I find it mildly infuriating that some coworkers think entering a break room gives them license to play loud music over speakers, use obscene language (especially to and about other coworkers), and disrupt the fifteen minutes of peace and quiet some of us crave in the workplace.
I also can’t stand the fact that smokers can take unlimited ‘breaks’ whenever they please just to come back stinking up an entire room with their smoke.
They didn’t put the paper towels in the center of the table.
OP added context. Their work colleagues relax on their breaks in a different way than OP does and this is the end of the world apparently. Everyone must sit in silence, no music, no swearing, no smoke breaks. I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that OP isn’t exactly well liked by their colleagues…
To be fair, people should wear their fucking headphones.
I do agree with OP on the thing about smokers though. You shouldn’t get special privileges just because you’re a drug addict.
Maybe OP should just go out for smoke breaks and not actually smoke
Lmao! Do you call tea and coffee drinkers “drug addicts” too?! Yup, smoke breaks should either be deducted from the allotted lunch break, or all employees should be allowed to step outside for 5 mins or whatever.
It depends on how often they use their drug and how they act about it. If you can’t function and treat people like shit because you haven’t had your coffee/tea yet, you’re a drug addict.
This is an emotionally manipulative tactic, and not a great look. It’s no different than calling copyright infringement “theft”, abortion “murder”, or someone who speeds a “criminal”.
Note that you’re not wrong. People that get cranky if they don’t get enough caffeine are probably feeling some withdrawals from it, and caffeine is a drug, but calling those people “drug addicts” leverages the emotional connotation from it’s more colloquial usage. If you can’t support your stance without emotional manipulation, you don’t have much of a stance, yeah?
Who am I manipulating? It’s just my opinion.
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No, I don’t expect people to agree with me. I know my opinion is very unpopular. I don’t care.
I can still work while drinking coffee or tea. Smokers get to go outside and smoke for 10-15 minutes while NOT working and get paid for that time.
go outside for a break then. who says youre not a smoker?
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what did i miss?
take a break when the smokers do. just go outside. who says you dont smoke?
The number of breaks allotted to those who smoke was not the point.
I moved into my own place to get away from habitual smokers, yet I’m forever doing laundry to get someone else’s smoke out of my clothes.
I’m sorry but comparing coffee/tea to nicotine is like comparing OTC Tylenol to illegally obtained Ritalin.
Your comment is full of massive assumptions about OP. Some people don’t want to hear loud music and want noise to be at a volume where they can actually think and focus. There isn’t anything wrong with that. Is it the end of the world? no, is it mildly infuriating for OP? yes. The post fits.
I’m not nearly insecure enough to need the validation of other people to function; that’s a weak disease.
You’re not sorry and I’m not offended. There’s no need for fake platitudes on the internet.
Are you neurodivergent by any chance? Aside from smokers getting extra work breaks, the things you’re complaining about are not mildly infuriating, they’re other people’s personal choices that don’t impact your ability to do your job. They’re examples of completely normal experiences that nearly everyone has to deal with - mild annoyances at best. You don’t get to police what people do on their breaks. You don’t get to police what people do to their bodies. You don’t get to police what language people use when talking amongst themselves.
If you’re so offended by bad language and music, wear some noise cancelling headphones on your break. That will have to added bonus of stopping people from talking to you at all, so you can get that decompression time you need in order to do your job properly. You should definitely start taking your own non-smoking smoke breaks if your boss/HR won’t address the issue of smokers getting additional break time.
Focus on the things that you can change to make your work environment more palatable because that’s all you can control. And try not to be so judgemental. You may not say it out loud but I’m positive your colleagues can feel your distain for them, and that won’t help foster a mutually respectful environment at all. Good luck.
You’re disagreeing, but that shouldn’t invalidate what mildly infuriates people. What mildly infuriates one person, doesn’t mildly infuriate another.
You’re talking like everyone has the same feelings about things, which isn’t the case at all. I don’t like this habit people are engaging in where because something doesn’t bother you another person isn’t allowed to be bothered by it.
Having people blast out music on a bus is mildly infuriating to me, so is people talking really loud. The misophonia probably doesn’t help but in my eyes that is mildly infuriating and it is to other people.
Why are you saying they shouldn’t be complaining about things they find mildly infuriating on a board dedicated to complaining about mildly infuriating things?
On this, we agree.
The community is listed as ‘Mildly Infuriating’. The few examples I gave in my post are things I personally find mildly infuriating. I don’t know where you work, but in most places of employment, a certain standard of professionalism is expected.
Where in my post did I suggest the actual policing of the behaviors I found irritating? Or did I just list them?
Headphones are restricted in most work environments, hence the speaker loophole.
I’ve got nothing against free speech, but there’s a time and a place for shit talk. Why is that up for debate?
The break disparity wasn’t the issue I was addressing. And asking for additional breaks for myself does nothing to fix the issue.
Disgraceful.
I bet they left the washup sponge in the sink as well.
And the sugar spoon in the coffee. That may be a UK thing only though.