Your Biggest Pet Peeves

[Yegolev]

Today's peeve: receptionists who bang everyone but me.

[Cyrrex]

Apparently, all you need to do is obtain some sort of power for the receptionist to covet. 

So my peeve will be lack of power.  Also, lack of hot receptionist.

[Righ]

Today's peeve: receptionists who bang everyone but me.

She's still a receptionist. Bang the people she isn't banging, those are the ones who might promote you.

[Oban]

Wives who think I banged receptionists.

[Rasix]

People looking over my shoulder or those that actually crane their neck to peek at my computer screen.   Far more annoying than the already annoying reading some printed media over my shoulder.

One of my officemates a few years back actually set up his PC with a direct sight line to my screen.  Thank god he got transferred.

"Hey, what's that?" 

[Sky]

Rasix needs a FUCK YOU ASSHOLE screen saver!

And a NOSY PEOPLE DIE MYSTERIOUSLY desktop.

[Teleku]

Wives who think I banged receptionists. Wives who aren't gullible.

[Oban]

How is that a peeve?

[Signe]

This thread has become too long and people forget what it's about.  Soon it'll just be another Useless Conversation.  I usually go there to complain, anyway. 

[Cyrrex]

The fact that Signe complains so much in the Useless Conversation thread.

[Signe]

I complain so much less than the men here!  You should be on my side, Cyrrex!

[Cyrrex]

I AM on your side, but you DO remember now that I am actually a man, yes?  Don't make me send more naked pictures to you!

[Yegolev]

Bumper sticker reading: My Labrador Retriever Is Smarter Than Your Honor Student

Firstly, I'd say this is unlikely and if so why are you and your dog not on TV?
Secondly, labs are among the more idiotic of dogs.

[Cyrrex]

I saw a bumper sticker yesterday that said something to the effect of "my child is a respectful student at XYZ middle school".  I mean, wtf?  Respectful?  Nice going, I guess.  Way to achieve.

I think I am going to get one fashioned that says "My son occasionally listens to his teacher at ABC elementary". 

[Yegolev]

I wouldn't put that on my bumper and I'd let my boy know why.  As if. 

[chargerrich]

Bumper sticker reading: My Labrador Retriever Is Smarter Than Your Honor Student

Firstly, I'd say this is unlikely and if so why are you and your dog not on TV?
Secondly, labs are among the more idiotic of dogs.

My Chocolate Lab is BAD ASS!!! She can jump out into our pond about 12 feet in chasing a ball or stick and has a knack for catching 1' long bullfrogs in mid jump...

Hrrrm... Jumping into lake for stick or ball and putting a bullfrog in your mouth... damn I guess she is idiotic 

[voodoolily]

I'm getting tired of people commenting on my pregnancy (the first few times someone asked me "when are you due?" I answered "I'm a biologist" because I thought they were asking me "what do you do?"). My friends ask permission before they touch my belly but random neighbors and grocery store clerks feel entitled to just reach on out and rub me like I'm a fucking wooden Buddha.
 

[Yegolev]

Just smack them, being pregnant is like a get-out-of-jail-free card.  Or growth.

[Cyrrex]

Or just pretend like it really turns you on and start writhing and moaning.  That'll get (some of) them to stop.

[Yegolev]

[Khaldun]

Strangers touched or tried to touch my wife's stomach when she was pregnant. It creeped us the fuck out. But it's not *as* creepy as the legions of old ladies who feel that as strangers they have a perfect right to: touch your baby, comment on your baby, comment on whether or not your baby looks like you, and so on.

Equally nasty. Going to visit my mother-in-law in her apartment building, which is rent-controlled for people over 60 living on a fixed income, so the building is stuffed to the gills with old geezers who mostly sit near the entrance to the building for the entire day staring with glum hostility at anyone they don't immediately recognize. Anyone, that is, except a little kid who is a grandchild of one of the residents. What they do at that point is grab the kid whenever she/he gets close enough and stuff a couple of dollars into his/her hand. I mean, like half the building does that. If I was working with one of the residents and I had a midget friend who was willing to dress appropriately, we could probably clear $100.00 every couple of weeks just by prancing around a bit. But it is completely   behavior, and it makes my flesh crawl. "Look, there's a kid, give her some money!" My eight-year old was not at all grooving on these weird old ladies coming up to her, grabbing her hand and stuffing three or four filthy wadded dollars in her hand and telling her how beautiful she is, and neither was I. I felt like I ought to hire a couple of honest adult strippers so that the old folks can put their leprous sweaty dollars in a thong or other more appropriate location.

[Signe]

Yeah.  Smack them.  What are they going to do?  They assaulted you first!  Also, this is America.  Sue them for something!

[Khaldun]

Sooner or later, a Nazi death panel will get them, but I take little comfort in that.

[voodoolily]

We can only hope.

[Paelos]

Accounting Seminars about Audit and Attestation.

[Sky]

People who think there is a technological solution to every problem.

[Yegolev]

People who think there is a technological solution to every problem.

I'm reminded of Arthur C. Clarke and the fact that half the people in the world are of below-average intelligence.

[Sky]

The higher you are on the scale, the more people are on the other side.

To add to my last post, people who then find what they think is a great solution despite massive cost (during budgetary cuts) and complete inconvenience of both staff and patrons. But hey, it solves the one small problem, fuck the three big problems it creates!

 

Also, people with a complete inability to triage. And people who fabricate deadlines for now good reason and then stress about them.

Some days I just want to dig motherfucking ditches.

[Nebu]

Here are my two biggest from working in academia:

1) People that make up rules with absolutely no way to enforce them.

2) "Ideas" people that don't have a clue about implementation. 

[Lantyssa]

I'm going through that with a website redesign.

Them: "Here's this template which completely invalidates your graduate admissions process"
Us: "We need to modify this one link in your template to assuage our concerns about losing grad students and thus funding to the college."
Them: "Can't! Dictate from on High! OMG how could you even think to modify our glorious template!?! President wants."
Us: "Can we talk to someone above your level of peon who understands the monetary implications?"
Them: "No! Can't bother bigwigs! Unga bunga!"
Us (to selves): "Fuuuuck! <eyeroll>"

[Sky]

Yeah, I love the suggestions for our site. People are looking at the NY public library site and saying, hey look at this cool stuff they do. We want all that. Plus wikis.

I always reply that I'll get on that as soon as I'm funded like the guy running the NYPL site and also have his team.

That usually holds them for a while.

[Engels]

Bosses who ignore emails from the Chair of the Department for weeks till 24 hours after my vacation has started, panics and then has me modify the entire website DW template on a rickety ole mac via remote desktop from across the continent.

[Lantyssa]

That's why I specify that I won't be reachable while on vacation.

[Sky]

Ditto!!!!!

[Yegolev]

I don't know or care what people think, I won't be answering any calls on vacation.  A peeve is a person who comes into the office while on vacation.