you know what grinds my gears?

[Duncan]

you hate apple because you're jealous lol... :p

i kid i kid

[nature boy]

some guy actually said that when i mentioned that i think it's annoying that people put down other phones that aren't apple (including android and windows 8, not just blackberry). his response was "you're just jealous that you didn't get an iphone.

lol, maybe i didn't get an iphone because i don't want an iphone.

[geForce]

Work related gear grinding -

When coworkers pass off work to me without knowing or caring that what they're asking me to do is not my job. Using a hypothetical example, if I'm a technician, my coworkers would pass off accounting work for me to do. They pass it off to me because the work has my name on it. Yes, it does have my name on it because I was the technician that did the original work, but the customer is now asking an accounting related question, so forward it off to accounting, not me.

It's so ridiculous how some people who have worked at the same company for 10, 15, 20+ years seem to not know much about their job.

Oh, and at work, we have this executive initiative to curb this kind of behaviour. It's called "Own It", which basically means take ownership of a certain task and see it through to the end. The same people as I've mentioned above, have now twisted this initiative and if I ever push back and say that what they're asking me to do is not my job, they will now tell me to "own it". They say because it has my name on it, that I should take ownership and see it to through to completion.

[nature boy]

speaking of which, i don't like it when people don't own up to their own shortcomings and/or failings. having them isn't a bad thing, in fact i'd view them as good as we can learn from them. however, not owning them is a bad thing as we will never recognise the areas in which we need to grow.

[geForce]

I met this girl briefly and she added me as a FB friend. Ever since then, I've been getting spammed with tons of her (self?)righteous political and humanitarian propaganda.

This is the first time I've ever met someone this passionate about these beliefs. She organizes protests and that kind of stuff. I admit, I'm not very well-informed about all the topics, and it's not that I agree or disagree with her underlying beliefs, but it's just the way she says things sometimes that grinds my gears.

For example, there was this article she was forwarding around about rape culture and how wrong it is. Fair enough, and she asks everyone to forward to as many people as they can. Also fair enough, get the word out, I'm okay with that. Then she adds her little annoying comment - "All you men, what do you think about this? huh? Come on, take ownership". It's like she's accusing all men of propogating this rape culture.

Another example, she was mad at the governement (she's always mad, it seems) for sending heavily armed police and snipers to a "peaceful" protest. She showed a picture of one guy holding a feather kneeling in front of a crowd of armed police, with a caption saying something like, "Hey Canadians, are funding government police terrorism??? Do you really need snipers to protect the big oil company against one guy with a feather???" She failed to mention that the same group of protestors were throwing around molotov cocktails and torched 6 police cars.

It grinds my gears that this girl's passion for her own ideals has seemingly skewed how she views the truth. It grinds my gears even more that she isn't the only one who sees the "truth" this way.

[se7entse7en]

Save your gears. Unsubscribe to her feed.

[geForce]

Haha yeah, I thought about unsubscribing. It is annoying, but I also find it interesting though. It's like how you can't stop watching a train wreck.

[nature boy]

it grinds my gears when i try to figure out what "Hey Canadians, are funding government police terrorism???" means.

you should post updates on her. then we could introduce her to rkw maybe.

[Duncan]

[geForce]

[nature boy]

oh, i actually thought the error was hers, not yours.

where is this chick from? i have a friend living in winnipeg who posts similar stuff.

[geForce]

She's from here.
Is that chick you know from Winnipeg the one who posted that feminist stuff?

[Wetundies]

chicks are so annoying these days.

[nature boy]

[geForce]

Related to work (although, it grinds my gears a bit when this happens on a personal level too):

People don't read emails completely!!!! Annoys me to no end. Here's a made up example of a typical email that I would send:

Hi Bob,
A few questions for you:
Did you want the network module with that?
Also, the customer doesn't indicate that they want warranty. Did you want me to add the warranty on the quote anyway? If yes, what level of warranty support did you want me to quote?

Thanks
Gordon

And a typical response I would get:

Yes, please add the module.
Bob

Seriously, this happens so often with such a wide variety of people at work. Not just my current job either. It happened a lot in my previous job too. I understand being busy and rushing, but if you don't answer someone completely, they still need the answer so they'll just end up asking again and then it'll just waste everyone's time. It's ironically counter-productive. Maybe that's why these people always seem to be so busy. Grrrrrrinds my gears!