to think that to make the little symbols on their keyboard appear on the screen, they need to exert the force of an atomic bomb through the ends of their digits.
5. Paid for nothing – In this case, an employee gets paid for standing out in the sunshine chatting to wheezy and addicted mates while the fresh-lunged members of the workforce are indoors putting their mind to work.
6. Snot funny - What is it with people, who riddled with pleurisy, the bubonic plague or cancer of the entire body, still think it’s a good idea to come in to work? The world really won’t stop if that report doesn’t get finished and the boss more likely regards you as a mug than a martyr. Your work mates, of course, will shower you with love for ruining their plans for the weekend and keeping their kids out of school.
7. Lucifer’s lunch – Egg and mayonnaise sandwiches, tuna fishcakes, blue cheese with crackers, breakfast burritos with extra onion and chips with salt and vinegar – all food items which should be banned from the workplace, thanks to their smell.
8. Ringtone hell - This section includes all those people who play bits of their favourite heavy metal music collection from a speaker on their desk, via their mobile phone.
9. Space invaders – You distinctly remember hearing the boss bring your new work mate over to his or her work area and say, “This is your desk”. The boss did not follow that up with the words, “but feel free to use your colleague’s desk for overspill if there’s not enough room for your inane gossip magazines and pictures of your 17 children”.
10. Eau de underarm – There are fewer things more noxious than a damp-shirted male who, after working up a sweat running for the bus, is left to “mature” over a keyboard for eight hours.
We’re allowed a 15 minute break morning and afternoon, therefor ANYONE can be out in the Sun for a short time during the day, not just smokers. Also I counted several anti smokers taking longer than their 15 minutes to go get coffee, muffins, etc from a block away with a long line but no one complains about their missing from the office.
P.S. Add in there: Arguing with your Significant Other on the phone. We don’t need to hear your personal ramblings.
That is so funny and TRUE…. There are several people in the office (including myself) with asthma, so whenever someone marinates in perfume and then sits anywhere close to me, they always get told to go wash it off and if they don’t, a supervisor will tell them they need to. A cure for space invaders? Just hang up a photo of your very large pet snake. I have a snake, so a few days after I hung a photo of it up, my boss was like ‘when did you do that?” I said “Oh, a few days ago and Jekyll and Hyde (my nickname for one of the seemingly bipolar\paranoid coworkers) hasn’t sat anywhere near me since!”
My boss started laughing. LOL She was like “Glad it worked.” I said “Yeah, I didn’t have to say a word, just slapped the picture up and then Connie said she refused to sit anywhere near that section!”
To go along with # 10 – Bad breath – It’s hard to tell someone that their mouth smells like an unflushed toilet. So we just endure!
Don’t use my whole name – just Lorna, please! (see previous comment)
Fresh-lunged and don’t forget smug and sanctimonious.
Unfortunately, I’m the snot nosed worker who suffers allergies just by walking through the parking lot. I’m working on that, so forgive me!
I know a coworker who gets really irate if anyone leaves their cell phone ringer on (i.e., anything but silent). However, this is the same person who is the key smasher!
I think the loud phone voice is the worst! We get that a lot in Miami. Usually the phone call isn’t even important and the conversation goes on forever!
Another thing that should be on the list is a loud ring tone or vibrating phone. I worked next to someone that would leave their phone on their desk and not take it with them. Their reason it was loud was so they could hear it while they were across the office and run to it from across the room! Their girlfriend called continously!
As far as the space invader goes, I had a coworker who let me know their pictures were there to stay. I surrounded her pictures with pictures of my wonderfully diverse family and she moved them.