Day 46 Pet Peeves

[tripperfunster]

Okay, 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.

Comments

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Driving in the passing lane. Normally these are assholes who are going 10 under the goddamned speed limit but feel the need to ride in the left lane when I am CLEARLY TRYING TO PASS while maintaining the speed limit. Then, because you're forced to cut around them or else risk getting rearended due to their stupidity, they get all pissy and try to ride your ass or something. Fuckers. If you'd just moved over in the first fucking place, you wouldn't have been cut off.

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. I might be hiring. Again. Save me.

[nix-this.livejournal.com]

Ah hiring. Isn't it glorious? My favourite was the three page essay/cover letter I got from some guy rhapsodizing about how much he likes office supplies which of course means he's qualified to be a production coordinator. Seriously. I seem to remember putting in that qualified candidates would have experience with scheduling in a manufacturing environment, but I can see how a hard on for staple removers might trump that requirement.

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.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Ah, if I had a nickel for every time I got a resume that had a phone number SCRATCHED OUT and written in with pen, I'd have a coupld of bucks.

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.