Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

Flatulence can be your friend in situations like that, crop-dust the little minx and blame it on her.

 

Getting to work and some of the computer folks sitting there in complete darkness. I don't care if screens light up, it's creepy to get into a pitch black office with people in it.

Myself I can't work in the dark. It only ends up hurting my eyes. Plus I'd probably fall asleep...

Which brings me to my next complaint. This should annoy me, though... I forgot my coffein pills again

 

The photo editing app I've been using this past years just made some drastic changes and removed almost all features and you can now just put some horrendous filters on the pictures. Before you could make the picture sharper, add different filter and chose how much effect you wanted, choose a focus point if you wanted to make the things in the front pop even more against the blurry background. All in all an easy to use app where you could quickly "clean up" the photos before posting them. Now you can only make the photos black and white, make them all blurry or put a red glow on them. Disappointed!

 

I don't answer the phone anymore

 

Even the telemarketers don't love me enough to call....

 

I have the ultimate solution for telemarketers. Keep them on the phone as long as you can. If you can waste more than 15 minutes of their precious time, they'll blacklist your number!

 

My buddy used to (on a landline) engage them for thirty seconds or so, sounding really eager and interested, then wrap the handset in a towel and walk away. Many of the companies had rules that didn't allow their callers from hanging up, the potential customer had to.

On the other hand... I don't think anyone sets out to wreck people's dinner, after all, their missing their own families as well. The person you're actually talking to is probably working for just about minimum wage and doesn't have any other options, so it never hurts to politely refuse their pitch and send them on their way to the next caller.

 

I worked with similar jobs... And I have no sympathy what so ever. I hang up on them as soon as I hear the sale pitch.

Then again, at least where I work/live (where we've got a lot of call centres) they make more money than I do (without provision) and anyone who can last more than a few months in a job like that is probably an asshole in real life (yes, I just base it on previous co-workers and my ex, there's some bitterness) so I don't feel bad for them at all.

The poor underpaid people working these jobs in other counties might deserve some nicer treatment, though, so be nice...

 

The corollary is being stuck behind somebody who manages to take up the entire pavement/sidewalk by walking down the middle, and occasionally drifting over to the side. Just when you speed up to pass, that person drifts into your 'lane.' It's annoying. However, obliviousness to fellow travelers it's what I'd call a 'first world problem.'

 

Yes, I just tell the real telemarketers no, and hang up. However, recorded messages really get me steamed up—and clog up our message system. They're bad enough, but at least they seem to have some purpose, as usually a product or service gets a mention. Not that I would ever investigate or buy any of the mentioned services or articles.

However, what about silent calls? And we've had two 'silent' calls already today ...one at 7.30am and the other at 9.30am. I mean, a call that comes at 7.30am is either a nuisance or something quite important. Guess which these were? They came from different numbers. However, both of them were just silence for a few seconds when I picked up the phone, followed by a recorded message saying 'Good Bye.' My husband fielded several of these yesterday and the day before.

WTF is the point of that??? It's not even a sales call.

 

The worst thing that actually annoy me are those evil persons who annoy people with ugly words or try to damage them or their properties. I hate them and their bad actions!

For example a person who scratch the color of new parked car with a sharp thing unreasonably. I wish such the scoundrels not to be on the earth! If I had a supernatural power I would punish them hardly! They are worse than animals, because animals never do an action evilly and maliciously!

 

It's Thanksgiving, not Turkey Day.

 

This can get really awkward when you've been trained from birth that it's rude to hang up on someone that's called you, so you both sit there for 30 seconds telling each other to have a good evening while slowly trying to work up the courage to disappoint your mother yet again.

 

I got a sales call once on my mobile. I knew that the person calling me was in training, so I was polite and answered their questions, even though I had no intention of upgrading or whatever it was. I did it to simply give them a pleasant experience, and help them with their job. I didn't lose anything, as I was only walking home at the time anyway.

 

Grrrr

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I get this a lot with automated internet advertising. My browser and all my pages are set to English, but I'm in Japan, which screws with the spam algorithm so it doesn't know what to advertise in front of my youtube video or at the roll-up ad from the bottom of the page. As a result, I often have to wait through five seconds of silent black screen before I can "skip ad" and move onto whatever horror I'm trying to watch (usually woodworking and lathe stuff at the moment).

 

Oh, I can so relate. I don't watch TV, but I get SO fed up being constantly interrupted when I'm trying to do something. It's no bloody wonder I get up at 4am every morning, just to get some peace.

 

Read about a studie that says people shouldn't start working until 10 because that would bring a lot of health benefits...

...but it would also mean no free time what so ever. As someone who doesn't even take breaks during my workdays I still wouldn't be home until after seven and even if I technically could sleep longer I still couldn't be up all night, so I'd probably probably end up in bed around eleven, anyway, and that's just an hour later than now. So I'd just loose time to do things and probablybgsin nothing.

I'm mostly grumpy I forgot my coffein pills again. I'm not a morning person, but I prefer getting up early so I get my afternoons to myself... and I don't have to interact too much with my co-worker who starts work after two...

 

Back when I worked a desk job I used to have this hanging in my cubicle.



Hope it helps.

 

I just lost my job (I'm working until Christmas) so no career advancement and probably no murder

 

Gratuitous overuse of the word "respectively", as in, "Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes played Romeo and Juliette respectively." Gee, thanks for clearing that up. If you hadn't added that last bit, I would have assumed they each played both parts simultaneously in what must have been the most confusing movie ever. (Wikipedia editors, I'm calling you out.)

 

Join the party.

However at 2.30am on Sunday I applied to be a pig farmer. A bit worried about that. I put down my writing credits at the top of the application just to show in the one perfect line how I possessed the supra-intelligence for pig pushing around. Also I don't think I have stood up for two weeks. This might be my end-game? I can't be annoyed about anything but my regular meals, my two baths a day, my war-reading in the lavatory, my new hobby with electric and manual toothbrush(es).

 

People who start every sentence with "so."

"Hi, what's your name?"
"So, my name is John Smith. How are you doing?"
"So, I'm doing okay, thanks for asking. So, how long have you been racing earthworms?"
"So, I got started about five years ago. It's actually a growing, exciting sport."
"How do you train the earthworms to run this steeplechase?"
"So, you start by giving them treats when they do well. Like Vienna Philharmonic gold coins. Stock certificates in United Technologies. Pez. That sort of thing."
"So what does an earthworm do with a stock certificate?"
"So, they open trading accounts with Charles Schwab."

Etc.

 

Hi, minstrel

What if they use "well"?