What is your biggest pet peeve?

Here are a few...

People who rant about other people that use poor grammar, when in fact there are errors in their own writing.

Command Maintenance Management Inspection while deployed into the VN Bush. Any inspection conducted while away from the FOB or Base Camp. It requires the Commander and 1st Sgt. be picked up by helicopter and taken to the site of the inspection while the Company twiddles their collective thumbs. One of the CMMI teams hit a mine and blew the wheels of their 3/4 ton truck. It didn't injure anyone but the Company Command structure gave them a standing ovation. LOL!

People who use poor grammar, misspell wrds ;), and don't communicate properly. I lose respect for people who send me emails with nothing but errors in them. I find it difficult to focus on their message when I have such a hard time reading it. It gives me the often false perception that I am dealing with an idiot when I am really just dealing with someone who was in a rush or who is lazy. Regardless, it bugs me. I am also annoyed by people who use words that don't exist or make sense... such as irregardless.

So I wish I could be on Rally Point more...but as I sit here and try to access RP from my work computer...another pet peeve comes to mind:

Marine Corps computers (cant speak for the other services seeing as I cant use their computers) are outdated with everything from software to hardware. Shoot we are still using IE7(Why we are using IE at all still blows my mind) but this limits what we can do as far as sites that require the most updated html rules ect. Sure most sites try to accommodate older browsers, but they often run slow....take for instances this post..it just took me almost 15 mintues to write this.

Also the fact that MC blocks sites that would aide me in doing my job is really irritating, sure I can request them to unblock it for use...but that takes weeks to approve.

Okay that is all for now. I do not plan on revising this until I get home so any spelling or grammatical mistakes Ill hit up later.

ONE of MY biggest pet peeves are folk who are now out of the military, STILL think they are in, and trying to give orders, and/or show/tell other people how " smart" they are. I wonder if they love to control every thing in their lives, like people around them. I, am NOT as knowledgeable about medicine as I was. I have seen theses folks in " action".

My two:

1. When personnel do not utilize Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF)

2. When a briefer does not "Brief by exception" (Matrix stuff)

And of course. The bonus...Soldiers in PT formations that forgot their reflective belt. (sorry..it's a CSM thing)

I get pretty upset when I correct a soldier i.e a uniform deficiency and they correct it on the spot, then see them 20 minutes later with the exact same deficiency.

Its okay in the end though, they end up improving their writing skills and I get to read a paper on AR 670-1

My biggest are people talking to me like I'm stupid because I have had a Severe TBI. Although, I also can't stand lazy and unmotivated people.

I really have a tie for my top pet peeve recently and they both deal with taskers:

- Someone higher up the chain sitting on a tasker or not sending the tasker to the appropriate person to answer it until 1 day before it is due (or the day it is due) even though they've had it for WEEKS and getting pissed off when everything else isn't dropped right away to answer the tasker immediately.

- Answering the same question over and over . . . and OVER again in the form of repetitive taskers, BUT in a different format each time I have to answer so copy/paste isn't useful or worth the effort.