simont | (no subject)

Arrgh. When you go to the kitchen for a cup of coffee, and two people are standing in there having a chat, and you have to ask one of them to move out of the way so you can get to the jar of coffee ... why can the other one, who's standing in front of the hot water machine, not exercise one or two brain cells and work out that once you have coffee in the mug you will have to ask him to move out of the way so you can get to that too? Even if he couldn't have proactively moved out of the way he could at least have avoided looking surprised.

I'm sure their conversation about chip design was of great commercial importance and was directly enhancing shareholder value, but it would have been nice if they could have been receptive to GREAT BIG HINTS that they were holding it in an outstandingly inconvenient place. For goodness' sake, just moving it six feet over to the less high-traffic corner of the kitchen would have been enough.

We've always been told that informal chats in the company kitchens are to be encouraged, are a major cause of Things Getting Done, and are an important social activity. I'm starting to think that in many cases they're actually an important antisocial activity.

As a wise man once said, "Out of my way, peasants!"