- Corporate fuddyduddies
- Office dress codes
- Traditionalists; unionized attitude
- Furniture police
- Cost fixated bean counters
- Bureaucratic obstacles
- Form filling; administration
- Office politics
- An absence of toys or things to throw around
- Meetings; sitting down generally
- Clean desk policies
- Locked stationery cupboards
- Those yellow Bic ballpoint pens
- Insufficient network points; inaccessible power sockets
- Fax machines
- Non-smelly whiteboard pens
- Static shocks
- Cheap toilet paper
- Running out of staples
- Grumpy security guards
- Executive Newsletters
- Dodgy canteen food
- No sparkling water on tap
This list is by no means comprehensive. What don’t you like about your ‘working world’?
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"Internet access" which is in fact just proxied, filtered web access.
Corporate build Windows PCs that are locked down and take 15 minutes to boot.
Excessive standardisation and The Rule Of One.
Hot desking.
Mandatory time booking, even when not working on client projects.
Performance management.
The term "human resource".
Buying crap from a preferred supplier when there's a better open source option.
Some real good ones there
Corporate firewall blocking useful outgoing ports like email, svn/cvs/git/rsync.
People who wear headphones at their desk.
Chair stealing.
Why people who wear headphones at their desk?
People wearing headphones at their desk send the message that they are not open for communication. The behaviour does not belong in a collaborative environment.
Ah. Thanks.
Yeah, all of the above! I wrote about one particularly painful experience here .
Too many project managers.
Meetings where project managers blather on for an hour about NOTHING, just so they can justify their jobs.
Project managers getting in your face and delaying you getting useful work done.
Company processes which slow things down.
Did I mention project managers? Waste of space.