@adedow1333 Sadly, yes. I have seen both a female & male coworker do this. Different jobs in different spaces. It's amazing how clueless some people are about what is unacceptable.
My mom does this in the fucking dining room. THE DINING ROOM. and the living room. And she doesn't clean up after herself when she does it, she just leaves the nail clippings on the floor >.>
Standing outside someone's cubicle and chatting. I don't mean chatting to the person who works in that cubicle. I mean just chatting in the walkway and disturbing the person working there
A couple of months ago, I was working at a desk in a designated 'focus area', and someone decided to stand behind me, yapping on his mobile. I put on my headphones and played some music but could still hear him. After 10 minutes of this, I was nearly in tears (so over-stimulated) that I ended up standing up and telling him to move. Thank goodness I mostly WFH.
@@eudylnpeople need to understand that bathrooms are not a social area. Idc if we know each other. Nod and go about your business (men interact via nodding)
My previous sexual predator narcissist 'boss' would just scream at the top of his lungs 🫁 while running through the whole office, I mean LITERALLY running. He do it for a long time. I didn't have a cubicle, we were all next to each other with no barriers between each other and our desks all sticking together like grade school. It was a CALL CENTRE!!!!!!
OMG, this only just happened to me LAST WEEK. Asked to jump on a few calls, some idiot comes over to start gas bagging to girl next to me rather loudly so having to give them The Look several times........
Scheduling a meeting for first thing Monday morning. Especially when it's scheduled late in the day Friday, when many are already gone for the weekend.
Showing up in the office with a contagious illness - all my manager did that and they where proud: "I'm even working with the fever, that is dedication".
You say that like most of us have a choice . Kids bring stuff home. We only get so many occurrences^sick days. We have to save those for other emergencies since the companies don't care if the sickness is contagious or not.
@@xenosayain1506 That's rigth, You have choices. That is a choice to spread it and make money. And the cost for you has higher priority than the cost for others. I totally get it. Being selfish is key to survive. Exercise regularly and eat healty and your immune system will be stronger. That is also a choice how do you handle 4% of your day 2-3 times a week. The issue are mainly with 2+2 things here: - you spread disease - it makes others ill and causes outage, causes loss for the company - you cannot work that pericse and effectively when you have fever and not having a rest will make the healing longer - it causes loss for the company. Company interest is not to spread diseases. +1: if you are allowed and you can work remotely, there is no need for you to show up while you are contagious. + 2: if you state that because of you can work extra hours with fever thst should not be the expectation for everyone.
I had a coworker who microwaved canned cat food in the one microwave the whole building has to share. She was feeding stray cats in freezing temps. Her heart was in the right place, but STILL 😑
Ask for a separate check. that's what I would always do, never got the stink eye or weird looks. After a while, the others started doing the same because they were tired of subsidizing that one employee's lunch, the one who would always buy the most expensive lunch on the menu.
Working at Lowe's, and Inhad my lunch in the fridge. It was two big ass pieces of puzza in a zip lock, no name. Incame back to 1 slice. I left a note on the fridge saying that if they had just asked I would have given it to them, but now I didn't know who touched my food, and whether they had clean hands, and they were a dirty thieving rat. Note got taken down by who knows an hour later. It's not corporate, but people, you know what is yours, and what isn't. As adults we shouldn't need our names on everything, in a communal fridge.... If you didn't bring it, it's not yours!
Tip: Bring the same food again in a while and make it really hot. The person will try it and regret it and hopefully leave your food alone next time. Or you can buy a little box with a locker, where you can put your food :)
@@openyourmind3763 I am SO glad it did work too😱, could you imagine knowing that someone you worked with was okay with drinking someone's breast milk, and taking food literally from a baby (as far as they knew). That was very clever!!
@@janinasaam Unfortunately it's illegal to leave bait food that will cause physical discomfort to the thief unless you actually eat food that hot. This also includes things like laxatives and anything that could cause food poisoning.
Someone stopping by your desk for a "quick chat" that becomes a 30-45 minute conversation... Additional time when it happens while you're engaged in a task that requires your full attention.
In an old job my "work wife" I hate that term. And I were terrible about this, we both um talk a lot and our most productive times were completely opposite.
I used to have to deal with a manager from another department who did the speaker. Whenever he called I found a large empty container to hold next to my mouth so he got an echo just as bad as the one he was giving me.
If you desk-share, putting copious amount of your personal things in the space and leaving little room for the next person. The daytimer I shared with kept a big make-up box, bouquet of flowers in a large vase, personal mirror, multiple picture frames, office manual/binders, etc., leaving me a smidge of space.
When I worked at a big company I'll call G, they were all open concept seats. All my work was long meetings all day every day. Boss knew this. It was talking to people on a construction site so I had to talk loud. But boss made me be at my desk all day.
Setting an alarm on your mobile phone, in a shared open space cubicle city, and not being there to shut it off until hours later when you get back. (usually it's in a locked desk drawer)
Oh, this one drove me crazy when I worked at the casino. It was in a locker, with a grate door, so nothing to block the sound. Every single day it would go off at like 5:30 in the morning. Like, why would you set an alarm for the middle of your shift at work when you have to leave your phone in your locker?
I had a boss who didn't approve my PTO for 6 months and when I sent her my flight details, she said I couldn't go on my vacation because it wasn't approved. I told her, that maybe we should go talk it over with HR since you had six whole months to approve it....
For me people who are not willing to accept (professional) boundaries deserve a place in corporate jail. Like not respecting someone elses work place and being loud and noisy around them while they are trying to work, stealing food or other items that dont belong to them, being needless unreliable even with the smallest tasks they could have easily refuse, working in a manner that makes it difficult for other people to be productive too or meet their work goals at all (like jamming the printer in the most stupid way on the day another department has a very important reason to print a lot or blocking a room that should be avaible for all people and then not using it really), draining other departments budgets through stealing their materials... et cetera. I wish I would talk about multiple people. :(
I always thought it was a good idea to design an industrial strength vending machine for workplaces that is used only to dispense workers’ lunches. You come in the morning, swipe your card (like you do on the printer), then the machine lowers a plastic box. You put your lunch and drinks in said box and place back in the machine. The machine then places your box in the designated storage slot in the machine. When you swipe at lunch time for your box, the vending machine lowers your box to you. No theft, no messy fridges any more, and they (management) can monitor everything through your access card. Not sure how many boxes would fit in one vending machine…Maybe 100-150 🤷🏻♂️ These machines would be marketed to medium to large businesses. 2k to manufacture. Sell for 5k. Good idea? Yes or no? Edit: the boxes would be approx the same size as a shoe box.
Bad idea. Moving parts means it will malfunction at some point and then you have no lunch. If food thieves are that much of an issue, the best option is a locking lunch pail.
@@user2144 To mitigate their responsibility and risk of financial loss, and to displace the responsibility of maintenance, most companies would only lease these machines instead of buying them outright. So that key would most certainly not be placed in the hands of on-site management but rather the hands of an off-site management company. Additionally IF it was on-site it would be in the hands of limited numbers of on-site management (or maintenance groups_ meaning that tracking down and GETTING that key in the often limited lunch break windows most people have would often, during malfunctions, mean you lose most if not your entire lunch break regardless. And to support my point about not buying their own machine, I've worked at Walmart, IBM, and CenturyLink. Every single one of the locations I worked at had standard vending machines... and all of those had a contract to fill and service those. Walmart, in particular, could cheaply and easily fill and service those and STILL paid someone else. Medium to large companies don't want to add that responsibility generally. Not in my experience. Thus moving parts means lost lunches. A bank of refrigerated cubbies might work as those would have fewer moving parts but a locking lunch box to place in a standard refrigerator is a simpler, easier, more widely deployable solution that doesn't depend on someone else at the company (or another company) if it breaks somehow.
I think it’s an awesome idea!! And if you are struggling with the “I ate my lunch at 10:30’s😔😫” like some of us do you can set it to not release until your actual lunch break time. Also they could set it up so that you can’t clock out until you take your box out of the machine… that way no grossness left in there. You should TM it before someone else does.
@@lelandgaunt9985 Taking a smoke break for fifteen minutes, then coming back in and complaining about the five minutes it takes your disabled employee to walk to the staff room to give themselves injectable medication that stops them dying from the lack pf ability to absorb nutrients and turn it into energy. Can you tell I'm still annoyed about this? (Yes, I pulled them up on it immediately. They've stopped commenting on it.) I don't make comments about them feeding their addiction four times in a shift, even outside scheduled break times. They don't get to whinge about me doing something that keeps me alive.
In defense of the contagious illness person, so many companies have either no paid sick leave, or very little sick leave, followed by repercussions for taking them even if they do that employees often feel pressured into showing up.
Clipping toenails???? Who would think that is acceptable. I have trimmed a fingernail if I break one so I don't accidentally scratch myself or someone else!!!! 😂😂😂
Refusing to acknowledge people who aren't at a certain seniority level in the company..... There was a woman on the same floor of our department who never said Hello, Good Morning, or acknowledged me when I spoke to her. Other people in my department had the same experience with her. Imagine my surprise when she stood up at the podium to address the office to address Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. She was a regional DEI manager. Needless to say, I could not take anything that she said seriously.
Not discrediting your experience, but, these kinds of assholes exist everywhere. The fact that they have anything to do with DEI is not really relevant to their behaviour.
So I have been known to clip my toenails at my desk. But I work from home. Who the heck thinks it is okay to take off your shoes and clip your toenails at an office? Yuk.
I've actually done the toenail trimming, but I'd been wearing sandals and I'd slammed my foot into a piece of furniture and broke one toe and split two toenails , so I guess that was less trimming my toenails and more just trying to clean up my wounds...
And I'd be willing to bet that you tried to minimize any effect to your coworkers. What you were doing was first aid. Not trimming toenails. Very big difference.
I worked in broadcasting for 20 years. Someone at turner broadcasting did this on the weekends. We also had the loud phone talkers and fish microwavers. Also the office folks from the higher floors would come down to the first floor of broadcast ops to pollute our bathrooms & then retreat upstairs.
Good grief, are these things for real? I'm a crusty old greybeard in dirty coveralls out in the yard. When I do come in to the office, I know better than that!
Clipping nails is a common thing? I used to clean offices and would find nail clippings under one desk every two weeks. Made me nauseous. And some of them got stuck under the plastic mat for the desk chair, so I had to pick those by hand. Couldn't just vacuum. 🙄
Double time for coming in sick if you're the boss or someone in a higher up position, triple if its in a country that doesn't have the stupid "sick days" rule. Honestly people, long term this is doing more harm than it should!
ANY perfumed spray in general. Even disinfectant spray. The clouds of perfumed spray that would just... fill the office in one place I worked were upsetting for me since they were a migraine trigger.
Not checking the day you rescheduled the meeting for --supervisor rescheduled a one on one for the busiest day of the month and then being shocked when I said I don't think I should get off the phone (call center job) because we had 60 calls in queue.
Sorry, the contagious illness sometimes can’t be help when the corporate decided that employees sick leave is limited because people can only be sick x amount of days a year. Then HR sends email saying please be aware and mindful that there’s covid going around
Not replacing empty, or almost empty toilet paper For birthdays people bring in cakes or donuts… you can guarantee by late morning there will be one solitary piece left, by lunchtime that’ll be cut in half, by late afternoon that would have been cut in half again so there’s less than a mouthful left, just because the last person will feel obliged to throw the container away 😁😡
Scheduling a meeting 30 mins before it / Scheduling a meeting and canceling it 5 minutes before the meeting. Those drive me crazy as much as when the meeting ORGANIZER is late...
Breaking the communal dishwasher because you fail so hard at the concept of scraping your food scraps into the bin, that you end up clogging the machine with CHICKEN LEG BONES
Shaving at your desk with an electric razor. I suppose it’s better than the car but really? Just do it at home! Booking meetings for 7am Monday without sending the agenda.
My previous job only provided powdered creamer for the coffee. So, when I wanted coffee, I would buy a container of liquid creamer. I would get my coffee and enjoy it. When I wanted another coffee a month later, there was barely enough creamer for 1 more coffee. Where did all of my creamer go? Also, when I told HR about it, all they could do was write a message on the board to not touch other people's things in the fridge. When I asked if they could just get liquid creamer, they initially said that it would be more waste. When I provided an option, they didn't want to spend more money on liquid creamer since they just started providing fresh fruit to employees.
1.IM'ing you the minute you log on. Solitary confinement for doing that Monday morning 2. Email chase with a call the minute it was sent..and its not at all urgent
Oh my gosh. Cutting your toe nails is the worst of any of the others on the list. I feel it should be #1 in everything. Totally means they have bad hygiene. I would not want to work with.
ANY micromanagement is excessive. Hire adults, provide adequate training / resources, expect them to accomplish their taks. Micromangling means the mgr is insecure / practices bad time or resource management / is underqualified for the position.
Open concept offices are the worst! But if my phone call is connected to the job I do, I'm absolutely taking it at my desk and speaking as much as I have to. Whoever is bothered can take it to the person who approved the open concept office.
Scheduling a 2-hour meeting before a project so everbody has the chance "to get a 1st feeling for the project and is able to groove into the project", without giving any relevant data. Happened to me when I was CFO at a university for popular music.
I can take a blame for contagious illness part. I got sick(flu) and took a leave for a week and my planned annual leave was approaching so I took a week of as well. So two weeks later I have not fully recovered, so I have to go to the doctor and get prescription for my illness. I usually prefer to be sick at home rather than job. But sometimes we have to work through illness
