Do you ever spell the word “peeve” out? Kinda looks funny, doesn’t it.
Agh. Blogs seem to be a popular place to vent about things that irritate you, so once again I shall rant.
First, so and so that works in this department (though on another team) comes over to kiss the department director’s ace. She just goes on and on for like 5 minutes, trying to compliment her on anything VISIBLE. Then she asks her to read something, after which they begin whispering. They’ve been whispering for like 15 minutes now and it bugs the living sheezy out of me. Dang these women and their whispering, can’t they freakin’ take a walk if they have so much to say that others shouldn’t hear? Ach. Just barely audible enough that I can hear it but quiet enough that you have no idea what they’re talking about… just irritates me to no end. Boy I think I’m just irritable lately, I shouldn’t have the urge to stand up, look over the cubicle wall and yell at them to shut up or go somewhere else. That’d be great tho, wouldn’t it– yell at the Director of the department, hehe. It’s ok… if she hadn’t moved next to my cubicle it’d be my lead over the other direction whispering with someone. The only time I don’t mind whispering as much is when I know they are trashing on someone that I also dislike, haha. Anyways, so there’s one of my pet peeves– whispering for extended periods of time.
[EDIT] Problem solved– I remembered my best friend at work: Headphones. Of course one of the VP’s came over and started yakking with said Director of the department for another half hour– during which time I couldn’t put on my headphones for fear of being painfully obvious, hehe. I should have put them on anyways. In any case, I am now isolated from everything around me at work, enjoying sonic bliss.
In other news, Heeble updated his Web site for the first time in nearly 2 months. Woo!
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5 responses to “Pet Peeves”
I know exactly what you mean! Although you are lucky, you missed the half hour of out of control laughter of said director and our late forcaster. I wanted to poke my eyes out!!! GRRRR!!!
Yes, said director should never have left her office for the 4th floor– she accomplishes nothing by being down where we are. She serves only to distract and annoy as in today’s scenario.
I’m perfectly aware of the annoying laugher. I’ve got the freakin’ Tweedles (who knows which is Dee and Dum) not far from me. But at least their laughter isn’t the exploding, out of control, painful kind!
*shudders* yes at least it isn’t like that every day here. I was up at your cube for only a moment the other day Mar and the irritation from the Tweedles’ annoyingness was like a disease that you could catch just by being in the area. Of course maybe again I was just irritable but I started counting my blessings that I didn’t have to work with those two freaks, hehe…
One of the Tweedles just suggested I make a paper chain – like we used to do to count down to Christmas – to count down to my wedding and hang it in my cube. That was downright brilliant. If you need me, I’ll be in the corner, cutting and gluing paper strips!