Life in a Cubicle

Well when you spend more time at work then you do with your family, you are bound to get annoyed with your fellow co-worker's and your manager's behavior. Here is my list of the top 20 things that are annoying at work:

1. Never, and I mean never is it acceptable to clip your fingernails in your cubicle.

2. Of course many of us have to eat at our desk, so try to be considerate and keep the fish that you made the night before for dinner at home or in the garbage can.

3. Just because you have to walk past my desk to go to the bathroom, does not mean that I want to talk to you, everytime you walk by.

4. If you are a manager, remember people skills go a lot further than technical skills. So please go try to find a personality, I swear lightning won't strike you if you actually say hello to the peons that work for you, instead of nod at us while you run down the hallway.

5. Also if you are a manager, don't every say the following:
~I am too busy to answer your questions.
~If you need help, don't come to me, I am way to busy, so basically you are saying you dont want to do your job.

6. I know people have the right to smoke, but if you smoke, you get an extra hour a day in smoke breaks, I want an extra hour of fresh air breaks.

7. Also, I don't care if you smoke, but if it is raining and you still choose to smoke don't block the door so us non-smokers have to walk through a wall of smoke just to enter the building.

8. I have a kid, I love kids, but I really don't want to hear all day long about your kids and how cute they are, everyone thinks their own kid is cute, and everyone else could care less.

9. Also, on the kid thing stop badgering me for money every week to buy from this fundraiser or that fundraiser.

10. Don't call me on the phone to ask for help and when I give it to you, ignore everything I just said, why bother calling me in the first place. Along with this one, don't call and say "I know the answer but I just wanted to check", well obviously you did not know the answer.

11. I don't care if you are the president of the company, if you are sent an e-mail, acknowledge the fact, we know you have read it, this is just plain rude.

12. If you are a manager of a call center, try to not act like you are someone's mother: we are adults if we need to go to the bathroom, need a few minutes to finish something up or need to get a drink, we don't need you screaming across the department to say get back on the phone, there are calls waiting, in the time it took you to track all that and tell us to get back on the phone, you could have just taken the call, heaven forbid you actually take a call.

13. Every now and again, it would be nice to hear you guys are doing a good job, I am going to buy you guys lunch or why don't you leave a little early one day.

14. Stop having meetings, and start working!! Having meetings 3 times a day, so you can hear yourself speak, and they never result in a positive change anyway, makes no sense, and just makes everyone more behind in their work.

15. If I am ordering lunch with a few friends, that does not mean I want to pick up something for you and your friends, if I did not ask you, don't even bother asking me if I mind? Yes I mind, hence the not asking you part in the first place.

16. If you get on the elevator from the lobby to go one floor up, as soon as you hit the button, instead of the light coming on, I think there should be something that automatically ejects you right back into the lobby.

17. One more thing about elevators, it is proper etiquette, to let people get off before you steam roll over them to get inside.

18. Just because you are an exempt worker does not mean you should take off a few hours everyday to do errands and get your haircut, come on already, who do you think you are fooling.

19. Stop and I mean stop right now sending those e-mails that say your wish will come true in 3 days, as long as you forward this to 15 other suckers that believe an e-mail can make your wish come true. How ridiculous.

20. If there is a celebration at work, and you did not bring something in or contribute money, stay at your desk, everyone knows who you are and you should be ashamed of yourself.