Can you get annoyed enough to start working on your resumes?

A while back I mentioned the Robert Half/CareerBuilder survey about salary and the professional/technical job market, and one of the things I didn’t bring up in the blog was the fact that employers are trying to improve workplace environments as a means of employee retention.
One thing they probably aren’t considering in their cubicle makeovers is the effect of the ever-present annoying co-workers. CNN American Morning recently touted the results of a research poll (try as I might, I couldn’t find the source of their story), revealing what drives people up a wall about their office mates, and their own website poll mostly echoed the same results.
From the show transcript, here are the top 5 annoying habits:

The office pet peeves, gossiping number one. This is from a brand new market research poll. Number two, people who surf the internet all day. They say they feel like it is not fair sending out mass e-mails instead of working. Being messy, there you go, Stephanie. Number three, people don’t like that. And also, if you wear too much perfume or cologne, that annoys other people in the office. And if you talk on the phone too loud, you talk on your speakerphone, or you’re just loud in general.

Now, as annoying as these things may be, none of them – separately or together – are enough to make you consider jumping ship, right?

That’s what I thought. But what if it was enough to get you thinking about your resume?

You last updated it six months ago – or maybe it’s been more than a year. A lot’s happened since then, hasn’t it? And maybe you’ve lost touch with some of your best networking contacts over that time, too.
If any of those annoying habits resonated with you, I’m not saying it means you have to start looking for a new job right away. All I’m saying is that if there’s any time to consider it, why not use that slight sense of dissatisfaction to your advantage? Let it open your mind to the possibility of getting out of a rut you may be in, update your resumes, and remind yourself of the kind of job you want to have?
And if that isn’t enough, annoy yourself with more commiserating here and here, and if nothing else, share them with a good friend for a laugh. No mass emailing, though – you’ve gotta promise me on that. 
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