I have a lot to vent! Thanks for the great post, Brianna! Needless to say, I'm switching jobs very soon and cannot wait!

I have experienced the following:

A Manager who is "that guy" and belches so loud and abruptly without an "Excuse me!"

Co-workers who take things off my desk and then put them back without asking - right in front of me!

Co-workers who leave dirty dishes in the BATHROOM/KITCHEN sink, which attracts fruit flies.

Co-workers who leave the toilet seat up in the ONE bathroom we have.

An entire company who doesn't clean out it's own 1980 fridge... with food in it from the same year. It is disgusting.

Not to mention my ULTRA PET PEEVE which happens at every company I've worked at:

There used to be a time when taking personal calls at your desk was unavoidable, and that was before the invention of cell phones. And cell phones are also known as mobile phones, because you can take them anywhere and carry on a conversation. So why must people insist on making and taking calls ON THEIR MOBILE CELL PHONE at their desk? Please don't force your cubemates to listen to your conversations, especially if your phone rings 10 times a day! Take it outside or turn it off!

Thank you. I feel better now! =)

Glad I could help, Samantha! Sounds like you've had your share of frustrating coworkers. And I couldn't agree more on the cell phone part, though I'm one of those who avoids personal calls at my desk as much as I can help it (mostly because nobody else needs to hear what I have to say). But I wonder if there's a new standard for it these days? If one person does it all the time, does everyone else think it's ok to do it, too? Example: "If I have to listen to her talk to her cousin about her bad tooth, then she can listen to me talk to my sister about Mom's bad hip." But man, if that was the frame of mind, I'd hate to enter an office that sees passing gas as acceptable (Hey, he just did it, so it must be ok for me to do it, too). Phew! Is that how we see it nowadays?

I think it all boils down to common courtesy. Just because you're not tying up office lines, doesn't mean you're not disturbing your coworkers. With that said, I'd like to know if the rules have shifted, if it's a generational thing, etc. And clearly there are times you just can't avoid personal calls at your desk, and everyone should understand that.

I guess my main question is: Is it just something that we have to suck up and deal with in today's modern workplace?

I used to work with "that guy" who ate a particularly pungent type of food at his desk on a regular basis. It was a very small office, so the whole place would reek for quite some time after he had eaten it. It literally gave me headaches.

Eventually, another co-worker and I told him how it was affecting our productivity, and he kindly stopped eating i at work.

unfortunately that guy is a gal and she is the boss. she is impossible to deal with any more so I am searching. It is scary to leave a good paying stable nursing job but this boss is intolerable. I do plan to seek the help of my union rep and HR rep but since we work on the good ol boy system where I work and she was born and raised here and her daddy is the head of the department I figure there is no changing this. she is very demeaning at times and then as sweet as pie, she is wishy washy on decision making and plays favorites with scheduling and patient assignments. just yesterday I was asked to take an extra patient, this caused me to be in overtime and some paper work was not done, when I asked if she wanted it done or could it wait til Monday, she clapped her hands and said go go go but on Monday don't pass go, don't collect $ 200, just get straight to your desk and get to work. This is a prime example of how she treats us on a regular basis. No thanks for the extra work, just criticism for not getting twice as much work done in half the time. thanks for the vent. It would be fun to go Ceaser on her especially since she is a female dog.