Pet Peeves

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He might be really confused as to how his tv remote works.

[BIG APPLE CAT]

I may have said this one before but  Work people that set up meetings for simple questions. I feel like zoom has conditioned people to think a full meeting with 8 people is necessary for every conversation. I go to meetings all the time that could have been done over a teams message or a quick call. I had a guy call me this morning 20 minutes before a meeting and he tried to tell me that they needed to move the meeting because so and so couldn't make it. I said, "what did you need"? He just paused and there was awkward silence. I then said, "like, we are talking right now and i'm happy to just answer any questions you have, or we could just wait until another day when more people are around". More awkward silence and he finally goes, yeah, we can just do it now.......Took like 3 minutes.

I have a recent grad who is like this. Like I (perhaps foolishly) told him "look I know you're just out of school and I don't expect you to know anything, but when you need direction or have questions... The worst thing you can do is stay quiet. I wasn't you to try to figure it out, but you can always ask me questions and I would much rather you ask too many questions than too few"

And man he took that to heart bc he tries to set up a call for every little thing and I'm like bruh we have ms teams it's okay to ask questions on teams, especially simple ones. We don't need to set up a call for every little thing my dude

[michigancat]

I may have said this one before but  Work people that set up meetings for simple questions. I feel like zoom has conditioned people to think a full meeting with 8 people is necessary for every conversation. I go to meetings all the time that could have been done over a teams message or a quick call. I had a guy call me this morning 20 minutes before a meeting and he tried to tell me that they needed to move the meeting because so and so couldn't make it. I said, "what did you need"? He just paused and there was awkward silence. I then said, "like, we are talking right now and i'm happy to just answer any questions you have, or we could just wait until another day when more people are around". More awkward silence and he finally goes, yeah, we can just do it now.......Took like 3 minutes.

This is more of a peeve, because everyone feels this way.

I'm not sure that is true according to my calendar that is full of these types of meetings. I normally just go with it, but since the guy called me I figured I would subtly call him out. I chuckled a bit when I said that maybe we should just go ahead and talk now since we were already talking. I also think a lot of it has to do with people just being afraid to do or say anything without their manager's approval. I'm always meeting with different groups of people. Most of them are unnecessary and I could usually just talk to one person and they could pass things along as needed, but whatever. Each person in those groups almost always invites their manager and in some cases their next level, which leads to about 4 other people that have no business on the call, yet they are always there.

Sounds like your company has too many managers without enough to do. I can't imagine inviting someone to a meeting and them inviting their manager plus a level above (and I do not exactly work for a super lean org)

[michigancat]

One of my dumbest pet peeves that probably belongs in the shame yourself thread is I get very annoyed by "eff Cancer" tshirts and slogans

[Stevesie60]

"Well I didn't have _______ on my 2024 bingo card"

[BIG APPLE CAT]

I'm with you stevesie60. its kind of like saying "huh, i didn't have 19, 30, 31, 61, 62 and 21 as my powerball numbers!"

like yeah no crap. in fact its always been my assertion that you have until the 2nd week of january to declare what all is on your bingo card for the year. that way when it happens you have receipts and can dunk about it.

[Sandstone Outcropping]

We have this family group chat and one of my siblings will put voice notes in the chat. I hate voice notes and voice mail. Please use a text message or voice-to-text (if you are too busy to type).

[BIG APPLE CAT]

SSOC i think you have a strong case for emancipation

[ben ji]

The term "Rising" with students.

"Tim is a rising junior at K-State"

What is so bad about saying "Tim is going to be a junior at K-State".

[Spracne]

The term "Rising" with students.

"Tim is a rising junior at K-State"

What is so bad about saying "Tim is going to be a junior at K-State".

Fewer words?

[Sandstone Outcropping]

The term "Rising" with students.

"Tim is a rising junior at K-State"

What is so bad about saying "Tim is going to be a junior at K-State".

Fewer words?

I really enjoy this use of "rising" and other goofy academic terms like "matriculate" "commencement" "freshman, sophomore, etc..."
I like how it conveys that they haven't officially started that year but the class members that were formerly in that year are now gone.

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Lol, in the second before I delete those emails I thought it related to them getting their gpa up or in some way gaining prominence in their class.

“Tim will be a junior.”

[mocat]

Every time I see rising I think of trains

[BIG APPLE CAT]

every time i see rising i think of blue wings, which i suppose is a testament to the branding efforts of our brothers to the east

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Every time I see rising I think of trains

That and PR flags.

[cfbandyman]

Insane asks that shouldn't even be a thought. For an entire power plant, which has thousands of drawings for actual systems, client is asking for the schematic of a water heater, you know, the ones you buy at home depot in their shower facility, and claims using a cut from a manual isn't sufficient. Like, what do you want us to do, call Rheem and be like " hey so we bought a water heater from you all, and were looking for a single drawing in CAD form of the water heater, can you provide that? Oh it's printed on the tank and you make 100,000 of these a year and aren't doing anything like that, ok I thought it was crazy too"

[BIG APPLE CAT]

Insane asks that shouldn't even be a thought. For an entire power plant, which has thousands of drawings for actual systems, client is asking for the schematic of a water heater, you know, the ones you buy at home depot in their shower facility, and claims using a cut from a manual isn't sufficient. Like, what do you want us to do, call Rheem and be like " hey so we bought a water heater from you all, and were looking for a single drawing in CAD form of the water heater, can you provide that? Oh it's printed on the tank and you make 100,000 of these a year and aren't doing anything like that, ok I thought it was crazy too"

refer them to the details sheets, cfb

[cfbandyman]

Insane asks that shouldn't even be a thought. For an entire power plant, which has thousands of drawings for actual systems, client is asking for the schematic of a water heater, you know, the ones you buy at home depot in their shower facility, and claims using a cut from a manual isn't sufficient. Like, what do you want us to do, call Rheem and be like " hey so we bought a water heater from you all, and were looking for a single drawing in CAD form of the water heater, can you provide that? Oh it's printed on the tank and you make 100,000 of these a year and aren't doing anything like that, ok I thought it was crazy too"

refer them to the details sheets, cfb

Haha, he wants a stand alone drawing, like one the firm would make, broken out on a border. That won't cut it for him.

[Sandstone Outcropping]

Can we talk about those "do you agree to accept cookies" popups that are everywhere? Stop rubbing it my face that every digital breadcrumb I leave around the internet is being assembled to market things to me. I've accepted that as a fact of live about five years ago.

[Justwin]

I'm pretty sure you can thank the EU for that.

[cfbandyman]

I'm pretty sure you can thank the EU for that.

Yup

[star seed 7]

The EU does so much more for consumer protection than the US does, it's frankly embarrassing

[cfbandyman]

The EU does so much more for consumer protection than the US does, it's frankly embarrassing

I'm not anti-EU at all, and agree. Also doesn't stop it from being annoying

[Stupid Fitz]

When a work person messages you what appears to be a somewhat urgent question or task on Teams and you respond with either a follow up question or the answer and they don't respond forever. Drives me nuts. Like, I stopped what I was doing to respond to you, you should do the same or wait until you are free before asking me to do something. 

[passranch]

When a work person messages you what appears to be a somewhat urgent question or task on Teams and you respond with either a follow up question or the answer and they don't respond forever. Drives me nuts. Like, I stopped what I was doing to respond to you, you should do the same or wait until you are free before asking me to do something. 

ooh yeah, good one!