Pet Peeve of the Day - Elevator

When you are waiting for an elevator, especially in the lobby of a building, DO NOT stand right in front of the doors.  There may be someone on the other side of the door.  That person may come barreling out of the elevator in a hurry.  You may get knocked over.  It will be YOUR fault. 

Can you guess what happened to me this morning as I was rushing to bring something to the Courthouse before a hearing started? 

Pet Peeve of the Day - Stuff On My Chair Strikes Back

Guess it was too soon to think people in my firm got the message about walking past my inbox to put something on my chair.  I come in, after working late on Friday and being the last person to leave, only to come in this morning (well before the known guilty party) and find... yep... STUFF ON MY G-D CHAIR!!! 

The only thing that keeps me from getting enraged is the somewhat comforting thought that whoever put it there had to come in over a long holiday weekend.  That should be punishment enough.

Pet Peeve of the Day

I've talked at length before about putting stuff on my chair.  Thankfully that hasn't happened in a while. 

But something else did happen, and I'm on the fence about whether it's just as bad or even worse.

Pet Peeve of the Week

You can have it fast, or you can have it correct.  You may NOT have both.  That is against the laws of physics, nature and probably the State of Alabama.

Pet Peeve of the Day - Stuff on my Chair, Part 2

The only thing worse than leaving stuff on my chair, is leaving stuff I don't recognize and refusing to put a note on it.  I don't even know which of the 50 attorneys put it here.  Now, do I ignore it until getting yelled at for not doing what I don't know, or send an obnoxious "Users All" e-mail and look like a whiney douche?  Classic no-win situation...

Pet Peeve of the Day - My Chair is NOT an Inbox

I have an inbox. It's the top tier of a three-tier rack prominently located on the front corner of my desk, directly facing the door to my office. It is the very first thing you will see upon walking through my door. It's even got a bright white label with big black letters that say "INBOX" on it. Pretty hard to miss. It's like that so that *I* will see things when I come back to my office and deal with them accordingly.

So why do people walk through my door, past the Inbox, around my desk and put non-important crap on my chair? Why? Mental defect? Stupidity? Are they blind to white-black contrast and thus don't see the label on the Inbox?

If it's a critical matter that needs my immediate attention, then fine, I can begrudgingly give you a pass for putting it on my chair. But stuff that just needs to be put in a file? My bi-monthly copy of Paralegal Today? Seriously?

Yes, this seems petty and unimportant. But there are times when I actually want to SIT in my chair when I get back to my office. I'm pretty sure that's what chairs were meant for.

Pet Peeve of the Day - Refilling the Printer

If you are using the communal printer, and it runs out of paper on your print job, I appreciate the fact that you refill it. What I do NOT appreciate is that you tear open the ream of 500 sheets of paper and only put 10 sheets into the tray just to finish YOUR print job, leaving the rest of us hanging. The tray holds an entire ream of paper. Not only that, but you leave the open package next to the printer, as if taunting the rest of us. Do you not think someone else will be using the printer soon? How f*&#ing rude can you get? I can only hope it's rude, because the other option is stupid.

OK, that's out of my system now. Been holding onto that for a while.