Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

Back-seat drivers, polite neighbors, people at parties.

 

Man, am I tired of having to share my world with morons. The day (Sunday) our governor announced three more weeks of Covid restrictions to begin this morning, the mouth-breathers descended upon the supermarkets and began hoarding. Paper products, canned goods, and meat - all empty shelves.

 

The world is full of morons.

 

Companies who open their phone lines with a recorded massage about COVID causing ‘longer delays than usual’.

Look, piss off, will you? I can accept this being the case for the doctors or chemists, but why the hell does COVID mean everyone needs to contact their gas / electrical suppliers all of a sudden??

 

lol

 

limited staff, less people to answer phones/take calls.

People get so angry over this at the library when we dont answer right away. normally its 2 people at the reference desk, but now its just 1, so both phones are ringing at once, and i'm already on the phone with another person with someone else on hold. some people have pissy attitudes, when i finally answer this one person was like "well its about damn time!" and another was like "i've called and called and no one answered!"


dont crucify us desk people, we're trying our best!

 

You need to explain to me why ‘recorded message’ is funny.

 

you had a typo

 

lol! I just caught it!

@OurJud , exactly what kind of massages are you getting??

 

How did I miss that?? I looked at it upteeen times to try work out why it was funny.

 

Driving directions given in cardinal point terms. My car goes forward, reverse, left, and right. That's it, no other options.

 

Savage....

I remember dealing with people like you when I worked 9-1-1.

 

I know this has been happening for a while now but the integration of EVERYTHING with smartphones and apps is ridiculous.

 

This probably should come under the category of 'Things that annoy me ...and should.'

I HATE it when I KNOW I've read something somewhere and can't remember where that was, or who said it. I KNOW some author said a certain thing, but I can't remember who. And etc. My recollection of impressions is very strong; my recollection of facts is shite.

 

I am one of very few people who do not have an electronic leash...whoops, I mean cell phone.

 

I do, but I remember years ago when my ex-employer was having tons of problems getting their shit together. They kept calling me on my days off, before my shift, after my shift, with "emergencies" in their failure to work out a simple schedule that they expected me to solve by rushing into the office. Then I got a new cell phone, and in those days a new phone meant a new phone number, which I refused to give to them. Boss tried to tell me I had to so I denied having a phone. We get a travel allowance here, so we have to be able to show our train/bus pass to keep collecting it, but cell phones came out of the same personal salary as cheeseburgers, beer, and low-end fetish gear for the weekend so I was under no obligation to give them my number.

Manager wasn't happy, but there was nothing to do about it

 

The latest wheeze here is you have to give out your mobile number so various online organisations can send you text message codes to verify your account. They will NOT accept a landline. (With the exception of Paypal, which, thankfully, did.)

I refuse to acknowledge that I have a mobile phone at all. (It's an incredibly StupidPhone that doesn't even take photos! I use it ONLY for phoning taxis, etc, keep it turned off, and am on a pay-as-you-go tariff. My husband actually does NOT have a mobile phone at all. We both use a landline, which is, erm, stuck here at our address.)

I got into it when I was attempting to set up a Zoom account (which I did not finish pursuing.) The girl from Microsoft whom I spoke to was adamant that I had to have a MOBILE phone ...that a landline wouldn't do. And I ended our conversation (made on my landline) when she snottily informed me, 'Well, you'll need to borrow somebody else's then.' WHAT? So I need to borrow somebody else's mobile phone to verify that the online account is mine? That's their idea of security?

I. Don't. Think. So.

Cheerio, babe.

 

Very worrying. Especially the cost aspect. These things are expensive to buy AND maintain. And, as you say, they need to be constantly updated. I'm not anti-tech by any means, but I like it to be an option, not a requirement.

I've avoided the Covid check in thing, because I don't go anywhere but the grocery store, the pharmacy to pick up prescriptions and the post office ...all within walking distance of my house, and none of which employ track-and-trace. I haven't done any socialising since 10 March! (The introvert in me is quite happy, but I recognise that for other people, this has not been a good time.)

I don't think Scotland requires that kind of check-in. I think paper and pen is still good enough. And why shouldn't it be?

 

A couple of months back, I went to a mall and decided to stop for lunch. My mobile phone was throwing a tantrum complaining about moisture in the charging port, so I left it to moo at the empty car.

When I got to the front of the socially-distanced queue, I was told I could fill out the paper record instead of scanning the QR code. However, they didn't have a pen and nor did I, so they told me to leave!

 

Someone once asked me what I liked most about my new phone. My response was "the ability to talk to other people with a similar device".

When I was looking to open a bank account for my business, one of the options was an online account that I could apply for using my phone and was managed on the phone.

Yewhat? You expect me to manage my business bank account on my goddamn phone?! A personal account, ok, but a business account? What, should I do my accounts on my phone as well? Yeah, like I'm going to sit there trying to reconcile transactions and invoices on a screen the size of my hand. 'Cos HMRC will accept "Sorry, I tapped the wrong virtual key and autocorrect changed that company name to 'Raging Cocks Ltd'" as an excuse.