Pet Peeves

Hi!

While going over some posts in this here blog, I noticed I had written a lot about things I like, but not really much about things I dislike. So, I tried to put together a list of:

Pet Peeves!

• When people unecessarily use scissors to open things such as: bags from snacks (such as crisps, cookies, chocolate, candies, chewing gum, cupcakes, muffins), office supplies (such as post-it notes, staples), and other similarly packaged articles. What’s the point? The enclosure is going in the rubbish bin anyway.
• When a coworker is aware of someone else taking his/her lunch break at a certain time, and messing up the schedule by taking his/her own lunch at the same time, thereby leaving no one in the office to answer the phone.
• People complaining about something which does not affect them. For example: A warehouse employee constantly complains about the way the fans make so much noise in the office. He’s not in the office all day. His complaint, therefore, is meaningless. He continues, however, to complain. Gr.
• Customers assuming that an “Estimate” is an actual commitment. Such as: An estimated bid completion time. For example: “What time do you think you’ll have the quote done?” “Well, depending on the project, I think a safe estimate is around tomorrow afternoon.” The customer then calls my boss at 2pm, saying that I “promised” to have the bid done by noon, and that he didn’t receive anything. Gr.
• When coworkers deliberately manipulate information found on existing paperwork to shift the blame on some mistake onto another person. GR.

And all of a sudden this turns into an entry reflecting my dislike for my current employment. Though, I’m happy to say that, now that my permanent residency has been approved, I have more…. freedom! I can quit, if I like, and look for a job elsewhere. That in itself relieves a lot more stress. Though, the way things are right now, I think I’ll wait another…. I dunno, six months, till I start looking for a job. Maybe even wait till I decide to move out or if my parents decide on buying a house (which means moving house). We shall see.

Moar pet peeves!

• Lip-smacking. Especially during eating. It must be one of the more popular pet peeves around, I would think. But I find it really annoying.
• Loud groans and moans of pleasure during a meal. An “Mmm!” is okay, but “MMMMm OOHH WOOOW MMMMMM *GROOOOOAN* SOO GOOD MMMMM” is just ridiculous >:|
• Being reached over during dinner. As in, someone wants, say, the table salt, and instead of asking for it to be passed, the person reaches over my plate of food and over me, to get to the salt. Maybe the person can say he didn’t want to bother me during my meal, but I’d much rather be asked to pass the damn salt, than have my personal space invaded.

I’m tired of being so grumpy now, that’s all for today ^.^