OT: Name some things that drive you fucking nuts

[forty_three]

A 5 week vendor engagement where the vendor resource is on Pacific time, so we don't start until lunch time my time. Meaning 5 weeks without a proper lunch break.

And finding out today that the project manager is out this coming Thursday and Friday in addition to my teammate already on vacation so I have to lead the sessions myself.

 

[forty_three]

And now the PM's kids are in the room with him and fighting and shrieking in the background.

 

[dash]

A 5 week vendor engagement where the vendor resource is on Pacific time, so we don't start until lunch time my time. Meaning 5 weeks without a proper lunch break.

And finding out today that the project manager is out this coming Thursday and Friday in addition to my teammate already on vacation so I have to lead the sessions myself.

I'm the lone Pacific time zone guy who works with colleagues in the Eastern time zone. I look forward to 2 PM my time Monday-Friday as no more e-mails are coming in and all meetings are done

 

[forty_three]

I'm the lone Pacific time zone guy who works with colleagues in the Eastern time zone. I look forward to 2 PM my time Monday-Friday as no more e-mails are coming in and all meetings are done

I just don't understand why our PM isn't demanding an EST start time. This guy always goes to lunch at 4 our time so that's effectively the end of our day. He does work on his own per our instructions after our hours, but feels like a lot of collaboration time is lost as we have to re-hash his solo work every "morning".

 

[dash]

I just don't understand why our PM isn't demanding an EST start time. This guy always goes to lunch at 4 our time so that's effectively the end of our day. He does work on his own per our instructions after our hours, but feels like a lot of collaboration time is lost as we have to re-hash his solo work every "morning".

Yeah, I've actually attended Teams meetings at 5 am Pacific time (8 am for the Eastern folks) as that was the only time available. Training courses for the most part are on Eastern time as well. That is pretty much standard here in North America.

 

[puckhead]

When I was a stock analyst I had my calls with the sales team before market open, so the calls would be 5am my time.

When a company reported after hours (as they usually did) I had to wait for their earnings call to begin... Then adjust my models, write a report on the earnings and outlook and valuation, potentially adjust rating, and have it published in time for those sales meetings. Working til 2 or 3 am for an 5am call. My my assistant was in Toronto, so he was working until 5am for an 8am meeting. Poor bugger had to show up in person to those.

No wonder cocaine was rampant in the industry.

 

[puckhead]

Still better than this guy's day at work

 

[forty_three]

Today, the PM has decided he needs to fuck off for 2 hours immediately after kicking the meeting off.

 

[mattola]

 

[Loco2]

The Hulett Brothers - Useless, fake, and annoying.

 

[mattola]

just found out that there is a person in my office who is nice enough to make another pot of coffee when the one I make runs out...............
by just adding more water to the old coffee grounds..... not making new coffee... just recycling the old grounds
It's very sweet that someone does this

 

[forty_three]

Project manager, who fucked off for 3 separate days and never tested something early on even though he said he did now has us at the point where every aspect of this project needs to be re-visited and have a certain permission changed (5 weeks worth of work) and we only discovered this because something else he neglected last week wasn't working either.

 

[sbb122]

People who push shopping carts through grocery stores like they are running a lap in the Indy 500 or that they are the only person in the store.

Some guy this morning around 7am came out of an aisle and almost smashed right into me, I was startled, I jumped back and said excuse me and he glared at me like it was my fault.

I’m not a morning person so I said to him as politely as I could, “I said excuse me and don’t fucking glare at me”

 

[esls79]

People who push shopping carts through grocery stores like they are running a lap in the Indy 500 or that they are the only person in the store.

Some guy this morning around 7am came out of an aisle and almost smashed right into me, I was startled, I jumped back and said excuse me and he glared at me like it was my fault.

I’m not a morning person so I said to him as politely as I could, “I said excuse me and don’t fucking glare at me”

Were you in an open carry grocery store? Cause that tends to lead to different results.

 

[sbb122]

Were you in an open carry grocery store? Cause that tends to lead to different results.

Yep, I usually tend to be careful because you never know what crazies are out there, but I wasn’t thinking straight this morning

 

[Debbie Does]

Traffic around here Fourth of July week. One of the biggest sources of town revenue is the "transfer tax" from real estate transactions, so they keep allowing more home building but don’t realize how that affects highways, so very little highway work.

 

[puckhead]

People who push shopping carts through grocery stores like they are running a lap in the Indy 500 or that they are the only person in the store.

Some guy this morning around 7am came out of an aisle and almost smashed right into me, I was startled, I jumped back and said excuse me and he glared at me like it was my fault.

I’m not a morning person so I said to him as politely as I could, “I said excuse me and don’t fucking glare at me”

Also, people who leave their shopping carts RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FUCKING AISLE while they decide between which jumbo bag of potato chips to get. I always very abruptly and noisily move their carts to the side for them as a courtesy. Don't think they get the hint though.

 

[dare2be]

Also, people who leave their shopping carts RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FUCKING AISLE while they decide between which jumbo bag of potato chips to get. I always very abruptly and noisily move their carts to the side for them as a courtesy. Don't think they get the hint though.

The only hint they would get is if you were to bang into the cart and knock it into their back

 

[dash]

Also, people who leave their shopping carts RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FUCKING AISLE while they decide between which jumbo bag of potato chips to get. I always very abruptly and noisily move their carts to the side for them as a courtesy. Don't think they get the hint though.

On a related note and NSFW - language.

 

[mattola]

Also, people who leave their shopping carts RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FUCKING AISLE while they decide between which jumbo bag of potato chips to get. I always very abruptly and noisily move their carts to the side for them as a courtesy. Don't think they get the hint though.

I am not so subtle anymore