What are some of your work pet peeves? I'm listening to nail clippers right now... yummy

toe nail biters...............though I'm more impressed than peeved

Phone calls taken/made on speaker phone when combined with open office doors

People using "I seen" instead of "I saw"

Discussion of very personal issues in the work area (I work almost entirely with women, and they are pretty open about things)

Dropped phone calls so when I pick it up I have no idea who it is or what they are calling about. Also, someone internal calling you on speaker and not announcing that they have a room full of people with them while they carry on the conversation!

that the bank doesn't recognize my importance and pay me $5,000,000 per year...

Pets belong at home not at work

ed - you have pets at work?

no-

Sorry my mistake Work Pets would belong at work but I guess you can take them home on weekends so you can feed them (if there are any work pets)

I have my pets at work everyday. The cat knocking things off my desk and the dog snoring loudly while I am on conference calls are the only peeves I have with them.

who bites their toe nails? I hope that is a joke! how about coworkers that use the word 'like' after every other word? or use profanity in the backroom even though customers can hear it up front? If only being a tattle was a good thing...

or when people ask employees when their baby is due when they aren't pregnant!!!

the infamous "you know" at the end of nearly every sentence. if we knew, then we wouldn't need to be having this conversation.

"um, um, um"

we did a bring your pet to work day once...janitorial staff were not pleased with the results, don't think we'll be engaging in this fiasco again. still can't figure out how anyone thought this was a good idea

ooh yes we have an um um gal. we have a customer that loves to leave us interesting letters and very interesting drawings to go along with them!

well, um, like, you know, that really flexible person

yikes....I don't know if I could handle seeing something like that at work

Euphegenia, you need to acquaint yourself with Peepers. Take everything he says with the grains of sand you'd find at your local beach. Or i guess i should say.....the grains of salt you'd find at the Morton's salt company.

You are excluding the women an pie baking thing?

apparently I am missing something!

Just that Peepers is rarely serious. And "rarely" is pretty much an overstatement.

My work pet peeve: when a processor is desperate to have me review her loan because "the closing is in an hour"......but when i need to ask her about something related to this loan that so desperately needs to close, i get no answer on their work phone.

Ah, got it. must not be that urgent then!!

So today my dog was napping in my office, as she often does, while I was on a conference call. She proceeded to break wind which woke her up and turned my office into a gas chamber. She then began scratching at the door wanting out of the office, I am assuming because of the smell. I guess that would be my work pet peeve today.

Questions that start with "One of my best customers..."

Conference calls where people don't mute their line so you can hear them shuffling papers, typing, cell phone ringing, etc. This leads to people having to repeat everything they just said because the person being asked a question was not paying attention.

Then again, I could have just ended my previous post at "Conference calls."

or worse, they are crunching potato chips through the entire call...

I just generally dislike when someone has me on speaker phone, mainly because they tend to stand 8 feet from their phone and speak in their normal voice and it is impossible to hear them.

This also makes me crazy! There was a young man who used to work here and every Monday morning at 8:00 would clip his finger nails. I would sit in my office and cringe.

"You had all weekend, do it at home!" is what I would mentally yell every time.

My neighbor across the hall sits at her desk crunching ice all day. I have to keep my door closed and my desk fan or heater running to drown it out.

Lack of professionalism. This isn't junior high school....it's your 'job'.

Lately, my pet peeve is when someone walks right into my office, even when I have the door closed!

No accountability.

so they have an ability to pass through walls and doors? personally, i would find this very cool, even if my door was closed. i may ask them to morph back out and then knock, but still...

My biggest peeves are tried and true, even clichéd, but still...

"But we used to..."
"We've always done it this way."
"But at the other bank I worked at..."
"It's never been wrong before!"

My favorite is an interview with a millenia. Best example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo0KjdDJr1c

That was great!

And they are a heavy phone breather.

The nail clippers are probably my biggest GROSS pet peeves...we even used to have a CLO that cut his TOENAILS. Now I hear it from beside me and down the hall...what the heck is WRONG with people!?!

Then, there are the ones that deny EVER doing anything incorrectly. Even when you put the evidence in front of them

That really is revolting.

RRJ, that is something that needs to get into the Dilbert Comic Strip.

HR will have to address such behavior upon the filing of a workers comp claim due to a toenail clipping flying into someone's eye.

Hey! I resemble that remark! But I only cut a problem toenail maybe once in a blue moon if it's digging into another toe or something......

I'll try not to do that when you're here onsite in 2 weeks, then.

People who send me an email and then 2.5 seconds later call me on the phone asking if I got their email....

The smell of nail polish from a near desk
When LOs think they are Underwriters
Having the same co-workers ask questions bc they can't be bothered to find the answer that was already given to them.

When LOs think they are Underwriters

Many more are than aren't, I'd venture to say

My main pet peeve is being lied to, whether I am at work or not, although it particularly peeves me at work because they are on the payroll.

This is mine, too. No reason for it.

When existing employees do not welcome and treat new employees with respect.

People who print things and then leave them sitting on the printer for days on end.

Here anything that is not taken off the printer by end of day goes straight into the shred bin!

When I print out my fantasy football stats at the end of the day and when I go to get them off the printer the next morning they are gone.....

Probably here too...but i'm in an area with 5 people and we share a printer.....end of the day is way too long to leave it...it annoys me if it stays there 30 minutes.

To clarify.....it bothers me when i print something, go pick up my 5 pages, and see that i have picked up their 5 pages too. It doesn't bother me just knowing they're sitting there.

our back office area that files SARs frequently prints the SARs and does not gather them from the printer until the end of the day. so, all that are printed are just put on a table that anyone walking by can see, pick up, etc. while not a customer facing area, still not a good practice. Conversations with their management has not changed this process. all of our back office areas have shared printers, so you know when you print something that you may have to sort through to find yours.

With most modern shared printers, they can be set up to not actually print until the person is standing at the printer and punches in a code. Happy, especially in your situation, that should be implemented at a minimum for those individuals that have the capability of printing SARs.

Yeah, i'll never understand that......if you don't need it right now...don't print it right now. When you need it...print it...then go get it.

Don't you hate when you're innocently griping about something and it turns into a serious discussion about what you should and shouldn't be doing?

yeah right, freak

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Hands Peeps a PIE~!

Sometimes I luck out and print stuff and the other employees will bring it to me. Makes me feel special

Me too

Yeah, but the fact that they saw something you printed still scars them for life.

we can stop right there...at least at my bank...

That's why I have learned to use "secure print"

And if one of you on this thread want to be useful you can bring me the privacy notice checklist....

I would but I am awaiting a call from Buzzfeed to find out if my SAR narrative is acceptable.

what about when you need something to complete a task so you email the person and get no response, and you can't finish things until you have materials you can't get yourself!! >:(

Every time I'm preparing for an audit or trying to put together my annual BSA risk assessment.

Just heard this one outside my office:

"Here is the insurance policy. Do you also want the email that came with it?"

Huh? Maybe you could have forwarded the email and saved yourself a trip to another floor?

Sounds like someone Scott Adams (creator of "Dilbert") would call an "inDUHvidual".

New pet peeve... having to listen to Christmas music from the day after Thanksgiving til New Years...not a fan of listening to the same 3 songs on repeat!!!!!

Oh but Euphegenia, it's 27 different versions of the same three songs!

even so... BAH HUMBUG!!! I'm not very holly jolly when it comes to Christmas lol

Not work-related, but the next Asian beetle i kill in or around my house will be number 10,076.

this

I have german roaches...I'll trade...I don't mind beetles so much!

Oh...I had to look them up, they BITE and are harmful to DOGS? NO! Nevermind!

Am I seeing this correctly? When I google Asian Beetle I get what I have always known as lady bugs. I've never known them to bite or hurt dogs.

Asian beetles aren't normal lady bugs......the normal lady bugs are red and these are orange and more oval-shaped.

I'm told Asian beetles bite too (amazingly, i don't think i've been bit yet).....but my biggest complaint is that they are just at my house in HUGE numbers as soon as it warms up. It can get down to 25 degrees at night and they won't be around...then 2 days later it warms up to 55....and zoom, here they are.

And i don't have any dogs, so i can't comment on how they interact with dogs.

And they SMELL!!! They used to swarm when I was a kid in SE Oklahoma. They're really gross.

Yes, the swarming part is really annoying.

Work pet peeve - people who don't line up the pages they're 3-hole punching so that inevitably the pages don't line up once they're in a binder.

Ok, that makes sense to me. I learned something new.

my biggest work pet peeve is people who complain about work pet peeves...

We had the Asian Beetles in fall of 2017 here in SW KS. Their numbers were in the thousands at my house and yes they bite. Vacuumed the little buggers up daily inside my house, bagged and disposed of them in dumpster and sprayed the outside of the house with malathion (hate to use that stuff) but we were literally being chased out of our house. Didn't know they were dangerous to the dogs, how ever the dogs seemed to steer clear of the beetles as they didn't like the scent they emit. So glad I only saw a few this fall and now it has snowed twice so I think they will be history here. We have also had Elm Beetle and Miller invasions in the past, oh the joys of an old farm house that is not sealed up very tight.

We have their alter ego here...called Love Bugs. Nasty little beasts.

Love Bugs - one of the three Florida State Insects, the other 2 being the Mosquito and the Palmetto Bug.

One of my 2 year old twin granddaughters tasted a palmetto bug recently

Officially, however, I wonder why Florida only has one and Georgia has two official insects?

does it "bug" you?

Yes...it's making me itch.

The Asian Beetles were OK. Rubber Seoul is really good.

This made me laugh.

It makes me think about a palmetto cheese sandwich.

The actual bug or the spray?

people who just leave enough coffee in the coffee pot to make 1/8th of a cup, but don't start a new pot...

Regular occurrence here too, Happy. Irritating as all get out...

Worse -
person who starts a pot of coffee, but does not have the common sense to put the coffee pot back in the machine so that the coffee runs all over the counter and floor!

That is a unique variation on what seems to be a common issue, Rocky...

Or leaves a teaspoon of water in the water cooler and doesn't change out the jug.

There is a special palmetto bug spray?

She ate the bug. Partially anyway. Or at least one hasn't make it all the way down the pie hole! !

Wikepedia says they spray a foul smelling spray (see below).

The Florida woods cockroach or palmetto bug (Eurycotis floridana)[2] is a large cockroach species which typically grows to a length of 30–40 mm (1.2–1.6 in).[3] When alarmed, adults can eject an extremely foul-smelling directional spray up to 1 m,[4] which inspired several of its other common names: Florida skunk roach, Florida stinkroach, skunk cockroach, skunk roach, stinking cockroach, and stinkroach.[5] Two other naming variations include Florida cockroach and Florida woods roach.[5]

Or take the coffee pot out and leave the filter basket full of spent grounds dripping on the counter and floor. You have to seriously work at getting the pot out and leaving the filter basket!

I have never in my life made a pot of coffee...never. I don't drink coffee at work....ever. I don't drink coffee at home...ever. However, if i'm sitting down to breakfast (say at an IHOP or Denny's), i'll drink 5 or 6 cups (black, no sugar).

Then i may go another 6-8 months before i drink coffee again.

I drink 5-6 cups a day. I sit down at IHOP or Denny's for breakfast - never! Trust me - you will live longer.

Plus - they don't have coffee at either place - it may be black - but it ain't coffee.

Haha.....i don't sit down at IHOP or Denny's very often.

As for the coffee part....i'm definitely not a connosseuer (doubt that's spelled correctly).......gourmet coffee would probably be wasted on me.

I guess why i've never gotten into a coffee routine is this:

I don't really drink anything (except water, which i drink a lot of) unless i'm eating something. I don't drink coffee, tea, pop, lemonade......none of that, unless i'm eating something. Coffee sort of coats your tongue and the roof of your mouth and that isn't pleasant for me throughout the day (and if i'm honest, the reason it isn't pleasant for me is it conflicts with my drug of choice--the nicotine in snuff. Getting a dip after drinking coffee isn't pleasing....all you taste is coffee). I do think coffee tastes good though.

Pop? You mean soda.

Yeah, i don't call it soda...either pop or coke.

soda? certainly you mean coke.

hey, what kind of coke you want? ginger ale...

Gah. Southerners.

"Anyone want anything? I'm going to get a coke". Comes back with a Pepsi.

^^my thoughts, I prefer pop

Pepsi

Not all Southerners...we call it like it is in Georgia. Whatever kind you want....me? Pepsi.

2 generations back, i used to hear "soda pop" (or "sodey pop") around here....but don't hear it anymore.

Some parts of New England, it was referred to as "tonic".

Pet Peeve: people who think the copier automatically refills itself with paper.

or the water cooler automatically replaces the empty bottle

My pet peeve is when our crazy printer decides randomly to switch the trays it wants to feed from, and out of the blue says "add paper" when there's plenty of paper in the tray that it just printed from 2 seconds ago.

We must work in the same office with the same printer.

We must (don't say anything if i leave early today, ok?)

when everyone gets a flower from a coworker to decorate their desks except you :*(

Ok, but I get to leave early on Friday. Deal?

Deal....(but now i feel like i got a raw deal, cuz i didn't actually leave early last Friday).

That stinks! Here's one:

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I'm afraid I'm not very good at this. But the thought and all that.

^^^^^likes to show off.

hahhaha I feel so much better now! thank you. I was having a bad day yesterday, and today... let's hope the whole week doesn't go this way!

No responses to emails or follow-up emails..or follow-up emails..

SAME I am dealing with that exact thing today. I need things done TODAY and have not received items I need.

We got a guy who puts his feet up on the counter, licks his fingers when touching everything, talks unbelievable trash about his wife, and suddenly decides he needs to duck down to count what's in his coin locker when customers walk in. Allegedly was a bank manager before retiring and makes a point to remind people that he only works part time with us to stay busy. But you know, that's none of my business. *sips tea*

Sounds like employee of the month lol or the same person who is late every day and has a new excuse each time...

sounds like management needs ot step in and make sure he keeps busy or tells him to retire again...

We got a lady who is sick all the time and already has COPD so you never know when it's a normal cough or a sick cough, coughs all over everything and everyone. Gives every dime she makes to her lazy adult daughter who runs a "professional" craft business on Etsy (read that as sells one trinket a month and calls it a business) so she doesn't want to miss hours by going to the doctor or taking a few days off to get well. She's come in with the flu twice in a year, last time she walked around the bank for a week before the president made her go to the hospital where she was diagnosed with the flu AND pneumonia. When we tell her to go see a doctor for stuff she says "I don't believe in quacks." The same quacks that saved her life in the ER when she was dying from flu/pneumonia. That stupid Keto diet making her body extra weak also doesn't help but you can't tell her anything. She also leaves doodoo everywhere in the bathroom.

Moderator, tell me how far I can go cuz I got some good ones about this person.

You've gone plenty far enough.

the "you know"s, and the "and um"s and I have a co-worker that drags her s out - says sounds like saysssssssss. Gets very annoying once you notice it and then can't unnotice it. The co-worker that thinks she queen of the lunchroom and goes in on fridge cleaning day and throws everyone's stuff out (unless it is a container she wants - then she dumps the food in the trash and cleans out the container and takes it). Most of the time people don't realize because it is just the cheap gladware; but she did it once to someone who had a container with sentimental value. I know she got her container back, would have loved to have heard that conversation!.

or the "seriously" and "literally" 's every other word. I feel your pain!

one co-worker's every other word is "like" which makes me think of the 80s and "like you know..". Another person uses "so", which makes me think of National Treasure movies. So when either of them start talking, my mind drifts off...........

This made me LOLOL.

customers that let their kids run free around the bank moving all the chairs and pens and yelling and screaming...somewhat entertaining but very distracting :P

Agree

Our CFO went out in the lobby one evening and asked a customer to control her children. They were the worst I have ever seen. They were sitting on the teller counter, running through the lobby and spilled sugar all over the furniture. These kids were probably around 8. The customer got huffy and left but we haven't seen her since then. Control your dang kids!!!

There is a person near me who clears their throat constantly. It could be a tick but it gets really irritating to me. I'm working on toning it out.

Lunch bags that are the size of carry on luggage. Unless you are one of the first 5 in the office, the fridge is jam packed.

We finally had to take a 'no lunch bags in the fridge' approach. Take out the things that need to stay cold and then take the bag to your desk. Periodically someone forgets and has to have it done for them but all in all, there's now room in the fridge. You know, room for the six different brands of creamer that one person HAS to have at work, each one marked with their initials so no one else uses them. First world problems...geez.

I've tried to institute a rule that if anything is in the fridge on Friday at 6:00pm, it goes in the trash (other than condiments and the like). I always get voted down though

ours is cleaned every friday at 5:00 PM by the cleaning staff...there is a big sign on it that anything left after 5 will be thrown away...yet people still complain that their tupperware/lunch bag/ ketchup/whatever was thrown away...

we actually had a lady that would go through it at 4:59 every friday and take the nice tupperware and insulated lunch bags since "they were going to be thrown away anyway." she no longer works here, stealing from your coworkers is frowned upon

We don't have a set schedule, but when it seems that things are getting dicey we send an email to the whole floor letting them know what day we will be cleaning it out, so that they have been warned in ample time. Small office refrigerators have started popping up in offices over the last few years and we don't have as many problems as we once did. I think about 25% of us have our own fridge now.

My pet peeve in regards to workplace refrigerators (which i don't often utilize) is if i place my sandwich or whatever on a certain shelf.....and later when i go to retrieve it, it has been moved to a different shelf. Um....i placed my item here before you did....work around me...not the other way around.