Things That Annoy You

[wr250]

when you try to connect to a certain irc network and they ban you for "not having ident  enabled" ,when it is enabled.
so you send them a email.

"i cant connect to your servers because they autokill me for no ident found, despite the fact i have a identd server running , and it can be connected to remotely. every other irc network i tryed got a ident response from me" to which they respond with "this is how you enable ident <instructions on how to enable it>"

[HorrorRetro]

I had one manager who was the biggest, bullying bitch I've ever encountered, an absolute nightmare

I've generally liked all my managers over the years -- with one exception. I took a medical billing/coding job at a mental health facility for children. The CFO who ran the billing department was completely clueless about in intricacies of medical coding, but she was the Queen Bee, and you better damn well bow down to her.  She had zero background in the medical reimbursement field, which leads to another issue of managers being hired with no background in the field.  Just because you're a CFO for a engineering firm does not make you qualified to take a position in medical reimbursement.  : 

I get the job and discover that they are using CPT-4 and ICD-9 coding manuals that are five years old.  I bring this up and the CFO says, "So?  They are still in good condition."  I politely explain that they MUST be updated annually since there are coding changes each year as well as regulatory changes. She authorizes us to get new manuals, but not before having a meeting with my boss to tell her to inform me to never get out of line like that again.  Gee, I thought I was hired to ensure that claims were paid, but I guess I was really just hired to kiss the CFO's ass.

Another time we were all on break chatting about previous jobs.  I was talking about my EMT training and working in an urgent care facility.  She was rolling her eyes the entire time.  She then left for lunch.  While she's at lunch, we hear a bunch of sirens.  There was an accident down the road from us.  A few minutes later the CFO comes in all excited. "I just saved a man.  I was just like an EMT.  I cleared his airway and kept him alive until EMTs arrived."  Funny thing is, this was spring in Fairbanks, Alaska.  There was mud and slush 3 inches deep everywhere you went.  Yet she strolled in with out a speck of dirt on her.  She was lying her ass off.  Since I said I had previously been an EMT, she had to try to top that and came up with this ridiculous story.  No matter what you did or said in that office, she always had to try to top everyone.  She wanted to be revered and hated the fact that I refused to kiss her ass.

[PB the Deplorable]

I have had three... that is 3 managers in my life that were good at their job...

I've had zero.  One was pretty good to work for - at least that - but was lousy in the important areas like pay, appreciation, and advancement.  After a couple years of that he lost a great staff all within about 3 months.

HR has been handed a terrible burden.  People who are drawn to filling out paperwork and checking boxes on computer screens have been tasked with hiring people who will do jobs that are wholly beyond their grasp.  How can someone who is trained in doing the paperwork necessary to get a new employee enrolled in healthcare possibly be expected to hire the best candidate for an engineering position, or IT position, or graphics artist, or mental health counselor? Particularly when the HR person has to do most of the choosing from written documents submitted over the internet?

And especially when they are heartless idiots.

For me it isn't about their paperwork or that they are bad at identifying the proper people to hire - that's for the hiring manager to determine after resumes are sifted through and possible qualified people are identified to interview.

No, it's because of all the stupidity they come up with to inflict on the employees they have, the petty rules and policies, intelligence insulting meetings, and worst of all:  the new ideas they come up with to justify their existence.

[Juan]

At my last job, the HR department took 10 of us at a time in for sexual harassment training.   We were handed a booklet, an on the cover of the booklet was a photograph of a man standing behind a woman who was working on a computer.  The man was massaging the woman's shoulders.

"This photograph is offensive," says me.
Smiling, the HR person said, "Yes, it's classic sexual harassment."
"That's not what I'm talking about," I said.  "This is classic stereotyping. Why can't the woman be harassing the man?"

Of course this led to a complete deterioration of the meeting and the HR people becoming furious.  I'm not surprised I was among the first group of people released when the company fired 1/3 of the employees due to poor sales.

[bateman]

At my last job, the HR department took 10 of us at a time in for sexual harassment training.   We were handed a booklet, an on the cover of the booklet was a photograph of a man standing behind a woman who was working on a computer.  The man was massaging the woman's shoulders.

"This photograph is offensive," says me.
Smiling, the HR person said, "Yes, it's classic sexual harassment."
"That's not what I'm talking about," I said.  "This is classic stereotyping. Why can't the woman be harassing the man?"

Of course this led to a complete deterioration of the meeting and the HR people becoming furious.  I'm not surprised I was among the first group of people released when the company fired 1/3 of the employees due to poor sales.

This warms my heart.

http://youtu.be/gWF4xP3niwU

I'm imagining something like this, only with more screaming and poop flinging.

[Unquenchable Angst]

I worked at a Sam's Club for 9 years. The club had 8 managers in that 9 years. Only one got promoted to a higher gross club. The other 7 got fired. Only 2 of which people got along with. One of which was fired for having long island ice tea for lunch every day . The best one actually got promoted. All those fired  were escorted out by sheriffs deputies. Basically you went about your work, hoping  they would get along with the way you did your job.

[b_dubb]

I worked at a Sam's Club for 9 years. The club had 8 managers in that 9 years.

I'm so sorry.

Things that annoy me: the bring back Falkie thread

[UnscreenedCaller]

I've generally liked all my managers over the years -- with one exception. I took a medical billing/coding job at a mental health facility for children. The CFO who ran the billing department was completely clueless about in intricacies of medical coding, but she was the Queen Bee, and you better damn well bow down to her.  She had zero background in the medical reimbursement field, which leads to another issue of managers being hired with no background in the field.  Just because you're a CFO for a engineering firm does not make you qualified to take a position in medical reimbursement.  : 

I hear you. All I can offer is that this woman never, and I mean NEVER bathed, or cared about rudimentary personal hygiene, and yet she bulllied me and looked the other way while  other staff members bullied me over the pettiest of issues.  It was a 10 month a year job, I took the bullying because I needed the job, and and so I waited to quit until  the day before I was expected back, my personal F.U. to them.

[b_dubb]

I hear you. All I can offer is that this woman never, and I mean NEVER bathed, or cared about rudimentary personal hygiene, and yet she bulllied me and looked the other way while  other staff members bullied me over the pettiest of issues.  It was a 10 month a year job, I took the bullying because I needed the job, and and so I waited to quit until  the day before I was expected back, my personal F.U. to them.

I'd like to join you in issuing a resounding F*** YOU to these jerks!

[UnscreenedCaller]

I'd like to join you in issuing a resounding F*** YOU to these jerks!

Thanks b_dubb. That was the Job From Hell alright. The bright spot is that nothing can ever be that bad again. 

[BattyBrooke]

I have always had dogs. Not that long ago we had 5. All of them big dogs, the smallest was 60 pounds. They never spent more than an hour outside unless being walked. Overnight should be illegal.

This is why I am madly in love with Onan (unbeknownst to him), however Yorkshire and Eddie are still a close second...man boobs and heart pubes and all!

[Camazotz Automat]

. Water parks.
. Bad tattoos.
. People with bad tattoos at water parks.
. Annie Lennox.
. Buses.
. Over emoting authors/actors/politicians.
. CGI.
. Refueling the car.
. Wind.
. Rain.
. Cold wind and rain.
. People who cannot seem to grocery shop without dragging the whole clan with them.
. The whole St. Valentine's Day mentality media manipulation crap shoot. Every year, they seem to increase the amount of diamond ring ads. Snap On Tools should do a media blitz in the exact same manner just to balance that shit out.
. Attempting to visualize singularity just before the Big Bang.
. Gum from a parking lot finding my rubber soul. (This is a big spiritual ambush.)

[BobGrau]

...Attempting to visualize singularity just before the Big Bang.

Try covering one eye.

[Yorkshire pud]

This is why I am madly in love with Onan (unbeknownst to him), however Yorkshire and Eddie are still a close second...man boobs and heart pubes and all!

A few pages back Eddie implied his manscaping would be in place by Valentines day... I'm supposing heart shaped, but he's an innovative kinda guy, he might have a full gamut of topiary designs destined for his little haven. I think a 'how to' video placed on Youtube would be beneficial for those of us who might know friends interested in such delights.

[Birdie]

Sooo, I googled it (I'm bored) and there is actually a site called Pubicstyle, featuring reader's photos of their creations and the lastest news on fashionable pubes. 
http://pubicstyle.wordpress.com/
The best part is probably the images of the pubic wigs used on mannequins. Who knew?

[Yorkshire pud]

Sooo, I googled it (I'm bored) and there is actually a site called Pubicstyle, featuring reader's photos of their creations and the lastest news on fashionable pubes. 
http://pubicstyle.wordpress.com/
The best part is probably the images of the pubic wigs used on mannequins. Who knew?

Eddies gallery is far bigger than that. Apparently. I heard it somewhere.

[onan]

Try covering one eye.

funniest line in weeks.

[wr250]

things that annoy me:

person knocks at the door,its a sheriffs deputy.
them : is mrs XXXXX here?
me: no
them : does she live here
me: no, she passed away some 18 months ago
them: oh ok ill let the court know

sigh i notified everyone who asked or attempted to collect a debt, etc , the date  she passed away. the county knows, i had her name removed from the deed so the debt collectors couldnt file a lien on it (them bastards would out of spite).
next time ill give them the cemeteries address and plot number,and let them figure it out.

[BobGrau]

things that annoy me:

person knocks at the door,its a sheriffs deputy.
them : is mrs XXXXX here?
me: no
them : does she live here
me: no, she passed away some 18 months ago
them: oh ok ill let the court know

sigh i notified everyone who asked or attempted to collect a debt, etc , the date  she passed away. the county knows, i had her name removed from the deed so the debt collectors couldnt file a lien on it (them bastards would out of spite).
next time ill give them the cemeteries address and plot number,and let them figure it out.

Tell them you've still got half of her in your freezer, if they don't mind leftovers. See if they notice.

[Yorkshire pud]

Tell them you've still got half of her in your freezer, if they don't mind leftovers. See if they notice.

Surely there can be only one Clydebank? (Sorry I called you Shirley)

[Heather Wade]

things that annoy me:

person knocks at the door,its a sheriffs deputy.
them : is mrs XXXXX here?
me: no
them : does she live here
me: no, she passed away some 18 months ago
them: oh ok ill let the court know

sigh i notified everyone who asked or attempted to collect a debt, etc , the date  she passed away. the county knows, i had her name removed from the deed so the debt collectors couldnt file a lien on it (them bastards would out of spite).
next time ill give them the cemeteries address and plot number,and let them figure it out.

Sorry you're going through that, wr250.  That's got to suck.  It's an inhuman world, that all of us humans live in.

[Camazotz Automat]

Try covering one eye.

If I weren't blind, this might be amusing.

Perhaps if I were to beat Stephen Hawking into a coma with my white cane, a fountainhead of Z-particles would issue forth and ricochet illuminate that elusive third wheel eye....

I would be lost without my Dragon Squeak exclamation point click Post

[eddie dean]

Sooo, I googled it (I'm bored) and there is actually a site called Pubicstyle, featuring reader's photos of their creations and the lastest news on fashionable pubes. 
http://pubicstyle.wordpress.com/
The best part is probably the images of the pubic wigs used on mannequins. Who knew?

Apparently the people of Arizona are not ready for a public viewing (local flower establishment, grocery store, Wallmart Valentine's Day card section & Corner of 2 major roadways) of my  brand of holiday  "Artwork" (pube-art)
The nice officers seemd to enjoy it thought (ROFLAO). After a short ride, they even took pictures! (mugshots)
People are so uptight!

[BobGrau]

Sometimes it just takes one asshole broadcasting their shitty mood to ruin one's own.

: Here, share mine.

[Yorkshire pud]

Apparently the people of Arizona are not ready for a public viewing (local flower establishment, grocery store, Wallmart Valentine's Day card section & Corner of 2 major roadways) of my  brand of holiday  "Artwork" (pube-art)
The nice officers seemd to enjoy it thought (ROFLAO). After a short ride, they even took pictures! (mugshots)
People are so uptight!

Too right bud. Political correctness gone mad!

[wr250]

tv stooped to a new low. lifetime network. bad movie about prostitute killer. acting like in a 50's B horror flick;makes shatner look like a fine actor.
ive been basically ignoring it , and listening to jimmy church. its been on longer than his replay (3 hours), and now after dark is on.
makes me almost pine for a open lines c2c with george noory.

gf is enthralled with it for some reason, i dunno why.

[coaster]

tv stooped to a new low. lifetime network. bad movie about prostitute killer. acting like in a 50's B horror flick;makes shatner look like a fine actor.
ive been basically ignoring it , and listening to jimmy church. its been on longer than his replay (3 hours), and now after dark is on.
makes me almost pine for a open lines c2c with george noory.

gf is enthralled with it for some reason, i dunno why.

A woman watching Lifetime Network is like putting a child in front of a cartoon.

[zeebo]

A woman watching Lifetime Network is like putting a child in front of a cartoon.

Lifetime show (from Family Guy)

[HorrorRetro]

A woman watching Lifetime Network is like putting a child in front of a cartoon.

Ha, very true.  I had a Lifetime movie marathon today, watching old ones on YouTube.  They had some really good movies back in the '90s.  Their current movies are awful.

[Mind Flayer Monk]

Ha, very true.  I had a Lifetime movie marathon today, watching old ones on YouTube.  They had some really good movies back in the '90s.  Their current movies are awful.

How many of those were "Sleeping with the Enemy" type movies? I remember having to suffer through those movies while dating women in the 90s. I thought that was bad, but now the stuff women watch-like the Kardashian's show makes Lifetime look good.