Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 7)
Discussion
spitfire-ian said:
Something that annoys me pretty much on a daily basis is
That my boss and a fellow colleague don't realise, no matter
How much I tell them, that when typing an email they don't
Need to add line breaks when typing as Outlook will automatically
Wrap the text depending on the window size.
Add to that the auto-capitalisation that Outlook adds after a return
Any emails received from them tend to look like this!!
Nethybridge is that you?That my boss and a fellow colleague don't realise, no matter
How much I tell them, that when typing an email they don't
Need to add line breaks when typing as Outlook will automatically
Wrap the text depending on the window size.
Add to that the auto-capitalisation that Outlook adds after a return
Any emails received from them tend to look like this!!
My project manager messages me daily on Slack:
"Hi Alex."
I wait to see what he wants. Nothing happens. After a while, nothing continues to happen. Eventually curiosity and not wanting to appear like I'm away from my desk all day compels me to find out what he wanted. So I reply:
"Hello Mike"
And I wait. Still nothing so I leave my desk and wander downstairs to see what's in the fridge for lunch. I find something and start preparing. Then I go into the garden to potter about for a bit. At the end of my lunch break I return to my desk to see:
"Hi. Have you sent that specification to customer X yet? Don't send it yet. I want to make some changes. And how's the upgrade going with customer Y?
Hello?
Alex?"
I don't know why he has to say hello. This sort of thing happens every single day. He doesn't need to say hello. Just tell me what you need and I can respond immediately!
I know there's the "No Hello" website, but if I were to send him the link I think he'd be quite offended. And considering that I work from home and he's basically my entire company contact point with the exception of my manager, who I talk to 4 times per year. Everything I do is organised by him.
Maybe not beyond reason!
"Hi Alex."
I wait to see what he wants. Nothing happens. After a while, nothing continues to happen. Eventually curiosity and not wanting to appear like I'm away from my desk all day compels me to find out what he wanted. So I reply:
"Hello Mike"
And I wait. Still nothing so I leave my desk and wander downstairs to see what's in the fridge for lunch. I find something and start preparing. Then I go into the garden to potter about for a bit. At the end of my lunch break I return to my desk to see:
"Hi. Have you sent that specification to customer X yet? Don't send it yet. I want to make some changes. And how's the upgrade going with customer Y?
Hello?
Alex?"
I don't know why he has to say hello. This sort of thing happens every single day. He doesn't need to say hello. Just tell me what you need and I can respond immediately!
I know there's the "No Hello" website, but if I were to send him the link I think he'd be quite offended. And considering that I work from home and he's basically my entire company contact point with the exception of my manager, who I talk to 4 times per year. Everything I do is organised by him.
Maybe not beyond reason!
LunarOne said:
My project manager messages me daily on Slack:
"Hi Alex."
"Hello Mike"
"Hi. Have you sent that specification to customer X yet? Don't send it yet. I want to make some changes. And how's the upgrade going with customer Y?
This isn't even beyond reason, it is "things that annoy you so much you want to go on a violent rage in their direction". It is pure moronic, time wasting, stupid behaviour. "Hi Alex."
"Hello Mike"
"Hi. Have you sent that specification to customer X yet? Don't send it yet. I want to make some changes. And how's the upgrade going with customer Y?
Why does anyone think that by saying "hello" and nothing more until the other person replies is a good idea?
I saw someone on LinkedIn argue in favour of this approach. His (stupid) rationale was he wanted to wait until the other person replied so he could ensure they weren't busy and were free.
In that case, just say "hi Dave, nothing urgent but if you get a chance today could you ..................."
I do what you do OP and just ignore these now. They're worse when they're from a work random person I don't know.
Tankrizzo said:
Rusty Old-Banger said:
"I went Tesco", instead of "I went TO Tesco", "D'ya wanna go swings" instead of "Do you want to go to the swings?".
f
king lazy language, makes you sound like an exceptionally thick . Only thick s CAN use words of two letters. fking morons. There aren't enough bricks in the world to satisfy my desire of throwing them at these imbeciles.
Also heard from mouthbreathers: "Let's go Spoons"f
king lazy language, makes you sound like an exceptionally thick . Only thick s CAN use words of two letters. fking morons. There aren't enough bricks in the world to satisfy my desire of throwing them at these imbeciles. "I'm going pub" makes me want to punch them directly in the nose.
Sigmamark7 said:
redrabbit29 said:
I came here to post this too. I've noticed it's a growing trend and incredibly annoying, especially when it's from fairly "normal" looking adults.
"I'm going pub" makes me want to punch them directly in the nose.
Surely you mean it makes you want punch them!! "I'm going pub" makes me want to punch them directly in the nose.
. I get the "Hello" nonsense on Teams at work as well.
I sit there waiting for their next sentence to appear. But often it never does. They clearly want something but don't seem capable of saying what.
So unless they type what they want, I'm not about to ask them what is it they want, so I never reply.
I sit there waiting for their next sentence to appear. But often it never does. They clearly want something but don't seem capable of saying what.
So unless they type what they want, I'm not about to ask them what is it they want, so I never reply.
snuffy said:
I get the "Hello" nonsense on Teams at work as well.
I sit there waiting for their next sentence to appear. But often it never does. They clearly want something but don't seem capable of saying what.
So unless they type what they want, I'm not about to ask them what is it they want, so I never reply.
The "Hello" crowd get zero response from me. If they can't be arsed at least saying what they want it's not worth my time worrying about. I'll just carry on with my work. I sit there waiting for their next sentence to appear. But often it never does. They clearly want something but don't seem capable of saying what.
So unless they type what they want, I'm not about to ask them what is it they want, so I never reply.
hidetheelephants said:
I've never used it; does Slack have an indicator showing that you're online like Teams etc? If it does why are they fannying about with hello? Got something to say? Say it.
I'm pretty sure Slack has more options in that regard.For my profession the "Hello..." crowd are just trying to draw you into helping them with something they should know how to do themselves (and is none of your responsibility).
They usually "hello" the entire team and grab the first person daft enough to respond. Once they have you it's too late to pretend you didn't see the message and ignore them.
LunarOne said:
My project manager messages me daily on Slack:
"Hi Alex."
I wait to see what he wants. Nothing happens. After a while, nothing continues to happen. Eventually curiosity and not wanting to appear like I'm away from my desk all day compels me to find out what he wanted. So I reply:
"Hello Mike"
And I wait. Still nothing so I leave my desk and wander downstairs to see what's in the fridge for lunch. I find something and start preparing. Then I go into the garden to potter about for a bit. At the end of my lunch break I return to my desk to see:
"Hi. Have you sent that specification to customer X yet? Don't send it yet. I want to make some changes. And how's the upgrade going with customer Y?
Hello?
Alex?"
I don't know why he has to say hello. This sort of thing happens every single day. He doesn't need to say hello. Just tell me what you need and I can respond immediately!
I know there's the "No Hello" website, but if I were to send him the link I think he'd be quite offended. And considering that I work from home and he's basically my entire company contact point with the exception of my manager, who I talk to 4 times per year. Everything I do is organised by him.
Maybe not beyond reason!
A link to nohello.net is my permanent auto-message on Teams, people see it before they message me. Actually cuts down a lot of guff like this. That and I flat out don't answer anyone who just drops a "hi" into my messages."Hi Alex."
I wait to see what he wants. Nothing happens. After a while, nothing continues to happen. Eventually curiosity and not wanting to appear like I'm away from my desk all day compels me to find out what he wanted. So I reply:
"Hello Mike"
And I wait. Still nothing so I leave my desk and wander downstairs to see what's in the fridge for lunch. I find something and start preparing. Then I go into the garden to potter about for a bit. At the end of my lunch break I return to my desk to see:
"Hi. Have you sent that specification to customer X yet? Don't send it yet. I want to make some changes. And how's the upgrade going with customer Y?
Hello?
Alex?"
I don't know why he has to say hello. This sort of thing happens every single day. He doesn't need to say hello. Just tell me what you need and I can respond immediately!
I know there's the "No Hello" website, but if I were to send him the link I think he'd be quite offended. And considering that I work from home and he's basically my entire company contact point with the exception of my manager, who I talk to 4 times per year. Everything I do is organised by him.
Maybe not beyond reason!
paulguitar said:
I haven't had a 'real' job since about 1990, but wouldn't it be easier to respond with something like:
'Hello, what can I help you with?', rather than making this into any kind of issue?
Would you send someone an SMS text message that was just "Hello" and then wait for them to say "Hello - what do you want?" before sending them another text message?'Hello, what can I help you with?', rather than making this into any kind of issue?
No, you would never do that.
paulguitar said:
I haven't had a 'real' job since about 1990, but wouldn't it be easier to respond with something like:
'Hello, what can I help you with?', rather than making this into any kind of issue?
Because it's usually someone trying to rope you into something that isn't your problem or doing it on the sly. 'Hello, what can I help you with?', rather than making this into any kind of issue?
If you need something done by my team you put it in a ticket and send it to the team. If it's urgent you can contact the manager on escalations.
Usually a "hello" with no context is trying to bypass that. In my industry it usually means they've hello'd the whole team waiting for a response and are trying to keep it out of official channels ( so their boss doesn't see how they need someone else to do their job for them).
It's impolite and queue jumping.
The polite thing to do is tell someone why you're contacting them I.E:
" Hi Paul,
Can you send me the latest TPS reports, no rush I just need them today".
Kids today eh!
I’m in the checkout queue at a small supermarket.
Two young teenagers are in front of me. They have two drink bottles and two packets of sweets to pay for.
The cashier rings up £2.88.
They hand over all their cash. £1.30.
Blank looks.
Cash is returned.
Ok, take a bottle off says one of them.
New total £1.89.
Blank looks.
After some deliberation, the second bottle is removed.
New total 90p.
Again they hand over all their coins. No attempt to count it out.
A second cashier is required to process the correction.
I was reasonably certain that they couldn’t recognise the coins despite both being British.
It’s fine using a phone as a calculator but some basic mental arithmetic is an essential life skill.
I’m in the checkout queue at a small supermarket.
Two young teenagers are in front of me. They have two drink bottles and two packets of sweets to pay for.
The cashier rings up £2.88.
They hand over all their cash. £1.30.
Blank looks.
Cash is returned.
Ok, take a bottle off says one of them.
New total £1.89.
Blank looks.
After some deliberation, the second bottle is removed.
New total 90p.
Again they hand over all their coins. No attempt to count it out.
A second cashier is required to process the correction.
I was reasonably certain that they couldn’t recognise the coins despite both being British.
It’s fine using a phone as a calculator but some basic mental arithmetic is an essential life skill.
NailedOn said:
Kids today eh!
New total 90p.
Again they hand over all their coins. No attempt to count it out.
A second cashier is required to process the correction.
I was reasonably certain that they couldn’t recognise the coins despite both being British.
I would offer an alternative; they did not count it , because they don't see why they should.New total 90p.
Again they hand over all their coins. No attempt to count it out.
A second cashier is required to process the correction.
I was reasonably certain that they couldn’t recognise the coins despite both being British.
generationx said:
spitfire-ian said:
Something that annoys me pretty much on a daily basis is
That my boss and a fellow colleague don't realise, no matter
How much I tell them, that when typing an email they don't
Need to add line breaks when typing as Outlook will automatically
Wrap the text depending on the window size.
Add to that the auto-capitalisation that Outlook adds after a return
Any emails received from them tend to look like this!!
Nethybridge is that you?That my boss and a fellow colleague don't realise, no matter
How much I tell them, that when typing an email they don't
Need to add line breaks when typing as Outlook will automatically
Wrap the text depending on the window size.
Add to that the auto-capitalisation that Outlook adds after a return
Any emails received from them tend to look like this!!
snuffy said:
NailedOn said:
Kids today eh!
New total 90p.
Again they hand over all their coins. No attempt to count it out.
A second cashier is required to process the correction.
I was reasonably certain that they couldn’t recognise the coins despite both being British.
I would offer an alternative; they did not count it , because they don't see why they should.New total 90p.
Again they hand over all their coins. No attempt to count it out.
A second cashier is required to process the correction.
I was reasonably certain that they couldn’t recognise the coins despite both being British.
Edited by hidetheelephants on Tuesday 14th May 17:07
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