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I work in a hotel on reception, I get people ringing up asking if we have rooms available that night, when I say we are fully booked they say, without fail "nothing at all?", I really want to say "I've been staring at the screen since 3pm and we were full then!".
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By (user no longer on site) 32 weeks ago
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There’s a phrase that everyone says and it boils my piss…..
“Living the dream”
Like….whats the dream….are they being sarcastic or are they genuinely happy that they’re in this boring, mundane shithole 
Clearly I overthink  |
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I worked in a supermarket on Boxing day, it was absolutely full of people with trolleys rammed full of food. Some used to say....oh poor you, are *insert supermarket name* making you work on Boxing day ?
I used to smile sweet and say, yeah, and I'm serving you. Not one got the irony that the supermarket was driven by demand, by people like them. |
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Parents who dodge the 'have they had any medication?' Or just lie about it
Colleagues who don't pull their weight.
Colleagues who are constantly phoning in sick
Being so short staffed you have to take medical or dental appointments in your lunch hour
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What really grinds my gears is when people are rude because they have had to be stood in a queue for a long time, then have ago as if im personally responsible - because yes I caused this situation because I enjoy dealing with entitled, brainless fuckwitts all day through the summer MWAHAHAHAH. |
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"I worked in a supermarket on Boxing day, it was absolutely full of people with trolleys rammed full of food. Some used to say....oh poor you, are *insert supermarket name* making you work on Boxing day ?
I used to smile sweet and say, yeah, and I'm serving you. Not one got the irony that the supermarket was driven by demand, by people like them."
I had this at Christmas last year, worked Christmas day, boxing day and the day after, people were saying to me "poor you" and I was like "well if I didn't, you wouldn't be here" (in a jokey manor obviously) |
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Lazy co workers who vanish constantly throughout a long day or night shift, then moan about how tired they are.
Getting constantly moved to other areas to cover staff shortages.
Management who don't give a toss about working conditions and walk round with clipboards, noting you're understaffed, but do nothing to help.
If they rolled their sleeves up and actually helped out once in a while, I'd have much more respect for them. |
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"There’s a phrase that everyone says and it boils my piss…..
“Living the dream”
Like….whats the dream….are they being sarcastic or are they genuinely happy that they’re in this boring, mundane shithole
Clearly I overthink "
In our case we're being sarcastic... everyone at my place says it lol |
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"The constant whining of people who didn't like their working conditions but melted into the background when people like me stood up and challenged them.
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Ah yes, I’ve seen that.
And they will stay at the same firm for years, and continue to moan |
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TBH, these days, most things
The business I initially joined was as near as you will find to a family firm
Nearing retirement, about 18 months ago, the boss sold it to an American investment firm
One thing I know for certain now is that I do not fit the corporate mould |
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"The constant whining of people who didn't like their working conditions but melted into the background when people like me stood up and challenged them.
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oh I know that one well. One minute you are amongst the Tolpuddle Martyrs the next it's Oliver Twist. |
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"I work in a hotel on reception, I get people ringing up asking if we have rooms available that night, when I say we are fully booked they say, without fail "nothing at all?", I really want to say "I've been staring at the screen since 3pm and we were full then!".
Anyway, that's mine, what's yours lol"
This useless government |
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Also
Poor managers who rely on their staff's efficiency to make them look good.
The competition between the one person in the office who is always too hot vs the one who's always too cold. Just take your cardigan off or put one on
Apple cruncher man and yogurt pot scraper woman.
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"I work in a hotel on reception, I get people ringing up asking if we have rooms available that night, when I say we are fully booked they say, without fail "nothing at all?", I really want to say "I've been staring at the screen since 3pm and we were full then!".
Anyway, that's mine, what's yours lol"
Bullying at work unfortunately was bullied at work during lockdown will not tolerate it from anyone will tell the offender to shut the fuck up or there will be consequences even if it means I get warning or sacked
Sorry for the rant and swearing
Just pisses me off |
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By (user no longer on site) 31 weeks ago
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I work in a pub… and it proper bugs me when I get someone making a large order at the bar, but they tell me the drinks one at a time.
“Vodka and please”
“Anything else?”
“Yeah, Dan, mate! What you after? Mate, what you drinking?”
I go off to make the vodka and cos I’m bored of waiting and I have other customers to serve…
Then I’m back and they’re like
“Another vodka and please”
Proper gets my goat.
Or people who order a Guinness at the end of their order. It’s the one drink that takes an age. Tell me at the beginning please!! |
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Ohmmmmmmmm Ohhmmmmmmmmmm
Nothing.
Not in work. Not here. Not at home.
What difference does it make what other people do n say ? As long as they are not aggressive.
God looked at the garden of Eden and was dissatisfied. What a dickhead he turned out to be. |
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"Meetings on Friday afternoons. "
Just decline them and request the minutes. If they carry on in your absence, you didn’t need to attend in the first place. If they can’t carry on without you, offer a more appropriate time that isn’t a Friday because who tf is arranging meetings for a Friday! |
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"Meetings on Friday afternoons. "
We have a regular one 15:30-16:30. I think it's a deliberate ploy
I scheduled a student meeting at 17:00 on Friday just gone. I'm glad I did and he was too.
I got kicked out by security on Friday afternoon  |
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"People who neither decline or accept the meeting & people who try to arrange meetings using email ping pong. Just keep your calendar up to date & use the bloody tool it’s easy"
Another thing that gets my goat - people who can't use Microsoft tools despite having extensive training available and having had to use these things for a very long time. I'm not talking complex stuff, just the ability to block out recurring commitments on the calendar or send files via Teams or whatever. Use an online tutorial! How do they think we learned?! |
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"People who neither decline or accept the meeting & people who try to arrange meetings using email ping pong. Just keep your calendar up to date & use the bloody tool it’s easy
Another thing that gets my goat - people who can't use Microsoft tools despite having extensive training available and having had to use these things for a very long time. I'm not talking complex stuff, just the ability to block out recurring commitments on the calendar or send files via Teams or whatever. Use an online tutorial! How do they think we learned?! "
I know it drives me crazy. I manage across 4-5 time zones repeatedly telling people if my diary is free just book it because everything important inc travel, personal, reading time, lunches is all blocked out so you can just use the tool to find a slot that works. You really don’t need to email first to ask |
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"People who neither decline or accept the meeting & people who try to arrange meetings using email ping pong. Just keep your calendar up to date & use the bloody tool it’s easy
Another thing that gets my goat - people who can't use Microsoft tools despite having extensive training available and having had to use these things for a very long time. I'm not talking complex stuff, just the ability to block out recurring commitments on the calendar or send files via Teams or whatever. Use an online tutorial! How do they think we learned?!
I know it drives me crazy. I manage across 4-5 time zones repeatedly telling people if my diary is free just book it because everything important inc travel, personal, reading time, lunches is all blocked out so you can just use the tool to find a slot that works. You really don’t need to email first to ask "
I have a manager that is unable to use her calendar so when we tell her something important, we are they expected to remind her the day before as she "won't remember"  |
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By *zeroMan 31 weeks ago
Glasgow |
"I worked in a supermarket on Boxing day, it was absolutely full of people with trolleys rammed full of food. Some used to say....oh poor you, are *insert supermarket name* making you work on Boxing day ?
I used to smile sweet and say, yeah, and I'm serving you. Not one got the irony that the supermarket was driven by demand, by people like them.
I had this at Christmas last year, worked Christmas day, boxing day and the day after, people were saying to me "poor you" and I was like "well if I didn't, you wouldn't be here" (in a jokey manor obviously)"
Its the same people that come in on a warm sunny and say "Oh it's beautiful outside!"
I can fucking see that thank you. |
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People answering the phone and say stupid stuff...
Don't you know I'm doing "insert activity" ..no love I don't have a crystal ball
I can't talk on the phone I'm expecting an important call, then spend more time telling me what the calls for than I would needed to explain why I'm calling.
I can't talk right now because I'm driving/teaching/in a meeting ect... then why answer the phone. |
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By *r. E!Man 31 weeks ago
Grantham |
My new line manager, went on a power trip and told me to remove a mental health bracelet my daughters made for me when I was suffering with PTSD a few years ago, was being a real dick about it, ended going all the way to the top.
Still wearing it! |
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By *929Man 31 weeks ago
newcastle |
The odd twat of a customer, haven’t had many but the odd one over the years
One of the worst I never actually got to do the job, massive job I had worked for several of her friends, quoted 22k she told me she had a quote for 16k (impossible to do for that and make any sort of profit) but she really wanted me to do it but I had to match that, told her no go with the company that quoted 16k silence for a week thrn she’s blowing up my phone leaving messages asking if I can do it,
requested me to visit site about 4 times every time rang me ten minutes before I was due to arrive asking where I was and if I was still coming ffs give me a chance to actually be late before saying I am.
Then took it upon herself to start buying materials despite the price being all in I knew then it will be a nightmare getting all money in and told her I wasn’t doing the job anymore get someone else
Another I was booked in to do his extension in the spring, he lived down the the street from one of my mates who casually mentioned about a month prior to me starting that he had gotten someone else in and not said anything and build was nearly finished, lucky I had work to fall back on could have battered the cunt.
Another was a bloke who I’d never met before starting the job all prior communication had been through his wife, he had low key hostility from the start and basically his attitude was terrible from day 1, trying to sound intimidating by saying how he was going to throttle his plasterer for getting pva on the ceiling, bloke was a little dumpy fat never done a days graft in his life pile of shit couldn’t fight sleep never mind another bloke. When job was complete wanted me to take out the mortar pointing which is how I always lay slabs and use brush in grout (which is utter shite lasts 2 years tops) the way he spoke to me still riles me to this day the only thing stopped me battering him was it not being an appropriate thing for a business owner to do but I had a week of sleepless nights thinking how I should have
Had a few took 2-3 weeks to pay after job complete as well but always got paid in end |
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Lack of honesty and accountability really pisses me off.
I work in cyber security, there’s zero wiggle room for f*ck ups. Just be honest and tell me if you screw up! It’s way easier to fix the problem there and then, and owe up to it, I’ll respect you a lot more. |
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By (user no longer on site) 31 weeks ago
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When I have to leave the house to actually go to work.
When I’m still scanning their items and they have their hand in my face holding money….are you blind??
When they make a joke about something being free or at a discounted price “since it’s them” *nudge nudge*  ……hahahahahaahaha no. |
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I can't talk right now because I'm driving/teaching/in a meeting ect... then why answer the phone."
Because sometimes, if you don't answer at all, the person calling won't call back. I get calls from medical and social care professionals at all sorts of random times. If I answer and ask them to call back after my meeting, I might get an appointment/a response. If I don't answer at all, I go back to the bottom of the queue and don't get anything.
It all depends why you are calling, I suppose. |
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