Who gets annoyed with coworkers and their daily repetitive catch phrases?

Lol
Lets assume its you ... why do you have check up on everything I say?! I still cant figure it out.

 

Because I want to make sure I dont make any mistakes.


And I like to annoy.

 

Ah well I am just gonna tell you err I mean her from now on to ask the manager whatever she wants then she can go ask his boss to make sure what he said is correct.

 

Uck, NTH, I feel your pain. We have a lady who cleans our dining room every weekday during lunch (noon to 2 or 2:30), and her son is 22 and mentally disabled (he has the mentality of a 3 or 4 year old, I think), so she talks to all of us like she does him. Aaaahhh. So annoying. And she acts like everyone's mother. It drives everybody crazy!

 

I've been in a job for about year now, it's the longest full time job I've held down for ten years actually. Since I started I have had to put up with giving the thumbs up to a guy that looks like Hank Hill everyday, a specific finger gesture to another guy and various hello's and what have you to everyone else. I just put up with it, everyday it becomes even more strange that I still have to do it, but I just carry on and smile and remind myself that it's better than walking past these people and not acknowledging each other atl all, like how it is in Britain.

 

That is so creepy... both the OP's post and that picture... This whole thread makes me feel claustrophobic and creeped out.
:leaving:

 

Bloody sod yer then.

 

i would hate to be a wal-mart greeter

 

yeh! bloody sod yer, ye baasssssttarrdd!

I used to work at a casino where the employees were instructed (demanded) to reply to everything as 'Fan-tastic!' The weather, people's complaints, all of it. I used to annoy the redshirts (floor managers) when they'd ask how I was doing by replying 'I had some tequila before work, and I'm Tan-fucking-fastic!'

To this day someone that says 'Fan-tastic' to me in that sugary disgusting fake way gets slugged. Seriously. The first time's a freebie, second time, I'm collecting chiclets for someone to take to the dentist.

 

yeah, when you work in retail/food industry it's your job to constantly hurl repetitive annoying phrases at people. Take parting phrases for example. I rotate between three: "Have a good one", "Take care", and the ubiquitous "Have a nice day".

But at least when people greet me with "How are you today" I don't lie and say "good". "Not that bad" or "Could be worse" are far more accurate. I'm at work, I'm anything but "good". And I know you really don't care anyways.

 

I work in an office with about 130 employees.

The dumb ass repetitive catch phrases I can stand. What annoys me more is the ineptitude of people that have been working there 10-15 years. Basic procedures that should be mastered in the first two weeks on the job elude a large portion of these boobs. I mean...it's data entry folks. Obviously none of them are mental giants or they'd be doing something else...but Jesus!

The only other thing that really pisses me off is when I have to take an order back to someone because of mistakes and they get an attitude because I've interrupted their romance novel or their fucking crochet.

 

I work with someone who crochets at her desk and also makes scrapbooks and crafts jewelry... I'm still waiting for the day that she whips out an easy bake oven...

 

same here; they're my employees...

technically it's a punishment. negative reinforcement is when you take away an aversive stimulus...

both positive and negative reinforcement have been shown to be more effective than punishment anyway...

 

alright, i'm officially curious. who is this man?

 

Hehe. That is Bobby Chariot a spoof stand up comedian character played by Alexi Sayle in his 90's series The Alexi Sayle show. He always came on and said to the audience "How ya diddlin'!", and after getting no reaction would say "well, bloody sod yer then." He would proceed to tell mother in law jokes, and was funny for being so crap you know. Very funny character.

 

I currently am self-employed for the foreseeable future, but the people I used to work with were mostly from South Baltimore and Pasadena, MD. They all have this really annoying accent that tends to turn single syllable words into mult-syllabic phrases (like floor is "FLOO-er" and Cal Ripkin's first name is "Kay-ill" but flowers is pronounced "flairs" and "going" is pronounced "gone", which rhymes with "bone").

The big thing everyone says is "Gotcha". All the time. In response to anything. I wanted to take a 28oz framing hammer and say "GET THIS MOFO!" which is why I no longer work there.

 

i worked with a guy who said you know what im saying after everything he said. Even when he told me his name he asked me if i knew what he was saying. The guy even had to train me so sometimes i had to tell him no i dont know what your saying. lol cant make that shit up South Side of Screwston for ya.

 

I worked with someone who said "like I said" every single sentence it drove me mad...He said it over and over, like I said I hate smeared faxes, like I said this coffee is bland, like I said, hey I like toothpaste, like I said.. Ug, so I started saying it to him all the time...suffice it to say, he no longer talks to me...

 

Haha, I know people from Glasgow who finish every sentence with "know what ah mean, no?" Weedgies....