Revealed: The Most Annoying Office Bugbears
Unreliable tech, moaning colleagues, pointless meetings and coworkers who eat too loudly are some of the most annoying aspects of modern office life, according to new research.
Here are UK office workers’ top ten most annoying bugbears:
- computer crashing
- slow internet
- office gossip
- workplace too cold – or too hot
- colleagues moaning
- coworkers eating loudly at desk
- pointless meetings
- coworkers making you look bad
- colleagues interrupting you
- people calling in sick (when you suspect they’re fine)
Vocabulary:
unreliable – not able to be trusted or depended on to work properly, “My old car is unreliable because it often fails to start in the winter.”
moaning – complaining continuously in an annoying or unhappy way, “He is always moaning about how much homework the teacher gives us.”
colleagues – the people you work with at your job; coworkers, “She likes to have lunch with her office colleagues every Friday.”
pointless – having no purpose, meaning, or useful result, “It is pointless to wash your car when it is about to rain.”
aspects – specific parts, features, or sides of a larger situation or experience, “Learning new vocabulary and listening to audio are two important aspects of studying a language.”
bugbears – things that cause a person continuous annoyance, frustration, or worry, “People who leave shopping carts in the middle of parking spaces are one of my biggest bugbears.”
crashing – suddenly stopping working or shutting down completely (used for computers, devices, or software), “My laptop kept crashing while I was trying to save my final essay.”
gossip – casual conversation or rumors about other people’s private lives that may not be true, “The employees sat around the coffee machine sharing office gossip.”
interrupting – stopping someone from speaking or finishing an action by suddenly speaking or doing something yourself, “Please stop interrupting the manager while she is giving the instructions.”
calling in sick – (idiom) contacting your workplace to report that you cannot come to work because you are ill, “Sarah had a bad fever this morning, so she decided to call in sick.”
suspect – to think or believe that something is likely true, even if you do not have certain proof yet, “I suspect my brother ate the last piece of cake because there are crumbs on his shirt.”