Hard at work

Via Prolix comes this meme - 10 things that annoy you about your workplace/colleagues. Seeing as he's (yes, you read it right) TWENTY-ONE he can hardly have been at work long enough to moan about it yet, but it's never too early to start our national sport of grumbling.

Okay, all my colleagues now are lovely people, luckily enough. Workplace, though...

1. 1 toilet. 50 staff. 10 minute break times. And given I drink enough strong coffee throughout the day to fuel 10 men, you see where the problem lies. And while we're on the subject, I know I am one, but what do women do in the toilet? Why do they take so long?? Can they all have OCD and be washing their hands 50 times? Or are they applying make-up? What? Toilet rage...

2. RM software, specifically (aargh, just writing this gets me steamed up) a word processing programme called Talking First Word, which won't allow you to open more than one document at the same time. Designed to drive you mad, seemingly.

3. Legs covered in bruises from constantly bumping into child-height furniture. And having to sit at those tiny little chairs at the tiny little tables. Teacher's desk? What teacher's desk? (I will end up with a hump-back. )

That's all I could come up with, which is pretty pathetic. We always like a good rant against the government or the LEA ("Don't be a teacher, Annie" said one of my friends whose parents were both teachers. "All they do is sit around and moan about how crap teaching is.") But they don't really count, as it's not too personal.

I won't be tagging (unless you would like to take up Prolix's meme) but instead invite you to vent regarding your irritating colleagues, past or present, in the comments. Fire away.