‘What’s your unspoken office tradition that makes no sense?’ – 19 inexplicable work customs that have people confused

11.

‘If you ask one of the engineers a question you had better be prepared for an hours lecture on the subject because he will go into every detail. Lovely guy and the things he tell are always excellent to learn but good lord the man can talk.’
–anon1992lol

12.

‘Our old boss would say good morning when he logged on (on Teams) during Covid, I guess to make sure everyone was fine, but if you didn’t say good morning at your log on time, he would put little passive aggressive comments on about things being ok.

We worked out he used your Teams comments as a clock on indication. ie didn’t trust us because we were remote. We kept going until he got fired, new boss, no such ‘policy’.’
–chefshoes

13.

‘If they have ‘soft skill’ training there must be biscuits.’
–Polz34

14.

‘Birthday club always seemed a bit redundant to me. I work on a team of 12 people including me so 11 times a year I am required to put £5 in for birthday club which costs me a total of £55 but on my birthday they all throw in £5 and I am reimbursed for my loss.’
–kitjen

15.

‘In my office a few of us tried to make ‘Cowboy Tuesdays’ a thing: you had to wear/have something cowboy related like a hat, boots, t-shirt, one of the older admin ladies got into it and wore a bull brooch. Our office had a very relaxed dress code so some people really went for it, like double denim, bolos etc!! A select hardcore of us carried it on for ages, it was really fun but it fizzled out after Covid, booo!’
–DiscothequeHooligan

16.

‘I don’t work in a traditional office environment but do work ‘in an office’ as part of my role. Contract says we work 8-4. We actually work 7.30-4.30 90% of the time. No one else seems to be arsed about getting paid for this time except me (I’m relatively new) and it’s being taken as some kind of slight that I would even ask.’
–murdermeinostia

17.

‘Wearing shorts, sun, rain or snow.’
–TheDawiWhisperer

18.

‘I always bring in Krispy Kremes on my birthday so everyone knows I’m the best colleague. One of the old dudes recently brought in a plastic bag of about 15 Aldi own brand chocolate bars for an office with about 100 people in it. My opposite.’
–Srapture

19.

‘In 21 years I have not worked a birthday because I refuse to buy my own cakes!’
–Youtalkingtomyboobs

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