Things that annoy you beyond reason...? [Vol 3]

Things that annoy you beyond reason...? [Vol 3]

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Anubis

1,029 posts

178 months

Sunday 17th May 2015
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Grown men at work, office environment who for whatever reason is beyond me are totally incapable of flushing a toilet so some poor fker (like me) has to walk in and see st.

Or the (probably same) sick grown men who piss everywhere other than where they are supposed to (seat, floor, walls you name it) and just leave it.

Or...the worst one is when they decide to ram every tissue they can find, take a dump, add more tissue, flush, watch it get blocked and walk off so the next person opens to what I can only describe as Nepals earthquake aftermath.

I've worked at a large multinational before who decided to employ Indians and bring them to London for training. The toilet situation got so bad they had to put up posters in the toilets telling them how to take a st. For example: don't stand and squat on the toilet seat. Do not wipe with your hand or even put anything in a plastic cup and leave it. I won't say the name of the company but everyone knows it and has big shiny offices.

Wtf is wrong with people...

Edited by Anubis on Sunday 17th May 23:10

Morningside

24,110 posts

228 months

Sunday 17th May 2015
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hidetheelephants said:
handpaper said:
Dissolve it in petrol, make Napalm.
hehe This is the correct answer. Don't try this at home, kids! eek
I did this when I was 11. Dangerous stuff, sticks to everything.

bigkeeko

1,370 posts

142 months

Sunday 17th May 2015
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Anubis said:
I've worked at a large multinational before who decided to employ Indians and bring them to London for training. The toilet situation got so bad they had to put up posters in the toilets telling them how to take a st. For example: don't stand and squat on the toilet seat. Do not wipe with your hand or even put anything in a plastic cup and leave it. I won't say the name of the company but everyone knows it and has big shiny offices.

Wtf is wrong with people...

Edited by Anubis on Sunday 17th May 23:10
Nothing wrong with a bit of multiculturalism and anyway I like their head dresses.

Einion Yrth

19,575 posts

243 months

Monday 18th May 2015
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Morningside said:
hidetheelephants said:
handpaper said:
Dissolve it in petrol, make Napalm.
hehe This is the correct answer. Don't try this at home, kids! eek
I did this when I was 11. Dangerous stuff, sticks to everything.
Well that's rather the point.

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 18th May 2015
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bigkeeko said:
Anubis said:
I've worked at a large multinational before who decided to employ Indians and bring them to London for training. The toilet situation got so bad they had to put up posters in the toilets telling them how to take a st. For example: don't stand and squat on the toilet seat. Do not wipe with your hand or even put anything in a plastic cup and leave it. I won't say the name of the company but everyone knows it and has big shiny offices.

Wtf is wrong with people...

Edited by Anubis on Sunday 17th May 23:10
Nothing wrong with a bit of multiculturalism and anyway I like their head dresses.
Must have been a while ago. I'm in India now, working for a big multinational, and I'm yet to see a squat toilet. Yes the slums are pretty bad, but anywhere remotely civilised has proper crappers with paper, and 90% of the ones I've seen also have a shower right next to the pan. Yeah, they're difficult for us westerners to use without spraying st everywhere, but the natives manage ok. For all their reputation, they are a pretty clean race. I've experienced worse smells on the London Underground, coming from 45 year old businessmen, who seem to either ignore their own stench or think it's something nice.

It's the arabs/middle easterners that stand on the seats and stuka-bomb the pan, in my experience. It's a very Iranian thing.

silverthorn2151

6,298 posts

178 months

Monday 18th May 2015
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BACs payments. ing accounts department have paid a contractor by Bacs today, 4 weeks late, after I requested same day payment. "Sorry, money will be there Thursday". Why? Why the fk won't it be there this afternoon? Its the fking s who run the bd banks. s. I fking hate them and I am very annoyed about it today. Unfeasibly so.

JonRB

74,404 posts

271 months

Monday 18th May 2015
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silverthorn2151 said:
BACs payments. ing accounts department have paid a contractor by Bacs today, 4 weeks late, after I requested same day payment. "Sorry, money will be there Thursday". Why? Why the fk won't it be there this afternoon? Its the fking s who run the bd banks. s. I fking hate them and I am very annoyed about it today. Unfeasibly so.
Most BACS payments are actually FPS now, and the money is cleared funds within a matter of hours (usually instantaneously). Some people still seem to be of the impression that it's still 3-5 days which is simply incorrect now.

hidetheelephants

23,778 posts

192 months

Monday 18th May 2015
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Griff Rhys Jones' air of palpable smugness when he utters the ridiculous neologism 'Quizeum' in the endlessly repeated trailers for this programme.

drivin_me_nuts

17,949 posts

210 months

Monday 18th May 2015
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At this moment in time, Autoglass for their incompetence. Is there a word beyond incompetence? Ok. utter incompetence.

I ordered a screen for my barge at the end of last week and if you;ve done this recently you'll know it's a process of being asked a question, saying the answer and having it repeated it back to you very very slowly by way of confirmation.

So, registration given and the car comes back as an LS430, not a 460. No, says me, it's most definitely a 460. OK, says woman on the end of the phone, I'll make a note of it. And she did.

So, when Autoglass man turns up outside house with glass a while back, guess what piece of glass he's holding...

Yes, 430. He even showed me his tabled with the customer note on it.

So, somewhere out there in Autoglass trawling the net for crap feedback land, here's the deal, at least pick the correct product to send to the customer before wasting his time. Oh and the woman who called to rebook the appointment, at least have my details in front of you before you call me, because at this moment in time your b2c process is crapper than Nellie the elephant fed on senna for a week taking a large and protracted liquified dump in your head office reception... if only she could.

The only piece of creditible customer service is, the man with the van was politie and tbo looked more hacked off than I did. Autglass.: when you want a new screen but know it's going to a dismal process.

BristolRich

545 posts

132 months

Monday 18th May 2015
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Dashing for the bog in M&S (I know...it was urgent) to be met with the sign on the door - "Male Janitor in Toilet".

Surely its "Male cleaner in toilet" or "Male Janitor in Restroom".... nono

james_tigerwoods

16,287 posts

196 months

Monday 18th May 2015
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BristolRich said:
Dashing for the bog in M&S (I know...it was urgent) to be met with the sign on the door - "Male Janitor in Toilet".

Surely its "Male cleaner in toilet" or "Male Janitor in Restroom".... nono
It's Jan. Jan i'Tor


leigh1050

2,372 posts

164 months

Monday 18th May 2015
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Rucksacks! Why the fk does nearly everyone on a train have to look like they're going on a fking hiking holiday?

ch108

1,127 posts

132 months

Monday 18th May 2015
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neelyp said:
They were specifically talking about the by pass round Stirling, they considered it driving without due care and attention.
Perhaps they've had to pick up the remnants of accidents caused by people doing it, they reckon you should only overtake on a single carriageway road when there is no oncoming traffic.
Which is much safer when you think about it.
I travel that road and the A907 every day. The stirling bypass has the chevrons painted down the middle on part of it, i think to discourage overtaking. The A907 doesn't and you can guarantee seeing a close one most weeks. Generally people inventing a lane to overtake a lorry or bus which is already doing 40-50mph. However if oncoming traffic is sticking to the middle of their lane it can look a bit tight. And all you need is someone not to be paying attention and you have the potential for an offset head on. There can be farm traffic on that road but as they are doing about 20mph, easier to pass plus they tend to stick to the far left of their lane creating more space down the middle. I also thought police advice was not to overtake on this type of road even if you think it is wide enough, if there is oncoming traffic as it is still a 2 lane road. I would pass a tractor on this road but would think twice about anything faster.

Anyway back on topic. I hate clingfilm beyond reason. How does it manage to wrap itself round the cardboard tube so tight at an angle that I end up throwing it away half used and buying another that ends up doing the same thing?

Toothpaste. Why so many? There's an array of choice of toothpastes that claim to do different things but not one that claims to do all things! I end up buying the cheapest regular one or supermarket own brand and I've not needed a filling in 3 years! And don't get me started on their nonsense tv ads...

Sam99

296 posts

172 months

Tuesday 19th May 2015
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The shortening an items name :
I had a 6 Series BMW – A friend would ask about my Sixer
Shotgun becomes a Shotty
A rim fire rifle becomes a Rimmy.
Rottweiler – A Rotty
Michael – Mike – Mikey (Are we really going that American ? )
And last but by no means least – I work with a colleague called Stephen, who is known as Steve.
Obviously. No worries except he’s started shortening that to Ste.
Is Steve so difficult to say it is shortened to Ste ??

JonRB

74,404 posts

271 months

Tuesday 19th May 2015
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ch108 said:
Toothpaste. Why so many? There's an array of choice of toothpastes that claim to do different things but not one that claims to do all things! I end up buying the cheapest regular one or supermarket own brand and I've not needed a filling in 3 years! And don't get me started on their nonsense tv ads...
Colgate are the worst. They have about 10 different toothpastes, all roughly the same price as each other. How is a customer supposed to make an informed choice from that?

Just make a basic one and one that is the best you can make, give them a clear differential in price, and leave it at that.

ShiningWit

10,203 posts

127 months

Tuesday 19th May 2015
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JonRB said:
ch108 said:
Toothpaste. Why so many? There's an array of choice of toothpastes that claim to do different things but not one that claims to do all things! I end up buying the cheapest regular one or supermarket own brand and I've not needed a filling in 3 years! And don't get me started on their nonsense tv ads...
Colgate are the worst. They have about 10 different toothpastes, all roughly the same price as each other. How is a customer supposed to make an informed choice from that?

Just make a basic one and one that is the best you can make, give them a clear differential in price, and leave it at that.
Just buy the one they've been struggling to sell and is therefore on special offer. smile

berlintaxi

8,535 posts

172 months

Tuesday 19th May 2015
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JonRB said:
Buying cheap marked-down mince that is "use by" today so that, no matter what I feel like eating tonight, it pretty much has to be Chilli con Carne (since that is the only recipe I know for mince).

I can't take this pressure, man.
Learn to cook then, cheap mince = Burgers, Koftas, Spag Bog, Moussaka, Keema Curry, shepherds pie, the list goes on, just need some imagination or a cookbook.

The Don of Croy

5,977 posts

158 months

Tuesday 19th May 2015
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berlintaxi said:
Learn to cook then, cheap mince = Burgers, Koftas, Spag Bog, Moussaka, Keema Curry, shepherds pie, the list goes on, just need some imagination or a cookbook.
First you need to make Spag Bol. The Spag Bog comes into effect about 2 - 3 hours later (with really cheap mince).

Now I'm annoyed by my own pedantry...

El Guapo

2,787 posts

189 months

Tuesday 19th May 2015
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berlintaxi said:
Learn to cook then, ...shepherds pie, the list goes on, just need some imagination or a cookbook.
Shepherd's pie is made with lamb. You are thinking of cottage pie. Bloody amateurs.

JonRB

74,404 posts

271 months

Tuesday 19th May 2015
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berlintaxi said:
Learn to cook then, cheap mince = Burgers, Koftas, Spag Bog, Moussaka, Keema Curry, shepherds pie, the list goes on, just need some imagination or a cookbook.
Learn to cook, or else learn not to buy "use by today" ingredients and then moan about it on a public forum when drunk. biggrin

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