Biggest Workplace Pet Peeves

Loud talkers, cell phones, PDA's. These things are among the list of the top things that really annoy people in the workplace, according to survey results released by Randstad USA, a workforce solutions company.

The top pet peeves listed from the results are:

• Nine percent find the use of PDAs during meetings to be offensive.
• 11 percent find it annoying when colleagues engage in personal conversations in the workplace.
• 22 percent cite the use of speakerphones in public areas as one of their biggest complaints.
• 30 percent listed cell phones ringing at work as one of their greatest annoyances.
• Nearly one-third (32 percent) rated loud talkers as one of their biggest pet peeves.
• 34 percent selected micromanaging as one of their biggest pet peeves.
• 37 percent cited public reprimands as a big pet peeve.
• 44 percent noted condescending tones as one of their biggest pet peeves at work.

It makes you realize why most people hate their jobs. If I was a betting man, I would say it's because their workplace contains most, if not all of the above pet peeves.

Also, did you notice some of the items listed were caused by some kind of technological thing? Speakerphones? PDA's? Cellphones? And here we were somehow led to believe that new technology is supposed to make it easier. I guess they left out the part where it makes it easier to annoy others.