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yeah I eat rear end posted:I blame passive aggressive people for that and many other things. So many people don't actually mean it when they say don't get me anything this year. What they really mean is "i am going to get you something really nice and when you don't get me anything in return you'll owe me". Don't fall for it, just get them a gift so you don't have to do the gift+interest scam. Actually don’t, and don’t give them “interest,” gently caress those people Or don’t gently caress them, because putting interest on quotes makes it seem like you owe sexual favours. Don’t gently caress people just because they give you gifts!
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Actually don’t, and don’t give them “interest,” gently caress those people Or gently caress them for gifts, it that's your thing.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:That is my peeve. One of my pet peeves is the exact opposite. I don't want a text about some stupid question. It will lead to 30 more texts and then a phone call to straighten it out. I don't want updates about your life. I don't care that the poop is coming out. Stop texting me. Stop emailing me "Thanks!" Stop texting me back an emoji when I respond to your question. Call me. My phone is always on and I always answer. We can conclude our business in one 30 second call instead of a text conversation that takes 10 minutes. Please call me. I always take my calls. I'm told that I'm a fool for doing it. I should let them go to voice mail. I should have them email me. I won't. I don't like dicking around. If I don't want to talk to them, I take the call and tell them to gently caress off. We should do business together. It would be like the Odd Couple but more stabby.
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mostlygray posted:One of my pet peeves is the exact opposite. I don't want a text about some stupid question. It will lead to 30 more texts and then a phone call to straighten it out. I don't want updates about your life. I don't care that the poop is coming out. Stop texting me. Stop emailing me "Thanks!" Stop texting me back an emoji when I respond to your question. This. I'm old enough to remember a world without cell phones, voicemail, social media, email, pagers, or answering machines. Rich people and doctors had answering services. Everybody else answered their phone. We have 47 different ways to contact somebody now and it's harder than ever to get a hold of someone and convey a message without a shitload of miscommunication. Answer your drat phone.
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MightyJoe36 posted:This.  but drat, if it's after work hours don't expect anything from me. During work hours, email me so I have something to come back to, but seriously don't just poo poo out two very vague sentences.I know whenever I have an issue, I make sure to be very descriptive, and re-read it so there's no confusion, nor is there 20 back and forths before finding a resolution. The best part to all of this is, I can come back to it six months later when someone asks me why I did something. I understand it doesn't work for everyone, and I'm ok with some simple verbal questions or answers, but anything that can't be answered in a 4 word sentence needs to be emailed. I've been burned too many times by bad superiors giving me verbal instructions and going back on them to not do this.
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No. Let me know what we need and then if necessary we'll plan a phone call soon if email or text won't work. Phone calls are only better under ideal circumstances and most of the time one or both of us will be in bad moods having to make or take an impromptu phone call. And half of my miscommunications come from variations of oldsters going "HELLLOOOO??? HELLO? CALL ME!" If the thing is urgent and there's no answer, text "THIS IMPORTANT THING THAT I WILL DETAIL THUSLY (things) HAPPENED CALL ASAP." Don't text "CALL ME" or leave a voicemail saying "HEY THIS IS URGENT CALL ME WHEN YOU GET THIS 555-whoremembersnumberslistedofflikethis-24waitwhat" If you must voicemail text a goddam number. I've literally gotten identical "CALL ME" texts from my mom within a week where one convo was asking if I had tried a jalapeno cranberry jam and one was telling me my grandpa died. Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 19:09 on Dec 19, 2018 |
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gently caress picking up the phone because half the time it's a caller-ID-spoofing robodialer sniffing for live numbers. "Hello?" *other side makes clicking noises and hangs up* *five minutes later I start getting text ads for payday loans* "gently caress!"
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MightyJoe36 posted:I'm old enough to remember a world without cell phones, voicemail, social media, email, pagers, or answering machines. I am too. Thank God for progress.
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Dec 19, 2018 19:23
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Che Delilas posted:Extremely petty peeve: mouth sounds. Several people at my company smack their lips, lick their chops, and/or chew with their mouths open. We're in a meeting and someone's just smacking their lips continuously right in my ear and I want to vomit. I hate that it bugs me, I hate that I'm so goddamn sensitive to noises. But argh. people who chew with their mouths open should be shot. there's no excuse for that horseshit.
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Iron Crowned posted:
God I hate this. I had a boss once who would communicate in very short, cryptic emails that most of the time I would end up just walking over to her office to find out what she wanted.
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DizzyBum posted:gently caress picking up the phone because half the time it's a caller-ID-spoofing robodialer sniffing for live numbers. I only pick up for people in my contacts list. Everything else goes to voicemail.
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The phone thing that gets me is when someone texts something important, or just sounds important, and I fire one back, only to sit there, no reply, for hours. It's even worse when I try to call in response and it just rings and rings. I've seen it phrased as they sent they text and then pitched their phone across the room, and that seems to be an apt summary.
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DizzyBum posted:gently caress picking up the phone because half the time it's a caller-ID-spoofing robodialer sniffing for live numbers. That's probably 90% of the calls I get, for real. Maybe more.
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That's all I get on my landline anymore. The only reason I still have a landline is because it's bundled into my cable/internet.
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Dec 19, 2018 19:49
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One time a robocaller left a message on my phone in Chinese. I know enough Chinese to recognize the word "Nihao" but basically nothing else.
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People who artificially delay doing their job solely because the policy tells them to. For example, I submitted a form for approval a week and a half ago, and I asked if they had looked at it. I wanted to know if I screwed anything up, because I hadn't used their system before and it's very important it gets paid out this pay period. They said they haven't looked at it because "we won't approve these until next week". Why? It would take 5 minutes out of your day of browsing facebook and pinterest to at the very least look it over and say "yeah this is fine, it's going to be approved". Are they scared if they are too efficient/quick/good at their job they'll get fired or what? It's like the entire government functions like this - they write policies allowing them to drag their feet on everything and nothing ever gets done, and you can't fire them for it because "that's the policy".
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DizzyBum posted:gently caress picking up the phone because half the time it's a caller-ID-spoofing robodialer sniffing for live numbers. I get neighbor-spoofing calls on my Google Voice number, too, which, seeing as it's virtual, is especially stupid--and made even worse because there is no wildcard blocking in Google Voice. I have to block every single one manually.
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Dec 19, 2018 20:15
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Kantesu posted:One time a robocaller left a message on my phone in Chinese. I know enough Chinese to recognize the word "Nihao" but basically nothing else. There's been one of those going around Australia. Apparently, it's quite threatening.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:People who artificially delay doing their job solely because the policy tells them to. For example, I submitted a form for approval a week and a half ago, and I asked if they had looked at it. I wanted to know if I screwed anything up, because I hadn't used their system before and it's very important it gets paid out this pay period. They said they haven't looked at it because "we won't approve these until next week". Why? It would take 5 minutes out of your day of browsing facebook and pinterest to at the very least look it over and say "yeah this is fine, it's going to be approved". I've found in my experience, it tends to be the opposite. You'll have some crusty old person who, because they've been there for 50 years gets to do it the way they've been doing it for 50 years, because no one wants to force them to adapt to the modern standard. That's why I had to fill out a 5 sheet deep carbon copy time card, and a paper copy of the jobs you worked, then get them signed by three people on Fridays in TYOOL 2018, until about 6 months ago when that person retired, and now I can just enter it into the system, like a normal company. yeah I eat rear end posted:It's like the entire government functions like this - they write policies allowing them to drag their feet on everything and nothing ever gets done, and you can't fire them for it because "that's the policy". This is an entirely different set of issues, and you know it.
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Overwatch Porn posted:people who chew with their mouths open should be shot. there's no excuse for that horseshit. I knew a guy in work - it's an open-plan office and he sat next to me for a while - who constantly ate with his mouth open. He was about twice my age so he should have known better. It was very annoying.
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the people i am complaining about in the previous paragraph are the government.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I knew a guy in work - it's an open-plan office and he sat next to me for a while - who constantly ate with his mouth open. He was about twice my age so he should have known better. It was very annoying. APparently I"m the only person at my job that doesn't go out to eat every day. It's nice and quiet, and I can get a good nap in too
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My problem with gift giving is that I'm poor and can't afford to get gifts for people and then indeed guilty
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yeah I eat rear end posted:the people i am complaining about in the previous paragraph are the government. I feel like there's a difference between being a government employee and being "the government" E: unless the government in question is like, Monaco Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 21:07 on Dec 19, 2018 |
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I feel like there's a difference between being a government employee and being "the government" There is more to the government than politicians. But fine, the people I am complaining about in the previous paragraph are federal employees. Doesn't change the fact that they intentionally trip themselves up with dumb policies.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:There is more to the government than politicians. But fine, the people I am complaining about in the previous paragraph are federal employees. Doesn't change the fact that they intentionally trip themselves up with dumb policies. yeah but bureaucrat McFuckface manning the paperwork desk still doesn't have any more influence on policies than his cousin Pfc McFuckface manning the world's most unnecessary foxhole. It's clueless managers and powerpoints all the way. Also it seems that in that scenario it is YOU being tripped up, not the government. Why bother looking up your dumb poo poo till it has to be done? USA 1, you 0 
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:yeah but bureaucrat McFuckface manning the paperwork desk still doesn't have any more influence on policies than his cousin Pfc McFuckface manning the world's most unnecessary foxhole. It's clueless managers and powerpoints all the way. It is just annoys me when something could be done right now in minutes without sacrificing accuracy or harming their other work in any way, but it isn't. Yeah I should be mad at the person who wrote it but I'm too busy posting my impotent rage in the peeve thread to find out who that is. It's easier just to silently be angry at the HR department for not bending the rules for me.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:It is just annoys me when something could be done right now in minutes without sacrificing accuracy or harming their other work in any way, but it isn't. Yeah I should be mad at the person who wrote it but I'm too busy posting my impotent rage in the peeve thread to find out who that is. It's easier just to silently be angry at the HR department for not bending the rules for me. I'm sure screeching at the post office really helps your cause.
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Iron Crowned posted:I'm sure screeching at the post office really helps your cause. To be fair, have you or him tried it? It could work
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Motherfucking gated communities with gate codes that are nowhere on the package delivery instructions. Oh, so I get to the call box and have no number? Welp gently caress that noise, I mark as bad address and move on. Oh wait, I check the call box and find your name and call and no answer? bad address and move on. Sometimes I get lucky and some nice person also entering, or leaving, will let me in, but usually not. So then people don't get their poo poo, have to reorder, and we keep playing this loving game BECAUSE YOU WON'T PUT YOUR GATE CODE IN THE DELIVERY NOTES.
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Answering my phone is a completely foreign concept to me because I get 25-40 spam calls per hour. Not exaggerating for comedic effect, I actually tallied it up once. If I take my phone off do not disturb, it just rings nonstop.
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Food recipes found online. This is easy food you can make at home: 1. Buy 5 billion items, most of them in small quantities, half of them being wares you cannot realistically use up before expiration 2. Spend 2-3 hours making the food because you gotta prep half of it beforehand 3. Give up and buy pizza Seriously, Indian/Pakistani food is the worst at this and I cannot air out the smell (although it is really good:D) at winter.
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Midig posted:Food recipes found online. Hey also do you know about the Chrome/Firefox extension, RecipeFilter? It pops up the actual recipe part of those recipe blogposts, and lets you print that separately, skipping most of the bullshit. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/recipe-filter/ahlcdjbkdaegmljnnncfnhiioiadakae?hl=en https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/recipe-filter/
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When people walking their dogs pull them away from me even though the dog is clearly excited. Let me say hi to your dog!! 
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:but it's not a real recipe unless it uses at least 200 different spices in imperceptible amounts, your 6 gallon vat of chicken noodle soup will be ruined if you don't add that single bay leaf Hey dawg, NEVER underestimate the power of a single bay leaf.
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Killingyouguy! posted:When people walking their dogs pull them away from me even though the dog is clearly excited. I'm guilty of this  but it's because even though my dog is super sweet and has never bitten/attacked anyone, he does look kinda scary, and I don't want to risk scaring someone who doesn't like dogs.
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Peeve: if you are sick, and have been for a week, coughing, sneezing, taking cold medicine every day, but by week two you still haven't gone to the dr despite trying all the over the counter poo poo and still feeling like crap, GO TO THE loving DOCTOR ALREADY.
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Kantesu posted:One time a robocaller left a message on my phone in Chinese. I know enough Chinese to recognize the word "Nihao" but basically nothing else.
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I came into work to find that someone had used my desk overnight, and apparently used my glasses cleaning cloth to scrub gunk off the bottom of my-- or rather, our-- mouse. Sharing desks in general is something I can't stand, but on top of that: how hard is it to not touch someone else's poo poo? How do people have a real, actual job and still not understand the concept of "this is not mine, maybe I shouldn't use it to scrape nasty dirt from office equipment"?
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