Character Flaw (?)

Okay, here’s a question for you reader(s).
When someone annoys the living snot out of you, how do you deal with it?
I’ve tried the “ah-ha-ha-ha” approach and that doesn’t help.  I’ve tried being causally aloof (”k.”), I’ve tried to ignore the commentary but like, I really don’t want to be a bitch (seeing as it’s all [...]

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A Quick Lesson in Common Office Items

To Whom It May Concern:
Ones desk does not qualify as an in-box when one has an in-box on his or her desk.
If you have an item which requires action, you may explain it to the actionee and then place it in the in-box.  If it’s something that does not require explanation (because it is either [...]

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Note to Self: Children at the Grocery Store, Part 2

Yesterday I’m taking care of my relatively short grocery shopping list.
I come down the aisle towards the milk coolers and there are people standing in front of both doors to the skim milk.  And they’re not talking about skim milk.  GET OUT OF MY WAY.
Then, around the corner comes a mom with four (yes, 4) [...]

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Two Notes to Fellow Gym Patrons

Dear Woman Two Treadmills Over,
WHY DO YOU HAVE TO TALK SO LOUD ON YOUR CELL PHONE?!?!
I had to turn my iPod up to drown you out, not once, not twice, but THREE TIMES because you were trying to talk over the noise of your fit legs and feet stomping on the “superquiet” surface.
I understand that [...]

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Really?

It’s one thing to not care about problems related to your account, it’s quite another to root around other peoples mailboxes.
Especially the bosses.
Just so you know.

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…and?…

I hear the distint brush of loafer against carpet tile.
them: is it too late for shipping?
me, with my hands in papers: nope.
them,  holding a piece of paper by the corner, dangling it in front of me: Well this needs to ship.
me, still elbow-deep in papers: you can just set it on the desk.
them, looking like [...]

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The Comedy of Errors Which Was My Last Sabres Game of the Season

Actually, my day starting going downhill on Monday night, when I passed out (from exhaustion people!) on the sofa around 8:30pm.  In my new glasses.
Yesterday morning, I wake up late, shower and put my glasses back on.  They’re lopsided.  They’re sliding down my nose.  I figure I’ll deal with it and it’s when I take [...]

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How to Piss Me Off: At Work

(if you actually work with me and do any of these things, I’m sorry, it’s nothing personal…  And these are not necessarily current peeves.)

Use the last of the paper towels/coffee/copy paper/fax paper and don’t replace it
Leave faxes on the machine.  Especially those journal/transmission reports and obvious junk mail (”Go to Cancun for $0.12!!”)
Use a wet [...]

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Note to Self: #32

Self:
When you have kid(s) and you’re at the grocery store and the kid(s) is screaming for another rip of cheese, PLEASE, pull into an aisle or off to the side before finding the deli bag in the cart, opening the bag, ripping off a piece of cheese and making sure the “good baby” has gummed [...]

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And here I thought we were all adults

Since starting the prescription regime, I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve been really mad… you know, so mad that I realize it… which used to be ALL THE TIME.
So there’s a new person around and they’re basically taking over the duties I took over when we had a shift in [...]

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