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Top 10 most annoying office habits

news.com.au — AUSTRALIANS spend more time at work than those in almost any other developed country, which is sort of annoying. But it's not as annoying as some of the office habits which we seem to have allowed ourselves to either fall into or to tolerate. Here are our 10 leading annoying office habits.

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  • kickoff22, on 05/27/2008, -2/+48How come pacing up and down the office shouting into a bluetooth headset isnt on there?
    • CaliCutin, on 05/27/2008, -1/+2Dugg. Are we working in the same office?
    • justbloggin, on 05/27/2008, -1/+1Why is it that all 10 annoyances are coming from 1 guy! I love the cube farm office concept...where only the President and V.P. have offices with doors.
  • KragTheDigger, on 05/27/2008, -11/+2They missed the 'paper clips and paper airplane engineers' habit.
  • Elohir, on 05/27/2008, -2/+55Looks like someone has a case of the Mondays.
    • craighoxton, on 05/27/2008, -6/+13Did you get the memo about the TPS reports?
      • CaliCutin, on 05/27/2008, -1/+1Nobody got the Office Space reference apparently :)
        • sjmulder, on 05/27/2008, -1/+7Now if you could just digg him up, that would be grrrrreeeaat.
  • mastazed, on 05/27/2008, -4/+35it kills me that if the boss take a look at you while your checking digg you get into a world of trouble, yet he wont say a word to someone having 20 cigarettes a day taking 10mins for each one.
    • blackinthmiddle, on 05/27/2008, -1/+5I used to program for an ad agency and we ran into a similar problem. They gave us a pool table, then decided at one point that they didn't like us using it "so much". We asked for a definition of "so much" and never got one. Never mind that the smokers lost, on average, an hour every day satisfying their habit.

    • Xviper78, on 05/27/2008, -3/+0takes you're digg, won't

      Sorry, it was the "your" that pissed me off and I couldn't stop.
  • jameshighmore, on 05/27/2008, -16/+1611. People who bring their kids into work.

    Every mother who does this is always the same; usually unattractive, ageing rapidly and trying to get attention in any way they can, even if that means parading their child around instead of raising them.
    • blackinthmiddle, on 05/27/2008, -2/+7You sound young and naive. Generally, women do this because they're trying to juggle family and work responsibilities, not because they care what some smug ***** like you thinks about them. If you ever have kids (I shudder), you'll quickly have sympathy.

      Now I'm not saying they're handling things right. I sure as hell wouldn't make others suffer because I couldn't find someone to watch my kids. Generally, however, it's from a mother desperately trying to bring home the bacon and take care of the children at the same time, not trying to impress some dick such as yourself.
      • jameshighmore, on 05/27/2008, -3/+2Fair point, I probably should say that I was directing that at mothers who RETURN to their old workplace with their newlyborn.

        Young, perhaps. Naive? Not naive enough to think that babies should be paraded round the office in their first few months of life.
  • mikephimikephi, on 05/27/2008, -12/+3I Believe You Have My Stapler
  • mikephimikephi, on 05/27/2008, -13/+1I believe you have my stapler
  • DangerCollie, on 05/27/2008, -1/+21I used to contract at a military office and fully half the enlisted people would dial with their speaker phone, frequently turned up loud enough to be heard all the way across the office. Because it's just too much trouble to pick up that handset to dial a number.

    Trying to program on a military contract is like trying to write music in a bus station.
    • bg2500, on 05/27/2008, -0/+3I have never understood that one either. So many people dial with the speaker on and then pick up the handset when it starts ringing or the person on the other end answers. What is up with that?
  • RonniSR, on 05/27/2008, -3/+11Damn i must be an annoying co-worker.
    The first on the list is my worst/best habits, love to drum on the table.
    And then i wonder why they send me to work in a foreign country :D
  • jlee2081, on 05/27/2008, -4/+11How about that idiot who uses the office phone/time for unnecessary personal conversations.

    For crying out loud I don't care about what your kid did, about the guy to met last night, or how so and so thinks she's better than you.

    seriously these ppl need to STFU

    /rant
    • d0nbaker, on 05/27/2008, -0/+0my co-worker does this all the fu... time! and what piss me off the more it when she say to her friend she's really busy, that we have too much work!
    • jasalo, on 05/27/2008, -0/+1Or someone in a loud fight with his wife/husband or girlfriend/boyfriend at the phone
  • CWise, on 05/27/2008, -24/+5
    Shouldn't the number one most annoying habit be "Being an aussie"
    • Flashman, on 05/27/2008, -3/+10Wuh-oh, here comes the All Australian Bury Brigade :)

      Thumbing you down from Sydney, Australia.
    • Timmyftw, on 05/27/2008, -7/+1fail.
    • soupr, on 05/27/2008, -5/+4Oh noes! an aussie with no sense of humour! whatever next?
  • curseoflou, on 05/27/2008, -4/+10the habit i am most annoyed at is the random all day doctors appointment. the appointment is "scheduled" 15 mins ahead of time and takes 80% of the day to complete and then they want lunch immediately after returning to work. just tell me ur not coming back to work so i can mentally prepare myself to assume ur entire workload. sad thing is it wouldn't drive me so crazy if there weren't multiple employees doing this ***** daily.

    sorry diggers had to let out a little steam.
    • blackinthmiddle, on 05/27/2008, -0/+1Although this is not me (I never go to the doctor like I should. Matter of fact, I should schedule a dentists appointment now!), this is one of the perks of being a full time employee. You don't see your employer complaining when you do an 18 hour shift to get that new software into production, do you? I had a few bosses who were good enough to say to you, "Come in tomorrow at two if you feel like it", if you did such a marathon session the day before. Point is, salaried worker=sometimes I benefit, sometimes the company does. Too bad you work a job where you immediately have to pick up that other person's slack.
  • flowaus, on 05/27/2008, -13/+4Australians only spend more time at work because each workplace has a bar! They don't go to work, they just drink all day.
  • lolinyerface, on 05/27/2008, -7/+2OMG, I sit in an air conditioned environment all day.
    QQ more babies.
  • GorfTron, on 05/27/2008, -9/+10I am single/no kids and I am sick of the people who get to leave early all the time because of their kid's events and sports games. Just because I am single does not mean I am the only guy that has to come in on evenings because of your kids.
    I am also sick of sports snobs who decorate their cubes with sports crap and are always holding a mini football or something like that. The guy will always be talking sports statistics or about his fantasy team. Other people's hobbies are ridiculed as a bonus.
    • bg2500, on 05/27/2008, -0/+2I know the sports guys you speak of. I just shrug it off and think, "wow, they talk about sports like I do politics". To each his own.
  • dezmo, on 05/27/2008, -7/+30the only people who don't like office drummers are the ones who are jealous of our mad skills
    • sfury, on 05/27/2008, -1/+1leave office drummers alone! (err not literally)
  • soupr, on 05/27/2008, -11/+3Aussies complain more than anyone else on the planet, about everything.

    And i'm a pom, I know how to moan :)

    • mastazed, on 05/27/2008, -5/+2mate your forgetting Americans!!
    • FairDinkumMate, on 05/27/2008, -1/+1Irony - A pom whinging about someone else whinging!!!
  • jayrok, on 05/27/2008, -4/+8I believe this list is missing the administrative assistant who lives vicariously through the many tv shows he/she is addicted to. These office types note the day of the week several times throughout the day, "OH! It's Wednesday! -brainless show- is on tonight!"
    The next day a complete run down of the show's events are rattled off, and he/she appears to be on a first name basis with all the characters.
  • thanakar, on 05/27/2008, -5/+21People like to complain about smokers but I wonder how many others spend the same amount of time surfing the net while at work. Oops, gotta go, boss is coming.
    • zantos420, on 05/27/2008, -1/+4at least 3 times a day I just walk outside and talk with co workers for about 10-15min just to get out - cigarette or not.
    • mithrasinvictus, on 05/27/2008, -3/+8My most productive co-workers have always been smokers.
      Merely sitting at your desk does not necessarily get things done.
    • Smokezz, on 05/27/2008, -3/+4Yeah, because the smokers don't surf the web too. They smoke AND surf the web wasting even more time. That and they smell like the inside of an *****.
      • thanakar, on 05/28/2008, -2/+1And just how do you now what the inside of an ***** smells like?
  • jonr, on 05/27/2008, -1/+19What's with the _ everywhere? It's really annoying _ if everybody started to write like this...
    • sjmulder, on 05/27/2008, -0/+3Indeed – just because character doesn't appear on the keyboard doesn't mean it does not exist.
  • DarkSpan, on 05/27/2008, -3/+9In one office i worked in, a bloke spent loads of time talking about how he hated smokers and how they should make up extra time at the end of the day for their smoking breaks. Until i pointed out that inane gossipers should have to do the same then, or would that mean he would never get home.
  • QueensGangsta, on 05/27/2008, -2/+14"is it OK to have Usher's latest offering, or a 50 Cent classic (is he called that because that's how much most people would pay for one of his records?) playing six times a day _ or 22 if it's Friday."

    I found the article slightly interesting, up to that point. The joke was painful to read.
  • jaydedragon, on 05/27/2008, -7/+8this may not be a popular opinion.. but i have to disagree with "Paid for nothing".. last i checked a 9hr work day grants you 2, 15min breaks and a half hour-hour lunch.. are you telling me that all the nonsmokers don't take breaks or lunches?? ***** off.. if i want to play solitare, stand outside and text on my cellphone.. eat a snack.. grab a soda, smoke.. i CAN.. its MY BREAK.. i am legally allowed it.. don't sit there and tell me i'm not productive because i use my break like i'm allowed to

    oh and also "Snot funny"
    the basic jist was.. don't come into work when you are sick.. not all jobs allow you the time to recouperate as needed. and a lot of jobs only give you sick time AFTER you've been there a year.. and usually only allow for 3 days within the first year... last i checked..pnumonia doesn't WAIT for you to be allowed sick time.. and takes more than a year.. also a lot of illnesses have a contagon factor of more than 3 days.. and also don't wait a year
    • sjmulder, on 05/27/2008, -1/+5Then in your case it's not a problem, but there are plenty of places where the non-smokers don't get nearly as many breaks, and are frowned at if they go out to eat an apple.
    • asnider, on 05/27/2008, -0/+1The article was referring to those smokers who go out for a cigarette once every hour or two. There are a lot of companies that allow people to get away with taking these unauthorized breaks simply because they're smoking. But, if a non-smoker tried to take the equivalent number of breaks they'd hear ***** from the boss simply because they didn't have a cigarette in their hand.

      People like you, who only take their legally allowed breaks are not the problem and are not being complained about.
    • Smokezz, on 05/27/2008, -1/+1jaydedragon: If you only smoke on your lunch and your two breaks... good for you. Its the people that smoke every 30 minutes that are the problem, and say its their god given right because "they smoke". They can ***** off.
  • curseoflou, on 05/27/2008, -6/+7i used to have a supervisor that secretly farted in his chair - multiple times a day i suspect. i didn't realize it until one day i sat in his chair to grab a file and an ominous cloud of ass dust nearly incapacitated me. later on i found he did this on purpose (or so he claimed) to keep ppl from siting in his chairs - one sick son of a bitch.
    • thatonedood, on 05/27/2008, -0/+1Dugg for "ass dust"
    • robeph, on 05/27/2008, -0/+1Dugg because I laughed. But beyond that... While I'm totally going to come across as a technicalnazi (that I sometimes am) I don't think that gaseous assplosions will actually hang around after they follow along with entropy and dissipate into the air around.
      • curseoflou, on 05/27/2008, -0/+1seriously his car seat and his "favorite" chair smelled like ***** every time i or anyone i told about this phenomenon sat on his butt-hole breath sponges.
    • Marinium, on 05/28/2008, -0/+1Well, this does sound like it worked though.
  • andsalvatierra, on 05/27/2008, -2/+9The habit I hate the most is from a guy coming to work without taking a shower or wearing deodorant, with a repugnant odor that you could smell from ten feet away that signals his arrival. And then he decides to have a nice chat with me on my coffee break inside the smallish pantry in your office. All 15 minutes of it... 2 feet away across the table from you. And I had no choice but to sit there and take it since that guy is my boss.

    And it just so happens to be a happy coincidence that he's Australian, and he made us work 5 and a half days a week (half day Saturday), which made no sense whatsoever, since everybody else in the country (I live in the Philippines) only worked 5 days. And no matter how well you did your job, he always found a something to say about you. Behind your back.

    Oh well, at least I know how to use deodorant.

    Just had to let some steam out. Sorry...

    /endrant
  • wassim2k, on 05/27/2008, -2/+11Forgot about the music. I don't need to listen to your 90s adult contemporary tunes coming out of your speakers all day. REO Speedwagon, Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey; how much can a co-worker take?

    Chatting and laughing 90% of the day. Some of us have bloody fingers from working 60-70 hours per week, while you chit-chat and laugh it up with the secretary and other do-nothings.

    Office flirts. Get a room already and get it over with. Then we can go back to work without having to watch you drool over the new administrative assistant seven hours a day in the hopes that she finally lets you into her panties.
    • blackinthmiddle, on 05/27/2008, -1/+4Your last one made me laugh. I thought it would never happen, but at my current job I program for a holding company and one of our coworkers was a pretty hot girl. I never thought I'd see a hot female programmer. Anyway, the CFO would come over to our pen *all the time* and we knew what for. He would do a real horrible job of pretending he came over to talk to all of us when we knew he just wanted to get into that Asian girl's pants!

      She has since quit and we haven't seen him ONCE! Not one freakin' time and she's been gone a good three months now. I mean, I don't blame him (she was hot), but it was just funny to see how "un-smooth" he was about his yellow fever!
  • DomZy, on 05/27/2008, -2/+1Apparently me clicking my fingers annoys the hell out of a co worker. But they can't function without me doing it!
  • Zaggynl, on 05/27/2008, -4/+1hrm, I wash every morning, do I need a deodorant?
  • mikebritton, on 05/27/2008, -3/+1How about "*****-bag who spends the day writing a cliche list composed of all the other cliche lists he's read on Digg for the past year"?
  • broeks, on 05/27/2008, -0/+3clipping fingernails
  • themaestro18, on 05/27/2008, -0/+1Hey guys, I love my job. http://www.bestsnippets.com/post/36207419/i-love-m ...
  • LeCollectif, on 05/27/2008, -4/+2I've been at least 5 of these.

    Regarding the smokers; we use our breaks and lunches to indulge in our habits, outside, where it has no detrimental effect on your health, productivity, career, or anything else. With that in mind, stfuagbtw.
  • friedcalamari, on 05/27/2008, -1/+5I hate when coworkers touch my LCD whit their greasy fingers.
  • bg2500, on 05/27/2008, -0/+3I used to be a smoker and would take several 10min breaks through out the day. Since I quit I just take one 45min break in the middle of the day, the other 7ish hours I work non stop. I really don't spend any more or less time on break than I did as a smoker, I just disperse the time differently. I guess as long as people get their job done I don't really care what they do or how much time they spend on break.
  • kc23266, on 05/27/2008, -0/+0I wish they'd make one for school.
  • chrispr, on 05/27/2008, -1/+2I was a percussionist in middle and high school, so office drumming is a habit that I doubt I will ever be able to break.

    At least a few of the younger employees think it's cool and ask me to do a few sets on the counter.
  • snogye, on 05/27/2008, -0/+1The interesting nature about being annoyed--whether in the office or elsewhere-- demonstrates a lack of patience. In fact, it probably reflects more on the individual that is upset than on the annoying perpetrator. Granted, it's all in good fun to indulge in the behaviors that make our blood boil, but creating an 'annoying habits' list puts the author in a position of judgement, no?

    I personally think it's annoying to be passive about being annoyed.
  • Weejay, on 05/28/2008, -6/+1Who cares about Australia.
  • M0nk3y11, on 05/28/2008, -0/+2Hey let's not neglect the people who feel the need to call other people in the same office who are 15 feet away on speakerphone and then those people answering via speakerphone creating a lovely echo throughout the office so everybody can be equally annoyed by their lack of effort to pick up the phone or walk 15 feet to talk to the person!!
  • katiekatekate, on 05/28/2008, -0/+1At least half of these sound like they'd only be really annoying if you're hungover.
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