Easiest way to lose my vote is to run a negative campaign. If, rather than trying to sell me on what a good job you will do, you think you can only win by telling me how horrible the other person is…then I don’t want you in ANY public office.
Yeah, good luck finding anyone to vote for with that attitude. 
Oh how I hate those “we appreciate you!” meals. My employer has the food brought in. It’s one of those times being a nasty, dirty smoker is beneficial.
What, pictures? No, sorry, this counts as out lunchtime regardless, so I’m outside smoking, so I can’t be in them. No, really, I don’t mind.
Yeah, I hear you - recently we had an “appreciation” event for working hard on a big changeover that ran into non-work hours. I hate those, except a very small proportion of our staff (including me) wasn’t invited because we weren’t considered to have participated in the big effort in question. Except, well, I did somewhat, and my also-excluded coworker really saved their bacon at one point, but all of those excluded - barring the person who organized it and was allowed to go - have their offices in a different area and aren’t in the thick of that type of work.
This has happened before on occasion, and typically the problem seems to be ‘half the staff hates each other because things suck right now; let’s do something “nice” to try to get them to behave’ so in that case no, the excluded really weren’t part of it. They are, however, a mix of pissed off down to really amused, but none of the attitudes help with these employees’ morale.
While I’m thinking of it, I have another election rant. There’s someone running for something that uses the Smilin’ Bob Enzyte music in his campaign ad. Really? That’s the impression you want voters to have of you? Really?
What really grinds my gears the most about this is that I hear that music and I think, “Oh goody! A commercial’s just come on that’s not a campaign ad!” And then I’m disappointed. Yes, I am that sick of campaign ads that I would welcome seeing a Smilin’ Bob Enzyte commercial.
There is exactly one situation when a destination wedding is appropriate: when you know that *everyone *who you will be inviting can afford to attend. And I know for a fact that a lot of our family won’t be able to go to Costa Rica on a few months’ notice. (Or, for some of them, like our grandparents who can’t really travel far anymore, “any notice at all.”)
Morella’s allegedly a she and definitely a troll (or retarded enough as to make zero difference).
Somebody already pointed out the block option, but you can also just let the invite sit there and not do anything with it. They won’t be able to send another until you either accept or ignore the first one.
One of my nails-on-a-chalkboard peeves is people pestering me for information they already have, or should easily be able to figure out. At this point I’m still able to not snap at people when they do this (and I’m talking REALLY easily able to figure out, like when the next meeting is when we have them regularly, every two weeks, same day, same time, same place), but as I get older and crankier, I can anticipate my patience running out for this. I’ve noticed there is a certain personality type, though, whose first instinct is always to ask someone else, rather than boot up their brain. I don’t get along well with that type.
Or do like I did - delete your Facebook account and salt the earth that it stood on.
Nah, not an option for everyone. Personally, I use it as an address book, and several friends’ bands use it to inform people about their shows.
Bollocks. If I ever do it again, I could see myself doing a destination wedding. I’d invite people whether or not they could afford to attend. I wouldn’t expect them to come, just like I didn’t expect various of my friends and family to come to my first wedding because it was held on a different continent. (I don’t think New Jersey counts as a destination wedding, though)
YES. Holy god yes. I share this pet peeve with you. It’s one of the few things that really gets my bitchy going. There is, in fact, such a thing as a stupid question.
1.) A first marriage is generally a larger celebration. 2nd, 3rd, whatever marriages are generally smaller and can contain a more restricted guest list.
2.) Prioritizing the location of your wedding* above the ability of your guests to attend, but inviting them anyway, sends exactly two messages: (a) I care more about getting married in Place X than I do about you being there to share the occasion with me, and (b) I know you can’t attend if I host it here, but I’m fishing for more gifts.
*And note, I’m talking about a destination wedding here, where *everyone *would be traveling, rather than hosting the wedding in a place where, say, one of the people getting married actually lives, which just happens to be inconvenient for some of the friends and/or family.
I’ve also accepted if I do get married again, and my bride has not been married, the decisions on the wedding are completely hers (within reason - some of the US bullshit I didn’t put up with first time round, and I sure as hell won’t second time round.
My plan would be a resort somewhere, with very limited guests, and a big ass party at home. I’m also too old to be asking friends and relatives for wedding gifts, unless their gift is spending a couple of hours in my house helping me clean out the too much shit I have already accumulated.
If you’re holding the “main event,” so to speak, back home, that’s not really the same thing. This is a destination wedding I’m complaining about–*everything’s *going to happen in fucking Costa Rica.
Nobody should be asking for wedding gifts. Or gifts of any kind. That’s kind of the point of gifts.
People could give me the gift of helping me clean my house every year for my birthday and Christmas and I’d be one happy camper.
It’s started to become a tradition amongst a group of us for wedding gifts - we give a year’s maid service (split between as many people as needed to drop it down to a reasonable price per person).
This is one of the things I ask for every year for my birthday. My standard birthday request when asked about a gift is a clean house and dinner on the table that I didn’t have to think about (including buy for, decide when and where to eat it or what we were eating). I don’t care if it’s a peanut butter & jelly sandwich - I just want not to have to think about it.
Sadly, my husband can’t fathom me not wanting another thing for my birthday. He thinks I’m asking for something simple to make it easier on him. I still haven’t managed to beat into his head that, no, that’s really all I want. Instead, I usually get a gift certificate. So I can buy more stuff. Oh, well - it’s the thought that counts.
Fuck this wind.
Oh man, fuck my job, fuck stupid customers.
I dread going in tomorrow. I have a scheduled callback at 8am sharp with someone who refuses to lift a finger to troubleshoot a VERY unique problem that he ALONE is experiencing. Frankly, I think it is user error, because we have a large installed base of this particular piece of equipment, NO ONE else has reported this issue, yet we have replaced the hardware several times and he keeps insisting that it is a recurring issue. When I gave him the troubleshooting steps that we wanted him to perform, he stated this was “crazy” because there’s no way that he should have to do anything to resolve this problem. It’s our hardware and our responsibility to figure out what is wrong with it. He demanded that I consult with our Engineering department first and see if this was a valid step, to which my response was “No, I won’t, because their response will be to ask why this wasn’t done BEFORE we replaced the hardware the first time.” I reviewed the notes, and not one time has he done this step. He refuses to do it. I expect when I speak to him tomorrow, he will not have done it and will be refusing to do it. Then he’ll threaten to sue us, because we won’t replace his hardware for the umpteenth time and we won’t resolve this without involving him.
:rolleyes:
On the slightly brighter side, and I think this is the path this man will be walking down;
Several weeks ago a woman started yelling at me over the phone claiming that we had promised her an upgraded piece of equipment. I had reviewed all the notes and seen very clearly that she had been told TWICE that we had made no such promise and would NOT be giving her free stuff just because she was demanding it. When she started screaming at me, she also started swearing at me and claiming that I was raising my voice. I hit the mute button and asked the person next to me if I had been raising my voice - she looked puzzled and said “no”. So when the woman continued to be abusive, I hung up on her.
Well, she called back later and got someone else in the non-tech customer area. That person offered to report me for hanging up on the customer - and then the customer immediately launched into the same bullshit with her. The notes are hilarious, you can almost read the panic in them. The customer was told NO, and she hung up. About a week later, the customer called back and the buck was passed to a higher customer management area that frankly, almost never speaks to customers except when things are really going pear shaped. The notes from that call are rather lengthy, and it is clear that the customer was trying to throw her weight around and demand all sorts of compensation from us for all the uncooperative and rude behavior in denying her claims to free stuff, and straight out demanding deferential treatment and subservient behavior by our people. She didn’t get what she asked for - she was told quite plainly and it was well documented that NO, NO ONE HERE EVER PROMISED YOU WHAT YOU CLAIM AND WE WILL NOT GIVE IT TO YOU. The customer hung up stating that she would simply hang up, call back and speak to someone else.
You know what, bitch? Once you’ve spoken to someone in that particular department and they’ve told you no… NO ONE ELSE IS GOING TO TOUCH IT. You’re fucked. The very next step in your lifecycle as our customer is to have your account flagged for special handling, where people like me are only allowed to tell you to call your ‘special handler’.
Technically he’s right. “Problem exists between keyboard and chair” is recurring when the same problem is existing in that particular space.