Whats the most annoying thing that happens at your job?

I work as a vet assistant and one of my pet peeves of all time.... Stupid phone calls! I especially hate the ones when people call and ask for spay/neuter, or vaccine pricing. Those phone calls take forever and I usually get a response of..."It costs what?! Thats okay!" and they slam the phone down in my ear.

Mind you we are generally really busy when they call and do this. It just annoys the snot out of me that I took the time to add all of the prices up and then i'm treated rudely. People just don't understand how exspensive it is to take care of an animal and we catch their wrath all of the time.

So what pet peeves do you all have at your work?

Hmmmmm.....pet peeves at work....


--I make the bed, but hubby tosses the pillows off and pulls the blankets down to lay down and read a book.

--I vacuum miles of carpet and the kids wander around munching on crumbly crackers. Oh, they also take their shoes off after playing outside and dump piles of sand wherever they happened to sit down.

--I wash endless piles of laundry and somehow, perfectly clean, folded clothes that weren't quite put away properly last time (putting away is the kids' responsibility) end up back in the baskets with dirty clothes. OR, I find piles of wadded up clean clothes tucked away in the back corner of a closet because someone didn't feel like hanging them up. Arrgghhh!

--Working hard to prepare a nice dinner for everyone and having kids make sickly faces and act like I'm expecting them to eat earthworms baked in a chicken-foot casserole.

:fishslap: :irkd: :ohmygod:

Ooh don't get me started. I'm a dog groomer..

So.. at least once a week I get pooped on, peed on, bitten (this is usually daily) barfed on, anal gland squirted on etc. Dogs seem to like to potty AFTER you have washed and are 90% done drying them.

Owners that think I can wash, dry, and give a haircut to their hairy, smelly, wiggling wheaton terrier in a hour.

People that think their dog is the only dog I have to work on. We tell them it's 3-4 hours and they have a hissy fit. They don't seem to realise that each groomer has 3 dogs coming in at the same time.

People who want me to turn their matted-to-the-skin neglected hasn't-seen-a-groomer-in-a-year-or-two dog into a showdog.

I could go on..

Annoying huh? How about the fact that I have to be at work at an ungodly hour (8:30) and they expect me to do actual work for like 8 whole hours. The nerve!

I used to have the 7am-3:30pm shift but I guess my boss got the clue and scheduled me later. lol I am not much use early in the morning..

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Originally Posted by Shelby

I used to have the 7am-3:30pm shift but I guess my boss got the clue and scheduled me later. lol I am not much use early in the morning..

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I am not much use all day long! :giggle:

hehe.. yeah me too sometimes.

Gee, that would have to be work!

I am a superintendent for a custom homebuilder so there isn't even enough room to post all the things that are annoying at work.
Here's a list
Subcontractors
Subs who speak no english
vendors
and I saved the best for last
Homeowners!

I had a old boss who use to say "this would be a great job if it wasn't for homeowners"
But it's a catch 22 cuz if there weren't homeowners I wouldn't have a job :)

Actually I love my work and my job.

Yep.. dog owners are sometimes so horrid. One comes to mind especially.. Cookie's owner. Cookie is a nice little yorkshire terrier (usually 'nice' and 'yorkie' don't go together, but Cookie is a good girl)

Anyway, Cookie's mom is the PICKIEST customer. I once spent probably an hour hand scissoring her dog.. scupting the hair. It looked so nice. She walks in and 'oh that's too long, she looks like a little dutch boy with puffy legs' Ouch. And her grandkids are with her making snide remarks while I'm trying to 'fix' the haircut.

This happens every time.. she always complains about something. Of course she never leaves a tip.. lol the picky ones never do. Of course I have to smile and cheerfully fix whatever is wrong this time..

The customer is never right...

Let's see...I have to be at work at 3:30am Tuesday thru Saturday. Work outside with planes (offloading and onloading them) in the middle of winter, snowstorms, rainstorms, thunderstorms, ice storms, etc. Everyone is miserable. Oh, did I mention that I am in charge of all these things AND the miserable people who don't want to be there. It can suck really bad at times, but all in all...I like it. Next step...Management, why not?

Geeez, after reading a few of these I don't have any room to complaint. I'll continue to deal with the little bugs and enjoy mine.

(hvac repair) after repairing someone's equipment, they don't have the checkbook to pay! can i wait until their spouse comes home with it! (not) or can i guarantee that nothing else will ever break? lol



vaughn

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Originally Posted by jglass38

Annoying huh? How about the fact that I have to be at work at an ungodly hour (8:30) and they expect me to do actual work for like 8 whole hours. The nerve!

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Oh, poor, poor baby! Why don't you join me on the 6-4 shift? That's to call my Malaysian vendors before they go home. But I do like beating the rush hour and getting home at a decent hour.

Pet Peeves - one of my vendors calling incessantly - do you have anything for me? I talked to Darin and he said he had some cash drawers to send to me, have you gotten the request yet? Do you have anything? I'll be by to drop off repaired product, anything for me? TONY!!!!! If I have anything, I will let you know!

Being micro-managed by someone who isn't even my boss - I feel like saying "you know what? If you can do it better, knock yourself out!"

Calls at 9 pm from this same person to micro-manage me some more (Is the Malaysian vendor going to do the pick up today? how do you know? Are you sure? Do they know where they're going? Can you login remotely and send me the e-mails where you told them to do so, because I don't feel like looking for it, even though you copied me on it).

Nothing major! ;)

My parents concider school my "main" job. So I would have to say my 3rd hour L.A. teacher. She SUCKS. everyday she piles homework up on our desk not realizing we have 6 other classes that we have homework in. And then she writes us up for the stupidest things. I got a all day "on campus reassiegment" for saying it was stupid.
Then since I vol. for the Phx Fire Dept for about 72 hours a month, id have to say the "man down" calls. You show up and its a bum sleeping on his side up against a wall in a very unbussy area. Just another good citizen trying to help. Well there to much of them. And then the false alarm fire calls. They tie up 3 engines, 1 ladder, 2 cheifs, and an ambo for a grill going in the back of the man next doors house. Seriously, the waking up at 2 in the morning for nothing gets everyone mad. Then the caller has to dill with us.

Shelby I so feel your pain! Not only do I get pooped on peed on anal sacked etc., That particular dog has a nasty owner who doesn't like the total I give them and nothing is ever good enough.

I actually like my job alot, it's just those few people who irk me. The rest of the clients and animals make my job worth while. In all honesty, I don't mind too much about getting pooped on,peed on, or even anal sacked.

It's when all that happens after working an 11 hour day, having that nasty client in front of me while taking that phone call and getting the phone slammed in my ear that I mind!

well after takeing two years off of working i just got a new job 6 months ago as an assistant manger of a production line that has forty people on it. and i find it annoying when someone misses a day or two of work and then say oh i didn't know i had to call in and let you know i wouldn't be here. or when they throw a fit over haveing to do a job or two thats not there normal.

Annoying? Hmm....well, I'm a forensic investigator and while I don't have a lot of annoyances with my job I've seen some pretty disturbing things. There's some really creepy stuff going on out there....:confuse:

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Annoying? Hmm....well, I'm a forensic investigator and while I don't have a lot of annoyances with my job I've seen some pretty disturbing things. There's some really creepy stuff going on out there....:confuse:

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Very cool job! I have a very close friend who used to be on the Dekalb County (metro Atlanta) Homicide Division, then went to the Medical Examiner's office to be a forensic investigator. Let me tell you - his sense of humor is one of kind! You sort of feel bad laughing at some of his "war" stories, but you just can't help yourself. I imagine you have to - in order to deal with what you see every day.

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Originally Posted by gncz73

and i find it annoying when someone misses a day or two of work and then say oh i didn't know i had to call in and let you know i wouldn't be here.

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That's grounds for immediate termination at my job. If you don't have the courtesy to call in, we don't have to have the courtesy to keep you employed. There's just no excuse for it unless you are incapacitated in some way.

I work in technical support for a software company after having been in development dept for the same company for 10 years. Main thing that annoys me about tech support is um...the customers!

No, seriously this week, this poopyhead (imagine a MUCH stronger word there) has decided it's quite alright to bash the company and the software, specifically the functionality I spent those 10 years developing and I'm supposed to help him. Lemme find that magic switch for you, sir, to just make it all magically work for you.

Makes me very much want to tell the support manager to return his annual support contract and tell him to go use someone else's software if ours sucks so much.

Most people are pretty nice, albeit frustrated, but usually everyone's happy once you fix the problem. The small percentage of jerks certainly do, however, make up for it tho. =P

At my "real" job there isnt a single person that calls in that is happy to talk to me. They also dont like to receive calls from me. But i guess thats to be expected in a government job.


My pet peeve is when I have to bust my butt to do someone elses work along with my own because they just didnt feel like working that day (they didnt call in sick ... they came in and literally did nothing), and then they take the credit for getting their work done.

Bryan

Well....I have a ton of things that really irk me at my job as a evening manager at our local pet store but there is one thing that gets to me the most.

Customer: Hi, I just set up a tank yesterday and I want to get a few fish to put in it.
Me: Alright well depending on the size of the tank I'd recommend only getting a few fish (3ish) to start you out, and you can add more in a few days.
Customer: Alright...well I want this and this and this. And this, this, this, and this.
Me:Mam, that is a few too many fish to add all at once to a new tank. I follow with explaining why.
Customer: Well at Petco they told me....
Me: Well I recommend you wait to add that many fish
Customer: Oh they'll be just fine in there, I've done it before.
Me: Do you still have that tank setup?
Customer: Well I had an ick outbreak that killed everything in the tank...you guys sold me a sick fish.
Me: I'm sorry to hear about that, but I think there was something else going on with that tank....further explain what more than likely happened with her tank. Overcrowding, overfeeding, high nitrates, the works...
Customer: No I did everything right...
Me: Okay. Well with this many fish today for the new tank, I can't put our guarantee on them.
Customer: Well why not?!
Me: *Puzzled look from already explaining why* It would definitely be too many fish to add all at once.
Customer: Well I'll go buy my fish at PetCo.
Me: I'm sorry you feel that way. Good luck with your new tank. /shakes head

Grrrr! Customers are always right? Riiiiight. LOL

I love my job, but unfortunately I have to deal with people like that on a constant basis with all sorts of critters...their animal husbandry skills are horrible but since it may have worked out before supposedly it will again.

8:30 and ungodly hour??? I have to be to work at 6:30 and work till 7:00pm (yep that's 12 hours) and id i tell you it's warehouse work, not a desk job, so i'm on the move most of the day? Oh, and Shelby, I feel your pain.......the petstore i worked in had a grooming salon, and of all the jobs in our store, I had the most pity for them.....after all your hard work, and yes, getting pooped on, peed on and squirted with anal juice, only to have the owner complain that "fluffy was cut a little short" or " why is there an extra de-matting charge?" and then on top of that, get something like a $1 or $2 tip. Definately NOT for me....I was just fine in the fish/reptiles dept....I don't know how you groomers do it. Oh and JBall, I worked at Petco for six years, and i would have told them the EXACT same thing if they came to my Petco..listen to my sound advice or..NO GUARANTEE....

I don't think I can complain too much. I teach health and phys.ed. Mainly health now, but gee getting up to play games all day with the kids wasn't all that bad, right. Now as far as the parents go...:irkd:

Cassandra those are the bugs I have to deal with!! Not the ones that are left behind in the code, the bugs who wrote the code in the first place (nothing against what you do of course;)). I package / publish and manage policy for ALL types of software (internal and external). Annoying is when they (the bugs) send you their product for distribution and when it doesn't work want me to figure out what's wrong with THEIR product. I just reply with "Ask your dev group".

I work in a print shop as a press helper.All day long (2p.m-12a.m) I run around like a mad man cleaning all the presses and lifting some heavy stuff. And get treated like crap by most of the press opertators when they finish a job and need to clean up and get the next job ready they call me over and go to lunch or go bs somewere else:( .the real kicker january is review time but this year they told everyone that they didnt make enough money (32 million) so there would be no raises this year:mad:

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Oh and JBall, I worked at Petco for six years, and i would have told them the EXACT same thing if they came to my Petco..listen to my sound advice or..NO GUARANTEE....

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My local PetCo gives horrible advice...and as testament to that most of the employees that work there come to where I work for most all animals, fish, and advice. LOL

However, I have been to some with very well informed, knowledgable staff.

I'm a full-time student, and work part-time at CVS, as well as part-time at the Honors and Scholars Center on campus. CVS is just your basic bull... cashier and stocking.

But working at H&S definately presents some interesting scenarios. For instance: Last Friday the other student scheduled to close with me was out sick. So, I took the opportunity to catch up on some reading, just answering the phones until time to close. Unforutunately, there were a TON of phone calls. This is what had happened: the Orientation Department had sent out all their materials before we had sent out the decisions for which students would be admitted into Honors and/or Scholars. So, we get all these parents freaking out that they haven't received their decisions and they supposedly have to turn in their Orientation materials as soon as possible to get the spots they want. And some simply WILL NOT get the point that no one has received their decisions and, therefore, no one can sign up... and, therefore, no one can steal the good spots.

I lost count of how many yelled at me, telling me that I (like I had made the mistake) had done a disservice to their son or daughter, that I needed to fix it, that I needed to tell them their decisions---which I'm SO not allowed to do---and many other less nice things. By five, I was ready to cry I was so frustrated.

Let me tell you all: some of the craziest people on the planet are parents trying to get their kids into a good school. So, just some advice for those parents out there that will be facing this at some point... just chill a little ;) Keep up on deadlines, try to get your kid to do some of the phone calls (to give them a little taste of the system they'll have to negotiate when they DO get to school), and don't yell at the people on the other line. Chances are good that they're just the messenger, and hate letting you down.

Lol... off my soapbox now!

Most annoying thing has to be missing a phone call..lol.. Oh and running out of ink!!!