Office no-no's

[chicagoCy]

i'm only in our showrooms about once a week and the computer stations we use are all in the rear near the restroom. there's an older female troll (no kidding, exact replica with bright red hair and mole) who, roughly 3 times per day, will do her business and proceed to leave the door wide open when she leaves. to top it off, she does not keep the fan on and covers it up with apple cinnamon spray, which in turn smells like a poop brownie with apple cinnamon frosting.

i do not like her. :no:

 

[IcSyU]

i'm only in our showrooms about once a week and the computer stations we use are all in the rear near the restroom. there's an older female troll (no kidding, exact replica with bright red hair and mole) who, roughly 3 times per day, will do her business and proceed to leave the door wide open when she leaves. to top it off, she does not keep the fan on and covers it up with apple cinnamon spray, which in turn smells like a poop brownie with apple cinnamon frosting.

i do not like her. :no:

I don't know what's worse, door wide open, or closing it and turning it into a gas chamber for the next person.

 

[chicagoCy]

I don't know what's worse, door wide open, or closing it and turning it into a gas chamber for the next person.

i would rather she keep the fan on and risk the chance of a gas chamber than be able to smell it while on our computers. also, i'm pretty sure the customers can get a good whiff of it every now and then.

 

[CyCrazy]

Thank god I work on a golf course, we just goof on each other all day long and it is a riot! I dont think I could do the cubicle thing :biggrin:

 

[GeronimusClone]

i'm only in our showrooms about once a week and the computer stations we use are all in the rear near the restroom. there's an older female troll (no kidding, exact replica with bright red hair and mole) who, roughly 3 times per day, will do her business and proceed to leave the door wide open when she leaves. to top it off, she does not keep the fan on and covers it up with apple cinnamon spray, which in turn smells like a poop brownie with apple cinnamon frosting.

i do not like her. :no:

Yeah, my desk used to be stationed right next to the women's restroom. Postlunch was always a delicious treat. Whoever says girls don't poop is lying.

 

[ISU4ME]

This used to bother me when I worked in an office regularly.

People who take smoke breaks every 15 minutes and then congregate by the back door. They are gone for at least 5 minutes at a time and can only go in groups (like women who need to pee while they are drinking). Whenever you left the building you had to walk through the wall of smoke and ended up smelling like an ash tray before your appointments.

 

[Phaedrus]

Yeah, my desk used to be stationed right next to the women's restroom. Postlunch was always a delicious treat. Whoever says girls don't poop is lying.

Of course girls poop. They poop rainbows and sunshine.

Don't you know ANYTHING????:wideeyed:

 

[Phaedrus]

My pet peeve is women who dress provocatively, and insist on hovering around your desk until you notice them.

The dudes who ogle them, they avoid. Or even complain about. (sometimes to you, while they simultaneously flirt with you) But the more you try to pretend to ignore them, the harder they try.

 

[hort4cy]

My pet peeve is women who dress provocatively, and insist on hovering around your desk until you notice them.

The dudes who ogle them, they avoid. Or even complain about. (sometimes to you, while they simultaneously flirt with you) But the more you try to pretend to ignore them, the harder they try.

And that's a problem? Are these women anything to look at to begin with or are they ones that you would prefer to avoid?

 

[SeattleClone]

Two bathroom things-

1. When I walk into the bathroom and someone is in the stall talking on their cell phone, the first thing I do is flush a toilet. Fortunately we have loud industrial-force toilets.

2. One time a coworker was in the crapper and the janitor came in, set up a ladder, and changed a lightbulb. You would have to see the layout of the bathroom to truly appreciate the story, but let's just say he and the janitor were able to make eye contact.

 

[83Clone]

This used to bother me when I worked in an office regularly.

People who take smoke breaks every 15 minutes and then congregate by the back door. They are gone for at least 5 minutes at a time and can only go in groups (like women who need to pee while they are drinking). Whenever you left the building you had to walk through the wall of smoke and ended up smelling like an ash tray before your appointments.

People who take 12 smoke breaks a day and then look at you funny if you leave 15 minutes early really bust me

 

[SeattleClone]

People who take 12 smoke breaks a day and then look at you funny if you leave 15 minutes early really bust me

A guy who works down the hall from me goes out and smokes every half hour or so. Hawkeye fan, btw. The other day when he was walking back to his desk he looked in my boss' door across the hall and said "how come every time I walk by here you're staring at that computer screen?" My boss' response- "how come every time you walk by here I'm working and you're not?" :biglaugh: My boss, is unforunately, not his boss too.

 

[CycloneErik]

My pet peeve is women who dress provocatively, and insist on hovering around your desk until you notice them.

The dudes who ogle them, they avoid. Or even complain about. (sometimes to you, while they simultaneously flirt with you) But the more you try to pretend to ignore them, the harder they try.

At my job, until a couple of months ago, we had a girl on my team whose previous job was at the Lumberyard. Somehow, that got out, and all the single guys were hovering around her printer, which didn't seem that unwelcome to her.

Then they each would come by me and tell me how they hated each other, but she would "go to break" with her chosen guy throughout the night (breaktimes and lunch).

Supervisors kept placing me next to her printer, and I got to see the redneck romances night in and night out. It was horrible.

I was lucky, though. She went back to her old job. Things are much quieter now, and the single folks aren't walking around like a bunch of hormones with feet anymore.

 

[CycloneErik]

People who take 12 smoke breaks a day and then look at you funny if you leave 15 minutes early really bust me

This is more of a production thing, but I have a co-worker right now that can put 12 breaks a day to shame. Our whole team watches to see when exactly she is at her printer working.

I trained her. This makes me proud:no:

 

[michaelrr1]

1. The dude who doesn't wash his hands after using the crapper, and I'm not talking about just the urinal. Other people can be around and he'll finish his business, leave the stall, and walk right out of the bathroom like it's no big deal. In a little while, he's at his desk eating finger foods.

2. Same dude rips off some real loud butt busters at his desk.

3. The too friendly dude that likes to strike up a conversation next to you at the urinals. I've got business to take care of, and I really don't want to chat while both of us are handling our junk.

4. Loud talkers.

5. People that are headed to the work out center...and take the elevator to the floor it's on. Let me get this straight....you want to exercise but you don't use the stairs?

 

[LindenCy]

1. The dude who doesn't wash his hands after using the crapper, and I'm not talking about just the urinal. Other people can be around and he'll finish his business, leave the stall, and walk right out of the bathroom like it's no big deal. In a little while, he's at his desk eating finger foods.

2. Same dude rips off some real loud butt busters at his desk.

3. The too friendly dude that likes to strike up a conversation next to you at the urinals. I've got business to take care of, and I really don't want to chat while both of us are handling our junk.

4. Loud talkers.

5. People that are headed to the work out center...and take the elevator to the floor it's on. Let me get this straight....you want to exercise but you don't use the stairs?

I think you have a lot of winners here, and I especially don't want to see #'s 1 or 2 around.

 

[ISUAlum2002]

This used to bother me when I worked in an office regularly.

People who take smoke breaks every 15 minutes and then congregate by the back door. They are gone for at least 5 minutes at a time and can only go in groups (like women who need to pee while they are drinking). Whenever you left the building you had to walk through the wall of smoke and ended up smelling like an ash tray before your appointments.

Or, how about when supervisors ignore said break time abusers (smokers), but then get on you if you happen to be gone a few minutes more than usual for breaks? I especially love this, as a non-smoker.

And yes, burned popcorn is the freaking worst. It destroys the entire floor of employees for hours.

 

[ISUAlum2002]

How about the older ladies that go crop dusting? We have several of those in my office. Always after lunch, too.

 

[LindenCy]

Or, how about when supervisors ignore said break time abusers (smokers), but then get on you if you happen to be gone a few minutes more than usual for breaks? I especially love this, as a non-smoker.

And yes, burned popcorn is the freaking worst. It destroys the entire floor of employees for hours.

This is off topic, but it reminds me of when I was in Linden Hall and the fire alarm went off in the very early morning, like 3 am or something because someone forgot popcorn in the microwave and burned it. It was freezing out and I had a calc test the next day...not fun.

 

[siouxcyty]

Someone in our office periodically burns popcorn in the microwave. They press the popcorn button, which obviously is too much time and they fail to figure it out.