People that annoy you/vents

[anna7602]

Blessed- that's so weird. Even without the sweat part, the "I work so hard" part is a weird thing to say to someone who just did the same activity.

I get annoyed in general whenever people say "must be nice." That phrase never has a positive connotation (in my book). It makes me feel like I have to qualify whatever I just said with a, "oh, it's not as great/easy as it sounds."

[rubytue]

Must be nice = so annoying

My vent right now is at my team. I'm still pissed from Tuesday. I asked for a volunteer who could stop on their way in this morning and pick up ice. 2 bags of ice. I'll give you the damn cash. No one. They all had excuses, then turned their nose up when I mentioned the gas station right down the road. I'm getting in at 6am and coming from Baltimore. I need ice at 9 am. Really?! Not one of you 10 grown adults can step up and bring ice?!

Someone commented yesterday that they couldn't figure out how we were pulling this off and why we weren't running around like crazy. Umm. Bc apparently it's not a we. It's a me. I can even get them to get ice!!! At least I have interns for the busy work (folder stuffing, printing, etc)

[hannamaren]

I am the opposite. People always comment on how much I am sweating. "gee, you sweat a lot". Um, thanks? (this is after some exercise or a hot day, not just randomly.)

I am mildly annoyed at the receptionist at the doctors office that made me feel like a heel when she said "can you let the lady behind you go first? She has a walker and all".

[mbcdefg]

I have two coworkers in their mid-20s who CONSTANTLY talk. All day. One will come in in the morning and immediately start chatting with the other about something really stupid ... then she calls her SO and tells him the same story ... then she calls her mom. Sometimes her grandma, too. They talk about TV shows and just recap the entire episode ("Remember when X said this? That was so great") - thank goodness I don't DVR many shows for later otherwise they'd all be spoiled. They're never quiet for more than a few minutes at a time.

One is super-pretentious and is always name-dropping her expensive private college, and acts as if she were British (not with an accent, but by just using words that Americans don't normally use, like "lavatory" instead of "bathroom"). The other talks in a really squeaky Valley Girl voice all the time, I guess because she thinks it's cute but she sounds like she's 5. She pronounces "cool" like "kewl." Her entire vocabulary sounds like Mona Lisa's voice in My Cousin Vinny where she says "Dey WERE!" at the end of her testimony.

I've never been bothered by other people socializing in an office, but these girls are just CONSTANT.

[missajane]

I need to know - I let people know that I am jealous. Like their lack of sweating, their hair, that they have something I don't, etc. Is this as bad as the "must be nice thing??" I am just being honest, but it appears that isn't good. Oops.

[Deleted]

One of my coworkers goes in the bathroom, which shares a wall with my office, to take personal phone calls. I can't hear her conversations but I can hear that she is on the phone and its so annoying. It is also taking up the bathroom for people who need to actually use it.

[ssmjlm]

If you are a supervisor and are going to be out sick, could you at least have the decency to also let one of your employees know? Please don't contact the other supervisor who doesn't know his head from his ass b/c he never told us you were going to be out.

[bunnysmom]

Oct 11, 2012 8:18:09 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

I have two coworkers in their mid-20s who CONSTANTLY talk. All day. One will come in in the morning and immediately start chatting with the other about something really stupid ... then she calls her SO and tells him the same story ... then she calls her mom. Sometimes her grandma, too. They talk about TV shows and just recap the entire episode ("Remember when X said this? That was so great") - thank goodness I don't DVR many shows for later otherwise they'd all be spoiled. They're never quiet for more than a few minutes at a time.

One is super-pretentious and is always name-dropping her expensive private college, and acts as if she were British (not with an accent, but by just using words that Americans don't normally use, like "lavatory" instead of "bathroom"). The other talks in a really squeaky Valley Girl voice all the time, I guess because she thinks it's cute but she sounds like she's 5. She pronounces "cool" like "kewl." Her entire vocabulary sounds like Mona Lisa's voice in My Cousin Vinny where she says "Dey WERE!" at the end of her testimony.

I've never been bothered by other people socializing in an office, but these girls are just CONSTANT.

Oh my..that's annoying...

I also have two girls who are very similar to the ones you're describing in my French class. They are young (22 and 20) and I understand that but their behaviour is more appropiate for middle school girls. They talk and laugh the ENTIRE class, and it's a very small group so the rest of us hear them perfectly. Once the teacher had to stop the class and ask them to stop laughing because it was so distracting that she couldn't continue teaching and the rest of us students also couldn't concentrate. The girls acted as it was nothing but I can't imagine being more than 20 years old and being called out by the teacher. I'd have died of embarrasment.

[rikki]

My boss is back to playing nonstop music. Today it is the Titanic soundtrack. I am going to CVS soon to buy earplugs.

[imojoebunny]

My DH sweats so much it changes the color of the sheets and his work out clothes. It is like his sweat has bleach in it. I consider non-sweating to be a good thing.

I am annoyed by people who lie, twist facts, and threaten people to get what they want. There is a long back story, but my neighbor is an institution zoned single family, and they are going around the law to get what they want and using threats and lies to get people to let them do it.

[Deleted]

Must be nice is so annoying. Another common phrase here is "Don't you think," ie. "The weather is really nice today, don't you think?". Yes, I think all the time you idiot.

My boss seriously annoyed me yesterday. We have three people in my office, one is the registrar, one is the activities secretary, and I'm the financial secretary. In addition to these duties, we all act as general secretaries and we each cover breakfast and lunch, taking the student ID number and putting it into the system, etc. One of my coworkers is gone right now, so the two of us here are stretched a little thin. I mentioned to boss that I was looking forward to coworker being back next week. He told me I should be greatfull because at his old school there are only two secretaries, and it's a bigger school. But, those secretaries are only secretaries, that's all they do! They don't have all of the other duties we each have.

[Deleted]

Oct 11, 2012 8:39:19 GMT -5 @ruralrabbit1 said:

Must be nice is so annoying. Another common phrase here is "Don't you think," ie. "The weather is really nice today, don't you think?". Yes, I think all the time you idiot.

I'll add the phrase "there's nothing like...." As in "there is nothing like a steaming latte on a cold day" or "there's nothing like a glass of local craft beer after leading a group of disadvantaged blind orphans through the glorious redwoods or Northern California." There is an element of smug to it that I find irritating, like the joy needs to be explained to the proletariat.

[mbcdefg]

Oh, another one is people who ask you questions and then obviously don't care about your answer.

I have a few friends (and they have great other qualities or else I'd just say fuck it and cut them off) who do this, and you can tell that they're just itching to get a word in edgewise about their own personal experience. One of my friends asked how I was doing a couple weeks after my dad died, and then she spent most of the night talking about her grandpa. I get that you miss your grandpa, lady, but it's really not the same.

Another friend (and we're mainly friends with her because we really like her H) doesn't even wait for me to answer her question before she completely cuts me off to talk about something else. Sometimes I don't even answer her anymore because I know she doesn't give a shit.

And she often interrupts me just to give a random compliment, like how nice my sweater is, so I can never tell when she's actually being sincere about something. It just feels like she's going overboard on trying to get everyone to like her, which wouldn't be a problem if she'd just STFU and listen once in a while.

[Deleted]

Oct 11, 2012 8:18:09 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

I have two coworkers in their mid-20s who CONSTANTLY talk. All day. One will come in in the morning and immediately start chatting with the other about something really stupid ... then she calls her SO and tells him the same story ... then she calls her mom. Sometimes her grandma, too. They talk about TV shows and just recap the entire episode ("Remember when X said this? That was so great") - thank goodness I don't DVR many shows for later otherwise they'd all be spoiled. They're never quiet for more than a few minutes at a time.

One is super-pretentious and is always name-dropping her expensive private college, and acts as if she were British (not with an accent, but by just using words that Americans don't normally use, like "lavatory" instead of "bathroom"). The other talks in a really squeaky Valley Girl voice all the time, I guess because she thinks it's cute but she sounds like she's 5. She pronounces "cool" like "kewl." Her entire vocabulary sounds like Mona Lisa's voice in My Cousin Vinny where she says "Dey WERE!" at the end of her testimony.

I've never been bothered by other people socializing in an office, but these girls are just CONSTANT.

I'd at least give her the benefit of the doubt on the college thing. People in their early- to mid-20s tend to talk about college a LOT because that is where they spent much of the last 5-10 years, and is usually an important experience for peopel. And if she went to GW or wherever, I don't think it is pretentious or obnoxious to say over and over "When I was at GW"... I mean, if she's talking about the cost or prestige of her school all the time that's one thing, but I don't think you can fault her for mentioning the school by name.

[mbcdefg]

Oct 11, 2012 8:59:23 GMT -5 v said:

Oct 11, 2012 8:18:09 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

I have two coworkers in their mid-20s who CONSTANTLY talk. All day. One will come in in the morning and immediately start chatting with the other about something really stupid ... then she calls her SO and tells him the same story ... then she calls her mom. Sometimes her grandma, too. They talk about TV shows and just recap the entire episode ("Remember when X said this? That was so great") - thank goodness I don't DVR many shows for later otherwise they'd all be spoiled. They're never quiet for more than a few minutes at a time.

One is super-pretentious and is always name-dropping her expensive private college, and acts as if she were British (not with an accent, but by just using words that Americans don't normally use, like "lavatory" instead of "bathroom"). The other talks in a really squeaky Valley Girl voice all the time, I guess because she thinks it's cute but she sounds like she's 5. She pronounces "cool" like "kewl." Her entire vocabulary sounds like Mona Lisa's voice in My Cousin Vinny where she says "Dey WERE!" at the end of her testimony.

I've never been bothered by other people socializing in an office, but these girls are just CONSTANT.

I'd at least give her the benefit of the doubt on the college thing. People in their early- to mid-20s tend to talk about college a LOT because that is where they spent much of the last 5-10 years, and is usually an important experience for peopel. And if she went to GW or wherever, I don't think it is pretentious or obnoxious to say over and over "When I was at GW"... I mean, if she's talking about the cost or prestige of her school all the time that's one thing, but I don't think you can fault her for mentioning the school by name.

It's more along these lines.

I actually just came across a Yahoo article that mentions the cost of that particular school. Holy fucking hell

[mbcdefg]

Oct 11, 2012 9:07:16 GMT -5 @vicmo said:

I'm taking a beginner's sewing class right now (the first class was on "how to turn on your machine", so it is REALLY intended as a basic class), and we are supposed to make something simple like a pair of PJ pants or an elastic-waist skirt. One of the girls seems to think it is a competition to make the most complicated clothing - she made a pair of wool pants and now she is making a cotton sundress. She keeps making comments about how "simple" my clothing items are, as if I should feel bad that I am making a beginner's item in a beginner's class. After I finished my PJ pants, she commented that I should choose something more difficult next time. Back off, lady!

Then WTF is she doing in a beginner's class, if she's obviously so advanced? 8-D

[sporky]

I'm annoyed that my sister, who is a single mom, lets my 10 year old niece and 6 year old nephew sleep with her in her bed every.single.night. It's been that way ever since she and XBIL separated two years ago. I don't believe there's anything untoward going on, but I do think she's using them as a crutch so she doesn't have to be alone. And I don't believe it's good for them. But I don't have kids as I am reminded incessantly, so apparently it's none of my business.

[Deleted]

Lol. I love how most of these boiled down to people who think they are superior.

[Deleted]

I have a coworker who sits by the microwave and must comment on every single item I heat up and it's dietary value. Even when I get lunch at the cafeteria she'll stop me and ask what it is and tell me all about her diet. Listen lady, I'm hungry, I'm not dieting anymore, get out of my way.

[mbcdefg]

The title of this post just reminded me of that South Park episode:

[Awkward]

Vent/confession: I need to stay off of ML today. Everyone is talking about how their husbands proposed and if they knew it was coming. I feel like, when the time comes that SO does propose (I hope...), that we've been together for so long that it's lost the aspect of surprise. I don't even want to talk to him about it anymore because I don't want to be "that girl that forced her boyfriend into proposing." This is dumb because we've talked about getting engaged and married tons of times before, and he even brings it up on his own. I'm just jealous that other women have the experience of their boyfriends making the independent decision that they were worth marrying.

For the record I know how badly this reflects on me. I know that in many ways we have no business being engaged right now. It's more a symbol of everything in my life that I can't have right now. /emo

[Deleted]

the amount of sweat as nothing to do with how hard you work. I sweat quite easily so after 15 minutes of exercise I look like I've put in 90 minutes of hard cardio or something.
Others can do the actual 90 minutes of hard work and not have a drop of sweat on them.
It all depends on the person !!!

[Deleted]

People with martyr complexes. Particularly those who have martyr complexes about things that they've brought on themselves/could change.

[mrsjuleshs]

I work with some very colorful people, to be nice but 2 really take the cake. 1 thinks the world revolves around her, walks around wearing sunglasses and a visor and has posterboard propped up over her cube because of "the glare". She also eats noisly and messy all the time and walks around with her lipstick smeared. Her clothes are literally 2 sizes too small and she has been asked if she is pregnant by more than 1 person. She is really far out there. The other one, I refer to as the annoying little troll. She is like 4'9" tall and has the most godawful laugh ever. Added to that, she is very condescending and a total know it all and I just can't stand her.

[CallingAllAngels]

There are a couple people in my office that track exactly what time everyone comes in, when they leave and when they go to/return from lunch. My boss is really laid back about schedule, but I feel the need to call her if I am running 10 minutes over on my lunch because I would rather her hear it from me than nosey busy-body. Of course, these co-workers never notice if you work through lunch all together or stay late.

[jene]

People who start every sentence with "when you get pregnant/when you have kids..." We are not even trying!

[Deleted]

Oct 11, 2012 10:57:42 GMT -5 jene said:

People who start every sentence with "when you get pregnant/when you have kids..." We are not even trying!

I hate that too, particularly because I don't plan on having children ever.

[egishere]

My new co-worker who has no self confidence, low self esteem and is always putting herself down. Things like "I'm fat", "I space out all the time." I try to tell her to stop saying stuff like that and will compliment her but she continues to do it. I really like her but it's starting to get so annoying.

[miss1991]

My sil. She is always on her phone. We will start a conversation and if her phone rings she will pick it up and start texting. Yesterday she watched my daughter for 2 hrs while I went to the Dr' s. We went to leave and she said let me walk you out we where talking and all of a sudden she heard her phone and ran in the house, yes ran, to get it. She starts talking and comes back out ad I got out the car to hug her and she gave me a hug and I was like see ya later and she was like what did you say to her friend and walked away. She does this shit all the time. I want to say something cause I am tired of it but she is overly sensitive.

[ondaflipside]

I can't stand people who yell when they talk. Why do you do this?