Bad office etiquette

[Moliere]

It might just be the location of my office, but for some reason I constantly get people standing just outside my door who are engaged in a conversation. It's not annoying if it happens a couple times a time and is very quick, however it seems to happen almost hourly. In fact, as I type this there are two people who are talking and laughing and they are literally two feet in front of the entrance to my door.

There's also a conference room located across the hall and there is one group that uses it daily and they never close the door to teh room. Seriously people, I don't want to hear your discussions. It sucks even more that the accoustics of that room pretty much funnel the sound into my office.

The plus side is that I have an excuse to keep my door closed more often than not.

EDIT: Crap, this was meant for the Back Fence. Mods, feel free to move it if you want.

[TripletDaddy]

Get back at them by burning popcorn or heating fish in the office kitchen microwave.

[Moliere]

We had a guy on the floor who was 65 and ready to retire. He spent his days walking around talking to people and doing anything but work. One morning he was toasting a bagel in the kitchenette and he forgot about it. I burned and smoke went all over, causing the alarms to go off. We all got a 30 minute break from work thanks to this guy. Too bad he retired 4 weeks later.

[Omaha 680]

Using speakerphone in a cubicle environment or with your door open is a big one for me. There's something about hearing both ends of a conversation that is much more distracting than just hearing someone talking on the phone.

If you're in a cubicle, you're probably not important enough to use speakerphone. If you think you are, get a headset. If you're in an office, shut the door when you go speakerphone. At least if there are others working within earshot.

[marsupial]

Get back at them by burning popcorn or heating fish in the office kitchen microwave.

Danimal did this once and will never bring popcorn back to the office again.

[TalkyTina]

Sneaking away from the jammed printer/copier when it was your print job that jammed it. I know nobody jams a printer on purpose, but at least give it the old college try at fixing it or enlist the help of another to fix it.

and

That one person who NEVER brings anything to the potluck but partakes EVERY time. You know who you are.

[Omaha 680]

Sneaking away from the jammed printer/copier when it was your print job that jammed it. I know nobody jams a printer on purpose, but at least give it the old college try at fixing it or enlist the help of another to fix it.

Also not reloading the tray when your job emptied it. Is it really less trouble to go send your print to a different printer than to simply reload the tray? The reams are right there.

[purplmonkeydishwashr]

Crop dusting.

[Scott R Nelson]

Dialing a number on a speaker phone with the volume up is especially annoying.

I wouldn't hesitate to close the door to a conference room with too much sound coming out of it. By the second or third time for the same group I would go in and explain the concept to them.

Leaving a cell phone on your desk to ring loudly when you're not there to answer it is especially annoying. We had someone here yesterday who had some sort of alarm going off in some electronic device in his backpack while he was about fifty feet away. After the rest of us figured out that it wasn't going to stop and we knew where he was at, I picked it up and carried it to him, handing it to him as if it were a dirty diaper or something. He later apologized to everyone in the area and we all laughed about it. I doubt that it will happen again.

I'm annoyed when the printer tray goes empty and someone only puts in about 200 sheets instead of the entire 500 sheets that it was designed to hold.

In past places that I've worked, having someone send a large print job to a printer that didn't have enough paper in it, at the end of the day. Since I'm generally one of the early people into the office, I would find out AFTER sending my one-page note to the printer. At least where I currently work, most jobs don't start printing until you're at the printer and enter a PIN.

On the combination printer/copier/fax machines, waiting to input my PIN to get my one page printout while someone is copying all of their receipts from the two-week trip they just returned from, or while they go through a bunch of steps to send a fax off.

I don't know why so many of these are printer-related.

[Katy Lied]

If you are going #2 in the office bathroom, please do not select the stall in the exact middle of the bank of stalls. You pollute in both directions. The stall in the middle should be reserved for people going #3. (Surfing the internet on your cell phone or texting all your girlfriends.)

[Moliere]

That one person who NEVER brings anything to the potluck but partakes EVERY time. You know who you are.

Office potlucks are almost as disgusting as ward potlucks

[YOhio]

Office potlucks are almost as disgusting as ward potlucks

worse.

[wuapinmon]

NOT ERASING YOUR CHALKBOARDS WHEN YOUR CLASS FINISHES!

[Donuthole]

NOT ERASING YOUR CHALKBOARDS WHEN YOUR CLASS FINISHES!

Please save this kind of info for the Bad Classroom Etiquette thread. Thanks.

[DrumNFeather]

I've said it before...the loud sneezer...especially in a cube environment. Another thing for me is either being late to meetings, or having meetings run over when people are waiting outside the conference room.