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

^^^ new board description.

kinda long

I hate when I ask somebody about an important date or time or task, and they respond with some variation of "I already told you." And then you ask again, and they're all, look on the calendar. And I'm like, I don't want to have to look it up, that's why I'm asking you!

I have had several managers like this over the years

What happened to them?

Every piece of luggage that closes with a zipper and also has a second zipper to slightly expand its volume drives me insane with irrational anger because I never need to expand the volume yet always do that by accident instead of opening it

^ THANK YOU

Mark that zipper with tape/nail polish/etc.

epistantophus at 6:21 24 May 21
What happened to them?

Disappointing. I had made up a scenario in my head wherein you kept “disappearing” your managers in a fit of irrational anger, but each new boss that came in did the same thing.

Overlapping "hold time" messages. I can't stand this

"While you're waiting, check out our website, at....."

"You are now #7 in queue - your estimated hold time is 10 minutes"

"our website, at www.brosbeforehose.com, available from...."

"ALL ASSOCIATES ARE ASSISTING OTHER CALLERS. PLEASE STAY ON THE LINE, YOUR CALL WILL BE ANSWERED IN THE ORDER RECEIVED"

"7 am to 10 pm, East-"

"You are now #7 in queue, your estimated hold time is 9 minutes"

I hate it when you need to wait for somebody out in the car, like at the airport, where I am now, and it is 90 something degrees outside, and your windows are cracked but you're still sweating because you don't want to sit there with the car running and the AC on like a dick head.

i hate airport pickups simply because either you sit there for 20 minutes or if you wanna get there at the exact time, you have to factor in deplaning time, baggage check time (if they checked one), etc.

not a big deal in like afternoon to get there early, but one friend likes to take late flights and I don't like hanging out bored at the airport at 11:45 pm.

challop: if you're kind enough to pick up a friend, it should be the norm that you get there 15 minutes after flight arrival time so you don't need to deal with airport bullshit like people telling you to move on from pickup areas

my airport used to be militant about that shit, threatening to ticket my friend once, and now they just don't give a shit at all. it's so weird.

if you're teaching a class and don't know the answer to a question and you message me to see if I can answer it for you, don't sit in silence and make the class wait 5 minutes for you to read my response and understand it, then explain it to them. move on and come back to it!

Stickers. Buying something that has a sticker on it that either won’t come off, or comes off in like 1000 pieces, or comes off but leaves a residue. Drives me up the wall. If you put so much time into making, marketing and selling this product, at least take a couple minutes to pay attention to the type and quality of sticker that you’re slapping on it. Haven’t they made any advances in sticker technology in the last 50 years?

judging by Fatheads, no

That's intentional so that customers won't be able to switch price stickers.

My sticker IA: Stores that put the sticker right on top of useful information on the packaging. Or stores that put the sticker on the "outside" of a thing that has some aesthetic component, meaning you have to through an extensive cleaning process to restore the appearance, when they could just as easily put it on the bottom. This last one mostly for thrift stores.

It's not just price stickers though, it's more often stickers that show off the features of the product that annoy the most.

lighter fluid and coconut oil are both supposed to be good at helping you peel off labels. were used in removing price tags from record sleeves, well at least lighter fluid. & I think that was listed among the hundred plus uses for coconut oil, does help to take other things off anyway.
But yeah is annoying

hi I tried that on my car and it blew up, thanks

I have a scraper thing with a razor blade at the end for getting rid of stickers, decals, etc

People keep thinking this is the solutions thread

i think i have posted this before

but workplace benefits / 401k meetings are hell on earth because they are always clogged full of ppl asking insanely simple questions

there should be a 15 minute meeting for longterm employees and/or ppl who understand the terminology & basics & just need to know whats new & what the action items are

everyone else who is new to employment/banefits/or just a habitual stupid question asker goes to the hour-long meeting and can ask “what is an IRA?” or “what does HMO mean” etc

Agreed. Though I think that's rational anger. The first one I went to was taken up more by individuals asking detailed, personally-relevant questions, letting the other 35 attendees twiddle their thumbs.

this might be rational anger too

but

when i am listening on earbuds using the earbud mic control toggle thing to pause a podcast/music

and then when i tap to start playing again & somehow the fkng iphone voice control app starts instead

RAGE

uncontrolled RAGE

THE ONLY TIME IT GETS “used” IS WHEN IT STARTS UP UNWANTED

FUCK OFFFFFFFFFFFF

ugh

mouse is playing up. scrollwheel seems to alternate between scrolling one way and the other, makes getting anywhere in a document a bit of a crapshoot. and it's surprising how bad cursor key support is.

it's also 19:00 in the middle of summer, won't be properly dark for another 3 hours. and people are setting off fireworks.

xp - I was running recently on Saturday evening, and was trying to skip past a track by double tapping.. I hear the little voice control chime so I clicked it again hoping to toggle it off. I hear that stupid robot voice saying “calling <manager’s name>”. Hear the phone ring sound and silence - can’t tell if he’s picked up. At this point I am standing in the street, frantically ripping my armband off and hung up. A little later, I see he’d texted to see if everything was alright. I still wonder if he heard me panting when he picked up.

oh god horrifying

luckily mine isnt dialing people or i’d be fucked

I just got back from a modest fishing trip. We are all friends that have known each other for a long time, and yet, there is still much to learn. For example, one of the guys is a jam band fan, which I think I knew or suspected, but particularly a fan of the shittiest Colorado jam band music, like this band called the Magic Beans, who (from what he played us) truly suck. The thing is, he has such a weird conception of music, like saying he likes Hendrix but doesn't like distortion (this is the same guy that once told me he likes Neil Young, but not his electric stuff, which is wtf!?), or dismissing my turn for dinner music (Big Star's Radio City) as "too noisy." What the fuck? Big Star?! What is wrong with his ears!? And then, even during the first track, "O My Soul," he tried to zing me by saying they were trying too hard to be funky but weren't, which was what I said about his fave, the Magic Beans. But the Magic Beans *were* trying to be funky! They are one of those jam bands where the bassist has a five string bass because he needs an extra string just to try to sound *extra* funky.

Anyway, my friend is OK, even if he somehow didn't dig Big Star, but those Colorado jam bands, they really piss me off.

or dismissing my turn for dinner music (Big Star's Radio City) as "too noisy." What the fuck? Big Star?! What is wrong with his ears!?

Reminds me of a band I was in (very briefly) in high school. We were tossing around ideas for covers, and I suggested the Replacements’ “Kiss Me On The Bus.” I played the tape, and after no more than 15 seconds of the song, the guitarist freaked out and said, “Woah woah woah!! We can’t play this! We’re not gonna be a...a...HARDCORE PUNK band!” Said guitarist is currently the leader of the Midwest’s top Dave Matthews tribute band.

lmao

omg what's their name

let me guess

the Tripping Billies
SatelLive
the Proudest Monkeys
Crash into Us

The Ants Go Jamming

The Between Space

White Caps

Neanderthal’s first guess was the correct one.

loooooool

haha!

That's hilarious. I actually knew that, because I used to do the listings for a few places, and I'd always see Tripping Billies playing somewhere so had to look them up to learn their deal, since I didn't know the DMB reference. But I guess if I was going to be in a Dave Matthews tribute band, I'd definitely want to be in the midwest's top tribute band.

OK, here's a perfect example of an IR inducing act: when you're doing a sink-full of dishes, and someone comes by and puts another dirty dish on top of the pile in progress. Like, I get that it has to be washed, and I'm going to get to it. And yet, there's something about the blase "oh, while you are cleaning up, clean this up, too" attitude. Which is fair - dishes gotta be cleaned - but also, simultaneously, an insult/affront.

Perfectly irrational anger.

worse when they stick it straight in the bowl.

bowl? i don't wash up in a bowl. sink.

The shipping date is not the same as the date when you slapped a label on a package which you then let sit in your home/warehouse for another week. Fuckers!</hank_kingsley>

when people get mad at you for sending a message on Messenger at an "inappropriate time". i.e. "come the fuck on, I can't answer this right now!"

Just because someone sent you a message doesn't mean they EXPECT YOU TO READ IT AND REPLY RIGHT THIS VERY MINUTE. I mean sure there ARE people like that, but fuck them, they're the exception, not the rule.

i remember being at a dinner with friends after we'd seen Endgame and one friend who couldn't join us but had seen the movie with us messaged in our group chat, discussing Endgame and asking people what they thought about certain things. And some of the friends at dinner started audibly bitching about it, like "JESUS CHRIST does this girl think I'm going to have a discussion about Endgame while I'm AT DINNER" and after about three people had whined about it, I said "You know you can mute the convo on Messenger, wait until later to read and reply to it, and that your loud bitching is way more annoying to me right now than the message our mutual friend sent, right?"

I get IA when I think about how there exists all this technology to warn tech users of likely spam and scam calls (see iOS/iPhone incoming call tags, email filtering, etc.) but when it comes to cutting this stuff off closer to the source, before it inundates the end user, it's all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(yes I realize it's not quite that simple, but I have to imagine that putting even 1/8th of the energy/tech spent on labeling and sorting on the user end into chasing it off at the source, things might be slightly less obnoxious)