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Whoami

Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 03:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Even the production guy? What's that supposed to mean? Man, could I ever read a bunch into that! (been in production most of my life!).

Not trying to flame. Just nit-picking. The reason it stood out to me was cause how production people were treated in one place I worked. The vending machines were located in a place where the "office" people had to walk through the production area to get to them. I saw several of those ladies walk through with their arms folded tight against thier bodies, and glance nervously from side to side as they walked through, like we were rabid and likely to pounce on them and rip them apart if they weren't careful! And the hostile glares we'd get if we had to walk over to their side of "The Wall."

I'm sure you aren't like that!

I guess that could be another pet peeve for me, people who rate thier superiority and worthiness as a human over another based on the type of job they do. Again, not saying I think you are like that.

Kady

Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 04:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Moon....what a clever idea of hanging the trash bags. I think that might just work!! :)

Don't worry guys, it only happens a few times a year. So far this season only once. The new girl found it and boy she was disgusted.

And you are right Who, I sure wouldn't want to go swimming with those people!!

I remember awhile back we had a similiar thread. I remember alot of people posting about others getting in their space while in shopping lines. I just wanted you to know that I now observe the two foot rule in line. :)

Whoami

Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 05:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm right there with you Bbfreak, about the treatment of the elderly/handicapped. I wrote a scathing letter to Safeway, mentioning names (I love it when a jerk clerk has a nametag) when one girl was nearly livid with an elderly lady who was confused on the rules of one of the lotto games here. After she left (she was in line ahead of me, so I was still there to hear the comments), the girl turned to her co-worker and said, "they shouldn't let these people buy tickets if they can't understand how it works."

"These people." Sheesh!

Sia

Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 08:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Bandit, I have a suggestion for you: mess with the realtor's mind just a little bit by telling her that someone came into the office and took a card from the rack that was positioned at the BACK, saying, "I feel I should help the underdog here; I'll choose my realtor from the back of the counter. Boy, the people in front must be really pushy! Steer me clear of those agents!"

Sweetbabygirl

Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 11:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Totally agree about cashiers talking when they should be attending to you and your purchase.

Two weeks ago, I was in the supermarket with two coupons totalling $40 (present from my friend) for groceries. When I got to the cashier's post, he was talking to his co-worker behind him. Already I was put off, but chose to ignore it. Anyway, as he totalled the items he continued to talk to his co-worker. The total came to $46.42....I gave him my debit card to charge the $6.42 difference, but he charged my account $46.42. This I discovered a day later, when I was charged an overdraft fee of $31.00.

To say that I was p-od was an understatement. The anger of his talking to his co-worker came rushing back as I called the manager, demanding that they refund me not only the overdraft charge, but the amount that would have been in my account had the moron paid attention. My job is to come to the market, make my purchases and go home....IT IS NOT MY RESPONSIBILITY to look over everything, that's why they are there. To make a long story short, I was given the refund. When I went to get the money, the manager had the nerve to offer a frickin' plant as a consolation gift. I told him that given all the trouble, I should be given a discount on my next purchase....naturally no answer was given, lol! Now that I think about it, instead of the plant I should have gotten Edy's Triple Butter Pecan and Carmel Ice Cream; guys, try this and I guarantee you will be addicted!!

Anyway, I am still waiting to find out about the cards totalling $40, as the cashier either lost or stole them.

Another pet peeve is people that don't wash their hands after using the toilet. I actually had a debate with a friend who said that he had just showered and was clean....the bottom line is that his hands WERE ON HIS PRIVATES!! It doesn't matter if that area smells like roses, wash your hands dude, lol!!

Weenerlobo

Friday, March 28, 2003 - 12:13 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Another one of my pet peeves is being ignored.

Whoami

Friday, March 28, 2003 - 12:40 am EditMoveDeleteIP
<Pays close attention to Weener so she doesn't feel ignored...>

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I hate being ignored too!

Bobbie_552001

Friday, March 28, 2003 - 07:44 am EditMoveDeleteIP
People who think that the elevator will get there faster if they push the little button several times in a row.....

Djgirl5235

Friday, March 28, 2003 - 07:51 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Bobbie - we have to do that in our building here at work - it drives me crazy that I actually have to hold the call button in or the elevator won't stop!

Bandit

Friday, March 28, 2003 - 08:30 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Sia- LOL!!!!! I should try that. (Then she'll probably want her cards in both spots!)

Bobbie_552001

Friday, March 28, 2003 - 09:48 am EditMoveDeleteIP
For you djgirl I'll make an exception....

Dahli

Friday, March 28, 2003 - 10:00 am EditMoveDeleteIP
People who say 'enamored with' it absolutely irks me and last summer our local paper used the word that way I confronted them, they explained that most poeple are not familiar with the correct use 'enamored of' so they decided to use it incorrectly! That slippery slope is a bit scary...

Kady - have you thought of posting a NO URINATING sign over the trash bin?? (future urinators names will be posted in waiting room!) LOL

Denecee

Friday, March 28, 2003 - 10:20 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Whoami, I didn't mean anything derogatory about production people. We only have one guy in production and he's very sweet. My gripe was that the sales guy(general manager/boss) can't even fold his own mail and stuff it into the envelope. The production guy isn't in the office that much so I could totally accept him having me do his mail. I know it's a silly little gripe and I need to get over it because I don't think it's going to change.

Denecee

Friday, March 28, 2003 - 10:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Can I comment on the office girls walking through the production area with arms folded? Ok, thanks I will. The girls may have felt like they were being scrutinized or they may have felt superior, who knows? Either way, in bigger companies I hear this happens alot, office people and production people not mixing. It's silly but it happens. I try to make everybody feel like they are part of the same team so you'll get none of that big head stuff from me!

Ophiliasgrandma

Friday, March 28, 2003 - 10:35 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Have you notice how often the tv news media uses the word 'actually'? Drives me bonkers, and now that I've mentioned it you too will be going round the bend everytime you watch the news. Sorry!

Fanny

Friday, March 28, 2003 - 10:38 am EditMoveDeleteIP
OG, Ming Tsai (sp?) who has a cooking show on Food TV (East Meets West is one of 'em) cannot get through a sentence without saying "actually". It actually drives me friggin nuts and I actually physically can't watch his show because of it. <shudders>

Whoami

Friday, March 28, 2003 - 10:54 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Denecee, don't worry. If I thought you were really being snobby/derogatory, I probably wouldn't have said anything!

Maybe that GM/Boss is the type who is "too important" to fold his own paper!

Our company was absolutly the type where the office people held themselves high and mighty. The production people weren't scrutinizing them at all. We were just going about our own work. The look of disgust on these office people's faces as they looked from side to side told it all! Thank God I'm not there anymore (actually, the company isn't there anymore either!).

Fanny, there's a lady on one of the Denver news channels I can't stand. She already bugged me big time with her fake bantering around with the other anchors. But when she butchered Gene Amole's name repeatedly during the station's tribute to him, I just wanted to scream! Now I tend to turn the channel just so I don't have to look at her!

Fanny

Friday, March 28, 2003 - 10:58 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Who, is it Anita Lopez, channel 9? OMG I can't stand watching her. I have to change the channel when she's on. She's horrible. What in the hell did channel 9 see in her? AAAACCCCKKKK

Oops I'm ranting. sorry.

Tishala

Friday, March 28, 2003 - 11:00 am EditMoveDeleteIP
oh! I have a list of DON'T for my college students about writing. I am old school about some things, even though I don't practice them here. A few of my favorities:

"particular": people say "at this particualr time" or "at this particular location"...Why not just NOW and HERE, please?

"impact": an old professor said it'sa beurocratic way of saying "affect". Try it sometime. It really is.

"female" when people mean "woman." For this, I hang the blame on rap music.

"utilize," the fancy way of saying "use."

"aspect," the fancy way of saying "thing."

"Hopefully" means "in a hopeful way," not "I hope." So it's NOT "Hopefully our trops will return soon," but that "the troops responded hopefully to the messages from home."

I could go on, but you know, being a female, I utilize lots of words that have no impact on any aspect of conversation, so I will hopefully stop at this particular time.

Fanny

Friday, March 28, 2003 - 11:07 am EditMoveDeleteIP
<Tish, your post above-referenced impacted me greatly. Particularly as a female, I utilize the written language in many aspects of my life and myself will hopefully learn from what you presented.

{that's one for me...using "myself" when "I" or "me" is the proper usage)

Whoami

Friday, March 28, 2003 - 11:15 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Well Fanny, actually , it's Shaul Turner on Fox. She just really rubs me the wrong way. Blech!

Twinkie

Friday, March 28, 2003 - 11:20 am EditMoveDeleteIP
My pet peeve about words is the word "basically".

Something either is or it isn't.

I also go nuts about seen versus saw. It makes me crazy to hear people say "I seen him do it".
Its "I saw him do it". Or "I've seen him do it before". I think I should have been an English teacher because incorrect grammar makes me cringe.

Another thing that annoys me is when you can't find a sales clerk in a store. I have literally gone all over a store looking for one. Where do they hide out????

Tabbyking

Friday, March 28, 2003 - 11:23 am EditMoveDeleteIP
i hate it when i hear my dental hygienist tell the front office gal how much she drank the night before and how much her head hurts and that she didn't get any sleep...then she calls me in to clean my teeth.

i love it when telemarketers get through my telezapper. if they don't ask how i am doing, i ask how they are doing, so to be polite, they have to ask how i am doing. and then i go for it:
"oh, thank you for asking! i have had the $#ittiest day. the dog barfed all over the clean laundry and my daughter failed her math test, i owe 10,000 bucks on credit cards and my feet ache. Oh, and my mom called and bored me to tears with her b of the m club (bowel movement, not book club, lol)..."
and for some reason, they hang up on ME!!

i used to say i was the babysitter, but once, my daughter got hurt at school and her teacher called that night to see how she was. and he butchered my first name, so i told him i was the babysitter. and he said, "this is caitlin's teacher, Mr. E, and i was concerned..." and i had to say, "it's me. sorry, i get so many calls, i have to pretend i'm not home!" i was soooo embarrassed, but any other times he had to call me, he was quick to say, "it's caitlin's teacher, you can admit it's you!"

Whoami

Friday, March 28, 2003 - 11:38 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I hate it when the clerk at the grocery store has a cold. She hacks and coughs. Stops to blow her nose, then proceeds to pick up my food items to scan them! Yuck!

Bandit

Friday, March 28, 2003 - 12:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL TABBY!!!!