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 Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 8:01 am
NessaChan Dark_Lady_Jade Pet peeves. We've all got them. Those irritations in life that just make your skin crawl, but seem like no big deal to others. But most only talk about the ones outside of work. You know, more general stuff. Hi! I used to work in a library, too. I hated feeling like a babysitter instead of a librarian! It was so terrible to have to look after other peoples' kids and try to keep them from destroying things. Even though there was a policy of "no unattended children" there were always unattended children anyway. Dumping over plants, pulling books off shelves, and turning lights on and off, screaming & yelling, etc. (I worked the children's department.) Not that there wern't angellic children, too. Just.. the bad ones are the ones you remember. xD But on the whole, I agree with all of your library peeves. At least when I worked there, there wasn't an internets yet.. or at least not as a standard thing at libraries, so I didn't have to deal with kids on computers and porn and whatnot. I hated finding food and boogers in books as well xp But I must say, I'm a long-haired person and I shed over everything if I'm brushing my hair or not, so I've surely left a hair or two in books. xD I remember one time a mother's little boy got away from her (I think he was about 1-2 years old). I saw her looking for him, so I started to redirect the kid so that he'd walk in the direction of his mother. The kid freaked out and started screaming! I swear, you would have thought he was dying! eek Needless to say, I'll just let little kids wander next time. sweatdrop Oh, then there was the time some lady had her two kids with her, and I was putting CDs on the shelves. One of the little girls kept staring at me (I can see out of the corner of my eye pretty well). She then asked, "Mommy, is that a boy or a girl?" Her mom quickly hushed her and said I was a female. Of course I'm a female! I've got boobs no matter what I have on, and I have a femimine face. Dumb kid. I felt like asking her, "Are you a girl or a boy?" stare Btw, she was older. Like about 4-7. So there was no excuse for her stupid question. Kids 2 and younger can tell I'm a girl. Honestly, I think that kid is just dumb. xp
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Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 8:05 am
Seeress Dark_Lady_Jade - When I find food remnants/residue on/in books. Just plain nasty. If I wanted food all over my hands, I'd just clean up after my little cousin once she's done eating. Plus, most of that stuff is sticky! gonk Sacrilege! My first job was as an accounts receivable lackey for a graphics company. That actually wasn't too bad, except that my manager, the accountant, kept trying to generally "improve" me. I have social anxiety, so she would make me cold-call customers and deal with people as often as she could, even though that stuff was never part of my job description, as if it would somehow fix me. xp Then, I worked in a music/movie store in the mall for a while. That was as annoying as all retail... and our customers were incredibly stupid. I seriously once had someone come up to me and ask me if we sold movies... while I was standing in the movie department. sweatdrop And there would be people who wanted to find a song they didn't know the name of, but it went "La la la, and it was about love". Thanks, that's very helpful. Oh, and the guy who was absolutely convinced that since I was a girl I didn't listen to anything but Mariah Carey and couldn't possibly be familiar with the movie, Platoon. Bite me, sir. And the people who would get mad at us for checking their ID when they paid with a credit card, as if it's some personal affront that we're trying to prevent fraudulent charges. I'm always grateful when people remember to check my ID when I'm buying things. Now, I have just about the perfect job, for me. I transcribe interview tapes for a state education grant. I never have to deal with people and am allowed to be on the internet all day long. The only pet-peeve I have is when people use my room as a conference room and they talk so loud that I can't hear the tape I'm trying to transcribe. That would be awesome if I could stay on the Internet all day! blaugh But then, I'd probably get in trouble for being on Gaia a lot. sweatdrop Plus, my job keeps me active, so it's not like I'm in an office all day. Not only that, but I get first pick of any books that come in (since I'm the one shelving them), and I don't get charged late fees. blaugh There are some things that bug me, but overall I really like my job. smile
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Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 10:27 am
mAOri waHIne 4) your Mum doesn't work here, so clean up after yourself. Why can't students pick up after themselves or clean up their own mess? I'm the Art teacher, this is the Art room... this is not your bedroom and I sure as hell am not you Mummy. You make, you brake it... You take it!
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Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 10:57 am
I'M JUST SAYING! Seriously. I didn't realize the popularity of NOT BATHING until I started at a job that deals with customers (my first job was packing stuff at a warehouse, grunt work but not bad). In high school and college, a good amount of people are so obsessively self-conscious that they smell great, if not horrifically over-perfumed at times. But they do NOT smell unbathed. And then we have the general public. I mean, come on, people. Apartments come with showers. Dorm buildings have showers. Or you can wait 'til a good hard rain comes along to go out in public. Ugghh.
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Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 5:54 pm
Dark_Lady_Jade NessaChan Dark_Lady_Jade Pet peeves. We've all got them. Those irritations in life that just make your skin crawl, but seem like no big deal to others. But most only talk about the ones outside of work. You know, more general stuff. Hi! I used to work in a library, too. I hated feeling like a babysitter instead of a librarian! It was so terrible to have to look after other peoples' kids and try to keep them from destroying things. Even though there was a policy of "no unattended children" there were always unattended children anyway. Dumping over plants, pulling books off shelves, and turning lights on and off, screaming & yelling, etc. (I worked the children's department.) Not that there wern't angellic children, too. Just.. the bad ones are the ones you remember. xD But on the whole, I agree with all of your library peeves. At least when I worked there, there wasn't an internets yet.. or at least not as a standard thing at libraries, so I didn't have to deal with kids on computers and porn and whatnot. I hated finding food and boogers in books as well xp But I must say, I'm a long-haired person and I shed over everything if I'm brushing my hair or not, so I've surely left a hair or two in books. xD I remember one time a mother's little boy got away from her (I think he was about 1-2 years old). I saw her looking for him, so I started to redirect the kid so that he'd walk in the direction of his mother. The kid freaked out and started screaming! I swear, you would have thought he was dying! eek Needless to say, I'll just let little kids wander next time. sweatdrop Oh, then there was the time some lady had her two kids with her, and I was putting CDs on the shelves. One of the little girls kept staring at me (I can see out of the corner of my eye pretty well). She then asked, "Mommy, is that a boy or a girl?" Her mom quickly hushed her and said I was a female. Of course I'm a female! I've got boobs no matter what I have on, and I have a femimine face. Dumb kid. I felt like asking her, "Are you a girl or a boy?" stare Btw, she was older. Like about 4-7. So there was no excuse for her stupid question. Kids 2 and younger can tell I'm a girl. Honestly, I think that kid is just dumb. xp OH NOES.. unattended library childrens! Hehe.. >_> I know how you feel.. I feel your pain.. hehe There was one lady who would come in almost every day with a BOX of doughnuts all summer long. She would plop down in the romance section, read romance novels, gnosh on doughnuts, leaving doughnut-powder all over everything, and let her kids run wild. They were not very well behaved kids, but she would serenely read her romance novels, and no ammount of prodding could get her to corral them. Her kids were hellions, I can't imagine where they got it!
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Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 6:44 pm
Marcious Pharoe mAOri waHIne 4) your Mum doesn't work here, so clean up after yourself. Why can't students pick up after themselves or clean up their own mess? I'm the Art teacher, this is the Art room... this is not your bedroom and I sure as hell am not you Mummy. You make, you brake it... You take it! The incredible vanishing art supplies, another wonderful Pet Peeve to add to my list. Yes, it never ceases to amaze me how my art supplies especially the sharp ones seem to grow feet, walk off, and end up in some kid's backpack or cubbie wink This year I purchased $300.00 worth of professional paint brushes (acrylic, watercolor, oil and tempra) no sooner had I put the items on the floor for my students to use did I discover them in the sink or thrown under the sink in a plastic cup with the brush heads smashed into the bottom. Yes, paint still on them. I tried everything to get the harden paint off and recondition the hairs on the brushes but in the end I had to throw them out. I was pissed off. I showed them to the Principal first before going back to my students and telling them that each one of them was to pay for the cost of one brush. I asked them "Didn't your mother ever teach you that when you borrow or use someone else' things that you need to return it to them in the condition that you got it." The blank eek stares from some of these kids answered my question. When some of them protested and said that they didn't ruined the brush, I said scream fine then don't use my brushes and buy your own brushes to use. The problem with some kids is that they aren't taught to respect other people's property. This is not only a problem in my classroom but in other teacher's classrooms as well. Sad, sad, sad. stare
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Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 8:28 pm
mAOri waHIne Marcious Pharoe mAOri waHIne 4) your Mum doesn't work here, so clean up after yourself. Why can't students pick up after themselves or clean up their own mess? I'm the Art teacher, this is the Art room... this is not your bedroom and I sure as hell am not you Mummy. You make, you brake it... You take it! The incredible vanishing art supplies, another wonderful Pet Peeve to add to my list. Yes, it never ceases to amaze me how my art supplies especially the sharp ones seem to grow feet, walk off, and end up in some kid's backpack or cubbie wink This year I purchased $300.00 worth of professional paint brushes (acrylic, watercolor, oil and tempra) no sooner had I put the items on the floor for my students to use did I discover them in the sink or thrown under the sink in a plastic cup with the brush heads smashed into the bottom. Yes, paint still on them. I tried everything to get the harden paint off and recondition the hairs on the brushes but in the end I had to throw them out. I was pissed off. I showed them to the Principal first before going back to my students and telling them that each one of them was to pay for the cost of one brush. I asked them "Didn't your mother ever teach you that when you borrow or use someone else' things that you need to return it to them in the condition that you got it." The blank eek stares from some of these kids answered my question. When some of them protested and said that they didn't ruined the brush, I said scream fine then don't use my brushes and buy your own brushes to use. The problem with some kids is that they aren't taught to respect other people's property. This is not only a problem in my classroom but in other teacher's classrooms as well. Sad, sad, sad. stare -Bows head in deep respect- And Jade, if I was that kid's mother, my kid would have been grounded for a good two months, that's an incredibly rude statement. I realize child rearing is no walk in the park, but somewhere along the line people just stopped trying. I've never seen a generation of more rude, spoiled rotten, and not to mention the plethora of obese kids. I wish instead of pumping kids full of ritalin/aderall and fatty-high-caloric-low-nutrition foods parents would just encourage them to play outside... thus getting out that "hyperness" and also burning off those calories. Granted, I'm a size 12 these days, but I was a very skinny child because I played outside all the time. I worry about these super overweight kids having heart attacks and such when they grow up-- it just can't be healthy.
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Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 10:57 am
mAOri waHIne Marcious Pharoe mAOri waHIne 4) your Mum doesn't work here, so clean up after yourself. Why can't students pick up after themselves or clean up their own mess? I'm the Art teacher, this is the Art room... this is not your bedroom and I sure as hell am not you Mummy. You make, you brake it... You take it! The incredible vanishing art supplies, another wonderful Pet Peeve to add to my list. Yes, it never ceases to amaze me how my art supplies especially the sharp ones seem to grow feet, walk off, and end up in some kid's backpack or cubbie wink This year I purchased $300.00 worth of professional paint brushes (acrylic, watercolor, oil and tempra) no sooner had I put the items on the floor for my students to use did I discover them in the sink or thrown under the sink in a plastic cup with the brush heads smashed into the bottom. Yes, paint still on them. I tried everything to get the harden paint off and recondition the hairs on the brushes but in the end I had to throw them out. I was pissed off. I showed them to the Principal first before going back to my students and telling them that each one of them was to pay for the cost of one brush. I asked them "Didn't your mother ever teach you that when you borrow or use someone else' things that you need to return it to them in the condition that you got it." The blank eek stares from some of these kids answered my question. When some of them protested and said that they didn't ruined the brush, I said scream fine then don't use my brushes and buy your own brushes to use. The problem with some kids is that they aren't taught to respect other people's property. This is not only a problem in my classroom but in other teacher's classrooms as well. Sad, sad, sad. stare Oh dear .. :< That's sad. When I was in high school, I liked art (and my art teachers) so much, I used to wash out other people's brushes when they threw them in the sink all painty, so she wouldn't have to deal with them later and so they wouldn't be ruined. I realised that they were expensive brushes, and I thought it was great to use them... I couldn't leave them in the sink to be ruined! Also, everyone always used WAY too much paint, so it was always wasted terribly.
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Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 3:55 pm
I work full time as a "Guest Services Rep." at a hotel, AKA front desk clerk.
Normally the job is slow enough that I just sit on my but and read for most of my shift but some times I get:
1. After answering the phone people just hang up on me with out ever speaking. This just pisses me off. It's rude and rather uncalled for.
2. Guests blaming me for some thing I have no control over..
a: Housekeeping forgot to put something in the rooms: ashtrys, shampoo, lotion, ect.
b. The room isn't clean. (usually stay overs (people who stay more than one night) who put the do not disturb sign up)
c. Or the best yet, the pool or the hottub heaters aren't working properly, and I am expected to call the repair company right hten and there and have it fixed in just a few minutes. Of course this typically happens right about 8pm when nothing around here is open.
d. Their kids get hurt, while they are horsing around. For God sakes people need to keep an eye on their kids more!
3. Guests coming up to the desk asking to go in to the pool/hot tub room after hours when they look like they been playing in mud all day. EWWWWW. THen they wonder why I wont let them but will let some other people in there. ALl I can do is politely state that there is already too many people in the room after hours and that there are people in all the rooms around the pool occupied and I don't want to have to kick them all out do to noise complaints.
4. Sport Teams that consist of teens. Honestly enough said here.
5. Screaming kids in the pool room that are left alone. Right there on the pool room doors states that anyone under the age of 16 is to be with an adult while in the pool room. I swear people can't read.
6. THere is that stupid door bell and the actually bell that are right there on the desk. People will ring them even when I am already helping them.
hmmmm I think that is all there is for now...I'm sure I can come up with more later
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Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 5:24 pm
NessaChan Dark_Lady_Jade NessaChan Dark_Lady_Jade Pet peeves. We've all got them. Those irritations in life that just make your skin crawl, but seem like no big deal to others. But most only talk about the ones outside of work. You know, more general stuff. Hi! I used to work in a library, too. I hated feeling like a babysitter instead of a librarian! It was so terrible to have to look after other peoples' kids and try to keep them from destroying things. Even though there was a policy of "no unattended children" there were always unattended children anyway. Dumping over plants, pulling books off shelves, and turning lights on and off, screaming & yelling, etc. (I worked the children's department.) Not that there wern't angellic children, too. Just.. the bad ones are the ones you remember. xD But on the whole, I agree with all of your library peeves. At least when I worked there, there wasn't an internets yet.. or at least not as a standard thing at libraries, so I didn't have to deal with kids on computers and porn and whatnot. I hated finding food and boogers in books as well xp But I must say, I'm a long-haired person and I shed over everything if I'm brushing my hair or not, so I've surely left a hair or two in books. xD I remember one time a mother's little boy got away from her (I think he was about 1-2 years old). I saw her looking for him, so I started to redirect the kid so that he'd walk in the direction of his mother. The kid freaked out and started screaming! I swear, you would have thought he was dying! eek Needless to say, I'll just let little kids wander next time. sweatdrop Oh, then there was the time some lady had her two kids with her, and I was putting CDs on the shelves. One of the little girls kept staring at me (I can see out of the corner of my eye pretty well). She then asked, "Mommy, is that a boy or a girl?" Her mom quickly hushed her and said I was a female. Of course I'm a female! I've got boobs no matter what I have on, and I have a femimine face. Dumb kid. I felt like asking her, "Are you a girl or a boy?" stare Btw, she was older. Like about 4-7. So there was no excuse for her stupid question. Kids 2 and younger can tell I'm a girl. Honestly, I think that kid is just dumb. xp OH NOES.. unattended library childrens! Hehe.. >_> I know how you feel.. I feel your pain.. hehe There was one lady who would come in almost every day with a BOX of doughnuts all summer long. She would plop down in the romance section, read romance novels, gnosh on doughnuts, leaving doughnut-powder all over everything, and let her kids run wild. They were not very well behaved kids, but she would serenely read her romance novels, and no ammount of prodding could get her to corral them. Her kids were hellions, I can't imagine where they got it! Wow, she would have been kicked out. Where I work they don't even like people to drink. Not even small candy. sweatdrop
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Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 5:31 pm
AntoniaMerEnfant mAOri waHIne Marcious Pharoe mAOri waHIne 4) your Mum doesn't work here, so clean up after yourself. Why can't students pick up after themselves or clean up their own mess? I'm the Art teacher, this is the Art room... this is not your bedroom and I sure as hell am not you Mummy. You make, you brake it... You take it! The incredible vanishing art supplies, another wonderful Pet Peeve to add to my list. Yes, it never ceases to amaze me how my art supplies especially the sharp ones seem to grow feet, walk off, and end up in some kid's backpack or cubbie wink This year I purchased $300.00 worth of professional paint brushes (acrylic, watercolor, oil and tempra) no sooner had I put the items on the floor for my students to use did I discover them in the sink or thrown under the sink in a plastic cup with the brush heads smashed into the bottom. Yes, paint still on them. I tried everything to get the harden paint off and recondition the hairs on the brushes but in the end I had to throw them out. I was pissed off. I showed them to the Principal first before going back to my students and telling them that each one of them was to pay for the cost of one brush. I asked them "Didn't your mother ever teach you that when you borrow or use someone else' things that you need to return it to them in the condition that you got it." The blank eek stares from some of these kids answered my question. When some of them protested and said that they didn't ruined the brush, I said scream fine then don't use my brushes and buy your own brushes to use. The problem with some kids is that they aren't taught to respect other people's property. This is not only a problem in my classroom but in other teacher's classrooms as well. Sad, sad, sad. stare -Bows head in deep respect- And Jade, if I was that kid's mother, my kid would have been grounded for a good two months, that's an incredibly rude statement. I realize child rearing is no walk in the park, but somewhere along the line people just stopped trying. I've never seen a generation of more rude, spoiled rotten, and not to mention the plethora of obese kids. I wish instead of pumping kids full of ritalin/aderall and fatty-high-caloric-low-nutrition foods parents would just encourage them to play outside... thus getting out that "hyperness" and also burning off those calories. Granted, I'm a size 12 these days, but I was a very skinny child because I played outside all the time. I worry about these super overweight kids having heart attacks and such when they grow up-- it just can't be healthy. Sadly, where I live, people think it's 'cute' for kids to be rude. xp Seriously, I hear little kids swear and no one even blinks. Honestly, I think it's because of all the government regulation. People started being accused of abuse when there was none. "Make your kids play outside? That's not giving them a choice! It's abuse!" "Discipline your kid for swearing? That's abuse!" "Restrict the amount of junk your kids eat? That's abuse! You're depriving them!" Seriously, it's like it's a crime to do anything that will actually help younger kids become decent people. xp
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Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 1:27 am
mAOri waHIne Marcious Pharoe mAOri waHIne 4) your Mum doesn't work here, so clean up after yourself. Why can't students pick up after themselves or clean up their own mess? I'm the Art teacher, this is the Art room... this is not your bedroom and I sure as hell am not you Mummy. You make, you brake it... You take it! The incredible vanishing art supplies, another wonderful Pet Peeve to add to my list. Yes, it never ceases to amaze me how my art supplies especially the sharp ones seem to grow feet, walk off, and end up in some kid's backpack or cubbie wink This year I purchased $300.00 worth of professional paint brushes (acrylic, watercolor, oil and tempra) no sooner had I put the items on the floor for my students to use did I discover them in the sink or thrown under the sink in a plastic cup with the brush heads smashed into the bottom. Yes, paint still on them. I tried everything to get the harden paint off and recondition the hairs on the brushes but in the end I had to throw them out. I was pissed off. I showed them to the Principal first before going back to my students and telling them that each one of them was to pay for the cost of one brush. I asked them "Didn't your mother ever teach you that when you borrow or use someone else' things that you need to return it to them in the condition that you got it." The blank eek stares from some of these kids answered my question. When some of them protested and said that they didn't ruined the brush, I said scream fine then don't use my brushes and buy your own brushes to use. The problem with some kids is that they aren't taught to respect other people's property. This is not only a problem in my classroom but in other teacher's classrooms as well. Sad, sad, sad. stare I went to a V/P Art high school, so I know how thieved art supplies not only hit the teachers, but the students who actually want to use them. Our tape rolls were padlocked to a shelf, and our paints were kept in a safe. The thing that gets me is, my art teachers were so loved, and the kids STILL stole from them. Even knowing the teachers paid for a lot of our supplies out of pocket. neutral
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 12:37 am
ohhhh I got a new one...
Owners who try to bribe their employees with a raise (that is going to be mandatory come June anyways because of Min. Wage increasing) to get them to do shifts they dont' want to do.
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Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 12:44 pm
I just hard to resurrect this thread (it pulled a Jesus!) after the day I had.
Massive work pet peeve: When coworkers talk about you and/or your mistakes at work.
It happened to me twice in one week. The first time coincided with another pet peeve of mine: Pet Peeve #2- When someone asks you if you're "new" at a job you've been working at for MONTHS when you are filling in for a different position, using a new software upgrade, or learning a loath-able new procedure or rule.
First incident: I've been filling in for AM and PM even though I'm the night person to get some extra hours and help out since we've been shorthanded. Well this construction guy just covered in soot and reeking of lord knows what comes in asking for our facilities director and when I didn't know exactly who he was or that the whole world revolved around him asked if I was new. At that point I was irked and said very curtly "No, I just work nights". My coworker Tom decided to tell a series of very lame Night Auditor jokes with the construction worker-- in my presence ---about how pale I was and all. And I really hate being put on the spot and made fun of at work when I don't think it is funny. To me I don't like not being able to stand up for myself without being a "bad customer service" person. So I walked off to go work on something in the back room. Luckily Tom is a very good guy, he just overstepped his bounds a little. I have never seen anyone more apologetic.
Second Incident: I was at work today and these people called up-- well one lady trying to make a reservation thought she knew "the lingo". So she got confused which then threw me off, so then she calls her contact, who then called back yelling at me. So as I am trying to calm this guy down and get him to actually listen my manager demands I hand the phone over to her. Well she proceeds to talk with the guy on the phone about how stupid and incompetent I am. This time, this was not in jest, nor was there any redeeming thing about my manager's actions. So after she gets off the phone with the guest she goes into the back office and begins to talk all about my screw up with the director of sales-- but not in a managerial or professional way-- rather straight up GOSSIP. So finally I pop into the back office look at my manager sternly and say "Dana, being hearing impaired [which I am] is not synonymous with deaf." And I walked back to the front desk. She didn't bother to bring it up the rest of the day. Then when I was counting out and needing to give her information about the end of the day so I could go home and so she would know the things she needed to know, she's too busy yaking it up with some coworkers in the back office. Our van driver looked at me and said "she's not listening", I said "I know, I won't tell her what she needs to know then" and clocked out, went home.
Gah I am so angry! I think what bugs me is that in service jobs you're supposed to keep a smile on your face and be polite all the time. And you can't really tell your managers where to shove it.
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Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 5:15 pm
Wow, that really sucks that you were treated like that, Antonia. Nothing grates my nerves more than someone who questions my compotence. People who do that usually end up on my list of enemies and never leave it. Ever.
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