re: What is the pettiest thing that you let annoy you at work?

In meetings, one of my coworkers chews gum with his mouth open and I want to cry.

To be fair, sometimes it's easy to miss. For our email system, reply all is the default when you click. To change it to reply, you have to select it differently. This makes it easy to reply all when you don't mean to, particularly so if you're in a hurry. Most email systems, at least in my experience, have been just reply and you have to select reply all, so it's easy to forget to remove the reply all.

The older females who constantly complain about how the younger females wear clothes that are too revealing.

My passive / passive overly eager to fit in, relief. When people talk so load you can't think straight!!!!

What is this "work" I keep reading about?

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When there’s donuts and someone comes up and makes a joke about why they’re getting two.

“Oh these are diet donuts right?”

“My cube neighbor wants one, wink!”

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That's seriously cringeworthy. Mostly because you know deep down inside, those donuts are the only exciting spark they'll have that week.

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This one coworker will forward me emails that I've already received and a lot of times it will be emails that are sent to like five people and she can see that I'm included on the email if she looks but I'm pretty sure she just blindly forwards me the email. Every time I tell her yeah I saw the email already, but she just keeps sending them... it's extremely annoying

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Could be worse, I have a coworker that feels the need to come and tell me what those emails say. He can clearly see that I am copied in on the e-mail, or usually they are directed to me and he's copied in; and he still feels the need to come and tell me what the email says.

He's also the type to e-mail you something, then come and tel you about it 5 minutes later. I've had to tell him he can do one or the other a few times, but not both.

Nina in the next cubicle, hands down.

I guess this technically isn’t petty, but it pisses me right off.

We have a woman in my office who, every time we have some sort of office “pot luck” type of food function (every now and then we do hot dog lunches or tacos, or hot chocolate, or whatever), she fricking makes a plate for some random bitch in another office in the building. I have called her out both one-on-one and in front of the rest of the office about it to no avail. Her reasoning is that the other lady does it for her too so it’s okay. When I point out that this food isn’t for the other lady, that we paid for and provided it, and that she’s basically stealing from her coworkers, she gives no fricks. She straight up doesn’t care and doesn’t think that she’s wrong anyway. It infuriates me to no end.

She’s retiring later this year, so thankfully we don’t have to deal with it for much longer. But it’s something that I just have a hard time letting go on. I know I should, but it pisses me off more than it should. And part of why is because this woman gives literally no fricks about being courteous to people around her that she works with. Another example: she FaceTimes at work on the reg. And she won’t close her door when she does it. So you can hear her yelling at her phone while the other idiot on the phone yells back. Nevermind that it is super distracting and inappropriate in a professional setting. She actually got mad at me one day when I walked to her office, gave her a “what the frick are you doing...I’m gonna close this door so you don’t piss everybody off” look, and closed her door.

Thankfully, she is now on the other side of the office from me and I literally never hear her anymore.

People standing right outside of my office to loudly catch up on their fricking weekend. For some reason there is always something SO FUNNY that requires slap-your-knee laughter, right as I am taking a phone call.