Human Resources. What's the pettiest? What the hell? Complaint that you've had to deal with.

I was doing temp work at a heating, AC and plumbing company, answering the phones and stuff,

but there was this one girl that just hated me. I guess I was too happy to be employed.

Anyway, I go in one day and the owner pulls me into the office. I have to get a substance

test done because I'm too energetic and I blow my nose frequently. I'm a morning person and I

have allergies. The results come back negative, the owner apologises and I quit on the spot.

That's right, Toby Flandersons of the world. We're reading your stories today. I for one cannot

wait to see the depths of petty crappiness displayed by bored, unsatisfied office workers.

He doesn't say good morning to me. My boyfriend's bass pulled that on him the other day.

Why don't you say hello and ask me how I am? It was like, really? My gosh,

I've got a similar complaint in the military once. I was in Iraq, stationed on a base where we,

the army, worked with the Marines. I was guarding one of our top secret facilities and had been on

duty an hour or two. Suddenly this random Marine came up to me, irate. You're so rude, he said to me,

I've passed by you at least three times and you haven't said hello to me once. At the time, I was flabbergasted by this complete stranger being mad at me for not doing something I in no way considered part of my job. I didn't know how to respond. I wish I'd had the wits to

point out that I was a soldier on guard duty, not a fricking hostess at Applebee's. I don't know if it

was a cultural thing. Maybe he was from the South, or a gender thing, because I'm a female

and therefore expected to be sweet or something. But I just couldn't understand why a fellow

service member would expect someone on duty to be issuing friendly

greetings at passers-by. I mean, I've done the hostess thing, and I'm pretty good at being

friendly when it's appropriate. But when my orders are, use deadly force if necessary, to protect

this room, and to not make our customers feel at home, I just don't expect people to complain

about me not saying hello every time they walk

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