Co-workers and their irritating habits

[peekaygee73]

Used to work with someone who did that. I read somewhere it was possibly a sign that something sinister was wrong. For some people constant throat clearing is probably just habit.

With this one..it is either a nervous twitch or attention seeking.

Seriously you should go to China, they do this all the time it's the same as someone in England politely coughing with their hand over the mouth.

:lol: I've spent a lot of time in China and completely agree with this one. There's a lot of throat/nasal passage clearing that goes on, then just spit on the floor whatever comes up! We've had a few guys over the UK from China and one had to be told not to go and do this in the kitchen sink in the office!

Slightly unrelated, but whilst some of my colleagues were out in China there was a bout of the shits went round all the non-Chinese people in the testing area. Turned out the cleaner only had one cloth and was cleaning everyones mugs with the same cloth he used to clean the toilet! :shock: Really glad I wasn't there that week!

 

[bosk70]

With this one..it is either a nervous twitch or attention seeking.

Seriously you should go to China, they do this all the time it's the same as someone in England politely coughing with their hand over the mouth.

:lol: I've spent a lot of time in China and completely agree with this one. There's a lot of throat/nasal passage clearing that goes on, then just spit on the floor whatever comes up! We've had a few guys over the UK from China and one had to be told not to go and do this in the kitchen sink in the office!

Slightly unrelated, but whilst some of my colleagues were out in China there was a bout of the shits went round all the non-Chinese people in the testing area. Turned out the cleaner only had one cloth and was cleaning everyone's mugs with the same cloth he used to clean the toilet! :shock: Really glad I wasn't there that week!

We had a cleaner old bloke back in the early 90's, his nose used to drip on the desks as he cleaned them and one day a woman in the office had a suspicion he was using the same cloth in the bog and the kitchen so she put a safety pin on the bog one, sure enough the next day he was cleaning the kitchen tops / micro wave and taps with the same cloth!!! the cleaning boss came in and made him have a red edged one for toilets and blue for kitchen but nobody trusted this. The nose dripping on the desks was the most irritating, and his overpowering b-o happy days :lol:

 

[theforceuk]

There the most disgusting work related/cleaning stories I've ever heard.

 

[indianawars]

I worked as a supervisor, security guard and was sent to do a site inspection on a guard at 2am to make sure he wasn't sleeping on the job... I pulled up on the site, swiped myself through the front door, walked up and opened the security office door to find them having a little fun whilst watching porn!.. I instantly wished the guy was sleeping on the job instead :lol:

 

[yoda]

That's alot of eye opening stories from work, this isn't work related but I was told once that a guy was mixing coleslaw and added an extra mix into it something which he thought was funny. I try not to think of it any time I eat coleslaw. Its a bit like the rumours you hear when you send you food back to the restaurant kitchen if your unhappy with it. Your new meal may have something extra.

 

[robpmarsh]

Annoyances at my work:

1. People who have a **** and don't flush (and also don't wipe either according to no paper in the toilet!)
2. Using the loo and not washing hands...then asking to borrow a test device soon after (we know who they are and HR have warned them about it)
3. The guy who constantly cooks smelly fish in the microwave and doesn't give it a quick wipe after
4. People who keep having a pop-up meeeting by my teams desks when there's 99% of the time a free room available they can piss off to. I've started to join in some of the chats to annoy them as it seems they want our input due to the proximity.

Ahhh......feel better now

 

[yoda]

Seriously you should go to China, they do this all the time it's the same as someone in England politely coughing with their hand over the mouth.

:lol: I've spent a lot of time in China and completely agree with this one. There's a lot of throat/nasal passage clearing that goes on, then just spit on the floor whatever comes up! We've had a few guys over the UK from China and one had to be told not to go and do this in the kitchen sink in the office!

Slightly unrelated, but whilst some of my colleagues were out in China there was a bout of the shits went round all the non-Chinese people in the testing area. Turned out the cleaner only had one cloth and was cleaning everyone's mugs with the same cloth he used to clean the toilet! :shock: Really glad I wasn't there that week!

We had a cleaner old bloke back in the early 90's, his nose used to drip on the desks as he cleaned them and one day a woman in the office had a suspicion he was using the same cloth in the bog and the kitchen so she put a safety pin on the bog one, sure enough the next day he was cleaning the kitchen tops / micro wave and taps with the same cloth!!! the cleaning boss came in and made him have a red edged one for toilets and blue for kitchen but nobody trusted this. The nose dripping on the desks was the most irritating, and his overpowering b-o happy days :lol:

Again nothing to do from work but I understand the Asian thing regarding toilets. I was in northern Cambodia and Laos traveling and the toilet situation wasn't what I was used too. All they had was a poor sewage system its nothing basically. Any time I went I could never find the bog roll! All was there was a barrel with a cup for cleaning the soiled parts of your body. I never could bring myself to using it. Running clean water to wash your hands or to have a drink didn't exist. Only bottled water and then you had to double check the cap seal to make sure that it wasn't a refill. I could see kids swimming and clothes getting washed in the river where the toilets also wer running into. I think they are so immune to this if I went for a swim god knows what I would pick up. We wer warned to plug our ears if we wanted to swim. I decided to give it a pass.
The poorer South American countries have also different toilet habits to us. There is plenty of bog roll the only thing is its also poor sewage systems. Once your clean yourself the soiled toilet paper is left in the corner of the toilet. Its brushed up by a cleaner every so often. Its not nice trying to do a crap with the flies buzzing around you and hoping they don't land on you because you know where they have been feeding.
One thing I have learned from it all is to have a good supply of Arret!

 

[x-pack]

Another one or two from my days in the police...

Almost every single time I used the stalls in the bogs some dirty filthy ****er had **** all over the bowl and not flushed it. It was like someone in the nick had constant shits ...for nine years!

Eating meals, not just snacks, at the computer terminals. There was bits of food stuck in the keyboards!

People spreading illness has to be the biggest most ridiculous thing about office culture. Staff can be so afraid of going off sick with minor yet contagious sickness. Just stay off! It prevents so much misery.

 

[stormcab]

Fellow London cabbies are some of the worst dressed people on the planet. This one showed up in cafe today

 

[yoda]

Fellow London cabbies are some of the worst dressed people on the planet. This one showed up in cafe today

:lol: :lol: He's probably not a bad bugger but those pants its just not right :lol: :lol:

 

[peekaygee73]

Fellow London cabbies are some of the worst dressed people on the planet. This one showed up in cafe today

:shock: Is he moonlighting at Pineapple Dance Studios?

 

[lejackal]

What annoys me, in life and at work, is people not replying to messages - I'd prefer to be told to get ****ed than just plain ignored :evil:

 

[x-pack]

Fellow London cabbies are some of the worst dressed people on the planet. This one showed up in cafe today

:shock: Is he moonlighting at Pineapple Dance Studios?

I had to scroll down to get the full effect. :lol: What da fuk! :lol:

 

[stormcab]

Fellow London cabbies are some of the worst dressed people on the planet. This one showed up in cafe today

:shock: Is he moonlighting at Pineapple Dance Studios?

I had to scroll down to get the full effect. :lol: What da fuk! :lol:

It's an utter embarrassment. Once drivers get their badges, that's them left to do what the hell they want. We've been banned from many hotel toilets. I don't even want to know what they did in the toilets to ban all of us. With no boss or ruling body, these drivers basically just become feral. I don't know how some have the front to get out of their cabs at top hotels and stations to put luggage in. The latest thing giving us a bad name, is 1000s of us are now on Twitter, and lots have to taken to trolling Uber users, particularly celebrities. Now, I won't get into the black cab/Uber debate on here, but a w****r cab trolls a celeb, the celeb RTs to their millions of followers, that one driver is now how millions suddenly see us.

 

[yoda]

That hotel toilet thingy I'd say it's better you don't know why theres a ban. Its abit of a pain though if you've a dose of the shits someday and you are forbidden from using the loo because of actions of some other dirty bastards.

 

[stormcab]

What annoys me, in life and at work, is people not replying to messages - I'd prefer to be told to get ****ed than just plain ignored :evil:

That's life in general though isn't it. Goes on in my trade big time. There are 1000s of us on Twitter, and we've all formed groups, sub groups etc. Everyone gets bitched about, usually in DMs, and it's always awkward when someone DMs me and bitches about someone. I hate talking about people behind their back, as I hate it having it done to me. So have to be as diplomatic as possible with them.