Minor Annoyances (Vol 2)

[BomberPat]

There have been some insanely low effort out of offices at my work lately. In the last week I've seen one saying that they're out of office, but with no dates, and one which is just "OOO August 28th".

[King Mal the Glorious]

I'm currently on holiday. Mine say "Back on 17/8. If you need anything before then, tough".

[Bus Surfer]

Or someone tagging you in their out of office to absorb some work while their gone. 

Bastards. It'll be waiting for you when you get back. 

[deathrey]

This reminds me, I've forgotten to put my out of office on

[tiger_rick]

I worked with a guy for over 20 years who never put his OOO on once. He was so unapproachable that no-one ever emailed him. Hell of a coder though.

[Lorne Malvo]

18 minutes ago, tiger_rick said:

I worked with a guy for over 20 years who never put his OOO on once. He was so unapproachable that no-one ever emailed him. Hell of a coder though.

A chap I used to work with was the same. One of the most stern, serious and curt individuals I've ever known - he wasn't exactly a knob per se, but one of those where you'd describe him as 'didn't suffer fools gladly' basically being code for 'don't approach this man'. But he was easily the most organised, knowledgeable and hard-working person I've ever worked with.

He left around 10 years back to become a psychotherapist, but I can't imagine any scenario where I'd want to sit opposite him and pour my heart out. 

[Chris B]

I had a colleague once who accidentally had on his OOO that he was 'on anal leave'. It was a multinational and literally about a hundred people emailed him just to get the OOO.

[SuperBacon]

Scenes in TV and film where someone crashes a car and then slumps over leaning on the horn. Absolutely does my nut in. EEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

See also when a phone rings and they don't answer it for ages. Both will see me almost muting my telly until its gone.

[davertfnewman]

My phone calls on screen gripe is the amount of times where they don't say bye to each other before hanging up. No call should end without a prolonged "Bye, bye-bye, bye!".

[TheBurningRed]

Sometimes it seems like the phone call isn’t over yet and someone just hangs up. I’d be annoyed if I was on the other end of that. 

[SpiritOfTheForest]

My minor annoyance like that from films is  when a character doesn't lock his/her car door. Reckless bastards showing a blatant disregard for basic automobile security. 

[wordsfromlee]

It annoys me when a character gets a text message from a spouse/family member/friend and theres no other previous messages from them.

Also in a scene in a pub when someone gets a pint in, sits down, then three minutes and two sips later say they better be off, leaving the majority of the pint. Just have the scene start when they've nearly finished the pint.

[SuperBacon]

20 minutes ago, davertfnewman said:

No call should end without a prolonged "Bye, bye-bye, bye!".

I think my Dad takes half an hour. "Alright mate bye, good to speak to you, bye, yeah talk soon, bye, ok mate, yeah cheers then, bye, bye, love to the girls, bye, stay safe, bye, be lucky, bye, bye"

[DavidB6937]

Saw someone praising the latest Jaffa Cakes advert as "super reactive" and "an amazingly quick turn around" on LinkedIn. What, because the solar eclipse just popped up as an idea on Tuesday did it?

[Lorne Malvo]

2 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

I think my Dad takes half an hour. "Alright mate bye, good to speak to you, bye, yeah talk soon, bye, ok mate, yeah cheers then, bye, bye, love to the girls, bye, stay safe, bye, be lucky, bye, bye"

My cousin who I used to go drinking with quite often was a nightmare for this. We'd agree to move on to the next pub, drink up, then he would go say bye to someone he knew at the bar and half hour later I'd still be waiting for him to finish his farewells. 

Regarding the phones in films discussion, my pet hatred is when the vibrate goes off because I always think it's my phone, despite the fact I haven't had vibrate turned on for the best part of 20 years.