I seem to get a lot of use out of this thread :p
No shows
People who mistake nice people for being pushovers (you want to test that theory twice? No? Didn't think so..)
Parents who say their kid has ADD when it's never been diagnosed by a medical professional - in our family we call this having a 'parenting disability'
That one person in every workplace who makes everyone grumpy or miserable and needs to be shot
How you feel super motivated to get things done when you can't do them, but as soon as you get the opportunity you just want to watch a movie in your PJ's
When you put a lot of effort into cooking something, then at the very last minute you burn it
When you're completely ignorant about a topic but have to make decisions about it anyway - eg. in my case, my car and things like that!
If I had any gold left, I'd give it to you for this post.
ADD = Anti Disciplinary Disorder suffered by parents (and a few of the kids actually diagnosed with its same-abbreviated, often mis-diagnosed relative). Symptoms include trying to reason with children too young to comprehend english, trying to reason with children who clearly couldn't care less about being reasoned with, ignorance of screaming children and other "bad" behaviours, and too busy talking on the phone to care that the kids a breaking/and or knicking stuff from the shop shelves.
Things that piss me off....
Mergers between organisations where the "being merged" party takes professional and diplomatic courtesy as a sign of weakness to which they can attempt to assert their dominance via whatever strategic means they think necessary (read: politically using people who have no functional nor technical relevance to the situation who somehow manage to create a somewhat paradoxical situation within the situation wasting a myriad of nearly non-existent resources to justify the importance of a subset of an organisation who aren't entirely functional due to the nearly non-existent resources required to achieve the original objective without having to further waste said nearly non-existent resources on politics created by non technical people trying to justify their own existence in a situation where their functional relevance is well, nil). Yup, that's gonna end well, and no, I can't elaborate to make that any less cryptic.
And...dickheads who think because they have jobs as web designers that they started last week, think they somehow have a far superior technical understanding of the underlying protocols that make email work than someone who was working for ISPs and fiddling with mail servers before most people had internet connections at home. Pffft.
