People to Punch, Pet Peeves, and General Vexations (mega-merge)

[sears3820]

The lady in my office who will dial a phone number while on speaker phone and wait for the other person to answer before she switches off speaker phone.

Not only do I have to hear the 10 annoying beeps while she dials the number, I also have to see her struggle with the switch over. Half the time, she drops the hand piece causing an awful commotion on the other end. The other half, she's so goddamn slow during the switchover, the person on the other end is a split second away from hanging up.

I gave her the benefit of the doubt at first, thinking she was multitasking. Nope. She just sits there staring blankly at the phone during and after dialing.

Drives me insane.

 

[buxfan4life]

The lady in my office who will dial a phone number while on speaker phone and wait for the other person to answer before she switches off speaker phone.

Not only do I have to hear the 10 annoying beeps while she dials the number, I also have to see her struggle with the switch over. Half the time, she drops the hand piece causing an awful commotion on the other end. The other half, she's so goddamn slow during the switchover, the person on the other end is a split second away from hanging up.

I gave her the benefit of the doubt at first, thinking she was multitasking. Nope. She just sits there staring blankly at the phone during and after dialing.

Drives me insane.

I had employee at one of our offices who did that and everyone complained (when I called in from the field I would tell her right away to take me off speakerphone). I ended up buying her a headset and told her if I heard one more complaint about the speakerphone, I was giving her this:

which we still had in the supply closet.

She got the message and I never heard another complaint.

Ask her supervisor to get the woman a headset.

 

[LovelandBuckeye]

The lady in my office who will dial a phone number while on speaker phone and wait for the other person to answer before she switches off speaker phone.

Not only do I have to hear the 10 annoying beeps while she dials the number, I also have to see her struggle with the switch over. Half the time, she drops the hand piece causing an awful commotion on the other end. The other half, she's so goddamn slow during the switchover, the person on the other end is a split second away from hanging up.

I gave her the benefit of the doubt at first, thinking she was multitasking. Nope. She just sits there staring blankly at the phone during and after dialing.

Drives me insane.

This drives me flipping insane. My boss (BN XO) uses his BlackBerry speaker phone for everything. This includes talking about what should be FOUO and personal shit anout Soldiers. 99% of the formation does not need to hear about PVT Snuffy getting drunk and trying to finger bang his roomie while he is passed out...well, maybe his new roomie might want to know.

 

[Romanowski]

That dildo who spends 10 minutes at the ATM and when finished pulls up just enough to let the next person go, but then sits there for an extra 5 minutes examining their receipt, check register, and counting their cash while the car (me) behind them is already finished with the transaction.

 

[BrAss Man]

Mrs. Anderson from the ADT commercial.

"It's OK Mrs Anderson- the paramedics are on their way."

Here's a tip, Mrs Anderson: Stop falling down.

We're all tired of it.

 

[DubCoffman62]

People that try to make a left turn onto a busy street from a parking lot with no light. All they need to do is turn right, make a uturn at the first light and all is good. Instead they sit there for 5 minutes while people behind them are stuck.

 

[Crump's brother]

 

[buckeyebri]

People who don't clean the grass clippings from the sidewalk after mowing their lawn. Especially, when there are big clumps. If you aren't man enough to have a blower and you're to fricking lazy to sweep it, let me share a little man tip with you. You can use your lawnmower as a blower. Yes, it is true. Run your mower down the walk, ensuring it is actually running (this is key to blowing the grass off) and walla the grass goes flying off the sidewalk....your welcome....

 

[DubCoffman62]

That reminds me, last night some tool made a big thick cloud of black smoke at as the light was turning green, wtf, there's gotta be a special place in hell for someone like that.

 

[buckeyebri]

A little off topic, but I actually was the third car in line pulling up to a stop light turning red last night when someone blew by us all in the left turn lane and went thru the red light. The light had been red for about 5-10 seconds and it is a major intersection. Must have thought it was a good day to die....luckily no one got hit...

 

[Zurp]

Since this has become a "complain about other people's driving" thread, I'll throw in a penny..

Much of the east side of Cleveland doesn't have any left-turn lanes. I don't know if it's poor planning or just a fear of them, or if some religious nut has some issue. But there's often 2 lanes: the left one is for going straight or turning left, and the right one is for going straight or turning right. Sometimes you're luck if there's a dotted white line showing that it really IS 2 lanes - it might just be one wide lane that people treat as two lanes.

Anyway, you pull up to a red light, and there's one guy waiting there, in the left lane. No turn signal. You COULD pull into the right lane, but hey, you need to turn left in a couple of blocks, so just stay in the left lane, maybe. The light stays red a while and cars pull up behind you and in the right lane, and cars going the opposite way are pulling up across the intersection. No big deal.

So the light turns green, and the piece of monkey turd turns on his left-turn signal and barely pulls out into the intersection. YOU ANUS-SMOOCHER!!! If you had turned on your turn signal when you got to the intersection, I would have pulled into the right lane. So I'm waiting for him to turn left, because none of the guys behind me is going to let me into the right lane. I'm lucky to make it through this light cycle.

 

[Crump's brother]

That reminds me, last night some tool made a big thick cloud of black smoke at as the light was turning green, wtf, there's gotta be a special place in hell for someone like that.

There's really no place for that. I do a lot of diesel tech stuff-I drive a diesel, all that good stuff...any diesel truck can do that if they hook up a tuner/programmer module. The a-holes who decide to "roll coal" as they call it, are just being dicks and wasting fuel. They give people like me a, well, worse name.

 

[buxfan4life]

Since this has become a "complain about other people's driving" thread, I'll throw in a penny..

Much of the east side of Cleveland doesn't have any left-turn lanes. I don't know if it's poor planning or just a fear of them, or if some religious nut has some issue. But there's often 2 lanes: the left one is for going straight or turning left, and the right one is for going straight or turning right. Sometimes you're luck if there's a dotted white line showing that it really IS 2 lanes - it might just be one wide lane that people treat as two lanes.

Anyway, you pull up to a red light, and there's one guy waiting there, in the left lane. No turn signal. You COULD pull into the right lane, but hey, you need to turn left in a couple of blocks, so just stay in the left lane, maybe. The light stays red a while and cars pull up behind you and in the right lane, and cars going the opposite way are pulling up across the intersection. No big deal.

So the light turns green, and the piece of monkey turd turns on his left-turn signal and barely pulls out into the intersection. YOU ANUS-SMOOCHER!!! If you had turned on your turn signal when you got to the intersection, I would have pulled into the right lane. So I'm waiting for him to turn left, because none of the guys behind me is going to let me into the right lane. I'm lucky to make it through this light cycle.

If other drivers not using turn signals sets you off, then may you never have to drive in South Florida or you would die of a heart attack.

Down here, turn signals are only used by old people to tease you into thinking they will switch lanes (which they never do).

 

[buckeyebri]

If other drivers not using turn signals sets you off, then may you never have to drive in South Florida or you would die of a heart attack.

Down here, turn signals are only used by old people to tease you into thinking they will switch lanes (which they never do).

They don't make turn signals on cars sold in South Florida do they?

 

[scarletmike]

Pretty sure its an option that most people don't include on their cars down here. And the rental companies must turn the damn things off when they get out-of state cars at the airport garages, too. I guess they assume the person behind them can read the GPS and see that they'll be darting over 3 lanes so they don't miss the first of 4 Disney exits.