What’s pissing ME off are the folks that I have to deal with on a daily basis.
On the subject of phone calls:
“Didja get my message?”
Nope. I was dialing numbers at random, and believe it or not, yours finally came up.
“Hi, this is so-and-so. My bullgear jumped the heifer shaft, and everything’s wonky. I’d appreciate a call back at your earliest convienence.”
(end user hangs up without bothering to leave phone number)
“I wired it exactly like the diagram siad, but it still doesn’t work.”
Bullshit. If you’ve wired it exactly like the diagram, it WORKS! But don’t feel bad; I’ve heard this from just about every walk of life; from Techs with over 30 years experience to electrical engineers. I decided to exercise some personal initiative, and had the above quote stenciled on the back of a company T-shirt.
My Roomates: I know we’ve been close friends for the last 12 years but, that doesn’t make it ok for you to take advatage. I let you move in because you, your boyfriend, and your TWO kids needed time to get on your feet. It’s been 8 months! I’m now almost consistantly covering your half of the rent. You don’t help with any other bills. Your Man (:rolleyes: yeah) needs to grow the fuck up and get a job. You know I’m too nice to kick you guys out on your asses. But that’s not gonna stop me from taking my name off the lease and leaving you to deal with real life.
No, I don’t want you to get evicted, I want you to PAY YOUR FUCKING RENT!
Ok, I could turn that into it’s own Pit thread. Oh, well.
From Job #1:
“The users encountered an error page. Can you check it out?” is really very useless.
From Job #2:
Water refills. [list=a]
[li]If your water glass is 3/4 full, don’t worry–I’ll come back later, when it is not so full, to refill it. Flagging me down for an extra half-ounce of water is strange.[/li][li]When I go to refill your water glass, it is not the time to swipe up said glass and start drinking from it. It’s strange and rude to make me wait when a dozen other people need refills. If you do that, I will leave you and your now-empty water glass until the next round of refills.[/li][/list]
Bringing items to the table.[list=a]
[li]When I bring something to your table and announce the name of the thing with such an intonation that suggests “and who is this for?”, please, don’t look at me wide-eyed and bewildered. I didn’t take the order, so I have no idea who gets what. A simple “here!” or some sort of gesture would work and does me a tremendous favor.[/li][li]Please make space for your food. If you do not, that’s fine, but you then leave the job of rearranging your stuff to my clumsy hands.[/li][/list]
Don’t make asshole comments when I make a mistake. Dropping a menu does not warrant a “Well, there goes your tip!” even if it’s an innocent joke. Because usually it’s dead serious.
“Keep the change ;)” can be a nice slick way of tipping the waitstaff. But, when the change amounts to 5%, you just look like a huge asshole. Especially after it took you 10 minutes to make an extensive custom order. That’s why we didn’t let you in the next day, even when we were technically open for another five minutes.
If the “open” sign is off, the door is closed and locked, the place is vacant of customers, and the lights are dimmed, we aren’t open. Even for take-out.
Today, I used the restroom at work and when I came back to my desk, I had a voicemail. It was some lady freaking out about something or other. I checked into it immediately and before I could even get more than one minute into my search, she calls again. I answer and she says “Oh, great, I was just emailing you!” Now that’s THREE times in less than five minutes that she was trying to contact me. I mean, Christ, come on, lady.
Good idea: Broadcast all the preseason games. That way, even though I no longer live in my team’s broadcast area, I can still watch the game (albeit day later).
Bad idea: Running the ticker at the bottom of the screen with final score of all the games, including the game you’re currently broadcasting!
The latest flagrant misuse of logic to grace the pages of an otherwise credible academic volume:
No, that’s not logical, and it’s even a stretch to call “good parenting implies ample income” the contrapositive of the original assertion, on account of the pesky modal verb that reminds the reader how restricted are the conclusions we may draw from social science data.
An introduction course to “Magical Realism” got flooded and have 250 students.
I’m pissed because the class size was supposed to be small; I was hoping to engage in some lively discussions on the subject, perhaps make some friend and etc. However, thanks to the universitiy’s idiotic politics, many people who aren’t really interested in the course joined just for the academic units.
Worse, you can hear them lamenting about this during the break. “This is so boring,” someone behind me said.