Pet Peeves

[ldj]

James Corden - how did he become so famous? get his own chat show with Hollywood guests? who IS he?

He was on/co-wrote Gavin and Stacey years ago which in fairness was actually a good show, he got progressively more annoying the more famous he got though, don't know how he managed to become so big in the US.

[Eoin McLove]

Anyone that relentlessly jolly must harbour a deep, dark secret.

[Mr Barlow]

 

[Ealaín]

I had the absolute misfortune of seeing an utter shambolic film he starred in, I´'ll never get those precious life minutes back. I'm not going to even name the film.

That sounds shit enough. This "lucky to have a job" attitude that certain employer seem to adopt is grating. It's not the 1980s. First few years of my working life, I left people walk all over me.

I had someone pull that shit about 15 years ago. Wanted me to work overtime, fair enough - but clock out and do it "as a favour to him", not fair enough. He'd didn't even own the company! I refused and he said "Well, if you don't want to do it, there's plenty of others who will - up to you." I asked if that was my notice. And packed up my toolkit.  Fuck that - there's always another job.

Exactly !

There will always be another opportunity that passes your way without selling yourself short. That window of freedom to evaluate what needs be is back in the hands of the individual now.  Unfortunately there's alot of self serving chancers in these top company positions.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Bill Maher. Both physically and mentally, he resembles a sentient flaccid penis with a droopy foreskin face. But apart from that, he's an asshole.

[Caomhaoin]

Got out a packet of cooked ham (the Mrs must have bought it) to make a sangwidge and noticed it said '85% Meat' on the wrapping. What in the name of Jaysus? It's like what you'd see on a tin of cat food.

I dipped the bread in a tub of hummus instead if anyone was dying to know.

[son of the Morrigan]

The wee plastic knobby thingeens on CD cases that hold the CD in place breaking, resulting in the CD falling out of the case when ya open it, cuntish.

[101_North]

Folks in work who reply to emails without reading it first! "Hi, it's understanding that that process was blah, blah, blah.....". Yes I know that! That information was literally in the first line of my fucking email. That not what I was asking 

[Emphyrio]

First day back at work blues compounded by being awake since 4.

[Caomhaoin]

Back already? I'm in tomorrow but no students until Wednesday. I'm less despairing of them than having to repeat myself a million times about how my summer was. Why are people so relentless with small talk?

[Emphyrio]

Aye back today. We're still being treated by lepers, on staggered breaks, no-one going into the staffroom etc. so there's been minimal small talk.

[Carnage]

Sneezing with a mouthful of food. Fucksake.

[jobrok1]

Sneezing with a mouthful of food. Fucksake.

[Eoin McLove]

Cunts who can't talk clearly on the phone. I have now had a few phone calls in Oz and one of two have been hard to make out but the one I just had a few minutes ago was a new level of incomprehensibility. Your one had one of those nasal air hostess voices where you can only make out around every one in five or six words, the rest becoming a monotonous, mumbling drone of nothing. I had no idea what she was calling about and asked her to repeat herself, which she did, and which left me no clearer as to what she was on about. It might be a job offer so I don't want to make things awkward but after twenty seconds of your one droning and me scratching my head going "OK, yeah, I see..." I somehow decipher my son's name from the stew. Oh, it's about a creche place. I listen a bit more and make out "first week of October". I say no, we need to get him in right away. So she starts to drone on and I'm contorted around the phone trying to make it what she's on about. I eventually just fucking hang up the phone on her, mid-sentence. Surely if you are dealing with the public in your job, having the skills to communicate yourself in a clear way would be fairly high up on the list of requirements! I'm irritated to fuck!

[Giggles]

That's just Aussies in general 
I found it very difficult to make sense of their mumbling when I lived there.