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This isn't so much a peeve as a sigh...I was looking at some budget numbers last night and realized I have not come nearly as far as I would like on my project of saving for a down payment. I know why this is...spring is an expensive time of year anyway due to annual expenses like the car inspection and taxes, and then several of the unusual expenses came together (television on its last legs, three houseguests with special occasions to celebrate, etc)
>:( I never think hubby hears or listens to what I talk about. I have been thrilled to have Wrens nesting in the back yard. Mentioning to everyone and asking everyone to give them space. Today hubby power washes the shed, where they are nesting. What Bird Nest, he says.
For how long am I even going to be able to keep doing work which is DESTROYING my body in the process? That's apparently what sitting in a cubical typing does! Nah don't mean the stress, I mean hand and wrist pain is getting worse and worse! I probably should also not use a computer much in my free time .... Sigh ...
ANM, I learned to mouse left-handed because I knew my (otherwise-dominant) right hand was getting a lot of use. I know where I was working, the company was required to accommodate ergonomic issues (seating needs, workstation height, adaptive computer equipment). Could that be the case where you work?
I'm blaming it on an incompetent gaggle of city managers. They've been touting an upcoming renewal project for years, complete with community park, mixed retail and high-density housing--especially mid-range condominiums with a nine-year tax abatement deal, all approved and signed off. It languished and languished while development went on all around us. Now they've announced that there will be apartments instead of condos, so no permanent housing, no abatements. I would like to pummel someone.
When you finish there, Jane, please consider coming here, as my gripe is similar.
A large building, nearly the entire block, has been empty since the company closed. There was a lot of interest in providing affordable housing in the downtown area. Funds were allocated, grants provided, tax cuts given. Two years later, the building is still empty, and the latest information that was shared in the newspaper is that the rental fees for the now luxury apartments are going to be more expensive than just about anyone in this town can afford, much less the people for whom it was intended to help.
Apparently the tax breaks will still help the renters for the commercial retail portions a great deal. Not that that aspect is bad or anything, but the focus of this recovered space was to help support the lower, affordable rents.
Today's peeve is companies whose telephone systems collect all kinds of information ("Please enter your 20-digit customer ID number now, followed by the pound key.") and then fail to pass that along to the poor humans who eventually answer the phone -- and who immediately ask for your 20-digit customer ID number before they can do anything for you. It's a PITA to use a telephone dial for the first one; doubly so when you know the effort is going for naught.
And a special place in he!! for companies which haven't yet figured out that the smartphones that so many of us have exclusively now do not contain the old letter/number pad that dates back to rotary dials. "Type the first thee letters of your destination" only works when I can type 6-7-5, not O-R-L (ando). It's the 21st century, people...
Never go shopping 1/2 before the place closes. Ok I went shoppnig and with a list but they announce over the loudspeaker, in 20 minutes we're closing, then in 15 minutes we're closing etc. (I think I was leaving the store before they gave the 10 minute announcement and by then half the stuff was put away).
So before then I'm running around like a madwoman just throwing any old thing in the basket ... because time running out, time running out ... time is running out!!!! So I ended up spending much more money than I would have otherwise, I was going by a list but not one with prices and frankly the price of some things would have had me scratch them off my list if I was thinking straight (but no instead I was just thinking: time is running out! time is running out! get it now, before time runs out!).
It was an attempt to get my weekly grocery shopping done without it eating up too much weekend time but I have to say the experiment was a giant FAIL. Whatever I'll eat food, I don't think I bought vastly more than I'll eat, though less planning than usual, and I spent more, didn't have time to think, and maybe the worst part: I stressed myself out racing against the bell.
As for Steve's previous reply to a previous comment of mine: I use some serious ergonomic peripherals, though I could get more I guess. I paid for them myself because well I wasn't going to wait for them to get around to it knowing how they are, and whether they care or not I still have *my* body to look after. It significantly reduces but doesn't eliminate the pain, I think desks at work are just set up all wrong. The whole setup is wrong. :\
Dear registrants for our free event,
If you are going to cancel the night before the event, that's functionally the same as a no show. We cannot find anyone to take your place in that case, so don't waste my time emailing me about it. And I don't care why you can't come.
Thank you.
I so love when a potential client comes to me and says, "I need a new web site to replace the one I made myself online on one of those do-it-yourself sites. It looks like crap." Asks for guidance and a project plan/estimate. Ponders it, then comes back and says, "Hey, I just found this OTHER site where I can make my own web site. Thanks anyway!"
No hard feelings, but I hope people have more respect for HER time than she had for mine.