Have I mentioned lately...

[firecat]

...that it annoys me when I do something as a favor to someone else, and their first response is to snarl at me for not doing it the way they want it done?

Comments

[meirion.livejournal.com]

yuk. my similar, yet different, rant is about people who ask for help doing something (either by personal email direct to me, or on a mailing-list which i then reply to, and then they email me back). i then spend a couple of hours trying to remind myself how i got it working and then writing a long detailed explanation. and then ... nothing. no indication as to whether what i suggested worked or not, whether they'd got it working in the end despite my advice, no thanks, zilch.

this leaves me with "unfinished business" flags in my head, and sometimes in the middle of the night i'll start wondering whether that guy ever managed to compile wxgtk on hpux 11.0, or whether the guy i worked for last summer managed to get arabic fonts for LaTeX installed and working. grrrr.

-m-

[elynne.livejournal.com]

Not lately, but...

I'm sorry to hear that. :[

[nolly.livejournal.com]

Blech.

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

oh, that really roasts my turkey.

and makes me rather less likely to do zir another favour.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

To state it mildly, your reaction seems reasonable to me.

By the way, love the userpic! Don't know who it is, but it made me smile.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

You haven't mentioned, I don't think, but Argh! Yes! Hate that!

[kyubi.livejournal.com]

Owww. Sorry to hear it.

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[mama-hogswatch.livejournal.com]

This moves the person to my, "I do not do favors for you" list.