What's your pet peeve in RL?

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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Why would you need Flash player for a job interview?

[Yellow Mage]

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The interview was being done through Adobe Connect.

[Firewind]

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I got bored and decided to figure out what the typical minutes of a Cabinet meeting for the current UK Government would look like:

PM: Ladies and Gentlemen, your policies for the coming year, briefly, please.

Secretary of State for Health: Every old person will receive a recorded message from me telling them 'Don't forget to Wrap up and keep warm, love; we, your rulers, care about you'. We will also be issuing a leaflet telling people to only eat lettuce and apples and drink water. Once we've fully privatised the health service, health will no longer be government responsibility

Energy Secretary: In line with the Health Secretary's policy, We plan to give everybody over 70 a woolly jumper instead of a fuel allowance and issue an leaflet to everyone under 70 extolling the benefits of vigorous exercise and going to bed at 7pm. If they're still complaining about energy prices, it's not our responsibility . As for petrol, those out of work are being advised to stay at home and those in work to get on their bikes. [Laughter at the use of a favourite catch-phrase].

Foreign Secretary: Our policy is to sell off everything to foreigners so technically this won't be Britain any more and therefore not the responsibility of the British Government. We'll encourage a positive view by telling the electorate it's a global world and to stop being parochial.

Home Secretary: We plan to identify everyone who doesn't have a British surname and advise them to go home unless they promise a large donation to our electoral campaign. We're making as many poor people as we can homeless and they'll probably die, so solving that problem. Those left owning land can do what they like with it - unless they live in the south-east - so little need for government interference.

Secretary of State for Work and Pensions: Our aim for Britain is no work and no pensions. [Cheers] - and of course zero people on benefit [Louder cheers]. To avoid unemployment, We propose to replace the word 'employment' with the word 'slavery' which as everyone knows is illegal so by definition unregulated. We will insist that everyone uses the new phraseology to raise consciousness that there is no basic right to freedom. As slaves will be owned for life, pensions will become unnecessary, and people can sell their slaves abroad to fund their retirement.

Equalities Secretary: As we know, we have long been promoting our message that there is no such thing as equality in this country. We are also advising that happiness is a personal responsibility and nothing to do with government, and broadcasting advertisements teaching people to 'Chill Out and Just Accept', a slogan I am confident will become very popular.

Justice Secretary: We all know human rights is a load of nonsense and there's no such thing as justice, so we've decided to take no responsibility at all in this area and tell people to stop being childish and sort their squabbles out between themselves.

Chancellor of the Exchequer: I have pre-approved all my colleagues' policies which will bring us a net saving of over 99% and a surplus sufficient to fund the projected pay rises for MPs, a tax cut of 10% for those in the top 1% earning bracket and pay for cabinet members to spend the winter cruising around the warmer tax havens - though I suppose we will have to call it a sales mission.

PM (Laughing): well, of course, we wouldn't want to have to pay for that! We all know you don't remain a millionaire by paying for anything yourself.

[Everyone laughs and the meeting breaks up on a note of confident optimism.]

[Aksannyi]

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I have no issue with my coworkers listening to different radio stations because I can barely hear either most of the time, but please, can you not turn the station up when they start talking? That's the worst part of morning radio programming.

[cidbahamut]

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The fact that there are people like this, even in this very community, blows my goddamn mind and makes me very very angry.

[Aksannyi]

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You know, coworker, you've been sick since last Monday. You got everyone in the department, including me, sick last week, and seeing as I never get sick, this pissed me off quite a bit. Now it's Wednesday of the second week of your illness and you're still coughing shit up and sounding like you just crawled out of the grave? And you still refuse to take medicine?

I mean at least she took one sick day last week, but by then, she'd already contaminated the whole office, and if she'd taken some meds she'd be feeling a hell of a lot better already. Because I took some Tuesday and I was feeling better by Friday.

[cidbahamut]

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They probably just don't have health insurance and can't afford to get medicine.

[Aksannyi]

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No, she does, we were talking about how much the ACA is going to suck for these guys a few days ago. And this illness, I had it, I took over the counter meds and I was fine in a few days. Granted, I have a solid immune system and I was able to get plenty of rest, but it wasn't anything that required prescription antibiotics. A few of the others in my department said that she does this - she is just stubborn and never takes medication.

[Firewind]

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Hurricane warnings are being announced across the UK. Work is going to be fun tomorrow; we're barely keeping up with all the floods as it is and now this \0/

[Jarre]

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Were right under the red splodge on the coast and the flood barriers at the beach have been raised, wind is already at 40mph here, seen a few wheely bins skate down the road.

[Firewind]

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That would explain why I'm getting so many calls that should have gone to Waste Management about missing bins...

[Jarre]

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Shame you cant tell them to look down the road for it, its windy use your fecking brain!

[Firewind]

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it took a hurricane to do it but the fucking Royal Christening was finally knocked out of the front pages and news headlines.

[Aksannyi]

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Lol! A bit sick of the royal family, are we?

I just got sucked into the most pointless conference call ever. Corporate America! YEAH!

[Firewind]

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You know how the Royal Wedding and Royal Birth were always on the news in the US? Over here they were everywhere. You literally couldn't pick up a newspaper or listen to the radio or watch TV without some kind of mention of it.

They also turned Facebook into battlegrounds too and made it toxic for anyone without an opinion on the Royal Family.