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Originally Posted by christiangirl
1. My guinea pig died while I was away at college. She didn't tell me for a month until I had to come home for a funeral and she had no choice.
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My parents did this too- my childhood cat died my sophomore year in college, and every time I asked about her they'd say "she's doing fine".
My rant list:
1. People who smoke. Period.
2. People who lie about smoking. Yes I can smell it, no it isn't a little giggle-worthy lie. That means you, parents. After dealing with smoking parents all my life, I'm at the point where I don't let my parents in my house if I can smell smoke on them.
3. People who use a lot of fragrance, perfume, or lotion in a small confined place. Some people are allergic or highly sensitive to fragrance. I know your skin is dry on the plane, but I can't get away from your Bath & Body Works flavor of the day.
Okay, those are all about smells of some sort... yes, I fall in the highly sensitive/bordering on allergic category. But the biggest frustration is this:
4. People who don't respect other people's time, don't realize how their actions impact others, or otherwise don't realize that the world does not in fact revolve solely around them.
At work there are a few people, one in particular, who constantly reschedule meetings due to "scheduling conflicts". Those conflicts are THEIR conflicts, not the attendees... and THEY set up the meetings. Manage your own schedule and your own time, and stop impacting ours. There are days that I would have worked from home (which I do very rarely) and come in for say 3 meetings- and then surprise! All three of those meetings are cancelled. Color me mad.
[Warning: rant ahead] Outside of work, I'm serving on a guidance committee for someone working toward a fairly high honor within that organization. There are supposed to be 5 meetings with a very specific agenda at each.
Meeting 1: Scheduled during the weekday lunch hour (we all work at different companies in different cities). He decided to change it to an evening time a few days before the meeting. However, he gave such little notice (and never asked whether the day worked either time) that only half of us were able to attend. And then he went through the agenda for meeting 2 instead of meeting 1. Considering meeting 2 is supposed to build off of meeting 1, that's not okay.
Meeting 2: Scheduled for a day that was agreeable to those at the first meeting, with the provision that he'd send out what he was supposed to do in meeting 1. I emailed him early in the day of meeting 2 to ask if he was still planning to send it out and let him know I would be there. He emailed everyone about 4 hours before the meeting to say that he wasn't ready and it was postponed by a week (to tomorrow night). Two of us responded to say that the rescheduled day doesn't work. He rescheduled it to a day earlier (tonight) and finally sent out the information necessary. I'm still not attending because I'm flying out of the country tomorrow, have a lot to do, and I was ready to meet LAST week.
For someone going for a very high honor, this kind of behavior really bothers me. He's very nice, very competent (in other things), and is trying to do a very good thing. But if you can't realize how your actions impact everyone else... It really bothers me- as you can tell!