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

Or having the coffeemaker gasping for air while a carafe of water sits underneath it.

That scrolling quirk sounds irritating.

Similar to the kettle thing: It really bothers me when, on my work phone, I dial a number and then......nothing. Dead silence. Sometimes it takes me 60 seconds or more to realize that the line that I selected is no longer even lit up.

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Just had the most head-exploding irrationally-angering thing happen: I called the sheriff's office to check on the status of service of two summonses. After being on hold for over 30 minutes (this is normal) a gruff woman answered. I told her I was checking on summonses - she asked "How many?" and I told her two, and gave her the file number for the first one, about which she said there was no contact. I asked "Will service be attempted again?" She said "No. You have to contact the clerk to ask what you do next."

Then?

She fucking hung up on me. a;eslfija;welf;lkawfgrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Now I'm on hold again. 12 minutes and counting....

The constant use of 'hola!' as an opener in conversation, email, and IM - only in an office context, and only between Caucasians

they're actually wishing you hot oral lesbian action. video is in the mail.

Do office workers in Alberta start their emails off with "Bonjour!"

Since this only happens at work I'm developing an unhealthy Pavlovian reaction to Spanish

Just have a healthy reaction to spanglish spoken by non-native spanish speakers!

Irritation 4 about our new software: it keeps overwriting your clipboard with random text.

Now, admittedly I've thrown together some bulk-spreadsheet-copying Excel macros which have trashed the user's clipboard too (Excel gets very slow if you try to do it any other way), but I felt guilty about it, y'know? Feel like commercial software written in real development tools probably shouldn't do this.

"exactamundo"

oh man - i have to use three different browsers at work for different applications to work properly. It's a freaking nightmare.

the same but for different google accounts. although it's ended up that i'm now using chrome for non-work and ff for work stuff so it actually makes me more organised. guess which one gets more action?

instead of having a supposed day off, going in to work for four fucking hours in the middle of the day. i'm spending more on the gas to get there and back then i'm probably making.

Filling the kettle but forgetting to turn it on, thinking 10 minutes later 'dang isn't that water boiling YET?'

or (as I often do)
filling the kettle, turning it on, playing FIFA for half an hour, thinking "oh shit forgot about the kettle", turning it on again, playing FIFA... repeat to IA

fucking software that can't count (ie it arranges files in the order 10, 11, 12, ..., 19, 1, 20, 21,..., 29, 2, 30, etc etc)

don't you mean 1, 10, 11.. 19, 2, 20 ?

That's just because it's sorting in alphabetical order. Nerd solution is to zero-pad the numbers (01, 02..)

01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10...

xp. about a day too late. oh um.

this is also why you should date files using yyyy-mm-dd

(can you hear me bbc?)

It is very true, from a programmer perspective the only thing that makes sense is yyyy-mm-dd. Or unixtime.

personally, I wish that everyone would switch to using yyyy-mm-dd for everything

and also use the 24 hour clock for time of day

^^^^^^^ yes

I'm still no good at the 24 hour clock, but I can learn.

We've got these fields on forms we enter online for the time something was published. Some of my so-workers take the extra time to put the colon and letters in there, 4:35 pm. I once entered in 1635, hit enter, the software converted it 12-hour time for our readers and they guy at my desk was all

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"My so-workers." I doubt I'll be able to write a better typo than that all day.

Whoever programmed that form was an intelligent person.

Really sweaty, smelly people that sit right next to me on a near empty train and proceed to elbow me in the ribs every time they turn a page in their magazine.

Even good or neutral smelling ppl who do that make me IA.

people who give their kids names that all start with the same letter, extra IA if it's also the 1st letter of their own name. jayne, jacqueline, jillian, jianna, jorie, fuck you all.

Jeff and I are so going to do this, but only after we change our last names to Jehoshaphat.

Then we will adopt Jesse.

My sister and I have the same first, middle and last initials as my dad. Mom had the same middle and last initials too.

Always been something weird that we've never really discussed.

Jenny, I can endorse that only if at least one of your kids is named Jumpin J.

I knew a family whose names were Sean, Jon, Don, and Lon.

I know a family with eldest son Teddy and younger twins Freddy and Eddy.

Jenny I always thought of you as my mommy anyway, so this will work out fine. I'll be sure to develop a a reputation for jumping a lot so the last name will work for me.

people who use "appeals to authority" as their sole means of validating their argument

people who don't even use proper "appeals to authority" as a means of validating their argument. such as this dude yesterday saying he "served his country" in the military, therefore he was allowed to pass judgment on people who 'pissed their lives away' due to drugs

Worth having a packet of Oreos in your bag just for the pure pleasure of telling someone fronting that shit, 'here, have a cookie, then'.

during the 2008 Presidential election, my best friend/roommate told me there was a military vet, decked out in full regalia, standing outside the voting center, saying "You're welcome" to everybody as they left the building.

I wish I could have been there as I would have decked him.

People who place their yard sprinklers so they spray over the public sidewalk.

That guy didn't need decked, he needed ignored.

well he mostly got that...from what I was told.

obviously major issues reconciling his role as a soldier with daily life in peacetime and he needs therapy and not a pat on the back

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People who place their yard sprinklers so they spray over the public sidewalk.

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OTM. Especially when it is not just a little overspray, but full coverage of all the sidewalk. And especially when it's a constant spray, not a rotating one that offers a small window of time to cross without being sprayed. There are so many instances in which it would be easy to make it NOT spray on the sidewalk while still watering the plants or yard.

If I'm cranky or if it's someone who does it all the time, I have been known to yank the hose so it doesn't spray on the walk.

Nerd solution is to zero-pad the numbers (01, 02..)

This I know and do, but I get a lot of files from other people and have to spend ages renaming PDFs with extra zeroes before the system will arrange them correctly.

Netflix raising it's price for streaming content and one DVD at a time 60%. Its innocuous as they have been "giving it away" very reasonably for a long time and I was a happy recipient; but hard to take now and in an irrational snit I've quit my account but am willing to pay other services from different suppliers who will probably charge more for less content.

There are scripts to rename files! In my experience even if you lack the scripting expertise, you can ask online in a spot or two and get a quick way to do it on whatever your OS/program is.

When, in meetings/emails, colleagues make reference to people by only their first names and expect you to know who they're talking about. You can't ask or they look at you like you're really dumb.

^try that with added civil servants and you get

CS: "Joe Bloggs..."
Me: "Who's Joe Bloggs?"
*CS looks at you like you're stupid
CS: "He's the deputy XYZ for the CDEF team at HQ ABC!"
Me: "?"