Yes, I find that most things my managers have said to me over the years have been annoying. If not at first then certainly after repeating, ad nauseam, it has that affect.
Sounds like your hormones are in an uproar again, like that Sunday afternoon when you watched a hockey game whilst baking a Bundt cake.
I hear that and similar phrases from sales people routinely. We struggle far too often to get people to take our money. Even if I give them the part numbers and ask them to ship it ASAP, too many just simply don't follow through and place the order. We are talking about thousands of dollars in lost sales. It is a plague in this industry, since everyone talks about this issue. It's sad when anyone who does their job properly is considered a rare find. I don't understand how they make a living or why their management allows the behavior.
A Russian scientist and a Czech scientist had spent their whole lives studying the majestic grizzly bear. Each year they petitioned their respective governments to allow them to go to Yellowstone to study these wondrous beasts. Finally, their request was granted and they immediately flew to New York and then on west to Yellowstone. They reported to the local ranger station and were told that it was the grizzly mating season and it was much too dangerous to go out and study the animals. They pleaded that this was their only chance. Finally the ranger relented. The Russian and the Czech were given cell phones and told to report in each and every day. For several days they called in, and then nothing was heard from the two scientists. The rangers mounted a search party and found the scientists' camp completely ravaged. No sign of the missing men. They then followed the trail of a male and a female bear. They found the female and decided they must kill the animal to find out if she had eaten the scientists because they feared an international incident. They killed the female and cut open the bear's stomach... only to find the remains of the Russian. One ranger turned to the other and said, "You know what this means, don't you?" "Of course," the other ranger nodded. "The Czech is in the male."
