TOPIC: what annoys a piper?

This is a very broad question.

What sort of things annoy you, the average piper, in your every day professional life?

I'm sure there are things that get under all our skins, so what can we do to fix it?

Let's open up the can of worms and see can if we help each other out a bit.

Top of my list would have to be Process. I can understand that it looks different once it's on paper vs. being wadded up between their ears but FFS, 1 revamp a day per project is sufficient!

AutoDesk, I curse them daily. Why is it that with every release they have to hide some of the simplest things while complicating others to the nth degree!

AutoDesk, bringing you products that just work - sometimes.

Group Leaders that feel their project is my priority. Right now I am working on 5 different bid packages for our Process Dept. Yet I still have leads asking me for favors on their projects and then staring at me wide-eyed an hour later when I haven't dropped what I was doing to do their seemingly easy edit/addition. Well if it was so easy then why DON'T YOU hop to it?

I start to boil when I have to deal with people in leadership positions, that make decisions about drawings (either design or drafting issues) and it’s obvious they DON’T know what they are doing, but too arrogant to admit to it, and force their decisions down my throat!

This is an email I'd received. Its pretty much on target I guess.

Mostly, we do not get what we need!

Squad leaders who make promises which are impossible for designers to keep!

We need a good Piping Leaders......who can make the project a big success story & I will try my best to become one.....shortly..!