5 Worst Office Peeves
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LinkedIn asked more than 17,000 professionals around the globe to name their biggest workplace pet peeve—and, surprisingly, the top spot went to something a bit more serious than leaving your smelly food in the office fridge.
The top five:
- Those who don’t take ownership of their actions.
- Co-workers who complain too much.
- Gross common areas (see stinky food reference above).
- Meetings that start late or go long.
- Colleagues who never respond to email.
Click for more, including a breakdown of country-specific complaints (employees in the US really, really don’t like their food to be stolen from the office fridge).
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I guess mine goes along with number one, at least in a way. My number one is when someone calls a meeting then arrives unprepared, and spends time getting him/herself organized to get the meeting started and on track. Invariably the meeting is disorganized and little gets done and it lasts forever. On the other hand, being a consultant who charges by the hour I tend to spend the wasted minutes calculating how much it is costing the idiot per minute. Then my patience wears out and beg off to another meeting and go home.
I forgot to mention that my greatest peeve is with those people who don’t even bother to acknowledge my emails. It takes just a second to say:
“Thanks will get back to you” or something equally as appropriate if you just don’t have the time at the moment.
Meetings that last… too long… too long… too long… too long… too long… too long… too long… too long… too long… too long… agreed…
That was my number one peev when I was in a bigger office setting. They become like a pointless ritual benefiting nobody.