4 OUT OF TOP 10 Office Gripes are IT Related
We moan for 77 hours per year at work?! Really? 4 OUT OF THE TOP 10 Office Gripes are IT related
A recent study shows that officer workers like to complain – A LOT! We Brits like to voice our unhappiness about a whole host of things at work; getting too many emails to smelly food in the office to someone stealing your mug to people speaking too loudly.
Here are the Top 10 Office Grumbles
- Getting a phone call when you’re literally about to leave the office
- Computers being slow
- IT issues
- The temperature being too low/high
- No air conditioning
- Computers crashing
- Printers jamming or breaking down
- Colleagues who are difficult to work with
- When someone uses your desk when you’re away and leaves it messy
- Freezing cold air conditioning
We spend over 10 working days a year complaining with IT issues being right at the top of the list. That’s a serious amount of time not being happy in the office and pushing blood pressures through the roof. Can you imagine if we moaned about nothing at all and what else we could be doing with that time!
4 OUT OF THE TOP 10 gripes are IT related with the second most common complaint being “my computer is too slow”. A close second to that last minute inbound phone call as the clock strikes 5.30pm and you have to take it. That’s the BIGGEST whinge-worthy problem.
We’ve all experienced that difficult person to work with or having mind blowing deadlines that are almost impossible to keep to. Have you endured that time where you have a meeting for the sake of having a meeting or having a “meeting about a meeting”?
Office workers are most likely to shout about IT failings and continued IT issues, with the highest proportion of complaints being about a slow computer or having a printer problem.
The Top 50 Office Grumbles
- Getting a phone call when you’re literally about to leave the office
- Computers being slow
- IT issues
- The temperature being too low/high
- No air conditioning
- Computers crashing
- Printers jamming or breaking down
- Colleagues who are difficult to work with
- When someone uses your desk when you’re away and leaves it messy
- Freezing cold air conditioning
- Being in the office when the weather is lovely
- Having meetings about meetings
- People not replying to your emails
- When someone calls in sick when you know they aren’t ill
- Being copied into emails that are of no concern
- Colleagues who suck up to the boss
- Colleagues who talk too much
- People who loudly complain about how busy they are
- People not saying thank you when you’ve helped them out
- The commute
- Someone constantly arriving late to work
- The amount of junk mail received
- People who ignore a ringing phone
- Smelly food being eaten in the office
- The phone ringing constantly
- Someone taking credit for work you’ve done
- Having to sit in long and tedious meetings
- People speaking loudly
- Returning from holiday to hundreds of emails
- Office jargon (such as “touch base”)
- People who leave dirty dishes in the work sink
- Unnecessary all-staff emails
- Unrealistic deadlines
- People not cleaning the microwave when their food spills
- People who email out of normal working hours
- Not having enough annual leave
- An insensitive boss
- People not listening to you when you talk and then asking you the same question 10 minutes later
- People who inflict their mood swings on colleagues
- An uncomfortable chair
- Bosses who micromanage everything
- Bad phone signal
- The office gossip
- People who expect the cleaners to tidy up all their mess
- Someone stealing your favourite mug
- Having to desk share or ‘hot desk’
- Embarrassing teambuilding exercises
- Having to engage in small talk
- Colleagues who don’t shower regularly enough
- Someone leaving their chair out in the middle of the aisle
The facts don’t lie! Is it time to sort out your office IT? Do you want to get rid of the stress of those irritating IT problems? Ease the headache of your business IT burdens and have a happy camp by getting an outsourced IT team to help you out.
It won’t break the bank and it will help your productivity and profitability. It will also stop a few of the complaints we all love to share with each other in the office.
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