Work Annoyances

[mommyatty]

Put them here.

I supervise a team of about 8 men. All men. And omg, they are such whiny pee pee pants children. I sent an email to one of them today reminding him he needed to provide an agenda this morning to our VP for a monthly update. It should be a standard effing agenda that takes 2 minutes to update each month, max. Every month, the VP asks why an agenda wasn’t sent early as he’s requested. Every month, this guy has an excuse. In return to my email, he sent an email about how he tries each month to get more on top of this, his kids are off school today, he almost rescheduled the meeting but decided to come in for it, blah blah blah. At least once a month, it’s like he tries to make me feel guilty for his actually showing up for work. I DNGAF that your kids have the day off. If you wanted to take a vacation day, you should have taken it. Now send the MFing agenda. To make it worse, this guy is independently wealthy from family money. He works because his son has a heart condition and they need the insurance. Otherwise, he really has no need for this job. 

[covergirl82]

The senior analyst that we hired back in March only graces us with her presence about 1-2 days a week. She's only supposed to WFH 2 days a week. Only half the time do we get an email if her schedule changes and she's WFH. Like today, she's supposed to be in the office, but she's not here, and it's almost noon, and no email. If the commute was going to be an issue (it's at least an hour, each way, on a good day), then she shouldn't have accepted the job. When she does come in, she rolls in around 9:00, 10:00, etc. and rolls out at 4:00 sharp.  (And I understand to an extent, because she has elementary age kids, but she could do before/after care and she only has her kids every-other week due to her divorce custody agreement.  So she should be in by 8:00 and work a full day on the days/weeks she doesn't have her kids.)  I really hope my (our) manager is handling this if it's a performance issue. (And to clarify, I don't really care if someone WFH more, but we were told 1-2 days a week (with the understanding that we could do more for weather/bad roads or sick kids if needed). But it's common courtesy to let your teammates know your schedule has changed, and if there is a change to how many days we can work from home, then that needs to be consistent across the team.)

[ECB]

I'm helping out on a huge project at work that goes live next week. I'm on the training team. The training lead isn't not a good lead. IMO. Now that we're doing go-live training, the team as a whole hasn't been communicated with AT ALL about the overall schedule. I'm responsible for 1 class.

Last week I email her that I can train today, tomorrow and WEdnesday. I'm unavailable Thurs/ Fri (due to my "real" job responsibilities and taking time off). YEsterday she emails me and asks if I can do a class Wednesday and 2 on Friday. If I can't, she'll "rearrange her schedule". I tell her I can't do Friday as I"m off.

THen she asks me about Thursday.

1- I've already emailed her that I'm unavailable those 2 days and 2- my calendar is up to date! She can look at it and see what my availability is!!!!

Grrrr....

[rere]

mommyatty, It sounds that in the amount of time he takes to make and excuse, he could have done the agenda.

1. People who have to have their hand held every. single. step.
2. Bureaucratic bullshit. You make us beg for money. Then you put up elevntybillion roadblocks and rules that make no sense. There is no allowance for someone to make a common sense decision, because common sense is against the rules.

[mustardseed2007]

I'm so overwhelmed with work. I asked our HR person today to get me more candidates. I need someone. I'm putting out all my feelers. I was once reticent to mention I was hiring but now I tell everyone hoping SOMEONE will bring me a decent candidate.

[waverly]

One of my employees is basically the most efficient person on the planet. But our boss gives her zero training and direction. Ugh.

[186momx]

I just want my payroll clients to send me payroll first thing in the morning so I can get my day moving. It is 10am and I'm still waiting on both clients to send me payroll. They both get paid today too.

[twinmomma]

I get told things are "not in the budget" or "more than we wanted to spend" but I'm never given an actual number to work from... I just have to plan something, put together a proposal, and try to get it approved piece by piece. It's the most painfully inefficient way to manage projects. We end up re-doing work 10 times over until we find the magic number that people are comfortable with. And it gives me nothing to stand on when people make ridiculous demands, because they know there's no real budget so I can't push back with "be more realistic in your spending" arguments.

[supertrooper1]

My job is 95% email based from clients. My coworkers also go back and forth with conversations via email, which mixes into my client emails that I need to answer. I wish they would communicate more on IM and not generate more emails. I know we've had this discussion on WP before, but the "thank you" emails drive me nuts because they're so unnecessary!

[k3am]

My work annoyance is colleagues who respond to emails from their phones without taking care to double check who they’re responding to.

A client emailed us, an employee responded thinking it was going to their manager, when in fact, it went to the client. Obviously all kinds of chaos has ensued.

Eff that person for making my life harder than it needs to be.

Full disclosure: it was me. I emailed my client with commentary thinking I was forwarding it to my boss. Thank goodness I didn’t say anything inappropriate, but yep. Making my own life hard.

[dove]

I’m starting to really dislike my boss. A lot.

[shakinros]

I lead a meeting every two weeks of the group of employees who have similar job functions. It’s called a team meeting but is actually about 5 small teams all together. 90 minutes of time. 3hrs a month is all I’m expecting.

We’ve been working on organizational culture recently because people have complaints. Then we get to this meeting and they have opposite complaints. They want to have time for discussion. They don’t want to hear questions that don’t apply to them. They want a shorter, more efficient meeting. They want guest speakers to come in (necessitating a longer meeting). They want to move it to the morning. But not Friday morning. And Monday morning would also not be great. And Tuesday-Thursday are no good because everyone’s small team meetings are then.

Listen y’all, I can’t make the meetings more collaborative and less siloed while also making them shorter and more content-specific. Suck it up and be nice to your coworkers for 3hrs a month.