"Have you got a minute?"
But it's not going to be a minute, is it, it's going to be five, maybe even ten and I'm going to lose track of where I am and it'll take five minutes to get back into the swing of it so there's quarter of an hour down the pan not to mention having to look at your fat stupid face.

All for something you could have googled in thirty seconds.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 12:52, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

Any annoying phrase at work
starts with my name, followed by "how do you [insert obvious thing here they learnt months ago]"

Although I secretly like being useful
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 12:58, Reply)

It's the one where there's 5 buttons on the screen they're coding
and the first one doesn't work and they ask for help and I quickly figure out they need to change this one thing from "Yes" to "No" and then it works. And they test the second button and it doesn't work and they ask for help again AND IT'S THE SAME BLOODY THING.

One of my colleagues, as well as forgetting everything they've learned on a regular basis, apparently lacks the fundamental human ability to generalise from the specific.

You can teach bloody pigeons to generalise, ffs.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 13:10, Reply)