Amen! Add to that, the people who take the cart back and instead of ramming it into an existing row of carts, they shove it in sideways and block all three rows! Grrrrrrrrrr, then everyone just puts their carts every which way and it ends up halfway out into the lane.
If it's nasty weather (snow) and the place doesn't have a covered cart area, I will take it back to the store.   Besides that's a few more steps of exercise for the day.

  

What a nice thing to do Chaos. 

Not a peeve, but more of a pity party.......

I was reading an article about how the elderly ignore heat warnings thinking it doesn't apply to them. Then I read that the warnings are for people 60 and older. That makes it official. In a little over two years, I'll be........gasp.........elderly!  Jesus tapdancing Christ! No way! No how! I refuse to believe that. Where the hell does time go? It seems to pass at warp speed these days. At work, I live for Fridays. Then a Friday passes, the next and the next, until it's been almost two years since I've seen my family. A long time maybe, but wasn't that just yesterday?

LOL sooz, I was 48 too! What a shock and insult that was to me then.  Now I'd be thrilled for anyone to consider me "almost" eligible.

People who don't read or have reading comprehension problems. We are refurbishing windows here. Our notice letter spells out exactly what we are doing and when. New insulation strips, new glides and new plastic locks (they are 30 yr old windows). We also state that if the beds, etc, are not moved out of our way on the scheduled day, we will come back after the entire complex is done since we have to remove the windows, turn them upside down, remove part of the frame,  etc etc.  We need space, people!

Example:

Today I get a call "We were scheduled to have our windows replaced last week. When will it be done? GRRRRR, I first explained that it was refurbishment, not replacement. Then I looked on our list. He already has newer windows and we left a note stating that and also saying there was no work needed.  Sigh. Gawd, people can be so stupid!

Sigh. Gawd, people can be so stupid!

I had that happen to me when my internet went down. I went through the whole menu... was put on hold long enough for the office to close - message: "The office is closed." - and then the phone hung up. All told - 40 minutes @ 35 cents a minute (cell phone) = $14 for that call.

To my mind, they don't want to help when there's a problem - they just want to take your money.

The "Your call is important to us" crap really burns me up! If it WAS, you'd have your ass on this line speaking to me right now! hmph! FO!

I want to set up one of those menus for the phone company and make them use it when they call to collect overdue payments.

I'd be lost without my bookmarks.

peeve for today: People who say to me (when trying to book an appointment or take care of office business) "Well, you know I work" Said with a little sarcastic laugh.

Well, guess what? SO DO I!! I have office hours and if you need to see ME, then you need to make arrangements to do that during office hours. Period.

I wonder how many people say that to their doctor, lawyer or utility company if they need to go to their offices? Why in the hell do they expect me to work outside of my office hours to accommodate them? 

I do too, Chaos, but then I make arrangements to: 1. leave work to take care of business or 2. go during my lunch hour.   My work hours have a start and an end too. 8-5, M-F. I've worked through my lunch hour to accommodate someone and I've come in a little early. What I won't do is stay later.  Nine hours is enough, don't you think?  I am salaried, so I don't make anything extra.

Dang it! It does pour. I hope Danny cat is ok.  

Not really sooz. We have to deal with contractors all the time, so need to keep the 8 am start time. A couple of them would be happy if we started at 6am, lol. No way! It's not the residents that complain, because I can deliver things to their unit (like paperwork etc) and they can deliver things to our convenient mail slots (signed paperwork or payments). They leave messages, I return them. If they have emergencies, we are on call via the answering service.

It's usually prospective tenants for our rental pool units who whine. If I have several empties, I will stay after hours slightly to show them. Hasn't happened in the 1 1/2 years I've been here. However, the current tenants do not want people tromping around their units in the evenings either, when they are home.

Sounds like a prince..........of darkness, lol. I've never had an employer who didn't let me leave for appointments.

Okay, so now we got a peeve from a building manager.  Here's one about a building manager.  A few months ago I got a notice from the manager of April and my aparetment building that they were going to be replacing the sliding glass doors and refurbishing the balconies.  Could we please make sure the balconies were cleared and things off the walls inside the apartment because there could be some banging that could cause stuff to fall.  That's cool and reasonable.  The only thing is they didn't say when the work would begin.  I figured it was just an initial warning and we would get notice of when the work would actually start.  Weeks went by and nothing happened except another notice or two saying the same thing as the first.  Then one day I go out there and my balcony stuff is down on the lawn and the manager is mad at me for not clearing it.  I'm like "WTF, I'm supposed to have the balcony in the bedroom for two months while you get your act in gear."  She's a real sweetheart and pretty reasonable so I didn't even get the statisfaction of a good,blood stirring, sleep depriving, "I shoulda said" , argument out of it.

Oh my jim. We are doing the same balcony reno's here. The crap part about it is in dealing with the contractor. We really like him and he is very good. However, he gets slammed with tons of work come the summer season (especially here), so we try our best to not send notices until the actual start date. Then, that gets delayed because of rain or the contractor is delayed on another job because of rain and/or other problems. THEN, he gets the balcony started, but again with the rain delay. The sealant cannot be put on until he is certain it is not going to rain for 24 hours. THEN, lol, he may have to order more sealant that is out of stock at the warehouse, but it's the best around, so we wait.  Our contractor tore into one balcony and found that the joists were rotted. They go about 6 feet into the ceiling of the unit underneath. We had to tear out that ceiling, replace the joists and then continue on with the decking etc. That delayed the others by at least a week. See what I mean? The other's we had given  notice too had moved their stuff already, but what can we do? It is what it is.

Sigh, I hear you, but you also need to understand it from the managers perspective. She cannot control many of the factors. As much as you are "put out", the end reward is a new deck that is sturdy and safe.

LOL, one of the buildings we used to work at an 18 story high-rise is doing balcony work. They tear off all the balconies first. Then they must do some repairs on the buildings themselves where the old balcony attached. Then they start constructing the new, concrete balconies from the top down. Forms must be put in place, the concrete poured etc. etc. Then, the start on the railings top down again. All in all it's about 8 months that the residents must keep their stuff inside.