May 09, 2005
Stuff that has pissed me off today
(Category:
Short Stops
)
- Towel dispensers placed high on the wall so when you reach up to them the water on your hands runs back down your arms. I've also noticed that the vast majority of paper dispensers are placed out of reach of kids. Don't we want these guys to learn basic hygiene?
- People who don't give you "The Wave" when you let them pull into traffic ahead of you. It's my right of way, buddy. The least you could do is give me a thank-you when I try to be nice and let you in.
- Pencils that are too short to use. Why do they put graphite all the way through them anyway?
- Office chairs with the tilt lever where the up/down lever is supposed to be. Purchasing agents should not be permitted to buy chairs unless they've sat in them.
- Cubicles set up so everybody passing by sees your screen. One of my projects has hush-hush elements and I'm getting paranoid every time I open up a document for it.
- Phones without caller ID. The Do Not Disturb setting works really well but there's no "Except for Boss1 or Boss2" setting.
- Whiny blog posts that are full of nothing except a list of annoyances.
So what's pissing you off today? Sound off in the comments.
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Same as usual....kids,pets,Spokane....
"A hush-hush project" - is that what they're calling it now? nudge-nudge, wink-wink
Anyway - revising for an Arabic oral exam when we have done approximately no speaking so far in the course is my pet peeve today...
my back. It's been achy lately. I think I was abducted by aliens, and they took my spine out and gave me one from some seventy-five year old retired migrant worker. Christ almighty.
The alarm clock, the drive to work, the people I must see and hear, the lack of lunch and the smell of microwave popcorn, which has permeated the entire building.
Aside from the above, the day's been okay.
The only thing worse than that completely engulfing smell of popcorn at work is the completely engulfing smell of burnt popcorn at work.
I hate it when people burn popcorn. You don't even need to be able to read anymore to cook popcorn correctly; just hit the button with the popcorn icon on it. I bet you could train a retarded lab rat how to microwave a decent bag of popcorn. Do you work in that office from the commercials? The one with all the monkeys in it?
Maybe that's the problem. Our microwaves are a bit older and still have the word "popcorn" instead of a picture.
My worst peeve at work? When people think my personal workspace is their storage area and dump their shit there. Or take stuff without asking and not return it.
That stuff makes me go psycho.
The number 67.5 and the letter Y.
Because.
I'm not annoyed by anything yet today (except the sales people at my work who can't sell things properly) but one thing that irritates me generally in the category of hygiene is the Infinity Towel.
You don't see these much any more, but when I encounter them (one of my favorite restaurants has it) they bother me.
Instead of dispensing towels, there is just one big, long loop of a towel that you're supposed to rotate through the contraption.
Do you think I'm touching that? Hell no.
Our chairs at work seem to go on the fritz. You'll be sitting there and suddenly, you drop an inch. Then about 5 minutes later, it happens again.
And even though, it's only an inch, it's like taking the first plunge on the roller coaster, because here you are intently concentrating, and then your chair drops an inch.
Annoying. I got a new chair. They've had to replace 30% of the chairs in my office.
Jim, I don't know if you go back to read comments added long after you've posted something here. I hope you do.
My mom worked as the city administrator and was involved in municipal politics her entire working career. She worked with a mayor for a few years whom she truly disliked and he annoyed her.
Unbeknownst to her, I programmed her telephone display to read 'The Little Shit" when he called her at home.
The first time he called her after I'd done that, she laughed so hard she had to hang up!