Instead of asking what the client wants, people at my work say, “What’s the ask?” That makes me cringe. It sounds so flipping douchey and corporate in an already douchey and corporate company.
It drives me crazy that people schedule over meetings already on my calendar then complain when I don’t drop whatever I’m doing at that time and join when they IM me.
People who expect children to clean their plates or have a set idea of how much they should eat before allowing them to leave the table or call “done.” Don’t force someone who isn’t hungry to eat, for god’s sake.
Also, parents who have young kids take care of other even younger kids. I mean, yes at some point you have to let them entertain each other. But they’re not cats. You don’t just leave them alone to their own devices for hours on end. Especially when an 8 year old is taking care of an 18-month old (like our neighbors’ kids and a few other families’ kids) and said baby is occasionally running into the street. Yeah, kids need to have responsibility, but for pete’s sake, they’re not even allowed to be left in a car alone at that age in some states let alone with a baby by themselves! That’s way too much responsibility for a kid that age.
I hate the term “smashed potatoes.” And I really hate seeing it on restaurant menus. It’s baby talk. Is this kindergarten? Do you also serve pureed peas and carrots and zwieback?
Never knew there’s a name for this but I am so with you and others on the murderous rage from having to hear crunching sounds! Please may I also add eating sounds in general, and DRINKING sounds, slurp slurp slurp.
I also hate the sound of animals, especially dogs, slurping up water or slobbering food. I don’t hate dogs, I like dogs, but I hate that sound! There’s a Geico commercial right now that has a scene with a family eating dinner and at the end the dog comes in and starts eating off one of their plates and it’s the most slobbery, smacky sound ever. I mute it for fear I will go crazy, run into the kitchen for a knife and start going after anything in my path!
Agreed, along with their evil counterparts, the cards that are loose so that they just randomly fall out when you pick up the magazine.
Along similar lines, it peeves me so much that some magazines glue the name/address sticker on the FRONT of the magazine, especially with magazines where this means it is literally covering part of the text. Or obscuring part of a cover I may have wanted to keep or even frame (obviously not all magazines have cover of this quality, but some do). WHY oh why don’t they just put the address label on the back? This seems like such an obvious thing. I guess it’d involve “loading” the magazines into some machine the reverse way they are now or something like that. It seems like such a stupid thing that would’ve been changed by now or never implemented in the first place. “Let’s slap a sticker across half the text describing this month’s issue. Great idea!”
My peeveometer goes into a high pitched wail when I encounter a repeater.
By this I mean someone from gen Y (usually) who will often require any spoken sentence to be repeated, not because they didn’t hear what was said, but because they enjoy the power this has over the unwitting . This seems to be a bogan habit, part of the street language of this generation.
I refuse to play.
Why do they always ask where I’m staying when I rent a car? What if I don’t know yet? Why do they care? Are they going to call my hotel and ask, “How’s the car?” Ask fewer questions, and make the line go faster. I make shit up, just because the question annoys me.
I did this once to someone (close their door) and they looked at me with so much shock and hurt. Is it really shocking that we don’t all want to hear your conference call and your booming voice throughout the office? But he almost took it personally!
me, nothing else annoys me more than not using turn signals. I just don’t get it and I think people who don’t use them consistently should lose their license. I followed an SUV today through:
merging into my lane from an exit
two lane changes on the highway (left, then back)
taking a right exit
taking another right exit
merging into a lane with a yield sign
taking a left exit
In all of those, he never once used the turn signal but just drifted/veered from lane to lane. You need to not be driving! I cannot read your puny little mind! Aaargh!
Roundabout. There’s a white shiny BMW in its inner lane. The driver sees me and starts flashing her left turn signal, which means “I’m staying in the circle”. So, I drive into the outside lane: as I’m taking the first exit and she’s staying, I won’t cross her path.
Bloody moron had flashed the wrong side. Nobody got hurt, but not using her lights at all would have been better than giving the wrong signal!
This is a southern thing (I live in little “s” south, not the South, which is Georgia, Florida, the Carolinas, Alabama, Mississipi, etc). Calling women Miss Firstname. “Miss Jill, would you hand me that cup of coffee please?”
There’s only one place where that’s acceptable: a preschool where 4 year olds call their teacher Miss Firstname, because it’s easier for a child to say, “Miss Susan,” rather than “Miss Wojohowicz”.
Especially “Life hack.”
Oh! I just thought of another one. I hate all commercials anyway, and mute them, but those where the pitchman is standing there waving his arms and images move around as if he’s manipulating a touch screen. I think Trivago is an example, although there are others. It’s as if smartphones are the answer to everything, since that’s what they’re imitating. And I’ve decided that the shaky cam overused on TV is in imitation of smartphone video. Gads, I can’t wait until that fad is over.
People should NOT be allowed to ask other people questions after 2 or 3 p.m. on a Friday, especially in an industry where 60 hour weeks are common. I’ve been working since 7 a.m. It’s Friday at 4 p.m. and I was this close to actually being able to log off and shut my brain down for 10 minutes. I haven’t had lunch. In fact, I haven’t eaten since yesterday because I’ve been on the phone all day. So no, I do NOT have time to chat. No, I am NOT free. I don’t want to tell you what to do right now, I don’t want to think, I don’t want to do anything but stare at my wall for a while because I. Am. Done.
Yeah, people do that around here, too. It doesn’t bother me. However, it makes my officemate nuts when people call her “Miss DeeDee.”
But the following does bother me: the obligatory scene in TV dramas where we follow the guy into the men’s room and watch him from the back while he’s standing at the urinal. Geez Louise. Sometimes another guy comes in and they stand there together, chatting. My male friends tell me that guys rarely chat when in this situation. Of course, in the shows I’m talking about, Major Plot Business transpires while the pee is flowing. Cheap trick. Enough. Let’s knock it off.
I hate it when people text me super early in the morning. I can’t turn my phone off all the time so when someone has insomnia, they seem to forget people have loud notifications. Just email me or fb me or something. Let me sleep.
And so I’ve had to individually mute a few people’s notifications because they have no common sense. My mother is one. 4am for no good reason after my sister (who was awake and talking to her) told her NOT to do it.
Hope there’s no big emergency because she used up her “well, maybe it was just a one-time mistake” pass.
I turn the sound off when I go to bed, but leave the phone on. If I get up during the night, I glance at the phone to see if there’s anything important. I tell people to call, text, or email me any time they want to, and if I’m not available, I’ll have the notifications off, so they won’t be bothering me.
Apparently that’s illegal, or quasi-illegal in Oregon.
The law as I understand it (California) is that, if the light turns yellow then red while you’re still in the intersection, you are still legal and have right of way until you are through the intersection. Apparently in Oregon (as best I can make out from reading their DMV Driver Handbook), if you get caught still in the intersection when the light turns red, you can get a ticket for that.
No there isn’t - peeve away!