Professional time-wasters

[ffs-dontcare]

A few personal examples:

- I listen to music while I walk and let my mind go free when I do, but I can't do that if there are people in front of me walking slower than I am.
- At work (graveyard shifts, service station), it annoys me when:
-- I'm trying to restock the drink chillers as fast as possible so I can get it out of the way and then someone asks me to turn their pump on so they can fill up and pay afterwards. To be fair, they don't know how much their car/truck is going to take so it would be awkward to prepay, but now I have to stay out there in front and watch them instead of finishing the fridge. However, that doesn't nearly annoy me as much as...
-- ... (after they've hung the pump back up) when they then proceed to wash their vehicle, take a leisurely piss or whatever else instead of paying straight away so I can get back to work. I have shit I need to do. If it wasn't for people doing that, doing the fridge would take only half as long as it usually does.
-- Also when they park their car but don't even get out because they're either having a lovely conversation with someone or checking their bank account via phone. Either way, I'm not going to waste time standing around waiting for them to hurry the hell up while I stand there with my thumb up my ass. So I keep working, but I have to keep half my attention on the window waiting for them to get their shit in gear.
And as for checking your bank account, if you can do it via phone, you have no excuse for not doing it before you came to this service station.

Before our station went privately-owned (well, sort of privately-owned), I considered corporate head office to be a whole lot of professional time wasters, as in actually professional. So glad I don't have to deal with them anymore.

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

People who use their debit/credit card to pay for a bar of chocolate at the register. And then take half the fucking day putting in their number.

CARRY SOME FUCKING COINS WITH YOU YOU NONCE!!!

I think - yes, I do believe...

Spoiler: I've heard this line before

OT: You ever have someone tell you a 45 minute story just to make a ten second point about life? .....yeah.....

You ever wanna beat someone half to death with a petrified foam noodle? .....yeah..... >.>

 

[ghalleon0915]

I'm usually pretty relaxed and chill, but one thing I've noticed is that people socialize much more at the gym nowadays, and it irks me a little. I have no problem with them talking, but I do wish they did it away from the machines, specifically the one squat rack in the entire gym. There will be 2-3 of them just talking around that impromptu water cooler; I feel like I am intruding on them when I ask if I can use it when they aren't.

I agree with the post about head office - no one can waste time like being in a meeting with someone from corporate office.

 

[Saint of M]

A couple come to mind.

When I worked at Safeway before an annual culling of the new employees, there was this old woman that was picking fights with all the cashiers and I was the only one that could calm her down.

Another was a group of four people that were standing and talking in a walkway at a Mexicn resterourant near the new kaiser in San Leandro, CA. The hallway in question is maybe wide enough for two people to stand side by side, and all four of them were in it so I had to get passed them a couple times to get in and to leave (for the hour and a half I was there, you couldn't do this in the bar?).

Lastly I'm mormon, so members of the congregation tend to be picked for the talks, or during that once a month Fast and Testamony meeting any one can come up and bare their testimony. Cue travel log, people that ramble, have taken the Tevia School of Bible Study, or forget why they are up there. I think there have been a few bishops who have wanted to put up Neon Lights flashing "Get On With It" because of this.

 

[Bertylicious]

CYCLISTS!!!!!! Why are you on the road on what is essentially a childrens toy. You look like a dick in a day glow vest and lyrca shorts and theres a huge queue of traffic behind you. It really gets ony nerves when its a 60mph limit and im being held up by someone on a bike. If you can pedal at 60mph then feel free to use these roads

Along similar lines, people (and theres a lot of these about). Who sit at 50 in a 60 limit, if you do this please just go a bit faster its not that hard

This, this, a thousand times this.

As a motorist you have two responsibilities; firstly you must be safe in everything that you do. You must ensure that you are safe, that other road users are safe, that you aren't putting pedestrians or any other people in danger. None of us get behind the wheel to hurt anyone and safety must be at the forefront of our minds when doing anything.

Secondly, from the moment that you set out, you are in the FUCKING WAY! You are driving on MY road! FUCK OFF! You are in my way, I'm in your way and we're both in every other cunts' way. We all have a responsibility to fuck off as quickly and as tidely as humanely possible.

Cyclists fly in the face of both of these rules. If I have a lapse of concentration and hit another car at 20 mph then it's going to be an expensive inconvenience. If I hit a cyclist then I've maimed someone. It's like they're going around with a gun to their head screaming "don't pull my trigger! Don't pull my trigger!" whilst weaving all over the road and getting in everybodys way. Dickheads.

Whilst we're on the subject of dickheads, people who turn right during rush hour can die as well. Is it that hard to plan your journey so you don't sit there in the middle of the road with your indicator blinking whilst me and everyone else in Birmingham has to wait so you can pull into a petrol station with a Tesco to buy some cake. Some of us have work to do, you fat knacker!

 

[Nikolaz72]

Theres this thing with the female students at my old school.. Where, once the bell rang and hundreds of people went out of their respective classrooms down the hallway, there was plenty of places to stand and talk. Plenty of room to walk next to eachother and talk, there was but one place where it'd be really bad to stand still and talk. That was the doorways, because the doorways are -smaller- than the hallways, but yet they still block off the whole hallway. Sometimes I'd see these groupsof like 4-5 Girls just, meet in those doorways after class. Not next to them, not out to the side. NO, IN THEM! IN THE FUCKING DOORWAYS. And exchange hugs and talk, all while 2-300 Students waited on getting past them, and this wasn't an occasional thing either. This happened every god damn fucking day, not the same ones either, often different ones. I could spend entire -minutes- (up to like 15% of my break) just waiting on them to stop hugging and talking and let me walk by and get on with my life. Gusguhiudsghuiofhoasihsdofasåfasiofnsonfs-

 

[Strazdas]

after talknig to such people i came to a conclusion that they are just lonely and will come up with excuses to talk about anything with people. ive seen them sit around coffe shops holing somone will talk to them and so on. I wish they would learn to use internet, plenty od conversations can be found there.

 

[Ferisar]

Okay, to be fair I probably should have worded my post a bit better. And I did go back and change it a bit to clarify.

What I was getting at was how much fervent, unbridled anger and hatred some people seem to display over the most inconsequential annoyances. Not just in this thread but in general. I come across those sorts of overreactions on a daily basis.

Don't get me wrong. I agree that some of the things brought up are annoying. For example, a group of people walking slowly and taking up a whole sidewalk. But that doesn't make me hate the people involved. In the case of the slow walkers, I'll try to get their attention and say something like, "Excuse me. Can I walk past you? I'm a little late for an appointment."

Most people will move. Some will even say, "Oh, of course. Sorry we were in the way."

Those that don't, or those that will look at you with disgust and say, "Ugh. Excuse you but we're walking here." are assholes that deserve some animosity. I still don't think it would illicit the use of the word "hate", as many would jump to using, but they're certainly colossal jerks not worth wasting time on.

I'm fine with ranting about annoyances. Even I do it. (obviously) But the tendency to jump straight to "I hate this" is a bit much.

I hope that clarifies my (now ironic) original mini-rant. Probably didn't help that posts like the "maid" one kind of set me off.

Sorry. :/

I think hyperbole and exaggerations are how people frame minor stuff though. It's fun and theatrical, and you lose some steam because of it. I doubt most people here would kill a person who walks slow just because they walk slow, you know?

Also the maid thing was funny. I'll give it that.

I actually don't have much of these! Maybe I'm the time-waster everyone's talking about... Oh well. Either way, I only have one professional time waster, and he's a friend of mine, so I can't judge too harshly. Everyone else is just kind of doing their own thing.

 

[shootthebandit]

CYCLISTS!!!!!! Why are you on the road on what is essentially a childrens toy. You look like a dick in a day glow vest and lyrca shorts and theres a huge queue of traffic behind you. It really gets ony nerves when its a 60mph limit and im being held up by someone on a bike. If you can pedal at 60mph then feel free to use these roads

Along similar lines, people (and theres a lot of these about). Who sit at 50 in a 60 limit, if you do this please just go a bit faster its not that hard

This, this, a thousand times this.

As a motorist you have two responsibilities; firstly you must be safe in everything that you do. You must ensure that you are safe, that other road users are safe, that you aren't putting pedestrians or any other people in danger. None of us get behind the wheel to hurt anyone and safety must be at the forefront of our minds when doing anything.

Secondly, from the moment that you set out, you are in the FUCKING WAY! You are driving on MY road! FUCK OFF! You are in my way, I'm in your way and we're both in every other cunts' way. We all have a responsibility to fuck off as quickly and as tidely as humanely possible.

Cyclists fly in the face of both of these rules. If I have a lapse of concentration and hit another car at 20 mph then it's going to be an expensive inconvenience. If I hit a cyclist then I've maimed someone. It's like they're going around with a gun to their head screaming "don't pull my trigger! Don't pull my trigger!" whilst weaving all over the road and getting in everybodys way. Dickheads.

Whilst we're on the subject of dickheads, people who turn right during rush hour can die as well. Is it that hard to plan your journey so you don't sit there in the middle of the road with your indicator blinking whilst me and everyone else in Birmingham has to wait so you can pull into a petrol station with a Tesco to buy some cake. Some of us have work to do, you fat knacker!

Not only that but as a motorist I am legally obliged to be extorted by insurance companies in the event I hit someone. Cyclists arent insured third party or registered so if one cut me up on the inside and scrapes the side of my car legally theres nothing I can do about it

 

[viscomica]

People who stand up in the middle of an escalator rather than to a side, blocking the way for anyone who's in a hurry and doesn't want to just ride the escalator. This also applies to people, usually couples, who stand side to side on a single step.

Actually, I've heard it's bad for the escalators to walk them in a hurry: when lots of people do that, it throws the escalator off balance for everyone else...

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

People who stand up in the middle of an escalator rather than to a side, blocking the way for anyone who's in a hurry and doesn't want to just ride the escalator. This also applies to people, usually couples, who stand side to side on a single step.

Actually, I've heard it's bad for the escalators to walk them in a hurry: when lots of people do that, it throws the escalator off balance for everyone else...

I'm not saying EVERYBODY should sprint up and down the escalator, but let's create an imaginary lane to the left side of the escalator so people in a hurry can bypass everybody else.

 

[viscomica]

Slow walking people and people who stop for no reason (in crowded places).
Those are the people who bug me (a lot) whenever I'm walking to work, they just looooove to stand in the way, don't they?

 

[Mithcha]

There was this time when I was walking down the street at about 10am, mostly old people about, and this young shaven head man started walking down the street calling everyone a "pussy hole" for some bizarre reason. He wasn't just wasting his time, no doubt he ended up wasting the polices time and caused everyone to think he was a fucking loon.

Suppose a more correct example was in Tescos, went in to buy a faheta (no, I can't spell) wrap and went to the checkout only to find some woman there who had put a bunch of stuff in her basket, only to then find out she didn't have enough for some of it. She wasn't surprised, she simply picked and chose items to keep...which is the point of shopping. It's what you do when you walk around the shop, you pick stuff up, look at it and decide if you can or cannot afford it. To do that at the checkout was just fucking lazy. I suck at maths and even I can shop correctly for crying out loud. I can understand maybe having one or two items you didn't get right, but this woman had more than half her fucking basket taken back.

 

[viscomica]

People who stand up in the middle of an escalator rather than to a side, blocking the way for anyone who's in a hurry and doesn't want to just ride the escalator. This also applies to people, usually couples, who stand side to side on a single step.

Actually, I've heard it's bad for the escalators to walk them in a hurry: when lots of people do that, it throws the escalator off balance for everyone else...

I'm not saying EVERYBODY should sprint up and down the escalator, but let's create an imaginary lane to the left side of the escalator so people in a hurry can bypass everybody else.

But if you think "I'm a hurry let me through" I'm sure lots of other people do. It's just not possible for everyone to comply to everyone's wishes. Besides it's impractical: in order to do so, the queues for the escalator would be longer too and random people cannot just agree with each other not to occupy a currently unoccupied spot of the escalator.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

People who stand up in the middle of an escalator rather than to a side, blocking the way for anyone who's in a hurry and doesn't want to just ride the escalator. This also applies to people, usually couples, who stand side to side on a single step.

Actually, I've heard it's bad for the escalators to walk them in a hurry: when lots of people do that, it throws the escalator off balance for everyone else...

I'm not saying EVERYBODY should sprint up and down the escalator, but let's create an imaginary lane to the left side of the escalator so people in a hurry can bypass everybody else.

But if you think "I'm a hurry let me through" I'm sure lots of other people do. It's just not possible for everyone to comply to everyone's wishes. Besides it's impractical: in order to do so, the queues for the escalator would be longer too and random people cannot just agree with each other not to occupy a currently unoccupied spot of the escalator.

Booooo fuck the voice of reason!

 

[viscomica]

People who stand up in the middle of an escalator rather than to a side, blocking the way for anyone who's in a hurry and doesn't want to just ride the escalator. This also applies to people, usually couples, who stand side to side on a single step.

Actually, I've heard it's bad for the escalators to walk them in a hurry: when lots of people do that, it throws the escalator off balance for everyone else...

I'm not saying EVERYBODY should sprint up and down the escalator, but let's create an imaginary lane to the left side of the escalator so people in a hurry can bypass everybody else.

But if you think "I'm a hurry let me through" I'm sure lots of other people do. It's just not possible for everyone to comply to everyone's wishes. Besides it's impractical: in order to do so, the queues for the escalator would be longer too and random people cannot just agree with each other not to occupy a currently unoccupied spot of the escalator.

Booooo fuck the voice of reason!

Aww, sorry, I learnt that fact recently that's why I said it. But yeah, when you're in a hurry everyone who's not fast enough is annoying, hehe.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

People who stand up in the middle of an escalator rather than to a side, blocking the way for anyone who's in a hurry and doesn't want to just ride the escalator. This also applies to people, usually couples, who stand side to side on a single step.

Actually, I've heard it's bad for the escalators to walk them in a hurry: when lots of people do that, it throws the escalator off balance for everyone else...

I'm not saying EVERYBODY should sprint up and down the escalator, but let's create an imaginary lane to the left side of the escalator so people in a hurry can bypass everybody else.

But if you think "I'm a hurry let me through" I'm sure lots of other people do. It's just not possible for everyone to comply to everyone's wishes. Besides it's impractical: in order to do so, the queues for the escalator would be longer too and random people cannot just agree with each other not to occupy a currently unoccupied spot of the escalator.

Booooo fuck the voice of reason!

Aww, sorry, I learnt that fact recently that's why I said it. But yeah, when you're in a hurry everyone who's not fast enough is annoying, hehe.

Kratos is my role-model when dealing with time-wasters. I just do square-square-triangle on em.

 

[Diddy_Mao]

Whether in your personal or professional life, if the communication is going to be more than a simple exchange of information just fucking call the other person.

I used to work in technical support and we had an email service for "common problems."
tech support is already an nauseatingly annoying job when you can't see what the other person is doing but the frustration is compounded by electronic communication. I've had entire days wasted trying to solve problems that would have otherwise been resolved in a 5 minute phone call.

But no, Otis Q. Bumblefuck from East Toadbump would rather sit at his computer all damn day and send rambling emails rather than just make a simple phone call.

 

[Toejam]

Where I live we have 2 main roads that run parallel with linking 1 way streets inbetween. People order Taxis to get to work early in the morning...fine. But the frikin taxi drivers always just stop right bang in the middle of the road and park whilst they wait for the customer EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE PARKING SPACES ALL AROUND HIM!!!!

So i'm left to sit there and wait. Taxi drivers are just arseholes.

 

[shootthebandit]

There was this time when I was walking down the street at about 10am, mostly old people about, and this young shaven head man started walking down the street calling everyone a "pussy hole" for some bizarre reason. He wasn't just wasting his time, no doubt he ended up wasting the polices time and caused everyone to think he was a fucking loon.

He couldve had tourrettes syndrome. Ive known a couple of people with this. From what you described this sounds like someone with the condition. As far as im aware not everyone swears uncontrollably with the syndrome but it is a common symptom