Things that annoy you - the official thread

[DML]

Where I work should be utterly prime for that sort of bullshit, but thankfully I work for a northerner.

[Rightey]

This project is time sensitive. strawberry float off and just say urgent!

Synergy

[coldspice]

I think we could probably make a thread all by itself listing the almost endless crap in corporate office environments. The whole time spent there from the moment you walk in to the moment you desperately leave at night is like stepping into an alternate dimension where you have to become a douche to fit in with the other douches.

Small office setups can probably escape the annoyances a bit and offer a better experience I guess. Until the company expands and middle managers start trying to 'optimize human capital' & bring in weekly change control meetings to make themselves look busy.

As somebody who works in IT, I must stand up for Change Control

[Errkal]

I think we could probably make a thread all by itself listing the almost endless crap in corporate office environments. The whole time spent there from the moment you walk in to the moment you desperately leave at night is like stepping into an alternate dimension where you have to become a douche to fit in with the other douches.

Small office setups can probably escape the annoyances a bit and offer a better experience I guess. Until the company expands and middle managers start trying to 'optimize human capital' & bring in weekly change control meetings to make themselves look busy.

As somebody who works in IT, I must stand up for Change Control

Same here, change is essential.

[Drumstick]

Change is essential as it enables us to encompass our blue-ocean opportunities.

[False]

I work in IT and change control is shite that means more work for me

[Qikz]

The fact people leave here and never say why or bye ;_;

Also I've never been affected by this personally, but the fact Teleworking is proven to be more efficent and better for companies (even Cisco have said this themselves) yet most big organisations don't use it as they need to change the way they manage things.

[Moggy]

The fact people leave here and never say why or bye ;_;

It's more annoying when they do say goodbye and then come back a few days later.

[Green Gecko]

The fact people leave here and never say why or bye ;_;

Also I've never been affected by this personally, but the fact Teleworking is proven to be more efficent and better for companies (even Cisco have said this themselves) yet most big organisations don't use it as they need to change the way they manage things.

I've been freelancing for ages but I used gantt charts and timesheets etc on a project management system for the first time. I worked different time like 2 hours to 7 hours over 2 months (almost all because of client delay ie my ex boss ) but it all added up to the same time and budget I would usually charge in a lump sum with some unrealistic deadline set by the client.

My expenses were 0 and I was unfit for work the whole time. In a traditional office environment I reckon this would have taken me at least 50% longer and would probably have been way more stressed. Plus there's a record of everything.

Most people are perfectly capable of managing themselves at least if they've studied to a decent level (which teaches self discipline), had some project ownership before and actually want to get paid.

[Fatal Exception]

The fact people leave here and never say why or bye ;_;

Also I've never been affected by this personally, but the fact Teleworking is proven to be more efficent and better for companies (even Cisco have said this themselves) yet most big organisations don't use it as they need to change the way they manage things.

I've been freelancing for ages but I used gantt charts and timesheets etc on a project management system for the first time. I worked different time like 2 hours to 7 hours over 2 months (almost all because of client delay ie my ex boss ) but it all added up to the same time and budget I would usually charge in a lump sum with some unrealistic deadline set by the client.

My expenses were 0 and I was unfit for work the whole time. In a traditional office environment I reckon this would have taken me at least 50% longer and would probably have been way more stressed. Plus there's a record of everything.

Most people are perfectly capable of managing themselves at least if they've studied to a decent level (which teaches self discipline), had some project ownership before and actually want to get paid.

But how do you solve the masturbation problem?

[Green Gecko]

I just block that in as unbilled time similar to breaks.

[coldspice]

I work in IT and change control is shite that means more work for me

Everyone should follow my team's example....

>Implement Change Management
>Make sure everything you ever do is out of scope.

[Lagamorph]

Change control is great if it's done properly.

However I've yet to encounter it done anything close to resembling proper Change Control.

[Victor Mildew]

I heard a new one the other day, ideation.

Ideation.

IDEATION.

The guy who introduced this to the office got the sack today. He'd not been there long at all. The two have to be related.

[KingK]

BT are annoying me.

We moved house in July within the same town but couldn't keep our phone number as different exchange. Our number went from a (area code + 6 digits) to (same area code + 5 digits). BT couldn't seem to grasp the fact that my prepaid 12 months line rental on the old line should move to the new line and it's taken 2 months for them to refund me the overcharges they've done.

To top it all, I've just tried to renew my line rental saver online only to be told that it's not within 27 days (it is, it expires on 4th Oct) and that the phone number on my account is my old one, and worse, when I input the new phone number it tells me it's not correct and is missing a digit! So, trying to be clever I added a '0' to the end of the new 5 digit number but that's an invalid number for my account. All other numbers 1-9 get the same message. So BT.com is telling me that the number they assigned me is too short and I cannot enter it on their system and I cannot update my own account with the correct number. I also appear to never be able to take out line saver to save me £40-£50 a year on their extortionate charges.

Bastards

[Imrahil]

Change control is great if it's done properly.

However I've yet to encounter it done anything close to resembling proper Change Control.

The biggest issue in my experience is that it's often 'implemented' when there's no need for it. It's becoming a catch-all process to stretch out every minor thing into a big serious thing that needs to be triple-checked, ratified, relayed to people who don't need to be there and approved, etc.

It's a 'busy' manager's wet dream for the most part.

[Poser]

Clucky middle-aged women who, when they've just had to climb two consecutive flights of stairs for the first time in five years, say 'Well, that's my exercise done for the day.'

Just strawberry float off. You're not funny, and don't try implying to me that 1) that represented exercise and 2) you get anything like daily exercise.

[Moggy]

Clucky middle-aged women who, when they've just had to climb two consecutive flights of stairs for the first time in five years, say 'Well, that's my exercise done for the day.'

Just strawberry float off. You're not funny, and don't try implying to me that 1) that represented exercise and 2) you get anything like daily exercise.

I get my exercise from pressing the button in the lift that takes me to floor 2.

[KK]

People, usually women, that say they want to be left alone. They then come back to you at a later date and ask why you haven't spoken to them in ages. Because you strawberry floating told me...

Sigh.

[Mockmaster]

I am annoyed by politicians that have been coached to silence their Ts in certain words so that they sound 'more of the people' and relate-able.