Corporate fuddy-duddies
Office dress codes
Traditionalists; 'unionised' 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
Email
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'?
Tuesday, 2 September 2008
Things I don't like about the 'working world'
Posted by Simon Baker - Permalink
8 Comments
"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.
Corporate firewall blocking useful outgoing ports like email, svn/cvs/git/rsync.
People who wear headphones at their desk.
Chair stealing.
Some real good ones there
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.