Annoying things your work colleagues do all the time? #7

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it’s not been changed?! said:
Colleague has suddenly stopped talking to me 2 weeks ago. Fortunately we’re not in the office every day, but it’s very awkward when we are left alone. I’ve tried to engage in conversation, but cba anymore. Too long in the tooth for games like this.
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That's rather uncomfortable for you and unprofessional of them. We don't have to like our work colleagues but we should at least try to be polite. Is there anyone else you can talk to at work to find out why this person is blanking you?

It could be that they've got some problems going on in their personal life and don't want to share with you.
 
Scotch Mist said:
That's rather uncomfortable for you and unprofessional of them. We don't have to like our work colleagues but we should at least try to be polite. Is there anyone else you can talk to at work to find out why this person is blanking you?

It could be that they've got some problems going on in their personal life and don't want to share with you.
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The day it began being awkward was a day our manager wasn’t in. 3 of my colleagues were already there before me when I got in and there was a bad atmosphere when I arrived an hour after them. My 2 other colleagues reckoned the other colleague heard them bitching about her. 🤷🏼‍♀️🙄 obviously I wasn’t involved in that, but there was an atmosphere. It was awkward all day, but I tried to be normal and have been ever since… except she is talking to the 2 who she heard talking about her, but not her usual self with me! Honestly, it’s so petty typing it out.
As far as I’m concerned, I’ve done nothing wrong. If she has a problem, she can come to me.
 
it’s not been changed?! said:
The day it began being awkward was a day our manager wasn’t in. 3 of my colleagues were already there before me when I got in and there was a bad atmosphere when I arrived an hour after them. My 2 other colleagues reckoned the other colleague heard them bitching about her. 🤷🏼‍♀️🙄 obviously I wasn’t involved in that, but there was an atmosphere. It was awkward all day, but I tried to be normal and have been ever since… except she is talking to the 2 who she heard talking about her, but not her usual self with me! Honestly, it’s so petty typing it out.
As far as I’m concerned, I’ve done nothing wrong. If she has a problem, she can come to me.
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It‘s so annoying, isn’t it? Grown adults behaving like primary school kids. One person where I work doesn’t like one of her colleagues so she throws colleague’s coat and high vis on the floor every time she comes in. It’s utterly pathetic.
 
it’s not been changed?! said:
Colleague has suddenly stopped talking to me 2 weeks ago. Fortunately we’re not in the office every day, but it’s very awkward when we are left alone. I’ve tried to engage in conversation, but cba anymore. Too long in the tooth for games like this.
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Have a similar situation

Apparently managers have discussed it with the department in private and have made it out like we as the department are at fault for something or other

Thing is to get this person to talk to begin with is extremely difficult and conversations are a two way street
 
cowtastrophe said:
It‘s so annoying, isn’t it? Grown adults behaving like primary school kids. One person where I work doesn’t like one of her colleagues so she throws colleague’s coat and high vis on the floor every time she comes in. It’s utterly pathetic.
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Wow. Just wow. And the fact that the so-called management are allowing this petty behaviour to continue.
 
EvilJigglypuff said:
Have invested a lot of time into training multiple people this year just for them to duck off and get a new job shortly after 😩 I know it’s life and there’s nothing I can do about it, it’s just frustrating knowing I now I have to repeat this again with someone else
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Same in healthcare .. you train the students and they qualify and move to different areas/ country’s .. but I guess your input is put to use somewhere Zz just not on your shift hahaha
 
EvilJigglypuff said:
Have invested a lot of time into training multiple people this year just for them to duck off and get a new job shortly after 😩 I know it’s life and there’s nothing I can do about it, it’s just frustrating knowing I now I have to repeat this again with someone else
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Where I work a lot of the staff have had external courses paid for them for professional development and the same thing happens all the time. My ex boss looked into if it would be lawful to ask that after completion of a course they should at least stay for 6 months or pay back the fees. She was informed by HR that this couldn't be enforced.
Now they've just slashed the training budget to nothing.
 
Scotch Mist said:
Where I work a lot of the staff have had external courses paid for them for professional development and the same thing happens all the time. My ex boss looked into if it would be lawful to ask that after completion of a course they should at least stay for 6 months or pay back the fees. She was informed by HR that this couldn't be enforced.
Now they've just slashed the training budget to nothing.
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I am pretty sure I had a contract that stated something similar at a previous job.
My old team has a new hire and I've suggested they send them on a course, so that person can get started on a task that needs urgent attention (aka a task I am still saddled with despite leaving their department 1.5 years ago). I gave them a list of courses, but they won't send that person anywhere for the first 6 months. "oh they can read the documentation online, and YOU are here to help" FFS!
 
Scotch Mist said:
Where I work a lot of the staff have had external courses paid for them for professional development and the same thing happens all the time. My ex boss looked into if it would be lawful to ask that after completion of a course they should at least stay for 6 months or pay back the fees. She was informed by HR that this couldn't be enforced.
Now they've just slashed the training budget to nothing.
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I have worked places where this has been policy, one guy resigned and they offered a very expensive course to get him to stay, he did, took all the exams bar the last one, then left and they couldn’t claim the money as he hadn’t finished the course.
 
I just had a meeting about a critical issue for our company, so people were a bit stressed. An irrate colleague I've never met before but seems to be high up in legal, asked me a question but kept interrupting and talking over me as I was trying to answer :mad: let me get my words out then you'll have the full story! Same as the people who ask questions during a presentation when the answer is going to on the next slide.
 
Just the lack of equal standards or good planning from management

The support team has basically collapsed in recent weeks, though it was on its last legs over the last couple of months as management weren’t enforcing expectations on how much work should be completed per day, or the standard of that work. It was eventually noticed and they got some extra training in but hasn’t fixed the problem over all.

I used to be part of the team and remember us being flagged for a number of issues weekly and it being drilled into us, hence the unequal standards

Instead management seem to be focusing on the “big” picture of how the team will work in the future. Thing is the support team hardly ever has capacity to begin with but their plans also don’t free up capacity for the team they’re actually supporting 🫠🫠
 
I'm quite new at my job and it's a learning curve for me. I'm quite happy to admit when I've made mistakes, and take criticism well. I'm learning on the job and basically learn things as I see them done, so if they're doing it wrong, I'm learning it wrong! Getting a bit pissed off with colleagues who expect me to know things that I can't possibly know, or do things the right way when all I've been shown is the wrong way.
 
Scotch Mist said:
Where I work a lot of the staff have had external courses paid for them for professional development and the same thing happens all the time. My ex boss looked into if it would be lawful to ask that after completion of a course they should at least stay for 6 months or pay back the fees. She was informed by HR that this couldn't be enforced.
Now they've just slashed the training budget to nothing.
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It’s been a while since I did my professional qualification but I’m certain I had to sign an agreement that said if I left within a year I’d have to pay my course fees!
 
Some people are really immature.

We’re working on a project and have regular check-ins where we discuss various points. Naturally, the project lead can’t always recall who raised what point or asked what question.

At some point in one of the meetings, the project lead said ‘I think TheGlossy raised that point in a previous meeting blah blah’. I didn't want to cut them off to correct them as they were talking, so I was waiting on them to pause to say ‘Jane Doe raised it’. I hate cutting people off while they’re talking.

Then Jane Doe jumps in and says ‘Actually, I’m the one who raised this point’ and seemed really aggravated over the fact the project lead thought it was my point.

It honestly doesn’t matter who raised it. I had someone raise a point I’d discussed with them and passed it off as their own for them to be told ‘that’s a really good point’. Is it annoying? Yes, but I glossed over it because we’re all working on the same project. It’s not a competition of who asked the most questions.

Someone not remembering who raised a point is not a matter to get aggravated over. Some people need to stop treating the workplace as if this were school.
 
EvilJigglypuff said:
It’s been a while since I did my professional qualification but I’m certain I had to sign an agreement that said if I left within a year I’d have to pay my course fees!
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Definitely the case with me. It takes three exams and at least 2 years to be qualified. Once you get your qualifications then you are expected to stay at least 12 months afterwards. If you leave before then, you must pay back some of the cost as well as the cost of being registered with the industry body as the company pays that for us.

In fairness, it's a pretty good qualification that's recognised globally and we get bumped up a pay grade once we qualify and to keep the qualification only takes 20 hours a year of CPD which we get reimbursed for just in time for Christmas.
 
I guess paying back for your training must depend on your initial contract of employment with the company.
Obviously there's no such clause where I work but I'm in the public sector not the private sector so I guess this must vary.
 
That person from another office location who keeps bombarding me with Teams chat messages when my status clearly says "Out of Office."
Or that coworker who replies to my emails with "can you send this to X, Y and Z, they are the ones handling this" when I had already included them in the original email recipients. They even Teams message me asking to send it to other people when I ALREADY DID, IF YOU'D JUST LOOK AT WHO MY EMAIL WAS ADDRESSED TO!!
Ahem..
 
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