Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry (a list thread)

xp what sucks is they're probably required to say that shit and get in trouble if they don't — basically a shit job

does yr elevator have a 'close doors' button? try pressing it at the same time as you press the floor button

This worked in the building I used to work in in Virginia. If you were riding the elevator and could feel it getting ready to stop for another floor, holding in the "close doors" button would cause it to slow down, then just keep going. Everybody in the building knew it, too, so often I'd be waiting for an elevator and I could hear it coming, slow down, the bell would ring, then . . . nothing. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.

xp what sucks is they're probably required to say that shit and get in trouble if they don't — basically a shit job

Also apparently most close-door buttons aren't plugged in to anything.

when I worked at best buy if someone came in to buy the new Petey Pablo (it was 2004), they wanted us to upsell them like $100 worth of storage space and get em to sign up for rhapsody

These are the the ones who think Australia is the size of Guam so when you say the floods aren't nearby they sort of look at you like, 'how is that even possible'?

To counter, any time a tornado blows across the Central Time Zone, someone Down Under will ask if we had to seek shelter.

I went to a local cooking store the other day. At the register there was a small bowl of homemade candy set out with a little hand-written sign that said "Peanut Brittle." And right below where it said "Peanut Brittle," in letters just as big, it said "Contains Peanuts."

I looked up at the woman behind the register and said/asked "really?" And she said "you'd be surprised..."

Omg lol

On the lotto machine at our supermarket there was a handwritten OUT OF ORDER sign. Below that was scrawled PLEASE DO NOT PUT MONEY INTO THIS MACHINE.

Remember when "out of order" was enough?

we have two addresses at work we give out, one po box, and one our street address for overnights only. So this lady calls up upset that we didn't get her overnight parcel yet, and she talks to a manager. She's not angry, but really panicky, wanting to know what could have happened to keep it from getting there.

our rep asks her how she sent it (UPS/FedEx), and the lady sounds confused, and our rep asks her if she actually sent it overnight mail, and the lady goes "no, but I sent it to the overnight address!"

xp what sucks is they're probably required to say that shit and get in trouble if they don't — basically a shit job

Yeah, a friend was fired from Starbucks for refusing to ask customers if they wanted a muffin with their coffee.

ugh I hate the shit those people have to put up with (starbucks employees)

You guys are going to stay angry your whole lives if your bothered by the fact that not 100% of the population reads instructions.

I should really just stay off this thread. I sometimes think about how mad you guys get and I feel a little concerned! I suppose irrationally so.

we also had this lady fill out a hardship request form, which you have to meet specific criteria to take, all of the eligible reasons are listed on the form in checklist format, etc, no exceptions cuz it's government-qualified.

so this lady writes in a new reason really sloppily in black ink, even makes the actual check boxes, and sends it in. when we call her to tell her you can't write in extra reasons on the form, she claims it was on the form and that isn't her handwriting.

xposts -- Yeah, my daughter was let go at Books a Million for not selling her quota of discount cards. I think it had to be five per 8-hr shift...?

truthfully most of the stuff I post to this thread is for LOLs, I mostly am at my most angry when

A. I am driving
B. I am at work (and this one will likely change as I'm switching departments in less than two weeks).

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haha I thought about correcting myself there but I try to do something for everyone...including making ppl ia

lol i totally missed that

actually that fucked with me the first time I ever logged onto ilxor was seeing everybody using abbreviations like "yr" and "u"

I don't know where to put this but how can anybody like the 3 Stooges but not like Laurel and Hardy? What's wrong with you

I post here bc Mr Veg gets an earache from all my Andy Rooney esque whining about minutiae that gets on my nerves. Its either this or talking to myself in the car on the way home from work lol

You guys should read the "customers suck" comm on livejournal if you think having to put "contains peanuts" signs etc is shocking. Some of the tales there would curl yr toes. People forcing open locked doors with closed signs, angrily demanding service. People letting their toddlers play with the debit machine buttons at mcdonalds. People abusing bookstore employees for saying Twilight is locatedin the YA section because thats insulting and "it isnt a teen book it is sci fi"

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Because the Three Stooges are pure slapstick and Laurel and Hardy is all about a fat angry man mistreating a sheepish "less intelligent" man?

I mean, I'm a Marx Brothers guy myself, but I can definitely see where there's room for that.

Thanks for making me remember the best part of the Borat movie, though.

I get ia when I go into a bookshop that has a separate sections for 'fiction' and 'literature', I mean that's just being a wanker.

Same with music shops that separate 'pop/rock' from 'alternative' (that one's being a bogan).

I also get really really ia when the genre of music I d/l is labelled something completely made-up and judgemental like 'indie'.

One of the plan managers here today replied to an email by saying he shared the same 'sediments" as another employee. Oh the English language died in this office in 2005

lol

I love you, for sedimentary reasons

today if i love anything it's for sedentary reasons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmop7EAY1Zg

^^ the narration of this video made me want to punch my computer

Does This American Life make you want to punch your radio?

why do films at the cinema always start at inconvenient times?

6.30 is really too early; 9/10pm is too bloody late. is it really that hard to accommodate a screening between 7.30 and 8.30?

One of the plan managers here today replied to an email by saying he shared the same 'sediments" as another employee. Oh the English language died in this office in 2005

The Irish deputy Prime Minister (and Minister for Education!) declared on radio recently that her party - widely forecast to be on the brink of electoral oblivion - would have a 'seismic' presence in the next parliament (she meant 'sizable')- and it was just a slip, because she repeated it (as she does most things)

'wasn't just a slip'

Does This American Life make you want to punch your radio?

― nickn, Thursday, January 20, 2011 12:00 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Dear god, yes.

I'm enthusiastic, but skeptical.

I probably think too much.

I definitely talk too much.

I have poor posture and a chip on my shoulder from being bullied at the public school my rich parents thought I'd get "something out of" attending.

Join me this Thursday at 5 for "Thinking About The Things I'm Thinking About."

See you then!

British utility companies and local government offices have this annoying habit of sending things which require URGENT RESPONSE via second-class post. Mixed message much? My BT bill is not on direct debit (see also 'why not switch to direct debit?' advice on bills... BECAUSE OF YOUR LEVEL OF ANALOGUE FUCK-UPS, MAYBE?) but was paid on 8 January on my return from the US. Today I get a late-advice notice dated the 11th, shot through with the by-now-meaningless language of urgency.

This morning I was walking in to my building, which I think I've mentioned has both standard doors and revolving doors. In the winter, to cut down on wind problems, the standard doors have signs on them reading "Please Use Revolving Door." Which, of course, nearly everbody ignores.

Anyway, a woman was entering the building in front of me, tugging one of those goddamned fucking rolling carryon luggage style things that qualifies as a briefcase these days -- those make me irrationally angry enough!! -- and, looking RIGHT AT THE SIGN, started tugging on the door handle like a moron. Apparently building management just gave up on the ability of adults to read signs and locked the doors. So then she made a big production number out of taking the damned thing through the revolving door. I swear, I just wanted to neck-punch her from behind.

Does This American Life make you want to punch your radio?

― nickn, Thursday, January 20, 2011 12:00 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Dear god, yes.

― kkvgz, Thursday, January 20, 2011 7:02 AM Bookmark

This morning I was walking in to my building, which I think I've mentioned has both standard doors and revolving doors. In the winter, to cut down on wind problems, the standard doors have signs on them reading "Please Use Revolving Door." Which, of course, nearly everbody ignores.

we have a similar thing, but no revolving door. building mgmt put up orange tape in front of and behind the standard doors and employees have to go through the delivery entrance on the side.

people who "can't find things"...example: my wife is constantly asking where are my keys, i lost my cell phone, where is this where is that. Typically these things are right in front of her face, i think she is just too lazy to look.

Usually I feel like the inability to locate things stems from not having any kind of mental map from when you set them down. Any skills I have in the "knowing where things are" dept are mostly a result of the "thought to self: I need to remember that I put that there" when the item left my hand.

- people, having the fucking temerity to be around me, ever

There is an SOP and online workbasket here for mailed documents that has been titled "Unsolicated Mail" for years. Both used firmwide. Nobody in apparently the last decade has noticed or done anything about this, just sits there, remaining misspelled.

(And yes, I reported it this morning after being tired of seeing it for five years and realizing the people that created both make way more money than me)

unsolicated advice

That's probably how they will respond

Nothing worse than an illiterate line manager

You could write "fuck you" on a slate and hold it up to him and he won't know what it says!