Annoyances at Work

[mjc0961]

*pulls out a Festivus pole* I believe it is time for the Airing of Grievances.

Quite specifically, those you've got against coworkers or work-place situations. What goes on at your job that drives you absolutely nuts?

For me it has to be the radio.

I honestly don't mind people listening to music while working, the problem is the choice of radio stations. For starters: it's probably my least favorite type of music...today's pop hits. So I get plenty of Lady Gaga and Katy Perry and all those other talentless hacks, but that's not the problem either. I drown it out while I'm working and it just becomes white noise anyways.

The problem is the radio station's playlist is quite literally 7 to 10 songs long. All day, every day, the same 7 to 10 songs playing over and over...for 8 hours straight. Each of these things by themselves is tolerable...but when combined the create a perfect storm of ear bleeding annoyance.

8 non-stop hours...
Of music you absolutely hate...
Playing the same 7 to 10 songs over and over...

Basically my only complaint right now too. Except the radio station we have on is constantly rambling on about their "variety". It's such a lie. What kind of variety is hearing the same songs every day? I'm sick of hearing about that guy having the moves like Jagger. I'm sick of hearing that girl saying to lay her down in a bed of roses if she dies young. And I'm goddamn sick of that woman wondering where all the cowboys have gone. No, I'm not kidding with that last one either, I've heard that shit more on the radio recently than when it was first released and popular. And then the asshat DJ had the balls to come on after it was finished on the third day in a row they'd played it and say "Oh man, I haven't heard that one in years." Did you not come to work the last two days, ************?! Because you bastards played it then too. And then they bragged about their variety again.

Fuck radio. Seriously, fuck radio.

 

[The_Waspman]

Well, I live in the UK, and was recently made redundant (so no prizes for guessing which company I worked for) and I was mostly fine with it. Yeah, it was fairly unengaging, but at least it wasn't taxing. Got along with 95% of the customers, didn't have anyone rage at me too much, and I didn't mind my co-workers...

Except...

This one guy. Ugh, this one guy. Don't get me wrong, we got along ok, but he was one of those people who found it incapable of shutting the fuck up. He would just go on and on and on and on (see how annoying that gets) about absolutely nothing, like if he shut up for thirty seconds he would pop out of existence. Some days it was fine (if other cowrokers were in for example) but there were those days when I just wanted to repeatedly stab... Anything...

I dunno, but when someone can be telling you a story and you can actually say 'Yeah, I know, you told me four times already. Plus, I was there.' then there's a problem.

/rant

 

[RJ 17]

Of course there was more build-up. I had been getting tired of working there for a long while. Asshole managers, mind-numbing work, no breaks allowed and, on that particular day, I had been having a bad day as it was.

I won't go into a situation-by-situation story, but suffice to say yes, the incident I spoke of was essentially the culmination of 3 weeks of simmering discontent.

Woah woah woah, no breaks allowed? That isn't illegal last time I checked. How did that go on?

No breaks for me, at least, I was only part-time. My longest shifts were only 6 hours.

 

[JochemHippie]

Apart from an average workday being 15 hours I don't think there's anything that really annoys me. Maybe people being lazy, but that's what I'm team leader for, so that doesn't happen much

 

[Camembert]

I work with homeless people, many of who have mild mental health issues, and a lot of abuse and aggressive and intimidating behaviour is probably the worst thing I regularly have to put up with. Still, unlike most people I know, I love my job.

 

[RustlessPotato]

Not really Job related, because i don't have a real job yet.

But at my university there's a bit of lab work to do where I have to work with DNA and stuff like that with other people. Thing is you usually have to use "restriction enzymes" (don't know the english term) to cut DNA into the pieces you want to analyse.

Anyways, you have to know your stuff, the problem is, my lab partner doesn't know a thing. She really doesn't. It is annoying because part of the Lab work counts for part of the Exams.

So she just stares or complains how things are boring :/. Why she decided to study Biomedical Sciences I have no idea.

Also, Captcha is om nom nom xD

 

[Elvis Starburst]

Of course there was more build-up. I had been getting tired of working there for a long while. Asshole managers, mind-numbing work, no breaks allowed and, on that particular day, I had been having a bad day as it was.

I won't go into a situation-by-situation story, but suffice to say yes, the incident I spoke of was essentially the culmination of 3 weeks of simmering discontent.

Woah woah woah, no breaks allowed? That isn't illegal last time I checked. How did that go on?

No breaks for me, at least, I was only part-time. My longest shifts were only 6 hours.

Part time or not, you're still legally supposed to get a break, unless your shift is lower than 4 hours (At least, that's how it is in Canada)

 

[ace_of_something]

*pulls out a Festivus pole* I believe it is time for the Airing of Grievances.

I just want to congratulate you on the reference.

As a detective my biggest annoyance is when either a victim or jury expects us to do something they've seen on CSI. Particularly using DNA to get leads. DNA does NOT get you a lead it helps confirm what you already know. (Or completely disprove it)

Another more mundane complaint is sharing the detective cars. Many detectives smoke like a chimney while they won't smoke in the car their clothes/hair/essence are saturated with the smell so if they've used one of our shared cars in the last few days it's like driving around in a goddamn cigar bar.

 

[Sealpower]

Does the brown-ish water dripping from the ceiling onto my hair and keyboard, count as a work place annoyance?

If so... ^THAT^

 

[RJ 17]

Of course there was more build-up. I had been getting tired of working there for a long while. Asshole managers, mind-numbing work, no breaks allowed and, on that particular day, I had been having a bad day as it was.

I won't go into a situation-by-situation story, but suffice to say yes, the incident I spoke of was essentially the culmination of 3 weeks of simmering discontent.

Woah woah woah, no breaks allowed? That isn't illegal last time I checked. How did that go on?

No breaks for me, at least, I was only part-time. My longest shifts were only 6 hours.

Part time or not, you're still legally supposed to get a break, unless your shift is lower than 4 hours (At least, that's how it is in Canada)

At least for us it's 8 hour minimum before giving out breaks becomes mandatory. However as I said my longest shifts were only 6 hours, most of them were indeed 4 to 5 hours long. It was just a part-time summer job between years in high school.

*pulls out a Festivus pole* I believe it is time for the Airing of Grievances.

I just want to congratulate you on the reference.

As a detective my biggest annoyance is when either a victim or jury expects us to do something they've seen on CSI. Particularly using DNA to get leads. DNA does NOT get you a lead it helps confirm what you already know. (Or completely disprove it)

Another more mundane complaint is sharing the detective cars. Many detectives smoke like a chimney while they won't smoke in the car their clothes/hair/essence are saturated with the smell so if they've used one of our shared cars in the last few days it's like driving around in a goddamn cigar bar.

I was wondering when someone would comment on the reference I made there, heh thanks.

But yeah, I can see how that would be very annoying. I had heard things about that, juries getting "CSI-Syndrome" and believing that if you don't have DNA evidence and a lab report saying specifically "This guy did it." then the jury believes you have no case whatsoever.

Does the brown-ish water dripping from the ceiling onto my hair and keyboard, count as a work place annoyance?

If so... ^THAT^

Yes, I'd certainly say that counts.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I work nights so I avoid the annoyances that come with customer interaction for the most part. What I do have to put up with though are messy co-workers who I have to clean up after. Speaking of cleaning, it seems like the maintenance crew get in my way but they aren't alone; EVERYONE seems to just leave carts, cages and, palettes at the end of aisles and, in the middle of the floor; right in the way of anybody trying to get by. Little annoyances yes but, annoyances none-the-less. Also (please don't hate me for this one) my team leads and, team captains heap praise onto me. I transferred in from another store where my team lead was a total non-entity and, my team captain would give me honest criticisms. I like being praised but I feel like I may be screwing up without really realizing it. It's almost enough to drive me insane.

 

[EeveeElectro]

I'm okay with the people I work with. I've run into a couple of managers who are pretty lazy and leave me to do everything from 4 onwards then have a go at me when I haven't done everything even though they're supposed to help with cleaning and serving. My wage has been cocked up more times than I can count too.

The thing that annoys me the most is rude customers. I live in a city with a lot of foreigners who don't have a good grasp of English and I've found them to be incredibly rude. It's all, "Give me, now. That. Get me now! this!"
Not a single please or thank you.

 

[porpoise hork]

I manage a national brand item kiosk in a shopping mall.

From the craptastic Keisha esq. music barfing out of Express at 80 db, the smooth Kenny G jazz that permeates my skull from the mall itself, then the tea place that just opened up asking EVERYONE who walks within 60ft of their store if they want to try some nice hot delicious tea, and not to mention their 250 pound FUGLY white whale doing the booty dance to salsa music in their doorway, Oh I can't forget the perfume place that sprays their od de ass crack perfume in the doorway every 10 min despite the mall management telling them to stop for the thousandth time, to the 35-40 daily fucktards who will all but demand from me where the fucking Apple store is. Do I look like a mall directory? I don't know, nor do I fucking care where the Apple store or hot topic for that matter is! This is a three story 4 million sq ft shopping center spanning 3 city blocks with over 400 stores a hotel and convention center in it. Go find a fucking map you lazy shit!

It's all I can do to keep from snapping and ripping into the plethora of people that lack the brains their god gave a retarded rock that feel compelled to come accost me with their stupidity on a daily basis.

That what I get to put up with at work.