Everyone’s got their own ideas about who and what is most annoying at work. Meghan M. Biro recently contributed her hilarious list to Ragan PR Daily, a wonderful resource for business communicators of all types (and that group includes you!). And readers have added their own peeves, which include in-office fingernail clipping and “banana smacking” (don’t ask!).
What’s great about Biro’s discussion is that it cites the behaviors without condemning the…behaviorees? As we stress in Managing the Unmanageable, your ability to see the person who’s being obscured by those habits that make you cringe is the first step in salvaging an unmanageable — or just an annoying — employee.
Even the “banana smackers.”