In a lifetime, where it’s estimated you’ll spend a total of 12 years at work, with 15 months of that over and above your contracted hours, there’s bound to be one or two things that send you over the edge when it comes to co-workers. Whether it’s the milk thief or the office spy, we all know someone with bad habits when it comes to work. It was tough, but we’ve managed to narrow it down to our top six most annoying co-worker habits.
The Self Groomers
There’s a time and a place for preening. That time is not at your desk, when you should be working. We know not everyone is a morning person and can find the time to put their face on before coming to work but maybe leave the hairspray, perfume and face highlighter touch-ups until lunchtime at least!
Fridge Raiders
Is there anything worse than going to make your 10am coffee only to find that someone has used the last of your milk? You’ve tried stickers, verbal warnings and even buying your own Stella beer fridge, but somehow the midnight milk thief is still at it.
The Knuckle Crackers
If you work in a quiet office sometimes it can be nice to break the silence. What’s not so nice is the sound of cracking knuckles, necks, anything in your body that shouldn’t naturally make that noise…
Office Detectives
Don’t you have enough work to be getting on with without needlessly walking past my computer and asking me what I’m doing? Back to your stations people!
Noisy Eaters
At times when you work in an office, you can hear a pin drop. It’s at that point in time that the culprit kicks in and opens their play-piece – their Smokey Bacon Golden Wonder. It’s officially been named as Misophonia – the hatred of loud eaters. So take that break and ease your co-workers of the loud munching and crunching.
Fish-pie anyone?
We thought Fish Friday’s were a thing of the past, but some old habits die hard. As everyone is gearing up for the weekend, BOOM – you’re hit with the waft of fish! Just what you need to get you out the door even quicker on a Friday, as it continues to linger for the rest of the afternoon.
We can’t promise your new place will free of bad habits, but we do have thousands of top jobs to choose from, search now on s1jobs.com.