I always remember my flatmate at Warwick uni (On the outskirts of Coventry) once exclaiming "god, how I hate the provinces!" I believe the complaint at the time was due to the softness of the water. She was from Finchley

Inspire / Creative

Two annoying and overused words that no longer have any value.

It still is;

…and thats ‘ow we bloody well like it!

Poor interviews - not on my behalf, I mean the ones were the staff are out of their depth and no one really knows what's going on.
Last one asked some nosy questions (how old are you? Oh thanks), didn't ask any useful questions thus I had no chance to shine so to speak. And the guy who was interviewing me - he was just DEATH. It was like talking to a brick wall - like he didn't want to communicate, he was very awkward and lacking social skills imo.

And his opening gambit was along the lines of 'yeah the boss couldn't be bothered doing interviews so I'm stuck doing it (despite having no knowledge of the work/industry you're in). By the way our boss is a control freak who likes to 'speak her mind' , she'll keep an eye on you at all times and can be dismissive of your work if it's not to her liking. Some people consider her rude so you'll need 'a thick skin'.'

Gee - what a welcome! I've had two godawful bosses in the past and I don't need this.
The environment reminded me of battery hens stuck in four bright white walls.
Luckily I have another interview tomorrow so I hope it's much better.

Logistics - the actual word 'logistics'. On a recent coach trip to Scotland I found myself counting how many lorries which we passed had the word 'logistics' in their company name - nearly all. It's just another way of saying 'transport' - possibly an Americanism or from military use. It annoys me no end!

The related one that gets me is “temperature-controlled distribution" - why can't they just say "refrigerated transport"?

Unfriendly service in shops - I swear some of them don't like me on sight.......could be my antennae

I've had stroppy service in 2 supermarkets, a card shop and a cafe today all by women - as far as I can tell I just said and did exactly as the ones before me.......definitely the antennae.....

Once, in a sports shop, I was at the head of my queue and the girl looked around to the person behind me and attempted to serve them first.

Sometimes I think they wait for you to speak - don't they have to say 'can I help you' or is that jest too old-fashioned.

And a couple of days ago I went into my local fish and chip shop (classy eh) and asked for my large cod and waited near the door as directed and 2 men who were in there after me were served first! But they did want chips and things so maybe they were more important as they were big spenders.

You can see why I don't like going to the bar in a pub.

Unlike us lot Darn Sarf who partake of oysters and champagne for elevenses

The football forum on here, 90% of the posters on there don't have the foggiest..

Mini Spoilers

With big 'event' TV Shows now (Game of Thrones etc.) it is understood that it's not cool to give away spoilers. So now what the media do is mini spoilers, they won't tell you what happened exactly but they will generally disclose what to expect. This isn't in the article it's frequently within the headline, and down news sidebars, and embedded alongside other news items, so they're difficult to not skim your eyes over.

ie.

'A beloved character exits the show'

'An old face returns to G.O.T'

'Twist finale to the series'

I find it very frustrating as I want to go into a show having NO IDEA what to expect. These mini spoilers and cues mean that I have an idea of whats going to happen, it's not a full spoiler, but it dampens the surprise and impact.

A certain website I won't mention were guility of this on their Facebook feeds when Doctor Who was on. Within minutes of it finishing they post mini spoilers in the headline but ruin it with pictures. People always defended them by saying don't look, but it's pretty hard not to see a picture that's just appeared in front of you with a headline 'Who is Missys MASTER?'or something like that.

People - typical pompous journalists or politicians - saying "a nonsense", as in "such-and-such, as a concept, is ridiculous, a complete nonsense". Grips my shit, that.

It's annoying isn't it. In fact DS is doing it as we speak with a new article about Season 4 of 'Orange Is The New Black', this is exactly the sort of thing I'm on about. I like the way they say don't proceed as spoilers are ahead despite the fact they've already semi-spoiled the ending to the series within the header.

It's here/ Do NOT click or look at this link if you are watching Orange Is The New Black

Could they have ordered, Went away while it was cooking and then returned. I do that often at our local one as i can pop around to another shop in the time it takes to cook. Then return and pay so to some it may look like i have just walked in and been served

When someone else drives your car and you can never quite get the seat back in the right position, grrrrrrr.

Why can't we just watch a programme nowadays? Do they think we're scared of the very plot-developments they work so hard to devise unless we have advanced-warning of them? I'm a grown man. I don't need mummy to give me a sweetie to suck.

It's getting silly, they even do it with the news. "A politician will make a speech tomorrow in which he will say ...".
Oh, just wait five effing minutes, why don't you, then we can hear it for ourselves.

The city near me is pretty bad in terms of customer service. There is a few bars where the staff are nice (usually young men) but most bars are awful - they're too busy messing about with their colleagues.
You'd think I'd be hard to miss nearly being 6 foot tall. They'd much rather tickle their colleagues behind the bar and fart about than serve customers. I boycott those bars, save my money for the few venues where the staff don't make you feel invisible and are actually decent towards you.

Job rejections based on "team fit" or "company culture." This means one of two things: that they are extremely cliquey and snobbish, or (more likely) that they have rejected you for a reason that is obviously unfair or illegal. I'd rather hear "We rejected you because you're female/mixed-race/have a history of mental health problems/we think you're likely to go on maternity leave/we spied on your Facebook, etc." than "We just didn't feel you were a good team fit!"

The chemist. I've got to make a third trip there this week at some point because yet again, they don't have all my medication. Their solution? Go back to my GP and get something else. If only it was that simple.

They actualy told me Monday monday they'd have everything for me on Monday afternoon and I waited until yesterday morning to go there.

Rejection based on 'rethinking our current strategy'. Another similar one

Two words - Patient Access

Urgh. The kebab shop over the road is the opposite of this. They make the food strictly in the sequence it was ordered. Annoying if I've popped over for a kebab, which is a five minute job to assemble, but they've just had a phone order for half a dozen pizza. They won't even start work on my kebab until those pizzas are out of the door, even if they're just hanging around waiting for the pizzas to cook.

On the plus side, it does stop me too many kebabs, if they were better kebabs or a better shop I'd have loads of them.

A Moon Under Water bar I used to frequent, one night, I'd been stood at the bar for 30 minutes, leaning on it, as you do when you're showing interest in being served. The fella behind the bar served 8 women before he came to me, I flipped. Not been in since. Proper sleaze he was, I was laughing when he came to me and he looked offended, obviously knowing full well what he was doing, prick.

When people make jokes about depression.

My old fashioned British politeness that comes out at times. For e.g. an agent had set up a meeting for me (she made the travel plan) with a client, and she ended up messing up my appointment time (despite apparently checking the plan). I had to cancel because of this as there is no way I'd make it at the time she had picked (due to public transport). I apologised to her on the phone but after hanging up thought hang on a second - she was the one who made the travel plan. It was up to her to check it was solid.

That work asked me to come in on my week off. But, hey, we're apparently not understaffed so they shouldn't have had to call me in the first place. But they did. Took me an hour to calm down enough to say no and not eff off.