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Corporate buzzwords and phrases. I’ve hated them ever since “think outside the box”.

Today, one of our vital systems was experiencing major lag time. A company-wide email went out stating the system was “experiencing system latency”. I guess “s**t the bed” was not appropriate.

AppleScruffJunior said

AppleScruffJunior said
They also didn’t pay me overtime for working a bank holiday, so I’ve sent them an email on that and (surprise, surprise) still haven’t got a reply. They better be there next Thursday or grrrrrrrr.

I hate the stupid business, the owner is lovely and I know it’s not his fault, it’s the stupid manager and the office staff who don’t give a s***e about employees below them.  

Further update: Looks like everybody else got commission, bar me. I guess I’m going having a chat with the owner now

Necko said
Parents who won’t shut their obnoxious children up while in public. I am currently in the waiting room at the doctor’s office and there are at least two instances of this going on. 

 

God , I hate children.

*goes up to desk* “Excuse me ma’am. One vasectomy, please.”  

Now THAT is funny.

The fact that there’s no proper Irish dictionary in the way that there are English ones i.e. not from one language to another but just defining a word. I want to give a definition of ‘stereotype’ on a paper in the Irish language but I don’t want to have to quote from the Oxford English Dictionary or the Merriam-Webster English dictionary because it feels like a cop-out.

Curse you minority languages!!!

meanmistermustard said

…why do so many people on it walk so damn slowly and then suddenly stop?  

Ooooh, that’s a pet peeve of ours. We will be behind people walking in or out of a store and then they suddenly stop, oblivious to everyone else around them and preventing us and everyone behind us from getting past. 

Zig said

Ooooh, that’s a pet peeve of ours. We will be behind people walking in or out of a store and then they suddenly stop, oblivious to everyone else around them and preventing us and everyone behind us from getting past.   

My God Galway city is the absolute worse for this, the main shopping street (which coincidentally is called eh… Shop Street) is quite narrow and it’s filled with buskers. EVERY. SINGLE. BLOODY. DAY that I am there there is this massive 10 piece band who although they are excellent they create this big human blockade of people who just stop and listen to the music. I literally have to push past people to get to where I’m going and when it’s 9:30pm and I’ve been working for 9 hours and am wrecked, it’s a real pain in the ass to have to get through.

Also there’s a man outside work who plays the tin whistle. That’s all fine and dandy I amn’t a huge fan of it because I think the majority of people have terrible breathing on it and it sounds horrendous but he’s alright EXCEPT he plays the SAME TWO SONGS OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN. Everytime I go to the canteen I can hear him, folks have been telling me he’s been there for 20 years. Sweet merciful mother of –

Anyhoo my pet peeve is I bought a lipbalm at The Body Shop (who I amn’t that big a fan of because they sold themselves to L’oréal who test on animals when TBS main selling point was that they don’t test on animals but anyways). My lips were really dry and I needed to put something on them or else I would have gone crazy so I bought the balm put it on and within 5 seconds I could just feel my lips like turn to sand they were so dry and by the end of my work shift they were all flaky and disgusting. Now TBS doesn’t allow you to return things but I’m going back there tomorrow and if they put up a case I’m going reciting my ‘Sale of Goods and Supply of Services Act 1980’ law and saying “it wasn’t fit for purpose intended” because it was meant to hydrate them but instead it dried them out and left them looking mank for 3 days.

Gah!