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

she complains about her phone being slow and i'll look and she'll have 20 app updates and 150 photos sitting on her phone

Do photos slow down your phone?? B/c I have at least 300 on mine.

carl, I referred to her as his wife b/c I was talking about her in reference to his and my conversation. It seemed unnecessarily specific to say his wife and my friend.

N/a, we're not talking about your wife/my friend.

I am a reformed that-person

I believe I know who Je55e is talking about - did I recently change the background on her phone as a joke? I recall seeing big red numbers over all her apps, like 200 unread mails and a thousand unapplied updates. Which is totally in character for her and utterly non-surprising.

hahaha we're all friends in real life haha! ilu guys

Honestly I have only met three people who post here in real life, and two (Je55e and Carl) only because they were at this speculated person's wedding last fall.

That's her.

She came up in her husband's and my chat b/c I told him my iOS has been begging to be updated for at least two months, and I thought about saying "lol I'm turning into [her name]," but thought that might be rude, but then he said, "Oh man, don't be a [her name]."

Because it is amazing and awful, here is what [her name]'s new iPhone background was, which is a creepy, demeaning objet d'art in my bedroom at the house a bunch of us rented last month

http://i.imgur.com/NMr7lnK.jpg

I can't update my iOS software because I get work email on my phone and they sent out an alert telling us not to update until they did compatibility testing. I should just get a dedicated work Blackberry but I'm loathe to carry around more crap.

xpost oh god that's horrible

trying to get rid of a video ad on the side that starts playing, pressing the "x" on the video multiple times which actually just sets it to full screen, struggling to get out of full screen because it doesn't follow common exiting-full-screen commands, finally pressing the correct "x" which i think only just appeared, which actually makes the video slowly travel to the center of the screen and, like, grow an image ad around it which i then have to press another, more correct "x" to get rid of

hate x 1000

in the old days you had to do a lot less and then you'd get a stuffed monkey in the mail a few weeks later

is that a porn site or

no! it was slacktivist. porn sites just do that annoying "are you SURE you REALLY want to leave??" popup thing

i never see those because adblock

but wow, way to brute force an audience

I never update any apps because I don't like change.

i know I'm going to get a whole bunch of 'well you know apple and itunes are 2 separate things etc etc blah blah' but this the IA thread and I need to get IA

I have an Apple gift card, but the only way I can use the leftover funds for Itunes is to purchase physical Itunes gift cards on the Apple.com store and have them mailed to me, which takes at least **a week**. Or I can pick them up in the Apple store (which is not located conveniently near me or where I work so I have to go there on the weekend because it's impossible to get there on weekdays). And i'm just...listen you fuckers. If I can buy the ITUNES CARDS on your stupid site, then why can I not just apply those ITUNES CREDITS to my fucking ITUNES account and not have to be mailed a piece of plastic. I mean, THEY ASK YOU TO SIGN IN FOR SHIPPING WITH YOUR FUCKING APPLE ID. IT'S ALL THE SAME FUCKING THING.

aaagggggggggggggggh

*collapses in a heap*

and I'll cut anyone who steps to me to try to 'explain' why this is not unreasonable. *narrows eyes*

That does sound completely unreasonable to me.

thank u!!

conference call coming up, and I just saw that a partner e-mailed his associate (with everyone copied) "E____ can you patch me in?"

What a fucking douchebag, you can't even be bothered to dial into the call yourself?

Similarly, one of my bosses ALWAYS emails me or the associate atty. to say, (to the associate) "Please have Jesse email me ___," or to me, "Please ask Brian to call me." Or to either of us: "Please email [bookkeeper] to ask her how I should bill for ____." WHY?????

yeah that sort of thing happens too -- a partner goes through the trouble of thoroughly briefing me on something a staff person is supposed to do, just so I can assign it to the staff person -- why not just save the step?

i hate, hate hate getting cc'd on emails to a customer with the sales rep saying 'we'll get that done for you!' --- with the intention that I am going to read through the whole email chain to figure out what 'that' is and what 'getting it done' entails. As though I'm the fucking HELP. It's like they don't want to waste emails or something, instead of taking a few moments to send me a direct message saying 'this is x please do x please and thank you'

then again there's nothing I enjoy more than playing dumb and replying back 'so what exactly do you need' & basically cornering them into telling me what they want becuase I AM NOT THE HELP

to clarify, these are email chains that I am only party to for the final step

if I've been copied from the beginning then that's a whole different kettle of fish. but tacking me on because you're too lazy to give instructions is the WORST

It seems like even a simple,"Veg, please see below and let me know of you have any questions" would be in order.

I know right?

in the same bucket are people who forward you an email that requests/demands something, and not even bothering to add text because they assume you'll just do it

lazy, arrogant and lacking accountability

on that note, i devised with the following out of office message:

I am out of the office until 24 May. If your email is urgent, THEN WHY IS IT IN AN EMAIL SERIOUSLY WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PICK UP THE PHONE OR COME TO MY DESK JESUS

'public representatives' instead of 'sales team'

Feeling Hurting and AA today re: these email situations.

I am out of the office until 24 May. If your email is urgent, THEN WHY IS IT IN AN EMAIL SERIOUSLY WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PICK UP THE PHONE OR COME TO MY DESK JESUS

Love this. Reminds me of one I came up with a while ago: "I will be on vacation between [x] and [x]. If there's an emergency, I will be reachable by cell phone. If you don't have my cell phone number, our definitions of 'emergency' likely differ."

every time I set up an out of office reply I seriously consider just making my message

"I will be out of the office from [x] to [x]"

ie DEAL WITH IT

otm

people who forward you an email that requests/demands something, and not even bothering to add text because they assume you'll just do it

even better is people passively aggressively forwarding the same e-mail they sent about an hour ago because you haven't responded yet...without any further text

sorry that I consider your request for an invoice from four months ago has a lack of relative urgency during this 50+ hour work week I'm enduring

ugh fuck those ppl seriously

note: there are records stating that said invoice was sent to their e-mail address exactly four months ago

tell me you are going to/will soon be forwarding said already sent email back to them, also without comment?

used a classic from the kbp school of business correspondence: "If you still are having trouble receiving this invoice, please let me know and I'll investigate if there are any issues on our end."

ooooh nice

polite bitchslapping is my favorite form of communication.

i just outright ignore rudeness in emails

Posts, twitters, etc that announce and admonish things like:

"Whatever you're doing at this moment, get outside. Today's too great to miss!"

"If you're not looking at tonight's sunset, you do not know true beauty!"

"The moon is so big and bright right now. Get out there and see it for yourself!"

Fuck you, fuck you and fuck you.

otm

DROP EVERYTHING

So otm. The oh-tee-emmest!

Walking into a door that 's never locked cos I'm trying to drag the bin in on bin day. But thanks to something I'm not sure of, door was locked. I did notice a workman a couple of doors down when I went out who may have gone onto do something with the flat next door to me. But does always leave me thinking it could effect mail being delivered, luckily a letter I'd been waiting for arrived the day before.

Just hoping that I get a reasonable next door neighbour when one arrives cos otherwise mail will be a hassle. Signs had me thinking there might be one imminent. Somebody washed the stairs some time last week for one.

the f1 key

ever

fuck you, if i want help i know how to ask for it