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Really minor annoyances


Butcher's Coat said:
Just take your dinner break after then.
Fuck the boss, you're entitled to a dinner break, take it marra.
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The 1pm meeting was 1-4 followed by an enforced social.

I've stuck an hour and a half in my diary tomorrow and I'm off to play 5-a-side.

It is part of job that I have to make sacrifices for emergencies. Thos was not an emergency and I was not needed.
 
People who wear too much aftershave. Like they bathe in it or something....

Bloke in the pool yesterday left an aftershave cloud every time he went past me - how much aftershave do you need to wear for it to overpower the senses in a swimming pool full of chlorine?
DaveH said:
Being in back to back meetings at work and thinking I have 20 minutes to cram in a morning of work before a short dinner break and a walk to another site for a 1pm meeting. Just getting a few emails replied to and then finding someone has sprung an emergency meeting at 12, meaning "sorry Dave, no dinner break".

Grabbing a sandwich quickly to eat in the meeting and sitting wondering why I'm even here. I'm off camera, have no spoken and probably will not before it ends in 10 minutes time.
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Used to work on a Programme where they set up a recurring "lunch hour" between 12-1 so all staff could have no meetings during that time. Of course, what people then started doing was realising that was the only hour where everyone was free, so started putting in "quick half hours" to "catch up". I ended up deleting the supposed lunch hour as it was a waste of everyone's time.

Now I just decline meetings if it gets too much, or I have other plans.
 
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VenisonsMullet said:
People who wear too much aftershave. Like they bathe in it or something....

Bloke in the pool yesterday left an aftershave cloud every time he went past me - how much aftershave do you need to wear for it to overpower the senses in a swimming pool full of chlorine?

Used to work on a Programme where they set up a recurring "lunch hour" between 12-1 so all staff could have no meetings during that time. Of course, what people then started doing was realising that was the only hour where everyone was free, so started putting in "quick half hours" to "catch up". I ended up deleting the supposed lunch hour as it was a waste of everyone's time.

Now I just decline meetings if it gets too much, or I have other plans.
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Reminds me of when my older brother started going out, as a teenager. The entire top floor of the house used to reek for hours after he'd gone out. Used to drive me nuts!
 
VenisonsMullet said:
Used to work on a Programme where they set up a recurring "lunch hour" between 12-1 so all staff could have no meetings during that time. Of course, what people then started doing was realising that was the only hour where everyone was free, so started putting in "quick half hours" to "catch up". I ended up deleting the supposed lunch hour as it was a waste of everyone's time.

Now I just decline meetings if it gets too much, or I have other plans.
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Annoyingly, a few of the senior managers here just join certain meetings while eating lunch and set an example of it being perfectly acceptable to miss lunch breaks, but I tend to make sure put one in my diary if I see it filling up. I think it sets a bad example, and you finish the day with no mental capacity, sometimes struggling to remember what the first meeting was.

Onsite we are on a city street with nowhere to go to eat but in the office, so I'm less protective. But at home I have a complete shut off and go to do something else. I find if I have something to eat while reading or watching the telly then do a 15 minute guitar or singing session, I come back after the hour break really awake and alert. If I just work through, by 3pm I'm struggling.
 
Being the penultimate person to be served at a supermarket checkout and the person in front of you is a prize fumbler whether it be paying by cash, card or phone

People who go to express queue check out with a months worth of groceries and check out staff let them through
 
DaveH said:
Annoyingly, a few of the senior managers here just join certain meetings while eating lunch and set an example of it being perfectly acceptable to miss lunch breaks, but I tend to make sure put one in my diary if I see it filling up. I think it sets a bad example, and you finish the day with no mental capacity, sometimes struggling to remember what the first meeting was.

Onsite we are on a city street with nowhere to go to eat but in the office, so I'm less protective. But at home I have a complete shut off and go to do something else. I find if I have something to eat while reading or watching the telly then do a 15 minute guitar or singing session, I come back after the hour break really awake and alert. If I just work through, by 3pm I'm struggling.
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I've worked from home for about 6 years now. I have a dedicated space in my house that I can close the door on at the end of the day. That definitely helps. I swim at the start of my day so that also helps. Sometimes I just go and sit in the garden for 10 mins to decompress. Retirement can't come soon enough
 
VenisonsMullet said:
I've worked from home for about 6 years now. I have a dedicated space in my house that I can close the door on at the end of the day. That definitely helps. I swim at the start of my day so that also helps. Sometimes I just go and sit in the garden for 10 mins to decompress. Retirement can't come soon enough
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Similar here. I built an office in the garden. We do use it as a general family room and have a dart board up, but I never sit at the desk in the corner unless I'm working. In the winter I'll probably be at my desk in the house which is annoying. Heating the office when it is 7 degrees or more outside is not too bad, but when it drop below that, it gets quite expensive.

This time of year, I love wandering out to do things like pick tomatoes then have some of them for dinner.
 
Cockney Mackem said:
I'm going to say it again: there is a f***ing mute button on the f***ing remote, so if you want to temporarily turn off the f***ing sound on the f***ing telly, use that instead of turning the f***ing volume controls down from 35 to f***ing zero
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Guilty of this. Have just tried using the mute button and it feels wrong. Think I’ll try and recondition my brain to make this work.
 
Cockney Mackem said:
I'm going to say it again: there is a f***ing mute button on the f***ing remote, so if you want to temporarily turn off the f***ing sound on the f***ing telly, use that instead of turning the f***ing volume controls down from 35 to f***ing zero
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Subtitles help here. Unless they are AI generated. "In what cases their unless."
 
Cockney Mackem said:
I'm going to say it again: there is a f***ing mute button on the f***ing remote, so if you want to temporarily turn off the f***ing sound on the f***ing telly, use that instead of turning the f***ing volume controls down from 35 to f***ing zero
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Well for once I am not annoying the hell out of you. I always use the mute button.
 
Point of order. The mute button on a sky stream remote is placed completely unintuitively, positioned i believe some way from the volume keys and indeed adjacent to the power off button

This may be a common design problem. I encourage readers to observe the layout of remotes more closely in future which may encourage greater tolerance
 
Cockney Mackem said:
I'm going to say it again: there is a f***ing mute button on the f***ing remote, so if you want to temporarily turn off the f***ing sound on the f***ing telly, use that instead of turning the f***ing volume controls down from 35 to f***ing zero
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Similarly, we find that for most streaming apps the volume that works the best is 32.

If I've got the remote: Turn the TV on, find someone has set it to 10 before turning off (never figured out why), turn it up to 32, start program, enjoy.

If 'someone else' in the house has the remote: Turn the TV on, find it the volume is set to 10, start program. Wait until I ask if she could turn the volume up to 32, turn it to 15. Wait a few minutes and ask again. It goes up to 19, repeat this interaction until I can just about hear it but really have to concentrate, say FFS, grab the remote and turn it up to 32. Then I hear "I'm not sure what is going on, I couldn't really hear the start of that".

If only there was a f***ing button that could cure that problem. I might invent one and win a Nobel f****ing prize.
 
I find it mildly annoying that there seem to be loads and loads of stories all the time on my news apps and stuff, about Saturday Night Live.

I mean,I understand that it’s a topical US comedy programme featuring the type of comedians that I find annoying even when I do know who the fuck they are.

The bits I’ve seen if it are… not even mildly amusing with references that a uk audience wouldn’t always understand (or is that just me).

But there are stories all over about people on there, items that have been broadcast and even adverts on tv that feature ‘stars’ from ‘SNL’ that I’ve never heard of even after they are named and I’ve googled them.
 
BiG said:
I find it mildly annoying that there seem to be loads and loads of stories all the time on my news apps and stuff, about Saturday Night Live.

I mean,I understand that it’s a topical US comedy programme featuring the type of comedians that I find annoying even when I do know who the fuck they are.

The bits I’ve seen if it are… not even mildly amusing with references that a uk audience wouldn’t always understand (or is that just me).

But there are stories all over about people on there, items that have been broadcast and even adverts on tv that feature ‘stars’ from ‘SNL’ that I’ve never heard of even after they are named and I’ve googled them.
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I tried Twitter once, and did sign up to a few things to follow but despite my attempts to filter it all out, I was finding a stream full of celeb gossip. I couldn't be arsed with it.
 
BiG said:
I find it mildly annoying that there seem to be loads and loads of stories all the time on my news apps and stuff, about Saturday Night Live.

I mean,I understand that it’s a topical US comedy programme featuring the type of comedians that I find annoying even when I do know who the fuck they are.

The bits I’ve seen if it are… not even mildly amusing with references that a uk audience wouldn’t always understand (or is that just me).

But there are stories all over about people on there, items that have been broadcast and even adverts on tv that feature ‘stars’ from ‘SNL’ that I’ve never heard of even after they are named and I’ve googled them.
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Never got the appeal of SNL. Always thought The Daily Show, last week tonight, the late show etc were much funnier.
 
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