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My company is competing in the Calgary Corporate Challenge. So far I've had fun at the two things I've done. The first was to cheer on LA in the "Corporate Idol" singing competition. The second was tonight's darts tournament.
Darts was fine. Overall we lost all our games, but I was one of the two players who "won" their end, so I'm feeling OK for someone who hasn't played darts in a sufficient amount of time that I had to search to find mine. We were in a cluster of about four companies that were playing against each other and all those other teams were fine. They were friendly, even handed when there was a rules dispute, and all showed great sportsmanship. It was fun losing to three of them.
The problem was that one of the other clusters included Diversified Staffing. Or more to the point, DivStaff includes a couple of idiots who think that "make noise for your team" is equivalent to "deafen everyone else in the building". Hooting and hollering, clapping and stomping, I'm OK with that. Clapping devices are going overboard, but OK, I can live with them if you moderate their use (when you win a round for example, rather than continually.
Air horns should be right out, especially in your average sized community hall.
Needless to say, they were using them continually. They were also impervious to dirty looks. Fine, they're assholes. I've had to deal with assholes before, and no one else is complaining.
I took a break from it between rounds, going outside just to escape the noise. There we discovered a few other people who also had come outside to escape the air horn.
When I went back inside, I tried to ignore them, until one jackass decided to play drums with the inflatable clapping sticks on his coworkers heads (playfully, they seemed to not mind) and accidentally hit a coworker. He did say he was sorry, but that's the extent of his good manners.
So I bitched to an official. Won't do it willingly? How about being ordered to do it. Asshole had a talking too and they did, in fact, lay off the air horn for the rest of the night. They redoubled their efforts with every other noise making prop they had, which was irritating, but that's all it was.
And of course, having to confront someone I was a bundle of anxious adrenalin for the next half hour which did not improve my game any. I was running through "defend-myself-from-an-attack-in-the-parking-lot scenarios in my head just in case.
On the bright side, the anxiety didn't improve my game, but the game improved my anxiety. I was feeling a lot more calm as we played.
You know what pisses me off? People who are aggressively annoying because they can't be bothered to consider the people around them. Moreover, people who think the response to being told this is to double-down in an attempt to teach you some kind of lesson. The only lesson being jerks exist, which I'm confident we all know already.
In other news, Corporate Idol finals are at Flames Central on Friday, so I'll be missing archery again. Next week is trivia, which I'm team captain for. Looking forward to it.
Darts was fine. Overall we lost all our games, but I was one of the two players who "won" their end, so I'm feeling OK for someone who hasn't played darts in a sufficient amount of time that I had to search to find mine. We were in a cluster of about four companies that were playing against each other and all those other teams were fine. They were friendly, even handed when there was a rules dispute, and all showed great sportsmanship. It was fun losing to three of them.
The problem was that one of the other clusters included Diversified Staffing. Or more to the point, DivStaff includes a couple of idiots who think that "make noise for your team" is equivalent to "deafen everyone else in the building". Hooting and hollering, clapping and stomping, I'm OK with that. Clapping devices are going overboard, but OK, I can live with them if you moderate their use (when you win a round for example, rather than continually.
Air horns should be right out, especially in your average sized community hall.
Needless to say, they were using them continually. They were also impervious to dirty looks. Fine, they're assholes. I've had to deal with assholes before, and no one else is complaining.
I took a break from it between rounds, going outside just to escape the noise. There we discovered a few other people who also had come outside to escape the air horn.
When I went back inside, I tried to ignore them, until one jackass decided to play drums with the inflatable clapping sticks on his coworkers heads (playfully, they seemed to not mind) and accidentally hit a coworker. He did say he was sorry, but that's the extent of his good manners.
"You need to watch what you're doing. And while we're on the subject, lay off the fucking air horn - you're inside a building."He kept talking but I threw up the hand, turned and walked away. Seriously, you're arguing about this because I hurt your feelings? My politeness has nothing to do with you making noise that can literally deafen someone. Any further conversation would be pointless as it would just serve to convince him that he's worth debating with while simultaneously making me angrier.
"No, I'm not going to lay off it. It's the corporate challenge and I can blow this air horn as much as I want. I might have considered laying off if you were polite and hadn't sworn at me..."
So I bitched to an official. Won't do it willingly? How about being ordered to do it. Asshole had a talking too and they did, in fact, lay off the air horn for the rest of the night. They redoubled their efforts with every other noise making prop they had, which was irritating, but that's all it was.
And of course, having to confront someone I was a bundle of anxious adrenalin for the next half hour which did not improve my game any. I was running through "defend-myself-from-an-attack-in-the-parking-lot scenarios in my head just in case.
On the bright side, the anxiety didn't improve my game, but the game improved my anxiety. I was feeling a lot more calm as we played.
You know what pisses me off? People who are aggressively annoying because they can't be bothered to consider the people around them. Moreover, people who think the response to being told this is to double-down in an attempt to teach you some kind of lesson. The only lesson being jerks exist, which I'm confident we all know already.
In other news, Corporate Idol finals are at Flames Central on Friday, so I'll be missing archery again. Next week is trivia, which I'm team captain for. Looking forward to it.
