Pet Peeves

[Hijinks]

There's a woman at work who is starting to become the poster child for my pet peeves.

She's constantly saying "Cool beans." Never mind the fact that this phrase is a little dated, it's pretty darn annoying to hear it over and over again all day long. She'll call someone and ask a question, then say "Cool beans! Thanks!" Gaa.

Then she apparently thinks that whispering gossip to a co-worker is less distracting to the other people working around them. Unfortunately, she whispers so loudly that it's more distracting than if she were speaking in a normal tone of voice. Although I don't want to hear what she might be talking about (and don't really care, since it's all about pregnancy crap anyway), my ears unconsciously strain to hear what she's saying because I can hear her whispering. Also, when a person whispers, I tend to think they're saying "naughty" things, such as gossip about a co-worker, or about me, and I tend to want to hear the conversation more because it sounds insidious. People need to just talk in a normal tone of voice, and then other people will eavesdrop less because they'll tune it out.

 

[GlassJaw]

Go to Taco Bell and buy a bean burrito and hide it in her desk somewhere.

 

[der_kluge]

Kill her and take her stuff.

 

[Vraille Darkfang]

There's a woman at work who is starting to become the poster child for my pet peeves.

She's constantly saying "Cool beans." Never mind the fact that this phrase is a little dated, it's pretty darn annoying to hear it over and over again all day long. She'll call someone and ask a question, then say "Cool beans! Thanks!" Gaa.

Then she apparently thinks that whispering gossip to a co-worker is less distracting to the other people working around them. Unfortunately, she whispers so loudly that it's more distracting than if she were speaking in a normal tone of voice. Although I don't want to hear what she might be talking about (and don't really care, since it's all about pregnancy crap anyway), my ears unconsciously strain to hear what she's saying because I can hear her whispering. Also, when a person whispers, I tend to think they're saying "naughty" things, such as gossip about a co-worker, or about me, and I tend to want to hear the conversation more because it sounds insidious. People need to just talk in a normal tone of voice, and then other people will eavesdrop less because they'll tune it out.

Yea,

Kinda like when someone wants to address a single point in someone else's post & quotes the whole frickin'n thing.

If people would stop doing that, it would be COOL BEANS!

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

I work with a woman that has no concept of "volume" - despite the fact that her office is 4 doors down from me, she speaks so loudly on her phone that I find it entirely distracting.

My job requires that I make a lot of phone calls on specific days. I need to be very professional as those calls are to senate and house offices. She's well aware of this and has been asked to quiet down on a number of occasions, yet I still have people on the other end ask "what's going on over there?". The answer? Little more than her (non-business related) conversation with her boyfriend about what she's going to do tomorrow night. It's SO LOUD. I don't know if it's an inflated sense of self purpose, hearing disorder, or some bizarre malfunction but it drives me CRAZY.

Additionally, for the first two months she worked here, she insisted on treating me like a secretary. Granted, I sit in the lobby area to handle the occasional mail delivery, (we're not a heavy traffic office for anything, usually the only people that go in and out are employees) which could have been misleading a grand total of once b/c I took the time to explain to her that I am *not* her secretary - I work for a man that could be considered her boss doing something completely different than herself.

But - day in and day out I would get requests to "change the toner in the printer" or "fix the fax machine." One day, the fedex man came while I was at lunch (I'm not required to be here when he shows up, not my job) and she went so far as to say, "The FedEx man came while you were off slacking off, Liz. Maybe you should pay more attention." At that point, I sort of blew up at her. I had tried so many times to explain that I have nothing to do with the tasks she was attempting to assign to me, every time she pretended to understand it!

Yarg! The office is a peeve-ful place!

 

[diaglo]

d02.

my hat of d02 knows no limits.

 

[Wystan]

People Saying:

d02.

my hat of d02 knows no limits.

And People Inviting you out for "fresh air" when they want to go smoke...(Like there is any fresh air in New Jersey anyway)

 

[Kemrain]

I have work peeves, too. I work with a woman who is incapable of learning inteligent behavior, even when it would be simpler, easier, and time saving. She insists that 2 things that need to be catalogued together be stored in seperate places (even though she needs to combine them every night). She cannot fathom how pressing on the hinge side of a door won't open it, and repeatedly tests to see if doors are locked by pressing on the wrong side. She says the same things over and over again, as if I was so dim I didn't hear and understand her the first time! She uses grammar that makes me want to claw my soul out of my body and light it on fire...

I find her annoying.

- Kemrain the Hopefully Quitting Soon.

 

[jaerdaph]

I have few. The big one that's RPG related - canon vs. cannon.

Also, spelling grammar "grammer", usually in a post criticizing someone else's.

"So tell me about Ravenloft cannon."

"Well, they're just like cannons from Swashbuckling Adventures, only with vampires."

 

[mojo1701]

She's constantly saying "Cool beans." Never mind the fact that this phrase is a little dated, it's pretty darn annoying to hear it over and over again all day long. She'll call someone and ask a question, then say "Cool beans! Thanks!" Gaa.

Sounds like the kind who would actually say, "Sounds like someone's got a case of the 'Mondays'."