Top Ten Office Annoyances

[Wino]

Not that most of us have to put up with office stress and jargon anymore, but I thought this top ten list interesting.

LONDON (Reuters) – Grumpy colleagues, slow computers and office jargon are the things that annoy workers most, according to a survey on Wednesday.

"Thinking outside the box" and "Let's touch base" were the most hated buzz phrases among the 1,836 people surveyed by Opinium research.

Nearly two-thirds of them said their stress levels had been increased by office irritations and one in 10 had left a job because of them.

The survey found the Top 10 office annoyances were:

1. Grumpy or moody colleagues (37 percent)

2. Slow computers (36)

3. Small talk/gossip in the office (19)

4. The use of office jargon or management-speak (18)

5. People speaking loudly on the phone (18)

6. Too much health and safety in the work place (16)

7. Poor toilet etiquette (16)

8. People not turning up for meetings on time or at all (16)

9. People not tidying up after themselves in the kitchen (15)

10.Too cold/ cold air conditioning (15)

The most annoying jargon:

1. Thinking outside the box (21 percent)

2. Let's touch base (20)

3. Blue sky thinking (19)

4. Blamestorming (16) (sitting down and working out whose fault something is)

5. Drill down to a more granular level (15) (Look into something in more detail)

6. Let's not throw pies in the dark (15) (we need a plan rather than a haphazard approach)

7. I've got that on my radar (13)

8. Push the envelope (12)

9. Bring your A-game (11) (Be ready to do something to best of ability)

10. Get all your ducks in a row (11)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100210/od_nm/us_office

[lvdkeyes]

Another office annoyance was meetings that went on for too long with nothing accomplished while work was piling up.

[Beer Chang]

Grumpy coworkers, slow computers, and almost all meetings.

Jargon gets in the way of communication, but I understand it, so what the hell.

[Thaimo]

You are accountable.

Let's discuss new strategies.

Meetings at which someone says, "I won't read to you," and then they read to you.

And my all time favorite - the one that most makes me want to vomit: "Thank you for sharing that with me."

[Beer Chang]

"Thank you for sharing that with me."

Seems like you worked in a kinder gentler place than me Thaimo. We were more about leveraging the platform.

[Thaimo]

Seems like you worked in a kinder gentler place than me Thaimo.

And I thank God every day that the word "work" is now applied in the past tense. While I'm not thrilled about getting old, the silver lining on that cloud is "The Big R." Retirement is a wonderful thing. Often I miss what I did for a living, but I sure don't miss those annoyances.

[Beer Chang]

I don't miss the stress of work. And I hated having to be a t work and not having enough vacation time. But sometimes I miss work, but just a little.

[Wino]

I enjoyed my working years and many of my co-workers. I didn't think I would enjoy retirement. WRONG! I still carry into retirement one of the office annoyances and that is "slow computers." I should not be bothered with such petty annoyances. I guess patience is a virtue.