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

1. Getting a phone call when you’re literally about to leave the office
2. Computers being slow
3. IT issues
4. The temperature being too low/high
5. No air conditioning
6. Computers crashing
7. Printers jamming or breaking down
8. Colleagues who are difficult to work with
9. When someone uses your desk when you’re away and leaves it messy
10. 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

1. Getting a phone call when you’re literally about to leave the office
2. Computers being slow
3. IT issues
4. The temperature being too low/high
5. No air conditioning
6. Computers crashing
7. Printers jamming or breaking down
8. Colleagues who are difficult to work with
9. When someone uses your desk when you’re away and leaves it messy
10. Freezing cold air conditioning
11. Being in the office when the weather is lovely
12. Having meetings about meetings
13. People not replying to your emails
14. When someone calls in sick when you know they aren’t ill
15. Being copied into emails that are of no concern
16. Colleagues who suck up to the boss
17. Colleagues who talk too much
18. People who loudly complain about how busy they are
19. People not saying thank you when you’ve helped them out
20. The commute
21. Someone constantly arriving late to work
22. The amount of junk mail received
23. People who ignore a ringing phone
24. Smelly food being eaten in the office
25. The phone ringing constantly
26. Someone taking credit for work you’ve done
27. Having to sit in long and tedious meetings
28. People speaking loudly
29. Returning from holiday to hundreds of emails
30. Office jargon (such as “touch base”)
31. People who leave dirty dishes in the work sink
32. Unnecessary all-staff emails
33. Unrealistic deadlines
34. People not cleaning the microwave when their food spills
35. People who email out of normal working hours
36. Not having enough annual leave
37. An insensitive boss
38. People not listening to you when you talk and then asking you the same question 10 minutes later
39. People who inflict their mood swings on colleagues
40. An uncomfortable chair
41. Bosses who micromanage everything
42. Bad phone signal
43. The office gossip
44. People who expect the cleaners to tidy up all their mess
45. Someone stealing your favourite mug
46. Having to desk share or ‘hot desk’
47. Embarrassing teambuilding exercises
48. Having to engage in small talk
49. Colleagues who don’t shower regularly enough
50. 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.

Why Choose Fingertip Solutions ?

We will take the stress out of I.T. for you!

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