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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Today I am most annoyed by....
Fill in the blank! I am extremely PMSy today so I want to hear it!
Re: Today I am most annoyed by....
Today I am annoyed by the fact that I pretty much fixed my own computer's issues, even after IT spent six hours looking at it, reinstalling sh!t and calling around to figure out what was going on. I spent 30 minutes on Google and fixed it myself, and now it's running like nothing ever happened.
So many things.
The big one is I have to find a new place and move over Christmas.
*People who constantly interupt me with the same problems over and over again. The solution is the same. EVERY TIME. So fix it the same. EVERY TIME.
*People who can't do their jobs. And I am seriously at a loss at how to fix one problem here it is so bad.
*People who are lazy and therefore make crap up which in turn, creates more work for me (see above).
*People who interupt me to say "Did you get that such and such I sent you through email?" and when I say yes, they say "Okay, well, let's go over now..." and when I say "I have yet to reply to your email for a reason, because I am busy right now" (I am super b!tch at work but seriously, some people need to learn some common sense) and they say "Okay, well, let me just explain to you really quickly how the spreadsheet works" or HOW ABOUT YOU GET THE FVCK OUT OF MY OFFICE????? I think next time I am just going to say that.
People who can't respond to their email in a timely manner. It's NOT difficult.
People who run their mouths in meetings on random crap. I don't mind occasional tangents, but seriously--a 30-minute meeting should not take an hour and 15 minutes.
People who say "no" just because they have seniority and don't feel like doing a little extra work.
my bookshelf!
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Lately, everyone in my office puts their headphones on and leaves them on all day. I get the appeal, and sometimes I'm having a headphones day when I want to be in my own little world, but I think it's unhealthy for agency culture when no one is interacting b/c they're plugged into their computer all day. Not to mention, it's super annoying when I have to wave my arms around like an idiot before talking to anyone, so they'll take their stupid headphones off. And people neglect to pick up the phone, because they can't hear it, BECAUSE THEY'VE GOT THEIR HEADPHONES ON.
Perhaps even more annoying, I don't say anything, because I don't want to be a bitchy manager. Sigh.
...Teenage boy humor. I do NOT have the patience for it today. I normally tolerate my freshmen far better than most teachers, but it must be a full moon or something.
...Braxton Hicks contractions
...people who can't respond to a simple text message in a timely manner
...my coworker who cannot control the volume of her voice, regardless of situation
-The left button on my laptop touch pad isn't working. I hit some random button combination on the keyboard yesterday and I think I changed a setting. But I don't know how to get to it again. I have about 20 internet sites/computer documents open, so restarting my computer will be a pain, and that might not even fix it.
- H's freaking video game. Between the background music- which he leaves playing every time he pauses the game and leaves the room- and the stilted computer-voices engaging in obnoxious pseudo-medieval/fantasy/lord of the rings style dialog, I'm about to throw the disc across the room.
I don't know how this not answering the phone thing because of headphones can even happen. I use headphones all day every day (hate away!), but I never have a problem answering the phone or responding to people who need me. Are they listening to things full blast or what?
How loud do they listen to their music?!?! I wear my headphones most of the day, but my office is across from our conference room and break room with an incredibly loud icemaker. I turn the volume up enough to muffle the conversation in the hall, but I can still hear that people are talking or the phone is ringing.
Yeah, I dunno. Maybe I should enforce a volume limit or something. (Joking.)
It's mostly annoying because, ordinarily, I'm very pro-headphones. Seems like a dumb thing to complain about, but it annoys me daily.
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Super flameful but I don't care. This actually happened last week, but I'm still mad about it. Today I'm most annoyed by people who weigh 500+ pounds and can't manage to move any of their extremities themselves, but expect me (who weighs ~1/5 of their weight) to push them halfway through the hospital and then move them from their chair to a bed. I don't mind it if they can at least attempt to make an effort to help, but 500+ pounds of dead weight because they gave up trying to move irks me.
My husband for giving me his freaking cold.
The cold for making me not be able to sleep and for making me feel like i'm going to vomit from all of the drainage.
The cold weather, I'm so not ready for it
Uh, yes, that is completely different than someone in a cubicle farm hoping for background noise to distract from the 10 conversations that they can hear around them at any given time.
The cubicle ones annoy me too. Although, maybe I should get over it and start doing it myself. Some of the convos I hear make me want to punch things.
If we worked in depressing cubicles and everyone was expected to do their own thing all day, I'd have no problem with it. I think the atmosphere in an ad agency is a little different. Collaboration is something we do often, and joking around, having a beer, and just talking to each other is highly encouraged here. I don't think anyone is against that now, I think it's mostly because we moved to a new, temporary space, and people just haven't gotten used to everything yet. But for right now, it's annoying as hell.
There's a woman in my building who's so obese that she gets around in a wheelchair (I know she's not paralyzed, because I've seen her get up and walk multiple times). She regularly comes up to our floor to use the restroom. Last week, she broke the toilet in the handicapped stall.
On one hand, I feel terrible for her, because that has to be an awful experience. On the other, she needs to lose some goddamn weight. Mostly, I'm annoyed that I have to share a restroom with a morbidly obese person capable of breaking a toilet.
Oh boy. I should NEVER get started on this one!
Sorry, this really made me laugh! You don't work downtown by any chance do you? We've got one here who sounds exactly like your description, but she's also got some serious smell issues going on too. She's not exactly someone you want to ride up with 20 floors in the elevator.
Annnnnnnd I officially know who you are refering to! Yes, McG works downtown.
Co-signed,
Wendy
I know the weight thing is flameful, but with all due respect, none of you have to share space with this person daily. It's not fun, and I guarantee, whether you'd admit it or not, that you'd be annoyed to share a bathroom with her. It's waiting behind her in the hall, witnessing her leaving the stall door open, hearing all sorts of sounds, and smelling all sorts of smells. I've started going down to the basement bathroom, which - I'm sorry - is annoying.
If she were legitimately paralyzed, that's an entirely different situation.
I'm not saying she's lazy or worthless, and maybe she does have some sort of medical condition, but at least part of it is choice. I don't really buy that you get to that state by health conditions alone.
So what on earth does her weight have to do with the fact that you have to wait on her in the hall or how much her bowel movements smell? Last I knew, everyone's shiit stinks. (even Connor told me today that poopy is always stinky).