Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

When I ask an employee for help in a big DIY store who is obviously working in a particular department and they say "Oh, sorry, I don't really work in this department."

 

You just looked so managerial they probably couldn't help themselves.

 

When my brain's all, "Huh, you've been in a relaxed, calm state of mind for the whole day. Let's fix that shall we?" and injects me with a nice dose of uneasiness.

 

Thermos don’t make a small flask with their trademark inner lid that you half unscrew to allow the contents to pour. Small thermal flasks are easy enough to get, but not made by Thermos and they have them stupid inner lids where you press a button to allow pouring... and as a consequence they’re never leak proof like Thermos are.

 

When the big box home center -- or the local stupid market -- arbitrarily moves a product that has been on an eye-level shelf for years to the very top shelf (Big Blue, meaning it's now out of reach unless an employee can drag one of those rolling stairs around to it) or the very bottom shelf (stupid market) and doesn't even tell the staff they've rearranged the shelves.

 

The character limitation on platforms like Twitter or Tik Tok. I almost always have so much more to say than I'm allowed to, and if I shorten it I never send it, because it isn't what I wanted to say anymore. I know there may be some good reason for it, but still ... (and that is what this thread is about, isn't it ?).

 

Tell me about it. As an employee of Big Blue, I think the peabrains at HQ who make up the planograms hate us. In my department, we've had to permanently borrow a folding stepladder to reach regularly-used paint bases. Not top stock, just product customers want all the time. If the powers that be were to take away that stepladder, I couldn't do my job.

HQ recently rolled out a massive nationwide reordering of the stores, and none of us can figure out what good it was supposed to do. I mean, why would you put the heating and cooling parts right next to Home Decor, and put the Home Decor associates in charge of it?

And you're right about not telling the staff. We have daily and weekly online training we're supposed to do and it's never on the new arrangement or the reasoning behind it. We're expected to figure it out by osmosis.

 

That usually happens when we're putting away returns. In my store they consolidate merch for Paint, Home Decor, and Flooring in a single cart. As a Paint CSA who used to work in Home Decor, I can help you fine there. But "obviously working" may be just me pushing Flooring's returns to them or being nice and putting a returned Flooring item away. I used to be a lot more useful over there, but they keep changing out brands and revamping the computer programs, thus the deer in the headlights look. I'll try to help you out, but it might be just us reading labels together.

EDITED TO ADD
The other common situation is when a customer approaches a CSA like me in, say, the Paint department and says, "I can't find anybody in Hardware! Can you help me?" If I'm free I go with him and hopefully I can find what he needs. Then another customer comes up and says, "I can't find this hardware thing! Please help me!" And this time it's something I can't help her with, and my own department's been left unattended and I have to get back. That's when that customer might hear me say, "I'm sorry, I really don't work over here." But I hope she'll also hear me say, "Let's see if I can find somebody who can help you out."

 

Coats for dogs. I mean why???

 

This was my puppy's first winter. He shivered his lil tail off so i got him a sweater and a coat. My 4 year old dog is built like a mac truck and she loves the cold, hates sweaters and warmth in general lol (she'll wear them... If i hold up a shirt, she'll stick her head in the neck hole and hold her par up for me to put it through the sleeve... But she's the kind of dog that would over heat in a sweater/coat)

 

I suppose centuries of domestication has a lot to do with it, but whenever I see a dog in a coat I want to scream at the owner, “It’s already got a fucking coat on!” What you’ve got there is a dog in two coats.

 

I'd give a lot for a universal remote that would let me mute the televisions in doctors' offices, tire stores, and sports bars.

 

Running out of white paint. Yeah...that annoys me.

 

So how did they manage in the wild, before Hunans decided dogs existed purely for their own pleasure, to be owned and dominated? A quick trip to the local outdoor shop for a North Face Jacket?

 

Not too well, to judge by the forlorn, skinny, disease-ridden, bedraggled terrier mix I and some friends rescued out of a local wilderness area a few years ago. I never put her in a coat, but she had to wear booties to keep the snow from freezing into her paws.

How do you think dogs got domesticated? They said, "To heck with this crap, the humans have food and fire. I'm heading over there."

 

Dogs didn't exist in the wild before humans domesticated them. They were called wolves, and they were a heck of a lot better adapted to living rough than a pack of Pomeranians led by a Chihuahua trying unsuccessfully to drag down a squirrel.

Edit: On thermal mass alone the wolf has an edge:

 

And I suppose they also asked to have their legs broken and faces smashed, in order to create these dogs that people now like to call ‘pedigrees’ and sell for thousands of pounds?

 

Awww cute dogs. That tall dog looks so fluffy.

 

It's not the dogs' fault they were selectively bred, and you shouldn't be angry at the owners for trying to compensate for some of the results of that selective breeding by putting a sweater on something that was involuntarily evolved not to be able to cope with the weather.

 

Yes but A, I’m sure the dog would be happier / more comfortable without the coat. And B, like parents do with children, they just assume the dog will be cold.