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

Tech stuff is one thing, but like when a restaurant presents its menu in PDF form (though that's usually the least of a restaurant's website problems.)

It comes down to utility. If you're implementing PDFs because it makes sense to the user, all good. If you're doing it because you're lazy, gtfo.

Subject line of an email from one of our suppliers - this is an official email from marketing @ the 3rd biggest telco in the fscking country mind you.

"Reminder: Your Invited to the AAPT Frontier Launch Breakfast – Melbourne"

&U^&^$%^$

There was an uncomfortable thread on serial killers/rape on this other message board I used to post on years ago, and one of the posters indicated that there was a "stigmata" associated with rape victims.

@Trayce that shit drives me insane. When I got promoted 4 years ago, I was introduced to the client by one of the account managers in an email that had about 20 typos/misspellings.

HOW DO THESE PEOPLE EARN SUCH MONEY I ASK U

This drives my rage every day.

I mean FUCK. Whenever someone wants to handball/escalate to me suddenly Im "the provisioning manager" but do I get a managers salary? Do I fuck.

My boss gets me to proof read proposals etc occasionally, and I think he's always a little dismayed when it comes back with red pen all over it. "But I spellchecked it!" Yes but eyes work too.

i've also heard co-workers telling callers they can't give them "account pacific information"

xxpost

account pacific! Dear lord in hades.

Pretty sure I sailed on the Account Pacific once.

xxpost yea you know seriously fuck spellcheck, I mean it's a useful tool to catch small things you missed but shouldn't be all you do in reviewing your work, God, I revise/rewrite my shit over and over. I only really started using it because I knew they used it to audit my work and I wanted to make sure it wasn't going to show a false-positive grammatical error (as spell/grammar check in Word is known to do).

Too many people live and die by it -- this one former co-worker of mine was putting together a presentation on using appropriate punctuation in our summaries and spell/grammar check incorrectly told him to add an apostrophe to the title, so he did, even though he said it looked funny to him. So there we are, watching a presentation titled "Summary's" telling us how we need to use proper grammar in our work.

wtf

oh oh oh oh while we're doing ia things the following makes me ia:

Fragment (consider revising)

how the FUCK is that supposed to help me

i guess you could say it drives you fragmental

it's telling you to consider revising your career.

fragmental as anythink

Fragment (consider revising) sounds liek a brian eno song

Word also struggles with subject-verb agreement with it comes to the singular/plural. It always tries to get me to switch to something that's wrong.

haha I think I will consider advice from MS WOrd as oblique strategies now
v good way to handle them
Brian Eno is Clippy
xp

Hahahaha!

I liked that Obs Strat I had the other day that said "Do the dishes" :|

Somebody better than me pls make a Brian Eno word clippy !

'It looks like you're trying to find a cohesive rhythm in one of my songs!'

It looks like you're trying to write a document:

- Do something sudden, destructive and unpredictable
- Use cliches
- Repetition is a form of change

(was inspired to get the obliq strats app)

Can never read about sentence fragments without thinking of

http://www.accesswave.ca/~rclancey/linguo-dead-grammar.gif

"It looks like you're trying to reform Roxy Music."

t looks like you're trying to write a document:

- Do something sudden, destructive and unpredictable
- Use cliches
- Repetition is a form of change

LOL

It looks like you're trying to collaborate with Robert Fripp! How do you wish to delineate the apprentice/journeyman/master metaphor?

- the apprentice acquires skill
- the craftsman acquires sensitivity
- the master acquires vision
- the genius attains freedom
- the apprentice is noisy
- the craftsman shapes sound
- the master shapes silence
- the genius is silent
- the apprentice practices the craft of craft
- the craftsman practices the art of craft
- the master practices the craft of art
- the genius is artless

Fuck why dont I have photoshop at work grrr

paint dot net trayce!

Oh neat.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs1380.snc4/163283_485291167756_726857756_6381396_4433054_n.jpg

That font looks wrong but it could be due to the screencap of the og pic

omg I love it

that is great

Were I not at work I'd have tried to properly make an Eno-paperclip head, but that'll do.

omg wow

btw I have a v clear picture of 'Clippy for Films' cover art in my head now.

- buying greeting cards
- the whole concept of greeting cards

congratulation on new babby

wasn't it Seinfeld wh obasically said buying greeting cards = "I agree with everything this guy says"

I posted oClippe Strategies on my livejournal and someone replied with "is that the guy from the Human League? I dont get it"

love that trayce

fixed his wagon

Bwahaha nice one.

How is Brian Eno in any way like anyone out of the Human League, wtf

synths iirc