Pet Peeves
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Greetings all,
In the spirit of Ritch's previous thread regarding bad practices, I thought it might be interesting to hear some of your pet peeves. You know, the things that other people sometimes do that just drive you crazy?
Here are a few of mine to get things started:
1. Admins who stay signed on at a server console for days/weeks on end without ever securing it (ggggrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!)
2. Not testing clients and updates before moving them to production environments
3. Not notifying users and support staff of said changes prior to their implementation
4. Not proof reading your work. (Okay, before I get flamed...in a forum like this where there are many overworked users and multiple cultures to deal with it's not a problem. But when you send a message to the whole corporation with 4000 or so users, and it contains 3 or 4 errors I think it sends a bad message. Especially if the purpose of said message is to announce an upcoming 'Quality Expo'.)
5. Spam and Pop-Ups (double ggrrrrrrrr!!!)
So, what are the things that drive you crazy? Enquiring minds want to know.
My hovercraft is full of eels.
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Not IT related, but the biggest pet peeve I've dealt with lately: Parents yelling (not cheering, but criticizing) at their 4 and 5 year-olds playing a soccer game. It's bad when the league has procedures and designated contact points for when parents get out of hand for kids in this age group.
K. Brian Kelley
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Author: Start to Finish Guide to SQL Server Performance Monitoring
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Posts about pet peeves
Just kidding. These days it's corporate management.
Steve Jones
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Brian,
I have seen this also in my nephew's league to the point where parents get ejected and find it disturbing. What kind of sportsmanship are they teaching their kids? And you'd almost have to be crazy to be a coach these days...it's not a job I'd want. I wonder if this is purely an American phenomenon or does it happen elsewhere?
PS - I forgot to put in a line about the person who deleted (not once, but twice) the shared print queue I set up ages ago.
Regards,
Sandman
My hovercraft is full of eels.
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I have so many pet peeves I've started a petting zoo.
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Hi there,
hope anyone will explain to me the meaning of pet peeves.
From the context there is one thing that really drives me crazy. I receive spam mails and mails with virus attachments
.I'm not that stupid to visit xxx site while being on work, I guess it came from a certain mailing list I was on for some time. Now, this fact is annoying enough, but on top are such statement from our IT staff like:
'Umh, where have you been on the web, Mister Spam?'
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Another thing is related to company policy.
Since the beginning of this year we have a corporate screen saver. It is activate each day via some NT login script!
I'm a little bit lucky, I am local admin so I can turn it off, but I don't really like this kind of brainwash
Cheers,
Frank
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Frank Kalis
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Sandman,
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I have seen this also in my nephew's league to the point where parents get ejected and find it disturbing. What kind of sportsmanship are they teaching their kids? And you'd almost have to be crazy to be a coach these days...it's not a job I'd want. I wonder if this is purely an American phenomenon or does it happen elsewhere?definitely not an all American phenomenon.
It is happening here, too.
I think it is somehow related to the feeling:
'You are nothing, we'll make you a star.'
That's why shows like star search or popstars are extremely popular here these days.
I don't really the the point, why parents train their kids, move them from casting to casting...Instead of letting the kids do what they are supposed to do in this age. That is playing their own games!
This is really sick
Cheers,
Frank
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Frank Kalis
Microsoft SQL Server MVP
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Hi,
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I wonder if this is purely an American phenomenon or does it happen elsewhere?It's good to know 'we' are all so alike, seen this at football, rugby games here. Once watched one of the those home movie shows, a movie where school kids are playing American Football (younger than high school) and this little lad was going to score and a parent ran on and tackled him!! How sick is that!
Anyway my main peeve at the moment is the total lack of junior dba positions, do companies expect good experienced dba's to grow on trees? After three years of searching the job market only seen a handful of Oracle junior positions. Is this just a UK philosophy??
Laters
"I didn't do anything it just got complicated" - M Edwards
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Hi Ritch,
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Anyway my main peeve at the moment is the total lack of junior dba positions, do companies expect good experienced dba's to grow on trees? After three years of searching the job market only seen a handful of Oracle junior positions. Is this just a UK philosophy??my lifesaver !!!
Would you share your knowledge about 'pet peeves' with me?
Cheers,
Frank
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Frank Kalis
Microsoft SQL Server MVP
Webmaster: http://www.insidesql.org/blogs
My blog: http://www.insidesql.org/blogs/frankkalis/[/url] -
Morgen Frank,
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Would you share your knowledge about 'pet peeves' with me?About my pet peeve, or what pet peeve means? If its the latter you got it right first time. Irritations, things that get under your skin, and make you angry.
Tchûss
"I didn't do anything it just got complicated" - M Edwards
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About my pet peeve, or what pet peeve means? If its the latter you got it right first time. Irritations, things that get under your skin, and make you angry.Danke!
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TchûssYou have an error in your statement near 'T' and 'c'. Somethings missing!
Get another cup of coffee
Cheers,
Frank
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Frank Kalis
Microsoft SQL Server MVP
Webmaster: http://www.insidesql.org/blogs
My blog: http://www.insidesql.org/blogs/frankkalis/[/url] -
Bitte,
Your to quick in a morning Frank, was about to edit it
Tschûss
"I didn't do anything it just got complicated" - M Edwards
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Pet Peeves? I'm glad you asked!
1. People who thump their cigarettes out of the car window.
2. People who don't know the difference between "your" and "you're." ("Your" is possessive, "you're" is short for "you are.")
3. People who don't know the difference between "its" and it's." ("Its" is possessive, "it's" is short for "it is.")
4. Cashiers who always give you your bills first, then try to stack the coins on top of them. The coins are very prone to falling off.
5. People who drive their cars as if gas DIDN'T cost $1.50/gallon.
Other Track: Pet "Likes:" People who are humble and considerate.
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1. People who thump their cigarettes out of the car window.Sorry
"I didn't do anything it just got complicated" - M Edwards
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Ok, let's not talk about the ingrown English illiteracy. English is a tough language. We could be here for days discussing our linguistic shortcomings.
I'll just stick with the IT pet peeves:
Managers who assume I want to be a developer. Merci, non.
Developers who design their own databases
Developers who dump their tables in the same database
Developers who have to use "sa" (Bonne chance with that one)
That's a good start.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Generally you don't see that kind of behavior in a major appliance.
Patrick
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