Those plastic anchors that we're supposed to use before installing a screw or nail in a wall. Yes they work great on modern drywall, but NOT ON PLASTER.

 

I spent the morning removing some cheap, tacky ikeaesque closet shelving and it was all held in with those screws and the plastic anchor things. My closet now looks like I attacked it with  a large caliber gun.

 

Thank you cheap people who lived here before me. :)

People who put their own twist on the electric slide.

People who put their own twist on the electric slide.

LMAO!  Wussup, you cant improvise?  Can you do the Robot?

People who put their own twist on do the electric slide.

 

People who put their own twist on do the electric slide.

 

 

No rhythm??  LOL O0

I thinking most of my annoyance comes from the song....

I dunno, that other one has COMPLETELY replaced the electric slide on the Annoyance Scale. The one where there's a guy announcing what steps you should take and when you should clap. It's not even a song!

Facist dances..bah....just something wrong with everybody dancing exactly the same if it's not a cheerleading/dance team competition.

 

We are Americans! freedom of choice! freedom of press! freedom to dance as you damn well please...you can take your Commie pinko electric slide back to Cuba (are there any other comminist states left?)

 

BTW: Execdrin has caffiene in it, so be carefull taking it in the morning with your coffee...

 

 

Take it back now, y'all. Turn it up. Hands on your knees, hands on your knees. Criss cross. Turn it up. Take it back now. Turn it up. One hop this time. Turn to the left. Take it back now, y'all. Turn it up.

I thinking most of my annoyance comes from the song....

 

but that song wasn't out when the dance came out.  It's just been adopted by people in the late 90s to make the dance easier.

Interns that think they know more than you, while wearing a polo shirt with the collar turned up.

 

In the past, I've had to give "the speech" in the first week and I was so hoping that we could make it two weeks this summer.

 

Why must you (mr. intern) make me, make an example of you?  Do you know why I hired you??

 

Do You Know Why I Hired You?

 

Now you're going to be Thing No. 2's bitch for the rest of the summer.  Running errands in Manhattan - in Summer - is a nasty sweaty job.  Thats all.

polo shirt with the collar turned up?  Hello, the 80s called and they want their style back.

polo shirt with the collar turned up?  Hello, the 80s called and they want their style back.

 

I just looked at him.  Up and down...and up and down again.  Then I had Thing No. 1 gather all the interns in my office and ask what does "office casual" mean? and then ask "Which person looks out of place?"  They all just looked at his ass.  Oh, and he was wearing boat shoes/top siders.

 

I asked the other interns to leave, gave my "what is appropriate in the office speach" and sent him home.  I'm sure he'll be appropriately dressed tomorrow - if he comes back. 

 

And get this.  There was young lady that wore the flip flops to the office last year (I read her ass).  This kid goes to the same school she does!

boot shoes?

boot shoes?

 

I mean boat shoes/top siders.  Which I think are horrible!

Maybe he thought he was going to work for the Land's End catalog!

or bust some coke dealers with a speedboat

LOL! Did you ask him where Tubbs was?

Maybe he thought he was going to work for the Land's End catalog!

 

Child, not dressed like that!  I dont understand these kids who think they know more than the people they work for and then dont present themselves in the best light.  I'm not saying come to work in a power suit, but at least be presentable in your working enviornment/office culture.

 

or bust some coke dealers with a speedboat

LOL! Did you ask him where Tubbs was?

 

You two are so wrong!  LMAO!

In his defence, that constitutes "business casual" in a lot of offices.  Not MY office, but probably many others.

^He could get away with it in my office. He'd get laughed at, sure, but no one would send him home.

In his defence, that constitutes "business casual" in a lot of offices.  Not MY office, but probably many others.

^He could get away with it in my office. He'd get laughed at, sure, but no one would send him home.

 

Well let this be a "lesson learned" if you're unsure of something do not assume.  Ask.  In addition, he needed an "attitude" adjustment.  I and two of the coordinators (one a former intern) overheard him telling another intern "how things should be done".  (office rule no. 1, if you're going to critique your supervisor, do it in private or off-site)

 

Then when I walked around the corner and saw what he looked like.  I knew I need to bring him down a few notches.

 

This will send a clear message to regular and MBA interns.  There is only one DIVA in this office and thats Thing No. 1. LOL

I was flabbergasted to find out that people actually dress like that with out a sense of irony. Where we go in NC for the there are a lot of old money people from instate who have beach houses or houses on the sound with boats. We were at this cement block dive bar on the island one night with our friend who grew up in New Bern which is about an hour away. And there are all of these kids rocking the boat shoes and collars flipped up, turns out he went to high school with some of them. So he had to explain the whole dynamic to us.

 

Anybody who would wear that to work is obviously a poser punk, because anybody who does dress like that would never wear that to the office.

 

On a similiar note, I have an uncle that is old school Boston, he still will rock the pink bermuda shorts and loafers.

polo shirt with the collar turned up?  Hello, the 80s called and they want their style back.

 

This kid goes to the same school she does!

let me guess: St. Lawrence University? or Hamilton? Colgate??

polo shirt with the collar turned up?  Hello, the 80s called and they want their style back.

 

This kid goes to the same school she does!

let me guess: St. Lawrence University? or Hamilton? Colgate??

 

LOL. 

 

We'll my suspension worked.  All the interns are on the "p's" and "q's" today.  Mr. Smarty Pants came in to appologize.  It was very rehearsed and sounds like big brother or mommie/daddy told him to do it. 

 

Now for his real punishment.  Off to a movie set in Brownsville.

People that have only one speaking voice. LOUD. There is no reason that I should be able to hear only half of your conversation about whole grains and your crazy food hang ups from across the other side  of the office.

 

EDIT:F*ck, after reading that I realized that my life is Office Space. Now where my bat, I have some office equipment to bash!

People that have only one speaking voice. LOUD. There is no reason that I should be able to hear only half of your conversation about whole grains and your crazy food hang ups from across the other side  of the office.

 

I used to have a loud office neighbor whose voice carried, and I don't think he ever did any work; he spent hs days on trivial personal business over the phone.

 

He was argumentative and incredibly cheap, too. He drove a high-end, late-model Audi (his wife made a lot of money), and he spent a whole day calling every salvage yard in the eastern half of the US looking for a better price on a plastic part that the dealer wanted $12 for.

yanno, boat shoes are hipster-ubiquitous

yanno, boat shoes are hipster-ubiquitous

 

That hipster shit doesn't belong in my office.

 

Or as Thing No. 1 and Thing No.2 say when they see a hipster-ish looking person.  "Hipster or homeless, you say what???"

We went to J. Gumbo (Downtown Columbus - Gay St.) for lunch today and ate. Before I ate, I asked the guy working there, where the bathroom is. He said they don't have one. I was like "are you SERIOUS? I can't even wash my hands?" Again, he said they don't have a public restroom. I had to go to another restaurant and use theirs, down the street a little bit. After I ate, I counted the number of seats inside J. Gumbo-- there's over 40 seats inside (not including outdoor seating) for people to dine-in. That HAS to be illegal. I'm thinking about calling the health department or something.

We went to J. Gumbo (Downtown Columbus - Gay St.) for lunch today and ate. Before I ate, I asked the guy working there, where the bathroom is. He said they don't have one. I was like "are you SERIOUS? I can't even wash my hands?" Again, he said they don't have a public restroom. I had to go to another restaurant and use theirs, down the street a little bit. After I ate, I counted the number of seats inside J. Gumbo-- there's over 40 seats inside (not including outdoor seating) for people to dine-in. That HAS to be illegal. I'm thinking about calling the health department or something.

 

I would have left.  Thats disgusting!

It's incredibly lame. It's a nice little restaurant-friendly service and good Cajun food (I love the Burbon Chicken with rice) and they also have a nice outdoor patio but that's ridiculous. Building codes vary in different jurisdictions but I'm pretty sure it's widely accepted that if you have x number of indoor seats where people dine in, you have to provide a public bathroom. Some places get away with not having a public bathroom because they only do carryout/catering or only have a few indoor tables but this place had over 50 seats total.

 

It's also not fair to other restauranteurs nearby that have more traffic coming in just to use their restrooms.

Agreed I would call the health department and the news.  That's just nasty!

Agreed I would call the health department and the news.  That's just nasty!

 

Oh, trust and believe. Because of the people I've met in the industry, I could probably get that restaurant an unhonorable mention in a certain local publication. I'm trying to look up building codes right now though. Pretty boring stuff.

 

I remember when I worked at a restaurant it was a 5 or $10k fine just for leaving an ice scooper in the ice machine or letting a bucket of ice touch the floor. This goes way beyond that. I don't know how they get away with this stuff  :wtf: They act like this is a third world country - I mean it is Louisiana-style food but we're in Ohio!

yu-uck :(

 

Aggressive drivers. The warm weather has brought them out in droves.

 

This evening I'm coming back from Borders, cruising along at the posted 30mph on a local street and the signal a turns yellow when I'm a couple of hundred feet away. I brake to an easy stop, and the knucklehead who's been tailgating me for at least six blocks in an SUV lays on the horn.

 

The normal response to a yellow for some drivers is to floor it. Even if it's red by the time they enter the intersection, if they can accelerate to 50mph or better, it's OK.

 

Time was, I would have gotten out and given him a loud yelling-at, but too many people carry guns now and itch for an excuse to "defend themselves."

the lack of public and clean bathrooms.  I really believe that it should be required that all places of business have something accessible under the Americans with Disabilities Act.  There are people that have diseases that require access to facilities.

 

That's a particularly strong pet peeve of mine.

That's one of mine, too.  As someone who suffered for YEARS with an illness that required immediate access to a bathroom with very short notice up to 25 or 30 times a day, I basically had to quit going to places that didn't have a bathroom for several years. While things are better now, I still go more than most people and I get nervous going anywhere that doesn't have one. This is also when I learned to quit going to gas stations expecting a bathroom. Nothing worse than having a bathroom emergency, stopping, getting out, going in to ask where the bathroom is and finding they don't have one.  Or worse, going in and finding there is no toilet paper, or paper that is sitting in the muck on the floor, and the room is filled with strong cigarette smoke, etc.  The only time I go to fast food places is to use the bathrooms.  At least you can depend on them being pretty clean and well maintained.

I'm phobic of public bathrooms.  I can stand using them.  I don't know if something happened to me as a little kid, although, I know it's the neat freak/germaphobe in me, but I can barely go in the office.  I make them clean the mens room every hour between 10am and 5pm, because I dont want to walk in to a surprise.

 

If you didn't have any choice but to use one or have a public accident 20 times a day, you'd use them.

I'm phobic of public bathrooms. I can stand using them. I don't know if something happened to me as a little kid, although, I know it's the neat freak/germaphobe in me, but I can barely go in the office. I make them clean the mens room every hour between 10am and 5pm, because I dont want to walk in to a surprise.

 

 

Target bathrooms are usually pretty clean.  I had to use the bathroom yesterday at Nordstrom Rack and it was AWFUL.

If you didn't have any choice but to use one or have a public accident 20 times a day, you'd use them.

 

Well when im out, I dont have a choice, but I not going to lie, there are some times I hold it until I get home. 

You must not know what it's like to be completely unable to wait.  Like, RUNNING to a bathroom.  Waiting is not an option, even if you really tried.

It's also harder to hold it when a baby is kicking your bladder.

Or when baby turns such that your bladder actually feels like it's trapped in a car crusher, and you have to pee like every 10 minutes, like someone with a gastric bypass trying to gorge themselves by eating one bite of food every 10 minutes all day long.

Or when baby turns such that your bladder actually feels like it's trapped in a car crusher, and you have to pee like every 10 minutes, like someone with a gastric bypass trying to gorge themselves by eating one bite of food every 10 minutes all day long.

 

Thanks for the visual!  LOL

 

Another reason why men wouldn't have babies, plural!  LOl

^ Wow, I hope this baby isn't late!  :)

Once you get to 39 weeks, you can try all of those old wives tales about making labor come on earlier.  Who knows if any of them work.  I never labored at all and it would have been bad for me to go early so I never tried any of them.

Someone told me the other day to start doing jumping jacks now!  I replied that I'm not due until next month!

Yeah, want that bean to stick in there til at least end of 37th week for the lungs, but anytime after that you're good.  The longer they cook, the better it is for them, but the worse it is for Mom.  We have a girl here who goes out on leave in 1 week. Every day she looks worse and worse, I feel bad for her, I remember being where she is.