What's your pet peeve in RL?

[Aksannyi]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Lol. Actually turning up my iPod has other advantages. If I have to listen to more "hehehehehehe" from my coworker giggling at her boyfriend's IMs, I may just have to strangle her.

[Cheezeman3000]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Noisy open-mouth eating and slurping food. Especially when the big guy in the cube next to me does nothing but that. All morning. AGH.

[Aksannyi]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

When my leg itches and it's too high up to reach up under my pants leg to scratch it, and reaching down my pants just looks bad. And you just can't scratch your leg through your pants, that shit is not satisfying in the slightest.

[NightShayde]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

For the multiple sneezes thing ... after the third sneeze, I go with "Blanket Bless You," and I'm covered. At least that's what my Mommy taught me (she goes into a sneezing fit if she gets hit by a cool blast of air - she'll usually sneeze 13 times, which is pretty funny).

[KingOfZeal]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Normally after the 5th we stop saying 'bless you' and start counting.

[Aksannyi]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Some of our returned mail is completely avoidable. My biggest peeve right now is "Insufficient Address." We get this when the mail is completely missing an apartment or suite number, but also at times a city or a zip code.

What fucking drives me nuts is when some department (it's usually HR) sends out mail, and they send it like this (an example I made up, obviously):
12345 Longstreetname Drive Apartmen

And as you can see, the apartment number is cut off because there's too many characters. And they do this all the time, instead of just using abbreviations like the rest of the fucking world or maybe a line break, they insist on writing this shit full out then they wonder why the mail comes back to them. If they're doing it automated, why the fuck aren't they prechecking this? And the person who initially enters it into the system so that it comes out this way is the main offender I'm guessing. That person needs to understand that there are character limits to lines and that sometimes you'll have to use DR and APT.

Which all adds up to MORE WORK FOR ME since people are idiots and don't know how to properly address mail. And then there's the one idiot in pricing who sends out a piece of mail to the same Kmart in Michigan that I get back at least twice a week, addressed the same way - in the same handwriting, even - to the same person, week after week after week after week. Do you think maybe there's something wrong with the address? Maybe? Stop sending it and wasting our postage, paper, and man hours.

[Neverslip]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

I hate when I have to mail something out and the facility sends a fax that has the address all messed up and missing portions cuz it's a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy ... etc.

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Or, when I look up a facility's info on the web and it is returned cuz the fuckers haven't updated their address after moving offices... then they call to complain they never got it.

Or, when they assume I should just have memorized their address cuz they think they are the sh!t and everyone should know.

Or, when they call up to request something and they don't say who the fuck they work for.

Or, when I have to decipher what the fuck they are trying to say cuz they don't speaky da Engrish... who the fuck hires someone who's supposed to know how to say names to do their job who can't pronounce "Smith" or "Cecil" or "Fucksquatstein"??? One even has a thick Spanish accent and can't pronounce something like "Francesca Garcia Romano".

I'll never work in the healthcare industry again if I can help it... not as a clerical anyway. Everyone else that isn't clerical in my dept loves their job cuz they don't work their ass off. I love being busy as hell all day while watching someone making 2x (or more) as much as me sitting on their ass soaking up a paycheck. Guess I should have gone for a 2yr tech degree rather than a BA in this economy.

... only reason I stay is the 401k (aka moving fund)

[Aksannyi]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Fucksquatstein

BRB changing my name.

[Aksannyi]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

I'm getting really tired of having to ask this one person questions, because she never understand what I'm asking. I'm very clear, she's just thick. It's beginning to become a real annoyance for me because I never really get any sort of resolution. It is time to shop for another job, I really hate it here.

[cidbahamut]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Pet peeve: waking up to no power, a chipped tooth and still having to show up at work in the aftermath of a blizzard.

[KingOfZeal]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Doors.

[Takelli]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Snow... Got at least 4 feet out there, and going to get even more sunday... WHAT... THE... FUCK!?

What the fuck happened to global warming!? lol

[cidbahamut]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Global warming has always been something of a misnomer. Climate change would be a more appropriate term.

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[KingOfZeal]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

I've always been annoyed by the 'global climate change' term... since, by definition climates are an AVERAGE of historical factors, climates are ALWAYS changing.

And, just because something is changing doesn't make it good nor bad... especially if that is the nature of the beast.

[Cheezeman3000]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

My pet peeve: people bringing up climate change every time the weather is mentioned.