People who are overly cheerful and try too hard to be nice. I work with someone like that, she'll stand right in front of people and wave to them - yes we can see you! Then it'll be "Only meeeeee!" and she'll start asking how your weekend was and as you tell her her head will be nodding up and down like a nodding dog in an earthquake and she'll be saying things like "!Wow!" "That must have been great!" etc when all I'm doing is telling her how I spent the weekend sitting in front of the telly doing bugger all.
When people stick a question mark at the end of something that isn't a question. Was reminded of this reading this thread, where it mentions that a headteacher wrote, "I am told that Niamh is having a joint birthday party with her brother?" I can understand it more in a spoken conversation, where the voice is inflected upwards and there's a pause, as if the speaker is awaiting confirmation; but not in a letter from school!
When people stick a question mark at the end of something that isn't a question. Was reminded of this reading this thread, where it mentions that a headteacher wrote, "I am told that Niamh is having a joint birthday party with her brother?" I can understand it more in a spoken conversation, where the voice is inflected upwards and there's a pause, as if the speaker is awaiting confirmation; but not in a letter from school!
I'm on a forum where someone does that all the time. And when he should use a question mark he usually puts in an exclamation mark instead! (or should that be ?).
The only other form of punctuation he uses are smilies - lots of them. Even when it's a serious topic he'll have more smilies than words in his sentences.
lol - I was just thinking, OMG!! how rude!! but then I read the rest of your post!
I would completely understand it being rude if it was the other way round but i just get annoyed when we try and feed our dog properly (ie give him dog food which is good for him) but other people think its ok to feed him chips, and even childrens chewy sweets!
At home he has free run of the house but i keep him on his lead round other peoples because some people dont like him on the furniture so its easier to keep him on the floor if hes on his lead.
To me its the equivalent of having someone babysit your four year old and you later find out theyve pumped them full of sweets and chocolate and let them play unattended in the street when you specifically asked them not to!
Another thing ive thought of which annoys me even though its nothing is when people are so accurate when they dont have to be. Eg at my mums i asked dad what the time was. It was 2:27 but he answered half two. My sister then pipes up, actually its 2:27. Things like that bug me because i was just asking for a rough time so half past was good enough for me!
People who are overly cheerful and try too hard to be nice. I work with someone like that, she'll stand right in front of people and wave to them - yes we can see you! Then it'll be "Only meeeeee!" and she'll start asking how your weekend was and as you tell her her head will be nodding up and down like a nodding dog in an earthquake and she'll be saying things like "!Wow!" "That must have been great!" etc when all I'm doing is telling her how I spent the weekend sitting in front of the telly doing bugger all.
I remember something similar at work the other day! The department next to us had been moved and their new location wasnt really ideal and they had had complaints from other departments and patients about it even though it was out of their control. With them moving they were doing double the amount of work so almost every day they were doing overtime just to get everything finished. By the end of the week they were all quiet and a bit stressed and they had a bank worker join them for the day and she was ott happy and enthusiastic! She literally sounded as though she loved every second of it, volunteering to do everything. About four hours in one commented how happy she was and the other said yeah i know, she hasnt stopped bloody grinning all day, its doing my head in!
Door to door sales people .They treat you like a 2 year old child with the same drivel everytime "Dont worry, I am not selling anything ,"
Of course they are ,, electricity, phone lines, broadband etc etc and simply cannot grasp that my very polite No, Thank you means No . They still rabbit on and on until my No gets less polite each time .
Noisy eaters.... gulping. eating and talking with mouths full or just ready to swallow..smacking, slurping.. I detest it.. packing food into mouths.. ..its all just ignorant,. someone talking to me while IM eating waiting for a response...People who come over in cafes who know you.. but have had their lunch or dinner but want to annoy me while Im eating and trying to relax.. puts me right off.... Spitting... people who gab to checkout girls when theres a big queue of shoppers waiting...... the customer who has her credit card in her wallet in the bottom of her handbag which is at the bottom of her shopper......... who doesnt think to get the card out while the groceries are coming through.....oh no... she waits till its all in her trolley then decides to slowly pull out her bag, Im sure these people live in their own world and dont care about anyone else..Shoppers who park their trolleys in the mddle of the aisle to gab to someone theyve met. jamming up the full aisle with their trolleys..On entering a big shop being asked if I need help , do they think were all daft and cant pick a new jumper..isnt this what women enjoy and do.... they search for something they like...
Door to door sales people .They treat you like a 2 year old child with the same drivel everytime "Dont worry, I am not selling anything ,"
Of course they are ,, electricity, phone lines, broadband etc etc and simply cannot grasp that my very polite No, Thank you means No . They still rabbit on and on until my No gets less polite each time .
Jeez, we get them at our door all the damn time. It's like they can't take 'no' for an answer lol.
VM are real bad for that. This one sales person we did get just wouldn't give up at all. He kept going on about VM being better than Sky blah blah blah, so eventually I lost the plot and told him to **** off and slammed the door. Even while the door was closing, he kept talking lol. what an annoying tosser he was lol
I work with someone who has a habit of asking people for advice - came up to me last week, when I was talking on the phone and asked if I was busy. I pointed to the phone which should have given him a clue, instead he starts talking. I indicate the phone again, he keeps on talking.
Eventually I have to tell the called I'd call them back because this idiot wouldn't shut up. He asked me if I could recommend a good online photography shop. I mentioned a couple I'd dealt with and had good service from and off he went.
He came into my office this morning and said "I thought you said those camera shops were good! They were rubbish, they let me down badly! Shocking service!"
I asked what the problem was as I'd never had any problems with them.
"They didn't have software for making maps!"
He was ranting and raving about a camera retailer that didn't sell map-making software! No doubt he'll complain because his local butcher couldn't sell him a roll of wallpaper and a bike saddle.
The ones who want to save my soul are even worse.. as they dont have anything to sell...only their own nonsense that Im not remotely interested in... two came to my door during the school holidays I had four grandkids and baby in the house..who got round me at the door when these bible bashers calmly were telling me how much were loved by Jesus and how we worry about non important things in life..:rolleyes:didnt they see the stress and anger on my face..... I said "as you can see IM very busy".... One smiled serenely and handed me a leaflet and told me to read it...... when I had time....I shook my head and tried to close over the door now with a one year old screaming as he didnt like them....and pulling at me to pick him up.......I wanted to scream harder and tell them to Eff off.... then this erm lady said......" We'll try and call back later." I answered .... "no Ill be unconcious or dead, I wouldnt bother." I dont think they saw the humour........Maybe now that I think of it these Shakers Quakers or QUACKS looked and sounded so relaxed... maybe they really do have something or on the wacky baccy..
when I'm in the pub and someone starts up about how lager is piss and only Bitter or Mild is proper beer and they're drinking Theakston's Old Peculiar Badger's Arse because its brewed in a mouldy old oak barrel , Christ shut up !
Whistling. So annoying to hear someone whistling away as if they are musically talented. it's annoying and selfish.
If they're not whistling in my current place of work, they're going "pah pah pah pum" to the melody of a thankfully non-existent song (round mouth and inflated cheeks while making this noise adds to the irritating effect). Why do people find it so hard to be quiet?
I saw a news article yesterday: "she literally died of a broken heart". No, she didn't.
Some thespian on BBC breakfast a few months ago was talking about opening night of some play where he said, 'it literally brought the house down' Oh really? So the entire theatre just collapsed did it? :rolleyes:
Some thespian on BBC breakfast a few months ago was talking about opening night of some play where he said, 'it literally brought the house down' Oh really? So the entire theatre just collapsed did it? :rolleyes:
People who want to speak to me shout across the office instead of coming over to my desk to talk. I ignore these people and in the end they are forced to get up and come across.
People who want to speak to me but I'm on the phone to a customer. Instead of politely waiting until I'm finished, they walk to my desk and hover over me until I'm finished. Sometimes I string out the call deliberately to make them wait.
People who want to speak to me shout across the office instead of coming over to my desk to talk. I ignore these people and in the end they are forced to get up and come across.
People who want to speak to me but I'm on the phone to a customer. Instead of politely waiting until I'm finished, they walk to my desk and hover over me until I'm finished. Sometimes I string out the call deliberately to make them wait.
You force them to come over to your desk and then deliberately make them wait?
A right bundle of joy.
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I'm on a forum where someone does that all the time. And when he should use a question mark he usually puts in an exclamation mark instead! (or should that be ?).
The only other form of punctuation he uses are smilies - lots of them. Even when it's a serious topic he'll have more smilies than words in his sentences.
I would completely understand it being rude if it was the other way round but i just get annoyed when we try and feed our dog properly (ie give him dog food which is good for him) but other people think its ok to feed him chips, and even childrens chewy sweets!
At home he has free run of the house but i keep him on his lead round other peoples because some people dont like him on the furniture so its easier to keep him on the floor if hes on his lead.
To me its the equivalent of having someone babysit your four year old and you later find out theyve pumped them full of sweets and chocolate and let them play unattended in the street when you specifically asked them not to!
Another thing ive thought of which annoys me even though its nothing is when people are so accurate when they dont have to be. Eg at my mums i asked dad what the time was. It was 2:27 but he answered half two. My sister then pipes up, actually its 2:27. Things like that bug me because i was just asking for a rough time so half past was good enough for me!
I remember something similar at work the other day! The department next to us had been moved and their new location wasnt really ideal and they had had complaints from other departments and patients about it even though it was out of their control. With them moving they were doing double the amount of work so almost every day they were doing overtime just to get everything finished. By the end of the week they were all quiet and a bit stressed and they had a bank worker join them for the day and she was ott happy and enthusiastic! She literally sounded as though she loved every second of it, volunteering to do everything. About four hours in one commented how happy she was and the other said yeah i know, she hasnt stopped bloody grinning all day, its doing my head in!
Of course they are ,, electricity, phone lines, broadband etc etc and simply cannot grasp that my very polite No, Thank you means No . They still rabbit on and on until my No gets less polite each time .
Jeez, we get them at our door all the damn time. It's like they can't take 'no' for an answer lol.
VM are real bad for that. This one sales person we did get just wouldn't give up at all. He kept going on about VM being better than Sky blah blah blah, so eventually I lost the plot and told him to **** off and slammed the door. Even while the door was closing, he kept talking lol. what an annoying tosser he was lol
Eventually I have to tell the called I'd call them back because this idiot wouldn't shut up. He asked me if I could recommend a good online photography shop. I mentioned a couple I'd dealt with and had good service from and off he went.
He came into my office this morning and said "I thought you said those camera shops were good! They were rubbish, they let me down badly! Shocking service!"
I asked what the problem was as I'd never had any problems with them.
"They didn't have software for making maps!"
He was ranting and raving about a camera retailer that didn't sell map-making software! No doubt he'll complain because his local butcher couldn't sell him a roll of wallpaper and a bike saddle.
It's everywhere and so effing irritating. And yep, I know someone is gonna reply to my post with a 'this'. Grrrrr!
when I'm in the pub and someone starts up about how lager is piss and only Bitter or Mild is proper beer and they're drinking Theakston's Old Peculiar Badger's Arse because its brewed in a mouldy old oak barrel , Christ shut up !
I agree. I don't know why but it's such a twattish thing to say.
I saw a news article yesterday: "she literally died of a broken heart". No, she didn't.
If they're not whistling in my current place of work, they're going "pah pah pah pum" to the melody of a thankfully non-existent song (round mouth and inflated cheeks while making this noise adds to the irritating effect). Why do people find it so hard to be quiet?
Some thespian on BBC breakfast a few months ago was talking about opening night of some play where he said, 'it literally brought the house down' Oh really? So the entire theatre just collapsed did it? :rolleyes:
Ugh, it LITERALLY hurts.
People who want to speak to me shout across the office instead of coming over to my desk to talk. I ignore these people and in the end they are forced to get up and come across.
People who want to speak to me but I'm on the phone to a customer. Instead of politely waiting until I'm finished, they walk to my desk and hover over me until I'm finished. Sometimes I string out the call deliberately to make them wait.
You force them to come over to your desk and then deliberately make them wait?
A right bundle of joy.