Pet Peeves

[Brock Landers]

Back on the topic of email signatures I saw something last week that peeved me to the point of rage but I need to know if this guy is an outlier or if this is an emerging trend.  Underneath all the basic contact info this guy listed a bunch of personal crap like you would see in a dating app profile or something.   

Examples:
Avocations - Opera, Food and Wine (Certified Specialist of Wine)
Fun Fact - was film critic at Cannes Film Festival

I have never seen anything remotely like that. I'd be pretty tempted to send a bottle of Boone's Farm wine over to that guy's house for Christmas.

I've seen companies who try to be cheeky and fun do things like this. But it's been a while

This guy is from the San Francisco area too iirc!    

[michigancat]

Back on the topic of email signatures I saw something last week that peeved me to the point of rage but I need to know if this guy is an outlier or if this is an emerging trend.  Underneath all the basic contact info this guy listed a bunch of personal crap like you would see in a dating app profile or something.   

Examples:
Avocations - Opera, Food and Wine (Certified Specialist of Wine)
Fun Fact - was film critic at Cannes Film Festival

I have never seen anything remotely like that. I'd be pretty tempted to send a bottle of Boone's Farm wine over to that guy's house for Christmas.

I've seen companies who try to be cheeky and fun do things like this. But it's been a while

This guy is from the San Francisco area too iirc!    

This was jogging my memory and I think my company in Michigan had people put their favorite ice cream in their sigs

[pissclams]

i think i’m the only person in the world who has this issue, which is pretty cool, except it’s a pet peeve.  every now and again i’ll get a little lint ball stuck in my armpit hair and I have to rip it out and it hurts.

[michigancat]

i think i’m the only person in the world who has this issue, which is pretty cool, except it’s a pet peeve.  every now and again i’ll get a little lint ball stuck in my armpit hair and I have to rip it out and it hurts.

I've had that happen but it doesn't bother me much

[Spracne]

i think i’m the only person in the world who has this issue, which is pretty cool, except it’s a pet peeve.  every now and again i’ll get a little lint ball stuck in my armpit hair and I have to rip it out and it hurts.

Have you considered safer sex practices?

[BIG APPLE CAT]

In baseball when the play by play guy says “base clearing triple”

[420seriouscat69]

People who go ape crap over "drinking holidays" with no affiliation. "Happy Cinco De Mayo, bitches! Let's tear this crap up tonight!" - Says the white atheist female from America who's never entered Mexico.

[420seriouscat69]

[CHONGS]

Cinco de mayo isn't a religious holiday.  And white women do live in Mexico.

[catastrophe]

Cinco de mayo isn't a religious holiday.  And white women do live in Mexico.

Yeah the atheist part threw me. I do like that onion bit though.

[420seriouscat69]

Cinco de mayo isn't a religious holiday.  And white women do live in Mexico.

Yes, your average white female American is going HAM, because Mexico defeated the french back in 1862. Cinco is just an example. St pattys, fat tuesday, etc.

[CHONGS]

Cinco de mayo isn't a religious holiday.  And white women do live in Mexico.

Yeah the atheist part threw me. I do like that onion bit though.

Oh it's a good bit. 

I liked to party with people on St Patrick's Day even though I'm not Irish.  It's fun.

[420seriouscat69]

I bet if you took away a persons phone that's partying on one of these holidays and ask them what the holiday is all about, they'd say something dumb as crap.

[CHONGS]

I bet if you took away a persons phone that's partying on one of these holidays and ask them what the holiday is all about, they'd say something dumb as crap.

It's a celebration, not a history dissertation Poindexter.

[420seriouscat69]

 

[mocat]

office is getting chipotle today 

[420seriouscat69]

 

Ask them why. Also, @chings, I'm as guilty as the next person of doing this. I asked the wife if we could eat at Margaritas tonight (Mexican food is our fav). I'm just getting old and want to kill people's joy.

[catastrophe]

I bet if you took away a persons phone that's partying on one of these holidays and ask them what the holiday is all about, they'd say something dumb as crap.

It's a celebration, not a history dissertation Poindexter.

Yep. All these things (mostly Cinco de Mayo and St. Patty’s) can dip into the offensive, but most people just like feeling like they’re part of the fun.

I’m certainly not hating non-Christians for dying Easter eggs or opening Christmas presents with their kids. It feels good for your culture to make that kind of a dent in society.

[michigancat]

I have a love-hate relationship with cutesy names for employees of a company (and like the cringier the more I love them)

Long post alert.
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To the world: Yesterday we reduced our Fameo by 87 people. The four executives who left- Rob Post Emily Boschwitz Nundu Janakiram and me- all wrote themselves into the list in order to save more members of their teams and in recognition of the readiness of the teams they had built to face the work ahead of the company. All of them are smart, courageous, and caring leaders, and they will land in spectacular roles.

The lesson I learned again yesterday is that applying your company values really does matter in everything you do. We put the lens of Roll out The Red Carpet and “personalized and authentic” on our RIF plan, and it helped make a terrible day a little more palatable.

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And finally to the Cameo People Team: I am so grateful to you. You have put so much heart and brainpower into everything we did for the Fameo- everything to Strengthen the Fameo, Work Together Better, and Keep it Cameo. As I told Kristen Clemmer last night, my biggest disappointment is that I am not going to get a front row seat to watching her lead this incredible group. You will always be my people- please keep in touch.

[michigancat]

I am waiting to get coffee at the giant urn at the Fairfield Inn. Someone is getting coffee in front of me. They get their coffee and proceed to add two creams, eight sugar packets, and stir it "just so" right in front of the giant urn. I stand and impatiently wait.

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I am waiting to get coffee at the giant urn at the Fairfield Inn. Someone is getting coffee in front of me. They get their coffee and proceed to add two creams, eight sugar packets, and stir it "just so" right in front of the giant urn. I stand and impatiently wait.

I'm the opposite of that person almost to a fault.  I stress when I feel like I'm making other people wait.  Like if the coffee was coming out really slowly and there were people behind me I would just fill it up halfway and then come back later when there was no line and fill up the rest.

[420seriouscat69]

I am waiting to get coffee at the giant urn at the Fairfield Inn. Someone is getting coffee in front of me. They get their coffee and proceed to add two creams, eight sugar packets, and stir it "just so" right in front of the giant urn. I stand and impatiently wait.

I'm the opposite of that person almost to a fault.  I stress when I feel like I'm making other people wait.  Like if the coffee was coming out really slowly and there were people behind me I would just fill it up halfway and then come back later when there was no line and fill up the rest.

Same

[star seed 7]

If there's a line for coffee I would just grab some water or something

[michigancat]

If there's a line for coffee I would just grab some water or something

Does one person stirring their coffee really constitute a "line"?

[Rage Against the McKee]

I bet if you took away a persons phone that's partying on one of these holidays and ask them what the holiday is all about, they'd say something dumb as crap.

Well, the correct answer is "getting drunk," and I'd bet most of them would nail it.