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to anyone who does this. Also to anyone who schedules meetings on a Friday afternoon.
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Can we discuss pet peeves here? (3 Viewers)
- Thread starter fantasycurse42
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to anyone who does this. Also to anyone who schedules meetings on a Friday afternoon.
3 hour lunch
Footballguy
Multiple time zones plus our company’s insistence on video; has made me watch a lot of people eat their lunch lately. Part of me wants to eat a giant bowl of cereal or soup or something one of these days
Do it topless. That will really get them going.
Riffraff
Footballguy
Seafood platter meal wearing just the lobster bib.
parasaurolophus
Footballguy
Pretty sure grandparents are responsible for 90% of obesity.
El Floppo
Footballguy
Lunch time meetings...yeah.
Gets tough with zoom and different time zones, but i still try to avoid if i can.
My first job, my boss would schedule monday am project meetings, which meant we worked all weekend, every weekend. It was the culture of the place regardless. I worked 100 hour weeks for a year and a half there.
Gets tough with zoom and different time zones, but i still try to avoid if i can.
My first job, my boss would schedule monday am project meetings, which meant we worked all weekend, every weekend. It was the culture of the place regardless. I worked 100 hour weeks for a year and a half there.
the moops
Footballguy
Gross. I have never worked more than like 45 hours a week. Sorry
El Floppo
Footballguy
I always pegged you as lazy.
Drunken knight
Footballguy
You can’t throw these softballs out there…. Bannings are imminent
Mister CIA
Footballguy
Eat a bag of corn nuts.
I am not sure why that requires you to work all weekend. Did you also have a project meeting late Friday and then he wanted progress before the early Monday meeting?
El Floppo
Footballguy
Yes. Friday am meetings too.
Plus, 2 people designing and drawing a 150k sf medical research building with a combined 3 years experience between us...with an accelerated timeline. It needed a staff of 6+ at least, led by somebody who knew wtf they were doing. I readily admit many hours were wasted naively flailing around...but the actual volume of work expected- was insane.
the moops
Footballguy
Definitely lazy, when it comes to work. But the thing is not working a ton allows me to go do **** and be not lazy
I don't necessarily equate working less hours to being lazy. I know many lazy people that work long hours because they aren't efficient. They are too lazy during the day and it ends up costing them time and then they have to work longer to get work done that should have taken a lot less time.
Its part of the reason I don't think salaried people should have a set number of hours to work. It should be based on getting the job done. If you are super efficient and do good work in 30 hrs that it takes someone else 50 hrs to do why do you need to twiddle your thumbs for 10 hrs just because you have to put in 40 hrs?
ignatiusjreilly
Footballguy
Some airports are too damn big. Had to fly home from Atlanta the other day. As we were leaving the hotel, I wanted to put in "Rental Car Center" into the GPS, but for some reason my Maps app wasn't having it (at least not via voice command), so I just figured, whatever, I'll put ATL in and then follow the signs to the Rental Car Center. We get to the airport and I'm driving around looking for how to get to the RTC, but I don't see any signs. Finally I decide maybe I should just pull over and type "Rental Car Center" into my GPS. Turns out it was a 15m drive (I'm pretty sure what happened is that it initially took me to the international terminal and then I had to drive all the way around to get to the RTC).
Nor was this a one-off. There was also confusion trying to figure out which security line I needed to get in if I was on a non-Delta flight, but had TSA Pre-check. I also recall years ago spending a good half hour wandering around trying to find my flight's baggage carousel
ATL is one of those airports where you have to make sure you get things right, because if you don't it can cost you a ton of time
Nor was this a one-off. There was also confusion trying to figure out which security line I needed to get in if I was on a non-Delta flight, but had TSA Pre-check. I also recall years ago spending a good half hour wandering around trying to find my flight's baggage carousel
ATL is one of those airports where you have to make sure you get things right, because if you don't it can cost you a ton of time
arrow1
Footballguy
Denver sux too
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
I'm convinced ATL is actually larger than the state of Georgia. I hate that airport with a passion.
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
I don’t mind connecting through it (although certainly not ideal) but yeah I have flown in and out of it several times in the past and the whole rental car process was a pain
ignatiusjreilly
Footballguy
I will say that once we dropped our car off, the process of getting to the terminal was surprisingly quick. Which just goes to support my theory. If you're where you need to be, the operations run fairly efficiently. But the slightest misstep and BAM! You just bought a ticket to airport purgatory
It is just huge and in the middle of no-where but it is fairly easy to know where to go. It just takes forever to get where you need to go.
ignatiusjreilly
Footballguy
Every summer, the whole family goes up to Maine for two weeks. In previous years, I had submitted a mail hold request via the USPS website. Just went to do it again for this year's trip, and was told our address is no longer eligible. Instead, I have to go into our local branch and submit the form in person. The only sense I can make of this is that they recently closed down the branch nearest our house. Still, this is annoying for me and a huge waste of time for whatever bureaucrat has to manually enter the information I submit on a hand-written form. DOGE, baby!
the moops
Footballguy
That is annoying. I would just ask a neighbor to grab it
ignatiusjreilly
Footballguy
Multi-unit condo building. Mail is delivered to a small locked mailbox. If we leave it two weeks it will overflow
the moops
Footballguy
Give a key to neighbor?
BeTheMatch
Footballguy
We recently did the online hold for a week. They held it. But they haven't delivered the pile of held mail like they were supposed to, even though they did resume mail delivery as scheduled two days ago.
My face hurts.
Dennis Castro
Footballguy
Please, please, please people, especially in music threads, stop dropping acronyms that I don’t understand. Just spell it out. I don’t know every band, every album. I want to though, and some posts make me have to look stuff up, especially discussing other posters. Please.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
It would help is some of the bands could get shorter, easier-to-type names. I drafted an album by The Presidents of the United States of America. And that's why they are usually referred to as "The Presidents".
Terminalxylem
Footballguy
Absolutely. I do my job decently, but am at a point in my career where I’m not killing myself for work. Much rather invest the time and effort maintaining fitness.
mr. furley
Footballguy
if you drive a truck that's 9' tall, there's no reason to pull forward into the intersection. you can see OVER every other car on the road, but we can't see over/through/around you.
and because the people behind us in line can see BEHIND your truck to see cross-traffic, they're blowing their horn at us for not risking our lives to make a blind turn.
and because the people behind us in line can see BEHIND your truck to see cross-traffic, they're blowing their horn at us for not risking our lives to make a blind turn.
jhib
Footballguy
There is one particular highway driving occurence that I notice more and more often lately (probaby because I've just been paying more attention to it) that I simply don't understand. Some variation of this: You are traveling along with traffic, going about 70 mph when you are able to, when you come upon that person in the left passing lane slowwwwly passing a couple of cars in the right lane going about 60. No one in front of them keeping them from going faster. You are somewhere in the growing group of cars behind in the left lane, waiting what seems like forever for the car in front to finally complete the pass and change into the right lane and... they immediately speed up to 70.
I notice it often enough that it can't (I think) just be people messing with others behind them. I wonder if it's something psychological? I've considered maybe they're just uncomfortable in the left lane and passing others, but when I'm passing in an uncomfortable situation - like next to a semi in a construction area or something - I go faster in order to get the pass over with more quickly rather than slower and drawing it out. I don't get it.
I notice it often enough that it can't (I think) just be people messing with others behind them. I wonder if it's something psychological? I've considered maybe they're just uncomfortable in the left lane and passing others, but when I'm passing in an uncomfortable situation - like next to a semi in a construction area or something - I go faster in order to get the pass over with more quickly rather than slower and drawing it out. I don't get it.
BeTheMatch
Footballguy
People are stupid
Terminalxylem
Footballguy
Agree it is psychology, as people just want to be in front. I see it all the time when cars try to shoehorn themselves in front of me at a merge, rather than slowing to enter the much larger space behind my vehicle.
It’s also common when passing lanes open up temporarily on predominantly one lane roads. Rather than allowing people riding their bumper to be on their way, the previously slow poke speeds up, to foil the pass.
Terminalxylem
Footballguy
It’s equally obnoxious when the 70 mph traffic immediately passes on the right, rather than giving the slower, but still passing vehicle an opportunity to pull in front of the slowest traffic with a friendlier (at least a couple car lengths at highway speeds) space cushion.
Drunken knight
Footballguy
95% + of the time I give people the opportunity to do the right thing.
If the same person doesn’t get over when the chance presents itself multiple times, I will be passing quickly on the right when I can (my car is responsive).
jhib
Footballguy
Especially when you're the one directly behind and you're giving them time to get over, and the person behind you darts over to the right and passes, delaying the whole process further so other cars behind do the same thing and you're stuck there.
jhib
Footballguy
Yeah, that is another situation where my inclination is so completely different that it makes it hard for me to understand them at all. I hate having another person who obviously wants to go faster stuck behind me, so that first chance I get, I'm slowing down and moving a bit to the right to make it as easy/safe as possible for them to pass me.
Terminalxylem
Footballguy
Yes. In summary, when passing, people need to chill a bit.
Obviously it’s bad (and sometimes illegal) to loiter in the left lane, if not passing. But tailgating and rapid, unpredictable lane changes at speed are probably worse.
Terminalxylem
Footballguy
Me too. But to be fair, passing lanes usually materialize when the road straightens, so it’s natural to speed up a bit. Still, you need to be aware/considerate of other drivers.
mr. furley
Footballguy
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BeTheMatch
Footballguy
Twitter is now allowing people to pay to post marketing ads in my "following" feed who I'm not following, and they're not marking it as an ad. Then why I try to change my settings to stop that from happening, it says it's not available.
parasaurolophus
Footballguy
People that message you to call them. Why don't you just call me idiot?
So they don't interrupt you if you aren't available and you can call when you have time. It's actually somewhat courteous.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
Locking is better, allows most existing posts while stopping escalated arguments and specific posts over the line. Why punish everyone.
Self own: It starts pouring rain as I get to my destination and I park next to the curb. When I get out I sprint behind my car and race to the sidewalk to walk under the awnings. Problem, water in 6" deep near the curb and my sandled feet get sopping wet with road goo. Now I get more peeved every step as I squish toward the pub. grrr
arrow1
Footballguy
Sandals
I'm bringing the sexy back, trend setter not follower.Sandals
Runkle
Footballguy
You're going to a pub. How bad could it be?
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