Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry (a list thread)

- Having to track my time at work.

- Being a lazy fuck and not tracking it as I go so now I have to go back two weeks and try to remember what I did and piece it all together and feel like a lying liar making shit up b/c who knows what I did two weeks ago.

i would be surprised if it hasn't already shown up here but: people on the train who sit on the aisle seat when there's an empty window seat. if you're afraid a stranger will sit next to you maybe you should never leave your house ever.

xp hahaha, my old job used to make me break things down to 15 minute increments. But I would be doing 3-4 things at once, so I used to make it all up at the end of a day (on a good day) or the pay period (on a bad two weeks.) Stupid.

Yeh, a lot of my entries are based on my going "Hmm, draft a subpoena, a letter, and order a check from the bookkeeper - that sounds like about .30 hour." Because so often a task is interrupted by stuff like a phone call, running out of toner, and killing a fly.

That's it exactly! Also a lot of what I used to do was similar but for different clients, so I'd do the typing/data entry for all at once, then print, sort file, etc.. It'd take me 1.5 hours and then I'd just assign a random half hour to each. And post on ILX with the time I'd saved. ;)

Confession! Sometimes I sit on the aisle but only when the train is way empty and showing no signs of being full. Sitting next to people on trains is part of urban life so whatever but if I can give myself the gift of not having to hunch myself into a ball or press my leg against a stranger, I will.

i'll allow it!

Sitting next to strangers is fine, but for some reason a lot of people seem to think that their "reward" for being stuck with the aisle seat means they can toss spread their knees as far apart as possible and toss elbows around like they're in a roller derby, forcing the earlier passenger to scrunch up against the window like a frightened child.

The thing about sitting on the aisle seat : It can be justified (when you are going to be getting out in a couple stops, for example) and it can be done without being a douche, but you have to be conscious of your surroundings and be ready to offer others inside seat.

I hate wide open legs jerks.

Makes you want to punch em in the crotch.

for some reason a lot of people seem to think

a poem by jon/via/chi 2.20

the "reward" for being stuck
with
the aisle seat
means they can
toss
spread

their knees as far apart as possible
and toss elbows around
like they're in a
roller
derby,

forcing the earlier passenger
to scrunch up against
the window

like a frightened child.

add a reference to bone marrow and it's a dylan thomas poem

death to wide open leg jerks!

i had a dude next to me at a football game who did it alll the time fpr the whole game, AND arms across the back of the chairs, draped over his gitlfriend like some kind of vine.
But the legs. Like, dude, I don't care how big you think your junk is, get away from me! I had to keep nudging him away, it was gross.

There is a sleazeball attorney in the building I work in who almost daily causes problems in our parking lot. It is a very small lot with very cramped spaces, all of which are reserved for tenants. This jackass apparently tells his clients to park in open spots, and when someone complains, the building management calls him and he asks them if they can use another space. Besides his clients, there is the fact that he drives a massive, hideous orange H2, which barely fits in a parking space when parked carefully, and which he usually parks at odd angles, making other spaces unusable.

Today he must have been feeling especially carefree b/c he parked in TWO spaces, neither of which were his. When management called him, he said he was in a deposition, and could the owners of those spaces park elsewhere?

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ticket the guy?

loosen every bolt on his vehicle so that when he gets in it collapses around him?

He's a tiny, sleazy man who lives up to the Napoleon syndrome stereotype in every way. And he wears outrageous suits and has long flowing hair and a pinky ring. >:(

xp - it's a private lot. This guy is a terrible bully and apparently the battle over parking is the least of management's worries w/ this guy.

pee on his desk

xxpost lol darragh I misread that as "tickle the guy?"

lololol

Also, his office is on the 2nd floor (1st floor for you Brits in the audience), and it's a regular thing that when I'm leaving for the day, the elevator will stop at 2 because he called it without checking which floor it's on, then takes the stairs 1 flight down. I know this b/c sometimes when it stops at 2, I see him exiting the stairwell as I get off the elevator.

Second the tickling solution.

def tickle him

tickle his face with your fists

Also, his office is on the 2nd floor (1st floor for you Brits in the audience)
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Sounds like he needs a bumper sticker.

http://www.libertystickers.com/static/images/productimage-picture-only_an_asshole_would_park_like_this-44.gif

Also, his office is on the 2nd floor (1st floor for you Brits in the audience)
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Why??!

Australians also can't count stories in a building.

it's not just brits ffs

brits and brit jrs

or is brits jr?

Do Canadians do that too?

Sorry AA, I was TRYING to be culturally sensitive, but I went and ruined everything ;__;

It is as though the shame will outlive me.

<3 je55e, I know you mean well etc, but when americans (no other country seems to do this btw) hear about something they don't do and assume it's 'british'

i genuinely dgi

and as this is the ia thread

Well the whole practice of not numbering the first floor is obviously complete dumb, we probably just expect better from Australians tbh.

oh it's definitely dumb, no question

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storey

Some American high-rise buildings follow the British system, often out of a desire on the part of the building's architect or owners to suggest a posh UK/ European setting[citation needed].

dying

Canadians are perfectly capable of counting floors, FYI.

It's not stupid. It is the first floor up, the second floor up, the third floor up, etc.

http://student.rio.edu/s627570/lets-make-a-deal-doors.jpg

Hey look. It's the door, the first door over and the second door over.

Well, no, because you're not standing in Door #1.

If you were standing in one doorway and were presented with three doors in order, they are the first, second and third doors. The doorway you are standing in is the start-point.

No, I'm standing in the parking lot looking for that asshole lawyer guy.

What if you weren't standing in the building when you said it?

lol, PP.

Laurel, it is generally assumed that you will enter the building at ground level. From there, you need to work out how many floors you go up. It's the same principle.

basement is the second floor, sub-basement is the first floor, ground floor is ground floor, second floor is third floor

emil.y I see your point, but logically it's just as easy (if not easier) to say that the floor you enter is the first as you enter the building.