PEEVES in WORK ››
When you ask someone a yes or no question and they respond simply by saying "please."
When I am at my retail job and someone is buying a really small item (something that could very easily be carried) I always ask them if they need a bag (in the hopes that they won't and I can possibly limit the number of wasteful bags being dispensed). Upon asking the customer if they need a bag for their purchase and they look at me tartly and say "please" as if they had never even considered the option of not wasting a plastic bag.
— Dana from Asheville, North Carolina | Work | 11.17.2010 | Comments (4)
Women who commute to professional jobs carrying Victoria's Secret bags.
This is only slightly less damaging to the credibility of my entire gender than wearing a sandwich board that says "I like boys, shopping, pink things, and underwear!" Same message, different medium. The fact that women routinely use these things to carry their lunch to work without being completely consumed by embarrassment boggles the mind. It's fine to care about any of these things, I suppose, but do it on your own time, and don't make it part of your business getup. Broadcasting this image in the workplace makes you look like a real twit.
— Diana from Brooklyn, NY | Work | 10.1.2010 | Comments (1)
During a work situation, when you show someone a project you are working on, and tell them what you will do, and what needs to be fixed, then they write back and tell you what isn't done and what needs to be fixed.
I really try to prevent people from seeing projects before they are finished for this reason. This is a fascinating phenomenon, and really galling.
— Biffy from Brooklyn, NY | Work | 6.25.2010 | Comments (1)
New co-workers asking if I like my new job.
People only ask this to make conversation with the new guy.
Real answer: "It's retail. I'd rather be neutering myself with a wooden spoon, but it beats dying broke."
That takes too long to say and might garner some strange looks, so I just say the answer that will shut them up the fastest: "yeah, it's not bad."
— Tedman from IL | Work | 4.6.2010 | Comments (0)
When people say I should be outside when I am in the office working.
I work in Pgh - we just suffered from 10 feet of snow! Today it is 55 degrees out side and gorgeous. Every person that has come into my office at work has said, "You really should be outside today!" As if I had the option to be in the sunshine but instead chose to sit in this fluorescent lighting and hunched over my computer!
— kat from Pittsburgh, PA | Work | 3.25.2010 | Comments (0)
"It will be good for your portfolio" after asking you to do something for them for free.
When is something going to be good for my stock portfolio?
— Biffy from Brooklyn, NY | Work | 9.24.2009 | Comments (1)
As soon as I fart in my office, someone always comes in right after.
The minute I let one rip, someone comes in and needs to lean over my shoulder and point at my monitor to solve some problem, as a stinky breeze slowly filters through the room
— Alan Shitty from Calgary | Work | 11.14.2009 | Comments (1)
When people ask me if I work at my place of work!
I get this all the time! I'm standing behind the counter, folding merchandise wearing my lanyard, and people still come up and ask me "Do you work here?"
— Brooke from Indinanpolis, IN | Work | 2.24.2010 | Comments (3)
"Coming out of retirement"
Jay-Z and Lance Armstrong, I am looking at you.
— jmc from long island city | Work | 5.10.2009 | Comments (1)
When office emailing conventions cause you to write in ways that make you lose respect for yourself.
Hi there, team!
Just a quick FYI about the upcoming PowerPoint seminar! I know that everyone is multi-tasking in anticipation of the holiday closing, but if you could just check in or touch base with me about any feedback you have on draft 168 of the accompanying 72pp report, that would be super!
:)
Diana
— Diana from Brooklyn, NY | Work | 12.12.2008 | Comments (5)
Rubber bands that are too small for the pile of paper they're supposed to be holding together, especially if the pile is thin and would work with a paper clip.
It won't lay flat!
— Lisa B from Lancaster, PA | Work | 8.9.2009 | Comments (0)
Getting rejected for a job by snail mail
You submit a resume to a company for a job opening via email. A few *months* later, a letter arrives via the post office thanking you for your interest but acknowledging that your candidacy doesn't meet the company's present needs.
— Jacob Share from Israel | Work | 2.23.2009 | Comments (3)
when you dream that you're at work and then wake up and realize it's time to go to work.
— zoomusicgirl from Washington DC | Work | 2.13.2009 | Comments (4)
Assuming the receptionist is there to entertain you because she is a captive audience.
Just because someone is stuck behind their desk does not mean they want to hear about your ear infection/thoughts on politics/why you hate cats while you wait.
— D.A.Darling from Las Vegas, NV | Work | 10.30.2008 | Comments (8)
Slide show or powerpoint presentations in which the presenter reads exactly what is on the slide.
— Hairnette Funicello from malibu | Work | 10.7.2008 | Comments (6)
When people treat you like a slacker while job-searching.
Just because I am not currently employed does not mean it is because I am not actively looking. So, please, if you talk to me, don't say, "Have you started looking for a job yet? Well, Then why aren't you working? Can't you find anything?" Because I've already heard it. A lot. And even if I were a slacker and hadn't started to look yet, your little attitude there would not be the thing to encourage me.
— Lydia from Maryland | Work | 4.12.2009 | Comments (2)
When the staple won't go all the way through your stack of paper.
— carrie g from | Work | 7.1.2009 | Comments (7)
Loud laughter among people you dislike.
Blar har har har har!!
— Stuart from Boston | Work | 7.8.2009 | Comments (8)
When the most boring and phenomenally talkative coworker shows up at the lunch table and utterly destroys your one moment of peace.
I've got 20 minutes, a plate of steaming homemade lasagna and the newspaper. Then, you-know-who sits down across from me and asks if I've ever heard of [fill in anything obvious], doesn't wait for a response and launches into a neverending spiral of chatter and doom.
— JJ from san francisco, ca | Work | 7.18.2009 | Comments (3)
