Day 46 Pet Peeves
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tripperfunsterOkay, not racism or really hurty things that horrible people do, but what are some teeth grinding things that you have to deal with on a daily basis?
Here's some of mine, categorized for your convenience.
Work
I own a pet store that buys new and used items. Often times people will bring in say, a ten gallon fish tank set up, with the lids and filters etc and I have to look through everything (and plug in the plug-inny things to make sure they work,) before I can decide what I can pay for the items. Now, this is not rocket science. I've owned a pet store for 15 years, I have a few more years experience at other stores, and an assload of my OWN experience too. Time after time after fucking time, when I'm going through these EXTREMELY MUNDANE AND TOTALLY BEGINNER HOBBYIST type things, the person selling the stuff feels the need to man-splain them to me. "That's the filter! It hangs on the back!" That's a siphon, you use it to drain the tank." and on and on. OMG!!!!!! This would seriously be like taking your car to the mechanic and saying "That's the steering wheel. You use it to steer the car. Those are the tires, the car ROLLS AROUND ON THEM."
There are certainly things I don't know, but chances are I AM FAMILIAR WITH YOUR SHITTY TEN GALLON STARTER KIT ITEMS. (can you tell that this happened to me AGAIN today???)
Home
Toilet paper. For reals. Am I the only human in this entire house who is capable of putting a roll of toilet paper ON THE ROLLER THINGIE? I think I am.
Out in public
Spitting. Gross. Unless a spider just flew into your mouth, you have no reason to spit in public. Ever.
fic
Kittens. I don't know why, but I've read enough bad "Harry and Draco get a kitten together" type fics (insert whichever characters here, but generally not kitten owning type people) that I just FLY BY that fic without ever clicking ever. I'm sure there are some GREAT 'kitten' fics out there, but I will just have to take your word for it.
Tell me what picks YOUR ass.
Here's some of mine, categorized for your convenience.
Work
I own a pet store that buys new and used items. Often times people will bring in say, a ten gallon fish tank set up, with the lids and filters etc and I have to look through everything (and plug in the plug-inny things to make sure they work,) before I can decide what I can pay for the items. Now, this is not rocket science. I've owned a pet store for 15 years, I have a few more years experience at other stores, and an assload of my OWN experience too. Time after time after fucking time, when I'm going through these EXTREMELY MUNDANE AND TOTALLY BEGINNER HOBBYIST type things, the person selling the stuff feels the need to man-splain them to me. "That's the filter! It hangs on the back!" That's a siphon, you use it to drain the tank." and on and on. OMG!!!!!! This would seriously be like taking your car to the mechanic and saying "That's the steering wheel. You use it to steer the car. Those are the tires, the car ROLLS AROUND ON THEM."
There are certainly things I don't know, but chances are I AM FAMILIAR WITH YOUR SHITTY TEN GALLON STARTER KIT ITEMS. (can you tell that this happened to me AGAIN today???)
Home
Toilet paper. For reals. Am I the only human in this entire house who is capable of putting a roll of toilet paper ON THE ROLLER THINGIE? I think I am.
Out in public
Spitting. Gross. Unless a spider just flew into your mouth, you have no reason to spit in public. Ever.
fic
Kittens. I don't know why, but I've read enough bad "Harry and Draco get a kitten together" type fics (insert whichever characters here, but generally not kitten owning type people) that I just FLY BY that fic without ever clicking ever. I'm sure there are some GREAT 'kitten' fics out there, but I will just have to take your word for it.
Tell me what picks YOUR ass.
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Date: 2012-07-08 03:58 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-07-08 03:58 am (UTC)I was raised by shift-working parents, so I have little patience for people who slam doors, throw heavy things on the floor, run up and down the stairs, bounce balls in the house, blare their music and television, and/or cannot walk quietly. I've gotten more or less used to it during the day, but it drives me crazy when I'm trying to sleep.
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Date: 2012-07-08 04:12 am (UTC)The streetcar driver in the morning that waits until the bus has just pulled in (but not offloaded yet), to close his door and pull away. I see you, fucker. We're going to have words at some point, because it's happened no less than twelve times.
My brother.
Lastly, fics where Severus and/or Harry are in character right up until they bang uglies and then are FULL of 'I love yous, this will last forever and ever, and you're the only one for me'. WTF. No. A more appropriate afterglow statement for them is 'this is my side of the bed, you little twerp' or some variation of that. I may have to write that.
Also, you definitely should start saying 'Oh really! Thank god you told me, I thought it was part of a bong.'
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Date: 2012-07-08 04:20 am (UTC)Or, at least, what magazine ads would have me believe what a penis enlarger looks like. It never fails to crack me up when someone walks by a shelf, sees one and starts to snicker. ;)
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Date: 2012-07-08 04:30 am (UTC)I had to actually leave work on Friday for a twenty minute breather so I would not lose my shit on her. We've got schedules and deadlines and she put one of her most inexperienced hands on a job and provided zero direction or support and had the fucking nerve to complain about performance when she sets her own people up for failure.
I know we're busy and I know there's often more work to do than hours to do it, but one of the things you accept when you take on a management position is that you are there for your team and if you have to stay late to finish up your GD paperwork because you had to spend a couple of hours on the floor, helping your people, well... Welcome to fucking management. This is what we're paid for.
I get really frustrated watching her try to throw her team under the bus any time something goes wrong and it blows my fucking mind that she can't understand that their failures reflect more on her than them.
Oh, wow... Um... Yeah. That's my big pet peeve this week.
I also don't like sharing the road with cyclists?
*slinks away*
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Date: 2012-07-08 07:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-08 12:09 pm (UTC)Sorry to comment rant at you. Hah. I just understand the hatred for sharing roads, but it's illegal for me to ride on the sidewalk (for good reason) and I hate that there are so many bicyclists who act like entitled twats on the road.
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Date: 2012-07-08 04:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-08 09:09 pm (UTC)I just can't predict what they're going to do and I'm terrified one is going to swerve out in front of me, or get clipped by my mirror because they're dodging a pothole that I can't even see.
There are some rude ones too, and they irritate me too, but mostly I just can't relax if I've got a cyclist in my lane, and it's worse when there's too much traffic for me to switch over.
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Date: 2012-07-08 09:28 pm (UTC)Plus, if some twat was weaving down the sidewalk and ran into my Nan or small cousins on his bike, I'd be hard tempted not to beat him with a bike pump. Pedestrians wander. Everyone knows this, because it's irritating as hell. :P It also makes them very unpredictable on a small side walk.
That being said, I would MUCH prefer a street with bike lanes. Just having the space there tends to relax other drivers, because they don't need to edge into other lanes to not hit me. I actually take a longer route to work, so I can hit these streets. And they'd be great, if the city kept up with the f*cking maintenance and covered all the potholes.
Long story short. Thank you for being concerned about people like me. :) And I'm sorry for the dicks on two wheels (especially those who weave in between lanes when they come up to a red light). Maybe someday we'll get those lanes and won't need to be in traffic against big hulking cars.
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Date: 2012-07-08 05:00 am (UTC)People who don't move out of the way, at all. I spent a lot of years living where people know how to navigate crowds and have the decency to do things like stand to the side if they're not moving, or move over, however little, to make room. So it ticks me off to no end when people think they can take over the whole sidewalk, to the point where I end up *in the street* just to avoid them. Or when they stand in a clump, taking up a store aisle, etc. I find it rude in the extreme.
Questions going unanswered. It always irks me when I ask a question, verbally or written, and the other person doesn't answer it. If i'm asking something, I want to know the answer. I had a disastrous date once where every single time I asked a question, the guy put off answering with some generic non-answer, and then insisted he wanted to get to know me -- he probably thought i'd find it flattering, when it was really just annoying.
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Date: 2012-07-11 02:51 am (UTC)Ha! I had a date like yours too! Except it was more, everytime I tried to speak, he just turned it around to be all about him. him him him him him him him him him him him.
At the end of the date he told me I was a very interesting person. I kid you not.
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Date: 2012-07-11 03:31 am (UTC)lol on the date though - wow.
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Date: 2012-07-08 05:45 am (UTC)Micromanaging bosses. I may not be employed right now but I've had my share. I can't get shit done if you're constantly breathing down my neck! There was one real gem who wanted a blow-by-blow report of everything i'd done that day. When his business partner asked me why I was so unproductive and I explained it... well, their argument ended up with me out of a job. No big loss, really, but still...
Lousy grammar and spelling, especially from people over 30. How the hell you ever got through college is beyond me!
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Date: 2012-07-11 02:54 am (UTC)One of my grade twelve highschool employees put up a note on an item that was on hold, saying it was PAYED. *eyeroll*
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Date: 2012-07-08 07:08 am (UTC)pay that doesn not keep pace with inflation.
Stupid people.
Unjustified drama.
Whiners who will not do anthing to change their situations.
Entitlement mentality, honestly where the fuck do they get this from?
Unrealistic expectations of schedule.
That's enough. Hugs you.
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Date: 2012-07-08 06:07 pm (UTC)Those kid pictures on the backs of cars. Thanks for letting me know how many children you have and their approximate ages and genders. I'll just follow you home, then, shall I? Even worse when the stupid ass parents put the kids' names on the window, too. Why not just move in next to the neighborhood pedo and let him/her babysit your kid? However, I laugh at those that have like one adult and a bunch of baby tardises (tardi? IDEK) or chewbaccas or whatever. It's clearly a lol.
People who shop at a grocery store or wherever and they're too fucking lazy to put the shit they don't want back in place or hand it to an employee so steaks rot in the canned goods or spaghetti sauce jars explode in the freezers. This is one of the main reasons why groceries are so fucking expensive. Shrink and then the cost of labor to clean up the fucking mess.
People who apply for jobs that they're CLEARLY not qualified for. Stop wasting my time when you're a wilderness survivalist and I'm hiring for an accountant. What makes you think knowing how to ride two different saddle types means you can determine a capital item versus an allocated item? I don't mind those that are trying for one or two steps up from their current position but the ones that are CLEARLY not qualified drive me fucking nuts. I get that you ran a daycare but how does that qualify you to balance daysheets and income/expense lines? So you make great mini-donuts, can you tell me how that's going to help me with our annual audit? And, yes, these are actual examples. I got over 300 resumes for the last time I was hiring and only about 60 were even peripherally qualified. Of those, about 20 had major spelling errors. Another 15 hadn't looked at the job description and were looking for part-time when I was hiring for full-time or vice versa.
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Date: 2012-07-08 09:20 pm (UTC)I also like the resumes I get where people haven't given any real thought to what they put down for contact information. I mean, I'm sure hornybaby69@blank.com was absolutely hilarious when you were fifteen and high, but having it on your resume suggests a certain, ah, lack of attention to detail.
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Date: 2012-07-08 09:32 pm (UTC)Also? When you are applying for a retail job, looking like a CARNIE is not a selling point. We don't have specific rules about piercings and tattoos, but if you show up looking like a sideshow for your INTERVIEW, there's a good chance we won't hire you. After all, you will be helping both young AND old people. My mother would not want someone with 20 facial piercings helping her. She'd probably prefer none at all, but an eyebrow or lip isn't a deal breaker for me. Over five? Yeah, not at my store.
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Date: 2012-07-09 12:46 pm (UTC)People throwing cigarettes out of car windows. The amount of massive bush fires that get started that way,
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Date: 2012-07-11 02:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-09 02:51 pm (UTC)Public transit. It used to be okay here but then they started cutting corners while raising their rates.
Being broke all the time and being on disability so you can't answer people when they ask you what you do for a living, which is the FIRST question people usually ask you in US culture.
Gum cracking. I'm convinced people just do this to be annoying.
People who think you're a damn weirdo if you're not married. This is not 1947.
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Date: 2012-07-11 02:59 am (UTC)You are also a weirdo if you don't want kids. I have a couple of friends who have decided not to have kids, and you'd think that they'd decided to invite aliens to live with them or something. BACK OFF PEOPLE, NOT EVERYONE SHOULD BE A PARENT! and we're not exactly on the verge of going extinct, due to underpopulation.
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