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Told this story before, but repeating it because everyone must know my hate:
We hired this girl a couple years ago. When she first started, she seemed fine, but something about the way her buggy eyes coupled with the way she vacantly smiles set me off. It started with little annoying things: I noticed she was overly eager, constantly being the first to volunteer to accomplish some work task despite having no experience in our daily working environment. She would thrust herself into the middle of a two-person conversation. Every time she used her calculator she'd verbally say the numbers she was punching in. She spoke at an unreasonably high volume. She types in ALL CAPS for every single one of her e-mails.
But then... I started to notice something else. I work in a pretty open office. Everyone can pretty much see and hear everyone else, including when they're on the phone. Every time she was on the phone with a client, I would hear her conversation go like this: "perfect... perfect... yup, perfect... okay, perfect!" I looked up to see if anyone else had noticed that this lady literally used the word "perfect" about ten times in a 45 second phone call. Nope, didn't seem to affect anyone else but me. I thought maybe I was imagining things or it was just that one phone call, but it happened every call, every day. I would grind my teeth for weeks every time she picked up the phone. It was haunting me: "Perfect!" "Perfect!" "Okay, PERFECT!" It wasn't so much the amount of times she said it as much as the way she said it: "pur-FECT!" with an unnecessary emphasis on the "fect."
Soon, her phone calls became nothing but fillers: "Perfect... exactly... great... sounds good... PERFECT..." She started to fill silence with loud sighs as if the weight of the world was bearing down on her. There were so many things that annoyed me about her that I actually made a check-off list. I once counted her saying "perfect" 45 times in one day and I wasn't even actively listening.
And then there's the small talk. Oh god, the small talk. "How was traffic coming in?" "The weather has been gorgeous lately, hasn't it?" "Do you find the internet slow?" This bitch never actually says anything. Her entire conversations are based off small talk which I absolutely abhor.
Anyway, there's so much more to this woman that just makes my blood boil. But I think I've already taken too much time to answer the question. I also probably come off as crazy myself when I write about how much energy I put into hating this one person.
tl;dr: PERFECT
And if you think I'm exaggerating about the phone calls, I did in fact record a snippet of one: http://vocaroo.com/i/s1LoEV6p1sGs. If you lost count, that's 11 PERFECTs in the span of 43 seconds.
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[–] MaxDeadlift 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Told this story before, but repeating it because everyone must know my hate:
We hired this girl a couple years ago. When she first started, she seemed fine, but something about the way her buggy eyes coupled with the way she vacantly smiles set me off. It started with little annoying things: I noticed she was overly eager, constantly being the first to volunteer to accomplish some work task despite having no experience in our daily working environment. She would thrust herself into the middle of a two-person conversation. Every time she used her calculator she'd verbally say the numbers she was punching in. She spoke at an unreasonably high volume. She types in ALL CAPS for every single one of her e-mails.
But then... I started to notice something else. I work in a pretty open office. Everyone can pretty much see and hear everyone else, including when they're on the phone. Every time she was on the phone with a client, I would hear her conversation go like this: "perfect... perfect... yup, perfect... okay, perfect!" I looked up to see if anyone else had noticed that this lady literally used the word "perfect" about ten times in a 45 second phone call. Nope, didn't seem to affect anyone else but me. I thought maybe I was imagining things or it was just that one phone call, but it happened every call, every day. I would grind my teeth for weeks every time she picked up the phone. It was haunting me: "Perfect!" "Perfect!" "Okay, PERFECT!" It wasn't so much the amount of times she said it as much as the way she said it: "pur-FECT!" with an unnecessary emphasis on the "fect."
Soon, her phone calls became nothing but fillers: "Perfect... exactly... great... sounds good... PERFECT..." She started to fill silence with loud sighs as if the weight of the world was bearing down on her. There were so many things that annoyed me about her that I actually made a check-off list. I once counted her saying "perfect" 45 times in one day and I wasn't even actively listening.
And then there's the small talk. Oh god, the small talk. "How was traffic coming in?" "The weather has been gorgeous lately, hasn't it?" "Do you find the internet slow?" This bitch never actually says anything. Her entire conversations are based off small talk which I absolutely abhor.
Anyway, there's so much more to this woman that just makes my blood boil. But I think I've already taken too much time to answer the question. I also probably come off as crazy myself when I write about how much energy I put into hating this one person.
tl;dr: PERFECT
And if you think I'm exaggerating about the phone calls, I did in fact record a snippet of one: http://vocaroo.com/i/s1LoEV6p1sGs. If you lost count, that's 11 PERFECTs in the span of 43 seconds.
[–] notaseriesoftubes ago
i feel like i've read this before...
[–] l23r 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago