Annoy Me Day
Aug. 1st, 2005 08:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
muck_a_luckWas just going to write about my annoying day, but as I started itemizing the annoying things that happened, in 20/20 hindsight, none was particularly bad, on the face of it. I think it was just the sheer, massive number of small idiocies today that was getting to me. And no, not hormones today. Just lots of low level stupidity.
Two biggies stand out, though.
Firstly, if the person taking the phone message says, "Will he know what it's regarding?" in a forced, cheery tone, this means the person thinks you are a telemarketer and is considering not relaying your message at all. "Will he know what it's regarding?" in this case translates, "Tell me what the hell you want."
Just so you know.
And there was the guy who gave me attitude.
I came around the corner on my way back to my desk from Boss' office and there was this guy loitering in the hall, looking confused. This means that he came back to our area from the reception desk unescorted. Which means he didn't ring the bell. Which is annoying. But I was very polite and cheerful and asked if I could help him.
He said he was there to see Matt.
"He's not here?" he asks me, assuming I work for Matt. Which is fine. My desk is right outside Matt's office, and I'm the secretarial looking type currently trying to help him.
I say, "Apparently not."
And the guy just walks into Matt's office.
So I say, "Sir, I'm not sure I'm comfortable with you waiting in his office when he's not here. Could you please go back out front."
At which point he became fairly snotty.
"Well, if there had been someone out there, I would have waited."
"I'm sorry about that," I replied, quite frostily by this point, "But there is a bell. Did you not see it?" At this point I'm sort of herding him back through towards the reception area.
"If I had seen it, I would have rung it!" he claimed.
Personally, I think he saw no one at the front desk and just waltzed back. I bet he didn't even wait, or look for the bell. Since the bell is, indeed, sitting right on the front counter where you would expect a receptionist to be sitting. You look for signs of receptionist, and see the bell. The sign on the bell says ring if no receptionist. Pretty simple.
The guy practically crashed into Matt as they passed through the kitchen. Matt rescued him from evil bad secretary lady.
OK. Reading that back, doesn't sound like such a big deal, either. But would YOU just go into somebody's office when they weren't there? And if the woman you thought was their secretary said she would prefer you not sit in the office when he wasn't there (and I was being very sweet and polite at that time), would you give her attitude? No, you would say, of course not! I'd be glad to go back out to sit in the very comfortable chairs out front until he arrives!
Anyway, it was annoying to me. Jackass.
Two biggies stand out, though.
Firstly, if the person taking the phone message says, "Will he know what it's regarding?" in a forced, cheery tone, this means the person thinks you are a telemarketer and is considering not relaying your message at all. "Will he know what it's regarding?" in this case translates, "Tell me what the hell you want."
Just so you know.
And there was the guy who gave me attitude.
I came around the corner on my way back to my desk from Boss' office and there was this guy loitering in the hall, looking confused. This means that he came back to our area from the reception desk unescorted. Which means he didn't ring the bell. Which is annoying. But I was very polite and cheerful and asked if I could help him.
He said he was there to see Matt.
"He's not here?" he asks me, assuming I work for Matt. Which is fine. My desk is right outside Matt's office, and I'm the secretarial looking type currently trying to help him.
I say, "Apparently not."
And the guy just walks into Matt's office.
So I say, "Sir, I'm not sure I'm comfortable with you waiting in his office when he's not here. Could you please go back out front."
At which point he became fairly snotty.
"Well, if there had been someone out there, I would have waited."
"I'm sorry about that," I replied, quite frostily by this point, "But there is a bell. Did you not see it?" At this point I'm sort of herding him back through towards the reception area.
"If I had seen it, I would have rung it!" he claimed.
Personally, I think he saw no one at the front desk and just waltzed back. I bet he didn't even wait, or look for the bell. Since the bell is, indeed, sitting right on the front counter where you would expect a receptionist to be sitting. You look for signs of receptionist, and see the bell. The sign on the bell says ring if no receptionist. Pretty simple.
The guy practically crashed into Matt as they passed through the kitchen. Matt rescued him from evil bad secretary lady.
OK. Reading that back, doesn't sound like such a big deal, either. But would YOU just go into somebody's office when they weren't there? And if the woman you thought was their secretary said she would prefer you not sit in the office when he wasn't there (and I was being very sweet and polite at that time), would you give her attitude? No, you would say, of course not! I'd be glad to go back out to sit in the very comfortable chairs out front until he arrives!
Anyway, it was annoying to me. Jackass.
