There really should be some things that you shouldn’t have to tell the people you share a society with. It seems like a lot of those things involve biological functions.
I should not be able to walk into the restroom here at work (a state agency) and be confronted by a toilet bowl full of digestive endproduct. And upon confronting that sight, I should not be able to try, with a silent prayer to a god I don’t believe exists, to flush it and succeed with no apparent trouble.
Seriously? SERIOUSLY?! A presumed adult, with education and intelligence enough to pass a civil service test, just LEFT a bowl full of crap and bathroom tissue without even TRYING to flush it down? No adult in the United States (at a minimum) should have to be told to flush after you defecate, dammit! That was just nasty.
I could see if the person HAD tried and things had gotten stuck on the way, but there was no hesitation, no minor length of hangtime, nothing.
I don’t know if this is sufficiently “hot” enough for the Pit, since I no longer have any idea what the differences are between the Pit and MPSIMS. I’m just shooting for a 50/50 chance putting it here.
I would like to add to this. If you are using speakerphone in your office, shut the damn door. If you don’t have a door, maybe you shouldn’t be using speakerphone! This applies too if you are having a meeting with outside vendors.
Some of us corporate drones that work in cubicles would prefer not to add your bedlam to the white noise of their work day, please and thank you.
When you work in an office of 40 people or so, and there’s a single company provided microwave, don’t wander off while you’re nuking your lunch. And when you do return a full 5 minutes after your meal finished, don’t bitch that someone dared to take it out of the oven so they could heat their own lunch.
Just because you’re talking to somebody on a cellphone you’re not automatically enveloped in a cone of silence. Everyone standing around you can hear your end of the conversation.
If you’re not driving or don’t have your hands full, take the Blue Tooth earpiece off yer head. If the hospital calls about the organ you’re waiting for, I’m sure the extra second it’s going to take to answer your phone isn’t going to make a difference.
Or, for that matter, having a long and pointless conversation in the bathroom AT ALL! That is not what the bathroom is for. The bathroom is for dropping your digestive endproducts of whatever form and then going back to work. I much prefer to do that particular activity ALONE, with nobody around to hear the various embarrassing body noises that ensue. The entire time you’re telling your buddy about your damn fishing trip for 10 minutes I’m sitting here courting a date with a bottle of Senokot waiting for you to go back to work. Especially when I feel guilty for every minute I spend in here doing necessary things while I’m getting paid to do other necessary things. Take your conversation into the freaking corridor!
One of the things I feel I shouldn’t have to tell people is to not stand and block aisles while shopping in stores that are always, ALWAYS busy. There will ALWAYS be someone wanting to get past you - is it that far outside your mental capacities to anticipate that this time, just like every single time in the past, someone will ask you to move when you block the whole aisle?
ETA: Forgot to add people who stand right in front of doors and stand there, staring at you as you walk up to them, and don’t move aside until you ask them to. My God, people, what kind of arthritic hamsters do you have running your little wheel upstairs?
(Post 23,000 - WHEEE! I really need to get back to work. )
Look where you are going! People are things are not obliged to move out of your way when you are looking at the shinny object off to your left.
Unless there is someone (like a waiter or busser) hovering nearby to pick up your dirty dishes, Do Not Leave your dirty dishes anywhere! (Ok, in the privacy of your own home, you may leave your dishes in the sink, or in the dishwasher, but that’s it! Do not leave dirty dishes in your cubicle or office!)
That second you spend fumbling around for your phone is precisely the reason for hands-free laws. And why the heck does seeing something on someone’s ear bug you so much?
Now, if you’re talking about never getting off the phone, I can get behind that.
ETA: My contribution: that being rude to someone often means they’re going to be rude back. Don’t dish out what you can’t take.
Years ago some guy got into my apartment building, probably by walking in behind someone that lived there. The person he was there to see was not home yet, so he waited. While waiting, he had a long and loud conversation on his cell while pacing back and forth in front of my door.
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