Things That Annoy Your Co-Workers

7 10 2008

What to avoid doing if you want to get along with your new fellow workers, and what your co-workers do that annoy you:

  • Talking about themselves
  • Answering cell phones during meetings
  • Text messaging during work
  • Playing games at work
  • Acting superior
  • Hammering on their keyboard keys
  • Using unprofessional language
  • Doing bills at the office
  • Not following the dress code
  • Acting unethically
  • Eating with their mouth open
  • Leaving the copier or printer out of paper
  • Sleeping or dozing off
  • Talking on the phone casually to friends or family
  • Talk loudly while on the phone if it’s a business call so they ALL know you’re working.
  • Hum songs like ‘Mary had a little lamb’ until they subconsciously pick it up and start humming too.
  • Send them memos every hour to keep them posted on what you’re doing, or what they should be doing.
  • Replace all their pens with empty or leaking pens.
  • Spike the coffee with salt, and mix in some salt in with the sugar.
  • Type as loudly as you can and sigh loudly when you need to use the backspace key.
  • Lose their expense forms or repeatedly make errors on their expenses/pay.
  • Mimic them whenever they say anything.
  • Leave plastic figurines, dolls, and action figures on their desk when they’re not looking.
  • Have really stinky food for lunch.
  • Think up new forms for them to complete and revise them each week.
  • Bringing their kids to work.
  • Always talking about their kids.
  • Passing off work to other workers.
  • Showing up consistently late.
  • Saying how they don’t get paid enough when they are the highest paid employee there.

    from ListAfterList.com


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