The Mighty Pet Peeves Thread

[CorwoodRep]

New pet peeve:

When I have beer, and drink it, but run out and find myself unable to drink more beer.

Thats just stupid.

If by stupid you mean a small tragedy, then yes.

[Dr. Medulla]

Corporate drones who make excessive use of the cc field and exclamation point high-priority icon in Outlook e-mail to make their insignificant-speck little requests seem like THE MOST IMPORTANT THING EVER AND THE FATE OF THE WORLD RESTS ON YOU DROPPING EVERYTHING NOW.

I get e-mails like that all the time from the suburban Cincinnati inventory staff (usually people named Barb or Deb or some other monosyllabic designation advertising the helmet-perm all middle-aged housewives in the Ohio Valley get issued by-regulation with their first hot flashes). And sometimes a sales rep who can't be arsed to look up a product code their own damn selves. And every time my boss, and my boss's boss, and Marketing are like "What's happening!!???! Why isn't this taken care of?!?!?!6!!" And the scramble begins. When it's usually something anti-important. Whole teams routinely waste half their days chasing these. And the perpetrators know they can get a response and get out of doing their own investigating on the non-problem by yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater to a significant quantity of people on a single e-mail and sticking in a cryptic "Please advise." at the end.


I can't do anything about it when the bosses are stampeding in circles like lightning-spooked cattle. But when they ignore it I like to explain to Barb-bot #7 why their non-problems are trivial--baseless, even--on my priority scale and how I'll get to it after that backlog gets done of stuff that actually matters to our books for the outside world. Barb-bot #7 will often realize the futility of further resistance. Until Deb-bot #6 starts the cycle of senseless panic and confusion anew.

If RP ever gets happy, we'll all have lost something.

[Still216]

Fucking right. It's part of the same mindset of shoppers in grocery stores who stop their fucking carts in the middle of the aisle and then stop and mouthbreathe over the chips. It's the "I'm the only person in the world" mentality. My buddy's dad just drops things in people's cart when they do that to him. Here, you're buying eight cans of Chunky soup …

That is BRILLIANT. I'm taking that to the streets.

[JennyB]

I'm pretty okay with not having sex with Philip Glenister tho, so we're okay on that front.

Oh man, he's so awesome though! Why wouldn't you want to have sex with him? He's say, "your dick is surrounded by armed bastards" or something like that.

[eumaas]

Hathut Records continually annoy me with their limited issues in flimsy cardboard with much of the original liner notes missing. These releases go for tons of fucking cash, then they're out of print and the price skyrockets to $75-$150 for a single CD. That's great if you're into selling your shit, but I'd rather have a dependable and affordable label to shop from than a flaky Swiss outfit.

[JoseUnidos]

My grocery-related peeve: Patrons that wait until the final tally before even reaching for their checkbook and filling out the check.

[Wolter]

My grocery-related peeve: Patrons that wait until the final tally before even reaching for their checkbook and filling out the check.

Wait. People still buy groceries with checks? Do you live in a retirement community?

[JoseUnidos]

My grocery-related peeve: Patrons that wait until the final tally before even reaching for their checkbook and filling out the check.

Wait. People still buy groceries with checks? Do you live in a retirement community?

Well, our local demographic (coastal Southeast US) is skewed slightly older - altho oddly, the worst offenders are usually the soccer moms.

[JennyB]

My grocery-related peeve: Patrons that wait until the final tally before even reaching for their checkbook and filling out the check.

Wait. People still buy groceries with checks? Do you live in a retirement community?

Well, our local demographic (coastal Southeast US) is skewed slightly older - altho oddly, the worst offenders are usually the soccer moms.

I hate that and also people who take ten minutes to get their stuff together...put everything back in your purse and get your keys out later.

[JoseUnidos]

Today's pet peeve?


The phrase "Jihad Jane"

[BostonBeaneater]

Today's pet peeve?


The phrase "Jihad Jane"

Really? I am a huge fan! I wish we still did things the old fashion wat and hung her up in a gibbet.

[JoseUnidos]

Today's pet peeve?


The phrase "Jihad Jane"

Really? I am a huge fan! I wish we still did things the old fashion wat and hung her up in a gibbet.

Oh, don't get me wrong; I'm all for hanging her from the highest yardarm - I just can't stand the media-created name. It ranks up there with Octomom and Bennifer. Plus, it reminds me of that horrible horrible Demi Moore movie.

[Wolter]

My grocery-related peeve: Patrons that wait until the final tally before even reaching for their checkbook and filling out the check.

Wait. People still buy groceries with checks? Do you live in a retirement community?

Well, our local demographic (coastal Southeast US) is skewed slightly older - altho oddly, the worst offenders are usually the soccer moms.

I come from that demographic, and I still didn't have to deal with it after about 1995.

Of course, I did live in a downtown area then.

[matedog]

When people say "alls" instead of "all." Also saying "acrosst" instead of "across."

[Dr. Medulla]

When people say "alls" instead of "all." Also saying "acrosst" instead of "across."

I deliberately use the non-word alls instead of all (as well as y'alls). I have a number of intentionally mispronounced words in my vocabulary. Organizized (Taxi Driver/RAD) and confisticated (Flintstones) are two of the more frequent ones.