Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[ebikeerwidnes]

One thing I find irritating: People who use their qualifications where they are not appropriate. eg somebopdy who has a PhD in Astronomy referring to themselves as Dr eg when writing to their Council Planning Department. Or somebody with an M.Sc in microbiology writing using eg John Smith B.Sc (hons.) M.Sc when posting a personal blog entry about their family holiday. Using post-nominals /titles when relevant to the context find but when irrelevant to me it seems just arrogance.

Ian

Me to
I have a friend that I have known from school who was a lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University
He decided it would be good for him to do a PhD and eventually completed it so he became Dr Roberts

In his job he was then referred to as Dr Roberts on the timetable and his office door and all that



he reckons that one of the ways to sort out the people worth talking to at work and conferences was to see how pedantic they were about the titles they had
if they insisted on being called Dr all the time then they were worth avoiding outside pure work stuff

 

[Electric_Andy]

One thing I find irritating: People who use their qualifications where they are not appropriate. eg somebopdy who has a PhD in Astronomy referring to themselves as Dr eg when writing to their Council Planning Department. Or somebody with an M.Sc in microbiology writing using eg John Smith B.Sc (hons.) M.Sc when posting a personal blog entry about their family holiday. Using post-nominals /titles when relevant to the context find but when irrelevant to me it seems just arrogance.

Ian

I know, I've worked with many people who have PhDs and insist on adding to their email signature. Perhaps more annoyingly, a lady I work with is a qualified nurse but does not work as a nurse now. But still puts "[job title] and specialist nurse" in the email sig!

 

[Beebo]

Officers of the rank of Major and above can use their title even after leaving the army.

Luckily not many bother these days.

 

[Chris S]

It's the same with vicars. Richard Coles still uses the title 'Reverend' even though he is no longer a priest.

 

[ColinJ]

One thing I find irritating: People who use their qualifications where they are not appropriate. eg somebopdy who has a PhD in Astronomy referring to themselves as Dr eg when writing to their Council Planning Department. Or somebody with an M.Sc in microbiology writing using eg John Smith B.Sc (hons.) M.Sc when posting a personal blog entry about their family holiday. Using post-nominals /titles when relevant to the context find but when irrelevant to me it seems just arrogance.

Ian

I just realised that it had never occurred to me to mention it!

ColinJ B.Sc (Hons)

 

[Profpointy]

Taps that turn the wrong way, and usually both then turn in opposite directions. I nearly broke one in a guest house as I assumed it was just a bit tight!

It is doubly annoying for me from the time I used to SCUBS dive and one of the important "skills" is turning valves on and off behind your head so the "muscle-memory" is quite ingrained.

 

[Electric_Andy]

I just realised that it had never occurred to me to mention it!

ColinJ B.Sc (Hons)

Well, if everyone else is doing it I guess there's no harm.

Electric Andy
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