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

they prolly do but like, let's be honest, I'm not doing it to be some awesome employee, I'm doing it to A. prevent boredom and B. make sure this isn't an excuse to lay me off in two months time! lol

when i was at my last job, i did everyone else's work -- i didn't care about the job or the company, but i'm a responsible person and i wanted to see the work get done.

i mean, i did care about the job, but i wasn't being supercareerist or anything.

It's a lot easier for me to do the shit than to wait for the shit to mosey its old way down the proverbial pipeline.

I mean I DO care about my job too and I have a good work ethic, but I'm not gonna lie and act like I'm Captain DoLotsaShitOutofTheGoodofHisHeart

Not innocuous but:

srsly, fuck canker sores. ow ow ow.

I wished I worked with you ppl who go looking for work when you're not busy. I'm just about underwater here, through no fault of my own, just got unlucky with case assignments. I just learned that my coworker with the same job title and responsibilities has had nothing to do for the past week but since we're only supervised insofar as meeting our quota, and she's met hers, nobody is telling her to help me out, and that is apparently not something she feels like she might want to do for the same of teamwork/not wasting taxpayer money/helping a sister out.

Those of you with some personal insight into my stress level w/r/t work and my subsequent lack of emotional fortitude to deal with assorted personal junk can imagine how I feel about this.

(this is not innocuous and should go on the shitty coworkers thread but I'm on the Zing Touch and can't search for it.)

And Vegrrrl, I feel you. I'm battling a cold sore that's developing as a result of the aforementioned stress. Grrrr.

Sorry Jennifer :-/

"C'MON JAKE" lady is back. She is apparently letting her dog outside doing his thing in a TORRENTIAL DOWNPOUR with thunder and lightning. because of the noise she is HOLLERING "C'mon Jake" louder than ever every 3 seconds. like wtf!

"The message could not be delivered because the recipient's mailbox is full."

I get that one fairly regularly - the perils of dealine with computerphobic livestock industry people. One guy just started a new email account rather than deal with his inbox.

"Not innocuous but:

srsly, fuck canker sores. ow ow ow."

get SLS free tootpaste

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jun/30/wordsandlanguage?commentpage=all#start-of-comments

articles like this which seem to appear on uk news websites every 2/3 months. the ensuing comments then lambast "going forward" or "let's box this off" or whatever office speak that barely anyone actually uses anyway.

that and people getting annoyed by the misuse of "literally", it's definitely in "things people say to sound smart" territory now, even if there once was a need to point this out, or even if there still is.

has "literally" now reached that point where that kind of usage is becoming de facto correct?

was never that annoyed by that usage of it - the mixing up of envious and jealous has been my bugbear so i never really had time to be annoyed by literally

all the 'going forward' and 'blue sky thinking' stuff - it feels like a lot of this has really dropped away in the last 2 or 3 years

yeah...people only quote it in jest or mockery.

residual repetitive dislike of things really annoys me, like some people will never stop citing "going forward" or "blue sky thinking" as their most hated words, ever.

or phrases more accurately

yeah...people only quote it in jest or mockery.

sadly this is not the case in most corporate environments

Our place was full of that stuff a few years ago but its mostly gone now - its probably because we're on the downward slope, cutbacks on the managerial courses where they learn that stuff. 4-5 years ago they'd send anybody and everybody on those things whether you were some kind of manager or just a lowly tech person, 5 days in a country house with that kind of language being hammered into you

then it gradually stopped and they just gave you a booklet instead telling you about this stuff, then eventually the booklets disappeared and I haven't heard anyone say any of those things in a long time

obviously that kind of industry was massive before the crash - and presumably still is for some companies, those that can afford it - but without people going on those courses i think that kind of language evaporates reasonably quickly

sadly this is not the case in most corporate environments

yes indeed--I only wish I worked in one of these magical offices where people have stopped talking like that

Facebook spam makes me IA.

I can't remember if I've said this one already: motorcycle riders wearing shorts and/or tshirts. Like, you know that the helmet you're wearing only protects your head, right? And sure, leathers aren't the be-all end all, but christ...it just makes me crazy that you wouldn't at least make a bit of an effort to protect yourself.

how are those cankers

all better now, thank you! It was just the one, on the inside of my lip. But ugh it was so grody.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jun/30/wordsandlanguage?commentpage=all#start-of-comments

these articles make me IA

who wouldve thought poets would be so pedantic and unfunny

I saw a shirtless guy on a motorcycle yesterday. No helmet, either. It always surprises me that IL doesn't have a helmet law.

Or if not Illinois, at least Chicago. Spray paint is illegal here, ffs. Making people wear helmets seems like a no brainer. (har har)

I've been thinking about how NC has more regulations than IL, including

- Helmet law
- Forbidding serving burgers under medium well
- Requiring a class to be a notary public
- State operated liquor stores
- Mandatory vehicle inspections and emissions tests

In Ark., you can be pulled over for not wearing a seatbelt, but we have no helmet law.

I save the day again

People who submit their phone numbers as 5013768111. Put periods, dashes, parenthesis, whatever in there, dammit.

Also web sites that don't automatically tab your cursor to the next field when entering credit card, phone or ss numbers.

Pretty much every website I enter a CC or phone number into tells me to remove the spaces/dashes. Which makes me IA because ffs, that would be pretty easy to code automatic removal of spaces into your website, easier than for a human to type it in without them when their eye is used to them being there.

So maybe they are just conditioned by those.

We have an (xxx-xxx-xxxx) next to each phone number field, AS A HELPUL HINT HINT HINT.

We also ask that the state isn't added to the city's name, but I spend a lot of time going through submissions and deleting all sorts of AR's, Ar's, AK's, etc.

It makes me FURIOUS when after a few washes bright colorful clothes look like they have been in direct sunlight for a month.

AS A HELPUL HINT HINT HINT.

Is this a web form? I get angry when people are viewing data that someone submitted via one and
a. the form doesn't make you do things in a rational manner
b. the system showing you the data that was entered just doesn't clean it up FOR YOU, ffs

It's a web form for businesses to promote themselves on some various lists we have (Calendars, Movers & Shakers, Web Links, etc.)

Granted there's just an open field for numbers, meaning you can type it in any format you desire. But then, I'll have to go fix it and then maybe demote you to Deputy Chief Office Manager out of spite.

you gettin some bertations up in here?!?!

I hate when websites automatically tab me to the next field. Definitely IA.

-- plethora of staples to secure a single sheet of paper to a folder

health issues making me irrationally angry right now. how can i be ill AGAIN? this year has been one thing after another. i get most irrationally angry about things beyond my control (cf technology that inexplicably doesn't work like it should).

also housemates making the kitchen absolutely filthy and leaving it like that.

mystery solved: you're getting sick from the dirty kitchen!

i wouldn't even be surprised

seriously need to move out

I hate when websites automatically tab me to the next field. Definitely IA.

Why?

I copied this in preparation for an "OTM" before I read your post.

Also web sites that don't automatically tab your cursor to the next field when entering credit card, phone or ss numbers.

Though it's not so much that I get very angry if the site doesn't do it, but I am very pleased when it does.

I tab through fields all day, so sometimes I end up skipping over stuff when the site has scripting to move it for me.

Having to press tab after entering your middle two ss# digits is just insulting.

I feel a little like Carrie when the cursor moves to the next field without my pressing tab.

The thing that makes me more IA than anything else.

1. Things that are badly designed. Forms, household items, computer programs etc that were designed and built by people who blatantly won't ever have to use these things.

I think I'm living the same life as Lex, except replace flatmates with girlfriend.