Pet Peeves

[Ollkiller]

Took a sip of club lemon as a kid and fellt something in my mouth. Spat out a wasp. Thankfully didn't get stung (got stung another time, bastard pain) but hate the fuckers since then. 

[Carnage]

Had a wasp stuck in my hair once, a sting on your head is not pleasant at all.

The worst was a bee sting in my armpit. Bad enough, you might think, but it turns out I'm allergic to bee stings. Hospital, please.

[Ducky]

I hate the cunts. I won't kill them if I can avoid it, as they eat other pests but yeah, stripey cunts they are. My first day in secondary school was marked by a wasp going up my trouser leg and stinging me three times. On the thigh thank fuck, it could have been much worse.

Oh fuck that noise from on high. It's a bit of a low-key fear I have - somehow never been stung by a wasp (or bee), but dunno how I'd react.

One of the boys I used to work with says one time "right, you know how there's a bit of a wasp nest outside the front door, if I get stung, here's the thing you need to inject into my heart to stop me dying. No pressure!" 

[Carnage]

Nah, not doing that. I'd end up bursting his heart. And not just with love...💕💕💕

[Maggot Colony]

Don't mind wasps at all, but I have an irrational fear of horseflies after one took a liking to me as a young lad and kept trying to suck all the blood out of my leg.

[Bürggermeister]

Time burglars at work. Got a lad sitting beside me who just fucking loves to share problems. He'll make a noise, like a long sigh or a grunt, some dopey effort to make me look at the cunt so he can devour an hour of my life ranting about some pointless shite he could sort out in a couple of minutes if he wasn't such a useless cunt. I'm wise to him now, I know the drill, the long, absurdly loud sigh and he'll turn and face me so he sees if I look over. Now, my eyes never leave the screen in front of me, cold as a corpse, when I hear his shite I only look forward. He'll have a few cracks at it, any kind of stupid gesture to make me look over so he can start whining. What kind of shitehawkery is this?

[Pat Twisted Wrath]

It's why I hate those 2 days I have to do in the office - get fuck all done. Ive just started typing random keys in a word doc while staring at the screen intensely when i sense someone about to engage.

Maybe I'm just becoming more antisocial as i age.  Most lunches I just sit in my car and go on my phone instead of eating in the canteen.  I just cannot be fucking bothered hearing the same shite from the same people every fucking day.

[The Great Cull]

It's why I hate those 2 days I have to do in the office - get fuck all done. Ive just started typing random keys in a word doc while staring at the screen intensely when i sense someone about to engage.

Maybe I'm just becoming more antisocial as i age.  Most lunches I just sit in my car and go on my phone instead of eating in the canteen.  I just cannot be fucking bothered hearing the same shite from the same people every fucking day.

I look for every excuse to not go into the office for my 2 days. I'm over 20 years there now so my tolerance for the cunts is very low.

I had a docs appointment today so just worked from home for the rest of the day. Of course the boss had to call looking to see me and I hadn't told him I was avoiding the office.

[leatherface]

The very odd changes that occur with age. I used to horse down coffee all day/evening, now I cannot drink any more than an espresso size coffee in the mornings. Gives me headaches and nausea, even the smell. Weird.

[astfgyl]

It's why I hate those 2 days I have to do in the office - get fuck all done. Ive just started typing random keys in a word doc while staring at the screen intensely when i sense someone about to engage.

Maybe I'm just becoming more antisocial as i age.  Most lunches I just sit in my car and go on my phone instead of eating in the canteen.  I just cannot be fucking bothered hearing the same shite from the same people every fucking day.

I look for every excuse to not go into the office for my 2 days. I'm over 20 years there now so my tolerance for the cunts is very low.

I had a docs appointment today so just worked from home for the rest of the day. Of course the boss had to call looking to see me and I hadn't told him I was avoiding the office.

I'm the opposite of that in that there's no way I'd work from home because I know I'd do nothing at all and I enjoy the cut and thrust of everybody ripping the piss out of each other over the table.

We have a thing where everyone sits together for the breakfast every morning and it's always decent craic although I don't think I could stomach 20 years of it tbh

[mickO)))]

Not sure which thread to put this is in but I couldn't get over this when I read it last night. At eBay if your work computer is inactive for over 60 seconds management consider this "work avoidance." A fella got a written warning because his computer was inactive for over 4 mins and he couldn't explain to his manager what he was doing during this time.

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2025/0526/1515048-ebay-worker-loses-constructive-dismissal-claim/

[Ducky]

I've a funny feeling that's one of the old heads I know. At least I know a lad with the exact same name, and one of his closer mates worked (possibly still does) in the same spot.

Call centers are fucking hateful all-round. Everything is micromanaged up the wazoo. I remember getting in trouble because I went a little bit over my five minutes "personal break" for the day. I had the audacity to need the jacks half an hour after my shift started, then again half hour before it ended.

Was getting grilled by a micromanaging wagon (not even my own manager as he had finished earlier). She told me if I needed to pee again I should've done it on my break... pity that was over three hours ago and I didn't need. Then she said I was "waisting time and holding up the cal queue". She really didn't appreciate me pointing out that what she was engaging in was holding the queue up more than I did.

She give me a very stern "don't do it again", at which point I said to her "great, I'll just piss at my desk next time and say you told me to, lest I waste company time by needing to relieve myself".

Cunt.

[mickO)))]

I have never worked in a call centre and only ever heard bad things about them. I couldn't work in place that did micromanaging. Luckily where I work now they don't care too much about what I do once my work gets done. I would usually only speak to my manger 3 or 4 times a month.

[Ollkiller]

Worked in a call centre only once for 3 months. I was using it as a stop gap before I started a role in the council. Hired on a 3 month contract taking inbound calls. Knew well that they would ask us to do outbound soon enough but no mention of that in the contract. 4 weeks in they said you're doing outbound tomorrow. Went nope, not in my contract. Manager says you can't say no. I go I just did, I can get a pen and write it down if you need more clarification. Obviously this made the manager go crazy. You can't talk to me blah blah blah. Said I just talked to ya like that, deal with it. Then manager goes well get you're stuff you're fired. I go fair enough, I'm naming you on the workplace commission complaint for breach of contract. That led to me taking 8 more weeks of inbound calls and finished out my contract.
It's an industry full of jobsworth cunts making up ridiculous targets and rules to look busy.

[Ducky]

Busywork by jobworths is exactly it. I got grilled in the same place because my lunchtimes were too exact. They thought I was diddling the system somehow, because my breaks were almost exactly half an hour every time.

I diddled their system by, err, using the stopwatch on my watch. Adherence to time away from phone was a big KPI, and they were almost salty that my lunches were timed perfectly. The fact that I got grilled by your one for using the jacks that time and going slightly over must have made her feel very big indeed (and also highlights the sheer obnoxiousness of it all - perfect timekeeping for two months but grilled over my first minor transgression).

There's a reason the place were advertising for staff in perpetuity. Probably had the highest turnover of any place in Sligo. Wonder why?