Comments on: 13 Sources of Workplace Irritation

By: RedFusionX

RedFusionX — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:58:58 +0000

@Jennifer. I have a coworker who does the same thing except they demean you. Starting with the phrase, “Just so you know…. OR You should….” Makes me twitch just hearing those words.

By: David Zinger

David Zinger — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:55:03 +0000

Jill: I love how we email when we could be connecting. I have not seen the term @ss but it sums it up perfectly. Thank you.

Jennifer: "no offense but...I love Bob Marley...so much for One Love at work it is time to GET UP STAND UP...Thanks.

Billie: Now that is not generating at full power and I would be peeved and irritated by it.

David

By: Billie

Billie — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:22:37 +0000

"I don't or won't adapt to this change so no one in my generation won't so we should not even think of implementing this sort of change."

This is what I run into, where others can only see how they use technology, a product, or a service and will not stretch to see that there are a variety of users, who live, work, and relate technology in different ways. So instead of adapting a broader concept of service, we limit what we do to the confines of what a specific generation finds desirable.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:15:58 +0000

Great post. When I worked out in the real world I had one co-worker who told me I was going to hell — often, mainly for things like enjoying Bob Marley and having a child out of wedlock.

He liked to say things like, “You know, all you need for that cold is some oranges, oranges and prayer” He started each sentence with the phrase, “No offense but…” which of course meant he would pretty soon be offending you. He also liked to give lectures on why god says women need to serve men. He was your basic nightmare. So much so that he overwrites all other workplace irritations.

By: Jill

Jill — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:59:45 +0000

I have a person who I would say is an emailer, not an enactor. He emails all his issues, en masse, in separate emails. I usually get approx. 40 emails within a span of 2 hours from him, and he expects me to react to every..single..one.. He then wonders why I don't respond to each one.

I should also add that he is the plant manager, and should be actually managing the plant, not managing his computer. He doesn't know anything that goes on in the plant because he won't get off his @ss to walk around.