Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 4)

[Europa1]

BRISTOL86 said:

K12beano said:

"ATM Machine"?

I knew there was another annoying example of that!

In a similar vein, I had a colleague ask me if I could do a meeting at 10am in the morning.

And then there is of course the Ferrari LaFerrari.

[Johnspex]

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.

[WD39]

BRISTOL86 said:

When people say 'PIN number'.

THE 'N' IS FOR NUMBER

This and others quoted are just turns of speech that have wheedled their way into everyday interaction. They look funny on the page but when in conversation it seems normal and (most) don't notice and get on with their day.

Edited by WD39 on Thursday 20th October 18:59

[grumbledoak]

BRISTOL86 said:

When people say 'PIN number'.

THE 'N' IS FOR NUMBER

Enter the "PI number" would cause really long queues at the checkouts.

[Johnspex]

grumbledoak said:

Enter the "PI number" would cause really long queues at the checkouts.

I was once asked for my personal PIN number.

[Willy Nilly]

Emma Barnet on 5Live annoys me beyond reason

[Bluedot]

OpulentBob said:

Shakermaker said:

All that jazz said:

Blurb said:

made with responsibly sourced salmon in a creamy dill sauce wrapped in puff pastry

Oh do fk off. That st annoys me beyond reason.

You wouldn't want dodgy, questionable salmon now, would you?

"hey boss, want some salmon? cheap yeah, no questions"

Naughty, naughty, very naughty.

Luuuuuuuvely.

[McAndy]

Shakermaker said:

People who reply to your out of office message to ask when you'll be back in the office.

Wait, what? People do that?!

[McAndy]

Cotty said:

If it was irresponsibly sourced would that make it poached salmon

Well played.

[AstonZagato]

BRISTOL86 said:

When people say 'PIN number'.

THE 'N' IS FOR NUMBER

An example of RAS syndrome (short for "redundant acronym syndrome syndrome")

[Shakermaker]

McAndy said:

Shakermaker said:

People who reply to your out of office message to ask when you'll be back in the office.

Wait, what? People do that?!

Yes. Not too many, thankfully, but the same person has done it to me numerous times whilst I've been on holiday with my return specified in the out of office, asking when I'm going to return and reply to their 'very important' email.

[All that jazz]

Shakermaker said:

McAndy said:

Shakermaker said:

People who reply to your out of office message to ask when you'll be back in the office.

Wait, what? People do that?!

Yes. Not too many, thankfully, but the same person has done it to me numerous times whilst I've been on holiday with my return specified in the out of office, asking when I'm going to return and reply to their 'very important' email.

That's because the emails still go through to them and will often be read by the recipient so they expect you to reply to their "very important" emails.

[McAndy]

Shakermaker said:

Yes. Not too many, thankfully, but the same person has done it to me numerous times whilst I've been on holiday with my return specified in the out of office, asking when I'm going to return and reply to their 'very important' email.

Just to confirm, do you put an, "I am returning on" statement into the auto-responder, along with a caveat to say that you may not reply immediately on that day?

[Cotty]

All that jazz said:

That's because the emails still go through to them and will often be read by the recipient so they expect you to reply to their "very important" emails.

If I have an out of office switched on it means I am out of the office with no access to emails. Emails are not read by me.

[BristolRich]

Call centre ineptitude.

I have suspicion that the Central Heating Roomstat is on the blink. Not a huge job to change myself however I'm paying for a service contract so thought I might as well use it.

Two phone calls this morning and SSE are still unable able to confirm a timeslot (AM or PM) for an 'engineer' to visit Friday next week?

"Its sort of lunchtime but bridges AM and PM"....

"So do I assume that's 0800-1300 or 1300 -1800?...I will need to take time off work"

"Can you ring back Thursday?"....

[Cotty]

Stupid bh 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.

[Shakermaker]

McAndy said:

Shakermaker said:

Yes. Not too many, thankfully, but the same person has done it to me numerous times whilst I've been on holiday with my return specified in the out of office, asking when I'm going to return and reply to their 'very important' email.

Just to confirm, do you put an, "I am returning on" statement into the auto-responder, along with a caveat to say that you may not reply immediately on that day?

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.

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)

[Munter]

Cotty said:

All that jazz said:

That's because the emails still go through to them and will often be read by the recipient so they expect you to reply to their "very important" emails.

If I have an out of office switched on it means I am out of the office with no access to emails. Emails are not read by me.

That's a situation some people cannot conceive of though. I'll often get "Yeah but you'll have your phone so if it's important you can respond right?" These people don't stop reading work e-mails just because they are on holiday, and can't figure out why anybody else would. They also wonder why I have a work phone and a personal phone. If you suggest they might not be in contact with the office, it's like you just gutted their first born alive in front of them. The horror....the horror.

[Cotty]

They have not given me a work phone and if they expected me to look at it outside of office hours then I would not accept it if offered.

[colonel c]

Internet Explore. It's past a fking joke now.