start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

lol Radio Shack was way ahead of the curve, they used to ask for your address years ago

I just had one of those, cash purchase of an overpriced-yet-undeniably-effective hair care product for one of my daughters from a salon I visit for no other purpose.

"What's your last name?" "Is it 'Dusty' Perry?" "I'm supposed to ask." "How do you spell your last name?" "Who normally does your hair here?" Ha ha ha, who does my greying, thinning hair.

Canada Goose Parkas

It also doesnt help that because I'm a temp I'm realizing about 2/3ds of what my employer is paying the temp agency

Not to stoke any further IA, but it's possible that you are grossly overestimating the cut that your temp agency is willing to part with.

Very true. I used to be temped for Accounts Payable jobs, so the most hilarious thing to me was knowing the 'big secret' of exactly how much the company was paying for my services because I was the one processing the bill! (Of course temp agencies never ever want their temps to know this stuff).

I recall more than one job where I got hourly $13, and the agency was getting $22, and that this ratio was pretty usual, so, I got more than half, but less than 2/3 of the payout.

However, and this really ticked me off, one job that was largely funded by taxpayer dollars paid me way less than half of the outrageous sum the temp agency got! I think I got $9 out of $25 bucks on that one! No business like soaking the people.

temp agencies take that much?! damn.

i guess companies will pay to screw people out of benefits

Most of the times I was ever offered to 'go perm' it was usually with a pay cut from what I had been getting as a temp ('but you'll get benefits') so, no, thanks.

One reason I did temp for a long time was that the pay rates had at least something to do with demand, whereas permanent positions tended to be successfully squashed. While it was humiliating in some ways to have the agency taking a lot of money for doing nothing but landing me the spot, that did save me a lot of dreadful human resources interviews and frankly, I just wouldn't have found those positions on my own. I also used to see the most interesting trainwrecks: places where I'd take over the suddenly vacated position of an embezzler, a revenge case, a blazing incompetent. Whole little histories there. The work of course was more boring than not so regular changes of scenery were helpful as well.

lol Radio Shack was way ahead of the curve, they used to ask for your address years ago

That reminds me of this collection of anecdotes (I thought it mentioned the hassling-for-address thing but it doesn't seem to):
http://www.ihateworkinginretail.com/tag/i-hate-radioshack/

I particularly enjoyed VIII and XV, if you've got better things to do than read the whole collection of longwinded rants. But who would have better things to do than that?

omg XV is amazing, I have no idea what that is

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t53/baldie0522/doin-brum.gif

baldie doin-brum.gif

ia: egregiously bad service in restaurants. i'm sooooo chill and forgiving about minor food service slip-ups. i don't care if you smile. i don't care if you refill my water without me having to ask. if i don't say when i'm ordering that i'm allergic to XYZ food item (which would be a gross overstatement, since my food allergies are really trivial), it's a minor inconvenience but not the end of the world if the kitchen forgets to leave it off. i just want a baseline level of transactional ease if i'm gonna choose your place over other places. i had work to do last night and i ran out to get a quick takeout order so i could scarf down some food and meet my midnight deadline. i ended up waiting probably 40 minutes for a dish that at most would take ten minutes to cook from pre-prepped ingredients and assemble in a styrofoam box. and the restaurant was busy, but not slammed. it just made me very stressed out. which is my problem, not theirs. i don't handle stress well. 40 minutes is a long time to wait though.

no i in yr a

so to speak

the level of stress made my a feel i

_lol Radio Shack was way ahead of the curve, they used to ask for your address years ago_

That reminds me of this collection of anecdotes (I thought it mentioned the hassling-for-address thing but it doesn't seem to):
http://www.ihateworkinginretail.com/tag/i-hate-radioshack/

I particularly enjoyed VIII and XV, if you've got better things to do than read the whole collection of longwinded rants. But who would have better things to do than that?

Whoa thank you, aps! I read the first few of those when it was first posted, but missed the great ones you pointed out plus my favorite, the one w/ Stoned Craig going "I'm hungry, Paw." (Which I've said a lot to various people over decades for no reason I can discern, so maybe it's just part of the collective human drive to say it.)

Stoned Je55e

OK that Brum story looool
Original Brum theme was instrumental but TIL there is an extremely lengthy modern version

bill gates the spider

News sites showing handheld video but blurring out the edges? I feel like I see something like this every week or two. Sorry, this is some really traumatic video.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/dying-among-strangers-metro-victim-found-fellow-riders-who-tried-to-save-her-life/2015/01/13/98f6c37e-9b7a-11e4-bcfb-059ec7a93ddc_story.html?hpid=z3

lately every time i watch some crappy viral video prank, i get IA imagining myself just out and about trying to run an errand and getting trapped in a viral video prank. like that dumb telekinesis coffee shop thing.*

*maybe the reactions are fake, idk.

It's very likely my last dying words will be "Turn your phone sideways if you insist on recording this."

Yeah, it's not because something is being blurred out, it's because people don't shoot in landscape and for some reason news organizations have chosen to present it like that. I think they should just reject all portrait videos.

Why can't phones just format videos in landscape regardless of the position of the phone?

camera sensor orientation? the actual sensor isn't square iirc, I may be wrong

those takeout containers with interlocking flaps - eating from them makes me ia bcz the flaps get in the way

i usually dump it out onto a plate of something but sometimes you can't & raaaaage

Like Chinese take out containers?

if you hold it from the side you are holding down three of the flaps automatically

Blurred margins - you'll also see this sometimes when shows re-run old 4x3 segments in their new 16x9 format.

Was cutting up a carrot for some soup for dinner and lost about half of it to the 3 slices just rolling right off the cutting board and onto the floor.

Weather getting even worse and still not collected flat pack. Had stiff neck on Monday the one day this week when there hasn't been really bad weather, think it was actually calm and sunny.
Snowed last night and now there's a major storm happening tonight and tomorrow.
i was just hoping I'd be able to get this thing home on the bus. Which will be a load of fun in itself. Thing is about 5 foot or so long which means it's a bit awkward. Maybe will have to get taxi and I'm really broke this week.

xp
I don't know your floors but you can rinse stuff off.

Having so much fun trying to get my cursor to keep things selected so it can organise them. Not sure where flaw lies is it a thing with Windows 7 or something.
JUst tried to sort out a load of music on Foobar and instead of it clicking ad dragging a set of tracks it would just shift the highlight across other tracks or click and start playing on any track among several selected.
Then just had even more fun trying to scroll up a page elsewhere on this site to try to click on the link to here.
aaaaaargh

These cutsey little browser messages that appear when a problem occurs.

For example, I guess Firefox didn't shut down properly last night, so now I've got it over here in the other window saying "Well, this is embarassing…" Like it somehow dinged my bumper as it was trying to back out of its own driveway.

The worst is Chrome. "There's no way you can see this PDF of your parcel map because we're Chrome and AWWWWWWW SNAP!"

while we're on computer issues - windows programs which, when you go to open a file, always take you back to some obscure folder on your hard drive rather than the last one you were on, meaning if you want to open multiple files you have to go through the rigmarole of locating the folder you wanted each time.

Oh yeah that sucks. Why do they do that?

there must be a 1337 way of stopping that. it's so frustrating.

i can admit that i am irrationally angered by the npr program "invisibilia"
i hate the way they edit it
the topics are just barely quasi-deep and today i learned the urgent lesson of "your fears aren't real"
the style of speech exemplified in that program annoys me
ugh

invisibiiiilya
so precious, so deep

ok i feel better
definitely need to avoid this program though

Ha Just 15 minutes ago I subscribed to this podcast b/c my therapist recommended one particular episode (not the fear one).

I do hate that but I also hate it sometimes when programs do what you suggest and default to the last one, e.g. if 99% of the files I edit are in a standard documents folder but one day I need to use the same software to edit some configuration file in an obscure location or something that e.g. Google Talk has hidden in its own downloads folder, and then next time I open a document it shows me that folder and not the standard one

in short, why can't software just read my mind

(but please don't actually read my mind either, it is full of junk and secrets)

xxp I just heard the first Invisibilia double-bill this week and kind of liked it - it was good for my walk home, where I don't want to think too hard about anything because I might have to check out for a minute and concentrate on not being hit by a car etc - but while the interviewees were interesting, the questions the presenters asked were so point-missingly "so, a bad thing happened. did that feel bad?", and at one point they were almost falling over each other to emphasise that they totally didn't know anything about this mental health gobbledegook because lol not crazy, I mean this stuff is for the crazies, right? and I felt embarrassed

(ok, I just checked and I've heard the Thoughts double-bill but not the Fear one yet)

i heard the thoughts one
it wasn't so bad tbh
it contained some essential truths -- i guess it's the way they're delivered that makes me want to barf

mostly it's the radiolab-style
my irritation is totally irrational

the radiolab guys make me IA so I can totally relate

Me too. I thought this was way less irritating than Radiolab though.

have not heard yet

Radio lab cuts right through me, so so annoying.

wow i was thinking invisibilia was local because its ad spots sound so low quality. i already hate it without hearing it. i hate the radiolab style so so much.

(how do you feel about people whispering on the radio)

because i totally hate it

I am so glad I nolonger work in frontline tech support. The reason they make you go thru all those hoops is because a migraine-inducing amount of people swear they already did all the troubleshooting and didn't. (we can see when you havent rebooted the router! It shows a 3 month uptime!).

But yes, the incessant push to AI/bot responses and chat assistants is real frustrating. Oh, the beancounters insist, this tech is way better than it used to be!

Doesn't change the fact it renders all callers purple with rage so when and if they ever DO get to an actual person, they're so angry they become impossible to deal with. And when thats the caller you have on Every Single Call, your day becomes pretty grim.

I'm exiting the movies last night and I walk outside. This dude and his girlfriend are approaching swiftly from a good distance away. The guy yells "What the fuck?" at me because he expected me to hold the door for him, despite it being a clearly labeled Exit Only door.

He and his girlfriend then see someone leaving out the Exit door to my right and melodramatically sprint to get through it before it shuts. To their immediate right is the Entrance door, clearly labeled and naturally ignored.

The irrationally angry bit is how I keep thinking about it a day later due to my fascination with the thought process. They obviously knew they were exit doors, otherwise they would have had exterior handles and wouldn't have needed someone to hold the door.

So I'm stuck wondering if they thought this was the world's first gated community movie theater, where you can only get in if you tailgate someone leaving

They're prob the kind of people who would also get mad if you didnt let them in with you in a security doored apartment. Like fuck I'm letting you come in with me, person I have never seen before!

"Thank you for calling (our company, doctor's office, etc). Please listen carefully as our menu options have recently changed"

LIARS! Your menu options have NOT recently changed. The last time your menu options changed was 20 years ago when you finally stopped giving instructions for what to do if you have a rotary-dial phone. Why does nearly every place I call lie about having new and different menu options?

I think it’s a psychological technique to get you to listen.

They clearly want you to listen through all of the options before pressing a key to reduce misdirected calls, but they could do that without lying to me and saying they've recently changed the voicemail menu.

I'd probably be more likely to listen if the messages were more insulting

world cup. annoyed by the way the itv dog in the top right is the exact same colour as the sky and just keeps disappearing leaving only the trophy and FIFA in tiny letters

My mom has been sending text messages to my email address instead of my phone number for almost ten years now, whenever she tries to text my brother and I simultaneously.

I am guessing she has separate contacts for me in her phone, one my number, one my email, and one day back in 2018, she mistakenly chose the wrong one.

I kept telling her about it because she'd ask if I saw her message and I didn't because it would show in my email box as a text file (including EVERY REPLY) so I'd never get an alert. I'd keep telling her and she'd insist she wasn't doing that.

Then I moved in with her and showed her what she was doing and texted her and my brother, saying "send all family messages here".

Problem stopped for a few years, then she started doing it again. Texted the group again..."send the messages HERE".

Stopped for multiple years. I think it's over.

Today I get a text from her in my email box.

Omggggg

My mom has a habit of texting my ex-wife instead of me. Love getting the "uh, I think your mom meant to send this to you" texts.

Oh mega awkward

My mom texts me and my wife separately, discussing different subjects. I don't know why she thinks only my wife wants to see photos of flowers she took, and only I want to know about the dead mouse she found under her refrigerator, but that's how it goes.

haha...
I message my brother to find out if he's getting my mum the DVD box set she asked for for her birthday. He tells me to 'ask Sarah'. His wife. Who is in the same house, if not the same room, as him.

Across the street dirtbag neighbors have a demon-spawn son who is now old enough to drive his mom’s circa 2000 model Mercedes

Cut to: every. single. day. he pulls up in the car with the shitty soundsystem as loud as it can go, subwoofer rattling the car’s trunk so that the rattling of his car is ~louder~ than the music. you can hear him coming because you hear the rattling before the music. But what’s worse is my house 100 years old & even with double-glazed widows this shit so fucking loud it rattles the walls of ~our house~ from across the street! you can feel it in the floor! The pictures on the wall vibrate!

Loud music bumping from cars is part of our neighborhood & i actually enjoy it but this little dickhead just INFURIATES me.

I have never wished violence on anyone more than this child.

And I hate it because I know i sound like the oldest old lady on earth

I'm sorry but you can't be rationally angry on the IRRATIONALLY ANGRY thread.

It feels irrational because it’s just loud music

If there were an "irrationally not angry" thread then my entry would probably be something about people playing loud music in public

just loud music

According to your description, it's far more than that. For example, "the rattling of his car is ~louder~ than the music. you can hear him coming because you hear the rattling before the music" and "it rattles the walls of ~our house~ from across the street! you can feel it in the floor! The pictures on the wall vibrate!"

Nothing about that seems musical. Any rational adult would want to remove that from their lives at once and forever.

Sorta cross posting with the innocuously embarrassing thread, but I hate being subjected to other people’s music when I can’t get away from it.

If I’m walking on the street and there’s a busker with an amplifier banging away, I’m ok with that because it’s a passing thing. If I hear music passing by from in my house, it’s ok. When I’m stuck in a restaurant with a dorkus malorkus playing amplified Hooty covers, that is not ok. Parking outside of my house and blasting for a length of time is not ok. Stop forcing shit on other people.

Oh, people bringing their portable speakers to the beach. I want to hear the ocean, not Morgan Waller. Go kick rocks.

Yeah I guess that’s the other part - he’s just staying put blasting crappy music all over everyone rather than merely passing by

Its a good thing I've never encountered the speaker-on-the-beach/in-the-pool thing because I can't tell you if I could supress the urge to dropkick the speaker into the nearest body of water.

...which now I think about it would do bugger all as those things are waterproof arent they, arrrrg.

My mom texts me and my wife separately, discussing different subjects. I don't know why she thinks only my wife wants to see photos of flowers she took, and only I want to know about the dead mouse she found under her refrigerator, but that's how it goes.

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i've found this very irritating as of late, more because there have been other questions in the family about her overall health.

The abandoned scooters blocking sidewalks already annoyed me, but the new twist of 14 Doordash delivery bikes with comically large wheels strewn across the sidewalk in front of every lunch place is starting to make me wonder if I'd just be better off walking in the street instead.

those ones with the large whees are ebikes and almost invariably ridden at full speed on the sidewalk.

Yeah, my autocorrect dropped out the "e" on my post, but yes, another hazard.

i'm doing 2 short 10-minute plays in a production featuring short plays, one of which one of my best friends is directing. i'm also supposed to appear in a production next March that he's directing, and he wants to do an early read *now* to help tighten up the script. so he asked the cast for that play for availability and I gave it, and he gave us two dates, one the scheduled read date, the other the 'backup' date. I thought this was a placeholder until everyone committed to the primary date, but no, even then he wanted us to hold BOTH dates open in case the first date fell through.

well, problem is, one of my short plays likes to rehearse Wednesdays, and the backup date is a Wednesday, and it's not really fair for me to tell them "sorry we can't rehearse that day, I might not be available, and I won't know until 2 days prior". but also - I know how actors work, and the moment you give someone a 'backup' date, they think they can flake on the primary date. "oh, someone offered me tickets to xxx event? well I said I'd do a read today, but fuck that, there's a backup date, I'll call out". Not to mention also...THIS IS A READING for something we're not doing for 8 months.

so I told him "well I'll commit to the primary date but I can't do that with the secondary date, we have a rehearsal that date and it's not fair for me to tell them I can't do it because I *might* be busy", and he's kind of annoyed, but...why should I have to leave two days open on my calendar for an event that takes one night? not to mention....someone is going to call out, they always do. it's a reading. we do what we always do - we fill it in with someone else for a night.