People who waste your time @#$%!

I get short-tempered with them in the end, 'though I try not to show it. I can't. As an aged care nurse, I am well-used to being buzzed by people who don't actually need anything. They simply want company. Beyond caring for their actual needs, I simply don't have time to stand around and "small-talk". Wish I did. One man calls my name constantly. When I go to him and ask what he wants, he says "to see you" or "I want to know what you are doing". Considering I have probably left at least one person in the shower and two on the toilet to answer his buzzer, it is incredibly frustrating and stressful - but he has no concept of that. I have always been impatient - waiting for buses was murder - but am getting more patient. I try to remember that we are NOT all the same, that some things simply can't be helped - and not to blame the check-out chick if her customer is the one holding up the queue. She is probably feeling really stressed too.

The meeting would have annoyed me if I didn't get paid for staying late! But lines and such don't bother me anymore. Years ago I learned to carry a journal with me and write when things like that happen, so the time isn't wasted. Sometimes I'd even jot down a poetic vent..:-)

Well you can't kill them. There are laws against that. It depends on what it is, but if I have to be somewhere, I will just say so and go.

My adopted country is ful of aid back peope who haveno concept of time. It used to drive me crazy as I was brought up to be very time conscious in the U.K. What do I do? Easy. I never travel without a book in my bag so I read or read messages on my BB So as not to raise my blood pressure. It is awful but saying something is not going to make it better. It can onlychange with the young professionals who are time conscious. Bessings

Yes i know what you mean , too many times i was to trying to buy something when the person puts the order in then leaves either because they need to get some money from their car or because someone in their family needs to pay and are in the washroom. I think that this is incredably annoying and they should think more about others valuable time before deciding to waste it by being forgetful often.I hope people change their behaviors and start acting more like people did when society had more mannors.

Much as I don't like them, there's nothing I can do about them. Since they are selfish, thinking about their best interest, what can I do? If we were to speak up, arguments are bound to happen, wasting even more time. In this case here, I will bear with it in the hope it will end soon. In the case of being held up in a queue, it's either I walk out without buying or I top up the difference for them. In any worst scenario, I will pretend to talk on the phone, making lots of unkind comments about them, embarassing them with lots of bad words. I won't give face to them.

I usually just grin and bear it, or I will roll my eyes, sometimes I will look at someone else waiting behind one of these kinds of people and shake my head a bit and give sympathetic smile. I have even gone so far as to give people a few cents and even a dollar once to get them moving along when they didn't have enough to pay for thier stuff. It's worth a few cents to move people along sometimes. I am a busy work at home mom of three and there are times when I have to go and pick up my kids and I don't have time to wait for such people who obviously have all the time in the world.

I think the cashier should know what they have to do if that thing would happen. Whenever someone try to waste my time, I just ignore them. Once is enough and I really sure that it would not be happened again.

The exterior side of me is grinning and looking patient but the inside of me begins to growl hoping they hurry up. Patience could be the answer however, how much of it can you tolerate in one day without even as much as flinching a tiny bit.