H bothered the shit out of me yesterday. It was mostly because I was in a foul mood to start, but he didn't do anything to help matters.
For one thing, I was trying to WORK from home yesterday, and he kept talking to me. About random shit, too. I guess I could have gone somewhere else, but I wanted to pseudo spend time with him.
He always asks, "Hey RBP, whatcha doin?" When he knows damn well what I'm doing. I realize that I sound like an ass, but that's what kind of mood I was in yesterday. I am getting irritated again just writing this out!
People who say ice-nink or ice-en-ning instead of icing. Or suposubly. What is wrong with their ears that they hear words this way?
Ok, I'll play.
I have encountered several people (CWs) that say 'pacifically' rather than 'specifically'...and I work in education!
I have never heard this before coming to NOLA, but I've now heard it from people at three different jobs that I've had down here!
I have one of those, too! It makes me crazy. She's from MA, though.
Also, our annoying receptionist always drops the 'g' on morning. Every. day. I say hi to her as I walk past her desk, and she says, "good mornin'." Sets my teeth on edge.
I hate when H asks me something that he can figure out or knows the answer to. It is like he is just trying to find something to say. I don't mind the silence.
Example. H is standing right in front of the cabinet where we keep tomato sauce if we have any. I am sitting on the couch. But he asks ME if we have any more sauce. Open the damn cabinet and see. You are right there.
Is your husband related to one of my lab students because they do this all.the.time. It drives me crazy.
Mine is not even irrational, it's a real annoyance but I'll share it here. I was texting my mother about the holiday house tour I went on and told her we found our dream house and described it to her and said that it wasn't for sale. She wrote back "don't be in a rush." I'm about to lose my mind. We have been paying down debt and saving for a house for literally years now. We are not in a hurry. Yet everytime I mention anything remotely related to me one day buying a different piece of real estate (she refuses to acknowledge that we already own real estate because it's not a SFH) she freaks out and implies that I don't know what I'm doing.
I hate when I am speaking to someone in the service industry and I say "thank you" and the response is "uh huh".
How the flip is "uh huh" a response to thank you? Use your words!
OMG this. I absolutely hate it. I have to note that this only has happened in the US to me, never in Canada or the UK. I thought maybe it was an american thing (and that it wasn't annoying to americans).
When people call, don't leave a message, and then proceed to call back every 2 minutes for the next half hour.
I'm not picking up the phone on princple. Leave a damn message.
YES. or the people who call and call, don't leave a message, and then call my supervisor and say i have poor customer service because i don't return phone calls. um, can't return a call if you don't leave a message.
(my supervisor said something to me last week about this exact thing. i told him i'm not a mind reader and i return all voicemails twice a day).
Trains and slow pedestrians on my commute annoy the piss out of me. I know this is totally irrational but thats the point of this post right? Also, streets lights that are not synchronized. I will be driving down a 2 mile stretch and hit everyfuckinglightred. ANNOYINGx10!
When people call, don't leave a message, and then proceed to call back every 2 minutes for the next half hour.
I'm not picking up the phone on princple. Leave a damn message.
YES. or the people who call and call, don't leave a message, and then call my supervisor and say i have poor customer service because i don't return phone calls. um, can't return a call if you don't leave a message.
(my supervisor said something to me last week about this exact thing. i told him i'm not a mind reader and i return all voicemails twice a day).
I had this happen to me too. Except it was my supervisor who would call and call, not leave a message, and then send me a snippy nasty-gram email about "not informing her when I needed to be out of the office." Most of the time the reason I didn't answer was because I had an in-person customer and answering the phone is rude. We finally had a come to Jesus talk about it one day, but her behavior continued until I finally left that job. It drove me totally insane.
ETA: Actually, having a phone at work irrationally annoys me. I hate talking on the phone and phone calls are generally disruptive. I much prefer email and Skype.
Post by mollybrown on Dec 10, 2012 16:16:11 GMT -5
I hate when servers introduce themselves and say "I'll be taking care of you tonight." It just sounds odd to me. I would prefer "I'll be your waiter," or even just their name. No idea why that grates on me.
H bothered the shit out of me yesterday. It was mostly because I was in a foul mood to start, but he didn't do anything to help matters.
For one thing, I was trying to WORK from home yesterday, and he kept talking to me. About random shit, too. I guess I could have gone somewhere else, but I wanted to pseudo spend time with him.
He always asks, "Hey RBP, whatcha doin?" When he knows damn well what I'm doing. I realize that I sound like an ass, but that's what kind of mood I was in yesterday. I am getting irritated again just writing this out!
I'm right there with you. I was working on my semester project yesterday, and FI kept reading random tidbits from articles out loud and getting annoyed when I didn't respond. I would be able to do something with you a lot sooner if you let me actually focus for more than 10 minutes at a time!!!
I hate when servers introduce themselves and say "I'll be taking care of you tonight." It just sounds odd to me. I would prefer "I'll be your waiter," or even just their name. No idea why that grates on me.
I find it odd that waiters introduce themselves at all -- but they seem to do it mostly at chains, where it is probably required by the manuals?
My pet peeve is when waiters say "I have a" when talking about the specials. Why "I" instead of "we"? Did you buy it? Will you be cooking it?
Also, streets lights that are not synchronized. I will be driving down a 2 mile stretch and hit everyfuckinglightred. ANNOYINGx10!
I know! Iowa can't seem to figure this out. One of the few things I miss about Detroit was that you could drive for miles at the speed limit without hitting a red.
People who can't follow very simply driving directions in parking lots. We have a mini-mall here that has one way aisles in the parking lot. Each is clearly marked as either up or down and the spots are angled to accommodate that direction. Yet, inevitably, whenever I go there is some moron who cannot seem to follow those great big arrows and drives down the wrong way then sits there staring at me like I'm the idiot because we both can't fit in this one tiny lane.
AND --- my family needs to learn that if they want to change the gift giving practices that have been in place for over 30 years that they need to decide that more than 2 weeks before Christmas.
Post by orangeblossom on Dec 10, 2012 17:08:44 GMT -5
When people leave their car at the gas pump and go inside and take forever to come back to their car. I'm not talking about people who are going in to pay cash, but people who are actually finished and don't move their car to the million open parking spots. Drives me crazy.