Pet Peeves

[GothPoet]

Just a place to share any and all Pet Peeves you may have.

One of mine: Ad banners on websites that cover content. i.e. If the site has a drop down menu, that (in whole or part) appears behind an ad banner on the site.

[Don Alexander]

I have many pet peeves!! I plundered the peeve shop. ;)

Okay, here's one: People in fornt of me driving significantly below the speed limit.

[Tenjen]

...ON THE HIGHWAY AT THE FRIKKIN FAST LANE

[Asaryu]

People who only finish half a job and don't tell anyone else what they're doing, and never get back to it later.

The trolley in the middle of the corridor (not to the side, no no, that would be sensible) on level 3 filled with new books had been there 4 days. 4 friggin days. No-one touching it 'cos no-one knows why it's there.

[LadySheDevil]

OMG, where to begin?! (GP, you just opened Pandora's Box... )

Customers who come in insisting that they bought a product from my store a week ago, that we do not and NEVER HAVE carried.

"The customer is always right", my pasty white ass!

[JVDifferent]

Slow people who insist on taking up the entire walkway.

FUCKING MOVE PEOPLE!!!!

[Doctor Emmit Brown]

Customers. Just customers.

Everybody here needs to read the comic Retail. One man's revenge against all the managers, coworkers, and customers he ever had to face while working at 7 different retail jobs. I read through the archives this weekend (it started Jan 1 2006), and it inspired me to try to write a memoir about my own experiences as a retail slave.

[Dirty n Evil]

Doc Brown, that comic sums up my life.

I have a pet peeve against people with the "if you don't confront me I didn't do anything wrong" philosophy of life. The person who takes a seventeen minute 'ten minute' break, who opens the polybagged magazines on the magazine rack with the large sign saying "do not open magazines in plastic wrapping", who think the no-smoking signs aren't meant to include them... you know who I'm talking about. Too often I only encounter these people while on the clock so what I can say to them is limited.

But when I catch them away from my job? I give them a chance to correct their mistake, "I'm sorry, this is a non-smoking establishement" with a wry smile as I point to the rather large symbol with a red line through the cigarette. If they give me even a faint excuse (I don't care what they say, it's all an excuse to get away with something they're not supposed to) I lay into them. I start talking in an excessively loud voice that draws them attention they didn't want and squaring my shoulders aggressively. "What is you fucking major malfunction?! Are you special, is that what it is?! Do rules apply to everyone else in this green Earth...except you?! Are you the fucking chosen one?! NOOOooooo?! Then put out the fucking cigarette, dumbass!!!"

Well, I chill out on the language if little kids are nearby, but yeah. I have a harsh reaction to my pet peeves.

[Asaryu]

I usually try the sugar approach. "Hi, sorry, the management doesn't like talking on mobile phones on this level. If the conversation is important, you can go down to level 2."

If they object, I explain, in full detail, exactly why the rules are in place. Rather than telling them they are a moral vacuum, I imply it in a long-winded way, using large words and big hand-gestures, smiling the whole time as though I am their friend. By the end of the 'conversation' they are converts, and have strong moral objection to people who would ruin another persons library experience by being so rude as to talk on a phone. I let them forget that they did anything wrong, and I make sure they don't do it again. I am ebil.

[Peppercat]

But when I catch them away from my job? I give them a chance to correct their mistake, "I'm sorry, this is a non-smoking establishement" with a wry smile as I point to the rather large symbol with a red line through the cigarette. If they give me even a faint excuse (I don't care what they say, it's all an excuse to get away with something they're not supposed to) I lay into them. I start talking in an excessively loud voice that draws them attention they didn't want and squaring my shoulders aggressively. "What is you fucking major malfunction?! Are you special, is that what it is?! Do rules apply to everyone else in this green Earth...except you?! Are you the fucking chosen one?! NOOOooooo?! Then put out the fucking cigarette, dumbass!!!"

Eep!

*covers her eyes with one paw and makes mental note not to make DnE mad EVER*

[JVDifferent]

People who smoke in mosh pits. And those stupidly tall people who always find their way right in front of me in the mosh.

Actually, make that people who just have no regard for mosh ettiquette.

[Don Alexander]

There's something like Mosh Etiquette??

But in the same vein: People who do violent dancing in mosh pits at metal concerts.

And crowd surfers. FUCK OFF!!!!

And here's a pet peeve that most will probably just go "Huh?" at, but it enrages me!!

PEOPLE WHO PUBLISH PAPERS ON OPTICAL AFTERGLOWS OF GAMMA-RAY BURSTS AND DO NOT INCLUDE A DATA TABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fucking hoarders. And it's unscientific as well.

[cyanide_sweet]

But in the same vein: People who do violent dancing in mosh pits at metal concerts.

And crowd surfers. FUCK OFF!!!!

You...you... hate me

Pet peeve: People who have gratuitous makeout sessions in front of doorways you need to walk through. Take it somewhere less public plz?

[Sideb(.)(.)bPlatypus]

A majority of the relatives on my dad's side of the family tend to call right when we're about to eat, be late, etc.

And this is a bit gross, but.....finding a dribble or two (or twelve) on a toilet seat in a public restroom ~_~ I know we women can't exactly aim, but how hard is it to at least wipe the seat off if you made a mess?? unless the toilet paper got used up or something...

[Peppercat]

I hate that too, SP

I hate people who... allow me to explain:

Me: Oh look! We have the same immunology textbook.
Human Medicine Student: But you're a vet!
Me: Yeah.
HMS: But, what, you take immunology? Dogs have white blood cells??!!!!
Me: ... *facepalm*

Or even worst (and I couldn't fcking believe it)

Vet: I'm so sorry to say this, but your dog is in pain-
Man: Dogs feel pain? Really?
Vet: ....
Me: *please DIE*