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MercTech -> RE: Biggest pet peeves or "what people do that really piss you off" (5/8/2008 3:25:01 AM)
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Enjoying this thread so time to chime in... peeves, I keep none of them as pets...
Horse Pate.. what you get when you beat a dead horse long enough. Have you ever been around someone that could not let go of an issue even though absolutely nothing could be done about it?
Six Sigma Management. I really squick at pretentious "vision statements"
Those that think company procedures come on stone tablets from burning bushes. (Hey, I want to know which wanker wrote this so I can tell him it doesn't work and full of blither and bullcrap myself)
The "not done here" attitude. Never mind the consultant has had xxxx training (required annually) six times this year, you have to be bored silly for three days before you can go to work because your training was not done here.
Store clerks that can't speak intelligibly. (I can deal with Spanish accents. But in this day and age, mushmourth, ghettospeak, and pidgin gullah, have no place in business.)
Java interfaces with no spellcheck when you are typing at 4am after the neighbors woke you with a roaring row.
Those that think the mores and customs of the tiny tribe they grew up with are some sort of universal moral code. (Yes, America, this means you. At least a significant part of it.)
People who say, "Oh you are from Mississippi. Which of your cousins did you marry". (Yes, Melissa, I remember you.)
People who complain about squirrels in the bird feeder but get angry when I offer recipes for squirrel stew or curried squirrel. (tongue firmly in cheek and donning the flameproof suite here)
Drivers who don't understand the difference in "right of way" and "right of tonnage". (Sorry, but zipping around the 40 ton truck and standing on your brakes to make your turn is a good way to end up roadkill.)
Drivers again.. the ones that fly past you then make you have to go off cruise control as they are going slower than you were.
Store clerks that don't do their job. (I dedicate this peeve to the Wal-Mart clerk in LaPlace, Lousiana that left me half rung up with 20 customers behind me to go hug some fellow from her church and have a drawn out conversation about who was doing what to whom.)
Store clerks that take personal calls while they are supposed to be providing a service to you.
Those that refuse to state an opinion then get pissy when they don't like your choice. (If I ask you "mexican or chinese for dinner" don't wait until we are in the chinese resurant to tell me you hate chinese food. ... it has happened and that was a "one date" relationship. I'll take you at your word if you say "whatever YOU want")
The "buzz" function on Yahoo Messenger
Those that think that just because you are online you are available to listen to every detail of junior (or doggies) latest bowel movement or whatever. (If I say I'm busy, I am)
Straight pipes on street vehicles. (I really think it is a way to scream to the world "I have a great big tonker" when they really don't.)
Misplaced nationalism (Sorry to burst the bubble, but a Honda Goldwing has more Amjerican made parts than a Harley Davidson)
The "I've made up my mind so don't try to confuse me with facts" mentality.
Those that take themselves too seriously. (I'm always sirius if not alpha centauri)
Knee jerk negativity in the workplace. You know what I mean. The ones that say "you can't do that" when they really mean is "I, personally, have never seen it done that way."
Obsessively Obfuscatory Verbiage
Verbal cued phone menus. (Shut the frack up and give me a person!)
Being told "I know what you really mean" or "I know what you are thinking". (I want to see the diploma for your B.S. in Telepathy before you can say that.)
Beautiful women with low self images because someone, somehow, somewhere, convinced them they are "fat".
Ok, the neighbor and his girlfriend have quit yelling and the dog is no longer panic stricken at all the yelling. Time to get some more sleep. Maybe I should add "neighbors that have lound vocal outdoor arguements at 4am"
Stefan
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