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Minor things that really piss you off !

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    Originally posted by TestMangler View Post
    It's especially annoying when Client Co brings in highly experienced graduates through Accenture to do just that
    heh heh, I worked with this dude you would have thought invented google such was his arrogance and self-confidence, he'd been out of uni for a year, had one job and couldn't even write a few lines of code - he was from one of the big 4, seems to be the new model - grads and ICT's doing all the grunt work
    sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice - Asimov (sort of)

    there is no art in a factory, not even in an art factory - Mixerman

    everyone is stupid some of the time - trad.

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      Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
      You bunch of whining, miserable, bast@rds!
      +1



      Oh go on then - BSOD on my work laptop - which is happening with alarming regularity these days. Good job I'm handing it back in 2 weeks.

      That is all.

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        People in the supermarket who . . .

        1.Don't supervise their kids.
        2.Park their trolleys across the aisle
        3.Stop at the aisle end to talk to their equally inconsiderate friends, then look at you like you're a kiddy-fiddler when you ask them to move so you can get past.
        4.Smell strongly of washing powder
        5.Smell strongly
        6.Don't observe two minutes silence


        God, I hate shopping.
        The vegetarian option.

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          Originally posted by TestMangler View Post
          It's especially annoying when Client Co brings in highly experienced graduates through Accenture to do just that
          Or more annoying when they've offered you the gig but the in house consultancy (aka accidenture) deicide they can fit one of their guys in instead.
          "Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch." - Orson Welles

          Norrahe's blog

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            silly IT security chaps that disables my account - which I've have since 2005 because it allegedly belonged to some who left the company in 2007 - on the basis that my user name was misspelled.

            That and the air head who I was dealing with simply didn't listen. It was like talking to the proverbial wall.

            As my ability to work held in the balance I had to give in to his "superior" intellect, and the piece of paper he was looking at which must surely of had bollucks written all over it.

            I did, however manage to complain to his manager and tell her what a twat she had working for her.
            McCoy: "Medical men are trained in logic."
            Spock: "Trained? Judging from you, I would have guessed it was trial and error."

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              Originally posted by Sysman View Post
              Last week a couple in front of me simply abandoned their trolley after the checkout.

              I took it back to the docking station a whole 5 yards away myself, and by plugging it in could retrieve their 2 Swiss Franc deposit.

              Every little helps
              A couple of weeks ago, I was waiting in the craprk at Sainsbury's while my gf popped in to get my scratchies.

              Couple of women trundled over with a trolley to a nearby car, removed all the shopping from the trolley and dumped it on the car's bonnet.

              Then one of them went to return the trolley to the trolley park ( very considerate, I thought) & while she was doing this, the other one proceeded to load the shopping into the car next door & off they went .

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                I was at ASDA carrying my Leffe to the car, parked miles away on the huge car park purely for the exercise, and I see this newish seven-seater pulls up into a disabled bay, and five non-disabled on-the-face-of-it let's say, South Asian people get out, the blue badges are there. Walking behind this scene is an approx. 90 year old white (sorry - he was white) bloke struggling with two heavy bags, walking off into the distance huffing and puffing.

                I'm pissed off why?

                1. well, guess.

                2. I wasn't able to get my iPhone out to film it.

                3. I didn't even think about helping the old bloke, thinking about the injustice and not actually doing anything...

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                  the fact that when I went to get the train this morning there were barriers up blocking the way to the platform - no signs saying all trains cancelled because of... , no staff apart from one ticket teller who seemed so happy to be having to serve everyone manually she had obviously decided to extend her joy by taking as long as is humanly possible to serve anyone

                  still working from home on a friday aint bad
                  sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice - Asimov (sort of)

                  there is no art in a factory, not even in an art factory - Mixerman

                  everyone is stupid some of the time - trad.

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                    my iron which decides to piss out water all over the shirt i'm trying to iron- only ever happens when I'm running late - long story short i need to buy a new iron and ironing board this weekend, oh and clean the water from my walls
                    mad
                    sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice - Asimov (sort of)

                    there is no art in a factory, not even in an art factory - Mixerman

                    everyone is stupid some of the time - trad.

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                      Originally posted by 2BIT View Post
                      my iron which decides to piss out water all over the shirt i'm trying to iron- only ever happens when I'm running late - long story short i need to buy a new iron and ironing board this weekend, oh and clean the water from my walls
                      mad
                      Leave it to dry while you go out to buy your new iron.

                      Or, buy the new stuff online today and have it delivered tomorrow.
                      Practically perfect in every way....there's a time and (more importantly) a place for malarkey.
                      +5 Xeno Cool Points

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