Yippee-IA, Motherf***ers! IRRATIONALLY ANGRY PT. 2: Irrationally Angrier

TIL that pplains experienced the brief overlap between video-rental stores and mobile phones

good times, we were all so innocent then

xpost - honestly something I try to instill in my son as much as possible (stand back when the elevator door opens, don't rush in; don't stop suddenly on a crowded sidewalk; etc)

xp to plains, his name is brayden! (we are in a chili's)

i am a super bitch about people not being extremely efficient when ordering. just this afternoon an older couple were in front of me at the coffee shop, asking the barista whether or not the free magazine on the counter gave any tourist recommendations (they were probably Sundance people idk). many sighs and eye rolls for me.

i discovered early on that my boyfriend likes ordering 'that thing on the menu that no one ever orders and they will probably be out of.' he also likes asking for recommendations. we do a cute little fred and ethel routine every time. actually i usually just walk away because i'd rather not witness it lol. true love.

ordering the one thing on the menu that is clearly a different type of cuisine than whatever the restaurant generally serves is an easy IA for me

Moodles, a lot of very nice restaurants intentionally place a "safe" entree on the menu for noobs. Often it is chicken.

Hence, it's a decent (not infallible) rule of thumb to not order chicken in a restaurant, unless that restaurant specializes in chicken.

That said, my neighborhood has some places that are (say) Thai/Laotian, and no one is shamed for ordering from the Thai side of the menu if that's what you want. Or Bolivian/Mexican, where it's okay to order a chimichanga if that's what you want.

Ordering chicken strips from a seafood restaurant makes me IA, but I also recognize that some people just don't have a good relationship with food outside their comfort zone. Ordering something like raw oysters from a hot dog stand is far more questionable to me. Your example of restaurants with mixed cuisines is a different thing, I wouldn't be bothered by that at all.

we should give these food service workers a break and not treat them like they’re google… they do not have an infinite amount of fucks to give.. they’re not getting paid enough to be your Starbucks Sommalier or w/e.. I really don’t agree with the whole “but it’s their job” thing.

not just food service workers, I remember when I got my finger stitched up several years ago the doctor told me at the end “thanks for being an easy patient”. I was probably just being myopic at the time but the way he said it made it seem like the dude was getting hounded all day by “difficult” “unreasonable” patients.
I don’t know, maybe he was actually an asshole, it was pretty much the only thing he said.

Personally I have been a food service worker, a health care worker, and a retail worker.

In almost every situation my sympathies are going to be with the worker. It takes a LOT for me to be an irate customer.

It takes a LOT for me to be an irate customer.

Same. Rarely, a worker will show such a complete disregard for engaging with the basics of their job that it's clear they've stopped even pretending they're there to work. This happens less than 1% of the time.

I get more IA about systemic failures, planned obsolescence, bureaucratic nightmares, catch22 stuff like "You can't submit a ticket without a case number. And you don't get a case number until you submit a ticket."

Very rarely is it the individual employee.

"deep seeded"

sorry

Journalists who use the phrase “pixelated ink” to mean “writing that has originated online”, or basically any journalistic “flourishes” that are non-jokes or unintentional anti-humour

"adult beverage" is still the worst of that sort of thing.

Listening to some truly appalling 70s country records today for some reason, and that particular mocking imitation of a camp/gay voice that conservative men from the southern states of the USA do... I have no idea how anyone can put up with hearing that.

Like Lindsey Graham?

Not that familiar with him to know if he does that, though what I've seen is loathsome of course.

Chuck, I have a similar beef with "dead tree" to mean paper.

Cell-phone calls in a public library. I want to strangle these people. (I know--"public." It's supposed to be irrational, right?)

I remember years ago being politely asked by a library employee to go outside with my phone after stupidly answering my phone in the library without thinking. For the most part it seems like they don't do that anymore.

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eg Oppenheimer

lol

How about Philip Glass operas with the same?

I remember when I got my finger stitched up several years ago the doctor told me at the end “thanks for being an easy patient”. I was probably just being myopic at the time but the way he said it made it seem like the dude was getting hounded all day by “difficult” “unreasonable” patients.

Either that, or a couple finger sutures were on the easy end of his day.

My doctor has a sign that says something like, "If you feel like you're being rushed, it's because we are too! If you have multiple issues or need more than an hour to discuss your issue, please make multiple appointments." I was surprised to see something so blunt.

DOCTOR: "And it also appears that you have cancer."

ME: "Hey, Doc. I only made one appointment today. Save that one for next time!"

“Can you pause while I check my deductible again?”

Longtime lurker, first-time poster on this thread.

This story about getting lousy treatment from Ryanair made me so mad. Not so much the overbooking thing itself, but the illegal actions, the outright lying, the refusal to apologise or listen to passenger concerns or anything. It absolutely fucks me off how companies like this can just do what they like and nobody does anything about it. Even the journo here admits he will continue to fly Ryanair, because what choice does he have? I reckon if everyone in Ireland sat down and refused to fly Ryanair for six months, we could force them to stop doing shit like this before it becomes routine. (I know we won't. I know it's a fantasy. I just wanted to give out about them for a second.)

I just hate them so much. Anyway, that is all.

Not that I am seeking any nostalgic return to the "good old days" or early air travel or anything, but I struggle to think of any other example of an industry that so drastically moved from a business model built around treating fliers like royalty to looking at them as incidental chattel at best.

i struggle to think of any industry that hasnt tbh

I get your point, but at least most industries at least try and fake giving a shit to your face. The last few times I've flown it couldn't have been more plain that every airline employee I encountered throughout my trip was annoyed by my mere presence.

Uncreative writing makes me IA

Everyone on linked in when they get laid off: “all good things must come to an end”
When they get a job: “and so it begins”
the professional community is awash in banal idioms and this is why working sucks.

Hmmmm, yeah. And everyone on LinkedIn is "passionate." I wish someone would say, "I feel zero passion about this job, but I gotta eat."

Not that I am seeking any nostalgic return to the "good old days" or early air travel or anything, but I struggle to think of any other example of an industry that so drastically moved from a business model built around treating fliers like royalty to looking at them as incidental chattel at best.

Airlines are my go-to counter-example to the idea that the free market will produce the best outcomes for consumers, or is responsive to them. All it's done is create a race to the bottom to wring a few more dollars out, and obviously no one has asked for reduced meal service, more fees, etc. Hell, last time I flew Delta, they didn't even give me the full can of soda--just enough to fit into the plastic cup.

If you have multiple issues or need more than an hour to discuss your issue

an HOUR to discuss something with your doctor? as a resident of the united kingdom, let me just say: eh heh, eh heh heh heh

_If you have multiple issues or need more than an hour to discuss your issue_


an HOUR to discuss something with your doctor? as a resident of the united kingdom, let me just say: eh heh, eh heh heh heh

On reflection, it sounds like one of those rules that’s written just for one person. I wonder if there is a patient who is a real talkative hypochondriac.

I will say this--after a year of paying specialists hundreds of dollars for 15-20 minute appointments that got us nowhere, we got our Long-COVID-afflicted daughter into a GP who talked with her for nearly an hour and prescribed stuff that is actually working for the first time, and she bulk-billed (which in Australia means it cost us nothing). I'm still reeling.

That's awesome!

Airlines are my go-to counter-example to the idea that the free market will produce the best outcomes for consumers, or is responsive to them.

It's the fact that airline staff are able to (and do!) summon armed police to deal with customers complaining about being lied to that I have a problem with. And people are just fine with this? The last time I flew Ryanair, which was unavoidable, there was a woman at the gate crying because she had missed her flight despite being AT THE GATE. She was waiting for the queue to die down, they made no final call or anything, then closed the gate while she was standing there even though they knew she was getting on that flight. They just told her she'd need to go and buy a new ticket, and that was it. And then our flight was delayed because they were had overbooked it, so they offloaded some young lad from the back of the plane who didn't really know what was going on. No apology, no offer of compensation (he told his friend, who was sitting right behind us), just "we'll put you on a later flight". It's beyond crappy. I hate them so much.

I guess we can't blame the airlines for this, but being subjected to occasional sniffing by police dogs is really something we should not have accepted.

And people are just fine with this?

I mean, ime, no, people are most definitely not fine with this. But what are we going to do? Per your first sentence, the risks of vocally complaining are pretty fucking high! If you don't just quietly nod and smile along with whatever latest travel indignity they throw at you, you risk missing out on your flight entirely. The only real choice it so simply not fly, but that's really not a choice in many situations - not least because here in America (not to make it an American centric argument, as you rightly point out this is a global issue) we really don't have good options for cross-country travel.

I don't think there's anything irrational about loathing airlines

It's the fact that airline staff are able to (and do!) summon armed police to deal with customers complaining about being lied to that I have a problem with.

Oh, for sure. I understand that feelings are heightened due to all the disruptive passenger incidents--and the boogie man of terrorism. But I worked in some form of customer service for nearly two decades, and have faced my share of abusive customers (as everyone in customer service usually does). I certainly never got to call the police--hell, most of the time, my employer's stated policy was "they're mad at the company, not you, so just smile past it and keep on trying to assist them."

So we have this thread and the Irrationally Angry Pt 3 thread both active?

oh that just makes me mad

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