Really minor annoyances

[Mousehold Mackem]

This type of toaster that you get in hotels. One round and the bread is still anaemic, two and it’s burnt to buggery

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And people who think they can block access to the toaster until their toast has completed its Odyssey into Hades and back.

And people who think it's OK to stuff half a french stick into the toaster and wonder why it gets stuck.

 

[DaveH]

Being the member of your team who is physically the most remote from any of the company's offices and being told you have to go to Telford next week for a 3 hour meeting.

And will you be posting next week with a major annoyance that half the attendees were on Teams?

That happened a few times in my last job. I had a 2-3 hour drive. Generally I went in once every 2 weeks, but not on any regular cycle. It was always when someone called an onsite meeting.

I remember one day for a must have everyone onsite meeting, traffic was awful, it was one of the 3 hour drive days (only around 85 miles drive). I got in feeling tired, hungry and generally annoyed. It was lashing it down with rain which had slowed down all traffic. Got to the meeting room and it was fairly quiet. Gradually half the people came in, then up pops 8 people on Teams on the big screen. Most of them lived within 5 miles of work but didn't fancy going out in the rain and were quite jovial about it. "Oh Dave, I can't believe you drove all the way from Kent, I could not be arsed to walk to my car in this rain, oh ha ha ha". Well I take my job seriously and try to be professional you absolute *****.

I made a point after that of asking for each must be on site meeting, if local people were actually going to be onsite, otherwise I would just stay at home.