2. most annoying office habits Many of us spend more time in our offices than we spend at home Our colleagues form a more integral part of our lives than our spouses ever will Some of us have worked with and known our colleagues for longer than we've known our spouses That really does say something about a workplace doesn't it? It won't be unfair to say that little things our co-workers do probably tick us off more than what our partners do at home So here's a list of the most annoying office habits that make us want to kill our colleagues:
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4. The idea of having a bath, shaving or wearing clean clothes seems plain alien to them
5. All they know is that they must report to work irrespective of whether they've bathed, shaved or brushed their teeth
6. It doesn't matter to them if there's a meeting with the CEO or an important bunch of clients are coming over to discuss an important deal
9. So on the other end of the spectrum, are those who survive because of the madness without the method
10. The less we speak about their desks the better -- cluttered, messy and always in a state of complete chaos!
11. Don't be surprised if you happen to find a week-old salad somewhere beneath those piles of papers and junk
12. Be gladWe can assure you that somewhere in there will be a piece of pizza that was ordered last Diwali. Untidy desks
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14. The thing with an incessant flirt is that he doesn't get it at all
15. She may be giving him the coldest of the vibes but that won't make a difference to him
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18. Despite his annoying habits, no real flirt will ever say anything nasty to any woman
19. It's simply not in his nature -- being nasty to a woman or sexist doesn't fit into his scheme of things
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21. Try explaining that you need to work and he'll probably just give you a why-the-hell-are-you-disturbing-me look, roll his eyes and continue talking anyway, without any change in his pitch or volume
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24. Or else the techies who like to believe they're writing poetry in the binary language.
25. Whether anyone is getting disturbed or not is quite simply not their concern
26. The hitch with both these characters is that neither seems to be aware of the technological advancement in hardware
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28. The colourful paper clips, post its and freshly sharpened pencils do kinda add some personality to the desk, don't they?
29. Then of course the stationery pincher makes his appearance
30. In the middle of the night, when the last of the lights has been turned off and the security is done with his last round of the day, the stationery pincher emerges from his hiding
31. And before you know it, when you clock in the next morning it's gone -- first the stapler, then that lovely note pad, followed by the pens -- of all four colours, even the whiteboard marker and finally the pen stand!
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33. Looking at the urgency on your colleague's face you take pity on him and hand out that last currency note in your wallet
36. What these folks don't understand that the very idea of 'borrowing' involves 'returning' what they've taken and not presuming that it is theirs for the keeping!
37. Now they may not be doing this on purpose but it is, as many of you would admit, quite irritating indeed
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39. All official emails that need your boss to be in the know should be marked to him/her
41. Imagine writing off an email to the invisible admin guy in the other end of the office about, let's say, the flickering tube light over your head and marking your boss on it
42. Or then pointing out a spelling mistake in the 243'd slide of a 372-slide presentation your colleague's made AND CC-ing your boss on it
59. After a good 15-minute talk about Athamma, her family, your cousin and her girlfriend/boyfriend (who as it turns out is the bone of contention) you turn around and see your colleague staring right at you and without so much blinking an eyelid launches off: "I had the same problem "
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61. Make the mistake of saying something innocuous and bam! Your colleague will tell you what a fool you are and what a terrible idea it was to do whatever you did
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63. We can assure you from personal experience that men indulge in as much office gossip as the women
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65. Everyone's having a great time, letting their hair down and you finally get the chance to chat up that hottie from marketing you've been eyeing for the last s-e-v-e-n months
66. The sad part -- and it's really sad we think -- are those who get drunk
67. Of course we do find the drunk men who dance on tables immensely funny but the ones who start hitting on women about two pegs down are the ones who deserve to smacked in the faceGetting drunk at office parties
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69. Imagine you turn around to ask your colleague to take over something from you or ask him/her about the email you'd forwarded some two hours ago and you find yourself talking to an empty chair!
70. Half hour later you turn around again and the chair's empty again and mysteriously stays that way every time you have some work with this particular colleague
71. Turns out the only time you can catch him is when s/he takes that smoke/chai break, which is basically once every 20 minutesTaking smoke/coffee breaks
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73. Sure we've come across bosses who like to have their minions do every single thing and scoot off home at the stroke of six
74. The worse though are those who insist on having everything their way.
75. So even if they do assign you a task, they'll probably spend 20 minutes telling you just how you should do it, follow it up with the same long list of instructions via email and then finally a telephone call where you'll get to hear about it all over again before of course being told how you didn't get it right
79. Region based groupism, grouping based on region/place and then talk in the regional language in front of the folks who do not understand it, and talk that way deliberately