What cheeses me off

[JohnK]

Way too many obsessions that seem to control people's lives. I've done a few of them.

Smoking, pokies, coffee, wine tasting, food etc.

Had a piece of blade steak and asked wife to help out cooking Thai red curry last night and Masaman this morning. Both beautiful taste.

Thai red curry, Thai green curry, Thai yellow curry, masaman, panang. I'd lean towards panang but to he honest I'd say all very very similar.

If someone put 5 dishes of beef with each of the curries above can you name each one?

 

[Flashback]

Way too many obsessions that seem to control people's lives. I've done a few of them.

Smoking, pokies, coffee, wine tasting, food etc.

Had a piece of blade steak and asked wife to help out cooking Thai red curry last night and Masaman this morning. Both beautiful taste.

Thai red curry, Thai green curry, Thai yellow curry, masaman, panang. I'd lean towards panang but to he honest I'd say all very very similar.

If someone put 5 dishes of beef with each of the curries above can you name each one?

Definitely massaman, more nutty in flavour. Green, yellow and red I'd normally do pork or chicken also rather than beef.

 

[RooFlyer]

WCMO is when another organisation, who we would like to help, asks our organisation for a letter of support in pursuit of a grant.

Sure, when do you need it?

Today

 

[Pushka]

WCMO is when another organisation, who we would like to help, asks our organisation for a letter of support in pursuit of a grant.

Sure, when do you need it?

Today

Or the organisation (not private ) that wants your company to tender for work, and the large tender info document is huge, and they need it - by the end of the week. For the first few times we'd bust ourselves and get it in. Then not hear anything. Then rinse and repeat because the first tender hadn't been sorted in time and they needed an update. Now thankfully, we don't need to jump high anymore. Work keeps coming.

 

[p--and--t]

Or the organisation (not private ) that wants your company to tender for work, and the large tender info document is huge, and they need it - by the end of the week. For the first few times we'd bust ourselves and get it in. Then not hear anything. Then rinse and repeat because the first tender hadn't been sorted in time and they needed an update. Now thankfully, we don't need to jump high anymore. Work keeps coming.

Or the (not private) organisation to which you submit your tender response by the urgent deadline and 6-9 months later they haven't selected the winning bid(s) and mired in bureaucracy.

 

[MARTINE]

Thai red curry, Thai green curry, Thai yellow curry, masaman, panang. I'd lean towards panang but to he honest I'd say all very very similar.

If someone put 5 dishes of beef with each of the curries above can you name each one?

.. love em all no matter what..!

 

[Gremlin]

WCMO is procurement departments that feel like they run an organisation.

In a previous existence, had a deep and extensive (and ongoing) relationship with a particular key client. Procurement decides they are going to 'streamline' their external providers and ask everyone to go through a tender process to 'go onto our panel for future work'. Key client was not involved in the actual selection process, procurement simply dictated who would go 'on their panel', so you can imagine how engaging that was.

I made the call that our response was "No thanks. We are not participating in this." It was an enormous amount of work, at a time when my team was incredibly busy. It had no real upside from my perspective, as we were integral to our key client so we weren't going to be ditched.

The Head of Procurement was, at first, bemused and then became arrogant. When he realised I was serious, he became apoplectic. Apparently my reputation would be ruined. He'd ensure that I'd never get another cent from their organisation.

The day the tender closed, the Head of Procurement calls me and then key client, IN THAT ORDER, that key client can't work with us anymore. Key client goes to CEO and gets CEO to tell Procurement to stick it where the sun don't shine. Very entertaining to watch from the sidelines.

Key client remained our most important client, and us, their biggest supplier, for years after.

 

[blackcat20]

People who see the giant sign at the carpark entrance that tells you there are no spots available till level 6, yet still crawl up all the ramps hoping for a unicorn. They all have indicator lights and they are all red.

 

[Pushka]

People who see the giant sign at the carpark entrance that tells you there are no spots available till level 6, yet still crawl up all the ramps hoping for a unicorn. They all have indicator lights and they are all red.

And when there aren't those lights, people crawl from the very beginning of the entrance, even though it's jam packed, or worse, stop and wait, when you know that just a little bit further up there are SPACES and you just sit there fuming.

 

[blackcat20]

And when there aren't those lights, people crawl from the very beginning of the entrance, even though it's jam packed, or worse, stop and wait, when you know that just a little bit further up there are SPACES and you just sit there fuming.

And being a hospital, those bottom 5 levels are always chockers at 8am unless you happen to spot someone leaving, but it just holds everyone else up who is trying to be on time to work.

 

[p--and--t]

WCMO is a bank sending me a "how did we do" survey every time I log on to do a funds transfer or bill pay which I do sometimes multiple times the same day.

 

[Flyfrequently]

Sitting in a hotel restaurant less than a third full for breakfast this morning and Mum with 2 kids sit down at the table nudging yours, but W really C'd MO was she was on her phone YouTube-ing or whatever with top volume completely oblivious to her surrounds and kids.

Or am I just a Grumpy Old Woman ?

 

[Pushka]

Sitting in a hotel restaurant less than a third full for breakfast this morning and Mum with 2 kids sit down at the table nudging yours, but W really C'd MO was she was on her phone YouTube-ing or whatever with top volume completely oblivious to her surrounds and kids.

Or am I just a Grumpy Old Woman ?

You are not a grumpy old woman and that behaviour is inexcusable. I'd have asked to change tables. Another poster here, and I, did exactly that in Singapore and we are simply not grumpy old women .

 

[Pushka]

Professionals who don't actually read the question you have sent them and send you back a response that you already know (given you've been doing that for years and they know that too) and go nowhere near the question you've asked.

 

[MARTINE]

Professionals who don't actually read the question you have sent them and send you back a response that you already know (given you've been doing that for years and they know that too) and go nowhere near the question you've asked.

i e politicians

 

[Pushka]

i e politicians

That's a deliberate strategy and the journalists rarely pin them down on this.

 

[Wing Nut]

You are not a grumpy old woman and that behaviour is inexcusable. I'd have asked to change tables. Another poster here, and I, did exactly that in Singapore and we are simply not grumpy old women .

Totally agree. In the ADL CL this arvo and a late twenty something walking up and down loudly on her phone. Made brief eye contact enough to say she didn't return.

 

[Flyfrequently]

You are not a grumpy old woman and that behaviour is inexcusable. I'd have asked to change tables. Another poster here, and I, did exactly that in Singapore and we are simply not grumpy old women .

Thank you for the vote of confidence.
We were just about to finish otherwise I would have asked @Pushka.
But I did what the Flyfrequently offspring call "Mum's death stare"!

 

[Pushka]

Thank you for the vote of confidence.
We were just about to finish otherwise I would have asked @Pushka.
But I did what the Flyfrequently offspring call "Mum's death stare"!

Last year we were in the Malaysian business lounge in the dining room. Woman next to us was zooming on her laptop, she had earphones on but we could hear everything that she was saying. It was a financial business meeting. Everyone around was watching her so I leant over and said that we could hear everything she was saying. She was shocked, clearly oblivious at the time, packed up and was out of the lounge in seconds. Reckon she was worried about what we'd heard.

 

[drron]

WCMO is window seat passengers being last on then proceed to rearrange their bags and finally can’t find space overhead. I resorted to the don’t you touch that bag.