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Oct 17, 2005 19:02:20 GMT -4
Post by JayUtah on Oct 17, 2005 19:02:20 GMT -4
Peeve: Cubicle workers who leave their cell phones (with annoying ring tones) on their desks while they're away from their cubicles.
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Oct 17, 2005 23:45:13 GMT -4
Post by Count Zero on Oct 17, 2005 23:45:13 GMT -4
At our workshop, we have five computers and five people on each shift. My pet peeve is when the previous shift doesn't log off of "my" computer and leaves the terminal locked when they go home.
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Oct 18, 2005 3:07:59 GMT -4
Post by gwiz on Oct 18, 2005 3:07:59 GMT -4
Peeve: Cubicle workers who leave their cell phones (with annoying ring tones) on their desks while they're away from their cubicles. Round here, we take the phone and put it in a cupboard.
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Oct 19, 2005 8:33:40 GMT -4
Post by gezalenko on Oct 19, 2005 8:33:40 GMT -4
We used to have a departmental secretary who confiscated any abandoned ringing phones, and would only give them back on payment of £1. Every few months the money she collected was donated to a local charity.
Results 1- Local charity benefits 2 - People quickly learn to switch 'em off or take them with them 3 - Bonus result - occasional mad race between phone owner and secretary to reach ringing phone first !
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Oct 20, 2005 6:14:09 GMT -4
Post by Data Cable on Oct 20, 2005 6:14:09 GMT -4
Temp services who seem to think that any warm body with a pulse who walks in off the street is suitable for factory work. I swear some of these places recruit directly from crack houses.
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Oct 20, 2005 12:20:40 GMT -4
Post by JayUtah on Oct 20, 2005 12:20:40 GMT -4
People who creep along on-ramps at 40 mph and then, when they discover they can't merge with 70 mph traffic that way, slam on their brakes.
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Oct 20, 2005 12:47:21 GMT -4
Post by Jason Thompson on Oct 20, 2005 12:47:21 GMT -4
Cyclists who believe the highway code does not apply to them, and hence come close to running people (i.e. me!) down on pedestrian crossings. Or cyclists who ride on the pavement. Or cyclists who try to carry an extra person on the handlebars. Or cyclists who ride three abreast and block the road to traffic.
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Oct 20, 2005 13:11:49 GMT -4
Post by LunarOrbit on Oct 20, 2005 13:11:49 GMT -4
Tailgaters... I absolutely hate when people drive so close to my back bumper that I can't see their headlights anymore, and really, all it accomplishes is that I slow down just to piss them off.
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Oct 20, 2005 13:20:52 GMT -4
Post by JayUtah on Oct 20, 2005 13:20:52 GMT -4
As a cyclist, I not only believe the traffic codes apply to me, but that I have an extra responsibility to ride in a safe and conservative manner because I am considerably more vulnerable than cars. Having begun a number of bicycle rides that ended as ambulance rides thanks to the inattentiveness of motor vehicle drivers, I am pleased to report that Salt Lake City is one of the few cities that allows bicycles to be ridden on the sidewalk, within reason.
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Bob B.
Bob the Excel Guru?
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Oct 20, 2005 13:34:10 GMT -4
Post by Bob B. on Oct 20, 2005 13:34:10 GMT -4
Too numerous to mention.
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Oct 20, 2005 14:21:38 GMT -4
Post by nomuse on Oct 20, 2005 14:21:38 GMT -4
Many things "peeve" me. Lately, certain homophones have annoyed me almost enough to become shibboleths.
Yesterday I swung by Kaiser to get my flu shot. Their printed questionaire asked me if I had ever experienced swelling at the sight of a shot. I told the gal with the hypo I used to faint at the sight of a needle, but I'd never swollen up at the mere sight of a shot.
Of course she didn't get it. (I quickly made a different joke so as not to seem too much of a doofus).
Another is loose/lose. I've even written a bug report on one of my 3d modelling packages, in re a pop-up warning me I may loose my data. Loose the dogs of war, perhaps, but not my data!
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Oct 20, 2005 16:00:03 GMT -4
Post by LunarOrbit on Oct 20, 2005 16:00:03 GMT -4
I am pleased to report that Salt Lake City is one of the few cities that allows bicycles to be ridden on the sidewalk, within reason. That law (banning bicycles from sidewalks) has never made sense to me... there is a much greater difference in mass between a car and a cyclist than there is between a cyclist and a pedestrian. Cyclists are far more likely to be seriously injured by a car than a pedestrian is by a cyclist. I pretty much gave up riding bikes when I got old enough that I had to stop riding my bike on the sidewalk.
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Oct 20, 2005 17:42:42 GMT -4
Post by JayUtah on Oct 20, 2005 17:42:42 GMT -4
In Salt Lake you can't ride on the sidewalk:
- if there is a designated bike lane in the road - in the downtown traffic area - in anything other than single file - while carrying any kind of cargo - without sounding an audible signal prior to overtaking pedestrians
I generally ride along streets that have little if any pedestrian traffic, although they have singificant vehicular traffic. Except that I do often ride past schools, and while I might not cause much injury to an adult, I do pay extra attention to small children.
Oddly, I often have people "remind" me that bike-riding on the sidewalk is illegal. Thankfully I've memorized the relevant city ordinance references to help them discover their error.
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Oct 20, 2005 20:22:23 GMT -4
Post by Fnord Fred on Oct 20, 2005 20:22:23 GMT -4
I try to walk as much as possible, and people seem to look at me like I'm some sort of degenerate. Especially when it's rush hour and I'm moving faster than they are.
My real peeve is crowds and noise though. And people who don't know how to drive and nearly run me over because they can't check to see if there's anyone in the crosswalk that happens to be six and a half feet tall before they make a right.
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golfhobo
Venus
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Oct 20, 2005 21:01:09 GMT -4
Post by golfhobo on Oct 20, 2005 21:01:09 GMT -4
One peeve is mixed metaphors. But my PET peeve is when the majority of people mess up an expression and therefore it becomes "acceptable" because it's impossible to retrain so many people. i.e: my 'biggest' pet peeve is people who say, "I could care less," when it should be "I couldn't care less." If I have to explain that, I will..... but I'll be peeved! ;D
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