Work-related peeves
* People who put their email address in their email signature. You've just emailed me! I have your email address! Moron.

* Girls who are perversely proud of their inability to grasp anything to do with maths, statistics or computers, presumably because it somehow highlights their femininity.

* Baby photos. Ew.

* People who don't take lunch breaks, thus making me look like a slacker by comparison when I take a lunch break because I am actually on top of my work and would like to spend my lunch break doing something other than eating sandwiches at my desk whilst trying to look industrious.

* Facebook ban.

* Having to make small talk with the directors.

* Having to go to events where you stand around drinking champagne and schmoozing, but you don't know anyone and you're too shy to talk to them so you just end up standing on your own getting completely wankered and progressively more despairing of your non-existent social skills.

* The fact that you can't get a decent cup of tea round here.

* The fact that people who don't know my title address things to "Miss" rather than "Ms" just cos I sounded young on the phone. If you don't know a woman's title, it's Ms! Dammit! Or just don't use a title at all, I mean, it's gonna get to me if you just print my name on it.

* People sending me press releases for events the day before they happen and expecting coverage.

* Tramps shooting up outside the office and passing out on the doorstep so you have to step over them to get in in the morning.

* Girls banging on about how they're so fat and talking about their diets all the time. How dare you make me feel awkward about eating cheesecake in front of you!

* No air-con in summer, crap heating in winter.

And this is all from someone who really likes their job.
(grandmasterfluffles Come to my Armageddon party on, Tue 6 May 2008, 15:23, 13 replies)

And
having to cope with some menopausal bint telling you that you should be wearing sackcloth and ashes to work (I read your latest blog entry, I'm fairly certain I can work out who it was).
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Tue 6 May 2008, 15:26, closed)

I get a lot of emails in chains from surveyors and the like
which have their email address in the signatures block, which is very useful as their address is only included in the chain as what they were in the senders address book.
( M3rx likes the Asian ladies, Tue 6 May 2008, 15:28, closed)

@BobFossil
Yep, it was who you think! But she's out of the office today so I am wearing the oh-so-slutty combination of skinny jeans and a vest top with high heeled cowboy boots. I am such a slag, and have no shame.
(grandmasterfluffles Come to my Armageddon party on, Tue 6 May 2008, 15:33, closed)

...
SLAAAAAAG
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Tue 6 May 2008, 15:36, closed)

No aircon?
Bleurgh.

Get your sackcloth-and-ashes colleague to spring for icecream as a compensatory measure, perhaps?
(Eds Meds Mathskillz=1,Socialskillz=0, Tue 6 May 2008, 15:41, closed)

Oh how I wish
I could go to work dressed like that

Damn management and their dress code.
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Tue 6 May 2008, 15:53, closed)

@TheWeeWitch
Well, I work in a dress down office, and yet my manager told me I dressed like a slag the other day (I dress like any normal 25-year-old actually) and advised me to invest in some floaty blouses to cover up my evil breasts, otherwise I can't expect to be taken seriously in the workplace. Perhaps clear dress codes aren't such a bad thing if they stop shit like this from happening.
(grandmasterfluffles Come to my Armageddon party on, Tue 6 May 2008, 16:03, closed)

grandmasterfluffles
you're a better person than me - I'd have twatted anyone who said that to me. Our lot get "hot under the collar" if there's the teensiest bit of midriff on show. Cleavage? Heaven forfend!
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Tue 6 May 2008, 16:11, closed)

evil breasts?
now there is an image that puts the fear of god in me.

I love your blog, I would just ignore her, or start talking loudly about constructive dismissal.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 6 May 2008, 16:13, closed)

grandmasterfluffles
Breasts aren't evil!*

Sounds like said menopausal bint has issues.


*except perhaps if they're hurty or cancer-filled - but that should be fixable to make them nice and lovely again.
( e.m.m.y. foxtrot uniform charlie kilo india tango, Tue 6 May 2008, 16:15, closed)

I demand to see a photograph of these breasts
in order to determine whether she is correct about your attire. :)
( M3rx likes the Asian ladies, Tue 6 May 2008, 16:34, closed)

@M3rx
Very smooth. I second your request!
(webvictim is invariably at work, Tue 6 May 2008, 17:27, closed)

If I have food on me and overhear people talking about dieting,
I like to eat it as loudly as possible at them while making grunts of pleasure. Ha ha.
( Bob Todd whee, Tue 6 May 2008, 17:30, closed)