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here's my annoyance....what's up with people not paying attention to moving cars in parking lots???  i don't know about you, but when i walk thru a parking lot, i'm aware of my surroundings.  if a car is backing up or pulling in or just driving thru, i know it's there, i stay out of the way, i even stop to make sure i don't get hit...call me crazy, but i think it's a responsibility of pedestrians to do this.  as a driver you should be certainly be aware of people walking around, make sure you're driving proper speed, and make sure you aren't pulling out or in to a space too fast.  however, if you're in the middle of pulling out of a space...is it not the pedestrians job to stay out of your way???

here's my story...i'm pulling out of a parking space.  2 people decide to walk out behind me while i'm pulling out.  i stop to let them by even though i feel that they should've stopped for me since i was almost the whole way out of my parking space.  they pass, i check my mirrors and continue out slowly (my foot didn't go anywhere near the gas, i was coasting) when all of a sudden i see two more people walking out behind me!  wtf???  don't you see me moving?  i press the brake and stop just before hitting them and one of the first people i stopped for starts yelling at me, like "hey, hey, hey, what are you doing??"  i couldn't believe it!  when i see a car pulling out of a parking space, i stop walking or walk around....what gives these people the right to step out behind me???  i just looked at the guy like, "are you kidding you me?"  then preceded to drive away.  i'm not saying that i'm at no fault here...maybe i should've checked my mirrors a second time or something...but what are people thinking when they walk out behind a moving car????

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Hi Todd,

I work in a call center.  All day long I take calls from people calling me.  9 out of 10 of these people treat me like I called them personally.   At home.   At the worst possible time ever  and started asking them all kinds of annoying questions such as "May I have your identification number please" or "can you please verify your name and address".  My favorite phrase is "can you make this quick, I'm busy!"  WHAT!  YOU CALLED ME!!!  Also, they never seem to have their ID # which baffles me because I have no idea where they're getting our phone number from if not on the back of their card........

Oh, and we need to get the word out that when I ask for your address don't just give me the street address b/c there are a million Elm streets in this country.  And one more thing, when we ask you to verify your complete address or when we ask you to verify anything and we get the response "don't you have that on file" please keep in mind that out of spite we're probably going to make you verify more than what's asked for because you know what, we don't want to ask you as much as you don't want to do it but arguing with us is only going to make the process longer for everyone involved and like you told us a million times before YOU'RE BUSY!

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You know what annoys me??  Hummers!  I HATE them.  You can't see around them in traffic.
They don't fit in a normal parking space.  They barely fit in the narrow lanes around construction. 
They get, like, 2 miles per gallon.  Unless you live someplace without paved roads, unless you
have to ford a river to get to work, unless you're a member of the military deployed in the desert,
you don't need a Hummer.  It's like putting a gold-plated front door on your house, serves no
purpose other than to try to impress all your neighbors, strictly for appearances.  You may as
well drive around yelling "Hey! Hey!  Hey! Look! Look! Look at me!!  Hey! I need some attention!!
Look at me! Hey! Look!"

-Jill

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Thanks Tood!

Hello, it's me...
I've thought about this for a long long time...

Ok, I'll cut the song lyrics.
Anyway, most people may say that I'm still young and I haven't quite
experienced a real-life work place situation. But I can bitch about it
anyway so all of you shush n listen!
First off, I'm a sophmore in college, and I work on-campus in the Visual
Arts building Machintosh lab. My boss is a very nice guy, and I do my best
everyday no matter what, and always come to work about 5 minutes early. But
thats besides the point.
The thing that annoys me most are the other students that come into a
computer lab and just so happen to forget their school training of how to
use the library.

1.) The lack of these idiots signing their fucking names in - Call me
crazy...call me having too high of expectations for these people, but there
is NO fucking way I could ever walk into a room full of thousands of dollars
of computers and imaging equipment without some form of notification that I
was ever in the room. I always get the same responses when I have to chase
after these fucktards with the sign in clipboard. "Oh hehe, I forgot!" You
forgot? How about just cutting the bullshit and say you didn't know. It's
not THAT hard of a policy to remember!

2.) People knocking on the door without a door card to use the lab - Just
now a girl was knocking on the door and I let her in. I asked "Did you try
to get in with your ID?" She says, "Well yeah, but I don't have a door key"
I reply, "Well could you please get one next time?" She says, "I needed to
use the lab!" It's not that I'm trying to be a bitch to anyone, it's just
that I have to keep up my end of the word description otherwise I get
complains. End of story!

3.) Complains of the quality of the paper - I can sort of sympathize with
people who want their projects printed on laser jet paper, but get
multipurose instead. Yet I don't know how many times I have to tell anyone
who runs up to me "I don't controll what paper we use, if you want to lodge
a complaint, tell my boss..." either that or, "Just bring in your own paper
so you'll be guarenteed you wont have any second guesses." If you don't like
what we give you, get something else. We are soooo happy to put the paper in
the machine, just ask!

4.) Cell phones - When there's about 3 or more people in here, take your
goddamn ring tones and conversations out of the room! Some people need to
concentrate, enough said!

5.) Playing sounds on the computer - Same mentality as number 4

6.) Recieving complaints that I don't help people - This one I completely
don't understand. How am I supposed to even TRY and help you, if you don't
even tell me you have a problem in the first freakin' place? I'm not a mind
reader, so stop crying like little babies.

7.) (Had a problem with this last year) People stealing print jobs - The way
we had it set up, you would send a print job from your computer to one of
the 2 printers available. But some students managed to find a way to by pass
the paying machine and just send it directly to the printers. Caught one
girl in the act.

*I notice that the printer starts up on it's own without anyone swiping
their printer charge card thingy so I walk over and take the printed sheet.*
Me: Who does this beling to?
Girl: Me...what's wrong?
Me: Did you send this through the pay station?
Girl: Uhhh..yeah!
Me: Then why is the screen saver still on?
Girl: Are you accusing me of stealing prints or something?!
Me: I didn't say that I jsut asked you a question, and based on fact, it's
not adding up.
Girl: Fine, you wanna write me up for stealing some paper, go ahead..!!
*So I called up my boss and noted her name and student number. She got
pissed off at ME for something that her stupid ass started!*

8.) (Bit of a tiny detail) Not pushing in their chairs/Leaving garbage -
Since when was getting up to toss away garbage or pushing in your chair
after you leave too much of a brain function?

Anyway that's my annoyance. Our boss said that he feels that we are more
like babysitters than lab techies. Somehow I can't help but feel like a
babysitter though.