What Japan Thinks reports on a survey of of what workers hate most about their co-workers’ bad habits. The list of complaints s long but the top runners were:
Talking to oneself (100%), not answering the phone (99.1%), too much chatting (91.1%), smoking (86.6%), messy desk (85.7%), lateness (58%), not wearing a mask when having a cold (56.3%), too much private email and telephoning (51.8%), and strong perfume (50%).
Although it’s obvious that most Japanese talk to themselves a lot, some cultural differences with annoyances are evident. Right off the bat, strong perfume is practically illegal in many Western workplaces because of allergies and wearing masks tends to be mandatory only on Halloween (a week later than in Japan) or Casual Fridays not when having a cold?
how about this annoying habit that i am currently suffering the consequences of…people coming to work when their sick period. i mean wearing a mask would help and all but it is just not practical especially if you have to interact with people while at work.
lets see what else…people whining about work at work while working, i get it theres other things you could be doing with your time but quit telling me about them
and finally i despise when people take long breaks and lunches and cause new policies to be implemented like the halting of the honor system of breaks and lunches and the establishment of clocking out and back in…seriously lame