Annoying coworker habits

This week the guy at the desk next to me has, for reasons unknown, begun to crack his knuckles and other body parts at intervals of about five minutes. It is driving me INSANE. INSAAAANE. He's been sitting next to me for almost three months, and this has never been a problem until now. SO WEIRD.

Anyone else have some issues with the fun little features of close quarters?

People in my office are rather chatty and it drives me nuts..

My one coworker is good about keeping decently quiet... unless she's on the phone. Then, the whole office can hear her.

There's also a group of women who like to stand at the intersection right by my desk and talk for 10-15 minutes after their lunch break...

Then, there are 2 of my coworkers that are insanely quiet walkers and freak me out whenever they show up out of nowhere right behind me...

Ugh.

Are you allowed to listen to music? If so, snap on some headphones. ;D

My husband is a cracker... used to annoy me, but not so much now.

Maybe the dude is stressed out and that he's way of dealing...

I remember I used to crack my knuckles on my hands a lot, now I can't do it anymore, it hurts. D:

ooh the quiet sneak up on you ones are annoying!

but the one who sits there yelling at her kids all day and then telling them that they are being loud (???) and bothering her coworkers (???) takes the cake. She's on the phone with them nearly all day long.

I have a coworker who makes my business her business.  Or at least she tries too.  I

f I have an appointment at luch she tries to figure out where or if I am having lunch with someone "so, you are having lunch with so and so?"

If I say nothing she will grill be about where I went to lunch when I got back "where did you eat?" 

"I had an appointment"

"where did you go?"

ugh!!!

I have a co-worker who's a heavy smoker. She's also a coffee addict, and marinates herself in strong perfume. I like the smell of coffee, and I'm a perfume girl myself, but the smell of all three turns my stomach whenever she walks by. 

I also have a colleague who likes to ask, "What's up?" or "What's the latest?" every 10 minutes. Drives me insane. 

~ twice a day the guy next to me sneezes so loud the metal desk lamps make a PIIIIIIINNNGGG (from the vibration) for a few seconds afterwards - ouch!

I also had a quiet walker problem - the jerk thought it was really funny to watch me jump when he snuck up on me. I put up a "rear view mirror" so I could see him coming - he stopped doing it.  Funny thing is two days later he put one up in his office.  I guess he didn't like his own game.

Aghhh. No one can usually sneak up on me, but the aforementioned coworker will get a bit nosey from time to time, looking at my monitor and asking, "What's that?" to which I respond, "A website." ... I'm too polite to say, "None of your business."

And it's not like it's ever something cool, like a crazy Flash site woth passing around (we're web designers), it's always something like... Express sent me a coupon and it linked me to their sale page. How fun.

the person directly next to me makes personal phone calls ALL the time. we have "cubes" with very low walls, so i hear every word.

often the calls start with a baby voiced "hi mommy, it's me"

UGH!

and she's been going through a divorce recently, and i feel bad and all, but i don't need to hear her arguing with her soon to be ex, crying, etc. several times a week! we have a little conference room soley for our department of 8ppl to use. go in there for crying out loud!!

nail clipping co-wokers.

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loud phone talkers - and when i can hear the person you are talking too, your phone volume is too damn high.

co-workers who think that every clean surface is an invitation to spread out project files and then abandon them until someone else moves them for you.

i will post more if i think of them.

Original Post by watergirl:

nail clipping co-wokers.

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that happens here too - why do people think its ok to groom themselves in public? or touch themselves (down there) when they're talking to you? I wish I had the nerve to say, "Everything okay there, bud?"

We had an employee here last year.. she drove me nuts. Lady was over 30, and yeah we have a pretty relaxed dress code (ie none) but she'd come in wearing dirty old flip flops, short shorts and spaghetti strap tank tops, and she always had the same ratty dirty worn out old sweatshirt. We had to make up a dress code just because of her (and of course after she got the boot it no longer applied haha) She'd also talk to her kids on the phone all day and email her boyfriend all day. He stole her COMPANY CREDIT CARD to pay their phone and utility bills! 

Original Post by crazydiamondchrysalis:

ooh the quiet sneak up on you ones are annoying!

but the one who sits there yelling at her kids all day and then telling them that they are being loud (???) and bothering her coworkers (???) takes the cake. She's on the phone with them nearly all day long.

 omg i have a coworker like that! she always has her phone on and the kids call all the time. You know when they have a day off cause they start calling at like 10 am. So annoying.

when people are angry they didn't get promoted then turn around and say they have too much work.  don't ya think that if you step up to the plate (consitently), you'll get rewarded?

Original Post by jules817:

the person directly next to me makes personal phone calls ALL the time. we have "cubes" with very low walls, so i hear every word.

often the calls start with a baby voiced "hi mommy, it's me"

UGH!

and she's been going through a divorce recently, and i feel bad and all, but i don't need to hear her arguing with her soon to be ex, crying, etc. several times a week! we have a little conference room soley for our department of 8ppl to use. go in there for crying out loud!!

 she's on the phone crying RIGHT NOW! FML.

Oh, yes, the nail clipping gets to me so bad.  There's a broker here who does it all the time.  I'm getting ready to throw his nail clippers away sometime when he's not here.  Take care of your personal hygiene in private.

And the co-worker who talks to her husband 10-15 times and day and then can't figure out why she can't get her work done and logs overtime in - that one frys me.  Here I am working hard during regular hours and not logging overtime.  Maybe I need to work a little slower - I could use the money.

The secretary who goes back and forth between getting melodramatic and tattling on me to being sentimental and telling me that she misses me . Misses what? I am sitting 3 feet too close to you. Not talking to her I guess? Can we just file papers please?

I liked it better when it was all men around here. Although a few of them are no better.

 Like the ones who like to try to see what everyone else is doing. And then sneak back to Facebook.

Or the old guy who fusses at people for unplugging the coffee maker. Has he forgotten how to do it himself? Or that if everything stays plugged in things short out since it is a trailer office?

The boss who scoffs at my masters degree and claims that the secretary knows more than me cause I've just "been in school forever." Same secretary that has at least 1 meltdown a week when the filing system overwhelms her and can't decide whether or not to file a flower picture that is attached to an email.

Sigh

can you tell that I am miserable?

I hate it when I have to break up fights in the waiting room because one of the therapists decides the kids can be left alone out there while she talks to the parent for a minute, which invariably turns into a half hour.

*looks at all the panty-waisted whining about nail clipping*

Original Post by cellotlhicks:

The secretary goes back and forth between getting melodramatic and tattling on me to sentimental and telling me she misses me . Not talking to her I guess? Can we just file papers please?

I liked it better when it was all men around here. Although a few of them are no better.

the ones who like to try to see what everyone else is doing

The old guy who fusses at people for unplugging the coffee maker. Has he forgotten how to do it himself? Or that if everything stays plugged in things short out since it is a trailer office?

The boss who scoffs at my masters and claims that the secretary knows more than me cause I've just 'been in school forever." Same secretary that has at least 1 meltdown a week when the filing system overwhelms her and can't decide whether or not to file a flower picture that is attached to an email.

Sigh

can you tell that I am miserable?

 good grief!

sorry sisters, but its true - men are easier to work with. I always feel like a traitor when I say that, but I've been in too many offices - some all chicks, some all dudes, some mixed - to be able to deny it. The all dudes are easiest every time. (plus its easier to get a personal day off without any questions. They do NOT want to know if you say you have "a personal issue to deal with" heh)

although it sounds like you got some annoying men in there too! that sucks.

Original Post by pavlovcat:

I hate it when I have to break up fights in the waiting room because one of the therapists decides the kids can be left alone out there while she talks to the parent for a minute, which invariably turns into a half hour.

*looks at all the panty-waisted whining about nail clipping*

 I hope it annoys the other AA when I clip MY nails. I bring in scented lotion to annoy her too.

(i only clip my nails if there is a split/ripped one, or if I didn't realize how long they'd gotten and I have to type a 30 page report..)

I hate scented lotion!!!!

My co-worker brought in one of those plug-in glade air fresheners because sometimes we get weird smells wafting in from our shop. Every time I walk past it I have to hold my  breath or else I feel like I'm going to vomit. It's right next to our little mail postaging area, so if  I have to postage mail (which I always do, because my co-worker will prepare 35 envelopes to go out yet never seals/puts postage on them) it gives me a headache. So I unplugged it and told her it made me feel gross. And she plugged it back in. So I unplugged it again. I can still smell it. If she plugs it back in I'm throwing it away.