Ok, it's a Friday afternoon and all this talk of offices got me to thinking about things that annoy me about small offices.
I'll start the ball rolling about most annoying things.
In small accounts / credit control offices (this never happens in large businesses... Except on Budget day which is acceptable) on several occassions I have encountered people with radio's on. Personally I find this the most annoying, unprofessional thing that you can have.
It's actually in my company's employment contract that employee's will not have anything that distracts other members of staff (espechially me) from their work. This includes radios and personal stereo's (which the people listening to them seem to have absolutely no idea that everyone else in the office suffers the tinny beat of their music).
Right, what is it that you find most annoying about other people in the office. (which hopefully will help to convince you all how much happier you are working from home)
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Shaun
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I think for me it is not being at home when expecting a delivery via Royal Mail. Then trying to get them to re-deliver or collect it from their depot, either way is frustrating.
We have a no radio and no mobile policy here at ICB so I don't have that to worry about.
I have to say, when I worked in an office we always had a radio on, I can't say it ever really bothered me. Most of the time I was so busy with what I was doing I never really heard it.
For me it's office politics. I can't be doing with the gossiping over the water cooler or worrying who upset who at the christmas party.
I always listen to the radio - (but only if my clients have the royalty fees of course!) Shaun you're just a fuddy duddy!! Agree with Kris - office politics are a pain - and you always get them.
I tell you what really annoys me is people that talk at the top of there voice when they are on the phone, that really gets on my nerves but I do find the radio very soothing if the volume is low just in the background and its on heart now that helps me get through the day
This morning what I don't like about being in my office is the constant stream of sales calls!
Generally I much prefer being office based than home based, and I like being able to leave work at work at the end of day. Realise this is meant to be an office-negative thread though so that may not help!
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Jenny
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think that I've always been an old fuddy duddy from an early age!
Maybe I've got a faulty brain or something but music hits the reset switch and I cannot concentrate when there is any music about at all. Even if it's just walking into a shop to buy something if there's music playing I have to walk back out to remember what it was that I went in there for in the first place!
Strangely, I seem to have a children filter where I can have several of them running around the house and still work quite merrily but either silence or sounds of anguish gets the old parent senses to cut back in immediately.
Hi Jenny (not that you're not people but thought that I would take your response seperately),
it's not actually meant to be anti office, just what would you change about the office. Mine is definitely a total ban on radio's which I see having no place in an office although from the responses above I think that I may have some difficulty enticing staff to work for me!
On the office front I'm definitely for a seperate office where you have staff. I know that a close freind of mine tried to run her business from home and staff would just take whatever they wanted from her fridge assuming that it was kept stocked for them. I think that came largely not taking the work environment seriously because it was not a proper office environment even though it was a dedicated area of the house.
Shaun.
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Shaun
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I've had staff working from my home before, it's not nice. The other benefit of the office is that clients don't know where you live. I found that they would just turn up whenever they felt like it and it was intrusive.
If I could change my office then I'll like to employ someone with a large fan and a ready supply of Cadburys to keep me on an even keel during the day!
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Jenny
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I found the most annoying thing about offices, is the way peoples seem to be scared of fresh air . . . . oh and the fact that as a temp I sometimes have had my desk actually in a cupboard!
Lots of stories about temping (in the long and distant past) but one that really annoyed me was a place where I was given all the work (once I'd finished they found me more from other peoples desks) whilst the staff stood around each others desks chatting and all the staff had their own cups and coffee/tea stash in their desks and showed me where the coffee machine was - up three flights of stairs and along a corridor! Talk about an unfriendly place, I only stayed for one week and told the agency I never wanted to go back.
-- Edited by semsley on Wednesday 10th of August 2011 07:27:42 PM
I found the most annoying thing about offices, is the way peoples seem to be scared of fresh air . . . . oh and the fact that as a temp I sometimes have had my desk actually in a cupboard!
Listen to you all lol, wish i had the chance of the experience so i could come here and add my bit. OOOOh how i'd love to complain about my desk not being big enough and will you please turn off that damn radio, here i am looking forward to another bitterly cold winter, another year older and working out in all condiitions. My how the other half live. Does anybody remeber the story about that kid and the box of matches? where if you strike one you could see what was going on inside the buildings and houses? that's me that is.
I think that the worse things about working in an office is the failure to respect personal space! having people "dump" things on your desk or even worse in your trays and the fact that someone two desks down will email rather than coming to talk to you, oh yeah and those who dont take their turn not making the coffee
-- Edited by BC Boy on Thursday 25th of August 2011 12:47:47 PM
) Shaun you're just a fuddy duddy!! 
Agree with Kris - office politics are a pain - and you always get them.
, oh yeah and those who dont take their turn not making the coffee
