She tries to enforce rules on people who don't want them (ie: route colors for grade indication).

Sounds like she may be a difficult person to work with, but things you describe are hardly worth the rant like this.

Common protocol of dealing with a co-worker is to communicate your concernt directly to him/her, minimize contact, if you just aren't good match personality-wise, and go to a manager/supervisor if the problem or concern is severe enough-- e.i. the safety is compromised.

Nothing in your specific examples of what she is doing sounded like SHE was compromising safety.

For example:


Well, if the gym has rules about color-coding different grades of climbs, and someone is setting the routes and not adhering to those rules, I can see why a staff member might want to enforce the rules...

She might not be going about it the right way, and might be pissing off people, but technically she is right.

I would have a hard time arguing with her when she's technically correct.

Dude, you should probably get yourself checked out for Ausperger's Syndrome. This post is kinda nutty.

Confused.... I look over the guys harness and it appears okay. Everything double backed, plenty of webbing tale out of the buckles. I say "I don't see anything wrong with the harness". Sue quickly points out that the manufacturer red line for tail length is not where it should be. (It's about 2cm off). From my experience, the generally accepted minimum tail length for webbing systems (knots and buckles) is 3 inches. Her harness had about 4 inches of tail left for the leg loops and Sue was quick to nitpick. I'm pretty sure she's got a personal vendetta against me to try and battle me on any and all 'rules of climbing'.

I'm curious who this is now.

It's someone that posts here normally, climbs trad, sport, and boulders. Has been a member since around 2003-2004. More revealingly, he/she puts effort into his/her typing and the appearance/readability of the post.

We've got full line breaks, and background information. Moreover, the ellipses all have just three periods (except for one, perhaps a typo). It's possible they've been slightly overused, but not as heavily overused as we have seen from some rc kn0b'ers.

We have a mix of both centimeters and inches, which doesn't help too much, but does perhaps suggest that this person has a job or studies a science related topic. In fact, the only people in the world that really mix centimeters and inches in their words are American scientists.

The heat is on.

I'm curious who this is now.

It's someone that posts here normally, climbs trad, sport, and boulders. Has been a member since around 2003-2004. More revealingly, he/she puts effort into his/her typing and the appearance/readability of the post.

We've got full line breaks, and background information. Moreover, the ellipses all have just three periods (except for one, perhaps a typo). It's possible they've been slightly overused, but not as heavily overused as we have seen from some rc kn0b'ers.

We have a mix of both centimeters and inches, which doesn't help too much, but does perhaps suggest that this person has a job or studies a science related topic. In fact, the only people in the world that really mix centimeters and inches in their words are American scientists.

The heat is on.

In fact, the only people in the world that really mix centimeters and inches in their words are American scientists.

I don't know any American scientists who use the English system at all. I'd say that mechanics and engineers would be more likely to use both systems of measurements than scientists.

Jay

They don't buy 2" x 4" 's in the lumber yard? They ask for the price of gas in dollars per liter? When dealing with everyone else in the states they don't really have much of an option.

Also, for what it's worth, I was kind of lumping scientists and engineers into the same group.

You're right.


Don't tell that to a scientist.

Jay

i would tell sue to go fuck herself if i were you. not to turn this into a boldering.com discussion or anything, but in texas we get a lot of those safety nazi, gear geek, i only climb 5.7 but i'll be damned if any of my placements can't hold a truck types. people like that need to be put in there place on a regular basis until they realize that they are failures at life and give up.

Man, I love Texas.