Soldato
My biggest pet peeve - which isn't limited to work I have to say - is people criticising a job I'm doing before it's complete. NOTHING winds me up more or is more likely to get someone told to 'F Right Off' in no uncertain terms.
Yeah, fair point. But like I say... count out 30secs in your head. It's forever to be waving that around in a public place. Honestly the first time at about 25secs I expected to hear a big "aaaah" and have to get on the phone to HRYeah, the excess shaking thing, (snip)
Yeah, fair point. But like I say... count out 30secs in your head. It's forever to be waving that around in a public place. Honestly the first time at about 25secs I expected to hear a big "aaaah" and have to get on the phone to HR
Ours do more or less this, but in the office. They stare at your PC for a bit and then go off to a free desk and work on it for an hour or so. When they're quite obviously googling it, followed by phoning their boss for advice.Give nothing to charities unless the CEO is on LESS than 100k a year!
My work pet peeve is the outsourced IT team that when they finally have time for you they connect remotely then google the problem you've told them about and leave the windows open for you to see once they've finally sorted it.
People who turn up for work one minute early then get cereal out of their desk drawer, scrounge milk from someone then eat a leisurely breakfast at their desk!
Guess what those people, I have breakfast at home because I'm normal and like to be productive at work.
Bloody millenials... young lad at work had his dog put down on Friday, which is obviously very sad. If I lost my dog I'd be gutted don't get me wrong.
Today someone asked me to sign a sympathy card for him...erm no, I won't be doing that, sorry... Victor Meldrew mic drop...
"touch/touching base".
I actually don't mind "going forward" as it's a good way of denoting that for all occurrences, all the time, every time etc. this 'thing' will happen. If you say "in the future" it doesn't quite mean the same. My girlfriend hates "long story short" but again, I can't think of a clearer way of saying that...
I have a new toilet-related one. What about the people that come out of the cubicles and walk straight out the door Disgusting cretins. You have to go through two doors out of our loos, then two more into the office floor. I don't want to touch all the handles you've just touched after having a **** and not washing your hands
Haha the same thing happened when I did some work for Aviva a number of years ago, someone accidentally selected the wrong mail group which was disguised as everyone. The number of people that replied with "I don't think this was meant for me" etc, email was down for a couple of days!
Oh wow I didn't think about that, yeh the content was customer related IIRC!I was working there then, heard on the rumour mill it generated 10 million mails, the original content related to what would be now a massive gdpr fine, kept us all amused for a few hours
Where I work now, our bereavement policy covers better half, parents, siblings and offspring. That is paid compassionate leave up to 2 weeks. Grandparents is at manager's discretion. Check this out though, my previous manager managed to get a few days paid compassionate leave for her dog last year! Plus, it wasn't her only dog - she has 3.