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

IDK if this is exactly on point with the thread, but it's at least close: I feel like there should be a term for the modern experience of feeling rage against a customer service person who you rationally know is not at fault for your situation, yet is the only available human representation of the faceless corporation screwing you. I just for some reason participated in a phone survey about my healthcare plan, and the questions dealt with "satisfaction" in ways that really didn't address the greatest source of my dissatisfaction -- the high cost. Also one of the questions was "How likely would you be to renew your plan?" (mine is an employer plan), and I was like "You mean if I had a choice between it and another plan, or between it and no insurance at all?" Because I don't actually have a choice. But the question did not allow for that nuance. DURRR

the questions dealt with "satisfaction" in ways that really didn't address the greatest source of my dissatisfaction -- the high cost.

this is like when twitter did all those surveys asking us a load of questions about our brand awareness of its corporate clients, and nothing about whether we were satisfied with all the fucking ads

e.g "how likely are you to buy products/services as a result of a promoted tweet?" with no "what you mean the corporate shill account i blocked six months ago" option

coupons masquerading as bargains but arent

old navy coupon that looks like $40 off your next purchase but is actually $40 rewards money when you spend $100, that is then redeemable on the purchase AFTER that purchase and it's like... just do a coupon & stop yanking my chain
and stop trying to make me sign up for shit

also, don't offer me a cashback deal that i have to send away for, give me the discount now, in the shop, with your hands

you know what just gimme the cash, I'm not buying your stupid product ANYWAY

LIDL exit automatic door opens rapidly to a point too narrow to exit through then slowly continues to a point where you can.
Think this is a recent development and first response to seeing door begin to open is to walk towards it and expect it to be open by the time you reach it, which it wouldn't be.
Seems to have been doing this for the last couple of weeks so surprised that nobody from the shop has noticed it. Presume that customers will think it's a minor thing not worth walking back in to complain about. So wondering if anybody has actually collided with the not yet open door yet.

It drives me up the wall when for work I have to submit a ticket with a vendor to fix a problem, then I get an email that my ticket has been closed, with no other information and the problem is not resolved at all, and then I get a barrages of emails asking me to rate my customer satisfaction.

I hate when people talk to me - shut up! If you need to communicate send an email!

also dont shuffle along outside my door - just walk you fuckwit!

• The local newspaper will have some headline on their front page that says "Man Drives Car Off Cliff" and I'm like holy shit! But then I click on it and realize they've republished some story from California or South Australia or somewhere. If I want to read about Australian cliff drivers, I'll go to some .com.au address, not the Arkansas Legion-Dispatch or whatever.

• Commuters who let cars from side streets cut into major traffic arteries. If you think I'm cruel and heartless, let me add that this particular side street has access to a stoplight a block east. It's just that the sidestreet drivers are lazy and want free cuts. (One of these drivers I discovered one morning is my wife.)

• Speaking of which, the kids' elementary school has three options for its students at the end of the day: School buses, after-school care and "carpool". I would call it "pick-up" or something. I mean, I guess I'm carpooling with these kids every morning and afternoon, but it's not like they're chipping in on gas.

all otm, number two in particular

Drivers who think it is their right to pass a stopped bus no matter what, even if it means veering into the busy opposing lane, and even if they are the fifth car to pass and the bus is already moving again--so they end up driving alongside it for a block.

One of these drivers I discovered one morning is my wife.

grounds for divorce imo

Caption on Jezebel:

Sir Roger Moore, one of the original James Bonds, has died at the age of 89.

What the fuck does that mean, "one of the original James Bonds?"

He was my original James Bond. View to a Kill for life.

pierce brosnan, one of the unoriginal james bonds

• Commuters who let cars from side streets cut into major traffic arteries. If you think I'm cruel and heartless, let me add that this particular side street has access to a stoplight a block east. It's just that the sidestreet drivers are lazy and want free cuts. (One of these drivers I discovered one morning is my wife.)

― pplains, Tuesday, May 23, 2017 8:52 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You're right, PP. Your anger is completely irrational.

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lmao

lol

http://cdn2.btrstatic.com/pics/hostpics/315a6fda-57d3-4288-87f8-e76d88f07be9he_say_she_say1.jpg

"delivery within 7–10 days"

so… within 10 days. just say within 10 days.

chaunte
the outlandish multiple sclerosis

Delivery dudes who scan packages as Delivered as they put them on the truck, so that you get an email at 9am telling you your package has been delivered, then you go outside looking for it, and not seeing it go through some tracking and refund process and then the truck shows up at 4:30pm and dumps the package at your door.

hahaha otm. my fuckin mailman does that shit all the time, I tell myself to be patient and check end of day now cos of that idiot

News articles with titles like "Sorry, <xxx>...."

Walkers Sensations
Hovis Seed Sensations
Ainsley Harriott Spice Sensation Couscous
Mugshot Sensations pasta
Felix Sensations Cat Food
Bertolli Sensations
Moy Park Chicken Sensations
Surf Sensations laundry detergent
Twinings Double Mint Sensations

IT HAS GOT TO STOP

Don't be so sensa-tive.

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When you enter a password wrong, enter another one on the second try, and the browser pops up a window asking "Want to update the info for this account?"

Well hold up, foxy, let's see if this one sticks or not!

lmao yesss. and then hoping that box stays on long enough as the page tells you you've logged in or not.

the calculator app in windows 10 takes 1-2 seconds longer to launch than ye olde windows calculator. it's absurd how much this irritates me.

^^^ I fully relate to this IA

For me, today, fucking socks. Why can't I find good socks? Why do these shits have to slide down all the time? Why are all socks that go above your ankle apparently made for people with pipe cleaner legs? Why do sock companies hate cotton?

the tall/narrow format for some mass-market paperbacks. I don't understand why it exists, I hate it, I want it to stop.

The tall shelf in the refrigerator should be for the things that need to be on the tall shelf. Short things - especially short, wide things, like a tub of hummus - should be on the shorter shelves, else they eat up the space one needs for e.g. milk.

The Starbucks I go to has changed their lids so that the second smaller hole that is supposed to let air in when you take a sip is so small that I have to, like, treat the main drinking hole like a straw. And, sometimes, it's like the machine that was supposed to pierce that smaller hole didn't get to the lid that they gave me so there's no way I'm getting the amount of coffee I actually want when I take a sip.

drives me crazy too

protip- i keep an old ballpoint pen handy for this reason, so i can punch the smaller hole through if needed

I was trying to use one of my keys that has a smallerish tooth on it, but that was ultimately even more frustrating.

I almost made a complaint about it this morning.

a record i won on ebay was delivered thursday apparently i hope whoever got it is enjoying it right now

People who sit spread eagle on planes/buses. Thanks for taking away what little space i had away

Last two are justified anger. Nothing IA about those.

Why can't I find good socks? Why do these shits have to slide down all the time? Why are all socks that go above your ankle apparently made for people with pipe cleaner legs?

I am currently having this issue but with underwear. Why is all mens underwear really comfortable with soft wide elastic that doesnt curl up or dig in, but YOU CANNOT FIND THIS IN WOMENS UNDERWEAR. It is INSANE. Even so called "boyleg" knickers are still tiny scraps of material with SMALL TIGHT ITCHY ELASTIC.

Privilege!

;_;

People who draw on their vast experience of buying records they heard on the radio 20-30 years ago to let you know that "there's just no good new music these days."
Suspect I am far from the first ILXor whose buttons this presses, hard.

ugh I'm so tired of hand-wringing white people on social media. On FB thread a bunch of writers posting tributes to Denis Johnson, when the inevitable dunce posts "I'm only seeing white voices here. I feel like I'm in an exclusively white space. I need to hear what writers of color thought of Denis Johnson's work."

For me, today, fucking socks. Why can't I find good socks? Why do these shits have to slide down all the time? Why are all socks that go above your ankle apparently made for people with pipe cleaner legs? Why do sock companies hate cotton?

― the evening redness at the injection site (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, May 28, 2017 12:16 AM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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Not joking my bf wears sock garters every single day (that he wears socks).

just buy men's underwear trayce

This makes me IA for some reason - online newspapers going nuts for some Twitter cunt recycling a years old story, gullible idiots posting it on FB, etc

https://www.indy100.com/article/man-revenge-on-rude-people-coffee-shop-buys-domain-7745146

Probably hits some kind of Fake News button given the current political situation.

I'm going for a walk.