After working so long at one place, you tend to develop the most ridiculous pet peeves. Here are mine...forgive me, it's been that kind of week:
Rubberbands - This is the most useless office supply there is. What's the point? So you can rubberband large stacks of paper together? So that it can roll and bend the paper? So that you can rubberband all your pencils together? No. Use a folder, use a mug. The only thing rubberbands are good for rubberband balls....oh and shooting them at your intern.
Messy common areas - In our department, we have our own copy machine and copy room. I don't mind people using our machine...but damn it! Don't leave your shit around! It's not your own personal space. I'm not your mother. Fucking pick up after yourself. I don't want to see you water sitting on top of our machine and I certainly do not want random script pages lying around. I'll throw them away...I will.
Proper size brads - If you have a 60 page teleplay, don't put it together with the 2 inch brads. Jesus! (Hay-zeus! Not Gee-zus!) Use the 3/4 inch brads...or even the 1-1/4 inch (I'll let those slide)...but don't use the bigger ones. Why would you do that? The 2 inch ones are so scant around here, why would you waste it on a regular sized script when we have a TON of brads that could easily accomodate it? Hmph!
Loading the trays - If you are using our machine and it runs out of paper, don't just put one rehm in there. Fucking load that shit up. The tray takes 6 rehms of paper...at least load it with 3 rehms. That's the least you could do, especially after always using our machine, using up all our paper, leaving your shit around for me to pick up.
Posted by Mollie Gamo at November 12, 2004 10:11 AMMy pet peeve:
Other people's crap ending up in my cube area. Apparently "clean up" means throwing junk onto, under, or in the vicinity of my desk.