What's a pet peeve you have about your job?
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So many people feeling entitled. They don’t realize how good they have it sometimes.
Trusting me with something, then doing it themselves. Telling me to do something a certain way then going back and making changes that create tons more work when all is complete.
When they slack “hi” and then stop. Just tell me what you need already!
It’s like a bad dating app Intro- those get ignored.
When my manager meets with other people about projects I am working on without inviting me and then I find out days or weeks later that changes were made that I know nothing about.
Yup, happens all the time at chase.
I wonder if it's because upper or middle management don't want to be laid off so like someone else said, teams are not equally utilized
Everything
Hiring ??
The sheer disengagement of certain people. My firm pays very well (+$100k generally) yet we have junior associates who just don't engage. You'll try and engage with them to mentor and provide learning opportunities that will benefit their professional development here or elsewhere. Yet they just do not want to engage. It's very frustrating.
I’m a rare late-stage millennial (28) that is OK putting up with BS tasks and requests for the sake of pseudo-learning/advancement because for some Stockholm-syndrome type reason I believe in paying your dues.
However, if/when it becomes apparent that respect and growth do not exist in a firm, I’m out, yesterday. Too many companies take advantage of the few of us who still grind out long hours and do stupid grunt work, and then complain about the majority who don’t, while rewarding neither.
Additionally, the workplace and tools at our disposal have changed so dramatically that “mentoring” often is outdated and unproductive. The way that you, a 20+ year career employee did a task 15 years ago, is likely no longer the best way to do that task. I’m happy to take advice, guidance, and “mentoring” when it focuses on an end intention or outcome and is not micromanagement of the process.
Fortunately I’m at a pretty meritocratic firm right now, and despite a rich org chart of managers, there’s rarely a lot of micromanagement or nonsense mucking up the process. I happily take on stretch roles and do grunt work when necessary, and am rewarded with a lot of autonomy and trust. It’s a great environment and if more of my previous employers treated their staff this way I think a lot of us would have job hopped much less.
The work is relatively easy. The people make it difficult.
Can totally relate to this
Having to go into the office and then sit on Teams meetings all day
Fun times we are in
The forced RTO and sudden amnesia about how productive the last 3 years were
1. Starting teams messages with “Hi” or “Hello”, expecting my response before going straight to the point. Best believe you’ll be left on read as I don’t have the time nor patience for back and forth. Think of it as a more instant email as opposed to your SMS.
2. Managers who don’t know how to manage teams or projects. They offer little to no support but hound you for deliverables. You reach out to them but they never respond till the client begins to pressure them.
3. Utilisation. As someone who came from industry, this job isn’t difficult at all. The main issue is efficient distribution of workload and projects. I see no reason why one person at the same level is more utilised than others.
4. Difficulty finding reference materials for similar engagements. This is the most annoying bit since switching to consulting. How is it possible that finding resources for similar engagements is so tasking? It’s unbelievable how poor the internal site is when searching for recent deliverables. The client’s data can always be masked or anonymised so that’s not even an excuse.
5. Arse kissers. These are the sort of clowns who are quick to jump on group messages without consulting team members. They’re the ones to always give eye service to look busy. They’re always “online” at odd hours to give an impression they’re always working and in the end deliver low quality work. They’re always try to do everything which I’m the end turns out to be mediocre because they bit more than they could chew.
I generally prefer consulting to industry however, management really kills the teams.
Are you me?? Lol literally all the exact pet peeves i have!!
When you're booked in meetings all day and people wonder why nobody has time to actually complete tasks or projects
Folks who raise problems without offering solutions or helping to fix them.
Better yet those who do that, call you to fix it, then present it to your joint boss as their own work.
This is more about my boss instead of the job itself, but I hate it when people start an email message in the subject line, and continue it into the body of the email. It’s pure laziness and drives me insane
Worse is when the entire message is in the re line, and it is too many characters so you can't see the whole thing easily.
1) folks feeling like they're the most important person in the room
2) simply emailing your query to a production issue (not emailing a resolution) at fucking 11.59PM; we all know you didn't do shit
3) being overly proud just cause your Mgr had some meetings with you only
4) gaslighting ppl at work
5) not listening because you're so ignorant and obnoxiously proud just cause you've been a dinosaur at the firm
#5 those dinosaurs kill me… every feckin’ week.
Charging my time
1.Saying they hired the smartest people and have diversity… I’m still trying to find said people. (diverse folks are severely disgruntled here unless they’ve been here forever)
2. Everything is high priority… (you sure about that?)
3. People getting promoted to people manager roles and are horrible at it 🫠
4. Saying they pay the best (where because according to my research that’s an understatement)
5. meritocracy is non existent unless you are white and white adjacent, color palpable, ass kisser to network up
Only when they work with minority businesses do they get tax breaks. when it comes to hiring and everything there’s numbers that can get firms in trouble for not having a diverse pool and can be legally sued by candidates hence initiatives around DEI
Toxic hustle culture, favoritism, inability to grow/ develop professionally, condescending middle managers, and unsustainable salaries/ wages
Bosses taking credit for my work because they rearranged a single sentence
When people send passive aggressive messages over Slack. Especially when they’re very friendly on zoom meetings so it’s hard to read them.
The fact that I have to show up and work and the money isn’t enough
People who can never be themselves or confront something due to it being negative and they only want positive energy.
PMO, specifically contractor PMOs forced on us by the client, no doing their job and making delivery leads create/manage/update project plans, all status docs, and communications.
UPDATE: they’re still the worst and are just rude/condescending.