How to Annoy Me...

Recently my friend Maksim - the Russian - experienced what I like to call "The inconsiderate user".

The Inconsiderate User is someone who calls you up and has you go out of your way to help them, and then doesn't have the decency to help you help them.

In Maksim's case it was a friend who had asked him to drive over and work out with him - Maksim didn't need to work out, but he was doing it out of the goodness of his heart, but then when it came time to actually workout, his friend kept wasting time talking to other people in the gym, thus wasting his time and Maksim's time.

This my good friends is the quickest way to annoy me, and I will only allow it once. If it happens just once in our relationship, then you will have tainted the friendship in the worst way, you might as well have come into my house and kicked my dog.

How to Annoy Me...

I was in a meeting the other day and I heard this lady say, "Well, it's a powerpoint presentation, there is no need to put a highly skilled resource on a job like that."

I wasn't in a place to say anything, but I wanted to say, "Excuse me? Not highly skilled?" I think that in order to do a really nice PowerPoint you do have to be highly skilled. And it wasn't what she said, it was the condescending way that she said it, as if the people that are making the PowerPoint aren't as important as the people viewing the PowerPoint - that is what I found annoying.