The UPS Store. After all the hype, I found the nearest brown store in Google Maps, and even called the number. I asked for the least busy times, since it was 11AM Pacific time, and for the nearest cross street. The man on the phone knew I was planning to come in today- 2-11-10! However, when I appeared at the storefront, I discovered that it was months from being open. Since I don't carry a cell phone, the nice manager of Gelsons let me use their phone, where I called the zombie gentleman at the number I had called earlier and he told me all the numbers go to the central office. Obviously he had known he was sending me to a useless destination. Rather than giving this dumb zombie the pleasure of my anger, I calmly told him I was going to the Post Office; and the entire errand took less than half the time I wasted looking for Brown! I usually recommend USPS because of lower cost, but if this is what Brown can do for me, I see that The United States Postal Service may have better customer service also!!

Druple wrote:The UPS Store. After all the hype, I found the nearest brown store in Google Maps, and even called the number. I asked for the least busy times, since it was 11AM Pacific time, and for the nearest cross street. The man on the phone knew I was planning to come in today- 2-11-10! However, when I appeared at the storefront, I discovered that it was months from being open. Since I don't carry a cell phone, the nice manager of Gelsons let me use their phone, where I called the zombie gentleman at the number I had called earlier and he told me all the numbers go to the central office. Obviously he had known he was sending me to a useless destination. Rather than giving this dumb zombie the pleasure of my anger, I calmly told him I was going to the Post Office; and the entire errand took less than half the time I wasted looking for Brown! I usually recommend USPS because of lower cost, but if this is what Brown can do for me, I see that The United States Postal Service may have better customer service also!!

I think I'd be calling a supervisor or writing to someone higher up.

Those sticky round wafers they're putting on small catalogs and advertising to keep the pages together in the mail. They gum up my letter opener.

insomnia. and that annoying tickle at the back of the throat that makes me cough every 2-4 minutes. wait. those two together.

I hate to go shopping with my wife "or women in general"

i hate television remote in others hand. that would be the one that can really annoy others like anything...i wonder how it feels the same for everyone...

I dislike it when someone says they love me and they don't.

Raining wrote:I dislike it when someone says they love me and they don't.

((HUGS))

I think being alone is harder and i just hate it. It's just a sad place to be sometimes, no matter how full your life may be. There are days when I'm really glad that I don't have to think about another person, but that's a double edged sword. No one is thinking about me either.

PemberDucky wrote:Is it creepy if I tell you that I think about you all the time?

When doing so, are you in the shower?

Or outside the window?

Hate it when people think they're being clever by rewording a question to ask the same thing in the expectation of getting a different answer.

Passive aggressive malarky.

PemberDucky wrote:Is it creepy if I tell you that I think about you all the time?

i didn't mean that... i said thats better no to be alone. why are you asking such a question?? i don't get it!!if no one is thinking of me why i gonna worry about them?

PemberDucky wrote:Late to the party, guys!

Ummm, what movie was that from?

The failure of the scientific community to create a working, commercially viable transporter.

Mavyn wrote:The failure of the scientific community to create a working, commercially viable transporter.

Same here! We need to sort out our priorities!

Discovering someone has been lying to a friend. Do you tell the friend, and accept the 'shoot the messenger' syndrome? I have access to information they don't, which is how the lie was discovered...Gah. Why did I even look?!??

Mavyn wrote:Discovering someone has been lying to a friend. Do you tell the friend, and accept the 'shoot the messenger' syndrome? I have access to information they don't, which is how the lie was discovered...Gah. Why did I even look?!??

Can you let the liar know you know?

Mavyn wrote:Discovering someone has been lying to a friend. Do you tell the friend, and accept the 'shoot the messenger' syndrome? I have access to information they don't, which is how the lie was discovered...Gah. Why did I even look?!??

Is the friend being hurt by the lie and it needs to stop right now? Tell the friend. If not I'd confront the liar first, and give them a timeline to come clean.

The person lying is not a friend and will not respond to me. And it's not something easily remedied, but it is hurtful. :/ And maybe they're not lying, it's just bad timing? I don't know.

The problem is I didn't look with the intent of 'catching' a lie, I was really just being nosy...not the best of explanations.

Sigh. I told my friend what I found, apologized for being nosy, and will just deal with the consequences.

Mavyn wrote:The person lying is not a friend and will not respond to me. And it's not something easily remedied, but it is hurtful. :/ And maybe they're not lying, it's just bad timing? I don't know.

The problem is I didn't look with the intent of 'catching' a lie, I was really just being nosy...not the best of explanations.

Sigh. I told my friend what I found, apologized for being nosy, and will just deal with the consequences.

Let us know, we might be in the same spot sometime.

PemberDucky wrote:

Just to stay on topic, you know what I really hate? Fluorescent lighting.

I know, you just can't beat the glow of a good old fashion whale oil lamp!

Iceback wrote:I know, you just can't beat the glow of a good old fashion whale oil lamp!

Anything with a better flicker rate than than a florescent light is good with me. Florescent lights (especially the cheap ones) give me migraines.

I hate that nerd culture isn't socially accepted yet.

I have a few action figures of my favorite comic book characters on my desk at work. They are off in a corner and you need to be in my cubicle to notice them. I get told they are an eyesore and I need to get rid of them.
The guy across the hall from me has 100 giant, gleaming, makes-you-blind-from-the-glare gold sports trophies and he gets congratulated.

It bugs me. It really does.

People presuming that if they didn't know about something, it never existed.

Smoothesuede wrote:I hate that nerd culture isn't socially accepted yet.

I have a few action figures of my favorite comic book characters on my desk at work. They are off in a corner and you need to be in my cubicle to notice them. I get told they are an eyesore and I need to get rid of them.
The guy across the hall from me has 100 giant, gleaming, makes-you-blind-from-the-glare gold sports trophies and he gets congratulated.

It bugs me. It really does.

Well, once you hack into his Fantasy Football profile and change all of his starters to WOW characters, humiliate him in a D-cell light saber duel and finally, write a virus that will lock all of the office PCs while running continuous loops of Keyboard Cat -- only then will they start to accept and respect nerd culture.

It seems that the only time coworkers bring in snacks to share are on the days I bring in a healthy snack with a short shelf life, such as a banana that's almost too ripe.

The days I forget to bring anything, so does everyone else.

People assuming I know information about specific items that I've never seen or worked on.

Supervisors who aren't fair to other employees and single them out just because they are doing their job, and choosing favorites because they complain about said employee.

mwiseman wrote:Well, once you hack into his Fantasy Football profile and change all of his starters to WOW characters, humiliate him in a D-cell light saber duel and finally, write a virus that will lock all of the office PCs while running continuous loops of Keyboard Cat -- only then will they start to accept and respect nerd culture.

//sigh, we have to do all that!

To original poster: You know the only reason your co-worker has those trophies in his cube is because his significant other is sick of them needing to be polished at the house.

KtCallista wrote:
To original poster: You know the only reason your co-worker has those trophies in his cube is because his significant other is sick of them needing to be polished at the house.

Haha. Well played.
One of these days I'll think of something passive aggressive to play off of that.
Today I'm too tired.

Smoothesuede wrote:Haha. Well played.
One of these days I'll think of something passive aggressive to play off of that.
Today I'm too tired.

Us geeks need to work together!

On another note: thing I hate #2!

Tacky, overused office humor.
When you hear the line "I KEEL YOU!!" past a certain number of times a day, or if you get one too many Maxine email forwards (Maxine is the cartoon/comic grumpy old lady Hallmark loves) then pretty soon you realize how close you are to recreating the movie Falling Down.

I hate it when I buy those darn pop-up Post-it notes by mistake instead of the regular ones.

I hate it when I need a pen and all I can find are cheap fine (or extra fine) point ball point pens and I can never get them to work without pressing extra hard and holding the pen at an oddly upright angle.

i hate it when i plan a 17-day trip to italy and have been looking foward to it for months, and then iceland starts spewing volcanic ash...