It is very irritating dealing with co-workers who can't put things back the way they were before they used something. Mainly the break room where chairs are left strewn about or drawers left open. For the drawers behind my desk (that contain spare keys for inventory cars), sales people will hurriedly open it and grab a spare for a car they sold, but NEVER close it. So I have to always check behind myself to make sure I don't back my chair up into an open drawer.
I know how you feel. People at my college don't always scoot their chairs in and sometimes it just bugs me. Perhaps the most recent annoyance I could name is my brother not closing the door to our room back when he leaves for work early in the morning. We have a cat who has a tendency to meow a lot at night and part of the reason we keep it closed is to keep him and the other cats from waking us up and/or ruining something in our room and he's woke me up a few times before. Fortunately, I think my brother is getting better about closing it than he was.
Another thing is my co-workers "hate" the beeping from the microwave after it finishes, so they always stop it with 1 second or more left. But they don't clear the timer before the next person uses it. Seems silly to complain about, but it's rather inconsiderate not clearing the timer after using it.
I never understood that either. My sister sometimes would stop it with at least 30 seconds left and never clear it. Makes me wonder why she would even set the timer for so long in the first place.
They have some cool things call "ear phones" these days that let you listen to things privately! Technology is amazing!
To be fair though, his device may not have an earphone jack and he may not have Airpods or whatever cheap alternative you can find. Newer Apple devices starting doing away with this, my phone being one of them.
Walk into the common area while we’re watching something and pull his phone out and watch something else at full volume,
You wouldn't like my dad then.
My dad is
the worst about this, he always has his phone turned up WAY too loud anytime he uses it and he knows it annoys us, but still does it anyway. While his device doesn't have an earphone jack, he still at the very least could turn it down some.
I don’t understand why people would leave their own room to come out and ruin other’s time.
I feel you there. My family, my sister and dad especially, used to be really bad to do this when I tried to watch TV in my kitchen. For some reason, they sometimes would all come in there and would stand around having a conversation about something, being abnormally loud in the process and I often referred to this in my mind as "The gathering of the loudmouths". Why they couldn't just go into the living room with comfy furniture and talk instead of standing around in the kitchen is beyond me because there's really no reason for them not to.
If I could have put earphones in and/or go somewhere else, I would have, but sadly neither are an option for me. Fortunately, I barely watch TV anymore.
