What is you office pet peeves?
By betshopboy
@betshopboy (619)
Singapore
November 15, 2007 11:01pm CST
In a recent online poll conducted by market researcher Harris Interactive, The survey described 7 office pet peeves as follows:
1. Gossiping (60%)
2. Poor Time Management - included people making personal phones calls at work or surfing the Internet during work time. (54%)
3. Messiness in communal spaces, such as unwashed dishes in the kitchen sinks. (45%)
4. Potent smells – perfume, food or smoke. (42%)
5. Loud noises – from speaker phones, loud talking and loud phone ring tones. (41%)
6. Excessive use of electronic personal communications devices in meetings. (28%)
7. Misuse of e-mail - “reply all” on an e-mail unnecessarily, or used blind carbon copying (bcc). (22%)
Do you find these familiar in your work environment? Are you a guilty party or a victim of any of the pet peeve?
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5 responses
@ESKARENA1 (18261)
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18 Nov 07
all of the above but also i would like to add creeping slavery. By this i mean, the assumption that, in Britain at least, you will work longer than the hours you are paid for. It is expected that you as worker will happily give your time for free. Well, i have a rule, when the company i work for starts paying me for time i am not working, i will start working wheni am not being paid
blessed be
@ESKARENA1 (18261)
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18 Nov 07
it has been becoming more and more the norm over the last 20 years or so
blessed be
@betshopboy (619)
• Singapore
18 Nov 07
Work longer than the hours you are paid for, without being paid overtime?
Is such practice the industry norm in Britain?
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@newzealtralian (3930)
• Australia
18 Nov 07
Well, I don't work (unless you count me being a full time mum), but I would have to say I'm guilty of poor time management. Always have been, but it is something I have been trying to work on.
@betshopboy (619)
• Singapore
18 Nov 07
Keep working on it. a precious lesson I learn from a former boss is to Prioritize our tasks for effective time usage.
@newzealtralian (3930)
• Australia
18 Nov 07
I am working on it! lol. I don't have to leave the house to work, but there still never seems to be enough hours in the day to get everything done! lol. My partner is just as bad as I am, and I'm sick of fighting over who's doing what when, so I just follow his lead. Obviously, when our oldest starts school, things will be forced to change! lol. And my plan will be adhered to strictly! lol.
@cdv102 (132)
• United States
16 Nov 07
OK, I admit to number 2 as far as Internet use. (I'm doing it right now!) But some of these others drive me up the wall at my job. I used to sit across the hall from someone who ALWAYS took her calls (business and personal) on speaker phone. And my office neighbor now is constantly cursing and throwing things. I also used to sit next to someone who clipped his nails at his desk almost every day and had the loudest cell phone ring you can imagine. Drove me crazy.
@betshopboy (619)
• Singapore
16 Nov 07
Cell phone rings drive me crazy, especially inconsiderate colleagues who don't have the courtesy to switch their cell phones to silent mode.
@nicolemarie (6)
• United States
17 Nov 07
These all sound familiar to me, however, mine happens to be different. I have a co-worker who sits right next to me and every time I open something to snack on, she waits until I set it down and she grabs it. The worst part is, she licks her fingers while eating and sticks them back into the bag that I'm then supposed to eat out of. I HATE THAT! I end up telling her she can just have it.
