What's Annoying You Today?

rick_chasey

Waiting for the tube - about 10 deep across the platform, with the next train to arrive in 13 minutes - only for the announcer to declare the line we were waiting for "was running a good service".

I'll be the judge of that.

Pokerface

Annoying me today:

Having to wait a MONTH for MRI results.

And having my ferry to Ireland cancelled tomoro for bad weather. Means I have to leave home at midnight tonight instead, take a boat at 3:00am and arrive 18 hours early, and wait around the ferry terminal to get picked up. :evil:

pb21

dmch2 wrote:

people turning right on roundabouts and still indicating right (rather than left) as they come off

People who don’t indicate at all on roundabouts.

rick_chasey

Frank the tank wrote:

When checking out at the supermarket being asked, "Would you like any cash back?"

"No" I say, "I'd just sooner not give you so much in the first place".

They must think you look like you do a lot of 'cash payments'

Ben6899

Rick Chasey wrote:

Waiting for the tube - about 10 deep across the platform, with the next train to arrive in 13 minutes - only for the announcer to declare the line we were waiting for "was running a good service".

I'll be the judge of that.

Haha, I like it. 13 minutes seems a heck of a long wait for the next train? Which line is that on and which station?

rick_chasey

Ben6899 wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Waiting for the tube - about 10 deep across the platform, with the next train to arrive in 13 minutes - only for the announcer to declare the line we were waiting for "was running a good service".

I'll be the judge of that.

Haha, I like it. 13 minutes seems a heck of a long wait for the next train? Which line is that on and which station?

You'd think it was the district line...

But no - t'was Jubilee - Canada Water

Don't worry, I'm moving out of there very soon (and can't wait to).

Ben6899

Rick Chasey wrote:

Ben6899 wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Waiting for the tube - about 10 deep across the platform, with the next train to arrive in 13 minutes - only for the announcer to declare the line we were waiting for "was running a good service".

I'll be the judge of that.

Haha, I like it. 13 minutes seems a heck of a long wait for the next train? Which line is that on and which station?

You'd think it was the district line...

But no - t'was Jubilee - Canada Water

Don't worry, I'm moving out of there very soon (and can't wait to).

Sounds like the sort of shite you put up with on Central. I don't mind the tube at all, but not working in London I have rarely had to use it in the rush hours.

Whenever it's a bit tight on the tube and I'm close to whinging, I just think back to when I had to catch a rush hour Tokyo Metro from Shinjuku. John West would have been proud!

DCowling

pb21 wrote:

dmch2 wrote:

people turning right on roundabouts and still indicating right (rather than left) as they come off

People who don’t indicate at all on roundabouts.

people who don't indicate
but when they do manage to work out the complicated system of moving a lever which is right next to their hands, they automatically assume that the orange flashy thing gives the the right of way
especially drivers of Bavarian cars, you know who you are

rick_chasey

Ben6899 wrote:

Sounds like the sort of shite you put up with on Central. I don't mind the tube at all, but not working in London I have rarely had to use it in the rush hours.

Whenever it's a bit tight on the tube and I'm close to whinging, I just think back to when I had to catch a rush hour Tokyo Metro from Shinjuku. John West would have been proud!

To be honest *snob alert* if you have a proper job, or at least take it seriously, you should probably be in the office by 8, 8:15 anyway, thus missing the ridiculous sh!tfight. It's still crowded, but at least you don't have to let some trains go before you can step on like you do in the 8-9 window.

I was a little late today due to GF's birthday, so I'll put it down to that.

Still though, the whole 'good' service this is an annoyance even when it is working 'normally'. It's a value judgement, and one they're not in a position to make.

It's never actually 'good'. Just normal or sh!tfight.

UpTheWall

DCowling wrote:

pb21 wrote:

dmch2 wrote:

people turning right on roundabouts and still indicating right (rather than left) as they come off

People who don’t indicate at all on roundabouts.

people who don't indicate
but when they do manage to work out the complicated system of moving a lever which is right next to their hands, they automatically assume that the orange flashy thing gives the the right of way
especially drivers of Bavarian cars, you know who you are

Hell yeah:

cycling along at ~40mph on a decent. Numpty t1tfac3 a55h0le pulls out in front of me. I flick it past in the middle of the road and when I confront him he says: i indicated.

I reply: you just did something stupid and dangerous. Just because you indicated before doing something stupid and dangerous doesn't make it any less stupid and dangerous.


Oh, and people that overtake me on roundabouts.

erm, and people that overtake then brake...

Cressers

At the checkout being asked if I have a Nectar/loyalty card. If I wanted to disclose to all and sundry my shopping habits for a few pointless points I'd hand it to you you dinny bint!

UpTheWall

Rick Chasey wrote:

To be honest *snob alert* if you have a proper job, or at least take it seriously, you should probably be in the office by 8, 8:15, anyway thus missing the ridiculous sh!tfight.....

Whaaaat?

I turn up at about 10. Doesn't mean I'm less serious about / good at my job?

Bloomin hate that 'tude. Esp as the people that come in early end up leaving silyl earlym like 4 or summink, but some people still think they're somehow more professional?

Nonsensical.

Ben6899

Rick Chasey wrote:

Ben6899 wrote:

Sounds like the sort of shite you put up with on Central. I don't mind the tube at all, but not working in London I have rarely had to use it in the rush hours.

Whenever it's a bit tight on the tube and I'm close to whinging, I just think back to when I had to catch a rush hour Tokyo Metro from Shinjuku. John West would have been proud!

To be honest *snob alert* if you have a proper job, or at least take it seriously, you should probably be in the office by 8, 8:15 anyway, thus missing the ridiculous sh!tfight. It's still crowded, but at least you don't have to let some trains go before you can step on like you do in the 8-9 window.

I was a little late today due to GF's birthday, so I'll put it down to that.

Still though, the whole 'good' service this is an annoyance even when it is working 'normally'. It's a value judgement, and one they're not in a position to make.

It's never actually 'good'. Just normal or sh!tfight.

It should be rephrased as 'normal' as in 'no engineering works or signal delays'. I agree that 'good', 'sh!tfight' or 'bad' are value judgments and subjective.

What's annoying me today? Having a meeting at freakin 1pm... right in the middle of lunch, cheers!

rick_chasey

UpTheWall wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

To be honest *snob alert* if you have a proper job, or at least take it seriously, you should probably be in the office by 8, 8:15, anyway thus missing the ridiculous sh!tfight.....

Whaaaat?

I turn up at about 10. Doesn't mean I'm less serious about / good at my job?

Bloomin hate that 'tude. Esp as the people that come in early end up leaving silyl earlym like 4 or summink, but some people still think they're somehow more professional?

Nonsensical.

Maybe it's not a proper job then . I'm just teasing and massively generalising.

I've got to be in the office by 8 and I'm normally out after 6.

9.15 to 4.30 strikes me as not really going for it...

pb21

Rick Chasey wrote:

9.15 to 4.30 strikes me as not really going for it...

Depends what you are going for.

disgruntledgoat

Still work... there must be people who don't wake up every morning thinking "balls I have to back to that place",surely?

UpTheWall

Me! Because it always means a cycle ride to the office, and I work with nice people,. half of whom are also obsessive cyclists.

I'm just back from a lunch time ride up a few surrey hills with my boss...

disgruntledgoat

Must be nice!

Was about to bore you with the whole sorry tale but you don't want a piece of that!

rick_chasey

disgruntledgoat wrote:

Must be nice!

Was about to bore you with the whole sorry tale but you don't want a piece of that!

Are your work colleagues annoying you today?

disgruntledgoat

My colleagues are alright, by and large.

Management are useless however. I feel that nobody gives a toss about what I do, and I'm sick of spending weeks writing stuff nobody reads.

redddraggon

Rick Chasey wrote:

I've got to be in the office by 8 and I'm normally out after 6.

I presume the 2 hours extra is to make up for your time spent on the internet?

rick_chasey

redddraggon wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

I've got to be in the office by 8 and I'm normally out after 6.

I presume the 2 hours extra is to make up for your time spent on the internet?

Spot on

Nah, there is a fair bit of down time in the job, but when the sh!t hits the fan it's all hands on deck, frantically pumelling numbers into the phone, shouting at people, etc.

Ben6899

redddraggon wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

I've got to be in the office by 8 and I'm normally out after 6.

I presume the 2 hours extra is to make up for your time spent on the internet?

KABLAM!