Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.

[Thenomain]

A continuing peeve from that web site and many others: Before I even start shopping is not the time to interrupt me for my email to join your newsletter.

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Coworkers who show up late to work.

Coworkers who show up late to work and don't call in.

Coworkers who show up late to work and don't call in, and when called say they are ten minutes out.

Coworkers who show up late to work and don't call in, and when called say they are ten minutes out but then show up 35 minutes later.

Coworkers who show up late to work and don't call in, and when called say they are ten minutes out but then show up 35 minutes later carrying -fast food- that they clearly stopped for after being late already.

Coworkers who show up late to work and don't call in, and when called say they are ten minutes out but then show up 35 minutes later carrying -fast food- that they clearly stopped for after being late already and who don't fucking apologize for being late, instead whining about traffic being bad.

Coworkers who show up late to work and don't call in, and when called say they are ten minutes out but then show up 35 minutes later carrying -fast food- that they clearly stopped for after being late already and who don't fucking apologize for being late, instead whining about traffic being bad when they FUCKING KNEW THERE WAS A GIANT PRIDE PARADE OUTSIDE OUR WORKPLACE AND IT WAS ALSO RAINING.

Yes. That.

[Thenomain]

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

show up 35 minutes later carrying -fast food- that they clearly stopped for after being late already.

Is this their only opportunity to eat before their next break? Because if so, this is not an annoyance; I'd rather a co-worker be late than faint or be hangry.

[ThatGuyThere]

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

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

show up 35 minutes later carrying -fast food- that they clearly stopped for after being late already.

Is this their only opportunity to eat before their next break? Because if so, this is not an annoyance; I'd rather a co-worker be late than faint or be hangry.

Yeah at the 35 minute point the food seems like a non-issue they would have been annoyingly late anyway so why not at that point.
If they were 5 minutes late I would be pissed because they could have been on time without stopping for food but at 35 minutes late nothing is gonna move the needle for me unless they show up with blackjack and hookers then I would forgive all.

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@Thenomain There is a 7-11 right across the street they could go to.

Also I had a food pickup for -fucking ramen- I had to cancel because of their lateness. They cost me -fancy ramen-.

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New irk:

Looking at tour dates. Puddles Pity Party in Austin on August 25! Yes!

...Austin, Minnesota. -MOTHERFUCKERS-.

[Auspice]

My net died this morning. And not in an outage or anything but in an "we'll need to send a tech out tomorrow" sort of way.

So unless the tech actually makes it before I have to start working... I'll have to reschedule the appointment, drive into the office, and repeat for Wednesday.

Who wants to take bets I'm offline for the week? This is Spectrum we're talking about.

[Ganymede]

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

Looking at tour dates. Puddles Pity Party in Austin on August 25! Yes!

...Austin, Minnesota. -MOTHERFUCKERS-.

[insomniac7809]

Telling a shoe salesperson you want a "walking shoe" conveys zero information. That can mean literally anything from sneakers to low heels.

Work-appropriate, similarly, can mean pumps or steel toed boots depending on what you do for a living.

Help me help you, people.

[jibberthehut]

@insomniac7809 You sell shoes you saaaaay :sidles up:

[Packrat]

This weekend I took part in a zombie event thing that involved running around a huge derelict factory in mostly complete darkness with BB guns and very few torches, teams competitively completing objectives whilst battling actors dressed as zombies.

There was also the 'invincible' zombie with the chainsaw, at one point we fled him into darkness only for six of us to end up rammed into a doorless toilet cubicle and failing to hide from a man wielding a chainsaw. Good times!

But one girl thought it was a good idea to wear golden flipflops to the event instead of ankle boots.

[WildBaboons]

@packrat My brother once dated a girl that showed up for a 5 mile hike up a mountain in stiletto heels.

[mietze]

The air pollution is so bad I can taste the particulates as soon as I go outside and the light cast from my skylights is rust orange on the carpet.

It looks like grey fog in the distance but it is not.

At least it's not as bad as Delhi or anything but I'm thinking about investing in a mask since I do a lot of apartment deliveries so that's a lot of exertion, and I have asthma!

[Auspice]

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

The air pollution is so bad I can taste the particulates as soon as I go outside and the light cast from my skylights is rust orange on the carpet.

It looks like grey fog in the distance but it is not.

At least it's not as bad as Delhi or anything but I'm thinking about investing in a mask since I do a lot of apartment deliveries so that's a lot of exertion, and I have asthma!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LNHXLVE/

I had to buy one the last trip I made to SC because of the wildfires there (they were under strict 'if you have any breathing issues, do not spend time outside' rules) at the time and the few days the air quality was bad before I moved away from the Seattle area, it was handy there, too.

My asthma is very, very air quality dependent. That particular brand has a lot of fun patterns, too! But I'm boring so I got the black.

[Kay]

@mietze Thank you for reminding me, I need to get one of those too. Especially since over here they say the wildfire smoke is supposed to be around for most of August, and usually September is a hot one too.

[Auspice]

Been at work since 8am.
It is 1pm.

7 hours to go.

Just gotta remind myself that I get paid overtime this week.

And that we are getting tacos for lunch.
And whatever pastries and shit are left over, I get to take home (the perk of being the one who closes up the office).

[Macha]

When I am on break, I am on BREAK. don't bother me unless someone is bleeding to death or something. Same goes for lunch. I don't care if I am at my desk, near my desk, eating at my desk. If both earbuds are in, I'm on break.

[Packrat]

I now have my desktop back! Which is great, the motherboard was replaced and I only had to pay for shipping to get it back to the supplier.

Less fun was the way they sent it back without the hard drive plugged in and with the power leads for the graphics card threaded through and neatly tied to leave them... Right at the top of the case, nowhere near where any card might be. So much for how lovely and tidy they left the inside of my PC.

[Cobalt]

Here’s some whining for the day:

• Turn in your damned porch light when you order delivery!

• Don’t order delivery ten minutes before the store closes! That is cleaning time >_<

• If you’re going to order late at night— like anywhere in the last hour that a place is open please don’t stiff your driver on a tip.

• Don’t stiff in general! Delivery drivers make the same as waitresses + whatever dumbass policy the company decides for mileage (anywhere to 0.20/mile to a flat $1 per delivery no matter how far away it is).

• ANSWER YOUR DOOR OR YOUR PHONE. There is nothing mor aggravating than having to take food back to the store because someone didn’t answer their door or their phone. You’re wasting my time! I could have been delivering to someone who was gonna tip me in the ten minutes i stood there trying to reach you.

[Auspice]

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

Don’t order delivery ten minutes before the store closes! That is cleaning time >_<

This happens in the restaurant world, too.

5 min from closing, kitchen is almost clean, everyone's wrapping up.........

Big party walks through the door.

You can bet there's a raging kitchen staff when you do that. Don't be those people.