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So here at work we have a Quality Assurance log where you note down errors of products that previous workers produced. I have this one guy who when he relieves me writes me up for items, that I'm very clearly doing correctly, he just doesn't understand the procedure. Every time he does it, I annotate that it is correct, explain why, and then list the reference to the guidance that shows why. Then the next day he does the same exact thing again.

Today I got tired of it, and left a nasty (but still polite) note in the log. This just drives me nuts. While I don't exactly appreciate it when people point out I did something wrong, when it's legitimate I can at least accept it, and strive to do it better. When I'm repeatedly told i'm neglecting my duties though, even though I am not, it just pushes my buttons the wrong way.



Oh, people who leave toilet paper floating in the toilet, that drives me insane as well.



What bout you guys?


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And yes, I know this is probably the umpteenth time this thread has been done, but I needed to vent damnit.

You know what really grinds my gears? When other people pawn their jobs off on me. I remember working in stock at a store and someone calls me on the walkie and asks me to pull an item. Something they're perfectly capable of doing themselves since I had to work on a time table and we never really made it because of that kind of thing. Bonus points to the douche who stands by the item they want waiting for me to come pick it off the shelf. Seriously. They were that lazy.

 LordofHats wrote:
You know what really grinds my gears? When other people pawn their jobs off on me. I remember working in stock at a store and someone calls me on the walkie and asks me to pull an item. Something they're perfectly capable of doing themselves since I had to work on a time table and we never really made it because of that kind of thing. Bonus points to the douche who stands by the item they want waiting for me to come pick it off the shelf. Seriously. They were that lazy.

That would warrant a workplace accident in my eyes.

"Seriously boss, I have no idea how the shelf fell on him."

I don't take half measures;

This grinds me to no end. I work the grill and close it on MON and WED with a co-worker. By myself it takes an hour, 25 minutes with 2 people. My boss says the co-worker needs help closing, despite him having it down and being the one to taught me. but on Tues/THURS, when he isnt there and i ask for help, i get the "You have done it before"
And being told to do an hour long job in 15 minutes.

I don't like it when people say "literally" before a factual sentence. They never say "Metaphorically" before a metaphorical sentence, do they? What really gets me is when people say "literally" before a metaphorical sentence as in "I could literally eat a horse right now".

People that don't wipe down exercise equipment after using it, and people that cough into their hands rather than their shoulder (or don't cover their cough at all).

Oh, and people that don't re-rack weight, or re-rack them in the wrong order.

 TheCustomLime wrote:
I don't like it when people say "literally" before a factual sentence. They never say "Metaphorically" before a metaphorical sentence, do they? What really gets me is when people say "literally" before a metaphorical sentence as in "I could literally eat a horse right now".

Funny story, a linguist I know got into a three hour internet debate today over whether dictionaries should include two definitions for 'literally.' Yeah. It was as pointless as it sounds.

Off topic arguments that get drug into any thread even minutely related. Especially those arguments that were dead horses in the 90s.

People who walk slowly and/or take up space in the worst possible place in a high traffic area, like at the bottom of stairs or in front of a door.

I don't think there's much that can infuriate me so quickly as that.

Lose my mind.

So many I can relate to, when the muscle heads dont re rack and just walk off without wiping down I can get behind that its infuriating.

When someone wont stop talking to you no matter how many times you tell them to feth off or drop the hint you dont want to chat


but mine right now, is work related. A person I work with, we work sundays together and get in the same time, but for the first four hours I am the only person who does work (unless I am cannot do any thing else) I have answered three phones at once, been checking in drivers four or five at a time and trying to talk with managment inside and letting them know where stuff is going. After all that, she is a pretty obvious racist towards the Middle easterm, Slavic and hispanic drivers that all come in....just infuriates me and she doesnt get fired because she is a cancer survivor and everyone feels bad....those are basically my full timers words....iMad

Our bar-code scanning medication administration system at my hospital.

Step 1: Open the computer chart for the patient and look at the medication order and see the following note: 10mg dose, give two 5mg pills.
Step 2: Scan the first pill, get interupted by popup from the program: "Order is for 10mg, that's two 5mg pills". Hit acknoledge while getting angry.
Step 3: Popup disappears, now you have dialog window "You scanned one 5mg pill, one additional 5mg pill needs to be scanned for this order to make 10mg". Ignore pulsating vein on your forehead as you scan the second pill.
Step 4: New popup window "Thanks for scanning the two 5mg pills. Now can you please type in how much medicine you are giving even though you just got done scanning two 5mg pills after we told you three times that you need to give that much medicine". Throw computer down the stairs...

 Blacksails wrote:
People who walk slowly and/or take up space in the worst possible place in a high traffic area, like at the bottom of stairs or in front of a door.

I don't think there's much that can infuriate me so quickly as that.

Lose my mind.

Once, while on Chantix, I may have screamed at some teenage girls that 'it's called a sidewalk, not a sidestand!'


Nothing sends me into a slow spiral into blackest hate like having to do something over again. (I mean because either I or someone else screwed something up, not tasks like dishes that inherently have to be done repeatedly--although eventually those can drive me nuts too...) For some reason, a sudden unexpected blow to the head (standing up and hitting a cabinet or somesuch) will send me into a violent rage. Not uncontrolled, but I once threw a chip display across a convenience store. (To mollify the craziness of that--the store was empty, closed, and I was working there.)

People that start clapping in time to music on TV....I can't explain it at all but whenever it happens I just want to scream!

When people (My little brother) go in my room and take my laptop without my permission. Seriously, i wouldnt mind too much if he asked first, but even when he does he rarely accepts "no"

My college computers. There are so many broken monitors, nonfunctional keyboards, etc, despite the fact that we are in the IT department.

One of my tutors, a woman named Sheena. She dosnt actually teach us anything. Infact, to quote our first web development lesson: We sat down and she told us too "Design a proffessional website" and that was that. For 1 and a half terms .

The couple across the road whom think that its acceptable to get drunk and then argue and scream at each other so loud that they can be heard clearly across the road, and wake me up when i struggle to sleep in the first place and have college the next day. Even worse these arguments take place at around 10:30 too 02:00 and can last for hours. That said and done, watching one beat the other (Usually her beating him) can be fun.

Any mention of the game. P.S. you just lost.

Gamers whom dont wash, and think that stinking like something from the sewer and think that that is acceptable. Thankfully my club is devoid of them .

D6 gaming, for being complete asshats and bringing cut-and-paste tournament meta lists to what was suppossed to be a friendly series of games. That said, we at RedSteel still outnumber them, and have better attitudes.
Also, one of their members posting very insulting remarks about us on their facebook page.

 djones520 wrote:
So here at work we have a Quality Assurance log where you note down errors of products that previous workers produced. I have this one guy who when he relieves me writes me up for items, that I'm very clearly doing correctly, he just doesn't understand the procedure. Every time he does it, I annotate that it is correct, explain why, and then list the reference to the guidance that shows why. Then the next day he does the same exact thing again.

Today I got tired of it, and left a nasty (but still polite) note in the log. This just drives me nuts. While I don't exactly appreciate it when people point out I did something wrong, when it's legitimate I can at least accept it, and strive to do it better. When I'm repeatedly told i'm neglecting my duties though, even though I am not, it just pushes my buttons the wrong way.



Oh, people who leave toilet paper floating in the toilet, that drives me insane as well.



What bout you guys?


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And yes, I know this is probably the umpteenth time this thread has been done, but I needed to vent damnit.

I have a solution. It involves a rock about the size of a grapefruit. You know what to do.

 d-usa wrote:
Our bar-code scanning medication administration system at my hospital.

Step 1: Open the computer chart for the patient and look at the medication order and see the following note: 10mg dose, give two 5mg pills.
Step 2: Scan the first pill, get interupted by popup from the program: "Order is for 10mg, that's two 5mg pills". Hit acknoledge while getting angry.
Step 3: Popup disappears, now you have dialog window "You scanned one 5mg pill, one additional 5mg pill needs to be scanned for this order to make 10mg". Ignore pulsating vein on your forehead as you scan the second pill.
Step 4: New popup window "Thanks for scanning the two 5mg pills. Now can you please type in how much medicine you are giving even though you just got done scanning two 5mg pills after we told you three times that you need to give that much medicine". Throw computer down the stairs...

An engineer with no balls wrote that program! I'm not talking about a female engineer, but rather an engineer that was told to put all that gak in by committee and said "Sure!"

Threads where people rant about their pet peeves

Companies not putting your favourite character from their background into a real computer game, and instead farming it out as some crap mobile phone game.

At the moment, that is at the top of my list.

 Blacksails wrote:
People who walk slowly and/or take up space in the worst possible place in a high traffic area, like at the bottom of stairs or in front of a door.

I don't think there's much that can infuriate me so quickly as that.

Lose my mind.

Oh!!! this really winds me up too. Why do slow people always seem to take up the whole footpath? And talking about stopping in stupid places, I've had someone step off an escalator in front of me, and then just stop dead while their tiny mind tried to figure out what to do next. I mean seriously? Here's a suggestion for what to do next... "Get out the fething way of the escalator!". This is always what you need to do next after getting off an escalator, no exceptions! There is no need to stop and think about it, or get your bearings.

Where I live is quite a busy main street, and it always seems to be cluttered with people milling around in the way, and stopping in bottlenecks. I often fantasize about being able to walk around with a cattle prod. Just making the world a better smarter place, one zap at a time.

I could probably write a book of work related peeves. But suffice to say: no good deed goes unpunished.

Groups of 3 or 4 people that all walk side by side, taking up the whole fething aisle or walkway.

Also, slow drivers in the fast lane.

Also, slow drivers in the fast lane that won't get out of the fething way.

And air port security. feth you for making me wait an hour in line to go through your fething metal detector or scanner while you and Biff, the 450 lb man that couldn't stop jack gak from getting through the check point, discuss who's going for lunch.

Massive backpacks on public transportation. If the bus or subway is half-full then no big deal, but rushhour with something sticking out 1 foot from your back... GG.

Rain on your wedding day.
A free ride when you've already paid.
Winning the lottery at 98 then dying the next day.
Good advice you can't take.
Death row pardons that come 2 minutes too late.
Black flies in my wine.
No smoking signs when I need my smoke break.
10,000 spoons when a sing knife is required.
Traffic jams when I'm running late already.

1 people that don't use their blinkers. I mean there right there. USE THEM

2 smelly people who refuse to shower. It should be socialy acceptable to tackle said individual, tie them up and drag them through a car was a couple times to learn their lesson.

3. Slow people in the fast lane. MOVE OVER!!!

4. That group of overly load and obnoxious women that I get sat near whenever we go to Applebee's. I don't need to hear your lif story from accross the isle.

5. Lazy coworkers.

6 parents that ignore their children in a store. That's great that you can tune your kid out when he/she screaming at the top of their lungs. I don't though. Be a parent.

7. Cheaters/liers. You know who you are

8. Politicians. All of em

9. People that sneeze into there hand and offer a handshake right after and get angry when you wont shake there hand.

10 the total lack of customer service training of any kind for employees. Example. . I go to a Gamestop and ask an employee about a particular game. The response I get is I don't know man I don't play video games. Really?

Kronk, you had to do that, didn't you?

And the big one for me is people avoiding work/passing the buck on someone else. Feth me, you're training to do an EASY claims process, WHY DO YOU FEEL THE NEED TO MAKE IT HARDER FOR OTHER PEOPLE?

People.

 Avatar 720 wrote:
People.

See we're all thinking it and Avatar just comes right out and says it.

People.

 d-usa wrote:
Our bar-code scanning medication administration system at my hospital.

Step 1: Open the computer chart for the patient and look at the medication order and see the following note: 10mg dose, give two 5mg pills.
Step 2: Scan the first pill, get interupted by popup from the program: "Order is for 10mg, that's two 5mg pills". Hit acknoledge while getting angry.
Step 3: Popup disappears, now you have dialog window "You scanned one 5mg pill, one additional 5mg pill needs to be scanned for this order to make 10mg". Ignore pulsating vein on your forehead as you scan the second pill.
Step 4: New popup window "Thanks for scanning the two 5mg pills. Now can you please type in how much medicine you are giving even though you just got done scanning two 5mg pills after we told you three times that you need to give that much medicine". Throw computer down the stairs...

Pretty sure that that is all intentional to make sure you are dosing the patient correctly.


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 LordofHats wrote:
You know what really grinds my gears?

Here's my pet peeve.


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 Leigen_Zero wrote:
Threads where people rant about their pet peeves

Or this one covers it perfectly.

 Avatar 720 wrote:
People.

+10 internets for you. Clear, and to the point.

Another one, The TA in this particular class insists on stalking around the classroom and staring at everything your doing. she leans her head over your shoulder, gets intrusively close and makes little comments like "get on with your work" "are you doing your work" etc.
To compound matters this unit is an autofail because weve finally started work on it, with only a term to go. Long live the incompetence or Preston College!