“We’ll wait a few more minutes for person X to join, then get the meeting started,” like the other ten people who made the effort to show up on time deserve to be punished with extra meeting time for being responsible. Bonus points if this causes the meeting to run a few minutes long.
I talk to the C suite and lab staff regularly, sometimes, you can’t duck out of front the muckity mucks, sometimes you can’t leave a conversation with researchers and partners. But, I’m frequently the one who say, we’re 5 minutes from close, 2 minutes from the end of our time, ok, we’re going to have to drop off. With either.
That Edge is now the only “approved” browser anyone is allowed to use, per our admin (taking input from a third party security consultant). Most people in other departments don’t care, they use whatever gets put in front of them because their needs are basic and their tolerance for bullshit is too high for their own good. The rest of us in IT (well most of us) hate it.
I had to go uninstall Chrome and even a few Firefox installations, manually, from any workstation that had them. And I’ve never felt dirtier in my job. Like everytime I punched in my credentials to authorize the uninstall, Microsoft’s stock rose by the smallest amount.
Legitimately, the more of a Microsoft 365/Azure/Endpoint/Entra/Shithole/Power BI/SharePoint clusterfuck my workstation becomes, the less enthused I am about the entire IT profession.
Amen. Managed to ‘prove’ I was competent enough to run linux on my personal laptop due to a combination of needing me as an employee and that I was able to show why their RDS solution broke after an official windows update with xfreerdp.
I keep my windows workstation up to date and switched on - but all work is done from my laptop and no one’s questioned me so far.
Strictly according to the IT policy, Windows is not required - they just thought I wouldn’t be able to access anything without it. When I proved to the auditors that I met every checkbox on the requirements list, they said it was fine too xD
There’s a high pitched sound coming from one of the air ducts. It’s driving me crazy but no one else seems to hear it.
Everyone happily careening toward totally preventable catastrophe, then doing surprised pikachu face.
Omg… I have tried to sound the whistle on a major mistake no less than 3 times in the last 7 years and they have all been ignored. I have taken to doing what I used to do with my female friends who had poor taste in men, tell them what is going to happen and let them know the only reason I am doing it is so I can say “told you so” later.
Heh. I’ve grown fond of the phrase “My resume is up to date, anyway. Go for it.”
It’s as if thinking is shut down as soon as they enter the workplace.
My co-workers.
The noise. FML. If I have to listen to another coworker take calls at the top of their voice one cubicle over…
I’m not in the office frequently, but when I am, my supervisor and I just plan on getting absolutely no work done. It is soooo loud. We have cubicles and frequent teams meetings, and all that we can hear is everyone else’s conversations.
Neither of us can concentrate with the constant noise interruption.
Don’t schedule a &$&% meeting during lunchtime without serving up lunch to us!
Don’t schedule a meeting at lunch time. Full stop.
My lunch time is me time. I’d prefer no lunch meetings ever. That’s my walking time.
I hear you, but given that my “lunchtime” could be anywhere between 11:00 and 15:00 (and that’s not even allowing for timezones), that’s pretty impractical.
People have died for lesser offences than scheduling a meeting over lunch time and not serving lunch.
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.
My work keeps putting on social events that involve a boat. Boat to this island or that island or just sail around on a boat for the afternoon. Everyone else seems to think it’s fun, but I really would rather not be stranded for hours of forced bonding with my coworkers because we have to wait for the damn boat to take us back.
Dirty pits. I work as a mechanic on busses and try to keep my pit clean. If the work I’m doing makes a lot of sand fall down, I sweep it aside so I don’t walk through it. If the bus has a leak, I put something beneath it to catch the oil/coolant/fuel until I get to fix it.
Most of the coworkers don’t care and their pit is a mess. They ask for help with something and you have to navigate through puddles and sand piles to get to them.
They also don’t put the shared equipment back on its right place so you waste a lot of time trying to find it.
Off topic, but I love that you are here!
I always loved at the old place that there were people from totally random professions sharing their knowledge. At the beginning, it was not very…diverse here in that regard. I’m glad you are here!
People clipping their nails at their desk.
Oh wow this
lol this dae amirite
Perfume and cologne. MAI GAD I hate it so much and it makes me sick, and they come to work drenched in it. One was wearing essential oils for a while, the fumes of which set off my asthma so badly I had to go see my respirologist for a stronger puffer, and I finally had to come out and tell her it made me sick.
Secondly, casual racism. I had one CW the other day tell me she didn’t care for Indians (by which she means indigenous people), and another who told me she hoped I wasn’t ‘getting Jewed’ out of something. I was quite horrified. I eat lunch alone for the most part and refuse to have social contact with them.
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 peeves
like:
- 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.Any Microsoft App. Most annoying Excel. I’m working with it almost the whole day and some simple things can break it. Heck, when doing a bit more complex stuff, it brings my work computer to its knees. Like wtf.
Rattling ceiling tiles. I have a stick at my desk devoted to banging on ceiling tiles so they stop rattling. That sound is literally one of the most annoying things I experience.
No one else seems to care.
The problem is that there’s unequal pressure above and below the tiles, if your building has mechanics or even maintenance at a stretch they could fix this for you. I used to deal with little things like this pretty regularly when I did building maintenance.
