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(Some Guy)   The top ten rudest workplace behaviors. Here's looking at you, smokers, cell phone users, and litterers   (jhu.edu) divider line 956
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2007-10-04 01:20:35 PM
I'd like to add:

1) leaving food in the refrigerator until it is approaching near-sentience.

2) burning popcorn.

3) attempting to make conversation on the elevator.

4) asking "Hey! Are you going to lunch?" as you're exiting the building at lunch time.

5) calling any meeting that does not have a clear, unambiguous, achievable and measurable goal.

6) using the words "synergy," "team building exercise," or any variation of "let's run this up the flag pole."

7) wearing a tie with a short-sleeved shirt.

8) talking loudly outside someone else's office.

9) filling your coffee mug and leaving only a tiny skim at the bottom of the pot.

10) wearing too much cologne or perfume. Actually, wearing any at all.

All firing offenses, as far as I'm concerned.
 
2007-10-04 01:22:55 PM
Pocket Ninja: 9) filling your coffee mug and leaving only a tiny skim at the bottom of the pot.

...and leaving the pot on so that what is left burns and sticks for eternity.
 
2007-10-04 01:28:59 PM
Pocket Ninja: All firing offenses, as far as I'm concerned.

Not one person in my office does any of those things. Then again, there are only three of us and we're pretty close-knit and mannerly.

I don't even take smoke breaks.
 
2007-10-04 01:32:29 PM
Pocket Ninja: All firing offenses, as far as I'm concerned.

Dude, you need a vacation. You sound like a biatch.
 
2007-10-04 01:33:34 PM
Taking all your phone calls (conference or otherwise) on speaker phone, so that everyone else in the office can hear them.

/Seems like there's one everywhere I've worked.
 
2007-10-04 01:35:23 PM
Pocket Ninja: All firing offenses, as far as I'm concerned.

You'll get over it.
 
2007-10-04 01:37:20 PM
Sapient: Dude, you need a vacation. You sound like a biatch.

Just got back from one. I'm actually quite mellow right now.
 
2007-10-04 01:37:24 PM
g026r: Taking all your phone calls (conference or otherwise) on speaker phone, so that everyone else in the office can hear them.

I farking HATE that. What really gets me as well is when I'm called on speaker phone. I can tell I'm on speaker, I don't like it, I can't understand the other person because they rarely talk in the direction of the phone, and I get tired of repeating myself because they cannot understand me.
 
2007-10-04 01:38:21 PM
We had a nice clean bathroom until Sales hired this one guy. Then there was piss all over all of then toilet seats. We confronted him and he tried to shove one of the guys that works for me. Sadly for the salesman, the guy that works for me is a Gracie jiu-jitsu instructor in his free time. HR told the guy that they would appreciate him not returning. He was still within his 90 day probation period, so buh-bye.
 
2007-10-04 01:38:55 PM
I think it is very rude for the girls in the steno pool to press charges.
Lighten up, Toots!
 
2007-10-04 01:39:08 PM
The Mail Demon: I farking HATE that. What really gets me as well is when I'm called on speaker phone. I can tell I'm on speaker, I don't like it, I can't understand the other person because they rarely talk in the direction of the phone, and I get tired of repeating myself because they cannot understand me.

I'm constantly on conference calls, because I'm always traveling and work from home quite a bit. What I hate most is when people actually in the room where the call is being hosted engage in a sidebar conversation, so you're just sitting there holding the phone and waiting for the damn meeting to become relevant again.
 
2007-10-04 01:41:26 PM
Whew, flatulence is not on the list.
 
2007-10-04 01:43:49 PM
Didn't RTFA yet, but did I hearby feel it is my duty to rail yet again on people who bring their farking kids to work.
 
2007-10-04 01:44:03 PM
The elevator - Ladies, wait for the people on it to get out before smashing your way inside. Standing in front of the door, blocking it off, does not help you or the people inside. And, it's not a phone booth - turn your farking cell off. Unless one of them was mine, I don't want to hear your conversation about how many knobs your friend, Jenny, polished the night before.
 
2007-10-04 01:44:32 PM
oldfarthenry: Whew, flatulence is not on the list.

Strange coming from a guy with 'fart' in his name.
 
2007-10-04 01:47:45 PM
Oh, and the ugly cousin of people bringing their kids to work: spending the first 15 minutes of a meeting passing around pictures of their kids, and/or having long graphic discussions about their kid birthing process.
 
2007-10-04 01:50:59 PM
Doctor Funkenstein: The elevator - Ladies, wait for the people on it to get out before smashing your way inside. Standing in front of the door, blocking it off, does not help you or the people inside. And, it's not a phone booth - turn your farking cell off. Unless one of them was mine, I don't want to hear your conversation about how many knobs your friend, Jenny, polished the night before.

You, sir, must work in Chicago's Loop. Some of the rudest 'ladies' on earth. Not too pretty, either.

/entitlement - it's not yours biatch!
//not a doorman - the words you're looking for are THANK and YOU.
 
2007-10-04 02:04:02 PM
Microwaving fish or fish byproducts.
 
2007-10-04 02:15:42 PM
We had someone bring in his wife and 3 kids once per week for a "family lunch". They let these monsters run all over the warehouse, obstructing heavy machinery being moved by forklift, and jump out at unsuspecting people from around corners shouting "Boo!". The parents changed their diapers on the lunchroom table and let them throw food and trash everywhere. The noise level alone was deafening.

They were stunned to learn that not everyone appreciated this "break from workday stress".
 
2007-10-04 02:18:01 PM
2wolves: Microwaving fish or fish byproducts.

Opening a can of tuna.

Eating bbq-flavored chips and then coming to talk to me.

Making little clicky noises with your mouth while searching for a file on your computer.
 
2007-10-04 02:21:03 PM
noYOUare: Making little clicky noises with your mouth while searching for a file on your computer.

One of the admin. assistants in the cubicle farm down the hall sings softly to herself while she types. "Dooo-do-dooo, Dooo-do-dooo." I hear her whenever I'm passing by. I'm fairly confident that everyone in her immediate vicinity wants her dead, and I'm almost certain that, were I one of them, she'd already be that.
 
2007-10-04 02:23:43 PM
11. Clipping your farking fingenails STAB STAB STABBITY!!!111eleven
 
2007-10-04 02:24:21 PM
Can we get gum chewers on this list? People who walk around all day, every day, while slobbering open mouthed on a piece of gum. Even in the middle of staff meetings.

SHOW SOME FUKCING MANNERS, YOU DINKS!
 
2007-10-04 02:25:07 PM
Pocket Ninja: I'd like to add:


5) calling any meeting that does not have a clear, unambiguous, achievable and measurable goal.


THIS
 
2007-10-04 02:25:27 PM
11. Having a vagina, talking your head off everyday.
 
2007-10-04 02:25:40 PM
Fapping is not on the list?
 
2007-10-04 02:25:41 PM
Cropdusting, but damn it's funny.
 
2007-10-04 02:25:53 PM
So based on this list, I can in fact , shiat on your desk?

/Just checking
 
2007-10-04 02:26:16 PM
Is it girly-man day on Fark today?
 
2007-10-04 02:26:55 PM
As an IT person anyone who has a filthy keyboard and mouse wash your damn hands if you expect me to work on your computer.
 
2007-10-04 02:26:58 PM
1) leaving food in the refrigerator until it is approaching near-sentience.

Amen! We currently have a slice of pizza in our break room fridge that was in there when I started work here (over a year ago). We're thinking on cracking it open one day and counting it's rings.
 
2007-10-04 02:27:22 PM
Grrrr there is this asshole at work who is, by far, the nastiest man ever. Everytime I go to the bathroom he comes in and starts snorting big giant loogies out. God farking forbid if he has to take a shiat, it sounds like he had to run in there and just lets go the worst sounding shiat ever. I was in the damn Army and I've never heard anything close to this guy. I wonder if he is married, I don't know who could live with that. To top it off he's a giant prick too and ugly, don't forget that to. Stupid ugly people.
 
2007-10-04 02:27:36 PM
Laughing real loud like Ricky Ricardo.

Sniffing co-workers' White-Out.
 
2007-10-04 02:27:37 PM
Low talkers and sidlers are my two big pet peeves.

Broktun
 
2007-10-04 02:27:44 PM
nastro

11. Clipping your farking fingenails STAB STAB STABBITY!!!111eleven

My boss will strike up a conversation with me and then pull his clippers out of his drawer. He proceeds to clip his nails onto his desk until they're all neat and trimmed. Then he gathers them into a pile and puts them into a trash can. I guess at least he doesn't just put them on the floor.
 
2007-10-04 02:27:46 PM
oldfarthenry-Whew, flatulence is not on the list.

12. flatulence
 
2007-10-04 02:27:49 PM
There was a woman in my office who microwaved fish almost every day for lunch. Being within smelling range of the microwave made it absolutely unbearable for a couple hours of each day.
 
2007-10-04 02:27:51 PM
I work with all older people. Some are so annoying. One falls asleep everyday. On the plus side one brings alcohol when the boss is out. Loves gettin drunk at work.
 
2007-10-04 02:28:06 PM
g026r: Taking all your phone calls (conference or otherwise) on speaker phone, so that everyone else in the office can hear them.

/Seems like there's one everywhere I've worked.



THISTHISTHISTHISTHISTHISTHISTHISTHIS!

God, there was a woman down the hall from me who literally YELLED into the phone. She disturbed everyone on the floor. One my colleagues even tried to ask her to just shut her door and she was a total biatch about it.

If you are reading this Audrey fark YOU!!!!
 
2007-10-04 02:28:07 PM
Pocket Ninja: 2) making burning popcorn.

God, I hate that smell.
 
2007-10-04 02:28:26 PM
Pocket Ninja:

How about burning the microwave out on a hot pocket.

That is really painful, the smell of lead and burnt electronics lasted for days.

/hot pocket thread
 
2007-10-04 02:28:28 PM
Pocket Ninja: I'd like to add:


7) wearing a tie with a short-sleeved shirt.



But i wanna be like Sipowicz!!!!
 
2007-10-04 02:28:32 PM
The Mail Demon: ...and leaving the pot on so that what is left burns and sticks for eternity.

You better not wash out the coffee slag! That's the best part.

It's sour mash coffee making.
 
2007-10-04 02:28:50 PM
11. Breathing loudly
 
2007-10-04 02:28:52 PM
note to self: pocketninja is not to be invited to lunch.
 
2007-10-04 02:28:59 PM
Pocket Ninja: I'd like to add:

3) attempting to make conversation on the elevator.


I'd like to throw out trying to make conversation while at the urinals in the bathroom.
 
2007-10-04 02:29:02 PM
I'm surprised 'splash and dash' didn't make the list
 
2007-10-04 02:29:21 PM
Subby getting the headline wrong.
 
2007-10-04 02:29:25 PM
#eleventy: Putting recycleable materials in the trash. I farking hate everyone who does this.

Recycling is not perfect but they give us recycling containers and they are within easy reach in our office at all times. Is it so difficult to use them?
 
2007-10-04 02:29:28 PM
I can't believe no one's brought up the extreme perfume/cologne person. I used to have one right outside my office - had to periodically close the door and hang out the window gasping for midtown air that was, in relation, like pure O2.
 
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