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Old 10-13-2009, 02:05 PM   #1 (permalink)
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My rant for the day.....for all cubicle dwellers:

-- Do not rub Bengay all over your body at work. I cannot breathe.

-- Do not eat food at work that SMELLS like something died. I cannot breathe.

-- Do not continuously SLURP, SLURP, SLURP your beverage. I cannot think.

-- Do not eat all day at your desk with your mouth wide open chomping as loudly as a cow. I cannot think.

-- Do not pop your gum all day long. I cannot think.

Whew, I think I feel a little better.

Feel free to add your own office pet peeves.
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Old 10-13-2009, 02:34 PM   #2 (permalink)
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So many peeves, so little time.

Check the toilet after you flush. For gosh sakes, no one needs to see your leftovers of any kind.

I understand you put your ginormous oatmeal bowl in the sink to soak after you make breakfast. And your coffee cup. Please try and remove them before we all use the sink at lunch.

Can you not smell that the 1/4 C in the coffee pot is burning as you walk through the kitchen? How much does it take to just click off the burner and move the pot when you walk by? I'm not saying you have to clean it just because you discover it but can you not ignore it?

We used to have 1 silverware drawer (plasticware) and it had a divider in it (like you would at home). Someone had the bright idea to instead take 3 flat wicker baskets and put one in each of THREE drawers and fill each with only one kind of utensil.
OK. I'm not sure why but OK. COULD YOU AT LEAST have made them left-to-right fork, knife, spoon? Once they are in an order (and I like that one), could you LEAVE them that way? Why do they keep getting rearranged like some sort of plasticware shell game?
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Why do they keep getting rearranged like some sort of plasticware shell game?
A crazed battle to the death between two coworkers that disagree on the order?
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- use your inside voice. How can you not notice that everyone within 100' can hear every conversation you have?

- please stop wearing so much perfume/cologne.

- quit complaining about your personal life every single day...the reason you have so many problems is because of you, and your constant complaining only reinforces that fact.
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- please stop wearing so much perfume/cologne.
HOW could I have forgotten that one!!!! Yes!
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Anyone that believes that communism is a viable economic model has clearly never worked in an office with a coffee pot that is not maintained by someone who is paid to do so...
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This year I'd put up with a whole lot of crap if the people in my office would just, like, do their jobs and stuff.
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I remember that my daughter would always do all of her home work at home. The boys' pencils made too much noise for her to concentrate. And then there are those of us who are oblivious. But usually selectively!
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I am wearing the headset connected to the telephone for a reason. I am on a conference call you moron. Don't try to carry on a conversation.

Oh, and try using your headset when you have a conference call and not your speakerphone.
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People who take the last of the coffee and don't make a new pot:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU1jr...eature=related
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My guess without watching the video...

You kill the joe! You make some moe!

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I'm pretty sure Otto would +1 you on this…
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I personally hate people who call and they aren't sure what exactly they want. They'd like me to figure out their problem and solution. It's why I rarely answer the phone and tell people to e-mail me. When they have to take the time to write it down, most people are much better about being concise and clear.
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That would not qualify as working in my book, so it would be rude and I'd have to tell you to gitya ass tah Marz.
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Muwahahaha....

I've been elected as the office DJ.... you bitches can do whatever you want, but screw with me and I'll make you listen to my iPod exercise play list all day long!! AAAAAHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA AAA!!!!!
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If I go to a kitchen/breakroom not on my own floor (the universal signal for hiding/getting away), sit at a table, have a sandwich in one hand and the paper in the other and earphones in my ears and you come up and say "I don't want to interrupt your lunch but ..."

YOU'RE PRETTY MUCH INTERUPTING MY LUNCH
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if you have a stinky fungal foot problem pleez do not take your socks and shoes off in your cubicle and go commando the rest of the day.
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My rant for the day.....for all cubicle dwellers:
-- Do not continuously SLURP, SLURP, SLURP your beverage. I cannot think.

-- Do not eat all day at your desk with your mouth wide open chomping as loudly as a cow. I cannot think.
These two things are what drove me to the point of near-murder in at my old job and was quite literally half the reason I quit that job to take a different one. I would actually wait to eat lunch until he ate, whether that be at noon or 2pm, so that I could leave the office to do something, anything, so that I couldn't hear him chomping.
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I follow you into the rest room. In fact you acknowledge me with a "good morning" then you step up to the middle of three urinals. Dumb ass. Don't you know the rules?
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You followed him into the restroom. He was just trying to make the next move.
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I work with some foreigners (China/India) and its pretty interesting..

- I don't know everything about everything in Canada. I have no clue what school is good for your 3rd grade kid to go to, I don't know what you can deduct off your taxes or what forms you need to do so, and I certainly don't know how you can apply to become a permanent citizen.

- If you come into my office, shut the door behind you. When its not shut people just come to the doorway and try to have conversations with me all day (all about above ^^^)

i need a new job..
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I work with some foreigners (China/India) and its pretty interesting..

- I don't know everything about everything in Canada. I have no clue what school is good for your 3rd grade kid to go to, I don't know what you can deduct off your taxes or what forms you need to do so, and I certainly don't know how you can apply to become a permanent citizen.

- If you come into my office, shut the door behind you. When its not shut people just come to the doorway and try to have conversations with me all day (all about above ^^^)

i need a new job..
You should start making stuff up, not about taxes and things that can get them deported, but the innocuous things.

See if you can get them to go to a Waffle House (if they have those in Canada) at 3 am. From something like that, set stranger and stranger goals and see how far they will go. It might be worth the entertainment while you are searching for something better, and who knows, if you can actually get them to bring a live horse in to the office, you would be a YouTube hero.
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