FabSwingers.com forum: Something extremely popular at work that you have no interest in....

By *atman_and_PoisonIvy OP Couple
4 weeks ago

North Worcestershire

For me... it's when work takes itself too seriously and gets you to 'buy in' to the company mentality and live and breathe the way it wants you to..

I can't stand that. It's just a job.

Turn Up, do your shift, keep yourselves to yourselves and go home.

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By *eoBloomsMan
4 weeks ago

Springfield

Meetings, meetings about meetings, meetings to schedule meetings...

Just leave me alone!

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By *atman_and_PoisonIvy OP Couple
4 weeks ago

North Worcestershire

A meeting... when it could have been in an email.

Or worse... when someone emails you something when they're sat RIGHT OPPOSITE YOU and could just literally save themselves the trouble and just tell you

Boils my piss that one

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By *rSircumsizedMan
4 weeks ago

Risca

Working

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By *eoBloomsMan
4 weeks ago

Springfield

Team building exercises

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By *carlettsWoman
4 weeks ago

Harpenden

"Working"

Haha same but sadly no time to slack off

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By *tagge_fyxeCouple
4 weeks ago

Yorkshire

"Team building exercises

This. A hundred times this.

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By *atman_and_PoisonIvy OP Couple
4 weeks ago

North Worcestershire

Doing overtime

'Hey do you think you could stay until 8 on Wednesday'

How about you go fuck yourself?, Margaret

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By *erry bull1Man
4 weeks ago

doncaster

I just used to think of myself as another link in the chain , as long as the coins went into the bank at the end of the week , I couldn’t care less

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By *ools and the brainCouple
4 weeks ago

couple, us we him her.

Football chat and talking about drinking.

A male workforce, lot's of alpha's chest puffing trying to act " and" talk usually revolves around football drinking fighting and shagging.

No interest in that at all thanks.

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By *sWyldWoman
4 weeks ago

Edinburgh

Coffee. I don't like it

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By *carlettsWoman
4 weeks ago

Harpenden

"Doing overtime

'Hey do you think you could stay until 8 on Wednesday'

How about you go fuck yourself?, Margaret"

Is Margaret her real name?

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By *etwife8230Couple
4 weeks ago

Newport

Phonecalls ,put it in an email and leave me alone

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By *ild_oatsMan
4 weeks ago

the land of saints & sinners

"Meetings, meetings about meetings, meetings to schedule meetings...

Just leave me alone!

Yes, meeting where no one will make a decision.

Or where everyone one and there dog feels that they need to be consulted about a decision that I have made…..

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By *mmaleiaWoman
4 weeks ago

Trowbridge

I’m my own boss & work on my own. It’s best that way

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By *rX2024123Man
4 weeks ago

Rotherfield

"There’s positives and negatives to working for us here, for instance we have team building exercise days regularly"

"And the positives?"

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By *orthern StarsCouple
4 weeks ago

Durham

The meetings, about the meetings, then another meeting about those meetings.

They are very good at words but actions, not so much.

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By *atman_and_PoisonIvy OP Couple
4 weeks ago

North Worcestershire

"Doing overtime

'Hey do you think you could stay until 8 on Wednesday'

How about you go fuck yourself?, Margaret

Is Margaret her real name?

Sadly no, but I'm trying to protect identities lol

For one, Margaret isn't a man.. at least I hope she's not

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By *atman_and_PoisonIvy OP Couple
4 weeks ago

North Worcestershire

When there's excessive talk about kids

'Joshua shat himself last night... I was up at 4 this morning blah blah'

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By *zeroMan
4 weeks ago

Glasgow

"Football chat and talking about drinking.

A male workforce, lot's of alpha's chest puffing trying to act " and" talk usually revolves around football drinking fighting and shagging.

No interest in that at all thanks."

Sectarian, open racism and occasional bullying

"Ach it's just banter mate"

Yeah tend not to talk too much to the super lads.

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By *lice AgainTV/TS
4 weeks ago

Bristol

vote for your monthly 'little gem'...

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By *eoBloomsMan
4 weeks ago

Springfield

Christmas jumper Day 😭

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By *ermite12ukMan
4 weeks ago

Solihull and Brentwood

People that are younger than me by several decades usually. Who appear to be at work. (When they're not ill, due to self imbibing.) To have a good time and socialise.

I sound old and grumpy. Which I apologise for. But the youngsters nowadays appear to have zero work ethic and imho. certainly take the piss.

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By *atman_and_PoisonIvy OP Couple
4 weeks ago

North Worcestershire

"People that are younger than me by several decades usually. Who appear to be at work. (When they're not ill, due to self imbibing.) To have a good time and socialise.

I sound old and grumpy. Which I apologise for. But the youngsters nowadays appear to have zero work ethic and imho. certainly take the piss.

Agreed

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By *orthern StarsCouple
4 weeks ago

Durham

"vote for your monthly 'little gem'...

Ahhh yes!! Very good point. That's just recently been brought in at my workplace. It's unfair and you can predict those who will receive the award.

Ruby

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By *hesubtlegentMan
4 weeks ago

surrey

Equality and diversity courses. Fuck right off… there are some people that probably need to be educated but personally I find them patronising…

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By *arahfromwarringtonTV/TS
4 weeks ago

warrington

Cycling. A few years ago we got a new director who was into cycling. Suddenly all the kiss arses below him were turning up in latex shorts and talking about carbon fibre frames and planning “team building” coast to coast shit.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
4 weeks ago

North West

The one where we nominate people for an award via a Teams channel. It's like getting a star on your t-shirt from the teacher at school. Just pay me a bonus if I do something epic.

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By *ensualtongue2023Man
4 weeks ago

furnace

Being self employed for me it’s the paperwork I hate or the clients that want to tell me I’m too expensive

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By *avexxMan
4 weeks ago

cheshire

team board meetings a meeting about a meeting,,, employee of the month,,, star of the month its like fkn school, glad when i get out of it

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By *ongAndThick123Man
4 weeks ago

Leeds

“Banter”. It’s so dry.

I’m currently working on a small team of 8. There’s 7 men, one woman.

I find myself avoiding any kind of conversation with anyone at all, because i don’t want to get dragged into it. The sense of humour seems to revolve around putting down others. Not my style.

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By *he Vital SparkMan
4 weeks ago

Preston

Micro management, Why!? It's like being back at school sometimes, so petty.

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
4 weeks ago

BRIDPORT

Moaning and whinging about tasks that are unpopular, just get your head down and fucking get on with it.

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By *ack688Man
4 weeks ago

abruzzo Italy (and UK)

We’re a family here!

No we’re not, fuck off, and I don’t like spending much time with most of my family anyway.

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By *uffolkcouple-bi onlyCouple
4 weeks ago

West Suffolk

We both spend 99% of our time working alone, but in previous roles….

The little clique that seems to get away with doing as close to nothing all day as they can while, slagging everyone else off for being lazy.

And new middle managers that come in from outside the business and often outside the industry, who have absolutely no idea how to do their job or mine, but want to stop people doing all the things they have learned over many years because they know better.

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By *ai Hard 2 - Dai HarderMan
4 weeks ago

Manchester / Cardiff

Contradictory management. Tell you, you shouldn't do something, but do the very same thing themselves.

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By *ife NinjaMan
4 weeks ago

Dunfermline

People talking about The Traitors, Squid Games etc. 🤷‍♂️

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By *he ShivsCouple
4 weeks ago

Fife

“teamwork” “We all help each other out”.

No we don’t. We help the same 2 people finish their work because they’re lazy. When I’m done, I’m going home, unless you’re willing to pay me extra from doing their job too.

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By *uri00620Woman
4 weeks ago

Croydon

Promotion. I can't be bothered with that. I just want enough money to do the stuff I like to do outside of work and it not to infringe on work/ life balance. I have that.

More work/responsibility? Fuck that.

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By (user no longer on site)
4 weeks ago

Charity muggers.

Those twats that want you to sponsor them to do a sky dive.

And they get the firm to sponsor them.

Ever wonder why there's nothing in the pot for pay rises?

Who is paying the skydive firm?

Bet it's coming out of your sponsorship money.

And it's something you want to do you twat.

I'll sponsor you to take a 9" angle grinder with a wire brush attachment to your private parts for a whole 24hours so you can prove your doing it for charidy.

Or you could just donate the money out of your own pocket and stop mugging the rest of us to pay for your bucket list.

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By *weetiepie99Woman
4 weeks ago

cardiff

Love to work with you lot, not

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By *abtastic Mr FoxMan
4 weeks ago

A den in the Glen

MS Teams. Totally destroyed my ability to travel the country to 'press the flesh' and speak to real people face to face.

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By *HUSH-Man
4 weeks ago

London

Staff party/socials

I just want to go home 😩

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By *inda May SimmonsTV/TS
4 weeks ago

hexham

When I go in and they ask me to do like work stuff.

I’m trying to watch my four episode binge of Frasier here for Christ’s sake and you want me to do your stupid job?

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
4 weeks ago

East Sussex

The works Christmas do.

I did not want to socialise with those people.

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By *moothdickMan
4 weeks ago

stoke

Gossip

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By *carlettsWoman
4 weeks ago

Harpenden

"Doing overtime

'Hey do you think you could stay until 8 on Wednesday'

How about you go fuck yourself?, Margaret

Is Margaret her real name?

Sadly no, but I'm trying to protect identities lol

For one, Margaret isn't a man.. at least I hope she's not"

You never know these days

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
4 weeks ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

Years ago I used to work on nights with 2 others and often enough it would just be 2 people in at any one time.

One of them was a massive Big Brother fan and was always bursting to talk about it. I'd got no interest in it, but ended up watching it just so that he could get it all out of his system to someone who knew what he was talking about

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By *elix SightedMan
4 weeks ago

Cloud 8

Emails.

Those passive aggressive emails people send to you but also copy in your boss.

Those emails sent to 58 people who all respond with ‘reply to all’. Every time. For days. Some even skew off into a whole other conversation.

Emails that should have been a phone call because it would have been quicker and less confusing.

Corporate communications about boring shite.

Spam.

Circulars.

Nonsense.

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By *2000ManMan
4 weeks ago

Worthing

Meetings with no pre-preparation. Everyone goes into the meeting without an agenda so nothing gets decided on in the end. Therefore another followup meeting is scheduled! Glad I no longer work in an office.

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By *ittle Miss TinkerbellWoman
4 weeks ago

your head

The arse not talking to the elbow. How the fuck do you expect us to know what's going on if you, the management don't know.

The expectation that you'll do more work than you get paid for the set you up for potential promotions. No. Train me for what I'm aiming for and pay me at that rate when I'm doing the job, I'm not doing it for free for the possibility of a promotion that won't be available in this century.

Management talking down to people. We aren't children, talk to people like adults. How much you get paid shouldn't come into it.

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