You Know What Really Grinds My Gears....The Sequel!

[GP_Matt]

Originally Posted by Misterpants

Read receipts are worse.

What is wrong with read receipts?
We use them throughout our company by default. Everyone asks for them automatically and everyone grants them automatically.

They get filtered into a separate folder so you don't even know they came back unless you are looking for them.

[DownhillGoat]

Originally Posted by GP_Matt

What is wrong with read receipts?

1) Nobody uses them properly. I'll get read receipt requests for site-wide emails I shouldn't even be a part of.
2) Nobody pays attenetion to them after the fact anyway.

[Nufy]

Originally Posted by strombad

How do you differentiate fashion scarves and temperature scarves? I can see you think it might die out for men (it won't) but in women's fashion you'll die first.

If you leave it around your neck after taking your coat off


fashion.

[PsYcNeT]

Originally Posted by kunkstyle

1) Nobody uses them properly. I'll get read receipt requests for site-wide emails I shouldn't even be a part of.
2) Nobody pays attenetion to them after the fact anyway.

Like anything, it's about implementation.

Read receipts are great, because they give you an idea of who is checking what is sent out by management and who isn't, and if someone violates a procedure change or notice that they had agreed to, it gives HR leverage against them since an agreement to a read receipt is like a signature that they acknowledge the information imparted to them.

In summary, don't send a read receipt without reading it.

[GoinAllTheWay]

WRGMG is drivers that on on their cells and take the time to activate the phone speaker and then inexplicably hold the phone 6 inches in front of their face.

WTF is the point in doing that?

[DownhillGoat]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

In summary, don't send a read receipt without reading it.

I just don't send a read receipt to anything

Originally Posted by GoinAllTheWay

WRGMG is drivers that on on their cells and take the time to activate the phone speaker and then inexplicably hold the phone 6 inches in front of their face.

WTF is the point in doing that?

I find there's 2 groups that do this:
Middle/post-middle aged women who can't figure out how the magic of microphones works, and people who genuinely think it makes it a "hands free device" and they can't get a ticket that way.

[puffnstuff]

Dual turning lanes. Actually not the lanes themselves but the fataheads that dont understand the whole 'one lane for me, one lane for you'. Twice already this week its happened...once in front of me, the inside lane guy went to the outside and nearly took out the car that was right next to him (how he doesnt see that car is beyond me...its right freakin there) and then this morning an outside lane fata decides to turn inside (we had been sitting side by side at the lights for a minute before it turned green...where on earth did he think I was going to go when it turned green? Perhaps he thought I would instead just use the oncoming traffic lane instead and I almost had to)

[PsYcNeT]

Originally Posted by fotze

If a manager has resorted to read receipts to check out who is reading what they sent out, then they probably aren't the right person for that job.

Not all jobs are equal, and most managers don't oversee 4 dozen people. During certain seasons a manager can't afford to even pull small groups of people to have a training session for small procedure changes. Best to disseminate information to the employees and put the onus on them to acknowledge the receipt of that information.

Documentation, documentation, documentation.

[Muta]

People in your workplace commenting on your lunch. This really shouldn't bother me but it's drives me irate.

For example, today, I bring two pieces of chicken and vegetables; and three co-workers at separate times make the following comments:

Co-worker 1: "wow, that's a complicated lunch for a Tuesday!"
Co-worker 2: "holy, that looks like something you'd have at Thanksgiving!"
Co-worker 3: "Yabba Dabba Doo! Are you Fred Flinstone?"

Then a bunch of other people come stare.

I don't care what the #### you eat for lunch, so why do you feel the need to comment on mine and draw the attention of the office? Man, I hate that.

[habernac]

Poorly designed rooms. The men's room on our floor has the paper towel dispenser located directly behind the door so you're always in danger of getting smashed in the back unless you're Usain Bolt getting to the power towels.

[Free Ben Hur!]

Originally Posted by Muta

People in your workplace commenting on your lunch. This really shouldn't bother me but it's drives me irate.

For example, today, I bring two pieces of chicken and vegetables; and three co-workers at separate times make the following comments:

Co-worker 1: "wow, that's a complicated lunch for a Tuesday!"
Co-worker 2: "holy, that looks like something you'd have at Thanksgiving!"
Co-worker 3: "Yabba Dabba Doo! Are you Fred Flinstone?"

Then a bunch of other people come stare.

I don't care what the #### you eat for lunch, so why do you feel the need to comment on mine and draw the attention of the office? Man, I hate that.

I think you should read more Mad Magazine's Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions.

[Muta]

Originally Posted by Free Ben Hur!

I think you should read more Mad Magazine's Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions.

I will, but since you brought it up, do you have a direct link?

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Muta

I will, but since you brought it up, do you have a direct link?

http://www.madmagazine.com/tags/snap...upid-questions


phew that was hard.


You must have been too sleepy from your mid-day feast to google it.....

[Misterpants]

Originally Posted by kunkstyle

1) Nobody uses them properly. I'll get read receipt requests for site-wide emails I shouldn't even be a part of.
2) Nobody pays attenetion to them after the fact anyway.

Bingo. Why should I have to acknowledge I read the admin's email that the recycling company is coming on Tuesday. Or that the microwave is broken.

[GP_Matt]

Originally Posted by Wormius

Then it really GMG that some engineers get to allegedly have expense accounts.

I just got my expense report for the year and it came in at $17000 last year with $3500 for meals so I guess I have an expense account.

Some of the meals are client entertainment but most of it is staff functions as I always seem to pick up the tab.

I still don't think that engies is short for engineers though. I have heard geers used and P Enges but never engies.

[Jimmy Stang]

Originally Posted by puffnstuff

Dual turning lanes. Actually not the lanes themselves but the fataheads that dont understand the whole 'one lane for me, one lane for you'. Twice already this week its happened...once in front of me, the inside lane guy went to the outside and nearly took out the car that was right next to him (how he doesnt see that car is beyond me...its right freakin there) and then this morning an outside lane fata decides to turn inside (we had been sitting side by side at the lights for a minute before it turned green...where on earth did he think I was going to go when it turned green? Perhaps he thought I would instead just use the oncoming traffic lane instead and I almost had to)

To add to this : people who use the left lane of a dual turn, but immediately need to turn/exit right afterwards. A series of unnecessary and unsafe lane changes could have been prevented with just a touch of foresight.

[GP_Matt]

Originally Posted by Misterpants

Bingo. Why should I have to acknowledge I read the admin's email that the recycling company is coming on Tuesday. Or that the microwave is broken.

When you are sending out an email to all field staff reminding them to carry their bear spray after a bear attack it is nice to quickly scan the read receipts so you know who to call for a follow-up reminder about bear spray.
The old way was to have everyone reply to say they read it which meant a ton of return emails.

I agree on the admin emails, but they shouldn't be sent anyway. People should lose their email privileges if they send out a company wide email about a microwave.

[Muta]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

http://www.madmagazine.com/tags/snap...upid-questions


phew that was hard.


You must have been too sleepy from your mid-day feast to google it.....

Expected a snarky remark in response; left satisfied. Thanks for doing all the work so I didn't have to!

[Igster]

Originally Posted by Misterpants

Bingo. Why should I have to acknowledge I read the admin's email that the recycling company is coming on Tuesday. Or that the microwave is broken.

Because you're responsible for recycling the broken microwave and now you missed the recycling company because they already came and went.

Bonehead.

[GoinAllTheWay]

Originally Posted by puffnstuff

Dual turning lanes

You also have your type that makes a dual lane turn where there isn't one. Or my personal favourite, the triple turn lane where it's only a dual.

Corner of Southland Dr and 14th St is a perfect example. Just yesterday morning there were cars in the dual turn lanes. The lady in the third lane that should be going straight decided to turn as well and had the gall to honk at the person in the outer dual turn lane for "cutting her off".