What's mildly irritating you today?

[SteveDallas]

Originally Posted by skysidhe

You'll have to work on your 'butt-in' skills.

Yes but see, we are Customer Oriented. We show Concern at the Customer's Problems. Because IT has such a long reputation as antisocial, insensitive clods, we have to bend over backwards to prove that we are able to be nice to people who, apparently, haven't been taught to be nice back.

All of which constrains me from yelling "Will you shut the hell up and answer the question I actually ASKED you??" when my polite efforts along the lines of "Uh-huh. That's nice... tell me again what the error was it gave you when you tried to download your mail?" failed miserably.