WHAT ARE YOUR PET PEEVE(s)?

[LITTLEBOYBLUE]

Not that I want to go out of our way to have a negative topic...but was just "flashing" (goodbye, Chuck) on a memory and thought it might be interesting to ask what sort of regular occurence things in your radio workplace used to get under your skin (that may not bother the next guy/gal).

The one I was flashing on were the times I worked overnights and was told I should do a wake-up call to morning guy because he was just coming in from some evening of partying.  In those days my overnights usually were in addition to doing morning news ... so it was easy to get distracted with checking news wires, newspapers, etc and before I realized it often 60-90 minutes after the "wake up" call was due.  Morning guy would be late for his show...tear me a new one and off we'd go.  But one time my retort was to remind said morning guy that HE makes a helluva lot more money than the overnight guy and could PROBABLY afford a freaking alarm clock that was more reliable if he couldn't be bothered just to go to bed at a decent time and back off the night life.  Not a good argument as PD would up giving me involuntary marching orders not long after that.

(Which, by the way, is another pet peeve...talent that goes out of their way to be a PD's "pet"!!!)

[Wonderfulwino]

Having to take the board from the previous jock who had six straight hours of farts-into-the-chair.

[Bongwater]

Getting my brand new EXPENSIVE headphones stolen......

[Manny Michaels]

Threads like this...I'm just sayin'.

[LITTLEBOYBLUE]

Threads like this...I'm just sayin'.

I apologize.  Didn't mean to offend.
I'll try to stick to topics about offensive Pat Benatar cuts on KMCQ and signal strength of a translator in Darrington vs. a Nanaimo flamethrower on same frequency.

[dunno]

1. No TP in the station john. 
2. Person after you not at least poking head in to say I'm here, or worse yet being 20 min late.
3. On air PD moving music to wherever to make it sound good.
Then you moving same catagory to make a contest work and getting ripped for it.
4. Coming in after control room party and doing the cleanup.  One station, many years ago, being the night guy, had to clean the whole joint every night because owner was too cheap.
5. Gary Crow putting his name and crow on every record!  lol

2 good topics in a row blue!

[dunno]

Another one,

The lack of real radio people on this board.  C'mon, a fun topic.  There must be more gas in the chair peeve's.  lol  This should be enough to get Bean back on board!

[Randy Roadz]

Hmmm... where to start-

On air people who, when talking about the following day actually say the day of the week instead of tomorrow
(in other words... on Thursday you wouldn't say "coming up Friday"... you should say "coming up tomorrow" DUH

Phrases like "top of the hour", "it's ____ after the hour", "tonight at 10pm" (redundant), "it's ____ DEGREES OUTSIDE"

Lack of planning for breaks... going in with no idea what they're going to do

Just the tip of the berg...

[TowerLamp]

PD who constantly fiddles with the processing. Just get used to a certain sound in the phones and next day it's all changed (Not such a biggie now with HD delay).
Squeaky Control room chair
coffee and Coke spills on console
noisy pots
hotline ringing while I'm on mic.

[Randy Roadz]

Oh... and when going into a commercial break...

"I'LL BE RIGHT BACK WITH ________"

Where are you going???