Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.

Tinuviel

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

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

Okay, body? If I'm swallowing, it goes into the stomach not my airways. Okay? Okay. Good talk.

Here I'd have pegged you as a pro at swallowing.

Only in larger quantities.

dvoraen

Peeve of my year: emotional instability because work pisses me off like nothing else I can recall in recent memory, to the point I've either got to try for a brief FMLA leave to settle myself, or find a new job.

Follow-up peeve: This shouldn't be a fucking trend for me.

Rinel

Hating my body so much that I won't get out of bed for hours because I don't want to see myself in a mirror is a new and interesting symptom of serious mental dysfunction.

gryphter

Left work yesterday in the middle of an actual real-life panic attack. Fuck you misophonia, you and mandatory team lunches can fuck right off together.

Auspice

Dear job: I can't write the documentation for the aspects of the tool to be utilized in the scrimmage if you don't know what aspects of the tool will be utilized in the scrimmage.

insomniac7809

"Where are you located?"
"In the lower level of <building> near <anchor store>."
"Near <completely different anchor store>?"
"No, near <anchor store>."
"On the top floor?"

Macha

Work office being 80+ degrees, so I have to drink water, which makes me sugar crash to 60 - and they don't understand that 15 minutes will not be enough time to intake sugar and make my hands stop shaking. - And then they turn the AC on.

Tyche

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

Work office being 80+ degrees, so I have to drink water, which makes me sugar crash to 60 - and they don't understand that 15 minutes will not be enough time to intake sugar and make my hands stop shaking. - And then they turn the AC on.

I had this problem. Less insulin, more water, solved it for me. YMMV.

Macha

@Tyche Normally it's not an issue, it's not that hot where I sit. But my meds have also been shifted (again) this week, so even a little more water than normal can affect things.

Tinuviel

@Macha Cut open management, acquire blood sugar from the source.

Aria

Back to back meetings from 9:30am until 3:00pm today, followed by an unexpected phone call that was 30+ minutes of me talking someone off a proverbial ledge.

And now a message from a co-worker asking why I hadn't scheduled six weeks of team retrospectives yet.

Dude. It 4:45pm and I am just now eating my "lunch". Go away.

Auspice

@Aria meetings on Mondays should be illegal, I swear.

I was in one from 9a-3p. Tomorrow's the same deal.

I'm now trying to decompress enough to get to my actual work and I just.... can't.

Aria

@Auspice Right? And the thing that kills me is that every week, Monday is my worst day. I have at least four meetings every Monday, forever.

Meanwhile, I have literally nothing on Wednesdays. Pretty much ever.

Whyyyyyyyyyy?

Auspice

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

@Auspice Right? And the thing that kills me is that every week, Monday is my worst day. I have at least four meetings every Monday, forever.

Meanwhile, I have literally nothing on Wednesdays. Pretty much ever.

Whyyyyyyyyyy?

way of the business world.

Monday - all the meetings
Tuesday - frantically catch up
Wednesday - ?????
Thursday - OMG WE NEED THIS LAST MINUTE
Friday - oh god how am I gonna get enough done to not feel lost on Mond- ooooh weekend

Aria

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

way of the business world.

Monday - all the meetings
Tuesday - frantically catch up
Wednesday - ?????
Thursday - OMG WE NEED THIS LAST MINUTE
Friday - oh god how am I gonna get enough done to not feel lost on Mond- ooooh weekend

Ironically, this is why - when I was the senior admin that did the high level logistics for a department of 150 people - I forced my bosses to have their staff meetings first things on Wednesday mornings. Cause we worked in a department that was supportive for the highest level sales managers, our role was largely responsive/collaborative and this meant that on Wednesdays:

Everyone was free
They'd met with their business partners and knew what the ask was
Had Tuesday to email about/think on it
Could decide at the meeting and then immediately push it down to their teams
Come Monday meeting again, could present the solution/product/whatever to their partners....
Along with "We should have this to you in 48 hours", which sounds really fast but is actually EOD Wednesday and still gave our partners time to make 'last minute changes' while ensuring our teams had at least a full week to do the work

They thought it was crazy until they tried it and discovered that it was awesome.

Auspice

If you're the kind of person to pull up to the crosswalk, fuck you.
Fuck people who do this for making pedestrians risk oncoming traffic just to cross the street.

Especially fuck the guy who did it at the intersection near the school for the blind. They have the line to stop at almost two car lengths back from the cross walk for safety reasons. This asshole pulled up and over the crosswalk itself.

JinShei

Marking. Just, for pities' sake, get someone to proofread your work before submitting it. Please. You at least have to make sense. Correct grammar, spelling and referencing would make me ecstatic.

Tinuviel

@JinShei I want to upvote this a thousand times.

Macha

Getting a pendant and cord to wear it on from Etsy.. but the fucking cord is too big to fit through the whateverthefuckitscalled on the pendant. Fuck you.

JinShei

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

@JinShei I want to upvote this a thousand times.

Also, if you are going to steal your entire essay, don't write it on my specialist topic and misuse some of my favourite sources! 77% stolen, with a thesaurus used for the other words, changing the meaning of the sentence! ARGH!

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