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Old 13-01-2016, 12:07
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Our secretary has got a squeaky shoe. It's driving me mad.
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Old 13-01-2016, 13:00
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[quote=kiviraat;81070400]Thank you for your comment, Alycidon. I'm only 30, but I have rheumatoid arthritis which has just screwed my hands up over the past year or two. I'm also on medication for another condition that has the side effect of a tremor and a weak grip. I do try to laugh about it when I can - I seem to have a talent for accidentally throwing mugs up in the air or dropping things when I get a bad episode

That's rotten, kiviraat, and makes my problems pale into significance. I'm so sorry, and hope that you will experience periods of remission to allow you to continue with the finer aspects of life that are so frustrating at present.

All the best

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Old 13-01-2016, 13:13
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Our secretary has got a squeaky shoe. It's driving me mad.
…a squirt of WD40 will sort that out.
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Old 13-01-2016, 13:17
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Buying something for £20 only for it to be reduced to £10 the day after and not being in a position to return it.
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Old 13-01-2016, 14:11
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Buying something for £20 only for it to be reduced to £10 the day after and not being in a position to return it.
Seeing the laptop in Currys we paid £249 for on 22nd December placed 'on sale' for £279 a week later....I get annoyed for the person who believes they are getting a deal.
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Old 13-01-2016, 14:14
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The fact that my lips keep peeling all the time and anything I do to try and help them (e.g. Vaseline) just ends up making them worse. This condition often causes nasty shadows on my lips that look horrible.
Get some vitamin C into you.....
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Old 13-01-2016, 14:15
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People who believe they are getting a deal come sale time and make every effort to secure some 'stuff' because it's a sale up to and including queuing overnight.
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Old 13-01-2016, 16:12
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These kind of things, they do NOT annoy me intensely, but make me mentally shake my head and mutter WTF.
On mass, instead of en masse, he-he, instead of hee-hee, on route, instead of en route, here here, instead of hear-hear, it's very quite, instead of very quiet.
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Old 13-01-2016, 16:14
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Hi tawny-owl,

Welcome to DS!
Hi evil - thanks for the welcome 👹
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Old 13-01-2016, 19:05
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Bbclassics, I know exactly what you mean. I've had many a strange interview in my time. It's also a kick in the teeth when you find out who did get the job and wonder who the hell they slept with! The amount of jobs up here that aren't advertised as well is ridiculous. It always goes to friends / family of the business owners. Frustrating to the extreme.
I've emailed them asking for some feedback but I doubt I'll get a reply.
I was professional throughout both interviews, I wish I could say the same for some of their staff.

The first interview had this boss who wanted us to ask questions 'only about him' (not the role), he was more interested in showing me what he bought today including his £200 gifts for himself. There was a lot more to it as he was er different shall we say, it was not a common scenario in a workplace.
The other staff wanted to rush the interview day as they 'wanted to clock off early and go home'.
I'm fed up of being treated like dirt,especially when I've put a lot of effort in.
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Old 13-01-2016, 19:25
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When people call the segway boards 'hoverboards'.
They have wheels on the ground. They do not hover.
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Old 13-01-2016, 20:19
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That's rotten, kiviraat, and makes my problems pale into significance. I'm so sorry, and hope that you will experience periods of remission to allow you to continue with the finer aspects of life that are so frustrating at present.

All the best

alycidon
Poor kiviraat! You're such a kind, helpful person and I'm so sorry for you. It's a debilitating condition. You are very brave and I'm going to be extra nice to you from now on!
Thank you alycidon and evil c No need to feel sorry though - everyone has hardships of some kind. Comparing can sometimes make you feel worse, so I tried not to do it (eg: there are people with more debilitating illnesses so I shouldn't complain etc). Luckily at the moment it isn't affecting my job, but once I'm back excavating and handling artefacts in the summer, I've no idea if I'll be able to do it safely without destroying something

I've emailed them asking for some feedback but I doubt I'll get a reply.I was professional throughout both interviews, I wish I could say the same for some of their staff.

The first interview had this boss who wanted us to ask questions 'only about him' (not the role), he was more interested in showing me what he bought today including his £200 gifts for himself. There was a lot more to it as he was er different shall we say, it was not a common scenario in a workplace.
The other staff wanted to rush the interview day as they 'wanted to clock off early and go home'.
I'm fed up of being treated like dirt,especially when I've put a lot of effort in.
He sounds like an absolute douchebag bbclassics. It's so easy to say "you're better off not working in an environment like that", but how people can act like that day after day and think of themselves and the business as professional is beyond me. An interview I had just before Christmas 2014 was strange. I can't really recall much now (I'd have to check my diary), but the three women interviewing me stared at me in disgust when I went to shake their hands afterwards and refused my hand. You'd think I had a dog turd in it or something (I know it wasn't for any h&s or religious reasons etc as they were all very happy to shake hands with another candidate who was being interviewed before me (I arrived early so witnessed it as they left). I really wanted that job...

All I can say is good luck. I hope a good stable job with no douchebags or weirdos means you have one less trivial thing in your life soon
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Old 13-01-2016, 20:38
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People who don't have their headlights correctly aligned, blinding me at 7 in the morning on the way to work.
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Old 13-01-2016, 20:44
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The way Outlook adds appointments that people have emailed you an invite for, regardless of whether you've actually accepted it.

When people call the segway boards 'hoverboards'.
They have wheels on the ground. They do not hover.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one annoyed by that. (It seems like they were trying to cash in on the fact that last year was the year Marty McFly travelled to in Back to the Future Part II.)
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Old 13-01-2016, 21:42
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He sounds like an absolute douchebag bbclassics. It's so easy to say "you're better off not working in an environment like that", but how people can act like that day after day and think of themselves and the business as professional is beyond me. An interview I had just before Christmas 2014 was strange. I can't really recall much now (I'd have to check my diary), but the three women interviewing me stared at me in disgust when I went to shake their hands afterwards and refused my hand. You'd think I had a dog turd in it or something (I know it wasn't for any h&s or religious reasons etc as they were all very happy to shake hands with another candidate who was being interviewed before me (I arrived early so witnessed it as they left). I really wanted that job...

All I can say is good luck. I hope a good stable job with no douchebags or weirdos means you have one less trivial thing in your life soon
Thanks, it's somewhat comforting to know other people have had rubbish/strange interviews too. I think some companies get so many candidates for one job role that they feel they can treat them like dirt, as there are so many people going for the role. It's not right, but that it is probably their line of thinking. Strange boss from my story didn't bother to shake my hand (or the other candidates hand) when 'welcoming' us and when leaving, so don't feel too bad about those rude three women.

I soon found out that the office was full of kooks (egomaniac boss included) don't think I could have put up with all that every day.
The other company interview I am gutted about as I worked really hard, I think I even out HR-ed the HR lady ,still some feedback would be good.

When people call the segway boards 'hoverboards'.
They have wheels on the ground. They do not hover.
I agree with this, throughout the christmas periods 'hoverboards' were all the rage and when I finally saw a picture of them I thought 'is that it? It's not even hovering'.
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Old 13-01-2016, 22:21
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Thank you alycidon and evil c No need to feel sorry though - everyone has hardships of some kind. Comparing can sometimes make you feel worse, so I tried not to do it (eg: there are people with more debilitating illnesses so I shouldn't complain etc). Luckily at the moment it isn't affecting my job, but once I'm back excavating and handling artefacts in the summer, I've no idea if I'll be able to do it safely without destroying something



He sounds like an absolute douchebag bbclassics. It's so easy to say "you're better off not working in an environment like that", but how people can act like that day after day and think of themselves and the business as professional is beyond me. An interview I had just before Christmas 2014 was strange. I can't really recall much now (I'd have to check my diary), but the three women interviewing me stared at me in disgust when I went to shake their hands afterwards and refused my hand. You'd think I had a dog turd in it or something (I know it wasn't for any h&s or religious reasons etc as they were all very happy to shake hands with another candidate who was being interviewed before me (I arrived early so witnessed it as they left). I really wanted that job...

All I can say is good luck. I hope a good stable job with no douchebags or weirdos means you have one less trivial thing in your life soon
Reminds me of an interview I was in a few years ago. A couple of women from HR were conducting first interviews on behalf of a lawyer. They asked me what I would think about his behaviour, and described how he was prone to being very rude, shouting at people, ignoring people and even throwing things around when he was "in a bad mood". I told them I thought he needed a lesson in manners. I didn't get the job.

Funnily enough that situation wasn't particularly unusual. I'd often be asked how I'd react to being treated badly...
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Old 14-01-2016, 00:46
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I liked your response Wolfsheadish. We should create a thread dedicated to shite / weird interviews, bosses and colleagues

Tonight's trivial moan: Adverts that are louder than the programme / other adverts. Means I have to get up and turn it down and then wait til it's over so I can turn it back up. Stop getting in the way of my laziness!
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Old 14-01-2016, 01:09
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That Yorkshire Tea advert.

"This is proper. This is Yorkshire"

Ugh!
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Old 14-01-2016, 03:44
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I liked your response Wolfsheadish. We should create a thread dedicated to shite / weird interviews, bosses and colleagues

Tonight's trivial moan: Adverts that are louder than the programme / other adverts. Means I have to get up and turn it down and then wait til it's over so I can turn it back up. Stop getting in the way of my laziness!

I'll maybe create a thread based on that, I feel a bit relieved that others have had to put up with difficult interviewers as I was thinking I was having some bad luck.

I think it's best to mute the ads, I keep the remote control by my side when watching TV.
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Old 14-01-2016, 04:04
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I'll maybe create a thread based on that, I feel a bit relieved that others have had to put up with difficult interviewers as I was thinking I was having some bad luck.

I think it's best to mute the ads, I keep the remote control by my side when watching TV.
I watch via catch up services online (don't have a TV), so no remote. Luckily ad-block keeps most of it at bay. Perhaps I need to invest in a really long stick to push the mute button on the keyboard, train one of the dogs to do it, or maybe even just get off my arse to do it myself

A trivial annoyance this week is that on the odd occasion I'll treat myself and Mr Kivi to a takeaway tea / coffee and home-bakes. I'm happy to pay a wee bit more for the cakes as they're award winning and well worth it. But we both take soya milk in lattes and the cafe uses the cheap 59p Tesco stuff - not even the nicer Alpro stuff. It makes it taste rank... If I'm paying upwards of £3 for a latte, I want it to taste nice! Think I'm going to change where I go.
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Old 14-01-2016, 06:17
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Our secretary has got a squeaky shoe. It's driving me mad.
Tell her to take the mouse off then and stick it back into the PC where it belongs.

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ATOL protected at the end of every holiday advert. Yes, we know. It's like an automated announcement e.g. 'mind the gap'.

The dumbing down of adverts knows no bounds these days.
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Old 14-01-2016, 06:37
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That I can receive the channel ITV Be which is full of -Z listers and people who are utter embarrasments, but I can't recieve ITV Encore which is full of mysteries and whodunnits (the sort of programmes I like!).
I know what you mean. The only reason I have the Sky Variety package at £18/month (I haggle) is for the Discovery and UKTV channels (most of which you can't get on Freeview/Freesat).

If I were in government, I'd make it illegal to show adverts on subscription channels. If that means some channels would have to close, so be it. The number of channels nowadays is overwhelming anyway. I've asked Sky if they would allow their customers to cherry pick more, as most of the channels in the variety package I never watch, such as the music and children's channels.
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Old 14-01-2016, 06:53
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I'm glad it's not just me that finds this name annoying. I know it's a homage to Back To The Future 2 but in that film the board actually hovered off the ground so was justifiably called that.

It seems to be because no one can settle on a proper name for them. They are also known as Swegways, AirWheels and self-balancing boards
I just call all of these things skateboards or roller skates. Fancy names for essentially the same thing. We are not talking about the latest generation of helicopters here, i.e. complicated stuff.

Does a hover board actually hover? No it doesn't, it trundles around on wheels, so why is it called a HOVER board!? 😡
It should do by know, according to Back To The Future II.

And we should be flying around in our cars.

I feel like I've been short changed.
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Old 14-01-2016, 07:56
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Itchiness and hiccups.

Two utterly pointless annoyances that do nothing useful whatsoever.
They are usually warning signs that your body may not be well, e.g. hiccups can be caused if you have multiple sclerosis or meningitis.
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Old 14-01-2016, 09:38
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I just call all of these things skateboards or roller skates. Fancy names for essentially the same thing. We are not talking about the latest generation of helicopters here, i.e. complicated stuff.



It should do by know, according to Back To The Future II.

And we should be flying around in our cars.

I feel like I've been short changed.
Well, if you take the hoverboard branding logic, then my car is officially a hovercar (despite having wheels).

Where I'm going I don't need roads. (Again technically inaccurate).
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