Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Pet Peeves

At the risk of sounding like Andy Rooney, I've assembled a partial list of my pet peeves in the workplace:

  • Meetings in which nothing whatsoever is decided.
  • Missed deadlines. [Especially when I miss them!]
  • The use of the telephone instead of e-mail to set up meetings.
  • People who have their secretary call and then have me wait for them to come on the line.
  • Executives who adopt a collegial guise but are actually autocratic.
  • Smug management. [No exceptions.]
  • Factions.
  • Gossip.
  • People who are more concerned about turf than about mission.

How many have I missed?

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