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What really grinds your gears?

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Markymarkmark Jun 2018 5:26pm, 27 Jun 2018 7,141 posts	Quote Pin Markymarkmark People who escalate "urgent" jobs to their boss of bosses, and then don't have the decency to respond to calls or emails for 2 whole days when you have a solution that needs their input to make it happen. To put it into context, they told us they needed a fix inside 48 hours.....
um Jun 2018 5:30pm, 27 Jun 2018 314 posts	Quote Pin um [MMM - to which the correct response is a reply mail to all the same mgmnt structure stating you have a proposed solution/fix but are unable to progress without their input, and will be moving their job to the wait queue until they respond] [even better if you say you have replied & been waiting 1 day / 2 days on them] [good luck !]
WA Jun 2018 7:24pm, 27 Jun 2018 5,656 posts	Quote Pin WA People who don't understand that a dry moorland is essentially a tinder box
Wine Legs Jun 2018 8:32pm, 27 Jun 2018 4,407 posts	Quote Pin Wine Legs The idiots in our neighbourhood who think the "No Dogs" sign at the entrance to the children's playground actually means one of the following: - it's ok to take your dog in there early in the morning or in the evening because there are no children there. - it's ok if your dog is on your lap. - it's ok if you sit on the seats inside the playground near the gate and have your dog on a lead. - plus other variations of the above justifying their behaviour with a variety of excuses, but ALL of them think that NO DOGS doesn't apply to them.
Fierce and Focused Fleecy Jun 2018 9:34pm, 27 Jun 2018 41,693 posts	Quote Pin Fierce and Focused Fleecy Yeah people used to do that when my kids were little. Fuckwits the lot of them.
Markymarkmark Jun 2018 12:42am, 28 Jun 2018 7,144 posts	Quote Pin Markymarkmark [Um - guess what I did? I'm in holiday now for 12 days so it's stopped grinding!]
ERM Jun 2018 10:10am, 28 Jun 2018 432 posts	Quote Pin ERM When you get onto a mode of transport where a seat is reserved for you to find that there is someone sitting in the seat, clearly chancing their arm that you aren't going to turn up and they can snaffle the solo seat by the window. Always quickly resolved, but still grinding
Eynsham Red Jun 2018 10:26am, 28 Jun 2018 3,039 posts	Quote Pin Eynsham Red (I stood all the way from Reading to Exeter when I found my reserved seat on a busy train was taken by an old lady. As a fit man in his early forties and sporting a London Marathon finisher’s T shirt, I didn’t have the heart to ask her to give up my seat).
Lizzie W Jun 2018 11:18am, 28 Jun 2018 17,888 posts	Quote Pin Lizzie W People who leave used contact lenses on the floor.
Metro_Nome Jun 2018 12:45pm, 28 Jun 2018 4,517 posts	Quote Pin Metro_Nome ERM- in a similar vein, people who can't be arsed to find their seat in the cinema so just sit anywhere which leads to the awkward conversation when they are in your seat