The Daily Peeve / Rant

[fidgiegirl]

There's a guy on my bus most mornings who looks over his shoulder every two minutes throughout the journey. I hate this. It's as if he's a fugitive expecting to be captured at any moment.

You gave me a giggle! I was picturing it. . . peek, peek . . . peek, peek . . .

Surely it's not so funny when you're really there.

[Jemima]

It's no wonder the Post Office is going under. I tried to ship some cat food that my cat won't eat to the nearest SPCA and the USPS website says there's no such address. (So how come my checks get there? How come UPS knows where it is?) It took me close to an hour to find another address, print the shipping label, and arrange for a carrier pickup, hopefully not by the dim bulb we've been assigned as a substitute carrier. (This does not include the time I spent packing the box.)

Now I have to go drive to the mailboxes at the end of the street because the as$%&oles from whom I ordered three cases of cat food MAILED IT instead of sending it UPS like they normally do, and I can't carry that heavy box home from a block away. YECH! UPS is worth the extra cost!

[Stella]

Restless legs! They have been really bad lately. It's so terribly uncomfortable.

[Jemima]

Restless legs! They have been really bad lately. It's so terribly uncomfortable.

Stella, try some magnesium. It can give a person diarrhea in large doses, but 200 mg. or less should help. I had trouble with restless legs when I was getting off of antidepressants and the magnesiuim worked for me. (Don't ask me how I know about the diarrhea. 1000 mg. is way too much.)

[SiouzQ.]

I'm feeling very stuck at my insane job and I just can't see a way out yet. I have been sending out some resumes but not a single bite yet...

[Stella]

Thanks for the tip Jemima!

[iris lily]

My gripe today is people who complain about not having enough help in hobby groups, and then say something like "it's so hard for only a few people to keep 2 clubs going" when CLEARLY ya'll need to shut down one of the clubs. They both do the same thing for god's sake! So do it or else stop complaining about all of the work you've got to do. Oh and--I stepped up to help in an area where I anticipate minimal drama--stop bringing unnecessary drama to this task. It's just not necessary.

[Tradd]

My peeve - actually one of several months standing - is the temp in our accounting department. She replaced someone who was very well loved, but quit due to the greatly increased distance of her commute once the office moved in the fall.

Temp is an uppity wench. She has been telling people how to do their job since day one. She immediately got on my crap list by telling me how to do something that she had no idea about. She also expects everyone to drop everything IMMEDIATELY and give her what she wants. Ummm, no. Maybe where she came from, but not in my company. My boss had to sit her down - with temp's supervisor's approval - and tell her how things work in the transportation world (she apparently came from a very calm environment before). We're very time critical, very intense, very high stress. If she insists on someone dropping everything right then and there when they're in the midst of something very urgent, she's very likely to get someone to go off on her.

She still doesn't get it. When I was off on Monday for the customs brokers exam, temp tried exactly that - AFTER she had already been told not to - on someone in the midst of a screwed-up air freight shipment. I'm told the temp got ripped apart. I almost went off on her today when she was nagging me and wouldn't take "I'll get it to you later," but I just pounded away at my keyboard for a while and that relieved my stress.

[JaneV2.0]

My gripe today is people who complain about not having enough help in hobby groups, and then say something like "it's so hard for only a few people to keep 2 clubs going" when CLEARLY ya'll need to shut down one of the clubs. They both do the same thing for god's sake! So do it or else stop complaining about all of the work you've got to do. Oh and--I stepped up to help in an area where I anticipate minimal drama--stop bringing unnecessary drama to this task. It's just not necessary.

Amen. They volunteered voluntarily one presumes. Drama and martyrdom are what it's all about for that type.

[mira]

You gave me a giggle! I was picturing it. . . peek, peek . . . peek, peek . . .

Surely it's not so funny when you're really there.

It IS funny though! It just puts me on edge...