Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 7)

[r3g]

I've not had this happen for a long time, but today I was reminded that there should be a special place in hell for those utter attention-seeking fktards who keep repeatedly redialling your number over and over when there's no answer because, eg. you're busy dealing with something. It absolutely infuriates me . It's basically saying "you need to stop whatever you are doing RIGHT NOW and turn your attention to me because I'm more important" and inversely tends to result in the exact opposite response where I'll make them wait before ringing them back. One ring on a mobile number is enough as it clearly shows the details of who has rung and I will ring back when I'm free to talk.

Edited by r3g on Friday 10th May 18:14

[TameRacingDriver]

To be honest, regardless of whether they try multiple times or not, I get annoyed beyond reason when anyone calls out of the blue for much the same reasons

I've never been a fan of talking to people on the phone. Needs must sometimes and all that, but I don't like it. This idea that you will just stop whatever the fk you are doing to give them attention, when usually it's just some bullst definitely annoys me beyond reason.

[Antony Moxey]

TameRacingDriver said:

To be honest, regardless of whether they try multiple times or not, I get annoyed beyond reason when anyone calls out of the blue for much the same reasons

I've never been a fan of talking to people on the phone. Needs must sometimes and all that, but I don't like it. This idea that you will just stop whatever the fk you are doing to give them attention, when usually it's just some bullst definitely annoys me beyond reason.

So you're doing really important stuff that can't be interrupted 24hrs a day?

[FiF]

droopsnoot said:

snuffy said:

Eurovision was always somewhat of a light hearted, almost comedy music thing.

Then in the last 2 or 3 years, it's become a love-in.

What's irritating me about it is the many and varied ways that different BBC presenters are saying "Malmo" in an attempt to be closer to the proper pronunciation than the one before them. Just bring back the tried and tested "Mal Mow" and have done with it. It's not as if any of them say "Par Ee" when they're talking about the French capital.

Firstly it's spelt Malmö

The ö is pronounced differently from o, some say it should be pronounced like 'er' others say like the 'ea' in 'earn'. To my ears they're both the same near enough.

Depends whether you or they want to be polite or not. What would your view be on someone mangling something like Leicestershire?

[TameRacingDriver]

Antony Moxey said:

TameRacingDriver said:

To be honest, regardless of whether they try multiple times or not, I get annoyed beyond reason when anyone calls out of the blue for much the same reasons

I've never been a fan of talking to people on the phone. Needs must sometimes and all that, but I don't like it. This idea that you will just stop whatever the fk you are doing to give them attention, when usually it's just some bullst definitely annoys me beyond reason.

So you're doing really important stuff that can't be interrupted 24hrs a day?

Correct.

[droopsnoot]

FiF said:

droopsnoot said:

snuffy said:

Eurovision was always somewhat of a light hearted, almost comedy music thing.

Then in the last 2 or 3 years, it's become a love-in.

What's irritating me about it is the many and varied ways that different BBC presenters are saying "Malmo" in an attempt to be closer to the proper pronunciation than the one before them. Just bring back the tried and tested "Mal Mow" and have done with it. It's not as if any of them say "Par Ee" when they're talking about the French capital.

Firstly it's spelt Malmö

The ö is pronounced differently from o, some say it should be pronounced like 'er' others say like the 'ea' in 'earn'. To my ears they're both the same near enough.

Depends whether you or they want to be polite or not. What would your view be on someone mangling something like Leicestershire?

I realise there should be an accent in the spelling, but I wasn't certain where it would go and I figured it was as wrong to leave it off altogether as it would have been to put it on the 'a' instead of the 'o'. I get why they're doing it, that's probably the "beyond reason" part of my comment.

r3g said:

I've not had this happen for a long time, but today I was reminded that there should be a special place in hell for those utter attention-seeking fktards who keep repeatedly redialling your number over and over when there's no answer because, eg. you're busy dealing with something.

I used to have a customer who would call me on my direct line, and if it was engaged, he'd call the main switchboard and ask them to put him through to me, which of course they couldn't do because I was on the phone. The person on the switch would then walk across, make a signal to tell me that he was on the phone, I'd say "I'll call him back", that would be it. I explained to him a number of times that if he called and got an engaged tone, it was because I was on the phone and there was absolutely no point phoning on the other number. I still don't know what he thought he was gaining with the second call.

[r3g]

TameRacingDriver said:

Antony Moxey said:

So you're doing really important stuff that can't be interrupted 24hrs a day?

Yes.

I'm happy to talk to people on the phone and will always answer if it's from someone in my contacts or I'm expecting a call, but if I don't answer and your phone doesn't start ringing shortly after because I couldn't get to mine in time, then that obviously means I'm busy and/or it's not a convenient time to talk. Repeatedly redialling is not going to change that. There also seems to be a distinct correlation between these "offenders" always wanting me to do something for them, and has to be done right now. That was indeed the case earlier today - someone who said 2 days ago they definitely couldn't do 'thing' today and it would need to be Saturday, decided at 11am today that they'd do it today and expected me to drop everything to accommodate them when I was busy elsewhere, doing the stuff that I'd moved from Saturday.

[r3g]

droopsnoot said:

I used to have a customer who would call me on my direct line, and if it was engaged, he'd call the main switchboard and ask them to put him through to me, which of course they couldn't do because I was on the phone. The person on the switch would then walk across, make a signal to tell me that he was on the phone, I'd say "I'll call him back", that would be it. I explained to him a number of times that if he called and got an engaged tone, it was because I was on the phone and there was absolutely no point phoning on the other number. I still don't know what he thought he was gaining with the second call.

I think that one is easy. If he rings your number and it's engaged, then you don't know he's tried to ring and wants to speak with you, so he rings the switchboard with the (incorrect) assumption that he's important enough that you will want to speak to him right now and has switchboard tell you he's waiting. Evidently he's not as important as he thinks, hence why you send him to the "tell him I'll ring him back" queue.

[captain_cynic]

r3g said:

I've not had this happen for a long time, but today I was reminded that there should be a special place in hell for those utter attention-seeking fktards who keep repeatedly redialling your number over and over when there's no answer because, eg. you're busy dealing with something. It absolutely infuriates me . It's basically saying "you need to stop whatever you are doing RIGHT NOW and turn your attention to me because I'm more important" and inversely tends to result in the exact opposite response where I'll make them wait before ringing them back. One ring on a mobile number is enough as it clearly shows the details of who has rung and I will ring back when I'm free to talk.

Edited by r3g on Friday 10th May 18:14

I can do one better,

At a previous job I was an escalation point for other teams, my phone call rate was part of my KPI's. 98% calls answered was considered satisfactory, 96% got you put on a PIP. So miss more than 1 in 25 calls and you were on report. It was literally a case of "drop what you're doing and answer the phone".

The less... shall we say, productive teams knew this and would call just to get a "ticket actioned" stat, the content of the call was never recorded nor were the team they actually called, just the fact that they called someone. So I'd be getting 5-10 calls a day just asking for basic information they could get themselves or having something completely unrelated and telling them that they had no reason to call my team.

But at that point they could then say they'd "actioned" the ticket and punt it off to another team who'd often then do the same thing or if it came to my team, get sent straight back but management quickly cottoned onto that so "ticket returned" stats started being monitored so they'd send it off to a completely unrelated team.

Most of the company was just playing ticket tennis by the time I had enough and left. Its a shame as it was a decent multi-billion dollar company that will become a case study of how to destroy the reputation of a multi-billion dollar company by offshoring as cheap as possible.

The odd thing is, I liked the work I did, I liked helping people who genuinely needed my assistance (we were the escalation team, no-one from outside the company could reach us directly) but in the end those calls were few and far between and I spent too much time dropping what I was doing to deal with time wasters. Most of the rest of my team in the UK and US were either fired or left of their own accord within a few months (which I guess was what senior management wanted).

Edited by captain_cynic on Friday 10th May 19:01

[Gordon Hill]

r3g said:

I've not had this happen for a long time, but today I was reminded that there should be a special place in hell for those utter attention-seeking fktards who keep repeatedly redialling your number over and over when there's no answer because, eg. you're busy dealing with something. It absolutely infuriates me . It's basically saying "you need to stop whatever you are doing RIGHT NOW and turn your attention to me because I'm more important" and inversely tends to result in the exact opposite response where I'll make them wait before ringing them back. One ring on a mobile number is enough as it clearly shows the details of who has rung and I will ring back when I'm free to talk.

Edited by r3g on Friday 10th May 18:14

I get this every single day. When wfh I have my office phone in the living room so when someone phones the office it rings my phone at home. I deal with at least 50 clients a day. The number comes up on a dial on the phone. They know that if I don't answer I'm dealing with something else but it doesn't stop them.
What they want is far more important than what I'm currently dealing with and so they ring over and over again. They then ring one of the admin girls to ask why I'm not picking up the phone to get told the same thing that I'm very busy and will get back to them in due course, the entitlement of some people is off the scale, usually retired professional types.

[RizzoTheRat]

We use Skype for business for phone calls so they come via my laptop. If I have my headphones plugged in (always) I don't hear it ring, and if I'm on my other computer (most of the time) I don't see it either, so it's all pretty pointless.

[LunarOne]

RizzoTheRat said:

We use Skype for business for phone calls so they come via my laptop. If I have my headphones plugged in (always) I don't hear it ring, and if I'm on my other computer (most of the time) I don't see it either, so it's all pretty pointless.

I'm sure you probably know this, but just in case you don't - most laptops allow you to separate the speakers from the headphone output, so that while plugging in headphones (either analogue or USB) will divert the main audio stream to the headphones, the computer is still capable of ensuring that the Ring tone comes out of the PC's speaker or another device - for example a USB speaker. Of course this requires Skype for Business to support having the ring on a different device. I don't have Skype for Business (we use Slack) but Skype for personal people not in business has this setting as "Also ring on":



So if I actually ever loaded Skype, incoming call ring sounds would play on a bluetooth speaker, while the actual call audio would go via my headset. And if my headset is switched off, then it reverts to using the microphone array in the laptop so people can still hear me. And when I switch on my headset, the audio switches back to it seamlessly.

[Cotty]

r3g said:

I've not had this happen for a long time, but today I was reminded that there should be a special place in hell for those utter attention-seeking fktards who keep repeatedly redialling your number over and over when there's no answer because, eg. you're busy dealing with something. It absolutely infuriates me . It's basically saying "you need to stop whatever you are doing RIGHT NOW and turn your attention to me because I'm more important" and inversely tends to result in the exact opposite response where I'll make them wait before ringing them back. One ring on a mobile number is enough as it clearly shows the details of who has rung and I will ring back when I'm free to talk.

I worked with a guy whos wife used to do this. He would leave his phone on his desk and go to a meeting. His wife would call every few minutes, what she thought she was achieving I have no idea. If he is not answering, he is either in a meeting and/or does not have his phone on him, just leave a message

Edited by Cotty on Saturday 11th May 12:09

[Bluedot]

When you live right down on the south coast and laugh at the idea of being able to see the Northern Lights this far south.
Then get up the following morning and see all the pics posted on local social media sites.

[Killer2005]

50 zones on the motorways.

Travelled from Huddersfield to Northampton last night, then Northampton to Southampton today.

Also the Outside Lane owners club on the M3. s.

[21st Century Man]

Killer2005 said:

Also the Outside Lane owners club on the M3. s.

Just use that empty inside lane, that's what I do. I also seem to be the only person who does too, everyone else must think it's a bus lane or out of bounds.

[M4cruiser]

Dan Singh said:

So many dolts hit the brakes regularly for no reason when there's nothing ahead, so it may be to convince you that on this occasion it's not a false alarm.

I have discovered that my car hits the brakes a lot when it's on cruise control downhill. It's just too dumb to realise that it could save a bit of juice by allowing a slight increase in speed and a subsequent automatic reduction at the bottom.

It also does it if I leave the cruise set to 40 but accelerate myself to a faster speed and then level off the gas, the car tries to go back to 40, like some kind of regenerative braking for diesels. So it makes kangaroo progress alternating with gas and brake.

[Sigmamark7]

M4cruiser said:

Dan Singh said:

So many dolts hit the brakes regularly for no reason when there's nothing ahead, so it may be to convince you that on this occasion it's not a false alarm.

I have discovered that my car hits the brakes a lot when it's on cruise control downhill. It's just too dumb to realise that it could save a bit of juice by allowing a slight increase in speed and a subsequent automatic reduction at the bottom.

It also does it if I leave the cruise set to 40 but accelerate myself to a faster speed and then level off the gas, the car tries to go back to 40, like some kind of regenerative braking for diesels. So it makes kangaroo progress alternating with gas and brake.

People braking on motorways for no apparent reason, has irritated me for years, but the active cruise on my BMW will almost indiscernibly apply the brakes (so the brake lights come on) if someone has the audacity to venture into the lane I’m in, even if they are some distance in front. And yes, I have got the distance setting on its closest point. It has made me slightly more tolerant of people appearing to brake on motorways, but only very slightly more.

Edited by Sigmamark7 on Saturday 11th May 16:49

[Doofus]

The way Americans call a manual car a 'stick', unless it's a Ferrari, in which case it's "gated".

fking pillocks

[Nethybridge]

Doofus said:

The way Americans call a manual car a 'stick', unless it's a Ferrari, in which case it's "gated".

fking pillocks

There's a difference you fussbudget.


My gripe today is why can't TV shows stay in their lane ?,
Countryfile is blathering on about mental health.

I want stuff about sheep diseases, tractor implements and boll weevils.