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Tiggum posted:Sharing a flat with one other person. I email the real estate agents about some issue, cc the other tenant. Reply comes just to me and I have to forward it on to the other tenant. Every loving time. This is me and a publisher I'm working with at the moment. There are TWO of us co-editing a major project, and sharing a lot of the chores (as we have 12 authors contributing) -- the publishers have, without fail, only emailed me at every step of the process over the past two year, despite me cc'ing in my colleague and asking repeatedly that they include him. Sometimes I've been on leave or at conferences for a week or more at a time and miss important emails; every single time I have to forward stuff on to him. The point of two of us is so we can efficiently deal with your deadlines, you numpty publishers! As for missing meetings -- a student of mine who has been always a chronic abuser of tutorial times found out yesterday the hard way that no, you can't come 15 minutes late to your tutorial time and expect to cut in on first, a closed door meeting between me and another professor that was scheduled after his tutorial; second on the student who was scheduled 45 minutes after his tutorial; third, during the 10 minutes I had to get my stuff together and race across campus for a two hour lecture. Scheduled times are scheduled for a reason, and standing in the hallway crying because you are late again doesn't mean I'm going to inconvenience others (and myself) because you never show up at the appointed times 
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Meetings that are across town when we have perfectly good things called conference calls. Tomorrow is some Safety Awareness Meeting that is about an hour drive for me. But company car and time, fine. But when it's 5-8 people all showing up to sit around and dick off for 30 minutes, during our afternoon rush, that means late orders, pissed customers, and the others all trying to pick up the slack of 5-8 people sitting around a table, doodling on Powerpoint slides...it's a waste.
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MisterBibs posted:I lost my phone yesterday (a FWP in and of itself), and having got a new one, I have to play the "make it exactly like my old phone" game with no preparation. Like, what apps do I need? What podcasts do I want? bean_shadow posted:To me all ventriloquist acts are cringe-worthy. Like I feel embarrassed for them while watching. According to Candice Bergen, her father had a larger room, wardrobe, and allowance for Charlie McCarthy than for his own daughter. And I believe it. Those guys are weird.
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Sunswipe posted:I always feel that ventriloquists think we don't know how they're doing it. They don't realise that we're treating them the same as we would a five year-old doing babby's first card trick. There's something deeply wrong about ventriloquists performing for adults that I don't find with something like The Muppets.
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I remember this ventriloquist whose act was all vulgarity like the puppet saying he met a girl puppet and now he had splinters in his dick from loving her in the rear end. I also remember the guy didn't try to actually talk without moving his lips. He just spoke normally and hid his mouth behind the mic. Anyway I think both he and his puppet are dead now.
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At work I'm starting to get burned out and making too many mistakes, so my manager has been pulling me in for meetings, and I know she's just trying to avoid me getting fired, which is starting to look more and more likely, but she's being so condescending about it. The last thing she said to me today really annoyed me, because it was "How long have you been working here?" Rhetorically. The answer is four years yes, so normally there would be no excuse for new mistakes to crop up, but since I started things have changed. I'm being put on more and more accounts as time goes on, meaning my days are only getting busier, and some of our tools have changed to ones that, while more stable, are way more inconvenient to actually use. They are now longer too because I work 12 hours on the days that I work, which is exhausting at the best of times, and my manager works 8 hours a day so she isn't in any position to actually know what it's like (aka, not really something you get used to, more put up with so I've just been getting more and more tired at work as the sleep cycle disruption just builds). It's just like, I know every point your making, I know how and where I need to improve, things have just got much harder since I started.
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Mar 29, 2017 20:19
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Inspector 34 posted:Is there a way to document that you were there at the designated time? I would think an email saying "Hey I'm here, where the gently caress are you?" should be a good enough paper trail that management wouldn't really want to pursue any kind of actual discipline. In my case, I had the outgoing calls on my phone, and I made sure to talk to the other engineer so he knew what was up. The idiot engineer was notorious for trying to pass blame to other people. For each of our projects, we had to do a monthly cost report for work done during that month with projections for the following month and the rest of the year. Most engineers on my projects were awesome at getting the necessary documents and figures to me at the start of the week, but this one would be constantly adjusting things until the end of the day on Friday (when the reports had to be sent off to the district office) and then complaining to the district manager that I (or the business person on one of his other projects) wasn't doing my job. He later got fired for botching his part of a bid because he finished it right at the deadline, so no one had time to double-check it. I usually ended up helping with the double-checks, and he tried to blame me and another engineer for his gently caress-up. It didn't go over well.
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Mar 29, 2017 20:56
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When someone posts an image like this: or this:  and the next 10 posts are people just repeating things from it. It's as bad as those tumblr screenshots that include a bunch of replies just repeating the same thing for emphasis
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BioEnchanted posted:At work I'm starting to get burned out and making too many mistakes, so my manager has been pulling me in for meetings, and I know she's just trying to avoid me getting fired, which is starting to look more and more likely, but she's being so condescending about it. The last thing she said to me today really annoyed me, because it was "How long have you been working here?" Rhetorically. The answer is four years yes, so normally there would be no excuse for new mistakes to crop up, but since I started things have changed. I'm being put on more and more accounts as time goes on, meaning my days are only getting busier, and some of our tools have changed to ones that, while more stable, are way more inconvenient to actually use. They are now longer too because I work 12 hours on the days that I work, which is exhausting at the best of times, and my manager works 8 hours a day so she isn't in any position to actually know what it's like (aka, not really something you get used to, more put up with so I've just been getting more and more tired at work as the sleep cycle disruption just builds). It's just like, I know every point your making, I know how and where I need to improve, things have just got much harder since I started. If you haven't already, you should push back and explain all the poo poo you posted here. Because you are being ground to dust and it's on them.
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Mar 29, 2017 23:43
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As for my own issues, I received some documents to fill out regarding my Dad's death and they're visibly skewed. Also, I've been trying to get some work done, but I'm waiting on several logins that people forgot to give me. And word keeps setting its dictionary to UK English
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Mar 29, 2017 23:45
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I usually send a mail politely asking if the person is going to make it or if I should reschedule. CYA and makes me look good at the same time. Never had anyone try to claim I was the one who missed the meeting, and most of them are online anyway I'm not actually losing any time.
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Olive Garden tonight! posted:and the next 10 posts are people just repeating things from it. It's as bad as those tumblr screenshots that include a bunch of replies just repeating the same thing for emphasis I see you probably have been reading the funny pictures thread too. That stuff drives me nuts as well. Also people who quote something from them (or just quote a post) and it's just the forum path with the quote as the new thread title. Funny things should stand on their own, they don't need people to put big flashing lights around it while saying "this is the funny part". We know.
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Olive Garden tonight! posted:When someone posts an image like this: yeah I eat rear end posted:I see you probably have been reading the funny pictures thread too. That stuff drives me nuts as well. Also people who quote something from them (or just quote a post) and it's just the forum path with the quote as the new thread title. You guys seem to be lost. This is the Post Your Favourite subforum but I think you want to be posting in the Coldly Compiling Lists subforum. Easy mistake to make, I know.
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Mar 30, 2017 05:16
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There's a difference between posting your favorite content and literally just posting phrases from someone else's image word for word with nothing else.
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Mar 30, 2017 06:00
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yeah I eat rear end posted:There's a difference between posting your favorite content and literally just posting phrases from someone else's image word for word with nothing else. What if those phrases are my Favourite thing and I want to Post them?
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Mar 30, 2017 06:13
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I WANT TIN TIN TO SUFFER.
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Olive Garden tonight! posted:
Wow some of these are reprehensible. Also tag urself i'm gently caress my cat
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Mar 30, 2017 07:23
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Being waved to a self checkout machine by a supermarket employee that I was already clearly walking towards. Don't tell me to do something I was already going to do!
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Mar 30, 2017 10:19
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People who pound on their keys when typing. Your desk should not be shaking while you're writing your paper, calm down. The only saving grace is that he doesn't have one of those obnoxiously loud mechanical keyboards. Also, people who use a mouse without a mousepad. I don't care that you don't technically "need" one, but it is like 10 times quieter if you do.
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Mar 30, 2017 10:42
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Also, people who use a mouse without a mousepad. I don't care that you don't technically "need" one, but it is like 10 times quieter if you do.
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Tiggum posted:What noise are they making that a mousepad would muffle? What are they doing with their mouse? If you just slide it around on your desk it's barely audible even to the person using it, unless you're in a totally silent room. Depends on the mouse and what the table is made out of. Plastic edges moving on wood is loud. Some mouses are quieter than others but the cheaper mouses that don't have any padding to quiet it down are mostly what I'm referring to. Either way, there's really no reason not to use a mousepad. And the room would be near silent, were it not for the banging typist and his scrapey mouse.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Either way, there's really no reason not to use a mousepad. Other than that they're dirty, unnecessary, get in the way, and often make your mouse work worse than it does straight on the desk?
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Tiggum posted:Other than that they're dirty, unnecessary, get in the way, and often make your mouse work worse than it does straight on the desk? I think i just found out my annoying officemate's SA account. e: and it only gets dirty if you let it or use it as a napkin or something. Just replace it when it starts looking shabby. And who cares about mouse performance as long as it can perform the basic tasks of clicking and moving the cursor? We're talking about work not playing video games. yeah I eat ass has a new favorite as of 12:23 on Mar 30, 2017 |
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yeah I eat rear end posted:I think i just found out my annoying officemate's SA account. I had to take a CPA exam sometime last year and it was a giant airport hangar where we had to bring in laptops to do the test. Dude beside me brought his mouse with the laptop which didn't seem to work 100% as he had to jiggle and clang it against the plastic table we used because I guess it didn't always pick up his movement. Then again, joke was on me because I used the touchpad and accidentally locked it for 5 minutes and couldn't figure out how I did it (wasn't my laptop).
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People who refuse to fly anywhere for 24 hours without ten goddamn suitcases. And these fat midwesterners loudly bray that each of these overstuffed suitcases is totally a carryon, they swearsies. No, bitch, your eighty-pound overstuffed bag isn't going to fit in the overhead. You know that announcement the crew always has to make? The one that goes "Please put your roller bags wheels out, instead of lengthwise!" Yeah, that announcement? IT APPLIES TO YOU, TOO, BITCH! I travel with a backpack. If I can't fit my backpack in the overhead bin because you absolutely must treat your massive pile of shoes and clothing loosely-bound with tape as a carry on bag, I get irrationally loving angry.
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Related: when you have a bag that you have checked is within regulation size and they make you put it in that testing box. Everybody knows those are much smaller than their rules say but we all have to pretend like it's the right size. I have been flying with this same bag for years on nearly every plane model your airline has, i know for a fact it fits in the actual overhead (the proper way too, as described in the above post).
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Related: when you have a bag that you have checked is within regulation size and they make you put it in that testing box. Everybody knows those are much smaller than their rules say but we all have to pretend like it's the right size. I have been flying with this same bag for years on nearly every plane model your airline has, i know for a fact it fits in the actual overhead (the proper way too, as described in the above post). I wouldn't mind them charging  for checked luggage if they didn't make me deal with this bullshit at least.
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People who put too much poo poo in their cart and then when the cashier starts ringing them up they realize that *gasp* all this stuff costs money which they inevitably don't have, so they start questioning the cashier: "aren't those [x] supposed to be $1.99? Isn't that buy one get one free?" Then they start deciding what to put back, digging through the packed bags for items. It's especially bad if the cashier has to call a manager to check a price (no it wasn't 1.99 or but one get one free (usually with the latter it's similar items but different brands. Like the cheap brand is buy one get one free but the expensive one isn't, so they get a cheap and expensive one and they argue.)) ghh
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Thin Privilege posted:People who put too much poo poo in their cart and then when the cashier starts ringing them up they realize that *gasp* all this stuff costs money which they inevitably don't have, so they start questioning the cashier: "aren't those [x] supposed to be $1.99? Isn't that buy one get one free?" Then they start deciding what to put back, digging through the packed bags for items. It's especially bad if the cashier has to call a manager to check a price (no it wasn't 1.99 or but one get one free (usually with the latter it's similar items but different brands. Like the cheap brand is buy one get one free but the expensive one isn't, so they get a cheap and expensive one and they argue.)) ghh 80% of the time, these people are wrong and 90% of the time, it's for a difference of a dollar or less.
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Thin Privilege posted:People who put too much poo poo in their cart and then when the cashier starts ringing them up they realize that *gasp* all this stuff costs money which they inevitably don't have, I unfortunately work as a cashier, and it always baffles me how many people just pile random poo poo into their cart and sort it out AT THE REGISTER. I've had people leave behind well over half the poo poo they'd picked out. Like, sometimes they come up and outright say "I only have $50, so you can just stop once we hit that amount", sometimes they stand there and carefully inspect each individual item for 30+ seconds before giving it to me (ignoring the folks waiting behind them) and sometimes they decide they don't want something and try to cram it into the PoP shelves instead of just loving handing it to me and telling me they don't want it like a normal human being. Look, fucko, I don't care if you don't want that ground beef, just PLEASE give it to me instead of hiding it behind the gum where it'll go bad and leak reeking meat juice everywhere! As for pricing complaints, the store I work at gives a 5-cent credit for using your own bags, and it is absolutely BAFFLING how many people will come back pitching a fit because the cashier forgot to take off their loving bag nickel. How does a person get to a point in their life where they're willing to berate a stranger over 5 cents?
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Nettles Coterie posted:I unfortunately work as a cashier, and it always baffles me how many people just pile random poo poo into their cart and sort it out AT THE REGISTER. I've had people leave behind well over half the poo poo they'd picked out. Like, sometimes they come up and outright say "I only have $50, so you can just stop once we hit that amount", sometimes they stand there and carefully inspect each individual item for 30+ seconds before giving it to me (ignoring the folks waiting behind them) and sometimes they decide they don't want something and try to cram it into the PoP shelves instead of just loving handing it to me and telling me they don't want it like a normal human being. Look, fucko, I don't care if you don't want that ground beef, just PLEASE give it to me instead of hiding it behind the gum where it'll go bad and leak reeking meat juice everywhere! Luckily we don't have anything to do with discounts outside of a loyalty card that gives money back automatically but when I work nights I always get at least one person an hour ago has like three things, demands a register while I'm filling drink fridges and states "Oh, I want to keep you in a job.  " Like I wasn't actually working because I wasn't directly serving a customer.
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People who insist on small talk when it's obvious you're reading.
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Sociopastry posted:People who insist on small talk when it's obvious you're reading. Especially if you're on lunch break from a job that involves making endless small talk with random guests.
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Nettles Coterie posted:I unfortunately work as a cashier, and it always baffles me how many people just pile random poo poo into their cart and sort it out AT THE REGISTER. I've had people leave behind well over half the poo poo they'd picked out. Like, sometimes they come up and outright say "I only have $50, so you can just stop once we hit that amount", sometimes they stand there and carefully inspect each individual item for 30+ seconds before giving it to me (ignoring the folks waiting behind them) and sometimes they decide they don't want something and try to cram it into the PoP shelves instead of just loving handing it to me and telling me they don't want it like a normal human being. Look, fucko, I don't care if you don't want that ground beef, just PLEASE give it to me instead of hiding it behind the gum where it'll go bad and leak reeking meat juice everywhere! Is this an american thing? I never worked at a cashregister so I wouldn't know, but I can't imagine it happening where I live. Shopping related pet peeve, people waiting to take their wallet out until the cashier tells them the ammount they need to pay. And it is always somebody with a humungus wallet with tons of receipts that they need to dig through to find their bills.
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People who add "ee" sounds to words where they don't belong. Processees. Watcheeng. "Look at him" becomes "look at 'eem". This isn't an accent thing either, it's native English speakers pronouncing certain words in a hosed up and weird way. People who say things like "needs fixed" instead of "needs to be fixed". I realize it is bad and prescriptivist of me but your car doesn't "need washed", it needs to be washed. Also people who can't turn properly when driving and cut into the oncoming lane of the road they're turning onto. Left turns making a sharp diagonal across the left lane instead of squaring off the turn and staying in the right lane, and right turns swerving wide out into the left lane are equally obnoxious and unnecessary and should be cause for failing a driving test. This is in the US, so obviously if you live in one of the countries where they drive on the
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People who keep reading their books when I feel like talking.
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I don't know what it is about Craigslist that completely breaks down the western convention that haggling a price is considered gauche, but that's not my pet peeve. My pet peeve is that people are insultingly bad at it. Trying to sell a camper worth 15k for 12k. Guy emails me, telling me that his buddy who totally exists and sells campers for a living says it's only worth 7.5k at most. References a website that doesn't exist as a secondary source. Texts me every day at 7 AM to ask if I'm ready to relent. Worse are the people who agree to a price, then show up and try to buy a $200 item for $50. Every single goddamn time. I once shaved 10% off a workout bench for a kid just because he didn't try to pull anything.
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They must have been watching too much pawn stars. Haggling like that makes sense if you have overhead to take care of and have to resell it, but for a random guy off the street there should only be a 10-20% wiggle room margin for haggling.
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