Fish Fam: What’s your biggest team room pet peeve?? 👀

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Team member smelling of smoke, and making the tiny room with no sunlight far less bearable

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Seafood in the microwave. Pretty much the only sin I can't overlook.

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The fact that it exists

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Mine are...

Chewing with your mouth open 🤢
Open mouth coughing 🤧
Staying late on days that don’t require it ⏳

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Ditto!! Why are grown adults so gross?

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Not booking another room for other meetings/taking over the team room and forcing others to listen to meetings they aren’t in

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Totally!!!

Rooms without windows

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People who come in sick and sit there all day blowing their nose and coughing. You’re not a martyr for working while sick, we are all sitting there disgusted by your pile of tissues wishing you would go home.

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So nasty to hear the juicy sound of booger’s come out of someone’s nose 🤢

People in general.

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Team rooms.

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People with crappy headphones that listen to crappy loud music

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Also, man-spreading (e.g., rolling your chair into me while you spread out to problem solve, taking up twice as much space as necessary in a crowded team room, leaving your bag under my feet...)

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Very true A3, but I’ve observed it much more consistently in my male colleagues than my female ones. (Of course, I’ve had 2 female colleagues in my last 3 projects, so there is almost certainly some observation bias.)

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People that don’t silence their computer notification sounds.

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Infuriating

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Not keeping space neat and clean. Letting empty coffee cups and other junk sitting out for too long.

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Manager or babysitter? You have every right to ask your team to do those thinks. It’s adult basics. If you’re old enough to collect a paycheck, you’re old enough to cleanup after yourself and shut off your own laptop

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Heavy mouth breathers 🙄🤢

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People who don’t shower

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Vomitous

Crazy loud and intense typing

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Nothing like someone who feels the need to punch their keyboard with each click.

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Passing gas

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Oh... actually my most loathed situation is when there are multiple conversations going on in the room at the same time. Sends me insane.

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Nails typing on keyboard

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Smelly armpits

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