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

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

groups of 5+ mall-goers who phalanx across the walkway so there's barely room to get around them

unless you're the Jacksons or the Spice Girls knock that shit OFF

Using the bathroom at someone's house and they don't have a designated hand towel, forcing me to dry them with same one they use to dry their balls.

otm. I don't know why people want folks to wipe their grubby hands on the towels they use to dry their bodies anyway.

Otm x infinity

Not being able to get images on Facebook back permanently. I opened both Chrome and Mozilla Firefox at the same time after I came home, to check what some images I'd uploaded looked like on there. & the imahges came back on Chrome for the first time in a week or 2. I then went to my timeline and everything disappeared again.
Not sure if it's related to adblocker or something, there is an icon to block element on there which may be what i clicked on intially & hence why no images. I tried to whitelist the site with th eapplication hoping that it would stop image sfrom being blocked but then when I closed the reopened Facebook images were gone again.
Really is a lot better with images on.

Also National bus strike meaning I couldn't get into town today and may have trouble getting to the training centre tomorrow. Especially if it rains, involves walking through a forest before anothe rlong walk at the far end. & apparently nobody knows how long the strike's on for.

ugh I have to do this 'food diary' thing for a health screening and
a) you can't do it on Firefox, Chrome or Safari so I had to boot up Internet Explorer and update flash and whatnot
b) you have to enter your birthdate every time you log in but no, you can't actually type it, you have to pick it from a calendar which is set to today as default so you have to click back for th- cough cough) YEARS to enter it
c) you have to pick each item from a drop-down list which is the most stupid list I've ever seen and things are spelt wrong and things don't come up when you type them and also how do I know whether my canteen broccoli was boiled in salted or unsalted water? GAH
d) also it's a massive pain in the arse

When my online editor was redesigned a few years ago, the only way to enter a date was to go through a pull-down menu of the month, date and year (which drove me crazy since as a publication, 99-percent of all stories we put in there are going to be for this year.)

But the thing that drove me craziest the most was the tool used to enter in the time of the publication. It was the pop-up with two columns, one for the hour and one for the minute. You had to pull each bar up to the number you wanted. So you'd have to remember in your head that 1400 is 2p.m. and drag the first one to 14, then drag the second one to the minute which God forbid might be :58.

It was stupid, stupid, stupid and served as a very visible reminder of how an I.T. guy thinks he's "fixing" something. Like 05/12/13 1539 is so hard to type into the system.

> Like 05/12/13 1539 is so hard to type into the system.

so, is that the 5th december or 12th may?

So you'd have to remember in your head that 1400 is 2p.m

...
... really?
using only a 12-hour clock beyond primary school is really weird to me

anyway yeah that system is STUPID.

people who go to watch a film/play/anything performed in front of an expected-to-be-quiet audience whose conversation is SO FUCKING IMPORTANT that they finish it 30 seconds after the performance has begun...I WILL CRUSH YOU...i don't care if it's only your kids and you're only there out of a sense of duty just SHUT THE FUCK UP WHEN THE LIGHTS GO DOWN

I am an American. We don't watch the 23-hundred-hour News, we watch the 11 o'clock news.

Along those lines, our settings are set up for mm/dd/yyyy. I'm sure they could be adjusted if needed be.

Converting from "regular" time to what we call "military" time isn't that hard. Just that when every other clock around you says 2 p.m., it takes that one more half-second to convert it to 1400 when IT SHOULD JUST KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS ALREADY.

Hey, look. Even ILX knew ↓↓↓↓ how to do this.

that's very English language specific though, spelling out the month.