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

The Youtube nonsense is what's brought me the closest to ditching gmail (which I don't want to do because it's such a huge pain in the ass to change an email address that I've been using for like seven years now) so I can stay logged out and not have to worry about them suddenly slapping my real name across 37 different Google sites.

The hoops we had to jump through at work when they changed all that -- setting up work gmails for the business itself, all the while fighting gmail's attempts to make it more personal.

You'd think they would've learned something from the whole yahoo:flickr debacle.

I've got constant adverts for someone else's shoes after a friend sent me a link to a pair of shoes she was thinking of buying. And every fucking hotel in the Western US after a brief thought about where i might possibly want to go on holiday this year, so I can't do anything now without LA/SF/Vegas hotels being waved in my face. Can't download an adblocker at work :(

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery

The latest version of dumbshit redirects is sites that detect you coming via an iPad and direct you to this horrible Onswipe-powered site that's impossible to use.

The most IA'ing poo-ups for me are the ones that crawl across the screen. On staples.com the "Chat with an expert?" crawling box comes up unless you've previously clicked "Not today."

Other office supplies IA: on search results lists, Quill.com displays only the bulk-purchase prices. You have to go to the item's page to see the individual price.

These things bug me b/c I love buying office supplies. A few years ago I got a quasi-promotion and they were going to give supplies buying duties to someone else, but I snatched it back b/c I LOVE office supplies! And I like shopping.

http://i.imgur.com/fsCshrq.jpg

Being asked "What's the good word?" There is no good goddamn answer. I know it is just a pleasantry, but ask something that can have a straightforward answer like "How are you doing?"

Onswipe-powered site that's impossible to use

Is that the horizontally oriented version of the site where you can't figure out how to get below the fold on whatever you were reading? So much hate.

I mean, does nobody test this shit? Does the site/publication just accept a Photoshop mock up of what the developer was hoping it would look like? Is it really more important to them that I be taken to a mobile site than it is for me to actually be able to read their content?

- excessive rhetorical questions

xxp YES. The worst. And me frantically scanning for the button that says "DESKTOP VERSION."

I blame my profession; this is all because of marketing people.

For some reason a few web pages are refusing to allow me to back track from them, just keep refreshing the page I'm trying to leave. Takes several attempts, has me continually bashing the key to try to get off it.
Wondering if its an internet security thing or sometyhing. Seems to happen mainly with sites like Amazon where I've used the search engine and want to get back to the results but it just doesn't want to let me for some reason. Frustrating. & not customer friendly.

I've seen that happen with smaller sites and I figured it was some stupid trick to make you never leave, but just give up, foresake the rest of the Internet, and use their site forever.

"Yes, hello, is this Great Lakes Awning Company? I'm trying to transfer $500 from my savings account to my checking account and can't find a link on your site for on-line banking transactions."

(You can force going back by right-clicking on the browser's back button (or doing whatever it is you have to do to get a list of previously visited sites) and selecting the last site you were on.)

doesn't always work, especially if a form has been submitted to get to the page you're on. it's not always obvious whether it should resubmit the form (possibly causing a long process, like a search, or a payment!, to be done again) or just redisplay the cached page.

and sometimes the previous page is a redirect from, say, /user_friendly_url to /machine_url?a=saldkj&b=adjl&c=askdl and going back to that page just redoes the redirect, like walking up a down escalator. (the way around this is go back twice quickly, or use the history drop-down to hop around the redirect)

"Are you sure you want to Unsubscribe..."

FUCK YES I AM. AND WHY ARE YOU MAKING ME INPUT MY EMAIL ADDRESS TO DO SO?????????

yeah that fucking "WHY DONT YOU WANT TO USE YOUR REAL NAME????" box is infuriating

re google: there's been a push in the past, what, two weeks to get every user to (1) sign in and (2) use fucking google plus. even when you do a web search you get that fucking obnoxious 'WAIT WHAT YOU HAVEN'T SIGNED IN BEFORE DOING A SEARCH WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU' pop-up

re unsubscribe: i keep suddenly finding myself on opt-out mailing lists because i signed up for something like six years ago (mainly recruitment agencies and 'rebooted' web sites), and some of them have made it SO HARD to unsubscribe that i've taken to treating the whole companies as spam farms, which means i will never see anything they send me ever again. good business model they've got going there.

'you haven't updated your SkilledPeople resume! what if a potential employer can't find you?'

what if my arse were made of biscuits

fuck off

stop yr making me hungry

hungry4assbiscuits

uh oh

yes recruiters. i got an email recently from one i signed up to before my current job, 9 years ago and ~5 years since their last email.

also got a "oh, we're sorry, we know you have ticked 'no mail' but we sent that last message to you by mistake"

i had apache (the web server) on my resume. i got emails concerning jobs with apache (the helicopters). could be worse.

Being asked "What's the good word?" There is no good goddamn answer.

the proper answer is: 'legs. spread the word!'

grease. grease is the word

No, bird is.

'satan is real'

bird grease is the word

Johannesburg!

Hey, Jeff, whaddya know.

:(

There's a guy at work who says that to me, and every time I'm thinking "Wait. I know a lot of things. Hang on," but he's already gone by the time I come up with a response.

That guy.

man, people have been violating the fuck out of the "social contract" today, either being self-absorbed idiots or just garden-variety assholes.

There's a guy at work who says that to me, and every time I'm thinking "Wait. I know a lot of things. Hang on," but he's already gone by the time I come up with a response.

I'd go with a mock-shouted "Not much! You?" and out myself as a big dork.

And not even by choice, just by reflex.

this isn't innocuous, like most things here i guess, but the modern corporation's hr structures really bother me. like i mean, the constant "personal development plan" or meetings to try and dig their nails into you for longer, and to keep you there, or like part of their stupid fucking world.

i just want to do my job with an honest effort then go home. it's fucking insufferable the amount of stupid meetings, enforced fun, and needless daddying, that they force you to endure.

not sure if this is widespread or just cos i work for a company that's desperate to feel like a google or a facebook, not that it ever will be.

I'd go with a mock-shouted "Not much! You?" and out myself as a big dork.

So are you the first person that I've ever encountered who does not hate this show? My local NPR station used to play this for two hours every Saturday and literally every person I ever talked to really really disliked it.

Then they started asking listeners to rate shows, after which time it went down to only one hour for a couple months then vanished completely without fanfare.

Oh no, I hate it.

It was part of WHYY's Sunday morning lineup during a (pretty sweet, in hindsight) period in my life when my Sunday morning routine involved bagels, the newspaper, and NPR and Whaddya Fucking Know came on in the middle of an otherwise Top Hits lineup, so I would suffer through it to get to whatever was next.

coworkers who append 'hilarious' nicknames to contacts in their outlook address book
just stop it

ie

to Jim 'Big Honkin' Smith
cc Sally 'No Whammys' Black

:/

I don't know, seems very professional.

completely

this is not just limited to internal emails. oh no. let's make sure those folks are copied in on emails to outside suppliers.

in a fight between 'Big Honkin' and 'No Whammys', who would win?

my money's on sally because she would not put up with whammys

p sure I've mentioned this one before but:

- when you hold a door for someone behind you so the door doesn't slam in their face and they walk past you and through the door like you're a fucking doorman.

when you're waiting with a wheelchair user who needs to get in a lift going down and you have to wait forever because every down trip is full of perfectly able-bodied fuckwits who can't be fucking bothered to walk down a few flights of stairs

You have no idea what the functional capacity of those fuckwits is, no matter how annoyed you are at having to wait for an elevator.

no i know that, and i often tell people not to make assumptions, but when the lift's gone past for the 3rd or 4th time i'm assuming that statistically the majority of the occupants could've walked, even if i don't know which ones

also this is mostly college students so thoughtlessness feels like a fair assumption