The Most Common Louisiana Workplace Gripes Revealed

It's just human nature isn't it? Here in Louisiana, and I'm guessing in the rest of the country, regardless of how good we have it, we tend to focus on the negative.

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A company could send every employee a $10,000 bonus and some would wonder why it wasn't more.

Is that jaded? Maybe so, but at my age, I've learned it's a lot easier to to accept the reality of things than to work on the excuses for why those things are true.

Nonetheless, even though that job has a mountain of shortcomings, we continue to show up every day. And when you get down to it, it's because we "need" that job; not because we just got bored laying around the pool every afternoon.

As A Society, We Have A Tendency To Be Complainers

Keeping that in mind, because we have a tendency to complain about anything we don't want to do, our complaints about the workplace (and the others we share it with) will often run the full gamut.

Working in a radio station for the last 42 years, I’ve heard literally thousands of complaints.  And contrary to what you’d think, most of them weren’t from our listeners.

They were actually from the staff itself.  Complaints ranging from “Okay, who took my headphones?” to “Somebody stole my yogurt out of the refrigerator” and “He’s playing the music so loud in there it shook my pictures off the wall”.

One of my all-time favorites is the never-ending “Something smells really bad in there.”  Course, we get the nasty notes on the vending machine “This thing owes me 75 cents” and “Can’t you ever put anything good to eat in here?”

What Are The Biggest Complaints In The Workplace?

Googling the question “what is the number one complaint in the work place”, I discovered that regardless where you might work, it's likely that our complaints are much all the same.

In an article from commercialrealestate.com, the number one complaint is "The pay isn't fair."  Sound way too familiar?

Here's what they found to be the next nine.

• Not enough feedback from the managers
• Office is too noisy
• Other people aren't being nice
• I.T. issues
• Harassment or bullying in the workplace
• Changes in the workplace
• The workload
• 24/7 demands
• Tie between It's too hot and It's too cold

Course, with so many working from home these days, I'm guessing that most of these, outside those dreaded I.T. issues, really aren't applicable.

But, for those who spend their days at the office, I'm thinking that the "too hot" or "too cold" trumps all others, because when you're uncomfortable in regards to the temperature, you just can't perform. And here in Louisiana, the heat is a constant factor, so I'm guessing it moves that one to the number one slot for us.

Now, there are certain jobs that would have unique complaints. Like those who work for portable toilet companies. I'm pretty sure they have complaints that none of us could imagine.

And just imagine you work customer service for an electric company here in Louisiana during the summer and people have just received their electric bill. Oh, that could never be fun.