[STICKIED] Community Question Post #52 - PET PEEVE

[theidolhands]

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theidolhands asks: What is something relatively small that a co_worker/boss has done to annoy yourself and/or others?

Did you feel it was to petty or difficult to complain about?

How did you cope or deal with the situation?

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[_zox_]

I do have a terrible co-worker who went through this period of humming/singing. It was so irritating since I could hear her even while wearing earbuds and having music on pretty high volume. I tried to be polite and just take it, at first. But after weeks of this, I finally just told her to stop it, which she did. We don't get along for various (other) reasons so it felt good to tell her to shut her pie hole.

[theidolhands]

I feel there are people who need to constantly make noise in order to justify their existence.

It's funny though, I had this one co-worker who always whistled a tuneless whistle that drove my boss nuts, although it didn't bother me (though I could see how it would bother someone). I didn't care though, because that boss had serious issues of his own - very immature. However, the guy would start whistling, I'd barely notice, and eventually my boss would just shout his name like you might at a dog! That'd put an end to it for a while. lol

[_zox_]

Oh, yup, this co-worker of mine is definitely one of those people. She can't even go to the bathroom without humming a tune! For awhile, she had her cellphone set to this nuclear-meltdown-end-of-the-world alarm that would go off at work pretty much at least once a day. Our boss asked her to put a stop to it since he said it's bad for his bad heart. Lol. It's as if she just sat there quietly, she would feel she didn't exist or something.

[kharmii]

It's more with customers. Since I took a route in the middle of nowhere, there are hardly any complaints. The only current one is of the hoarder lady who will not answer the door when one knocks and then hangs around for almost five minutes filling out a form. She'll call the supervisor and say that 'poor her-nobody ever waits-it takes her longer to come to the door'. I suspect she's really taking a nap in a drugged up stupor. I don't even think she's handicapped, just old and crazy. I feel bad for complaining but the RCA who does my route on my days off can't stand her either now

[theidolhands]

1. Is that the one whose home also reeks of urine?

2. Oh man...that's gold, and yet you can see how no one has probably even realized how true what you're saying is; they really SHOULD be shoveling with the mail delivery person in mind as well.

3. WHO DOES THAT?! Where and why on Earth does he have that habit??

4. Truer words...and L-O-L.

Hey, hey, I wanna ask...do you have like a favorite mail delivery person in fiction? Is it something you've ever focused on? Because I know a lot of dentists I met were very self conscious about fictional dental characters (although I love those characters).

[kharmii]

3. It's like he sucks air deeply through his teeth as he revels in the clever comment he just made. Really, he just said something mildly retarded.

Fictional mail person-not really. I'm sure they are out there, but they probably don't even do the same things I do. Most are probably clerks or city carriers who walk around with a satchel. I'm out in the country and now basically more like UPS or FedEx.

HAHA..I'll bet dentists aren't pleased with Steve Martin's character in Little Shop of Horrors. Classic.

[kharmii]

I thought of this today and srsly could not think of one mail person in fiction. It probably wouldn't be that big a deal if they were shown negatively somewhere. It's not like public perception of mail carriers would matter in the grand scheme of things. It wouldn't make trouble for anybody.

Now, it makes me mad when Christians are shown negatively in fiction. I could think of countless instances. Then we're dealing with warring ideologies where, even if one looked at it in a worldly sense, has certain ideas more likely to cause death, poverty and misery.

Same with dentists..not important in the grand scheme of things. I could give them a pass because negativity in media might be bad for business. A lot of people are nervous about going to the dentist. Seeing a sadist who enjoys inflicting pain wouldn't help. It's funny how they take a person's blood pressure at the dentist just to see if they are nervous by being there.