Trivial things that annoy you

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by Stormlight

It's illegal to link to the secret forum.

[BrotherMan]

Originally Posted by Stormlight

It's illegal to link to the secret forum. here it's just frowned upon.

Because of my bortishness I am held to a higher standard.

[Watser?]

Severe frowning for you!

[SharonDee]

Accountants who don't how to properly use MS Excel. Accountants for gosh sakes! I mean, I thought people in accounting would be complete Excel nerds! But no, I know more about formatting and freeze-framing and pivot tables than any of them. Any of them!

Am I living on a strange planet or do the rest of you know accountants who don't how to get the most out of their spreadsheet software?

[Ensign Steve]

Oh god. It's like admins that can't use Word. They have been the bane of me and my mom's existences since forever. Using whitespace characters for typesetting should be punishable by torture.

[Crumb]

In their defense, Word is horrible.

[SharonDee]

Okay, okay ... how many accountants do you know who, while looking at an Excel spreadsheet they got from someone else (me), turn to their adding machines to compute the sum of two or more cells? Sometimes they're even adjacent!

I'll stop now. If I keep going this will get too big for trivia.

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by SharonDee

Accountants who don't how to properly use MS Excel.

And then there are average end-users who know enough about Excel to build complete business process tools ... on their hard drives ... with no reporting and no interfaces to other systems ... because the development teams are overloaded and have all these stupid ideas about integration to corporate systems and testing and training.

[Sock Puppet]

In Kafka Inc.'s Finance department, most of the weenies know Excel better than I do. I'm still iffy on pivot tables and, hell, simple stuff like vlookups. However, that means they want to use Excel for everything. I don't care how good you are at Excel, you're still going to have to do a gawdawful amount of tweaks to get it to print properly if you're doing a text document that should've been in Word. But with the demise of the embedded admin pools, we overpaid dorks tend to generate 99% of the everyday documents ourselves. So we should know which damned tool to use.

[Ensign Steve]

Man I am super easily trivially annoyed today.

1: when people sneeze too loudly.
2: when people sneeze too quietly.

Come on, folks. Get it right.

[JoeP]

I appreciate a good loud sneeze, being a purveyor of such myself. But I agree with you on quiet sneezes.

[Dingfod]

I'm still not blessing you when you sneeze your soul out.

[erimir]

I am a loud sneezer. My siblings and my dad are all loud sneezers.

Quit being a bigot!

[Stormlight]

There's loud and then there's LOUD!

[Nullifidian]

Fuck robocallers!

I've probably had hundreds of calls from the scam artists known as "Cardholders Services", until a couple of days ago when the calls came less than an hour apart. Sometimes I'd naïvely press "3" to be taken off their list, with the predictable result that the calls kept on coming.

Pressing "3" was how I responded to the first call two days ago, so when the second call came I finally found myself pressing "1" to speak with on the phone with one of their employees and waiting several minutes to be taken off hold. Then I didn't let her get out more than "Hello" before saying, "My number is XXX-XXX-XXXX, and I've had all the 'final notices' I can stand, so take me off your fucking list!" *click*

And since then there's been nothing on that phone but blessed, blessed silence.

[lisarea]

I think I figured something out today.

So every now and again, at our regular Costco, there will be these super-annoying fucks who look like generic clipart 'businessmen,' with tacky suits and usually a super-obvious Bluetooth and stuff, and they climb up everyone's asses trying to look busy and important. And one day it was p. great: There was a weird time traveling power couple with 80s hair and big shoulderpads, and the man had a cell phone in a holster on his belt and everything. So it was some sort of 80s-90s hybrid vibe they had going on. Like maybe "Iowa 90s" or something?

Anyways, today, some dude was trying to give me a flat tire or something about there being a bottleneck and I was really tempted to 'accidentally' elbow him or something. He's acting like I am super in his way or something, and it's like fucker I'm maybe three feet behind the person in front of me because everyone is in everyone's way right now stop trying to disrupt traffic flow even more and if you fucking spit on me with all your sputtering, I don't know what but something. It will be a surprise.

And you know what I figured out? That directly across from that Costco is one of those Direct Buy warehouses where confidence men trick old people into signing up for a scammy membership. I'll bet that's where they're coming from.

True story though that sometimes when someone is tailgating me on foot I intentionally get in their way and go really slow for a while. I couldn't do it today, because it was too slow already and I would have inconvenienced other people as well. That also annoyed me.

I need to just go out and trip a dude or something to get it out of my system.

[ImGod]

I was at our one and only Costco and our uber conservative congressman was there yelling at his kid for running into him with the cart. I had to chuckle.

I'm surprised he didn't burst into flames with all the people around him making more than minimum wage.

[Angakuk]

Eating out of a basket. I hate it. One of our local restaurants/bars has pretty decent food, but they insist on serving damn near everything in those stupid plastic baskets. I ordered a bacon cheeseburger and some onion chips. Both tasted pretty good and the portions were generous, but they arrived at my table in that stupid basket all crammed in together with no room to breath. I had to eat about half of the onion chips before I could get my hands around the burger to pick it up. And where in the hell am I supposed to put my ketchup for the onion chips? Somebody answer that for me. If I wanted to dig my food out of a hole I would go catch a damn badger or something.

I am pretty sure that they use the baskets because it saves on the dishwashing and thus on their overhead. I understand that, but it doesn't make me like it.

I had a slice of coconut cream pie for dessert. That, at least, was served on a plate.

[lisarea]

Why do Linux distributions have silly stupid version names, and why the hell do people actually use them? What is the purpose of calling Debians version 6, 7, and 8 "Squeeze," "Wheezy," and "Jessie," for example? It makes no logical sense, it conveys no additional information, and it's harder to remember. God forbid I should be able to search for something version specific without first having to re-remember its stupid cutesy name. I sometimes re-forget it near instantaneously, too, because they mean nothing to me. (I am aware that these are characters from Toy Story, but I haven't seen that movie, so they're not, like, evocative of anything for me.)

It's trivial each individual time it happens, but it really starts to add up. People who are searching for information about computer issues are often already irritated about something. Why pile on a new and totally unnecessary annoyance?

[Ymir's blood]

Because Pea has never ever done anything to annoy someone or waste their time.

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[lisarea]

Well, yeah, but I usually do it on purpose.

[Ensign Steve]

Originally Posted by lisarea

(I am aware that these are characters from Toy Story, but I haven't seen that movie, so they're not, like, evocative of anything for me.)

I have seen all those movies, and I still didn't put it together. Like, except for Jessie (who didn't show up until like the second or third movie), those aren't even main enough characters that anyone should know their name. In fact, how are Squeeze and Weezy not the same character?

[lisarea]

I guess they used up the main-er characters in earlier releases, so they're just running down the hierarchy. I just seriously have to wonder if this is somehow helpful to anyone. It's not just Debian either, though. A lot of distributions, maybe most, have some kind of cutesy naming scheme, like Ubuntu has [adjective][animal], where the words start with the same letter, and they progress alphabetically. (At least with that one, you can sort of suss out which versions are earlier or later, but even that adds an extra step to reach the version number.)

I just have to wonder if there's some benefit I'm missing here in not just referring to different releases by their numbers. People can't be THAT number-phobic, can they? Do people really think it's cute or something? Does it give them warm feelings somehow to think of their operating system version as a silly name instead of a number?

EXPLAIN HUMANS.

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by lisarea

some kind of cutesy naming scheme, like Ubuntu has [adjective][animal], where the words start with the same letter, and they progress alphabetically. (At least with that one, you can sort of suss out which versions are earlier or later

Which came first, Livid Lisarea or Explaining Ensign?

[Ensign Steve]