Hey Pandas, What Are Some Behaviors You Wish Your Employer And/Or Co-Workers Would Stop Doing? (Closed)

Just because we work together doesn't mean we have to be friends and hang out.

Just because I don't want to be friends and hang out after work with you, doesn't make me an a*****e. I don't think I'm better than you.

I have to spend 8 hours of my day, 5 days a week, around you and I have my own life to live outside of work.

I am sick of people pretending that emails are not a valid form of communication. If I ask a question via email, people are given a pass for missing it, because emails don't really count(?!?). Followed by "You should really have these conversations in person if it's important." Of course if I ask the question in person and get no response, "Do you have this documented anywhere? You should really try to save any important discussions in email."

Do classmates count? I wish he’d stop *touching* me. It’s never sexual or anything, but it shouldn’t have to be, not when I’ve told him multiple times I just don’t like to be touched, please don’t put your hand on my shoulder, please don’t poke me to get my attention, please don’t sneak up on me and grab my shoulders to scare me. I’ve told him this, I just don’t want him to touch me. It’s not for anything like past abuse or anything like that, it’s just a preference. I tell him “don’t touch me,” and he pokes me and says “touch!” I tell him I need my personal space and he says “f**k your bubble!” There are people who I am comfortable touching me, and there are people who I am not. The former consists of maybe 2 people, if they need a hug or a literal shoulder to lean on, I am more than happy to be their support, I’m okay with that contact. And in a relationship, although I’ve never been in one, I feel like physical affection would be super important to me: it doesn’t show in my daily life, because there’s no one to show it to, but I’m a very cuddly person. The thing is, he’s not my partner, he never will be (lesbian), and he’s not one of those two people who are the exception. I’ve been clear and concise. I’m so tired of it.

Stop worrying about what others are doing. Quit monitoring their bathroom/other breaks.

I don't mind meetings- it gets us off the floor for an hour and gives us a break. But lately all of our meetings are being held after hours, forcing me to attend during what is supposed to be my time off. It's a pointless meeting and instead of having it in the middle of the day they hold it after 5pm when a lot of us are off, so we have to come back. We get paid for the time we're there but I don't want the money.... I want my time. I live an hour away so when they have these meetings I just have to sit around for an hour without getting paid, waiting to punch back in and have a pointless meeting talking about how we've aquired a new parking lot or how good our sales have been or ....any number of things that could easily be sent in a memo.

Employers: You act like You can easily replace me and when I ask for a day off, you lose your mind as if your business will crash in one day.
Co-workers: we're spending 50% of our awaken life together, stop being an A-hole, stop conspiring too much

If classmates count, I wish all the a*****e boys in my grade would stop thinking they are “all that” disrespecting a teacher isn’t funny and harassing people isn’t funny either. I’m so tired of them thinking they are hilarious for doing dumb stuff.

Do not distance yourselves from a colleague who has mental health issues. We don’t bite. You won’t catch anything from us. We may get upset at the most silly things. We may just want to quietly get on with our work. But you don’t need to shun us. You definitely don’t all band together so that we lose our jobs. Learn about our problems, don’t push us away so that you can forget about us.

Having rules that aren't enforced or are enforced inconsistently. If you're not going to enforce a rule, get rid of it!

I wish some of my Co workers would stop trying to be supervisors. It's annoying.

Allowing certain coworkers to get away with something while reprimanding the newer or weaker team members for the same thing. I've noticed office culture is a lot like high school in the sense that the popular coworkers get treated better and almost never have consequences to their actions. Meanwhile other coworkers get picked apart for everything they do and are often scapegoats to problems that are actually across the board. The newer employees are often treated with such disregard but really the problem stems from poor training, lack of teamwork from other coworkers, and having practically zero support.

i would LOVE it if my coworkers would at least try to think about a solution for their problem before asking anyone else.

So often they know the answer what to do pretty well but ASK to avoid the responsibility for the decissions.

Could just be me but I hate pot lucks, especially work pot lucks. After everyone knows this they should be able to: A) stop inviting me and B) give up on the goddamn guilt trips.

1. Stop walking into my open office door and plopping into a chair and just waiting to see when I'll stop working to acknowledge the interruption.
2. Stop pushing open the barely-cracked door and doing #1 above.
3. Stop asking me where the guy in the office next to me is right now.
4. I don't support your team. Stop calling and asking me to do things for you because "you'd rather work with me". You put me in a bad position, and I'm not going to do that work for you.
5. Stop telling the person in #4 that you would rather they do things the way I do/do as much as I do - makes our working relationship awkward. We have very different experience levels, and it is understood that I bring a little more to the job than others. I am also compensated to do more, and they are not.

Smoking weed during work hours. I have no problems with people and recreational drug use. You do you, as long as you're not hurting anyone. There's six of us in the office and two of them always go in their car and smoke during lunch and breaks. They come back reeking of marijuana and it's not only annoying but unprofessional. If any of the higher ups ever came in we'd all be in trouble. The room is permeated with the smell. There's about 3 of those oil warmers going at all times to mask the smell. I usually come home with a headache because of the smell, whether it be the weed or the fragrance from the scented oils.

No I do not want to contribute to someone’s leaving/retirement/maternity gift when I have never met them but happen to work for the same company!!!!!!

Stop writing disrespectful e-mails. Use some etiquette.

Rules should be equal across the board for everyone. As stated in county employee handbook.

Using an E-mail chain to brief others on a subject. As a communication advisor, this happens A LOT.

People in the back and front office realise (after mailing back and forth on something for 2 weeks) that at some point someone from 'communication-department' is going to have to look at this too. Mainly to figure out how to communicate the issue to customers and the higher ups, get writers and developers on the project etc. etc. So the quickest fix? Just send the chain of 30 emails and tell met that 'it's all in there'.

And I always end up scrolling through 5 emails and calling a group meeting (and finding a time and date that everyone can attend is an issue) so the project just freezes for almost a week.

JUST WRITE ME A COMPREHENSIVE BRIEFING

Stop chewing so loud and please stop smacking your mouth when you are eating lunch at your desk. I don't know if you can hear yourself, but the rest of us can. Go eat in your car instead.