PeevePile • A Pet Peeve Archive

"It will be good for your portfolio" after asking you to do something for them for free.
When is something going to be good for my stock portfolio?

— Biffy from Brooklyn, NY | Work | 9.24.2009 | Comments (1)

As soon as I fart in my office, someone always comes in right after.
The minute I let one rip, someone comes in and needs to lean over my shoulder and point at my monitor to solve some problem, as a stinky breeze slowly filters through the room

— Alan Shitty from Calgary | Work | 11.14.2009 | Comments (1)

When people ask me if I work at my place of work!
I get this all the time! I'm standing behind the counter, folding merchandise wearing my lanyard, and people still come up and ask me "Do you work here?"

— Brooke from Indinanpolis, IN | Work | 2.24.2010 | Comments (2)

"Coming out of retirement"
Jay-Z and Lance Armstrong, I am looking at you.

— jmc from long island city | Work | 5.10.2009 | Comments (1)

When office emailing conventions cause you to write in ways that make you lose respect for yourself.
Hi there, team! Just a quick FYI about the upcoming PowerPoint seminar! I know that everyone is multi-tasking in anticipation of the holiday closing, but if you could just check in or touch base with me about any feedback you have on draft 168 of the accompanying 72pp report, that would be super! :) Diana

— Diana from Brooklyn, NY | Work | 12.12.2008 | Comments (5)

Rubber bands that are too small for the pile of paper they're supposed to be holding together, especially if the pile is thin and would work with a paper clip.
It won't lay flat!

— Lisa B from Lancaster, PA | Work | 8.9.2009 | Comments (0)

Getting rejected for a job by snail mail
You submit a resume to a company for a job opening via email. A few *months* later, a letter arrives via the post office thanking you for your interest but acknowledging that your candidacy doesn't meet the company's present needs.

— Jacob Share from Israel | Work | 2.23.2009 | Comments (2)

when you dream that you're at work and then wake up and realize it's time to go to work.

— zoomusicgirl from Washington DC | Work | 2.13.2009 | Comments (4)

Assuming the receptionist is there to entertain you because she is a captive audience.
Just because someone is stuck behind their desk does not mean they want to hear about your ear infection/thoughts on politics/why you hate cats while you wait.

— D.A.Darling from Las Vegas, NV | Work | 10.30.2008 | Comments (8)

Slide show or powerpoint presentations in which the presenter reads exactly what is on the slide.

— Hairnette Funicello from malibu | Work | 10.7.2008 | Comments (5)

When people treat you like a slacker while job-searching.
Just because I am not currently employed does not mean it is because I am not actively looking. So, please, if you talk to me, don't say, "Have you started looking for a job yet? Well, Then why aren't you working? Can't you find anything?" Because I've already heard it. A lot. And even if I were a slacker and hadn't started to look yet, your little attitude there would not be the thing to encourage me.

— Lydia from Maryland | Work | 4.12.2009 | Comments (2)

When the staple won't go all the way through your stack of paper.

— carrie g from | Work | 7.1.2009 | Comments (7)

Loud laughter among people you dislike.
Blar har har har har!!

— Stuart from Boston | Work | 7.8.2009 | Comments (8)

When the most boring and phenomenally talkative coworker shows up at the lunch table and utterly destroys your one moment of peace.
I've got 20 minutes, a plate of steaming homemade lasagna and the newspaper. Then, you-know-who sits down across from me and asks if I've ever heard of [fill in anything obvious], doesn't wait for a response and launches into a neverending spiral of chatter and doom.

— JJ from san francisco, ca | Work | 7.18.2009 | Comments (3)

When people make you take your shoes off before entering their house/apartment. » I guess it makes more sense in the winter/spring, when people have on shoes that have been in mud, snow, slush, etc. It does make the place easier to clean, but it is annoying to me (as the guest) because now MY socks are covered in hair/skin cells/general place filthiness. So the peeve goes both ways. – KimK 3/21

Constant belly-rubbing by pregnant ladies » When you're used to being SKINNY, and all of a sudden you have this HUGE belly.... it's kind of hard to keep your hands away from it. Not to mention, I seem to hit my belly against things (since I'm not used to having it) and keeping my hands there, reminds me to pay attention to it. – Jami 3/20

When people make you take your shoes off before entering their house/apartment. » i think for me it's just family/cultural practice. my dad's from guam, and that whole side of the family doesn't think twice before taking off shoes at the door. – whothegoods 3/17

I hate it when people stick their Bluetooth headsets in their ears and walk around when they're not using them. It just looks really, really stupid. » They startle me in public too, when they suddenly start talking LOUDLY to themselves...while they are alone...in the middle of the supermarket. I think "crazy, or Bluetooth?" – Ami 3/17

I hate it when people stick their Bluetooth headsets in their ears and walk around when they're not using them. It just looks really, really stupid. » I call that look "business douche". 50% human, 50% robot, 100% asshole. – Brandi 3/16

When people make you take your shoes off before entering their house/apartment. » I have to side with the poster on this one. I think if you have guests over, you should just deal. It's not an every day thing. – jmc 3/15

02.11.10

Send in your mobile phone pet peeves for the week of February 15th! Perhaps the simplest and most common generator of peeves, the mobile phone prods and pricks us in all places, public and private. With skull phones just around the corner, it’s likely these peeves will soon become irrelevant—so let’s spray them across the galaxy while we still can.

01.18.10

For the next week or so, the pictures for peeves will be of Peeve Pile’s national spokesperson, Rob Grace, and his special person, Shana, enacting various peeves. Please feel free to make such pictures yourself. Just include a link to them when submitting a peeve.

01.02.10

Hello. I’ve added a voting feature, so you can vote as you assume that you would – just click on a one-to-five star rating (it will tell you your vote has been recorded); five indicating that you completely agree with, or find the peeve amusing, one meaning the opposite.

Once a bunch of ratings are in, I’ll add a worst, and best rated area to the right column.