Everybody always has pet peeves at work. Whether they're completely random or deserved, some of them, I figure, can be downright funny. Everyone also has that one person at work that NOBODY can stand. I'm just wondering about the person at work you couldn't stand, and your biggest pet peeves at work. I figured I'd only ask about your high school/college jobs because most people's would be at a restaurant or gorcery store, etc., and it would make for more interesting conversation. For me.... I guess my biggest pet peeves at the sub shop would be: When a customer walks up to the counter, and just starts listing everything they want. They give you no time to comprehend, so you have to ask everything over again. Then, they get a pissy because you couldn't remember. Also, I HATE when people all of a sudden start forming a line five minutes before we close. It's sickening. My last pet peeve is when someone orders American Cheese when we're busy (as weird as that sounds). American Cheese is very hard to peel apart, and when we're busy, it seems like I'm taking years to get it apart. There is one woman that works with us that nobody can stand. She's about 35, and is something you'd see in a movie about a stereotypical redneck. She's got bleach blonde hair, wears WAYYY too much makeup, and has a fake front tooth that it always popping out. On top of that, she's flat out rude (she didn't talk to me for two days when I got employee of the month this month because she was jealous), and everyone complains when they have to work with her. She's full of herself. One night, I was working with her, and she started telling me how she looked so much younger than her age(not at all true), and in my head, I was laughing so loud, that I actually started laughing out loud. Then, one night, she just straight up left in the middle of closing because she HAD to go pick up her daughter at the high school. This came after she had told me that she had a huge crush on her daughter's teacher (I don't know why she thought I was interested), but couldn't date him because she was such a "respectable and good parent," because her daughter didn't want her to. There's no doubt in my mind that she left so she could go see the guy. And she just left me there by myself. Come in and vent! Let's hear some stories!
I worked as a Salesman before so: Biggest Pet Peeve: Cheap mother F'ers. If you don't have the money, then don't go shopping you stingy prick. Also, I hate when customers use the motto, "Customers are always right." No, you ARE NOT always right. In fact, customers who use this phrase are rarely ever right. Feel free to drop dead, you dumb focks. The money was good but these are the two main reasons I left the electronics sales job. People at work I can't stand: Truthfully, I can't stand flirty and slutty chicks. There was this colombian chick two jobs ago that was always giving me hints - like touching my booty and giving me her number - but I can't hit it with girls I work with; too much trouble. So it's like a nice, juicy steak that's put in front of you but unfortunately you can't eat it. What a gip.
Coolest high school job EVER: writing advertising copy for a mall. got paid for the work I did on a project basis. did it all from home. just had fun with it. i also sacked groceries at Randall's. i freaking loved that job. met lots of people...had fun.
I hate it when I order a sandwich at the sub shop and the stupid guy behind the counter can't get my order right on the first try. I used to sack groceries...great part time job. It was really easy (people really don't care how you sack their groceries, just as long as you don't smash the bread), the time flew by, and it was good exercise. The only problem is that sackers get no respect. My fav. part time job was working at a video store. Not one of the big chains, but a local video store with a porno section. I was the only guy working there, so I ALWAYS got to re-stock the pornos on my shif.
Oh God, where do I start? OK, first off, I work at a small school 175 kids MAX. I have 2 job titles: during school hours I'm a TA and lunch room monitor; After school hours I'm the Aftercare Director. Pet Peeves: Snitches and gossips. And people who have no authority to get involved in your problems, but jump right in anyway. The one person everyone hates: This crazy psycho lady who's supposed to be a special ed teacher, but she doesn't actually work with the special ed kids... She's prolly around 50, but she walks around like she's trying to speed walk with something stuck up her butt. She has "bride of frankenstein" It's seriously true. I kid you not. She's always got this cracked out smile on her face like, hihowareyouicantstopsmilingorwalkingaroundnicetalkingtoyoubye! She's a horrible gossip, and she's hardly ever doing her actual job descriptions. What people hate the most about her is that she always shows up at the worst possible time (as if she's been waiting for it) and then asks for a favor that nobody could possibly want to do for her at that point in time and then acts disappointed when everyone says no. She walks into the kitchen (we actually cook food from scratch back in a real kitchen) like she owns it, grabs whatever she wants at multiple points during the day without asking, and expects to get free lunches and free goodies on top of that. What I hate most about her is that she's definitely old enough to be my mom, but she acts like my little sister. She acts like she's got no clue what's going on, she always asks for you to do stuff for her when she's fully capable of doing it herself. She really and truly is afraid of being the last to leave, she's afraid of closing the school. She came up to me one day and said, " Please don't leave me alone at night. Whenever you leave, come upstairs and get me so that I won't be the last to leave because I don't want to be the one to lock up the school." Un-f***ing-believable.
Biggest pet peeve: People that use their speaker phone full blast and don't shut the door. I had a job at a video tape duplicating company when I was going to tech school. I got paid to watch videos, including the p*rn flicks. Pay wasn't that great, but I had insurance to help pay for my sons child birth.
i despise when fat people come into quizno's. ever since Congress passed a law (around the summer of '99) banning them from eating food, I feel they should abide by this. maybe that's just me though.
In college, I had a summer job changing light bulbs at the university. Nothing about it peeved me and I didn't have to work with the public. I did have a partner though, who had graduated a couple years earlier but was burned out on working grown-up jobs. Nice enough guy, tried to be my friend, but crazy. He'd share way too much information, like how he'd like to tie up women and eat them. And, he was really stubborn. I had to cuss and yell at him all the time to keep him from doing stupid stuff. Once, he asked a black employee of the university we ran into in an elevator if she felt America owed her something for slavery and Jim Crow. She said no, but later complained to her boss about harassment and got him in some hot water. It was always a drama with him.
I have two jobs, and the more menial one is the source of most annoyances (big surprise). So I'm tech support at a library. I definitely have a big pet peeve... so we have these big, industrial-size Lanier printers. They kinda suck, but they look impressive. Anyway, often a patron will send a job to the printer, and there will be a paper size mismatch error (it's a freak thing... the printer somehow thinks the program wants it to print on 8.5 x 11.1 paper instead of 8.5 x 11, or something similar). At this point, there will be a HUGE, FLASHING RED BUTTON, with instructions onscreen indicating that you simply need to select your paper size, and it will print. Can anyone figure this out? Nooooooooo. They bug me about it, and I have to haul my ass over there just to hit the big, obvious, flashing red button. What a waste of time. I also just adore it when patrons are so oblivious that they don't see that a printer is jammed, try to print on it, and then complain to me that they want a refund. Hey doofus! If there's a bold message that says "paper jam" and there are grinding noises coming out of the machine, maybe you should try another one! And yes, there's one employee that annoys me, but I don't know if she annoys everyone. Basically she sees this job as an opportunity to chat with her friends and do her own work. I'll often see her check the monitor, see an empty tray, and simply ignore it. Hellllllllo! What are we paying you for again?
Yeah, I know. But the problem is, as teachers and counselors we're supposed to lead by example. So being a snitch, a gossip, and a nosy b**** is completely counter-productive to everything we're supposed to be working for. Otherwise, I wouldn't shive a git. Inside school walls during school hours, your #1 priority is teaching and raising children to be something wonderful - not what so-and-so's ex-husband said about her new boyfriend. Outside of school I can choose not to associate with people like that, but during work, people could at least have the courtesy of keeping it professional. And as far as other people trying to hold authority over me, how would you feel if the janitor (or anyone equally unrelated to what you do) came in and acted like they are your boss and told you that you were doing your job wrong and here's what you better start doing. If you've got a genuine suggestion or complaint, come talk to me with a little respect, and I'm all ears. That's all it takes.
I work retail part-time now at Michaels and it's not bad. My only real pet peeve is people who talk obnoxiously on the cell phone when they ask me for help. It's like I am trying to figure what material or whatever they're working on and what kind of items that we could use to help them out and they don't even give me the respect to answer me back. They stay on their phones and when I have to ask them a question in order to help them becuase THEY came to me for help, they point a finger at me to tell me hold on. I don't mind If people do it every now and then but sometimes people almost act like your a dog and expect you to fetch stuff for them and don't even acknowledge that you exist or waht the heck they want.
I worked at Kroger for two years and rose from the lowly position of sacker, to utility clerk (janitor), and finally to the highly coveted position of seafood clerk. Pet peeves: When I was a sacker, I was probably the hardest-working ape they had but was always getting passed over for the "promotion" to janitor. A new floor manager finally came in and noticed what a good job I was doing, but ironically this was at a time when I was about to quit and was really half-assing it. Go figure. During my time in the meat dept., I was basically the clean-up boy who came in and closed every night. Of all the things our customers did to piss me off, the worst was probably coming up and asking me to slice a ham five minutes before I was set to leave, after I had finished cleaning everything. I couldn't refuse and would wind up spending an extra half-hour washing that damn slicer. Guy I didn't like: I've never had a problem with a co-worker at any job except this one tool. He was a couple of years older than me and thought he was a tough guy. You know the type; little guy with chip on shoulder, thinks he's cool, always making up stories about what a bad ass he is. He even had the classic pencil thin moustache (a calling card for dicks everywhere). Long story short, he and I never got into it, but there was this HUGE guy we worked with that he actually tried to start some **** with. He was talking smack to him one day about how he could box him and must not have thought the big guy would take him up on it, but sure enough he did. One of the funniest things I've ever seen. One hitter quitter.
I could write a book about stuff i hated at walgreens. From people pickup up stuff they dont want and waiting till i ring it up to tell me that they dont want it, to idiots who dont know if they need AA or AAA batteries in their damn remotes.
