Can we discuss pet peeves here? (2 Viewers)

[Keerock]

Unnecessarily loud people. I'm probably being passive-aggressive here, but the IT guy that sits in the cube behind me is SO EFFING LOUD when he is on Teams calls with co-workers. I don't think he realizes how loud he is, especially his booming laugh, because he wears big over-the-ear headphones for the call. I mean, the laugh can be heard down the hall. It's ridiculous. I COULD say something to HR or my boss or someone, but it would be pretty obvious who complained. I put one earbud in with music to try and balance it out, but the 4-5 times a day he's on a call is just unbearable.

Boss... I can't get my job done. Perhaps I should work from home.

 

[Scoresman]

Unnecessarily loud people. I'm probably being passive-aggressive here, but the IT guy that sits in the cube behind me is SO EFFING LOUD when he is on Teams calls with co-workers. I don't think he realizes how loud he is, especially his booming laugh, because he wears big over-the-ear headphones for the call. I mean, the laugh can be heard down the hall. It's ridiculous. I COULD say something to HR or my boss or someone, but it would be pretty obvious who complained. I put one earbud in with music to try and balance it out, but the 4-5 times a day he's on a call is just unbearable.

Boss... I can't get my job done. Perhaps I should work from home.

Every time I'm on a Teams call with people who are in the office, there's always a ton of background noise and other conversations that come through. It's very annoying because not only have they re-opened the offices, but they've embraced open floor plans! So this leads to everyone who decides to go in to have to find a conference room just to take a call.

This morning one of my supervisors half-jokingly yelled "WORK FROM HOME" when someone who was in the office couldn't get away from background noise.

 

[Cowboysfan8]

Sports highlights should include the players shaking hands or whatever at the end of the game/match/etc. I enjoy seeing how players react to a win or loss yet they rarely show this

Meh

 

[wlwiles]

Sports highlights should include the players shaking hands or whatever at the end of the game/match/etc. I enjoy seeing how players react to a win or loss yet they rarely show this

I feel like I've seen this happen at the end of most MLB games, although it's usually just the winning team shaking hands with each other while the announcer thanks the sponsors and signs off. In football and basketball it feels like they never show it because there's always some sideline reporter that needs to shove a microphone into someone's face immediately before they even leave the field so they can ask the same regurgitated question every single time.

 

[arrow1]

Interviews with coaches as they are going to the locker room at half time. Dumb questions followed by regurgitated coach-speak.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Interviews with coaches as they are going to the locker room at half time. Dumb questions followed by regurgitated coach-speak.

Or those doofus ones during a time-out. They all sound just alike. What insight do the reporters think that the coach wants to give to his opponents?

 

[jhib]

Whistling in a quiet situation.

Why do people (men) find the need to whistle? Shopping, in the office, public restroom, in line at the bank, etc.

Are you that starved for attention that you need people to notice you?

Do you really think people around you appreciate your "superior whistling skilz"? ... of the random tune that we've never heard before ... since you are just making it up as you go.

... or does silence scare you because you're so old that you need to prove to yourself that you're still alive?

I've been running into more than my fair share of these people lately out in public.

No, your whistling doesn't sound nearly as good as you think it does.

 

[parasaurolophus]

Super long hair. Dumb.

 

[Scoresman]

2 restaurant ones that came up this weekend.

- Servers who don't write down the order if they can't handle it. I'll never be "that guy" who specifically asks them to write down the order but yesterday our young server wrote nothing down, my order was slighlty wrong and we never got one of the appetizers.

- the pacing of apps/salads/mains. This should be obvious. Don't bring out my main dish if I'm only halfway through my salad or appetizer.

 

[nirad3]

I don't know if this is a pet peeve or just a rant or just the best place to put this blurb, but.... crazy people? More specifically, crazy people that also drive cars?

Yesterday, driving my kids home from stopping to see their mom at Starbucks (where she works), I'm totally going the speed limit, some person cuts in front of me going about 10 MPH below the limit, so I flip my blinker on, look in the mirror to make sure I'm clear, and then pass her... again, going the speed limit, maybe 1-2 MPH over?

I just so happen to look in my rear view and I can tell she's flipping me the bird. I look back a couple seconds later (she's probably 7-8 car lengths behind me) and she's giving me this very obvious clapping thing. Like, WTF?

I don't think much of it, but we come to a stop light, and she pulls up besides me in the right-hand turn lane and stops. I glance over and can tell she's yelling at me, but I just pretend I didn't see her and keep talking to my kids. Light turns green, I go about my business.

What a weirdo. I didn't do anything crazy (I'm an old man with kids, I barely go over 65 on the freeway these days). Serious unfounded road rage, lady. Have another martini.

 

[ignatiusjreilly]

Have a doctor's appointment for this Thursday that I need to reschedule. Called on Friday afternoon but they close early, and the "answering service" can't even allow me to leave a message (not doing a lot of answering there, are you?) I go to the online portal and click on My Appointments, but the button is grayed out and it says, "Cancel Appointment feature not available. Please contact the office to cancel your appointment."

So I call today at 4:30. Receptionists comes on and says, "Please hold," then after a few minutes of hold music comes back on and says, "Please hold" again. Then I get cut off. So I call back and it happens again. So I call back again and I get the same answering service, even though the office is not scheduled to close for another half hour.

Why do I feel like if I stopped by the office in person, they would lock the doors and hide behind the desk pretending no one was there?

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Have a doctor's appointment for this Thursday that I need to reschedule. Called on Friday afternoon but they close early, and the "answering service" can't even allow me to leave a message (not doing a lot of answering there, are you?) I go to the online portal and click on My Appointments, but the button is grayed out and it says, "Cancel Appointment feature not available. Please contact the office to cancel your appointment."

So I call today at 4:30. Receptionists comes on and says, "Please hold," then after a few minutes of hold music comes back on and says, "Please hold" again. Then I get cut off. So I call back and it happens again. So I call back again and I get the same answering service, even though the office is not scheduled to close for another half hour.

Why do I feel like if I stopped by the office in person, they would lock the doors and hide behind the desk pretending no one was there?

Join the club. The eye surgery center never (and I mean NEVER) answers the phone. Pushing 2 to leave a voice mail gets you a message saying the voice mail box is full and it hangs up on you.

I plan on going over there and pitching a fit. It will not be pretty.

 

[ignatiusjreilly]

Have a doctor's appointment for this Thursday that I need to reschedule. Called on Friday afternoon but they close early, and the "answering service" can't even allow me to leave a message (not doing a lot of answering there, are you?) I go to the online portal and click on My Appointments, but the button is grayed out and it says, "Cancel Appointment feature not available. Please contact the office to cancel your appointment."

So I call today at 4:30. Receptionists comes on and says, "Please hold," then after a few minutes of hold music comes back on and says, "Please hold" again. Then I get cut off. So I call back and it happens again. So I call back again and I get the same answering service, even though the office is not scheduled to close for another half hour.

Why do I feel like if I stopped by the office in person, they would lock the doors and hide behind the desk pretending no one was there?

Join the club. The eye surgery center never (and I mean NEVER) answers the phone. Pushing 2 to leave a voice mail gets you a message saying the voice mail box is full and it hangs up on you.

I plan on going over there and pitching a fit. It will not be pretty.

I actually just realized that I have a different appointment in the same complex tomorrow, so I think I will stop by

 

[parasaurolophus]

Packaging is just absurd these days. One float picture frame had 32 staples in it holding on various things. 32!

 

[Dezbelief]

Packaging is just absurd these days. One float picture frame had 32 staples in it holding on various things. 32!

I worked shipping and receiving for a while
I had this supervisor as old as my grandparents, he must have lived through the Great Depression. He would periodically check how many staples we were using. One guy actually got dinged on his evaluation for using too many staples.

 

[The General]

I know it’s not this lady’s fault but on a 4 hour flight and she literally coughs every 30 seconds or so. Been going on for at least an hour now.

Drink some ****ing water or something.

 

[Scoresman]

I know it’s not this lady’s fault but on a 4 hour flight and she literally coughs every 30 seconds or so. Been going on for at least an hour now.

Drink some ****ing water or something.

Hope you're wearing a mask.

 

[The General]

I know it’s not this lady’s fault but on a 4 hour flight and she literally coughs every 30 seconds or so. Been going on for at least an hour now.

Drink some ****ing water or something.

Hope you're wearing a mask.

Nope…I’m hoping it’s some nervous tick.

It‘s absurd though. To the point I think I’m on a hidden camera show.

 

[Dr_Zaius]

Packaging is just absurd these days. One float picture frame had 32 staples in it holding on various things. 32!

I can't remember what we got from Target a few years back (a shirt maybe?). Anyway, it was definitely small enough to fit in a shoebox and for some reason was shipped in a box that I could literally crawl into.

 

[BeTheMatch]

I know it’s not this lady’s fault but on a 4 hour flight and she literally coughs every 30 seconds or so. Been going on for at least an hour now.

Drink some ****ing water or something.

Hope you're wearing a mask.

Nope…I’m hoping it’s some nervous tick.

It‘s absurd though. To the point I think I’m on a hidden camera show.

Where's Allen Funt???

 

[The General]

I know it’s not this lady’s fault but on a 4 hour flight and she literally coughs every 30 seconds or so. Been going on for at least an hour now.

Drink some ****ing water or something.

Hope you're wearing a mask.

Nope…I’m hoping it’s some nervous tick.

It‘s absurd though. To the point I think I’m on a hidden camera show.

Where's Allen Funt???

Had to google that one

 

[parasaurolophus]

School apps are just insane. 4 different apps for what could be one sheet of paper per day.

Oh what's that, you think 1 sheet of paper per day per kid is worthy of saving? Sounds great. Let's eliminate the 27 pieces of paper that come home each day that could easily be online activities via Google sheets.

 

[parasaurolophus]

QR codes on plants to get sun requirements? Wtf. How hard is it to write full sun on the card instead of scan here to get light requirements?

 

[Van Dyman]

My peeve is major media companies publishing stories with grammatical errors. Come one, guys. I'll pick on CNN since I noticed it there today but I see this all over the internet from major companies that should be able to afford real editors.

Ramaswamy, a throat cancer surgeon at Ohio State University, told NBC News that said she would take...

 

[the moops]

All I know is that @parasaurolophus has some anger issues. Holy peeves!

 

[Pip's Invitation]

My peeve is major media companies publishing stories with grammatical errors. Come one, guys. I'll pick on CNN since I noticed it there today but I see this all over the internet from major companies that should be able to afford real editors.

Ramaswamy, a throat cancer surgeon at Ohio State University, told NBC News that said she would take...

They can, but they don’t bother. The position of copy editor has pretty much disappeared in mainstream media.

 

[parasaurolophus]

All I know is that @parasaurolophus has some anger issues. Holy peeves!

Just the worst.