Comments on: Work Jerks: The 18 Most Annoying Things People Do at the Office

By: LM

LM — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:51:00 +0000

I’d like to see you sign up for the military, see how that is, then come back to your comfortable office job…

By: Duh

Duh — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 23:55:52 +0000

When someone thinks they are helping you by “doing your work”…. Then complains about how much work they have to do…

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:07:51 +0000

You and I ought to get together and go bowling, because I think we work with the same person. Whenever she asks me to follow up on something and the answer is not what she wants to to hear, right in front of me she’ll ask someone else to follow up on the same issue. The great part about it is that someone else’s answer is always the same as mine! I hate her.

By: sly

sly — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:15:29 +0000

Here’s one that was left off that is very annoying. Colleagues that hum while working. That can get to you especially when they hum the same thing over and over each day.

By: Katrina

Katrina — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 06:30:18 +0000

Hey IT dude, its a few years down the track now hope everthing is better at your work. Sounds like this staff member was really REALLY a problem for you, hope it got sorted out and acted on.

By: Liz Miller

Liz Miller — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:27:48 +0000

worked for a grocery store, night stocker, and had someone eating our dinners, snacks, ice cream even if you had eaten part of it they would eat most of what was left, fixed it by adding a couple of drops of liquid exlax… no problems after that……

By: trish

trish — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:00:50 +0000

Overuse of “cc” in emails.

My inbox is flooded all day long by being cc’ed on every little thing, even projects I have no attachment to just to keep us “in the loop”

Really, friggin annoying

By: trish

trish — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:58:45 +0000

Tapping. Loud tapping.
Your working and a coworker taps their foot and it hits against the chair making an annoying sound. The more excited/stressed they are about something the faster the tap.
Throwing up crumpled scrap paper at them helps but it would be nice to go a whole day without hearing the constant tapping.

By: Phokn Lndn

Phokn Lndn — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:17:47 +0000

I’ve been working in this reasonably small office for 3 months now, and the receptionist is slowly grinding away at my nerves. She is the most unbearable personality ever. She makes a problem out of every single thing, and she has to always be making some sort of noise. She grumbles and complains under her breath about her tasks, about the computer, about customers… ABOUT EVERYTHING. And when she is not grumbling, she still talks out loud… or hums… or sings…
she is constantly making noise… she likes the sound of her STUPID VOICE.
I just want to throw my monitor at her stupid head.

By: IT Dude

IT Dude — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:41:54 +0000

I have 1 coworker that I can make an entire list of my own for. I will try to tie them in with your order as much as possible.

1. Do not sing, whistle, or drum with your finger loud enough for others to be distracted due to your lack of attention.

2. Learn proper phone manners. If you call someone, they will answer by saying “Hello”. Do not reply “Yeah….” the proper response is “Good morning / afternoon” then go about your conversation

3. Do not stand and watch over anyone’s shoulder while they work, unless specifically asked to do so.

4. Do not talk with food in your mouth. Not only do you sound like a moron, you also turn your food into a projectile that can land on someone. That is just plain gross.

5. Do not make up and insist on using nick names for everyone. If people want to be called anything other than their given name, they would tell you.

6. Don’t assume everyone agrees with your preferences. Just cause you want Chinese for lunch doesn’t mean the whole group must bow to your whim. You don’t have to throw a tantrum when you don’t get your way.

7. If you don’t know how to print a file, make copies, or save a file from email, maybe you aren’t qualified for your job. Go find something you are capable of.

8. Don’t play deaf, if the guy on the opposite side of the office can hear the boss calling you, so can you. Don’t pick up the phone and pretend to be on a business call just to get out of something.

9. No I don’t want to be your friend on facebook or myspace. If it were up to me, I wouldn’t work at the same company as you. Don’t assume people like you just cause they work with you.

10. There is air freshener in the bathroom for a reason, USE IT.

11. We don’t need your cute little names for the bathroom, you needn’t announce you are “dropping the kids off” or that you “will be in the office”. A simple I’ll be right back would suffice.

12. You aren’t the only person in the office. When you need something from the IT or graphics department don’t rush them or stand and wait for your issue to be resolved. They are busy guys and will get to you in the order they received it.

13. You are the only one that laughs at your jokes. No one else thinks you are funny. Keep it to yourself.

14. The conference room is not your cafeteria, people need that space for meetings with clients who don’t need to smell the remnants of your lunch. If you don’t want to eat in the cafeteria, eat at your desk.

15. You are not the owner, the manager or anyone else of importance. Don’t pretend to be anyone’s superior just cause you are in a different department.

16. When eating, chew with your mouth closed, we don’t need to see or hear that.

17. Just cause you said something might look good to the graphics guy, doesn’t mean YOU made the flyer look good. You had a half-assed idea and had no idea how to implement it. Its the graphics guy who made it happen that made it look good.

18. There is no need to announce every aspect of your personal life. My life is not impacted in any way by you getting a sandwich, or hearing about your ulcers. You need to learn to just SHUT UP.