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catscradle Aug. 6th, 2003 11:54 am)
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silverthoughts: List your three things that annoy the crap out of you and why.
God, it's a surly Wednesday for a lot of people isn't it? Off the top of my head, that is to say, the last three annoying things at work:
1. Oblivious assholes who call and expect I know their situation without their having to tell me what it is. "But didn't I just talk to you?" Um, no. More than one person works here and the last person you spoke with was a MAN and in a completely different office - you think you'd notice the freaken difference in voice if you didn't bother catching the name. Is it so hard to pay attention to your surroundings? These are the same people that we call later and have to send to collection because they stopped attending the course halfway through (past the refund date) and never called to drop the class. Yeah asshole, you still owe us the money. Tell the collection agency we said hi. Oh, by the way, you were assigned an "F" for the course.
2. People who don't get the concept of the pedestrian right of way. When I have the green sign of the man walking, that means I get to cross the street and driver has to wait. Just like when driver has the green sign, driver gets to go and I'm not allowed to jay walk. And I don't have to stop in the middle of the street because my sign is now blinking. The blinking walk sign means I have to finish getting across the street and no one else should start crossing the street at this point. Blinking walk sign does not mean that cars now get to go. They have to wait till pedestrian gets across. When walk sign is a solid red, then drivers get to go. Screaming obscenities at me because driver is an asshole that doesn't understand traffic rules - not cool. Why do people in cars feel a special entitlement? And the bigger the car, the bigger the entitlement? This happens at least once a week.
3. My last one is a specific person because guess who got her on the phone today? Patricia L-sl-e - because she calls us about 20 times each quarter and demands that we do things that are not our job. Isn't even nice about it. "Do this for me and I need it right now." She once tried to get us to do a class assignment for her because her computer wasn't working. She got *mean* when we told her she could use the library computers.
And because it's been that kind of day, #4
4. People who think I'm not busy because "I'm just typing at my computer." HELLO? That's my freakin job, people! It's not just taking calls and talking to students. Just because a student isn't in front of me doesn't mean I'm free. I've got to process registrations, payment and finacial aid, sent off letters to instructors and students on various things and then a ton of miscellenous paperwork, plus write the training manual for the office. Busy! Okay? I'm actually busy. Yes.
silverthoughts: List your three things that annoy the crap out of you and why.God, it's a surly Wednesday for a lot of people isn't it? Off the top of my head, that is to say, the last three annoying things at work:
1. Oblivious assholes who call and expect I know their situation without their having to tell me what it is. "But didn't I just talk to you?" Um, no. More than one person works here and the last person you spoke with was a MAN and in a completely different office - you think you'd notice the freaken difference in voice if you didn't bother catching the name. Is it so hard to pay attention to your surroundings? These are the same people that we call later and have to send to collection because they stopped attending the course halfway through (past the refund date) and never called to drop the class. Yeah asshole, you still owe us the money. Tell the collection agency we said hi. Oh, by the way, you were assigned an "F" for the course.
2. People who don't get the concept of the pedestrian right of way. When I have the green sign of the man walking, that means I get to cross the street and driver has to wait. Just like when driver has the green sign, driver gets to go and I'm not allowed to jay walk. And I don't have to stop in the middle of the street because my sign is now blinking. The blinking walk sign means I have to finish getting across the street and no one else should start crossing the street at this point. Blinking walk sign does not mean that cars now get to go. They have to wait till pedestrian gets across. When walk sign is a solid red, then drivers get to go. Screaming obscenities at me because driver is an asshole that doesn't understand traffic rules - not cool. Why do people in cars feel a special entitlement? And the bigger the car, the bigger the entitlement? This happens at least once a week.
3. My last one is a specific person because guess who got her on the phone today? Patricia L-sl-e - because she calls us about 20 times each quarter and demands that we do things that are not our job. Isn't even nice about it. "Do this for me and I need it right now." She once tried to get us to do a class assignment for her because her computer wasn't working. She got *mean* when we told her she could use the library computers.
And because it's been that kind of day, #4
4. People who think I'm not busy because "I'm just typing at my computer." HELLO? That's my freakin job, people! It's not just taking calls and talking to students. Just because a student isn't in front of me doesn't mean I'm free. I've got to process registrations, payment and finacial aid, sent off letters to instructors and students on various things and then a ton of miscellenous paperwork, plus write the training manual for the office. Busy! Okay? I'm actually busy. Yes.
