Little things that irk you.. (no swearing please)

[Dirty Sanchez]

Perhaps the parents are net wise - I wouldn't go to a presentation like that.

[dazzling_bubble]

What city?

London is bad for that sort of thing.

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[randombs]

Spuds from work ringing me up with their I.T. problems or asking me to look at their laptops.

I swear, for the first few weeks almost every convo I had went like this:

"Hi, I'm the new I.T. guy..."

"Hi! <welcoming small talk> By the way, I've got this laptop..."

Someone who never speaks to me except when there's a support issue called me from home today about his laptop not starting up. The signal was bad so he got cut off. I didn't call him back.

Unless it's company I.T. equipment, I don't go near it. Maybe I should ring these people up and ask them how to organise a conference/check in some guests/twat about with Sage/whatever and see how they like it.

[dataDave]

Asking to fix personal equipment this early on is a bit cheeky. That's the kind of thing you wait down the line for, and then return the favour by buying a box of beers.

[randombs]

They're mostly two-minute jobs but I need to set a precedent otherwise it'll get silly. One guy asked me to change the ribbon on his laptop LCD and I gave a non-committal answer which resulted in him floating around my office for about two weeks until I just told him I won't be able to do it.

Yesterday evening before I finished my shift, the manager of one of the hotels asked if I could show him how to set up pop mail on his phone. I finished the shift in a rush and went home and then got a call from him about it. I told him I'd finished my shift and gone home and, now that I'm home, I'll show him when I next see him at work.

Turns out the previous I.T. manager was a bit of a push-over(based on the number of "oh, but he used to do it for me" counters I get) but luckily the new one isn't so I don't have to worry about people trying to go over my head and ask him. Not that it would change anything, but it helps.

[toythatkills]

Asking to fix personal equipment this early on is a bit cheeky. That's the kind of thing you wait down the line for, and then return the favour by buying a box of beers.

I read that post thinking I was in the Banter thread, talking about manscaping

[vanpeebles]

Charge em a flat fee for home computers, put off the cheeky ones otherwise you will be fixing neighbours and inlaws pcs as well.

[Kieran76]

Peoples behaviour in the cinema drives me mad. I hardly ever go to the cinema anymore because of folks rustling bags, texting, talking, eating smelly food. Went last night and moved seats twice because of this. There was only about 20 people in the cinema as well!

[prinnysquad]

Peoples behaviour in the cinema drives me mad. I hardly ever go to the cinema anymore because of folks rustling bags, texting, talking, eating smelly food. Went last night and moved seats twice because of this. There was only about 20 people in the cinema as well!

Likewise. I hate people pissing around with phones and generally being nobheads. When I go to the flicks I sit in total silence and barely move. Anyone who doesn't do this is, frankly, a pig ignorant ****, who should be dragged out.

I remember during Scream 2 I was sat next to these Spanish blokes who chatted throughout the entire film. I told them what I thought of them at the end, but I shouldn't have had to.

[NW2013]

This is why I go to the cinema during the week on days off whenever possible. The public are such cnuts.

[nakamura]

Touch manscaped wood, that is one problem I have never had at the cinema. All the more amazing when you consider the inbred retards that live in Dorset.

[Spatial]

I had to sit through Van Helsing (lol!) with two Chinese guys who talked their way through the whole thing as loudly as possible.The best bit was as the film got louder, they started shouting to be heard over the noise.

Though the winner of the most disturbing cinema patron ever was the guy who, during the first Kill Bill episode, was perhaps a little bit `too` into the violence. It started with him just leaning forward in his seat and repeating the swear words when they came up on screen in subtitles and stuff. By the end he was whipping himself up into a really frenzy and going `cor...phoo... worrrr" like he was about to literally start wanking himself off in some sort of ultra-violence-fuelled display of depraved appreciation.



I hate going to the cinema.

[prinnysquad]

Though the winner of the most disturbing cinema patron ever was the guy who, during the first Kill Bill episode, was perhaps a little bit `too` into the violence. It started with him just leaning forward in his seat and repeating the swear words when they came up on screen in subtitles and stuff. By the end he was whipping himself up into a really frenzy and going `cor...phoo... worrrr" like he was about to literally start wanking himself off in some sort of ultra-violence-fuelled display of depraved appreciation.

They say that talking about your actions in the third person can help to distance them from you...

[Spatial]

[Decider-VT]

won't happen. Age verification is in our DNA and vital to the industry. Team in stores are brilliant at it too.

Where did this ridiculous corporate phrase spring from? It's been popping up in the videos from head office at work, where I put it down to too many people with non-essential jobs bandying buzzwords and marketing bull around to mask how little they actually do.