Tips HR Dept.
Work can be such a four-letter word.
We spend at least one-third of our day there, so it helps if we actually get along with the people we're working with. So it's not really a surprise that our co-workers have the ability to drive us crazier than our spouses do. People were asked to rank the 10 things that bug them most about others in their office on an aggravation scale of 1 to 10. No. 3 deals with poor meeting etiquette, such as showing up late, answering cell phones and letting pagers beep. Several of the complaints dealt with the employee break area, including making a mess of the microwave and not cleaning it up or taking the last cup of coffee and not making any more.