How to annoy me

It's been quite a week so far.  I thought I'd document how one can annoy me-- true examples sampled from this week.

• Talk/present/argue with one's eyes shut.  Eye contact, please.  If you want to annoy me even more, talk to me while looking at my chest.  Neither is an effective communication technique.
• Interrupt and/or talk over me or a colleague during a discussion.  I'm not impressed and I'm not easily intimidated.  When one employs this communication strategy, I'm inclined to consider the speaker a bully.  Again, this is not an effective communication technique.
• Tell my university colleagues that you think "librarians just check out books.  That's ALL they do." and then expect me to respond to a Byzantine request for your unit in a heartbeat.  I'm inclined to respond to the request in Russian (using Cyrillic script, not a transliteration) just because I can.
• Ask me to violate by-laws and/or rules or ask me to ask another group to violate those rules to further your political agenda.  You've asked me my opinion, I gave it, and no, I won't tell you what you want to hear.
• Ask me favors, write me notes, write me e-mail and refer to me by an incorrect name.  If you can find my e-mail address, find my office, find my phone number, then you can read my name.  I have come up with some humdingers for people who messed up my name in the past.  Like the choral director who kept calling me "Linda" until I called him "Mr. Roach." 

Who knows what Friday will bring?!??!
Sadly, I could go on.

Comments

[Suzanne]

If I want to see Russian in Cyrillic script do I have to behave like a jerk?

[lauragayle]

Nyet. But you get my gist. If I write the answer in Russian, I've still answered the question.