Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 5)
Discussion
RizzoTheRat said:
Not sure if I'm annoyed beyond reason or amused beyond reason with this one.
Muppets and global e-mails!
Yesterday HR sent out an e-mail to the whole organisation about a tax advisor visiting and people can contact HR to make an appointment with him.
So far we've had
There is a guy in our company that as soon as we get a 'to all' email that requires a response we know he will reply to all, we get to know his Christmas Dinner choices, whether he wants to opt out of pensions, whether he wants a Costco card.Muppets and global e-mails!
Yesterday HR sent out an e-mail to the whole organisation about a tax advisor visiting and people can contact HR to make an appointment with him.
So far we've had
- One guy replied to all asking for an appointment for his wife
- Someone else then replied to all to tell him not to reply to all and that he shouldn't include his wifes tax reference number on a public e-mail. He then recalled the e-mail a few minutes later but Outlook doesn't always do recalls properly.
- First guy replied to all to apologise for replying to all
- Received a global "Meeting Cancelled" e-mail, looks like someone had managed to put the whole day in their calendar with everyone invited, but not contacted, but then he deleted it and everyone got a notification
- Someone replied to all on the Meeting Cancelled e-mail to ask if there was a way to stop people spamming the whole organisation
He is a great guy and has encyclopedic knowledge of trains and buses etc but is always tripping over his shoelaces, missing his chair when he sits down and walking into closed doors etc!
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Colleagues who walk round with mountains of loose change in their pockets, usually shaking it continually whenever they walk around.
It's always the same few people, and they ALWAYS have change in their pockets, no matter what time of day, brand new trousers etc, I don't get it, they must be just about to leave the house and think 's
t! I need to fill my pockets full of shrapnel or I'll float off into orbit'
It's always the same few people, and they ALWAYS have change in their pockets, no matter what time of day, brand new trousers etc, I don't get it, they must be just about to leave the house and think 's
t! I need to fill my pockets full of shrapnel or I'll float off into orbit'Gary29 said:
Colleagues who walk round with mountains of loose change in their pockets, usually shaking it continually whenever they walk around.
It's always the same few people, and they ALWAYS have change in their pockets, no matter what time of day, brand new trousers etc, I don't get it, they must be just about to leave the house and think 'st! I need to fill my pockets full of shrapnel or I'll float off into orbit'
I keep a couple of pounds of change for the vending machines at work, but nothing smaller than a 20p and certainly not enough to sound like a tambourine. Anything smaller than 20p is removed and stored in a giant bottle to be emptied once every 3 years or so (it's a 4 or 4.5 litre whisky jar).It's always the same few people, and they ALWAYS have change in their pockets, no matter what time of day, brand new trousers etc, I don't get it, they must be just about to leave the house and think 's
t! I need to fill my pockets full of shrapnel or I'll float off into orbit'People at work seem to think i am the office calendar now. Yesterday someone phones up to say he is going to be late and asks me who is going to be in the office today. I said i don't know (i do, but fed up of people asking) and he says, "oh, i think everyone is going to be in today", well why bloody ask then if you know the answer.
Different guy comes in this morning, about 9:15 "Is Abbie in the office today", she starts at 9:45 so her desk would be empty at 9:15 either way. i say i don't know and he says he will check if she is not in by 10?
Everyone has access to everyone elses calendar so they can check, i assume they are just too f'ing lazy
Different guy comes in this morning, about 9:15 "Is Abbie in the office today", she starts at 9:45 so her desk would be empty at 9:15 either way. i say i don't know and he says he will check if she is not in by 10?
Everyone has access to everyone elses calendar so they can check, i assume they are just too f'ing lazy
Water bottle/hydration culture.
It's almost as if the nation has switched off all public water supply pipes and blocked up every tap, such that people are compelled, compelled I tell you, to carry around their own home-poured supplies in increasingly expensive and glamorous vessels of various materials - stainless steel, plastic, squashy collapsible stuff, all sorts. One of my children is obsessed with the bloody things, and of course having the right style that all the other girls have. Has to be taken to school, school insists. What the hell? There are taps and drinking fountains all over the bloody place! And yet the correct water bottle must be filled at home in the morning lest we accidently cross the Gobi Desert on the way to school and die of thirst. And of course the constant morning cries of "where is my water bottle, I can't leave without it???!!!"
Adults, filling the things in offices to have then displayed on their desks all day, constantly swigging and slurping, taking 2.3 hours at the water cooler to fill their 5 litre, life saving containers. Riding bikes, constantly swigging from some contraption or other like they've just escaped a Prisoner of War camp. fking hell, how long is your bike ride to work that you didn't have a nice drink before you left and are nearing death from dehydration half way across Reading on a wet day in February?
Have a drink when you're a bit thirsty, and there's usually a tap/watercooler/fountain/shop/cafe in the vicinity wherever you are in 21st Century urban Britain, you're not going to die and if you do start demonstrating symptoms of de-hydration, then you're an absolute idiot and deserve to die in the street.
There is enough water in our daily diets, including food, to keep us adequately hydrated. You. Do. Not. Need. To. Drink. Five. Litres. of. The. fking. Stuff. Every. Day.
It's almost as if the nation has switched off all public water supply pipes and blocked up every tap, such that people are compelled, compelled I tell you, to carry around their own home-poured supplies in increasingly expensive and glamorous vessels of various materials - stainless steel, plastic, squashy collapsible stuff, all sorts. One of my children is obsessed with the bloody things, and of course having the right style that all the other girls have. Has to be taken to school, school insists. What the hell? There are taps and drinking fountains all over the bloody place! And yet the correct water bottle must be filled at home in the morning lest we accidently cross the Gobi Desert on the way to school and die of thirst. And of course the constant morning cries of "where is my water bottle, I can't leave without it???!!!"
Adults, filling the things in offices to have then displayed on their desks all day, constantly swigging and slurping, taking 2.3 hours at the water cooler to fill their 5 litre, life saving containers. Riding bikes, constantly swigging from some contraption or other like they've just escaped a Prisoner of War camp. f
king hell, how long is your bike ride to work that you didn't have a nice drink before you left and are nearing death from dehydration half way across Reading on a wet day in February?Have a drink when you're a bit thirsty, and there's usually a tap/watercooler/fountain/shop/cafe in the vicinity wherever you are in 21st Century urban Britain, you're not going to die and if you do start demonstrating symptoms of de-hydration, then you're an absolute idiot and deserve to die in the street.
There is enough water in our daily diets, including food, to keep us adequately hydrated. You. Do. Not. Need. To. Drink. Five. Litres. of. The. f
king. Stuff. Every. Day.Edited by ElectricSoup on Thursday 28th February 10:49
ElectricSoup said:
Water bottle/hydration culture.
It's almost as if the nation has switched off all public water supply pipes and blocked up every tap, such that people are compelled, compelled I tell you, to carry around their own home-poured supplies in increasingly expensive and glamorous vessels of various materials - stainless steel, plastic, squashy collapsible stuff, all sorts. One of my children is obsessed with the bloody things, and of course having the right style that all the other girls have. Has to be taken to school, school insists. What the hell? There are taps and drinking fountains all over the bloody place! And yet the correct water bottle must be filled at home in the morning lest we accidently cross the Gobi Desert on the way to school and die of thirst. And of course the constant morning cries of "where is my water bottle, I can't leave without it???!!!"
Adults, filling the things in offices to have then displayed on their desks all day, constantly swigging and slurping, taking 2.3 hours at the water cooler to fill their 5 litre, life saving containers. Riding bikes, constantly swigging from some contraption or other like they've just escaped a Prisoner of War camp. fking hell, how long is your bike ride to work that you didn't have a nice drink before you left and are nearing death form dehydration half way across Reading on a wet day in February?
Have a drink when you're a bit thirsty, and there's usually a tap/watercooler/fountain/shop/cafe in the vicinity wherever you are in 21st Century urban Britain, you're not going to die and if you do start demonstrating symptoms of de-hydration, then you're an absolute idiot and deserve to die in the street.
There is enough water in our daily diets, including food, to keep us adequately hydrated. You. Do. Not. Need. To. Drink. Five. Litres. of. The. fking. Stuff. Every. Day.
It's almost as if the nation has switched off all public water supply pipes and blocked up every tap, such that people are compelled, compelled I tell you, to carry around their own home-poured supplies in increasingly expensive and glamorous vessels of various materials - stainless steel, plastic, squashy collapsible stuff, all sorts. One of my children is obsessed with the bloody things, and of course having the right style that all the other girls have. Has to be taken to school, school insists. What the hell? There are taps and drinking fountains all over the bloody place! And yet the correct water bottle must be filled at home in the morning lest we accidently cross the Gobi Desert on the way to school and die of thirst. And of course the constant morning cries of "where is my water bottle, I can't leave without it???!!!"
Adults, filling the things in offices to have then displayed on their desks all day, constantly swigging and slurping, taking 2.3 hours at the water cooler to fill their 5 litre, life saving containers. Riding bikes, constantly swigging from some contraption or other like they've just escaped a Prisoner of War camp. f
king hell, how long is your bike ride to work that you didn't have a nice drink before you left and are nearing death form dehydration half way across Reading on a wet day in February?Have a drink when you're a bit thirsty, and there's usually a tap/watercooler/fountain/shop/cafe in the vicinity wherever you are in 21st Century urban Britain, you're not going to die and if you do start demonstrating symptoms of de-hydration, then you're an absolute idiot and deserve to die in the street.
There is enough water in our daily diets, including food, to keep us adequately hydrated. You. Do. Not. Need. To. Drink. Five. Litres. of. The. f
king. Stuff. Every. Day.
So true!
ElectricSoup said:
Water bottle/hydration culture.
Adults, filling the things in offices to have then displayed on their desks all day, constantly swigging and slurping, taking 2.3 hours at the water cooler to fill their 5 litre, life saving containers.
That does get on my tits, ok have a drink on your desk but they don’t need a litre of it, they can go back and get more it doesn’t get switched off. We have a tap that dispenses boiling water for tea & coffee and cold filtered still and sparkling water. But its soooooo sloooooowwww so every morning there is a queue of people waiting to fill their oversized bottles Adults, filling the things in offices to have then displayed on their desks all day, constantly swigging and slurping, taking 2.3 hours at the water cooler to fill their 5 litre, life saving containers.
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