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

What is really making me totally rationally angry right now is that reminders are not working on Outlook. Those reminders are a critical factor in my getting anything done around here! I tried some fixes, the IT guy tried some more, and now they're researching it. It's horrible!

xp - The one in my work building closes when you select a floor (except the one you're currently on, pressing that one causes the door to stay open).

This is the elevator I ride in my apartment building

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6044/5904008022_af33d23c5e_b.jpg

Wow, huge, sorry. Also, it's not as dark or scary as it looks in that picture!

I love elevators like that!

Outlook.exe /cleanreminders

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Jeff, don't you think I tried that? I did that, and /resetfolders, and then I downloaded MFCMAPI and deleted and reset the folders. Reminders worked ONCE, and never again. Then the IT guy created a new profile for me and again, reminders worked once, and no more.

I have no idea what you tried. I can't read your mind.

Troubleshooting. You try one thing and if it doesn't work, try another.

Delete your ost file and let it rebuild. Assuming you use cached exchange mode. Create a new Outlook profile.

I Also can't read previous posts.

lol

I don't use cached mode!

This really is pretty bad. I have a ton of deadlines and to-dos. The ones on the calendar are no problem, but things I've snoozed or emails with reminders - those are a problem.

Also FYI, I've tried viewing the Reminder Window, but it says I have 0 reminders.

This is why I shouldn't trouble shoot from a bar. I'm coming over to your office to fix it.

I wish you would! Will you really? I won't get in trouble. I'm not joking. Come here please. I don't care if you're drunk.

lol Je55e's last post is a gream nominee for ilx quoted out of context

also, great

Someone at my work has been having possibly the same problem as you, Je55e. If you manage to fix it, I'd be interested to learn how. Thanks!

Hahah. You're right xp

If your co-worker's gets fixed, I'd like to know how, too! Our IT guy says that he is having his underling research the problem. I hope they don't run up a huge bill that has my name connected to it (he's a contractor).

Shit I went to another bar instead.

People who say "It's your time to shine!"

unless it's a shoestand rota tbf

lol

I have two things, one of which should probably go to the co-workers thread, but whatever.

1. I was at the art supply store shopping for paint in the red/orange family to use on a light lampshade, and I wanted the color to be pretty saturated, but not too opaque. A dirty worker dude in the paints area asked, "You finding everything OK?" so I asked him for help. I am not a painter, but I used to work in an art supply store, and I remember that paint opacity varies, so I knew I was making sense.

His answer was a nasal drone: "Weeellll, it's just gonna depend on how thick you put down the paint...." I said, "I understand, but I'm looking for a brand or line with lower opacity." Again, "Weeellll, it's just gonna depend on how thick you put down the paint...." So I asked, "Some paint is more opaque than other paint, right?"

"Yes."

"OK, so I would like to know which paints are the less opaque ones."

He never even looked at a tube or bottle, but just said "Weeellll, I dunno.... I mean, I told you, it's gonna depend on how thick you put down the paint.... And I guess you could thin it....that might help...."

I abandoned him, and asked another filthy dude, who was like, "No problem, man! Check it out, Golden acrylics have a transparency chart!" and in 1 minute I had a tub of fucking colorful, somewhat translucent red paint.

2. The associate attorney I assist asked me for a map of the location where he's going for an arbitration today. I printed Google Maps directions as well as a close up detail of the streets. He said, "Well this doesn't tell me anything." (He whines through his nose a lot.) He asked to see it on Street View, and when I showed him, he moaned, "Well - but - I mean, that arrow is just in the middle of the street. I mean, is the judge just going to hold the arbitration in the middle of the street?" This is the image I showed him:

http://i.imgur.com/6Xbxq.png

One of the buildings in that picture is where the arbitration is going to be held.

I was at a loss. I said, "What do you need me to do to help you?" He pouted and said, "It's okaaaay. I guess there isn't anything else you can do. I'll just have to drive around forever until I find it."

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Holy crap that is a long post!

holy lol

maybe the arbitration will be in a tree

Wow, that is just, uh, I don't know. How does he manage to find his way to work every morning?

How large is this pink arrow anyway? What if I drive past it right onto this other yellow street?

Imagine his confusion when that mail truck isn't parked there anymore.

http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/809/screenshot20110922at114.png

"So, what honey? Are we just going to eat in the driveway and sleep in the yard?"

"Well - but - I mean, that arrow is just in the middle of the street. I mean, is the judge just going to hold the arbitration in the middle of the street?"

what's it like working with people in the bdsm community? i mean, most people aren't so open about badly wanting to be kicked in the balls

Je55e, you sure are IA.

Maps. How the fuck do they work?

Does he know about numbers on buildings? Ask him.

Punch him in the map hole.

I have tried for years to find some way of summing up his *thing*, but I haven't got it yet. A friend and I only ever use the word "feckless" when talking about him.

His problem with the map was that it didn't tell him specifically WHICH building in the office park to go to. I tried to joke with him and say, "I'd bet it's the building with the big "1 2 6" on it," but he was still so pissy - not at me, but at the world we live in where the Google Maps pin doesn't indicate which seat in which hearing in which building he is supposed to go to.

And I just spent the last hour finding a Word document he lost on his computer. It was attached to an email and it saved to Temporary Internet Files. It made me IA, but actually not at him, but at fucking Microsoft.

I altered the registry on my computer so attachments save somewhere sensible, and I guess I'll do it for him, too.

Also, while searching for the document, I found an image file in the Recycle Bin called "[his name]bathroom." I had to look :(
Fortunately, it was just a pic of his chest (he's been working out a lot).

I realized one thing that makes me IA sometimes is the tendency of people on the internet to have to express likes or dislikes in absolute terms. It swings both ways, but I feel like its far too common in the negative direction. Like, whatever happened to "I don't like Seinfeld because..." or "I don't know, Thor wasn't my thing"? Everything now has to be like, "Community is the worst thing ever" or "Breaking Bad is a terrible, awful show". Sure this has a lot to do with our 140 character tweet limit and quick soundbite culture, but if you can't express why you don't like something in something a little more eloquent than "worst thing ever" I'm not likely to take you seriously (NB - this works the other way as well, I'll probably dismiss you if you tell me "In Rainbows is the greatest thing ever" just as quickly). Maybe you think it makes you seem cool and contrarian to dismiss everything as "terrible" and "horrible", but sometimes it just makes you look unwilling to engage.

tl; dr

Ha ha

Would have been funnier/more relevant if you went with "tl;dr, terrible post" imho.

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i *know* we've covered this before, but: sprinklers that water the sidewalk instead of the lawn. concrete doesn't need watering! neither do the people walking past, if they've showered that day.

Ooh, now I have new one. When people on the internet tell me my opinions is "rong".

Fuck, my grammar there was certainly "rong".

There used to be a narrow gap between my house and the one next door, and when the guy would arrange his sprinkler to water his lawn, sometimes it was in such a way that the side of my house would get a direct hit.

I got angry about it first, but then thought, well, do I get angry when it rains? It wasn't one of those machine-gun sprinklers, but the lazy U-shaped deals that rocked back and forth. Still, any time I heard the spray hitting my window, my pissed-off gland would flare up.

I agree, jvc. We went through a long analysis of this question on the Chicago thread, once. IIRC, Jaymc held the position that "In my opinion" is obviously part of every such statement, and it was pointless to actually say it.

xp

office buildings make me IA. they are the worst. they never have handicap buttons on their doors, and because they're office buildings they have big heavy glass doors all the time with increasingly ridiculous handles (the first rule of business is APPEAR RESPECTABLE IN THE CHEAPEST AND TACKIEST WAY POSSIBLE). ok non-handicap access is only IA because i'm not handicapped, i'm just always carrying large heavy loads and it's impossible to open their embarrassing doors without putting everything down and inadvertently making a big to-do about it.

also office buildings suck because they're filled with the worst people, or at least the least-deserving people to have such inflated egos.

Revolving doors annoy me. Mainly cos the ones at work are v easily pushed and some total cnuts always fire through at full pace to show their vast strength meaning anyone behind them has to wait or be killed by a door and die in an office foyer.

That is a problem*, but what you said reminded me that one of my pet hates is assholes who use the handicapped-accessible doors** instead of he revolving door, especially when they could just as quickly use the revolving door. Yes, you fucking douches, why not let out [large volume] of climate controlled air - and let in snow or leaves - so that you can have your own special private entrance?

*I started reading about revolving doors after I read your post and I learned this: Revolving doors typically have a "speed control" (governor) to prevent people from spinning the doors too fast.

**i.e., regular doors that can be opened manually, but which usually can be opened mechanically by pressing a button. The jerks who use the button and then stand waiting for the door to slowly grind open send me into IA redline.

If you try to push the revolving door at work too fast it gets caught and stops moving.

This might be good as an anti-cnut device, but its top speed is trudging speed, so if you're in even a mild hurry it's easy to push just a little too hard and then slow yourself and everyone else down.

When I find a door which has a handicap button I never know if I'm meant to open it manually or if I'm damaging the mechanism by forcing it.

nah just push it if you don't need to use the button

people using the button when they don't need to drives me a tiny bit nuts