Annoyance Day 2013

Uggghhhhh annoyed by people today.  ANNOYED.

I’m listening to someone get trained, and like.  She seems smart and nice and stuff but I just don’t like the way she talks to people?  Like… Her tone is super polite, not even a hint of irritation or condescension in it, but her phrasing is like… “I forgot to clock  out for lunch yesterday, so you need to add that.”  Like.  You need to do this, and we’re gonna do that.  And her voice is loud and stuff, and she… KINDA talks over people?

Honestly she kinda reminds me of myself when I was about 17 and I thought I knew everything but I also knew how to sound like a humble and non-bossy person.

But it comes through anyway.

I think she’s just one of these young people who’s been told how smart she is her whole life, and never pauses to question whether other people could intrinsically better at something.  If they do something better, it’s simply because they know more about it, and once she learns, she’ll be better than everyone at everything.

I can totally sympathize with the mindset, which is maybe partly why it’s so annoying to listen to.  Cutesy entitlement makes my ears bleed.

Ah, well.

Oh, and the girl I hung out with from work last-last weekend?  Ugh.  No.  Just no.  She stops me randomly and just fucking TALKS.  Like, when I actually manage to jam a sentence in there, she acknowledges it and it OCCASIONALLY affects the direction of conversation, but more often than not, she just talks over me when I throw a word or two out there.  Just.  Like I didn’t say anything at all, like there’s not even anyone on the other side of conversation.

And she’s one of those people who sneakily changes the subject, too.  Like, let’s say I’ve been trying to say something for a while and she keeps cutting me off, so I’m like “Oh no worries, I’ll wait for her to finish her thought on this topic and then interject my thoughts,” but somehow within six sentences she’s turned it into this OTHER thing she wants to talk about, so whatever I wanted to say isn’t even valid anymore.

She just talks at everyone all the time.

And what annoys me most about it is she’ll fucking shanghai me in the break room for 30 minutes to tell me about how it’s so great she’s a temp, because she’s sooooo busy she can’t take a lunch.  And she’s gotten in trouble at previous jobs for not taking lunch because she just WORKS THROUGH IT.

Um.

No.

You spend the majority of your day chatting people up in the fucking break room.  Not clocking out for that is not “dedication,” it’s fucking “time theft.”

I commit time theft constantly—like right now–as does every office worker on the planet, but I sure as shit don’t make it a point to tell everyone how I don’t clock out for lunch WHILE I’M CHATTING IN THE FUCKING BREAK ROOM.

Anyway yeah, so basically, biggest failed friendship ever.  She drives me nuts and I want to put her in a chokehold half the time.

So we’re probs not gonna hang out again, eh?

Ugh.  And Clint’s not here today so I can’t talk to him and Nate, though a lovely man, has the conversational depth of a fucking frying pan and everything is just a joke to him.  Well.  He basically IS a joke.  Like.  A walking sitcom.  And don’t get me wrong, it’s a good show, but you basically never get to go backstage.

. Like I can’t even come up with any emotional issues he has.  Other than “not having very many emotions.”

It’s just weird, because you can usually tell what someone’s issues are after knowing them for three years, even if they don’t talk about it.  But with him, it’s like they don’t even EXIST.  Like, he’s content to just float through the world.  Kinda vaguely wants to be famous but not enough to be bothered that he’s not.

But on the plus side, he sends me pictures of guinea pigs all goddamn day.  HOORAY!

THAT’S ALL BYE NOW