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

"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

I take the elevator one floor all the time. Stairs hurt.

And I look fairly able bodied.

yeah like i just said i wasn't making the assumption that everybody in there was able to use the stairs, but in a big group there'll be plenty that were

i was thinking that we shd have some kind of "is your journey really necessary?" posters. it's an eight floor tower block and i'll usually take the lift up if i'm going above the fourth floor but going downstairs shdn't be an issue for the majority of our users

innocuous things that make me irrationally angry: paleo diet

figured I might as well just come out & say it

lol otm

I feel the same, as you might have guessed

I had to unbookmark that thread.

I eat terribly btw

the barefoot running thing also, which is sometimes called "paleo running"

like ok why don't you also just run barechested and tie your nuts up in an animal skin

I am not ideologically against that. It just sounds painful.

xpost... or is it?

http://images.wikia.com/kingdomhearts/images/archive/5/50/20100609143553!Tarzan.jpg

I'd never heard barefoot/VFF/minimalist running called paleo running until you did today.

I dig my New Balance Minimus shoes. A+ for deadlifting