Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 4)
Discussion
Cotty said:
Stupid b
h at work using the printer/photocopier which runs out of paper. She puts the paper in wrong jamming the machine, so she just picks up her work, leaves the machine jammed and walks to the next machine. It worries me the lack of intelligence some of my colleagues have if they can’t even put paper in a printer without jamming it.
Don’t get me started on the idiots constantly jamming the shredders.
To be fair, some printers seem to lunch their innards when confronted with just a speck of dust, but walking away & leaving it to someone else is a th at work using the printer/photocopier which runs out of paper. She puts the paper in wrong jamming the machine, so she just picks up her work, leaves the machine jammed and walks to the next machine. It worries me the lack of intelligence some of my colleagues have if they can’t even put paper in a printer without jamming it.Don’t get me started on the idiots constantly jamming the shredders.
ttish moveShakermaker said:
No, not specifically that, just the "I will be back on (date)" along with "please contact my colleague for all matters relating to..." and then "I will reply to any outstanding matters once I am back in the office" etc.
I take your point though, some people may need the little caveat.
I put near as dammit that, just saying "...as soon as possible..." rather than "...once I am back...". I've only ever had genuine grief from this once, and she quickly wandered off when I simply replied that it hadn't been possible to reply to her faster and she was only delaying matters further by keeping me from the further 326 (I remember it well!) e-mails that I had to get through before getting to hers. (I'd been off for two weeks; she e-mailed me on the Friday afternoon before the Monday morning I returned, so half a working day before chasing! I rarely use this smiley as it can come across as quite offensive, but this is most definitely appropriate: I take your point though, some people may need the little caveat.
)Shakermaker said:
But the replies I have had to my out of office when I have said when I am going to be back, who to get in touch with in my absence, and set to only reply once per person, have been
"Alex, when are you back? I emailed you last week asking about this..." even though they are replying to my auto-reply which has my return date.
The best one was a reply to my out of office which said along the lines of "Dear Mr L, I am growing increasingly frustrated at your lack of courtesy in not responding to my email last week and if you do not reply to me with a satisfactory answer about this matter by tomorrow afternoon, I will be making contact with your Company Director and suggesting to him that you are unsuitable to be in your position"
As, at the time, I was sat blissfully unaware to this on a beach in Thailand I didn't get wind of it until my work mate sent me a little text telling me how my name had been going around the office as the director's PA had been looking for me; obviously they had smoothed everything over in my absence but the absurdity kept us amused for a while on my return. At the time the company director wouldn't have known me from the next person as I was not working at head office and he had little reason to come and see us minions on the coal face. But it was favourable in the end, when I started my new job at Head Office a chance meeting with the MD put me on a good standing with him.
(It is fair to say, these were not emails from other colleagues or business types, but emails from customers, who as we all know, are often less than familiar with the concept of how business might work or that when you are presented with a suitable alternative option, the best choice is not to take it but to follow single-mindedly on your original path)
Amusing MD tale! "Alex, when are you back? I emailed you last week asking about this..." even though they are replying to my auto-reply which has my return date.
The best one was a reply to my out of office which said along the lines of "Dear Mr L, I am growing increasingly frustrated at your lack of courtesy in not responding to my email last week and if you do not reply to me with a satisfactory answer about this matter by tomorrow afternoon, I will be making contact with your Company Director and suggesting to him that you are unsuitable to be in your position"
As, at the time, I was sat blissfully unaware to this on a beach in Thailand I didn't get wind of it until my work mate sent me a little text telling me how my name had been going around the office as the director's PA had been looking for me; obviously they had smoothed everything over in my absence but the absurdity kept us amused for a while on my return. At the time the company director wouldn't have known me from the next person as I was not working at head office and he had little reason to come and see us minions on the coal face. But it was favourable in the end, when I started my new job at Head Office a chance meeting with the MD put me on a good standing with him.
(It is fair to say, these were not emails from other colleagues or business types, but emails from customers, who as we all know, are often less than familiar with the concept of how business might work or that when you are presented with a suitable alternative option, the best choice is not to take it but to follow single-mindedly on your original path)
Some people really are either a) stupid; or b) have an over-inflated sense of self-importance.
WindyMills said:
colonel c said:
Internet Explore. It's past a fking joke now.
People who use internet explorer king joke now. 
(I'm the 'young one' in the office, so have to help everyone else use a PC)
Edited by colonel c on Friday 21st October 14:35
People seemingly taking full blown meals into the cinema - I don't want the smell of your rancid hotdog/burrito/pizza thanks.
Also, obviously, people apparently mistaking a movie theatre as a place to take a friend and catch up. Go to a pub/bar/restauarant or anywhere else in the known universe FFS
Also, obviously, people apparently mistaking a movie theatre as a place to take a friend and catch up. Go to a pub/bar/restauarant or anywhere else in the known universe FFS
Marty Funkhouser said:
Also, obviously, people apparently mistaking a movie theatre as a place to take a friend and catch up. Go to a pub/bar/restauarant or anywhere else in the known universe FFS
Cinemas are probably easier to hold a conversation in these days, given the direction many pubs seem to be taking to prevent people leaving to go to a club.Johnspex said:
All that jazz said:
Welshbeef shirley?
Anyone who thinks the Shirley joke is still funny or is so stupid they think that is the correct spelling.Shirley is surely still relevant.
WD39 said:
Johnspex said:
All that jazz said:
Welshbeef shirley?
Anyone who thinks the Shirley joke is still funny or is so stupid they think that is the correct spelling.Shirley is surely still relevant.
It was a documentary, not a movie, wasn't it?
Shirley is correct aviation parlance; it's as important as knowing the phonetic alphabet!
V8mate said:
WD39 said:
Johnspex said:
All that jazz said:
Welshbeef shirley?
Anyone who thinks the Shirley joke is still funny or is so stupid they think that is the correct spelling.Shirley is surely still relevant.
It was a documentary, not a movie, wasn't it?
Shirley is correct aviation parlance; it's as important as knowing the phonetic alphabet!
A couple today:
This time of year when the nimbys start their annual whinge about fireworks
People who win an item on ebay, don't pay within a reasonable time ( 3 days ), don't respond to payment reminders and messages asking when they intend to pay, then get annoyed when you raise an 'unpaid item' case against them after a week
This time of year when the nimbys start their annual whinge about fireworks
People who win an item on ebay, don't pay within a reasonable time ( 3 days ), don't respond to payment reminders and messages asking when they intend to pay, then get annoyed when you raise an 'unpaid item' case against them after a week
BristolRich said:
The A5 north of Shrewsbury. A place where the Highway Code has no application or parlance.
It's a a bit like 'Westworld' only that instead of being in a simulation of the Wild West, you drive in a Russian dashcam video.
I strongly recommend you don't do less than 65 if you have an Irish plated wagon behind you, it won't end well for you if you ignore this advice. It's a a bit like 'Westworld' only that instead of being in a simulation of the Wild West, you drive in a Russian dashcam video.
Same for A41.WD39 said:
From 'Airplane' 1980. The funniest aviation movie ever, Shirley? Every viewing throws up fresh nuances and gags. All the leading actors playing parts that they usually play seriously in similar movies. 4 stars out of five.
Shirley is surely still relevant.
I know its origin. Airplane is a very funny film, however, I think the Shirley joke is a bit worn out and so overused on here that some people don't appreciate it's a joke and think that is the correct spelling of the word surely.Shirley is surely still relevant.
MartG said:
People who win an item on ebay, don't pay within a reasonable time ( 3 days ), don't respond to payment reminders and messages asking when they intend to pay, then get annoyed when you raise an 'unpaid item' case against them after a week
My friend has suffered this during the week and came up with an ingenious, but cruel, revenge:Sold a car for £250 on ebay that he just wanted rid of. Guy made contact, but then nothing. A couple of weeks of nothing and finally my mate just gets "Erm, sorry pal, I can't afford it now" line.
So my mate, being a bit cruel and no pissed off this car is still on his driveway that he wants to get rid of, texts back saying "just take it for free if you want" and the guy says "OK, I'll come on Saturday"
Except my mate then goes online and looks on RightMove for an empty house, and gives that as the directions of where he lives, which is 10 miles away. The guy then makes a 100-mile trip to pick up this "free" car from an empty house, and then sends my mate a tirade of abusive text messages for "wasting his time" etc etc.
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