- Typing really loudly
- The guy that makes less calls than everyone but closes more business
- People who go on about their commute to work every morning (even though it’s the same every day)
- Sales managers who sit on your desk whilst they talk to you
- Passive-aggressive signs in the kitchen that aren’t from sales as they’d man up and confront the person leaving the mess in the microwave
- When the coffee runs out and no one replaces it (it’s like the loo roll at home)
- Milk stealers
- The guy that keeps the ‘special coffee’ locked in his draw. We’re all on the same team!
- People who sigh really loudly after losing a deal to bait someone into asking them about it
- Colleagues that brag about being first in the office even though they don’t actually do any work until everyone else is sat down plodding through emails
- People who talk about their kids constantly
- That one dude who has a screen protector as they think they’re a spy
- When your boss is younger than you
- Getting CCed into emails that have nothing to do with you
- When you’re the young person and everyone over 40 dumps their IT issues on you
- Meetings
- Meetings about arranging meetings
- Any meeting that isn’t with a potential customer
- People who don’t put their mobile phones on silent and use the pings as email notifications
- When your CRM is down
- When your CRM is up and you have to use it
- Colleagues who are rude to the receptionist
- When people use ‘read receipts’ on emails
- When a woman sets the air conditioning and it’s -5oC too low for all the men
- Having to wait to leave until your sales manager does
- The person who talks about how they work out constantly
- Who then goes on to tell you about their new diet
- And how it helps them stay energized (when you also sit at a desk all day and close more deals than them)
- When you’re not sure if you’ve crashed from having a strong coffee or that the coffee wasn’t strong enough
- Small talk in the lift
- Small talk with anyone that doesn’t work in sales
- When it’s your birthday, the office sings and you wish you could just melt yourself down into a puddle and escape through the floor boards
- The due that has motivational stickers/printed signs all over his workspace and is constantly telling you that you should do the same
- Having to donate money to people you can’t stand
- Unless their doing an event in which they can hurt themselves and you can steal their client list
- Working when it’s sunny outside
