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 "team”

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Chipotle. Leaves the whole room smelling like onions for the remainder of the day.

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In two years here I’ve never disliked a comment more.

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Eating in the team room with smelly food. Snacks are fine. Take lunch outside.

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When a client comes in and plops down

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Sound notifications of any kind on their computer or phone, and vibrator phone noises are NOT considered silent- God I hate that bzzzzz sound, its just as distracting ppl!! Gah

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No windows.

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That guy who picks his nose and touches my stuff

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Gross mucus sounds whether it’s coughing or sniffling. Also whistling NO ONE IS THAT HAPPY

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Tuna

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Folks not observing the “silent hour” where I grab lunch and have to eat it at my desk (conference table) and I try to take 10 minutes to surf Facebook, IG, Gmail, etc and someone wants to talk about work. “If you don’t shut the eff up for the next 20 minutes!!!"

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(1) Humming and singing to oneself (and the rest of the room) (2) loudly chewing giant pretzels Every. Single. Day. (3) speaking with your mouth opened (4) burping loudly

My coworkers are gross

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I feel you! My coworker sits next to me smacking his food like a goddamn cow chewing cud. It’s unreal that he doesn’t realize how unbelievably gross it is.

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Crop dusting.

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People who talk to themselves. Or talk bc they think it's been silent for too long.

🙋🏼‍♀️ Sorry, Paul.

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People who don’t clean up after themselves

People who hum to themselves

Teammate who constantly pops gum

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