Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

People talking to me while I'm on the toilet. Seriously, is nothing sacred?

 

Holy shit!

 

Hey! Are you still in there! Do you know what time it is?

 

Did I complain about the neighbor totally renovating her apartment when Lost was still here in... March?

Well, they're still fucking at it! The first week or so they almost did it full time - always having those noisy machines on. Fine - the apartment was in need of a face lift, just get it over with. But now? It's been about two months and they're still at it on the weekends! It's not that big of an apartment and not all renovation things makes THAT sort of noises.

I'm just tired of not being able to watch or listen to stuff because my entire apartment drowns in their noises.

 

Here's hoping they're not setting it up as an adult studio.

 

When driving, doing the speed limit, possibly a tad faster, someone still races by, even though there is obviously a red light coming up.

 

I really don't need to see yet another news story about the dumb bunny who managed to get herself lost for two weeks on a hiking trail in Hawaii.

 

You annoy me. But you're another human being so I let it slide.

 

I could live a happy life without ever knowing about another death on Everest. That mountain used to kill one in six, just like Russian Roulette.

 

Knowing that in a few years someone is going to go through my stuff that I've saved for years, like my original chamois and my ski boots from 1981.

 

When people mash the elevator close door button impatiently. Those buttons usually don’t even do anything.

 

Yeah sounds like those resumes are padding space (possibly to make up for not having much to list). My recommendation for a resume (at least in the tech industry) is:

• Make it one page, no more
• Only list skills and experience that is relevant to the job being applied for.
• In the experience section, don’t list what you did. List what you accomplished.
• Sections: Intro (optional, max like three lines), Experience, Education, Awards/Publications (optional), Skills
• Fine-tune the resume to the job applied for. Maybe add a buzz word or two from the posting.

 

Don’t put a lot of years on your resume or they will know you’re an old fart.
Use words like 'familiar with' which means you sat next to a guy that really did the work.
With over a hundred jobs mostly in aerospace I’ve only used a resume 5 times and my social security card two times.
I’m glad I’m no longer on the merry-go-round.

 

Same here. And a few of the times I have needed a resume, it's been HR asking for it after I've already started working.

The accomplishments I have do not increase my hireability.

 

"Have you ever been fired from a job or told you would be if you ddin't resign first?"

"Hell no, I carry a signed letter of resignation on my at all times, I can whip it out faster than the words can leave their mouths."

 

"I wanna be an author. Here is my education & accomplishments.

1983-1995 Sex & drugs & rock'n'roll
1996 - 2001 No more drugs
2002 - 2012 ...or rock'n'roll
2013 --> Well... You know...

William WannaBee"

 

When I park SO FAR AWAY from all other cars in any parking lot and when I go back out someone has parked inches away from me and someone next to them, and someone next to them. I don't get it.

 

Depends on how you parked. This might be a rare double THAM,BS, but there's something about these people who park diagonally across several spaces so no one will park next to their shiny new rides that chaps my ass, regardless of how far away from the store. I might be tempted to park close on either side.

 

So, putting how many Sims I got through university with a 4.0 GPA don't count then?

 

I was thinking more that time I did that thing with my former bosses wife.

 

Oh, that quarter panel is toast!

 

Microsoft stopped supporting Windows XP in 2014, but security updates were still available. A new SSD hard drive necessitated an OS re-install on the laptop, and it appears said updates stopped being available last month (can't afford the disk space, guys?).

Paying for a new operating system when I already paid for the one I prefer ten years ago goes against the grain. Windows 7 is an abomination, and Windows 8 is, well, I don't know what Windows 8 is, but if I'd wanted my office screen to look like my freakin' cellphone I'd have asked for that 'feature'. By the time I got to Windows 10, I didn't care anymore.

I'll miss a couple of programs I've been using for twenty years, and I'd like to sit down with the people who wrote GIMP and explain that they didn't have to rename and move every single command so that moving from other imaging software is like learning a foreign language, but it's Ubuntu on the desktop and Mint Linux on the laptop. Suck it, Microsoft.