How many things annoy you about the place where you work? I’m sure that any person reading this can name five annoyances right off the top of their head. Over the summer I wrote a post called, “Take Passion and Pride in your Work” which focused on how some people just show up at the office and thus they usually wind up sucking at their jobs. This didn’t really apply to my office at the time, but something new has popped up at my day job that has really begun to annoy me and I’m sure aggravates those of you in similar positions.

I’m talking about people who are hired by your company and have no idea how to perform their job. This can take many forms, but I’m specifically referring to the unique combination of someone not knowing their job and them not taking any passion or pride in their work. For example, how many times have you sent out a memo via e-mail (or by placing it in coworker’s inboxes) only to have someone ask you a question that is clearly answered in the memo? Let that happen over and over again and it’s enough to drive a person to start drinking…heavily!

Frankly, this is a basic job function and if you can’t perform simple reading for comprehension, then you shouldn’t be in a professional position. Yet I can point to people in my current and previous companies who are completely lackadaisical when it comes to such basic job functions.

In the last week alone, I’ve sent out two different documents to my team at the office. One document was a bit longer – hitting 12 pages – and the other one was a little less than 2 full pages. Wouldn’t you know that both times I sent this document out the same person responded to me asking questions that were clearly addressed in the documents?!

It’s driven me a little bit crazy so I thought I would come on here and vent a bit. Enjoy!