re: Office pet peeves (what's yours?)

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We use Outlook calendar and everyone’s calendar is shareable. So if you need to schedule a meeting or call with someone all you have to do is pull up their calendar and see if they’re busy, traveling, etc. It works great but we still have a handful of people who still can’t grasp the concept.

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Ah. That's smart. We have that internally since we all work remotely and in different time zones, but we don't share our calendars with clients.

My work doesn't really lend itself to that working out, unfortunately. The majority of the times that I'm too busy to handle a client's cold call are not because I'm not around at all - but because I'm working on something more important which wouldn't be on a calendar.

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Ah. That's smart. We have that internally since we all work remotely and in different time zones, but we don't share our calendars with clients.

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Same here. We share calendars internally only.

When you send over a document for signature and they send back just the signature page.

This pisses me off to no end. Why? Because every profession, whether you're in sales, supply chain, law, contracts, etc. has to have a complete single document.

You're either having to go back and substitute that page into a complete document and it looks absolutely wonky.

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If this keeps happening to you, you’re the common denominator. Maybe you should change how you’re messaging it?

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My typical message reads like this:

“Please see attached IRM on revised -*whatever*. This IRM is effective immediately. Please copy to your files for future reference”

Should I say this instead:

“Hey little buddy. How you doing? You’re so awesome. Hey, could you look at this IRM and save it to your files? If you could that would be awesome. But, If you don’t feel like it, that’s fine too. You can just pretend you’ve never seen this IRM and instead contact me to ask something that you’d already know if you’d have read and saved this IRM to your files. Either way, you’re special, you’re unique, and I love you.”

People who try to squeeze in a bunch of vacation time at the end of the year because they “don’t want to lose them”.

The answer is no. Plan your time better throughout the year.

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Didn’t mean to trigger you. You’re a smart guy, I’m sure you’ll figure it out.

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The only thing you triggered was my sarcastic sense of humor.

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Because every profession, whether you're in sales, supply chain, law, contracts, etc. has to have a complete single document.

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But it doesn't have to come from the person who signed it. If you send the execution copy over, and they send back just the signature page, you can follow up with the fully executed compiled doc.

People who put their whole lunch box in the fridge.

We have a female coworker who put those strong smelling mints on the sides of each toilet that burn my nostrils, we don’t have urinals. Currently I’m taking a leak outside behind my truck.
Also we have female engineers that wear those ripped jeans and a disney character t shirt, not professional.

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Coworkers that burn incense or have strong smelling candles, etc. – I can’t stand those

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One time a co-worker thought our building was haunted and burned sage around the building for like a week. Worst work week of my life.