I am beginning to be reminded of why I loathe jobhunting so much. I've already been ghosted by a recruiter (who I can't afford to piss off in case they come up with the goods next time...), had calls from people who've clearly just done a keyword search and not read my profile, and applied for a job that I could do but would bore me titless and is back in academia, where staff were treated like an inconvenience. The small company I was going to drop a line to (who were about to offer me an interview before I took another job last time...) have been taken over by a world-wide company who manage all their recruitment now.
I'd suggest taking your foot off the loud pedal *without* touching the brake, but if the driver behind twigs a bit late you could get rear-ended, or they could lose control and who knows what potentially lethal chaos could ensue. @Spike probably has a few cautionary tales about that sort of thing...
The advice in the DVSA’s book “Driving: The Essential Skills” is slowly lower your speed in order to increase the gap in front so that person following can overtake
I'd suggest taking your foot off the loud pedal *without* touching the brake, but if the driver behind twigs a bit late you could get rear-ended, or they could lose control and who knows what potentially lethal chaos could ensue. @Spike probably has a few cautionary tales about that sort of thing...
The advice in the DVSA’s book “Driving: The Essential Skills” is slowly lower your speed in order to increase the gap in front so that person following can overtake
That makes sense, although it assumes an empty lane on the right, which can be used for the overtaking.
If there is no empty lane, or space between oncoming vehicles, I take it that maintaining a safe speed (but with sufficient room in front if overtaking does take place) is OK?
What do you do about the ones who pull right up to your back bumper at red traffic lights, particularly when you are going to have to do a hill start when the lights change?
For those who know the area, I am thinking in particular of the lights where the Brighton Road crosses theA275 near Lewes.
What do you do about the ones who pull right up to your back bumper at red traffic lights, particularly when you are going to have to do a hill start when the lights change?
For those who know the area, I am thinking in particular of the lights where the Brighton Road crosses theA275 near Lewes.
Despair at their lack of imagination as to what could easily happen and cross my fingers as I hill start.
Let us add to the list companies who want you to apply online but whose drop-down menu of open jobs (which won't let you type one in) does not include the one they are advertising. How the feck am I meant to tailor my CV and supporting statement if I can't even tell you which job it's for?
Add to that that I'm badly feeling pigeonholed by the last 9 years, which is the stuff I'm fed up to the back teeth with, and I'm a grumpy bunny.
There must be a particular circle of hell for the composers of holding “music “. I had to listen to one such earworm for an hour when waiting to get through to my local gp surgery
Small fry compared to people seeking paid work, but can I at least direct in the general direction of Heck the volunteer recruiters who want all the same covering letter, CV, references and tiring recruitment process that recruiters for paying jobs want. It seems weird to have to beg charities to let me donate my time to them for free.
I would send to Hades automatic the wretched telephone answering machines which ask, " Please state clearly the service you require" ..... not easy. Oh, and can I include all voice activated machines like Alexa, Siri et al which also cause people with any sort of speech impediment undue anxiety and stress?
I would send to Hades automatic the wretched telephone answering machines which ask, " Please state clearly the service you require" ..... not easy. Oh, and can I include all voice activated machines like Alexa, Siri et al which also cause people with any sort of speech impediment undue anxiety and stress?
Amen. In some cases I start swearing at the things (not Alexa etc., I mean those systems on the phone). Sometimes, depending on the system, repeating “give me a human,” over and over, will work, but not always.
TICTH my newly installed mains fire alarm, which has started chirping - and will drive me slowly insane all night - before I ring up the electricians who put it in in this morning and argue with them
That's a pain!
Ours started doing that a couple of months ago, but fortunately I had kept the instructions and had a suitable sized battery to swap with the dying one.
But it had been fitted 8 years ago!.
I hope you manage to get some sleep, and give the electricians what-for in the morning!
Goodbye to my local W**tr**e, which I’ve only used up till now because it’s the closest supermarket by public transport. It’s reopened recently after a refit.
Not good. There’s not nearly enough “basic” stuff like everyday cleaning products, much more fancy expensive niche food and drink. And prices have gone up too.
Fortunately there’s a massive S****burys not much further away.
One of our local Co-Ops (the larger of the two) is currently being refitted - not before time, in all fairness - and I am hoping that it will NOT go the same way that so many supermarkets go these days, like @Sparrow 's W******e.
They plan to re-open at the beginning of December, so we shall see.
Goodbye to my local W**tr**e, which I’ve only used up till now because it’s the closest supermarket by public transport. It’s reopened recently after a refit.
Not good. There’s not nearly enough “basic” stuff like everyday cleaning products, much more fancy expensive niche food and drink. And prices have gone up too.
Fortunately there’s a massive S****burys not much further away.
Unfortunately that is par for the course for the W supermarket.
I suspect that, in a competitive marketplace, they have to concentrate on the products which mark them out. Our local W has recently been refitted (with lots of self-service checkouts, among other things; they're don't work very well). The cake selection - never as good as in some branches - has been much diminished but the basics don't seem to have vanished. It's more a case of finding where they now are! From my experience of another supermarket, different branches in the same chain don't all stock the same items and tend to sell their more "premium" products when they're (a) situated in more upmarket areas and (b) larger.
My W, which is my corner shop, is OK. Like @Baptist Trainfan 's branch it isn't great on cakes, the one near us in London was amazing, and the fruit and veg can be dodgy, but it is fine for most basics and the wine selection is good.
Our village Co-Op is OK for the basics - they do the best they can in a very cramped corner-shop space - but I'm hoping that the refitted store a mile or so away will offer more choice (including premium items).
There is a large Co-Op in a new residential development about four miles away - a pleasant drive through the countryside - and they do have a very much wider range of just about everything. Alas! parking is a problem - there are no designated spaces for us poor disabled peeps - so I don't go there any more.
There are big differences between large, small, and middle sizes at all the major food retailers, I guess.
Once a week, I bestow my patronage on a middle-sized Tesco store. It's fine for my modest wants, and a recent refit has improved the ranges available . There is a much bigger branch some miles away, but I simply can't cope with the physical effort of getting around a shop that size. The one I do go to is about as much as I can manage - I reckon on taking about 30 minutes from parking to leaving - using one of the smaller trollies as a walking-aid.
The Staff are very cheerful and helpful, too, which I'm told is not always the case in the mega-stores. Why, the Manager recently opened a closed till, and staffed it herself, on seeing me looking a bit weary...
All of which is simply to say that, for my part, I'll put up with a smaller choice of goods, if the place is manageable, and has helpful staff.
Our village Co-Op is OK for the basics - they do the best they can in a very cramped corner-shop space - but I'm hoping that the refitted store a mile or so away will offer more choice (including premium items).
There is a large Co-Op in a new residential development about four miles away - a pleasant drive through the countryside - and they do have a very much wider range of just about everything. Alas! parking is a problem - there are no designated spaces for us poor disabled peeps - so I don't go there any more.
How do they get away with NO designated parking spots for disability? That's impossible here.
To get to the car park from Tessie's in Linlithgow you have to walk across a little plaza sort of thing, so I imagine that even the disabled spaces will be quite a trek for anyone with mobility problems. It's not a full-on huge supermarket, but I think bigger than your average Metro one. It seems to stock most of the things that I usually want; if I want to go a bit upmarket (say, just after payday), I'll have a little expotition out to M&S.
Our village Co-Op is OK for the basics - they do the best they can in a very cramped corner-shop space - but I'm hoping that the refitted store a mile or so away will offer more choice (including premium items).
There is a large Co-Op in a new residential development about four miles away - a pleasant drive through the countryside - and they do have a very much wider range of just about everything. Alas! parking is a problem - there are no designated spaces for us poor disabled peeps - so I don't go there any more.
How do they get away with NO designated parking spots for disability? That's impossible here.
I would have thought it wouldn't be possible here either. Something to take up with the co-op if you have the energy @Bishops Finger
You both make very good points, and I'm wondering if I somehow missed seeing the designated parking spots that should indeed be there.
The Co-Op shares the site with the new village's community hall, and several other businesses, but the building and development work is not yet quite complete (or wasn't when I last visited, some weeks ago). Another trip is called for!
@Bishops Finger I just had a fantasy of shipmates from all around the World sending messages to your W demanding mobility carparks, but will desist in case they're there but you missed seeing them.
Still they should be well signposted.
The fine for ineligible people parking in mobility carparks here has just doubled. I don't drive now but I was pleased to hear it because I know some people with disabilities have had to go home without buying anything because they were unable to access the shops.
The disabled spaces at Tesco are wider than usual, with hatched areas to be kept clear, so that car doors can be fully opened, and wheelchairs manoeuvred.
There was nothing like that in the parking area at the new Co-Op, as far as I could tell, but it could be that they were closer to the community hall than the shop - or else it could be that TPTB forgot to put them in! As you say, they're supposed to be well signed, too.
@Bishops Finger I am in the same boat, big stores wear me out. I was so happy to find two small stores close by, one is a Mexican market. Both have helpful and friendly staff, so much so even if larger store was easy for me to get around I would still stick to the small ones.
What do you do about the ones who pull right up to your back bumper at red traffic lights, particularly when you are going to have to do a hill start when the lights change?
For those who know the area, I am thinking in particular of the lights where the Brighton Road crosses theA275 near Lewes.
I do most of my shopping at Aldi as it is just over the road, though sometimes I go to the small independent greengrocer and butcher a few minutes’ walk away. I rarely go to a large supermarket as I feel overwhelmed by so much choice. It is so unnecessary.
Myself. I picked up my needlework to find I had left a stain on it, either orange juice or tea I suspect. The stain has faded a bit with one wash and I think it might disappear when I let it dry in the sun - fingers crossed.
I didn't want to do this needlework but a friend was quite insistent because he had seen a piece I had done several year ago for someone else. Since then my vision has deteriorated markedly. in addition it's spring here and my eyes are running madly due to the jasmine.
Actually, while I'm at it I thing he should be consigned to hell as well.
Cyclists who ride like maniacs in a 'pedestrianised' byway and don't have bells on their bikes and shout at you as if it's your fault they narrowly missed running you (an elderly gentleman) over. Oh yes, and wear lycra.
Mrs RR says it wasn't really pedestrianised. But it looked like it to me.
I'll stick my stick in his spokes if I get a chance.
Mrs RR adds: 'I consign to hell all grumpy old scroats who don't look where they're going'.
Discombobulating, I agree, but whatever you do, DON'T make the cyclist fall off their bike, tempting though it might be - you might cause injury or even death.
It still behoves cyclists to take care, though, especially when approaching pedestrians from behind...
I'm deaf so don't hear cyclists on pavements coming up behind me. I once accidently knocked one off his bike on a very busy and narrow pavement. I can't say I was sorry. I hate with a passion 'shared cycle paths/walkways'. I don't think they are safe for either cyclists or walkers.
I'm deaf so don't hear cyclists on pavements coming up behind me. I once accidently knocked one off his bike on a very busy and narrow pavement. I can't say I was sorry. I hate with a passion 'shared cycle paths/walkways'. I don't think they are safe for either cyclists or walkers.
From the cyclists' point of view, I would agree with you. There will always be people who walk in cycle lanes (especially where the two are alongside each other, seperated only by a bit of paint) but forcing the two sets of users into the same space, especially when it's narrow, badly maintained, dark, and all the other things they seem to be these days, is far from ideal. Especially if, like you, you have something that affects your perception of who is where.
I'm deaf so don't hear cyclists on pavements coming up behind me. I once accidently knocked one off his bike on a very busy and narrow pavement. I can't say I was sorry. I hate with a passion 'shared cycle paths/walkways'. I don't think they are safe for either cyclists or walkers.
From the cyclists' point of view, I would agree with you. There will always be people who walk in cycle lanes (especially where the two are alongside each other, seperated only by a bit of paint) but forcing the two sets of users into the same space, especially when it's narrow, badly maintained, dark, and all the other things they seem to be these days, is far from ideal. Especially if, like you, you have something that affects your perception of who is where.
Indeed. Their existence can be dangerous for cyclists even when we don't use them because we then get close "punishment passes" (aka using a vehicle as a weapon to intimidate another road user in a way that risks injury or death to them) by motorists who believe we should be "on the f***ing cycle path".
Separate segregation is what is needed. Or competent and careful drivers.
Not sure if I'm condemning myself to Hell for completely and utterly losing my temper today over something that on the surface is quite trivial or I'm condemning the person who's decided it's their mission to get me to come to coffee/church social events and isn't taking no for an answer. They have been sniping at me about it weekly recently, but it's been on and off for a few years now.
I started with the polite replies, moved onto more blunt explanations, and today saw me seeing red when they came up to me as I was doing the post church tidy up tasks (both my own organist related ones, the usual kind of tidy up and putting away of booklets and papers, and this week, the things the local schools had moved around but not moved back,) and said "Now, you're coming to this event and I'm not taking "No" for an answer", then on seeing my face, "Oh, I know you'll say no, I'm just joking. Can't you take a joke?"
Maybe I can't take a "joke". I've been accused of it before.
But today after a lot of these kinds of comments dripping, I'd had enough, I exploded and spoke my mind. I'm sure there will be consequences later...
Not sure if I'm condemning myself to Hell for completely and utterly losing my temper today over something that on the surface is quite trivial or I'm condemning the person who's decided it's their mission to get me to come to coffee/church social events and isn't taking no for an answer. They have been sniping at me about it weekly recently, but it's been on and off for a few years now.
I started with the polite replies, moved onto more blunt explanations, and today saw me seeing red when they came up to me as I was doing the post church tidy up tasks (both my own organist related ones, the usual kind of tidy up and putting away of booklets and papers, and this week, the things the local schools had moved around but not moved back,) and said "Now, you're coming to this event and I'm not taking "No" for an answer", then on seeing my face, "Oh, I know you'll say no, I'm just joking. Can't you take a joke?"
Maybe I can't take a "joke". I've been accused of it before.
But today after a lot of these kinds of comments dripping, I'd had enough, I exploded and spoke my mind. I'm sure there will be consequences later...
@Japes - this sounds like a bullying issue. Take it up with your minister and/or safeguarding person, if the problem persists.
(We had a somewhat similar incident at Our Place some years ago, involving two prominent members of the congregation. We had no priest at the time, so I, as Lay Reader, referred it upwards to our Area Dean, who advised me that it was indeed a bullying case.)
Thanks, everyone, for confirming my own suspicions. No point in talking to our priest, (who is one of the more complex reasons I don't go to social events) but I have explained what led up to it all to our safeguarding person.
I rarely lose my temper, when I do it takes forever to cool down, and I'm mostly inclined to blame myself for handling things badly if I've got to this point.
I have been firmly stating "Only a joke if we're both laughing" to the "Only a joke" line then not engaging any more. (The line we regularly use with my additional needs students who so often need help understanding this.)
Company R sent me, through the post, a form to complete and return. There was no address on the form for me to return it to, but in tiny letters at the bottom of the covering letter there was their Registered Office Address.
I phoned to confirm this was the address to which I had to return the form. I got an automatic message that their lines were "unusually busy" but the answers to most questions are on their website.
Much hunting round their website did not reveal their postal address. So I tried submitting a question. In order to ask "What is your address?" I had to answer 7 questions. Then I got an error message. The "date of birth" was just a box, no indication of the form in which the date of birth had to be entered and it took me three attempts to get it right.
Then I got a message that they would normally reply within 5 days, but it might be longer.
So I phoned again. Took a best guess at the "press 1 for X, 2 for Y", was on hold for 11 minutes, and then the person who answered told me they couldn't tell me their address until I had answered their security questions. One of which (the date on the original letter) I couldn't answer without going and raking through my filing cabinet. Fortunately, as I'd got the first four questions right, she relented and confirmed that their Registered Office was indeed the address to which I had to post the form.
My phone call to a bank this morning was almost as bad. I have a closed current account with them and a savings account with zero balance. I have no longer got access online, nor a telephone pass code. 35 minutes on the phone trying to answer enough security questions eventually got me through. I had to be read a whole spiel of legalese before they would tell me what message had been left in My Documents and they finally agreed to close all accounts.
Professional Conference Ridiculousness, not restricted to but definitely including:
Presenters whose first words are something akin to "Is this thing on? *tap-tap* Can you all hear me?!" FFS -- DO A FREAKING SOUND CHECK IN ADVANCE. Thin is especially charming after they've been introduced by someone else using the same mic.
Pair that with presenters who fail to confirm their technology needs/capabilities before they're on the clock. "Um... let's see here... this worked fine at home on my TV..." STAY AT HOME THEN AND PRESENT TO YOUR CAT.
Presenters who forego a mic because, as they always share proudly with the audience, "I never use a mic -- I've never had to use one because I'm just naturally loud." INVARIABLY THEY BECOME INAUDIBLE AND/OR UNINTELLIGIBLE AFTER JUST A FEW MINUTES, BECAUSE THEY CONTINUALLY TURN THEIR BACK TO LOOK AT THEIR OWN POWERPOINT ON SCREEN.
Presenters who start their session with an Ice Breaker. BLOODY HELL, I'M NOT HERE TO PLAY AN ADOLESCENT PARTY GAME. JUST STOP IT.
Presenters who preface their session with a disclaimer that they're about to gloss in 30-45min something that usually takes a three day long immersive course. JUST EMAIL AN OUTLINE, THEN. IF I THINK IT'S INTRIGUING I'LL ENROLL FOR THE LONG WEEKEND VERSION.
Presenters who share that there will be Q&A at the end, but then run their presentation right up to the end time, or a couple of minutes beyond the of the session, then ask for questions. I'M SO SORRY. YOU ARE ALL THE WAY OUT OF TIME, AND WE HAVE A FULL SCHEDULE OF SESSIONS.
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Apart from that it's great...
The advice in the DVSA’s book “Driving: The Essential Skills” is slowly lower your speed in order to increase the gap in front so that person following can overtake
That makes sense, although it assumes an empty lane on the right, which can be used for the overtaking.
If there is no empty lane, or space between oncoming vehicles, I take it that maintaining a safe speed (but with sufficient room in front if overtaking does take place) is OK?
For those who know the area, I am thinking in particular of the lights where the Brighton Road crosses theA275 near Lewes.
Despair at their lack of imagination as to what could easily happen and cross my fingers as I hill start.
Add to that that I'm badly feeling pigeonholed by the last 9 years, which is the stuff I'm fed up to the back teeth with, and I'm a grumpy bunny.
Amen. In some cases I start swearing at the things (not Alexa etc., I mean those systems on the phone). Sometimes, depending on the system, repeating “give me a human,” over and over, will work, but not always.
Sometimes? Always….
Ours started doing that a couple of months ago, but fortunately I had kept the instructions and had a suitable sized battery to swap with the dying one.
But it had been fitted 8 years ago!.
I hope you manage to get some sleep, and give the electricians what-for in the morning!
Not good. There’s not nearly enough “basic” stuff like everyday cleaning products, much more fancy expensive niche food and drink. And prices have gone up too.
Fortunately there’s a massive S****burys not much further away.
They plan to re-open at the beginning of December, so we shall see.
Unfortunately that is par for the course for the W supermarket.
There is a large Co-Op in a new residential development about four miles away - a pleasant drive through the countryside - and they do have a very much wider range of just about everything. Alas! parking is a problem - there are no designated spaces for us poor disabled peeps - so I don't go there any more.
Once a week, I bestow my patronage on a middle-sized Tesco store. It's fine for my modest wants, and a recent refit has improved the ranges available
The Staff are very cheerful and helpful, too, which I'm told is not always the case in the mega-stores. Why, the Manager recently opened a closed till, and staffed it herself, on seeing me looking a bit weary...
All of which is simply to say that, for my part, I'll put up with a smaller choice of goods, if the place is manageable, and has helpful staff.
How do they get away with NO designated parking spots for disability? That's impossible here.
You both make very good points, and I'm wondering if I somehow missed seeing the designated parking spots that should indeed be there.
The Co-Op shares the site with the new village's community hall, and several other businesses, but the building and development work is not yet quite complete (or wasn't when I last visited, some weeks ago). Another trip is called for!
Still they should be well signposted.
The fine for ineligible people parking in mobility carparks here has just doubled. I don't drive now but I was pleased to hear it because I know some people with disabilities have had to go home without buying anything because they were unable to access the shops.
The disabled spaces at Tesco are wider than usual, with hatched areas to be kept clear, so that car doors can be fully opened, and wheelchairs manoeuvred.
There was nothing like that in the parking area at the new Co-Op, as far as I could tell, but it could be that they were closer to the community hall than the shop - or else it could be that TPTB forgot to put them in! As you say, they're supposed to be well signed, too.
Go annoyingly slow.....
I didn't want to do this needlework but a friend was quite insistent because he had seen a piece I had done several year ago for someone else. Since then my vision has deteriorated markedly. in addition it's spring here and my eyes are running madly due to the jasmine.
Actually, while I'm at it I thing he should be consigned to hell as well.
Mrs RR says it wasn't really pedestrianised. But it looked like it to me.
I'll stick my stick in his spokes if I get a chance.
Mrs RR adds: 'I consign to hell all grumpy old scroats who don't look where they're going'.
Discombobulating, I agree, but whatever you do, DON'T make the cyclist fall off their bike, tempting though it might be - you might cause injury or even death.
It still behoves cyclists to take care, though, especially when approaching pedestrians from behind...
From the cyclists' point of view, I would agree with you. There will always be people who walk in cycle lanes (especially where the two are alongside each other, seperated only by a bit of paint) but forcing the two sets of users into the same space, especially when it's narrow, badly maintained, dark, and all the other things they seem to be these days, is far from ideal. Especially if, like you, you have something that affects your perception of who is where.
ETA Cycling "facilities" like this don't help... this is local to me: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/geraint.jones/rhydychen.org/cider.press/oxford.bike/NCN51.html
Indeed. Their existence can be dangerous for cyclists even when we don't use them because we then get close "punishment passes" (aka using a vehicle as a weapon to intimidate another road user in a way that risks injury or death to them) by motorists who believe we should be "on the f***ing cycle path".
Separate segregation is what is needed. Or competent and careful drivers.
I started with the polite replies, moved onto more blunt explanations, and today saw me seeing red when they came up to me as I was doing the post church tidy up tasks (both my own organist related ones, the usual kind of tidy up and putting away of booklets and papers, and this week, the things the local schools had moved around but not moved back,) and said "Now, you're coming to this event and I'm not taking "No" for an answer", then on seeing my face, "Oh, I know you'll say no, I'm just joking. Can't you take a joke?"
Maybe I can't take a "joke". I've been accused of it before.
But today after a lot of these kinds of comments dripping, I'd had enough, I exploded and spoke my mind. I'm sure there will be consequences later...
FWIW I don’t blame you, not one bit. 🤗
"She was the kind of woman who went around doing good to other people, and you could tell the other people by their hunted looks."
(We had a somewhat similar incident at Our Place some years ago, involving two prominent members of the congregation. We had no priest at the time, so I, as Lay Reader, referred it upwards to our Area Dean, who advised me that it was indeed a bullying case.)
I rarely lose my temper, when I do it takes forever to cool down, and I'm mostly inclined to blame myself for handling things badly if I've got to this point.
I have been firmly stating "Only a joke if we're both laughing" to the "Only a joke" line then not engaging any more. (The line we regularly use with my additional needs students who so often need help understanding this.)
Company R sent me, through the post, a form to complete and return. There was no address on the form for me to return it to, but in tiny letters at the bottom of the covering letter there was their Registered Office Address.
I phoned to confirm this was the address to which I had to return the form. I got an automatic message that their lines were "unusually busy" but the answers to most questions are on their website.
Much hunting round their website did not reveal their postal address. So I tried submitting a question. In order to ask "What is your address?" I had to answer 7 questions. Then I got an error message. The "date of birth" was just a box, no indication of the form in which the date of birth had to be entered and it took me three attempts to get it right.
Then I got a message that they would normally reply within 5 days, but it might be longer.
So I phoned again. Took a best guess at the "press 1 for X, 2 for Y", was on hold for 11 minutes, and then the person who answered told me they couldn't tell me their address until I had answered their security questions. One of which (the date on the original letter) I couldn't answer without going and raking through my filing cabinet. Fortunately, as I'd got the first four questions right, she relented and confirmed that their Registered Office was indeed the address to which I had to post the form.
Presenters whose first words are something akin to "Is this thing on? *tap-tap* Can you all hear me?!" FFS -- DO A FREAKING SOUND CHECK IN ADVANCE. Thin is especially charming after they've been introduced by someone else using the same mic.
Pair that with presenters who fail to confirm their technology needs/capabilities before they're on the clock. "Um... let's see here... this worked fine at home on my TV..." STAY AT HOME THEN AND PRESENT TO YOUR CAT.
Presenters who forego a mic because, as they always share proudly with the audience, "I never use a mic -- I've never had to use one because I'm just naturally loud." INVARIABLY THEY BECOME INAUDIBLE AND/OR UNINTELLIGIBLE AFTER JUST A FEW MINUTES, BECAUSE THEY CONTINUALLY TURN THEIR BACK TO LOOK AT THEIR OWN POWERPOINT ON SCREEN.
Presenters who start their session with an Ice Breaker. BLOODY HELL, I'M NOT HERE TO PLAY AN ADOLESCENT PARTY GAME. JUST STOP IT.
Presenters who preface their session with a disclaimer that they're about to gloss in 30-45min something that usually takes a three day long immersive course. JUST EMAIL AN OUTLINE, THEN. IF I THINK IT'S INTRIGUING I'LL ENROLL FOR THE LONG WEEKEND VERSION.
Presenters who share that there will be Q&A at the end, but then run their presentation right up to the end time, or a couple of minutes beyond the of the session, then ask for questions. I'M SO SORRY. YOU ARE ALL THE WAY OUT OF TIME, AND WE HAVE A FULL SCHEDULE OF SESSIONS.