New peeve thread???

[RICHARD]

While we're on the subject of work.........

2) When 5 people out of a 25 person department ask for the same tool to be purchased for the shop, the proper response should be "I'll see if we have the money in the budget for it" or "Okay, I'll go talk to the plant manager about it." Instead, the postal response is "Have you guys all been talking about this together? I told employee x last week we don't need one, now all of you are trying to get the same thing. Sorry, it ain't working!"

Along the same lines...


My sys admin orders a 200 dollar chair and all new desk items. Calendars, pen holders....She gets a three hundred dollar hands free wireless head set!
Because she is "always on the move"....She is never 3 feet away from the phone! She asks for a 500 dollar flash drive for the computer and then tells her boss that "she needs it by thursday, otherwise the reports won't get done...."

When she took away my internet I told her I needed it to reference surgery codes and terms.....she told me that she would order me any books I needed..

I told her that in the code books/med dictionary terms were obsolete by the time I got them.....she was going to spend about 600 dollars on books that I probably would use once or twice..


My point?

If that same dimwit needed a tool/part or piece of equipment.. they would order three. One for their desk, one to lend out (BUT BRING IT BACK, It' belongs to the department!!) and one for a backup...Cost be damned....

But try to get a five dollar widget that everyone needs?

Good luck!

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I just threw away my old desk blotter calendar that I got from the trash at a side job I did......

I felt guilty ordering a new one from the office supply book.....until this year...

and finally....

A company we purchase heart valves from increased the price from 5,800 dollars to 8,000 because our contract with them expired...when the clerk was explaining to the nurse, who orders them, about the price increase, she starts to complain about the cost and how crazy that is to pay 2,200 dollars for the life saving devices........

I said, out loud, Maybe we should take a pay cut so we can affiord these valces.....she starts to complain that she's "NOT GOING TO TAKE A PAY CUT!"

So I mention that it is "FOR THE PATIENTS".......

She didn't have much to say after that....


Amazing how people will take advantage of the budget when it helps them-but ask them to loosen up the purse strings for the common good?


GOOD LUCK!

[RICHARD]

THIS REALLY IRRITATES ME.....

Yesterday some blasting caps were found in the sea near a bunch of upscale homes near Huntington Beach, California....

The people living in the area were not asked to evacuate but did comment that, "nothing like this has ever happened, in this area, before."

It's the same with murders, car accidents and other stuff like that..

Are most of the people on the planet this friggin ignorant?

I could see the reverse happening in Iraq...

Today, no one was killed in a car/suicide bombing. Interviewing the citizens of Baghdad said, "nothing like this has ever happened, in this area, before."

[slick]

I just hate it when I'm browsing in a shop and a pushy salesperson says "Can I help you?" I say "no I'm just looking." Next isle and another salesperson. When I was shopping at Christmas I had 4 salespeople in the same store ask me that same question.....I then just walked out of the store, never to return again.

Oh yes, and one other thing. Pushy car salesmen who think I don't know what I'm talking about.

[gini]

I am with you on this one Slick. I also hate it when the salespeople start showing you things that you have no interest in - and it just wastes your time as you try so hard to be polite - and say NO THANK YOU! At that point, I beat it out of the store.

[RICHARD]

Half a world away a political stories are being written (Iran, Hamas, Israel, Sharon having a stroke) and the top news is Oprah whining that she was duped into promoting a book that was a pack of lies.

Yep, the moron got duped and now she has to put the Oprah machine into reverse becase she is the cornerstone of truth, justice and the American way...and because she can make, or break, an author she has to make things right!!

So, instead of putting it behind her (far easier when she was a woman of size) she now has to clear her good name and spend an hour yelling at this guy on her show....and it all makes headline news?

She should take a look at her magazine first..

A little trivia?

Which celebrity has appeared more times on the cover of Oprah magazine?

Having never opened that package of tripe, I can only imagine what stories reside within...


Lose 800 tons on the Oprah fig diet?
Manage your life with Oprah's 10 second daily planner?
Release your inner talk show host with Oprah's tips?

100% pure, unadulterated truth!

[gini]

Richard - you read "O".........who woulda thunk it!!

Of course, after the beating up this guy took on her show - now he will sell more books than ever imagined. He will retire somewhere quietly a very wealthy man.

[RICHARD]

Richard - you read "O".........who woulda thunk it!!

The Story of "O", yes!
Oprah, NO!!!!!

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Here's a GREAT peeve...

Ken Starr, the prosecutor that went after Bill Clinton has asked Ahr-nold
to pardon a moron who is on death row......

Why?


Because he apologized for the murders.

"I am sorry...."

Those three little words that make everything all right.

So, if BC had apologized, Starr would have backed off?