What cheeses me off

[Ade]

Like many, back on the road after the Covid hiatus and straight into the deep end with four trips in 4 months; 2 x Asia and 2 x Europe, next Europe in 3 weeks. But after a two year break my tolerance is even worse than before. Some of my classics over the past few trips;

- Pax walking at a crawl, even stopping, in the airbridge as they disembark so they can read their messages
- The family on the UL LHR flight almost non-stop paging hostesses even before the door was closed, and even after being warned numerous times to give it a break!
- Pax not prepared at customs etc, like "do we need our passports?". Or the families who have their passports in lovely covers and the officer has to open all of them. Then the Pax who, with a line at passport control measured in the hundreds, wants to ask the officer questions on getting out of the airport.
- Absolute lack of thinking when something derails, like the regional train strike in Italy. Communication at its finest, NOT!

more to come as i overcome jet lag, another cheeser I forgot about!

Ahhh! the *joys* of travelling

Loved the bit about pax in the airbridge - irritates me a lot ... especially when a people of the same group wait in the airbridge, blocking the path, waiting for that one person who has not disembarked yet. My mind voice goes "Hey! he is not going anywhere. You saw him in the plane 2 mins ago, he has to come out this way. Wait near the gate, he won't go missing, he is a grown man for god's sake!"

 

[Ade]

The Qantas Business account seems to remember the last three if not 5. I'm constantly resetting it because I can never remember it.

I'm locked out of my QBR almost every week. My hunch is there is something wrong with the website. I'd like to *accept* that I forgot the password, but I was able to get in last night, and now I'm locked out !! HOW?!?!?! Did someone try to hack into it overnight?

 

[Pushka]

I'm locked out of my QBR almost every week. My hunch is there is something wrong with the website. I'd like to *accept* that I forgot the password, but I was able to get in last night, and now I'm locked out !! HOW?!?!?! Did someone try to hack into it overnight?

Phew. Not just me then.

 

[Ade]

This is not flying related.

What cheeses me off - Writing responses to selection criteria to apply for a role and the questions in the selection criteria are 10 questions long and each question requires a response of 500 words !! I'd happy talk about my experience, skills & what not, but typing 500 words for each question .. #CheesesMeOff

 

[Hvr]

Writing responses to selection criteria to apply for a role and the questions in the selection criteria are 10 questions long

I like the current set up where some employers ask for 500/600/1000 words and a two page resume.

 

[Ade]

I like the current set up where some employers ask for 500/600/1000 words and a two page resume.

I like those ones too .. but sometimes one can get carried away and struggle to contain the responses within the word limit I'm sometimes guilty of this. In my mind, when it rains, it pours

 

[Forg]

Jeez it seems like we've been perpetually hiring, and I don't know how much of a 1000 word response I'd read!

"Selection criteria" has a strong odour of government ... if you've go 10 "selection criteria" each requiring 500 words they probably already have someone who's been working in that role in mind for that job ...

 

[Tejas]

what cheeses me off:

people who get off an escalator and stand there in a daze looking around right at the end. listen, i'm coming and theres noting i can do about it.

another one is when people are going to the other escalator and they cut across the front of yours when your about to step off, cutting you off.

people who walk 3 wide across a pavement and block the entire thing. I have 6 mins to get to my bus after work, and i have pushed though these people before

 

[RooFlyer]

What cheeses me off is people in a busy bar who order two or three coughtails. Takes forevet to make and everyone else is waiting. Just have a bloody beer!

 

[VPS]

What cheeses me off is people in a busy bar who order two or three coughtails. Takes forevet to make and everyone else is waiting. Just have a bloody beer!

ooh you sound like a grumpy old man

 

[Forg]

What cheeses me off is people in a busy bar who order two or three coughtails. Takes forevet to make and everyone else is waiting. Just have a bloody beer!

What are the contents of this Bloody Beer coughtail, I am intrigued!!

 

[NM]

what cheeses me off:

people who get off an escalator and stand there in a daze looking around right at the end. listen, i'm coming and theres noting i can do about it.

another one is when people are going to the other escalator and they cut across the front of yours when your about to step off, cutting you off.

people who walk 3 wide across a pavement and block the entire thing. I have 6 mins to get to my bus after work, and i have pushed though these people before

Yes, I understand, and its why am afraid of escalators .... so I take steps to avoid them

 

[NM]

What are the contents of this Bloody Beer coughtail, I am intrigued!!

I had a USA work colleague who always drank half tomato juice and half beer. He was an ex US Marine Colonel, and yes, he was a little excentric, but knew what he wanted and did not care what others thought of his choice.

Once, at a his local/favourite seafood restaurant, he ordered a bowl of "steamers" for his starter, then a large bowl of "steamers" for main course, and then a bowl of "steamers" for dessert - each course washed down with his tomato juice beer "coughtail". The strange part was that the waiter didn't flinch and served the order (waiter and work colleague were on first name basis as a regular customer).

 

[Ade]

tomato juice

Your USA colleague must be a saint ... I hate tomato juice and don't really understand the concept of a Bloody Mary ... Perhaps, I never had a good one yet ..

 

[NM]

Your USA colleague must be a saint ... I hate tomato juice and don't really understand the concept of a Bloody Mary ... Perhaps, I never had a good one yet ..

He was one of the best technical program managers I have ever worked with ... but a little eccentric. His wife was a security specialist (civilian millitary contractor) and he brought quite a few ex-military folks into his project team. One of his project managers was also ex-Marine Corps and who's wife was an F18 test pilot with the US Navy. Suffice to say, his projects ran as you would expect.

 

[Ade]

He was one of the best technical program managers I have ever worked with ... but a little eccentric. His wife was a security specialist (civilian millitary contractor) and he brought quite a few ex-military folks into his project team. One of his project managers was also ex-Marine Corps and who's wife was an F18 test pilot with the US Navy. Suffice to say, his projects ran as you would expect.

Wow That's a lot of *uniform* to be around ... although they are now civilians, I take it?

 

[andye]

Jeez it seems like we've been perpetually hiring, and I don't know how much of a 1000 word response I'd read!

"Selection criteria" has a strong odour of government ... if you've go 10 "selection criteria" each requiring 500 words they probably already have someone who's been working in that role in mind for that job ...

I find it incredibly irritating when acting as a referee for job candidates, the employer asks me to provide a series of mini-essays gratis

 

[NM]

Wow That's a lot of *uniform* to be around ... although they are now civilians, I take it?

They were all civilians when I worked with them. Only the wife of one PM was still active as F18 test pilot, but nothing to do with anything our company was engaged with. Most were older than I and are now retired. I think the PM who's wife flew F18s is still working with the same company.

 

[RooFlyer]

ooh you sound like a grumpy old man

Awww , not saying how it cheesed me off when anyone ordered ONE coughtail, I thought made me quite tolerant.

 

[Hvr]

I find it incredibly irritating when acting as a referee for job candidates, the employer asks me to provide a series of mini-essays gratis

As an applicant last year and getting to the final round with several applications it was embarrassing asking my referees to do some of those reports.

I did manage to convince one employer to use the same report for a similar role. Which got me through the cut and then picked up off the merit list.

Another potential employer did routinely ask if I wanted previously supplied referee reports reused. I was quite pleased to say yes.