Everything: from 8am to 5pm I’m a steaming ball of anger that struggles to act polite while planning small acts of office terrorism.
I've got a lot of small pet peeveslike: - A general lack of awareness in workplace safety practices - People listening and sending audio messages when they could type instead - People doing personal conference calls without a headset - When they say “can you please grab that thing on my desk?” and their desk is a post-earthquake library scenario
and many others…
but the thing that bugs me the most is the general absence of people that “just do their job”.
There are a lot of people that do fuck-all and a lot of people that work their lives off and both of those groups expect you to walk at their pace. I’d like to meet more people in the middle.
Pizza parties, “lunch and learns”, lunch at a restaurant with the boss…
All of that condescending shit that is intended and expected to deprive people of time away from the office, building, worksite, whatever if they need it.
I value my personal time and it’s not easily replaced by free food.
Some of the other comments in the thread are great too…
Overabundance of redundant or unnecessary meetings in general is another one for me.
I feel this one. We have a partner who says “you know” before and after almost everything he says. It’s so distracting that I can barely hear what he is trying to say. I now do my best to avoid interacting with him or his team in any way.
literally everything. I hate the work, I hate the pay, and I absolutely hate the people. I’m quiting in December to travel the world for a while, which will be great, as long as they don’t kill me first