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Really minor annoyances


Paddy O'Dors said:
Teabag splitting open in the cup without you realising and copping a gobful of tea leaves.
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Are you stirring your tea with a steak knife?
Cockney Mackem said:
"Now that we've made the decision, shall we get on with it?"

"No, let's waste a lot of time and f***ing effort trying to talk ourselves out of it by dithering and suggesting a bunch of much worse ideas and massively overcomplicate things"
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Receiving a call (missed) then receiving a voicemail, SMS and email all from the same person within the space of a minute to let you know they've tried to call you. Absolute f***ing twats. Always estate agents and recruiters.

Or getting a message on Teams saying 'Are you able to join the call' with a passive aggressive smiley emoji when you're 15 seconds late joining a call. Often sent by someone who was on the previous call but dropped off to join the next one and knows full well that you're busy finishing up something else.

Same people who will say 'Hey how are you doing?' first thing in the morning, so you exchange pleasantries before cracking on with the job at hand. Then you'll speak to them maybe an hour or so later and it'll be 'Hey how are you doing?' as if you haven't already done a load of pointless smalltalk already.
 
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Paddy O'Dors said:
You don't squeeze it against the side of the cup? Would be more manky hoying a soggy tea bag in the bin imo.
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I don't make tea in a cup. Teapot or nothing.

I typically make ice tea anyway so it steeps for a day then goes in a carafe in the fridge.
Cockney Mackem said:
People who complain the Aircon isn't working in the car, when the reason it isn't working is they turned it off the last time they blindly mashed all the buttons trying to adjust the settings
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Same people who don't understand what a thermostat is. Usually women in my experience.
 
Paddy O'Dors said:
Teabag splitting open in the cup without you realising and copping a gobful of tea leaves.
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Worse when you are on a work conference call, take that last swig and it hits the back of your throat leaving you pulling a face as you try not to cough, you have nowt else to drink because you just finished your tea and your face is large on most peoples screen so they can all see you.
MackneyHackem said:
Same people who don't understand what a thermostat is. Usually women in my experience.
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People who insist on sitting underneath the aircon at work or in it's direct path, or next to the window for those without aircon, then demand the window is kept shut or the aircon is turned up to make the office 25 degrees or more, while complaining they are cold. Usually women in my experience, most often women who can get away with very lightweight summer clothes, which blokes in an office can not.

"Lets have the office at 21 degrees and anyone cold can put a jumper on" is apparently not an appropriate thing to say. Neither is "well why don't you move from the coldest part of the office to the hottest dumbass? We will be happier, you will be happier, no more moaning about being cold"
 
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MackneyHackem said:
Are you stirring your tea with a steak knife?


Receiving a call (missed) then receiving a voicemail, SMS and email all from the same person within the space of a minute to let you know they've tried to call you. Absolute f***ing twats. Always estate agents and recruiters.

Or getting a message on Teams saying 'Are you able to join the call' with a passive aggressive smiley emoji when you're 15 seconds late joining a call. Often sent by someone who was on the previous call but dropped off to join the next one and knows full well that you're busy finishing up something else.

Same people who will say 'Hey how are you doing?' first thing in the morning, so you exchange pleasantries before cracking on with the job at hand. Then you'll speak to them maybe an hour or so later and it'll be 'Hey how are you doing?' as if you haven't already done a load of pointless smalltalk already.
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I f***ing hate teams.

Worse yet is the “hi” in the chat with nothing else.

Just l ask what you’re after. Don’t drag me into pointless f***ing small talk. Better yet, email me so I can ignore you properly.
 
Ambivalent Dave said:
I f***ing hate teams.

Worse yet is the “hi” in the chat with nothing else.

Just l ask what you’re after. Don’t drag me into pointless f***ing small talk. Better yet, email me so I can ignore you properly.
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The last company I worked for would start a new group chat every time they needed to ask a question to the wider team, rather than use a dedicated channel for each project.

When I told them they needed to start doing that, they'd post multiple questions about various topics in the wrong project channel, rendering them completely useless.

Also, I worked under a head of content who was completely incapable of using the track changes/suggestions/comments in Google Docs, and would type out questions aimed at me in the body copy, which completely wrecked documents and meant the whole thing would need proofreading in its entirety every time he wanted to flag something.

I'm fuming here.
 
Dropping stuff the older you get, especially with a bad back. Cutlery, soap, the ends of cat food sachets, tee towels.....

Really annoying.

Oh, and women when they have had a drink.
 
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Ilios said:
When nobody uses the other bloody lane in a zipper merge. I have this issue every day in Durham, at Neville's Cross/Newcastle Road. Instead of using the centre lane (which is explicitly for going straight ahead only) almost everyone just decides to sit in the left hand lane forming a queue that is 900 million miles long, and impacts other junctions, and blocks off cars would actually need that lane to turn left.

Meanwhile, there's a big empty space in the middle of the road that could be oppucied by cars that are going straight ahead, freeing up more space in the left lane for those actually going left, and reducing the length of the queue of traffic impeding the rest of the road.
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Im expecting a fine from this tonight. Stupid knacker in front of me stopped as soon as she was out of the box waiting to merge with the left lane. Left me high and dry despite having 100m of completely empty road in front of her
 
Visiting owl said:
Dropping stuff the older you get, especially with a bad back. Cutlery, soap, the ends of cat food sachets, tee towels.....

Really annoying.

Oh, and women when they have had a drink.
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:lol:

I've noticed they don't get more tolerant the older they get, like blokes. If anything they get worse. I really can't be chewed with it anymore.
 
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