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

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!

Webpages with little flash doodads that only occasionally make (invariably irritating) noises. You're working, listening through your headphones, and every now and then you hear a shuffling or a beeping or a clicking or a buzzing, but you can't work out which of the various tabs you have open contains the bit of crap that's making the noise, because it's not frequent enough to track down.

stray strands of hair inside tshirts, tickle and drive me nuts

worse when they wrap around your toe inside your sock

- not being credited for outstanding work

people who hold the lift door open for you WAYYYY ahead of where you are, when you really dont want them to (bcz it would mean breaking into a run) or even worse, arent gettin in the lift, and then stand there glaring at you. JUST GO ALREADY.

cf also car drivers who wave you past when they have right of way.

ended my bracket in the wrong spot there but you get the idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg5MJyEHKGo

similar theme, it drives me fucking mental when people just stroll through a door you've held open with no thanks whatsoever. like not even acknowledging it's open, as if they just strolled through this permanently open space, not a doorway. may have mentioned this upthread.

also...people walking backwards in public areas, like on the phone or chatting to someone. generally have no fucking idea where they're going, why their gesticulation requires a step backwards, and that they've just walked into someone's face.

General spatial awareness of people on 'phones is massively reduced.

i think they actually know what they're doing, just some total cunts can't speak on the phone without wandering around to illustrate the depth of their thought.

There was a cold winter's night a few years ago where I was waiting for some Mexican takeout and some asshole was walking circles around the lobby foyer and kept opening the automatic door to the smoking patio, letting arctic blasts of chilly air freeze everyone's nuts off again for a few moments. At one point, he even said into his precious cell, "What the hell? This door to the outside keeps opening," completely oblivious to the radar gun pointed at his head from seven feet up.

Who to blame? The asshole, first of all. The restaurant for not having that door turned off anyway (maybe a fire thing, I dunno.) Or me, for just standing there stewing instead of tapping him on the shoulder and making an exaggerated gesture toward the fucking door.

― http://tinyurl.com/MO-02011 (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, January 13, 2011 12:33 PM Bookmark

I still think about that guy maybe once a week or so.

His comment is what makes this sound rage-worthy.

okay let me preface this by saying I love dogs, I am firmly in the dog-loving camp and have nothing against them

However: why the fuck does everyone have a french bulldog right now? why? like when people say they have them now it's like saying you have a pot-bellied pig? like you saw it on some "hot list" and had to have one. even if you came by it legitimately. it just makes me ia that theyre everywhere at the moment

people who bring infants to Thor at a 10:20 p.m. showing when the kid is obviously bothered/upset by the violent images they're seeing on screen, as evidenced by their yelling "MOMMMMY" and "DADDDDY" throughout it, which is oh so fun to listen to when I've paid $14 for my ticket.

gah I hate that...or even just seeing little kids at an R Rated movie

To be fair, french bulldogs are incredibly cute
http://dogsranch.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/french-bulldog.jpg

If I saw those guys everywhere I went, I'd be really happy!

yeah like, it's not so much the dog itself, I guess I just dont understand/tolerate pet "trends" as much as I should

xxpost I saw kids at fucking Brooklyn's Finest, a movie that even revolted me with its graphic violence

yeah there were kids at "Paul"...which is not violent but loads of swearing & adult stuff...I swear some people just think all movies fall into "oh its like ET" or "oh its like Transformers" or "oh its like Star Wars" just based on the fucking poster or something. Do not get it.