Work-related things that make you don your judgey pants

[stealthsquiggle]

So far this morning (maybe it's just me being grumpy because it's Monday) I have been wound up by:

• people getting parochial about stupid irrelevant things and insisting on involving everyone they know (or once met) on a conference call so that there are more people on "their side"

• people who put their degree / professional letters-after-name on their email signature and business cards (in an industry where having such a degree/certification is the norm)

-people with oh-so-witty email signatures - I just received one which says (where normal human beings would put "regards") the following:

Best regards/Salutations/Mit Freundlichen Gruessen/Abracos/Cordialement/Vriendelijke Groeten/Med Venlig Hilsen/Pozdrawiam/Ciao/Shalom/Sayonara/Melhores Cumprimentos/Hwyl Fawr/Au Revoir/Hasta Luego/Ystävällisin terveisin/Go raibh maith agat/Salaam/Nakemiin/Yeiasou/Antio/Kwaheri/Íyi günler/ שלום/感谢你和问候

WTF?!

• I should have said: it's our company policy to use British English.

Agree re: the degree thing - get over yourself FGS.

Re: the headset, I can go one better. Various people on a Friday morning (when the office is quiet) have a conference call. Two of them sit at their desks to pontificate loudly into their headset. The third goes into a meeting room roughly half way between the pontificators and puts them on loudspeaker. Because the rooms aren't soundproof we can now hear them pontificating once in the headset and once out of the loudspeaker. I should say there are other people on the call besides the three of them!

I'm afraid I was moved to email them to say "much as we know you love the sound of your own voices, we don't" and they suddenly became much, much quieter. I'm hoping to shame them into actually going into the meeting room which has been booked for their convenience this Friday.

And also agree re: that whole "please don't print this email" thing - who prints an email unless they actually need to?

That sounds so annoying Piccadilly. What makes them think they can correct your English?

Anyone who believes that British or American English is right and correct and the other is wrong annoys me. Use the one that is correct for your audience and just get on with it. No bitching about whether there should be a 'u' in 'colour'.