everything annoyed me today. raaaar
Sep. 12th, 2003 12:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
substitute1) IBM is taking 4 days to accomplish their "same day service" on my company laptop
2) I fled to the coffeehouse today and was visited by the Joan, who as usual walked right up, disrupted a perfectly good conversation I was having with someone else, drove that someone else away, and then talked at me. She's the kind of person who will tell you some mind-meltingly boring story about her life, and as you're responding with something about your own life, will then tell the same story again worded slightly differently. Example:
Her: My boss really annoyed me today. I sent her detailed information in an email and then she was very patronizing and told me I hadn't given her the info because she hadn't read the whole email. I was very upset. I hate that.
Me: Bosses do that because they have power. I've had a boss before who would...
Her: And what really gets me, is that it was in the email the whole time. But she was so patronizing. I hate that.
Me: [annoyed] Like I said. Bosses do that. It's part of work.
Her: It was in an appendix to the email, and she could just have read it.
Me: Yeah. I find that many bosses can't use email properly. Sometimes they..
Her: I wish I could do something about it now, but I just need to tell her that the email...
[..continue for 30 minutes..]
She also gratuitously insulted the person I had been talking to before. I wish there was some way to transmit I DO NOT ENJOY TALKING TO YOU MOST OF THE TIME REALLY without being an ass about it.
3) I had a bad dinner (burger).
4) People are being mean to all my friends. It makes me mad as hell.
RAAR.
2) I fled to the coffeehouse today and was visited by the Joan, who as usual walked right up, disrupted a perfectly good conversation I was having with someone else, drove that someone else away, and then talked at me. She's the kind of person who will tell you some mind-meltingly boring story about her life, and as you're responding with something about your own life, will then tell the same story again worded slightly differently. Example:
Her: My boss really annoyed me today. I sent her detailed information in an email and then she was very patronizing and told me I hadn't given her the info because she hadn't read the whole email. I was very upset. I hate that.
Me: Bosses do that because they have power. I've had a boss before who would...
Her: And what really gets me, is that it was in the email the whole time. But she was so patronizing. I hate that.
Me: [annoyed] Like I said. Bosses do that. It's part of work.
Her: It was in an appendix to the email, and she could just have read it.
Me: Yeah. I find that many bosses can't use email properly. Sometimes they..
Her: I wish I could do something about it now, but I just need to tell her that the email...
[..continue for 30 minutes..]
She also gratuitously insulted the person I had been talking to before. I wish there was some way to transmit I DO NOT ENJOY TALKING TO YOU MOST OF THE TIME REALLY without being an ass about it.
3) I had a bad dinner (burger).
4) People are being mean to all my friends. It makes me mad as hell.
RAAR.
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Date: 2003-09-12 12:48 am (UTC)As Penthesilia, astride the moon-white queen mare, said to Cassandra, "I learned that I shouldn't pretend that I can deal with someone socially when I can't; I should just say it isn't working and even be rude! In person! Instead of just being pleasant and burning up inside."
You should consider her advice. Those warrior-women know a thing or two.
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Date: 2003-09-12 12:49 am (UTC)