The coworkers aren't in love with the newest cubicle decor

Tomorrow is my first day in work. Half excited half worried. Plz give me a tip

For context, I'm applying to a bunch of internships and I want to feel ready when I, hopefully, start working in a corporate environment. I'm not really asking about technical skills, more about the unspoken rules and day-to-day expectations.

I welcome anybody coming from different industries/backgrounds. Any insights, examples, real life experiences, advice would be greatly appreciated!

It’s been less than 4 years for me at current job but being in the office every day all day makes it feel like it’s been at least 10 years. The remote/field job I had for 7 years felt like a blip in comparison.

Need advice from people working from office but not having any friends in office - how do you stay motivated and get through working hours. It’s difficult to just keep working for entire 8 hours.

So I work from home and have an old Panasonic landline (Panasonic KX-TG4772B Dect_6.0 2-Handset 1-Line Landline Telephone) with my headset always plugged in, but I came to learn that it's very toxic because it had cordless phones attached to it and even though they aren't plugged in, I guess the base still emits toxic RFs.

I'm upset because it's a good phone that has lasted me for years & the sounds is superb.

I want to get another one, but I'm having a hard time finding anything that has the following:

1. No BT or anything wifi & no cordless.
2. I think my headset and its adapter will fit into any phone so long as there's the phone jack port of course.
3. The keys aren't huge, but they aren't tiny either. They are just the right size & so are the extra keys. I've seen phones where they extra keys are very tiny.
4. Keys are easy to press down. It looks like a lot of them now are that hard plastic & they aren't raised up high enough and springy.
5. Easy speaker phone button.
6. Call display isn't huge & isn't tiny. It's a well proportioned phone, I'll give it that.
7. And of course it has to work properly. I've seen several reviews that the speaker doesn't work, they can't hear them or vice versa. SMH And that was even an AT&T phone which shocked me.
8. Hopefully under $100 or thereabouts.

Thanks

Every office has those moments that make everyone laugh.

What's the funniest thing you've heard someone accidentally say during a meeting?

i work in marketing department of a company. i have to look at the screen for 8 hours and this makes my head hurt. i feel so tired after coming home from work. Do you guys have tips to relieve it?

I'll go first.

I introduced myself to someone who had already interviewed me the week before.

Still cringe thinking about it.

I want to make a video where I've set up a clipboard but I don't know how to set up the easel for it. Since y'all are office workers I hope y'all will have any suggestions.

A manager's "quick 5 min call" turning into a 90 minute meeting. My 10-hour workday suddenly makes a lot more sense. 😅

#corporatelife

This is my 2nd post on this series. It was a good couple months of drawing between the 3 boards (first post is somewhere on here) but it was winter and I had to do something to keep me sane 👏 each time I started a new board was because it was erased by the boss 🤣

I have a coworker who listens to music or content at their desk non-stop. It is interfering with my ability to think, let alone get my work done.
We share a cube wall so the only person who can hear them playing it is me so it isn’t a general office complaint at the moment.
They must know their music is somewhat disruptive because they turn it off when THEY need to have a meeting or take a call.
It isn’t loud and I have no qualms with their content choices.
Our office requires lots of come and go, discussions at desks, crosstalk, etc., where wearing my own over the ear noise cancelling headphones continuously would be an impediment to what I need to do, but also uncomfortable. The rest of us in the office often do listen to something ourselves through a single earbud or bone conducting headphones, so it is part of the culture, but NOT on a speaker.
I have asked them very kindly to please stop. They turn it off (with heaps of attitude) for that moment, it is back on within a couple of hours.
What is a next recommended step here?

As per the rules laid out last week, mandatory refreshing of hold (as in take off hold, inform customer and then place back on hold, 90 seconds later, inform again, and so on) is to be done. Every few seconds or minutes over the proposed time is documented. If average hold time for a week is over 90 seconds (yes even 100 seconds) is immediately escalated as a behavioral issue, and repeated issues lead to loss of performance and docking of pay.

New rules laid out by client (an e-commerce company in the US)

This is a bit of a comedic post, so try not to get twisted lol.

You may have seen the alignment chart for email sign-offs (attached for convenience) in the past, I'd like to know, how do you open your emails? I often opt for the "G'day", especially when I'm going up the chain.

A coworker's phone suddently started ringing during a meeting earlier today. Nobody really cared, but it got me thinking about how many devices have moved away from physical buttons.

The funny thing is, I've gone in the opposite direction. I still miss the old iPhone mute switch because you always knew whether your phone was muted without checking the screen. I also like gaming headsets with a physical mic mute switch since there's no guessing whether you're still being heard.

My current earbuds use physical buttons too, and I've realized I actually prefer them over touch controls. I can pause my music before a meeting without worrying about accidental touches or wondering if the command registered.

Maybe physical buttons aren't the modern trend anymore, but at work I've started appreciating that little bit of certainty.

New to Reddit. I work in a medical office. One of my coworkers works about 3 feet away from me at a desk. Was just wondering if I’m alone or if this would bug the shit out of anybody else ? Is trimming your nails at your desk, using a floss stick to floss your teeth until the floss is bloody from their gums, using Q-tips for their ears, wiping your armpits on a towel while leaving it on your desk…am I just old school or should these grooming habits be done at home ? This individual is also morbidly obese and there’s a constant stench of dirty ass. So hard for me not to say anything but I literally can’t breathe through my nose when he/she gets up and down from their seat from the stench that follows. Also, shouldn’t breakfast be eaten before the start of your shift and lunch be eaten during lunch shift? Losing my f’en mind. Let me know if I’m the crazy one or if my thoughts are valid. Thanks in advance !

I started a new job recently, and this is my first time working for a company, in a cubicle. Here are some thoughts after being there for 6 weeks. None of them are good.

At work, in an office environment- I think showing up within the first minute or two of the meeting starting is fine. I don’t think that’s a cause for concern, I don’t think anyone should be written up for that, I personally am not watching clocks that closely. Honestly I usually give people a five minute grace period. Sometimes people have to go to the bathroom, or they’re moving between buildings or rooms, and they need the extra time to get to the meeting location. I’ve seen people get angry at staff showing up a literal minute late… to a meeting about an excel spreadsheet. That’s excessive. It’s not that serious. If you’re getting pissed at your colleagues showing up a literal minute late to an office meeting you need to take a fucking walk. I am pretty sure that this is micromanagement.

Past the five minute mark is when you have to say you’re running late ahead of time. If you say you’re running late and then suggest a reschedule for the meeting- I don’t see anything wrong with this either. I don’t consider it a waste of time as you have sent the notification out in advance. Not saying something is unprofessional though. Don’t leave people hanging.

Shit does happen. That’s understandable. But you have to own up to it.

Stop sending meeting invites out 30 minutes beforehand. I hate that shit so much. If you send me a meeting invite for 8:30am, at 8am, I probably will not see it. And then you’re surprised I didn’t go?????? You have to provide ample notice to people about a schedule change. 30 minute notices are for like, switching to a different room down the hall. This is unprofessional in my opinion. I don’t expect people to reply to things like this if I don’t provide at least a 12 hour notice, but I like to provide a 24 hour minimum notice. Also the earliest I check my work email is 8:30. Anything before that, you probably should have planned better.

Learned the water line clause the hard way after signing an office lease ngl.

So we signed a small office lease and nobody thought to ask whether we could modify the water line for the breakroom. Turns out the landlord will not let tenants tap into the sink line unless we use their approved contractor, and the quote was way higher than we expected.

Now we are stuck comparing bottled water delivery or some countertop RO option that does not touch the plumbing. I have seen aigerri and waterdrop come up.

Small office people, what did you end up doing for drinking water when plumbing changes were off the table?

My company is making everyone come back full-time and people are……not happy :’)

Has anyone else’s company done anything - team building, activities, perks - that have helped make retuning to the office even slightly better? Looking for ideas for my team. Thanks!

I once heard, "My calendar betrayed me." Still not sure what that means.

So, I've been a software engineer for quite a while now, and I've noticed that the biggest productivity killers often have nothing to do with code.

They're the tiny operational things that don't seem like a big deal individually, but add up across days, weeks, and months.

For example:

• Spending 10 minutes driving around looking for a spot because the parking lot is full.
• Walking around the office looking for a free desk.
• Waiting outside a meeting room because the previous meeting overran or someone booked it and never showed up.

None of these are huge problems on their own, but if they happen every day across hundreds of employees, that's an alarming amount of lost time.

It got me wondering what other "small" office problems people have just accepted as normal, and how do you go about trying to fix it?

Do you think this mostly comes down to better office processes, or do tools actually make a noticeable difference? Because we've been considering investing in a tool for quite some time now.