Things that annoy you??

NowIamMrsKlein · December 2014

I have a super annoyance right now. I bought my FI a box set of Matt Smiths Seasons of Doctor Who on Bluray for Christmas. Because Matt Smith is his favorite Doctor.

There is a freaking Doctor Who marathon on TV right now leading up to Christmas Day. And FI is off. And watching it. And I can't tell him not to watch it without giving away his present. But now he's going to get the set on christmas day right after having rewatched it all on tv.

SO FREAKING ANNOYED.

cupcait927 · December 2014

plainjane0415 said:

It annoys me when you work in a small office and people leave their office doors open and talk on speaker phone. It's happening at my office right now and I want to scream.
If you're going to have your speaker phone turned all the way up to where you can hear it in the entire office, at least close your office door.

My coworker a few doors down does this all day, every day. It's awful.

My coworker across the hall is currently listening to videos on her iphone with her door open. Talk about obnoxious. I don't care that we're all slacking around here because let's face it, it's two days before Christmas, but if you're going to watch videos, at least shut your door.

plainjane0415 · December 2014

What makes it worse is that the guy that is on his speaker phone is a "favorite" here at my company and can do whatever he wants whenever he wants.. He doesn't actually do any real work, but because he got in good with the bosses it doesn't matter what he does. If I were to be talking to a customer on speaker phone and letting their personal info bellow through the office I would probably get in trouble for it, but him... no....

Sorry to be so crabby, but I'm bitter at how they treat him as opposed to the rest of us.

mikenberger · December 2014

plainjane0415 said:

What makes it worse is that the guy that is on his speaker phone is a "favorite" here at my company and can do whatever he wants whenever he wants.. He doesn't actually do any real work, but because he got in good with the bosses it doesn't matter what he does. If I were to be talking to a customer on speaker phone and letting their personal info bellow through the office I would probably get in trouble for it, but him... no....
Sorry to be so crabby, but I'm bitter at how they treat him as opposed to the rest of us.

OMG. People on their speakerphones make me go all Samuel L Jackson.

"INSIDE VOICE, MOTHERFUCKER. DO YOU SPEAK IT?"

Seriously. I can't do it. Get a fucking headset if you can't be bothered to hold your phone.

ShesSoCold · December 2014

I hate when people pronounce "picture" like "pitcher". GAHHHHHHHHHHHHH THOSE ARE DIFFERENT WORDS.

I mispronounce Mazda on purpose because I find it funny. When my friend got one, we called it "MAAAzda". It stuck.

plainjane0415 · December 2014

ShesSoCold said:

I hate when people pronounce "picture" like "pitcher". GAHHHHHHHHHHHHH THOSE ARE DIFFERENT WORDS.

I mispronounce Mazda on purpose because I find it funny. When my friend got one, we called it "MAAAzda". It stuck.

Even worse when they misspell them too.

mikenberger · December 2014

plainjane0415 said:

ShesSoCold said:

I hate when people pronounce "picture" like "pitcher". GAHHHHHHHHHHHHH THOSE ARE DIFFERENT WORDS.

I mispronounce Mazda on purpose because I find it funny. When my friend got one, we called it "MAAAzda". It stuck.

Even worse when they misspell them too.

"Ax." Ask in... "Can I ax you a question?" No. No you may not. Try again later.

plainjane0415 · December 2014

mikenberger said:

plainjane0415 said:

ShesSoCold said:

I hate when people pronounce "picture" like "pitcher". GAHHHHHHHHHHHHH THOSE ARE DIFFERENT WORDS.

I mispronounce Mazda on purpose because I find it funny. When my friend got one, we called it "MAAAzda". It stuck.

Even worse when they misspell them too.

"Ax." Ask in... "Can I ax you a question?" No. No you may not. Try again later.

cupcait927 · December 2014

Gum popping. I swear to god if I hear one more person pop or snap their gum, I'm going to take it all away. No more gum!

theycallmelinz · December 2014

I'm a grumpy pants this morning because the agency I work for is playing favorites. Supposedly our company is broke so they took away some of our benefits. Actually no, they didn't take them away. They just made them super impossible to achieve which pisses me off more. AND, some of the higherups are making 6-figures a year, but no one else is in this company makes even close to what they're worth/deserve, and they(the important people) just bought my boss an entire set of brand new furniture to put in her new office she's moving to down the hall.

Are you fucking kidding me?

mikenberger · December 2014

Verizon has annoyed me highly today. I've had my phone a year and I'm a huge gadget person. So I need something new. LIKE NOW. YESTERDAY. LAST WEEK.

Checking in with VZW, I have to wait to upgrade until I fully complete my contract IN A YEAR. Or I can upgrade in April with the Edge plan. The edge plan, is basically leasing my phone. Well, I don't want to do that. I want to buy a phone and then sell my old one. I don't want to lease my phone from Verizon and when I pay off 50% of the retail price, I can upgrade to something new. I WANT AN UPGRADE, DAMNIT. I still think they're lying to me. I used to upgrade my phone at 18 months all the time. Didn't get the full discount, but I still did it. And when I worked for Sprint, I would upgrade people still under contract all the time. Wah.

plainjane0415 · December 2014

theycallmelinz said:

I'm a grumpy pants this morning because the agency I work for is playing favorites. Supposedly our company is broke so they took away some of our benefits. Actually no, they didn't take them away. They just made them super impossible to achieve which pisses me off more. AND, some of the higherups are making 6-figures a year, but no one else is in this company makes even close to what they're worth/deserve, and they(the important people) just bought my boss an entire set of brand new furniture to put in her new office she's moving to down the hall.
Are you fucking kidding me?

That makes me so angry. There are so many people at my company who literally get paid to walk around with coffee in their hand all day and make 6 figures. If you actually asked them a complex question about something related to their job, they would have no idea how to answer it because they make their secretaries do all the work. And it disgusts me. Love my job, just not the favoritism shown.

cupcait927 · December 2014

mikenberger said:

Verizon has annoyed me highly today. I've had my phone a year and I'm a huge gadget person. So I need something new. LIKE NOW. YESTERDAY. LAST WEEK.

Checking in with VZW, I have to wait to upgrade until I fully complete my contract IN A YEAR. Or I can upgrade in April with the Edge plan. The edge plan, is basically leasing my phone. Well, I don't want to do that. I want to buy a phone and then sell my old one. I don't want to lease my phone from Verizon and when I pay off 50% of the retail price, I can upgrade to something new. I WANT AN UPGRADE, DAMNIT. I still think they're lying to me. I used to upgrade my phone at 18 months all the time. Didn't get the full discount, but I still did it. And when I worked for Sprint, I would upgrade people still under contract all the time. Wah.

AT&T is pulling that shit now too. I have had a contract with them for 6 years now and have always been able to upgrade between 18 and 20 months. H went on to my plan 2 years ago in January and his phone is absolute shit (iphone 4). I started checking to see when he could upgrade in September and now see that he has to wait the full two years before he can upgrade, or he can go on to AT&T Next and pay an additional service fee every month (like the VZW Edge). It's such bullshit. So H has been living with this phone that's close to death and wants to throw it out a window every time he uses it.

mikenberger · December 2014

cupcait927 said:

mikenberger said:

Verizon has annoyed me highly today. I've had my phone a year and I'm a huge gadget person. So I need something new. LIKE NOW. YESTERDAY. LAST WEEK.

Checking in with VZW, I have to wait to upgrade until I fully complete my contract IN A YEAR. Or I can upgrade in April with the Edge plan. The edge plan, is basically leasing my phone. Well, I don't want to do that. I want to buy a phone and then sell my old one. I don't want to lease my phone from Verizon and when I pay off 50% of the retail price, I can upgrade to something new. I WANT AN UPGRADE, DAMNIT. I still think they're lying to me. I used to upgrade my phone at 18 months all the time. Didn't get the full discount, but I still did it. And when I worked for Sprint, I would upgrade people still under contract all the time. Wah.

AT&T is pulling that shit now too. I have had a contract with them for 6 years now and have always been able to upgrade between 18 and 20 months. H went on to my plan 2 years ago in January and his phone is absolute shit (iphone 4). I started checking to see when he could upgrade in September and now see that he has to wait the full two years before he can upgrade, or he can go on to AT&T Next and pay an additional service fee every month (like the VZW Edge). It's such bullshit. So H has been living with this phone that's close to death and wants to throw it out a window every time he uses it.

Fuck cell phone companies hard, dude. I'll be looking into a no contract plan when this contract is up in a year. I hate phone contracts anyways, and it's rumored that they're illegal in my state (Yeah right, try getting out of your contract.). A lot of the sales tactics are why I left Sprint in such a fucking hurry. Maybe I'll get rid of my phone all together and go back to a landline.

I DIDN'T MEAN THAT.

plainjane0415 · December 2014

mikenberger said:

Verizon has annoyed me highly today. I've had my phone a year and I'm a huge gadget person. So I need something new. LIKE NOW. YESTERDAY. LAST WEEK.

Checking in with VZW, I have to wait to upgrade until I fully complete my contract IN A YEAR. Or I can upgrade in April with the Edge plan. The edge plan, is basically leasing my phone. Well, I don't want to do that. I want to buy a phone and then sell my old one. I don't want to lease my phone from Verizon and when I pay off 50% of the retail price, I can upgrade to something new. I WANT AN UPGRADE, DAMNIT. I still think they're lying to me. I used to upgrade my phone at 18 months all the time. Didn't get the full discount, but I still did it. And when I worked for Sprint, I would upgrade people still under contract all the time. Wah.

Verizon is the devil.

mrsk616 · December 2014

customers who come in with their SO and the SO is on the phone but other person has no idea who they are there for. get off the damn phone.

mikenberger · December 2014

My back tattoo got noticed at work today. I try so hard to hide it at work, but I have this one little piece that, if I don't position my collar correctly, it shows. I hide it because I work in a professional environment and to avoid the question "DIDN'T THAT HURT?! Do you have others!?" Yes. I have 5. 2 of which are on my wrists. How you didn't notice those, is beyond me, but let's keep moving. Now did it hurt?... Oh. I don't know. Would you like to find out? Find me a safety pin and let me stab at you for 3 hours. You let me know how that makes you feel.

Here's your sign.

l9i · December 2014

ClimbingBrideNY said:

blabla89 said:

When someone sends me an email and then immediately calls and asks if I've read it. No, I have shit to do, your email is not that urgent and I will get to it when I have time.

Yes! Why email me if you're just going to call me???

The other day I had someone email me. I saw the notification but had not read it. About 1 minute later a chat window pops up because they are asking me if I read the email. I'm in the middle of something so it's a few minutes before I respond "Not yet, I'll get to it in a few minutes". Immediately after sending that response I get a phone call asking to talk about the email. So yeah, there was that fun person....

ShesSoCold · December 2014

Last night my brother called me and our sister to ask us what time we're supposed to be at our stepdad's for Xmas eve. Neither of us knew and this was upsetting to him. I suggested that he call SD and he got more upset.

I have no idea why my dumbass brother is afraid to call the SD he's known for 18 years.

l9i · December 2014

kat1114 said:

ClimbingBrideNY said:

People that keep asking me, "How's married life?"

It especially bothers me when people who know us ask. We were together almost 5 years before we got married and have lived with each other most of that time. It's the same exact goddamn thing as before, except now we both wear rings, and my taxes went down significantly.

I like to respond with "Well, we're still married so good I guess" (got married in August). People get shocked and someone even went on to say "You, know that's the point right?". You don't say?! Then they catch on to my sarcasm... sometimes.

But yeah, same as you. We lived together and not much really changed.

maeday2 · December 2014

mikenberger said:

plainjane0415 said:

What makes it worse is that the guy that is on his speaker phone is a "favorite" here at my company and can do whatever he wants whenever he wants.. He doesn't actually do any real work, but because he got in good with the bosses it doesn't matter what he does. If I were to be talking to a customer on speaker phone and letting their personal info bellow through the office I would probably get in trouble for it, but him... no....
Sorry to be so crabby, but I'm bitter at how they treat him as opposed to the rest of us.

OMG. People on their speakerphones make me go all Samuel L Jackson.

"INSIDE VOICE, MOTHERFUCKER. DO YOU SPEAK IT?"

Seriously. I can't do it. Get a fucking headset if you can't be bothered to hold your phone.

I bitched about this too! I lost my Christmas crazy on my coworker that does this.

The dude on the other end of the phone was discussing his obviously painful divorce including his cheating wife. I got filled with rage and marched my ass down the hall to shut his door. If I felt comfortable enough to share that information with someone I would expect 200% that I wasn't on speaker phone for an entire floor to hear.

My coworker came to me later and apologized. I told him I found it inappropriate to have such personal discussions on speaker phone. He has since avoided me all week. But, he hasn't been screaming and closes his door now! I WIN!

mrsk616 · December 2014

ShesSoCold said:

Last night my brother called me and our sister to ask us what time we're supposed to be at our stepdad's for Xmas eve. Neither of us knew and this was upsetting to him. I suggested that he call SD and he got more upset.

I have no idea why my dumbass brother is afraid to call the SD he's known for 18 years.

my sister has called me to ask me something (im rarely home these days so its easier for her to call my mom at home than me) it pisses me off.

hellosweetie1015 · December 2014

Hiccups. I currently have them. I have had them too often recently.

It is driving me CRAZY.

Make them go away.

flyingfoxes · December 2014

I ordered our cake topper from Etsy. I've been super careful about making sure my address is updated when I order stuff, but yeah - I missed it this time. I saw that the post office delivered it, so I asked my real estate agent to ask the new owner's agent if they would leave it on the porch for me to pick up.

Fast forward to Friday, we drop by to get it - they left it on the porch, but....THEY OPENED MY PACKAGE. That clearly had MY name on it. Luckily I guess they didn't find anything of value that interested them, so they left it for us. I'm happy to have it, but seriously, who does that? Open somebody else's package? Ugh.

ShesSoCold · December 2014

mobride2015 said:

I ordered our cake topper from Etsy. I've been super careful about making sure my address is updated when I order stuff, but yeah - I missed it this time. I saw that the post office delivered it, so I asked my real estate agent to ask the new owner's agent if they would leave it on the porch for me to pick up.

Fast forward to Friday, we drop by to get it - they left it on the porch, but....THEY OPENED MY PACKAGE. That clearly had MY name on it. Luckily I guess they didn't find anything of value that interested them, so they left it for us. I'm happy to have it, but seriously, who does that? Open somebody else's package? Ugh.

I know it's different, but I open mail.

I live in the house directly next door to the house I grew up in. The old lady's husband had been dead at least since my mom bought the house in 1982. Well, I receive mail addressed to him. The other day I opened his mail and it was an advertisement for cremation services, including a form to fill out to enter a raffle for a free cremation. H and I LOLed.

flyingfoxes · December 2014

The weirdos I'd bought that house from left behind a spray can of something you could spray on the outside that would make the envelope see-through so you could snoop on the mail inside without opening it, lol. I always wondered what they were into that they needed to stealth snoop like that.

Jen4948 · December 2014

People who expect you to read their minds and give you a hard time after the fact.

Writing with no attention paid to grammar and spelling. I'm an editor trying to clean up the messiest manuscript I've ever seen.

People in my personal life who expect free tax advice from me (I'm also a CPA) and who don't get that during tax season I can't take time off for family reunions.

Speakerphones, especially when more than one person is trying to speak at one time.

Parties in bars, clubs, lounges, and restaurants that are too crowded and dim for everyone at the parties to see or hear each other clearly.

Parents who don't discipline their kids or remove them when it's warranted.

There are others, but those stand out right now.

lavenderfields13 · December 2014

mikenberger said:

My back tattoo got noticed at work today. I try so hard to hide it at work, but I have this one little piece that, if I don't position my collar correctly, it shows. I hide it because I work in a professional environment and to avoid the question "DIDN'T THAT HURT?! Do you have others!?" Yes. I have 5. 2 of which are on my wrists. How you didn't notice those, is beyond me, but let's keep moving. Now did it hurt?... Oh. I don't know. Would you like to find out? Find me a safety pin and let me stab at you for 3 hours. You let me know how that makes you feel.

Here's your sign.

This drives me nuts. I have wrist tattoos, a half sleeve and chest tattoos - so they get noticed- especially in the summer. FI (who also has tattoos) think it's ridiculous that I get annoyed since I should expect to get comments. Yeah, but don't people know I've already been asked 8 billion times "did that hurt". STFU.

Inkdancer · December 2014

cupcait927 said:

Gum popping. I swear to god if I hear one more person pop or snap their gum, I'm going to take it all away. No more gum!

flyingfoxes · December 2014

Football. So happy there's only like 6 weeks left until that bullshit is over for the year.

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