When resigning from a previous role (or dreaming of resigning from your current one), has the weak office etiquette of the person/people you sit near ever been a significant factor into your decision?
I'm currently working a job that I'd consider "good enough for now", but it's not the kind of place I want to be at forever. The pay is good and the work is interesting, but there's no WFH/flexible working arrangements, and the office is just that bit too far from home.
That being said, there's an older bloke who sits behind me, and he's an absolute menace to be around, to the point where he'd easily be the #1 factor to why I'd want to leave. While he's a nice guy and I try my hardest not to hate him, he's the poster child of pissweak office etiquette, where sitting next to him is like sitting next to a white noise machine, that specifically makes the most annoying and disgusting noises known to man.
Bangs and crashes for at least 20 min each morning as he sets himself up for the day. Holds an excessive amount of teams meetings to look busy, where he's the only one talking 90% of the meeting. Constantly eats the loudest foods possible at his desk, and chews with his mouth open and his headphones on. Leans and puts weight on his standing desk so it's always creaking. Will play his music through his speakers if he forgets to charge his headphones. Sucks and slurps on his thumb like a 2 year old. He's an older obese guy, with the stereotypical laboured mouth breathing to match, and has these weird daily sleep apnea induced "yawning fits", where he'll yawn over and over for up to 30 min at a time.
The first 12 months I was here, I was constantly pulling him up on most of this shit. But after working out that he's just not all there mentally, between the way he forgets and starts up old habits a week or two later, or just other frustratingly dumb shit he does on a daily basis, I've just given up on the guy. Cutting holes in the beanie to slot my noise cancelling headphones through to make a proper seal has become my saving grace. I've asked to move desks within the office, but no dice - The office is overstaffed as it is. Good reason to bring in hybrid work modes if you ask me.
If it weren't for an upcoming project where I'll be spending 2 years out in a site office, I would have quit over Christmas, with this turd accounting for 90% of the reason why. But the start date keeps getting pushed back, and I'm starting to lose my patience at this point again. If the site office doesn't go ahead soon, I'll probably be quitting this Christmas instead...
Anyone here have similar stories to make me feel better about myself?