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

tbh right now my ia is against doctors full stop. Is there such a thing as a GP that's worth a shit? OK I've had one good doctor in the last 10 years, but I don't live there any more. This week she might as well have just told me to fuck off as soon as I walked in the door. I'm not even gonna go into how they could've let my wife die from TB "it's just a chest infection you'll be fine"

i have irrational anger at people who tell unfunny jokes in public, then when nobody laughs, say it again at twice the volume because obviously, we didn't laugh because we didn't hear it the first time.

I mean that's not innocuous, but the irrational anger is that I want to impale these people with a bayonet.

tbh right now my ia is against doctors full stop. Is there such a thing as a GP that's worth a shit?

not when their sole motivation is to save the insurance company money -- no, you don't need an MRI or a referral to a specialist or anything, we'll just give you some generic pills.

I've had several good, dedicated, concerned and diligent GPs look after me. I've always been impressed. I've also had some who were indifferent or just plain clueless, but I wouldn't want to have an IA against GPs. Some of them have been superb, and much needed.

not when their sole motivation is to save the insurance company money

Thankful that doesnt come into play here really due to our medicare system. That said, we get the problem where GPs cram as manuy patients into a day as possible cos their givt subsidies arent great. So you're shoved in and out in 15 mins tops, and if you need more? Double appointment, that'll be $80 thanks. Grrr. I have something in the order of 5 unrelated, fairly pressing health issues I should address but Ive put it off cos fuck landing it all on a GPs head all at once.

givt? Govt. Damn bandaided finger.

people who double click hyper links

― smh (cozen), Friday, 6 May 2011 09:33 (2 days ago) Bookmark

ha, and people who type a full url into google

people who use yahoo or msn as their search engine instead of google

I kind of admire people stubbornly avoiding Google.

(just went to alta-vista and discovered it's now yahoo. I found it by googling)

My dog insists on using Dogpile.

Both Altavista and Lycos used to have features that weren't in Google (Altavista had wildcard search and Lycos had proximity search, i.e. you could specify that your search terms had to appear within n words of each other), but then they decided that the way to survive against Google was to make themselves dumber and easier to use instead of having features

I only use Google now but sometimes when it is autocorrecting things to something I didn't want to search for, or taking over the keyboard commands in my browser so that I can't scroll normally or press backspace to go back, I miss the Altavista days...

(also once upon a time there was a very handy ftp search engine based somewhere in Norway which doesn't exist any more, but then I suppose ftp barely exists any more)

That wasn't very well phrased. As far as I know, Norway still exists.

Altavista was the bomb pre-google...I used to do photo research for a publisher and it was my best friend.

- corporate social clubs that do bugger-all with your $5/mth then lay on a massive guilt trip when you try to leave
- people who end all their sentences with "...so yeeeeeeeeeeah"

Noisy little bastard shouting the name of every car that passes the bus while his brother climbs on the seat next to me. All while the mum is browsing Facebook on her phone, completely ignoring their behaviour. Still half an hour of this to go before i can get off.

people who double click hyper links
― smh (cozen), Friday, 6 May 2011 09:33 (2 days ago) Bookmark

They're annoying, but what REALLY FUCKING DRIVES ME NUTS is that the three attorneys I work most closely with all only ever* open documents by first opening Word, clicking File, then Open, then exploring folders from there. If they need to open a PDF? Go to Word! A photo? Word! A spreadsheet? WORD.

Also, two of them can't learn that you can copy and paste documents. This is because they only open documents through the File menu and they can't remember how right-clicking works. >:(

*If they have an Excel doc open already and they want to open another Excel doc, they might sometimes use Excel to open it, but not always.

Reminds me of this.

http://d3uwin5q170wpc.cloudfront.net/photo/101671_700b.jpg

totally true, but I feel like I become this guy when I'm using a computer in front of other people

When they see me go through My Computer they think I've done some Harry Potter "hacker" shit. And frequently when faced with a PDF, she calls me and gripes that some jerk sent her "another one of those stupid protected Word documents," could I please "unlock" it?

The younger one asked me for help with something or other and when I told him about Ctrl+C (or V or X) he said "Oh...but I don't do that." Right clicking is another thing he "doesn't do."

totally true, but I feel like I become this guy when I'm using a computer in front of other people

― mh, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 23:03 (52 minutes ago) Bookmark

Just started a new job and have people looking over my shoulder directing me around stuff, it's like i can't type or even move the mouse when there is someone watching.
I had to send one e-mail today to HR, and i managed to fuck that up, all they wanted was my NI number and some spell check changed it just before it sent. Managed to cc my team leader in as requested, so not only is he probably wondering what he's hired, HR are probably doubting his ability to hire people.

Way to go me :(

30% of our cast is late, and we open next week.

We haven't timed it once and there's an hour time limit and they turn the lights and play you off stage.

UGH!

The younger one asked me for help with something or other and when I told him about Ctrl+C (or V or X) he said "Oh...but I don't do that." Right clicking is another thing he "doesn't do."

Wkiw

(Would kill in womb)

Yeah I'd be like "well guess what, helping people who cant even grasp the BASICS of using a computer is something I dont do. You go bye bye now".

LOOOOL Phil D!

Also - that guy's desktop icons are about 1" square! Not only WHY??? but HOW??? What is going on?

And he doesn't use a to-do list or Tasks on Outlook. No, that's too fancy. He leaves open docs and emails that he is currently working on. He makes me bananas, but I don't hate the guy, and we hang out after work sometimes, but I still am sick with pleasure when his computer crashes or we have a power failure.

(I'm sorry, it's all coming to the surface at once ;__;)

I've showed some people in the past the simplest of PC tasks and they're like OH MY GOD WOW YOU HAVE JUST CHANGED THE WAY I WORK HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS and I'm thinking o_0

Don't run into that much now, working in IT. I'd be a wee bit worried if someone here didnt know how to use Windows.

I was working on a project today that I split with my coworker. I'd minimized excel into a smaller window so I could copy and paste data into another lookup program, which was also in a small window so I could see both and use both at the same time. Coworker saw me working as he was leaving and came over and was like "Whoa! How did you do that? I should do that too!!"

Fuck yeah you should, because clicking back and forth between two full-screen windows is fucking ridiculous and slow!

u_u

Eh I fullscreen everything and employ a shit load of alt-tab :D

alt-tab is the way to go

this dude wouldn't know alt tab if it spat in his eye

people are so stupid.

But is there irrational happiness to be had in the innocuous pleasure of being able to do eye-widening magic at these computer illiterate heathens? Or is it unalloyed irritation only?

I get IA at Windows Server 2008 User Account Control.

I'll learn eventually I guess, but I still keep attempting to edit text files by double-clicking on them in explorer, instead of opening Notepad with Run As Administrator, clicking Open and navigating to the file I need to edit.

I guess that's probably not irrationally angry, really.

Don't run into that much now, working in IT. I'd be a wee bit worried if someone here didnt know how to use Windows.

You should see some of the things the other programmers in my team don't know! Or one of them is dyspraxic and dyslexic and always uses the mouse in preference to the keyboard, to the extent of copying and pasting 3-letter commands from the last time he used them, which drives me crazy. Especially since he often misses and pastes the last character of the prompt as well, and then it doesn't work and he can't see why and *deep breath*

Also another one keeps going on about how his laptop's old and the memory is full, and that does make me angry and then feel ashamed at caring about (what most of the population would see as) a very trivial and geeky distinction, but maybe if you're a programmer you should know what the basic components of a computer are, and maybe if you're running scripts on someone else's server and your script runs out of memory or fills the hard disk you should know the difference so you can let the sysadmin know ASAP.

PS in case I sounded smug, today I am the stupid and annoying coworker, because my coworker was off sick yesterday and his script fell over and in my attempts to fix it I put it in the wrong mode which meant it didn't run properly last night, and I've spent the past 3 hours picking up the pieces and sending apologetic/frantic emails.

So basically I'm saying we're all incompetent morons. But don't tell my boss.

you not knowing HIS script is different from not knowing fundamental stuff.

here the cleaner keeps throwing away the plastic cups that i drink water out of. perfectly good plastic cups that i've used once are somehow only worth throwing away. it's got to the point that i put them in my drawer at the end of the day. but sometimes i forget.

Ah no, I had forgotten to do a step he had explicitly told me I should always do. Admittedly he could probably have written the script so that it defaults to a sensible mode unless you override it explicitly on the command line, but hey, I don't write my scripts in a way that certain other people here would like them written, so I don't get to point my fingers.

(We're all meant to use P3rl::Cr!t!c now, which is in my opinion bloody stupid. If you open a file, have a 4-line loop parsing the file contents into memory, and close the file, it fails for having too many lines of code between opening and closing. You're meant to open the file, have a single line calling a subroutine to read it, and then close it. Because apparently it thinks your code will be neater if the bit where you name a filehandle and the sub which uses the filehandle name are hundreds of lines apart. And you can't even put a blank line or a comment in because it counts those too.)

As a former tech support rep for an ISP back in the earlyish days of the internet (1998), I frequently had to walk customers through making a "my connection" icon on their desktop (because just opening IE wouldn't automatically start dialing). That in itself was no problem; but customers would always complain about how "You mean I have to double-click that first, and THEN double-click IE?!" Yes. You have to click TWO EXTRA TIMES. Last I checked, no heavy lifting was involved.

koogs, I used to write "No es basura" on my paper cups to keep the cleaners from tossing them. It worked! If yours speak Spanish, you can steal that, or look it up in their language if you think English won't suffice?

I'm a Spaces user to the Max. Photoshop, InDesign, Firefox, Safari, Thunderbird, File Libraries all in full-on open windows? Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, watch me go.

My office has a spool of stickers that say "please throw out" and "prosze wyrzucic" and ones that say "please do not throw out" and the Polish equivalent (don't have those in front of me). I've never used one.

But is there irrational happiness to be had in the innocuous pleasure of being able to do eye-widening magic at these computer illiterate heathens? Or is it unalloyed irritation only?

Irritation only. I would love to work with people who had things to teach me about Windows and MS Office.

i am actually really upset right now.

i'm in a graduate program. i've got a wonderful, wonderful mentor. i will be leaving/graduating in a few weeks. the rest of the advisees in my program have decided we should give the mentor a group gift. i'm FINE with that, and didn't participate in the email chain where they discussed a lot of options, and eventually settled on an option i didn't like. but i didn't complain, because i hadn't participated in discussion. this morning, an email went out asking for everybody to pony up the money to pay for the gift. it was AT LEAST TWICE what i was expecting/able to pay (i am already getting a gift for this mentor, individually). i responded to the group that the price was a little steep for me. i got blasted by two of the organizers that i was inappreciative of the mentor's work, and i should "sacrifice" more for the mentor, because it is the least i could do.

now i'm bullied into spending a whole bunch of money i don't have on a gift i don't want to give so that i don't seem unappreciative of a person to whom i have already put a lot of thought into thanking with a private gift, thus incurring the wrath of my graduate cohorts.

Windows-TAB is the new Alt-TAB

and P3rl::Cr|t|c reminds me of the two days i did of VisualBasic where the editor was set up to pop-up modal syntax error boxes WHILST YOU WERE TYPING.

damn remy, that sucks bigtime

Remy, what can these people do to make your life worse besides be MAD at you in a general sort of way? You're about to finish the program -- can they actually hurt you with their snideness or w/e if you just say, thank you very much but this is what I was prepared to contribute???

Yr mentor knows you are not "unappreciative", fuck that noise. Self-appointed organizers of shit be getting butthurt over nothin.

i sent a 'my silence on this issue never implied consent' kind of email back, and haven't heard a word – but i got bitched at by a very wealthy cohort (don't ask) that she's spending her 'own' money on it, and she's broke (she lives with her parents) and that it will take her a whole hour of tutoring for her to make back the money for the gift. the amount requested ($75) isn't much in the grand scheme of things, but because i've already purchased a gift, it's a little more than i can spend on an extravagant gift.

People should be sensitive when even *asking* other people for money, never mind putting them down for a certain, sort of high, amount.

that's fucking ridiculous, remy, and i would say fuck 'em and give the mentor your gift.

i mean, i have never given a gift to a mentor/advisor, but mostly because they all know how broke everyone is!