Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.

[Kay]

@surreality Did you check on top of the fridge?

[TNP]

@aria And they've all been during the week which makes driving to work suck if not impossible.

[Aria]

@tnp said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@aria And they've all been during the week which makes driving to work suck if not impossible.

A couple of weeks ago, I spent three hours getting home from work.....

...My office is 13 miles from my house. I'm pretty sure I started crying when I walked in the door.

[Auspice]

So all these bombs in Austin can stop now.

thx

[surreality]

@kay I have a Do Tall People Things for Me Person husband for the top of the fridge, so I never could have gotten it up there in the first place.

He has the same problem the rest of the family does (I think it might be contagious), so handing something off to him to hide for me would be like saying, "I never want to see this again in our entire lives, I just don't want to throw it away myself."

ETA: If I hand him something to actually throw out or get rid of so we never see it again, it's practically guaranteed I will be tripping over it in the foyer for the next six months to two years.

[ThatGuyThere]

@surreality said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@kay I have a Do Tall People Things for Me Person husband for the top of the fridge, so I never could have gotten it up there in the first place.

He has the same problem the rest of the family does (I think it might be contagious), so handing something off to him to hide for me would be like saying, "I never want to see this again in our entire lives, I just don't want to throw it away myself."

ETA: If I hand him something to actually throw out or get rid of so we never see it again, it's practically guaranteed I will be tripping over it in the foyer for the next six months to two years.

I think I have the obvious solution, when you want to be rid of something tell him to put it someplace safe, and when you want to find it later, tell him to throw it out.
It can't possibly fail. (Editors Note: If this is tried it will almost surely backfire, 80s sitcoms taught us this lesson many times.)

[surreality]

@thatguythere '80s sitcom' accurately describes the past two weeks or so really well. I keep referring to it as 'the comedy of (t)errors'.

I was gonna write it all up for folks to get a chuckle out of, but when it hit fifteen(!!!) paragraph long footnotes, I was like... no. No. 'Losing something important that was put somewhere safe' figures into it no less than five times, more than half of which involve documents.

There's a reason 'a few days to sort out this room to hook up a new computer' became 'I'mma hyper-organize the shit out of this room and much of the crap in it' for two weeks and counting now. (Art studio rooms: full of All The Things Ever; even the shelves have nooks and the nooks have crannies and the crannies are full of tiny compartment boxes of very specific things.)

[MagicGirl57]

My one true pet peeve: People who come to the emergency department for "cold symptoms" they can treat at home, then have the nerve to bitch about wait times and how "This is ridiculous! I NEED TO BE SEEN!" because there are higher acuity patients being treated long before their sniffles and coughs. Please, people. Go to urgent care.

[Auspice]

@calindra said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

My one true pet peeve: People who come to the emergency department for "cold symptoms" they can treat at home, then have the nerve to bitch about wait times and how "This is ridiculous! I NEED TO BE SEEN!" because there are higher acuity patients being treated long before their sniffles and coughs. Please, people. Go to urgent care.

It astounds me how empty urgent care centers are.
I go into an urgent care and there's zero wait time.

Go to an urgent care for a broken bone!
For all kinds of illness!

The ER is for emergencies.

I've rarely, raaaarely had to wait at the ER. Because, well, I usually call my doctor first to be all 'Should I...' and then it's 'Yes. God. Go, why are you calling- GO. We'll call ahead.' or I've been carted there for a major issue.

But there's so many urgent care centers all over the place and they're so underutilized. Also: cheaper.

[MagicGirl57]

@auspice When it comes to ED versus Urgent Care, I feel like people prefer the ED because they can't typically pay the co-pay or self-pay deposit fees most UCs like FastMed and UrgentMed require upfront before services are rendered.

Because of EMTALA patients know they can get themselves looked at and treated without being refused or turned away, regardless of financial status or lack of insurance.

[Auspice]

@calindra said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@auspice When it comes to ED versus Urgent Care, I feel like people prefer the ED because they can't typically pay the co-pay or self-pay deposit fees most UCs like FastMed and UrgentMed require upfront before services are rendered.

Because of EMTALA patients know they can get themselves looked at and treated without being refused or turned away, regardless of financial status or lack of insurance.

This is true, but if so... maybe they should, I dunno... accept that if they're there for the flu they're gonna be slotted at the bottom of the pile of cases.

[MagicGirl57]

@auspice ....We don't like that kind of logic around here. GET OUT.

[Auspice]

@calindra said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@auspice ....We don't like that kind of logic around here. GET OUT.

FINE BUT I'M TAKING MY CHARTS AND DIAGRAMS WITH ME

[MagicGirl57]

@auspice

[LoaKey]

Dear People:
Do not stand at the check in window at your doctor's office and FUCKING BRUSH YOUR HAIR. Not just a quick running fingers through to fix it, oh no, a full on brushing.

Seriously. Please don't do this. I don't want your stray hairs all over my work surface. I just had to throw out my coffee.

Good talk.
xoxo,
LoaKey

[MagicGirl57]

@loakey Also, please be mindful of your personal hygiene. We in the medical profession do not want to be assaulted by your extra strength B.O.

Gripe of the Day: Engaging in philosophical, religious or spiritual-oriented conversations isn't appropriate in the workplace. But for fuck's sake, don't be that asshole who goes, "Well, I have a bachelor's in psychology." or any other similar response to belittle or discredit the opinion of anyone else. That doesn't do you any good other than to look like a raging, pretentious asshole who's only talking to hear themselves speak and feel better about themselves.

Ugh. I can't fucking stand people.

[mietze]

Oh my fucking god. If you want a pre-dawn huge ass delivery of groceries, at least leave the ducking porch light on so your number can be seen. Or make sure that if it’s not you’re not blocking the view of it.

If you live in an secured apt, for fucks sake leave the door code or order the delivery for when you a) know the rental office is open or b) you will be home. I’m a nicer driver than most, and will call you several times (since I know that a lot of people don’t answer phones) and/or request that customer service try you 1 or 2 times, but I can’t wait longer than 5-10 mins.

[Auspice]

@mietze said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

If you live in an secured apt, for fucks sake leave the door code or order the delivery for when you a) know the rental office is open or b) you will be home.

My apartment complex is confusing. I know this. So for deliveries, ride share, etc., I put directions:

"Turn under the <description of sign>. Gate code is ###. <turn by turn directions to apartment> Building #. Apt #."

Now, a lot of drivers ignore the instructions outright and either a) pull into the wrong complex and call me to have a fit, or b) pull up to the front office and then wait for me to walk all the way around and through to them.

But some make it to my door and some of those thank me for the instructions! One guy was even like: "All it was missing was the 'Welcome home' at the end!" And a lot have told me that people give them ZERO directions and I'm like... baffled by that. Google Maps doesn't point to the right drive. The complex offers no 'map' of the buildings (like some do) at the entrance. It's got a code at the gate.

Why would you not give at least basic info?!

[Packrat]

@auspice I find that delivery drivers can never, ever find where I live regardless of directions. The problem? I live behind a hotel.

Basically the 'street address' points one to a hotel, there is a gate each side leading to the apartment complex behind, by the river, but we share buzzers/intercom with the hotel. Most people cannot even successfully buzz my apartment so that I can let them in through the gates.

[Tinuviel]

@calindra said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Engaging in philosophical, religious or spiritual-oriented conversations isn't appropriate in the workplace

Depends on the workplace, of course.