Ian1779
Well-Known Member
There is nothing more that irritates me at school is people putting up PowerPoints or assemblies with kids names incorrectly spelt.
Just make some fucking effort to get it right for them at least.
There is nothing more that irritates me at school is people putting up PowerPoints or assemblies with kids names incorrectly spelt.This shit. It’s really not fucking hard to spell people’s names right. It’s just fucking laziness and you won’t change my mind. These are people you spend a significant portion of your life thinking about, you can learn the spelling and capitalisation of their fucking names.
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Feel similarly about people who see a long word and pronounce it in a way that makes no phonetic sense. For example calling ‘hydrochloric acid’ ‘hydraulic acid’This shit. It’s really not fucking hard to spell people’s names right. It’s just fucking laziness and you won’t change my mind. These are people you spend a significant portion of your life thinking about, you can learn the spelling and capitalisation of their fucking names.
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I used to have a manager who when trying to keep team meetings focussed would say, “let’s not go off on a transit”.Feel similarly about people who see a long word and pronounce it in a way that makes no phonetic sense. For example calling ‘hydrochloric acid’ ‘hydraulic acid’
Well, there is a canal there as well….Funny place for an armchair.
(Railway bridge, Fosse Way)
There is nothing more that irritates me at school is people putting up PowerPoints or assemblies with kids names incorrectly spelt.
Just make some fucking effort to get it right for them at least.
Feel similarly about people who see a long word and pronounce it in a way that makes no phonetic sense. For example calling ‘hydrochloric acid’ ‘hydraulic acid’
If only there was an appropriate term for a constant weakness a person hasThere’s a guy in my team named Achilleas. Pronounced like Achilles, everyone says his name. The delivery lead still says his name with a “ch” sound like chew. Lad is too nice to say anything but I cringe every time.
I think that consistently calling someone by the wrong name is plain fucking insulting. Try getting his (or her, or their) preferred pronoun wrong and see how long it is before you end up in front of HR for harassment!There’s a guy in my team named Achilleas. Pronounced like Achilles, everyone says his name. The delivery lead still says his name with a “ch” sound like chew. Lad is too nice to say anything but I cringe every time.
I think that consistently calling someone by the wrong name is plain fucking insulting. Try getting his (or her, or their) preferred pronoun wrong and see how long it is before you end up in front of HR for harassment!
Speaking as someone whose surname is often used as a forename but people are too fucking lazy to read my email signature, and call me by my surname on a daily basis.
A few months ago my bank contacted me and asked if I wanted to go 'paperless' and receive my statements on line. After much consideration I informed them that the system we have been using for the last forty years was pretty good and I would like them to continue sending me a monthly statement on paper, by post. Today I get a letter telling me that they are going paperless and my statements will now be sent to me on line, wether I like it or not.
Forty years and I have never once been overdrawn or owed them money, feel like fucking off somewhere else but the probability is they are all, or will be, doing the same.
I don't like it, prefer a paper statement, just my preference, but why ask me and then impose it regardless?What's the issue with paperless billing?
I’ve got kind of an unusual, albeit not unheard of, first name. I’m so used to people getting it wrong most of the time I just don’t bother correcting them.I think that consistently calling someone by the wrong name is plain fucking insulting. Try getting his (or her, or their) preferred pronoun wrong and see how long it is before you end up in front of HR for harassment!
Speaking as someone whose surname is often used as a forename but people are too fucking lazy to read my email signature, and call me by my surname on a daily basis.
I’ve got kind of an unusual, albeit not unheard of, first name. I’m so used to people getting it wrong most of the time I just don’t bother correcting them.
Having said that, I feel like a right twat if I can’t get someone’s name right.
How you pronouncing it?What, Terry?
I had a colleague who would say 'we don't want to set a president here'I used to have a manager who when trying to keep team meetings focussed would say, “let’s not go off on a transit”.
to be fair you did work in the WhiteHouseI had a colleague who would say 'we don't want to set a president here'
The cost of beer.“Stop the world I want to get off”.
The cost of beer in London.
How you pronouncing it?
Bingo!Roo-put.
I'm often asked for a printed bank statement as proof of income or proof of identity.What's the issue with paperless billing?
My fourteen week old son needs two forms of id for us to open a bank account with a certain place. He doesn't have much, and especially not the utility bill in his name or driving license that they suggest!!I'm often asked for a printed bank statement as proof of income or proof of identity.
Indeed, the same bank which refuses to send me a printed statement insisted I show them at least two others when I reported a change of address!My fourteen week old son needs two forms of id for us to open a bank account with a certain place. He doesn't have much, and especially not the utility bill in his name or driving license that they suggest!!
Got a pet insurance quote for a rescue cat, would go up 40% when they reach 8. Mate who is a veterinary nurse just said shave a few years of the age save a few quidMine went up 60%. When I queried it was told it was because I reached 70. Couldn’t get it cheaper anywhere else either.
Had similar with Eon. When we moved in told them and they took that as us wanting to keep them as supplier, so therefore blocked any attempt to change them!British Gas still charging us £200 a month and refusing to let us lower our direct debit despite the tariff being £150 and our account being in credit.
It feels like they just use a random number generator to decide what you ‘owe’. It’s just two of us in the house and we aren’t in most of the time, so how can we be using £2,500 of utilities a year?Had similar with Eon. When we moved in told them and they took that as us wanting to keep them as supplier, so therefore blocked any attempt to change them!
I'm often asked for a printed bank statement as proof of income or proof of identity.
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