What irritates you most about your annoying colleagues?

Published Thursday, April 21, 2016

By Staff

No matter how perfect any workplace might be, people will have complaints about their working environment and their colleagues.

So, what are some of the most common gripes that employees feel irritated about in the office?

According to a UK poll surveying 2,500 office workers, 57% of employees are irritated by co-workers who are noisy when they eat, reports Mirror.

Whether it is the noisy eaters who chomp too loudly or peers with bad breath whom you cannot avoid or the newly engaged/married colleague who is always coochy cooing with significant other on an office phone within hearing distance... these annoying colleagues can be found in every workplace, give or take a few and they add to the overall disenchantment of those trying to justify their salaries at work.

Given that every office has these incredibly irritating employees who drive everyone else up the wall, here's a collection of some of the most common habits that etiquette challenged colleagues stick to through thick and thin.

1. Not washing up tea/coffee mugs

2. Microwaving and eating smelly food (particularly fish and eggs)

3. Using speaker phone in an open office/talking loudly

4. Boasting about how busy they are

5. Standing next to your desk while you're on the phone

6. Disgusting washroom habits.

7. Saying 'good afternoon' if you are five minutes late

8. Being late to meetings so everything has to be discussed again

9. Fiddling with the air conditioning/heating switch

10. Sending emails no one cares about

11. Leaving mobile phones behind while away; ignoring mute settings

12. Bad electronic filing habits on common servers