What are your office pet peeves? (lemmy.zip)

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Given that office work is a common form of employment on Lemmy, and given our higher-than average technical ability, I’m interested to hear what bothers you most.

For me: coworker says “I’m old fashioned” and refuses to employ the simplest keyboard shortcuts (using arrow keys to navigate excel, using Ctrl+C instead of the mouse, et cetera) and then complains about how much their wrist hurts because of their mouse.

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[-] deathbird@mander.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago

When I say something like "^" and they type "caret". Why....

Also putting drinks in the freezer to get them cold faster. Even if you remember 99% of the time: A. No you don't. 2. That's still at least 2 exploded drinks in the freezer every year.

this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2026

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