Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 7)
Discussion
captain.scarlet said:
It's ironic how you mention university students' emotional resilience as before I re-entered this website I was reading the comments on old 1990s TFI Friday videos on YouTube from then-younger people who included the university students of that era who were able to handle anything risqué and edgy content (typical 1990s Channel 4 and to an extent Channel 5 in its early years).
As for whacky job titles, it's not only limited to the public sector: you only need to go on to Linkedin to see what people are calling themselves - Wizards, Gurus, "Talent" instead of HR or recruitment, Future Trainee Solicitor, "I can make your company's accounts as easy as 1-2-3" (and similar 'in a nutshell job summary' / 'unique selling point' titles).
And that's before the likes of Linkedin:
- virtue-signalling,
- humblebrags,
- 'behold my lovely family that I'm very proud of, such as my daughter who overcame all the odds of middle class living and peer pressure to be nominated classroom tidying up monitor at the tender age of 9 (or the teenager who did likewise to get into Durham Uni to study Geography),
- Non-SJW 'need to be offended about something in order to look like a politically-astute social justice warrior and have my moment of glory in the name of getting my name out there and having everyone marvel at me',
- announcements (which always start with an adverb and/or a past tense verb) that are of no importance or relevance to anyone or anything other than the person making them - "Extremely delighted to have been nominated for xyz", "Absolutely thrilled to announce that I'll be starting a new job with xyz and working alongside the incredible Joe Bloggs (until the working relationship breaks down of course)", "Pleased to have partaken in this year's Children in Need office Bakeathon and seen all my Asda walnut cake being sold at £2 a slice completely devoured", and
- First World problem (i.e. an excuse to slip in lifestyle or brand names)
posts.
hell yes.As for whacky job titles, it's not only limited to the public sector: you only need to go on to Linkedin to see what people are calling themselves - Wizards, Gurus, "Talent" instead of HR or recruitment, Future Trainee Solicitor, "I can make your company's accounts as easy as 1-2-3" (and similar 'in a nutshell job summary' / 'unique selling point' titles).
And that's before the likes of Linkedin:
- virtue-signalling,
- humblebrags,
- 'behold my lovely family that I'm very proud of, such as my daughter who overcame all the odds of middle class living and peer pressure to be nominated classroom tidying up monitor at the tender age of 9 (or the teenager who did likewise to get into Durham Uni to study Geography),
- Non-SJW 'need to be offended about something in order to look like a politically-astute social justice warrior and have my moment of glory in the name of getting my name out there and having everyone marvel at me',
- announcements (which always start with an adverb and/or a past tense verb) that are of no importance or relevance to anyone or anything other than the person making them - "Extremely delighted to have been nominated for xyz", "Absolutely thrilled to announce that I'll be starting a new job with xyz and working alongside the incredible Joe Bloggs (until the working relationship breaks down of course)", "Pleased to have partaken in this year's Children in Need office Bakeathon and seen all my Asda walnut cake being sold at £2 a slice completely devoured", and
- First World problem (i.e. an excuse to slip in lifestyle or brand names)
posts.
Doofus said:
It's never really occurred to me to read anything on LinkedIn. Why would I want to?
It seems to me that if this stuff annoys you, there's a simple solution.
LinkedIn annoys me for a completely different reason - that is why is it locked down harder than Fort Knox unless you sign up with all your personal details for an account you don't want, as you just wanted to have a quick look at someone on there? It seems to me that if this stuff annoys you, there's a simple solution.
In fact make that any site that requires you to create an account before you can view the site content.
r3g said:
Doofus said:
It's never really occurred to me to read anything on LinkedIn. Why would I want to?
It seems to me that if this stuff annoys you, there's a simple solution.
LinkedIn annoys me for a completely different reason - that is why is it locked down harder than Fort Knox unless you sign up with all your personal details for an account you don't want, as you just wanted to have a quick look at someone on there? It seems to me that if this stuff annoys you, there's a simple solution.
In fact make that any site that requires you to create an account before you can view the site content.I don't get any job offers at all. Seriously not one that I can think of. Ok, there is the odd one, but not many.
What I do get is recruiters offering me loads of people and recruiters from every side of the planet wanting to link to me so they can link other recruiters too.
Have a CTO/CEO job title and you'll not be offered many jobs, you'll just get plagues in cheap pointy shoes trying to sell you crap engineers. Guess that puts me in the humble brag category but really I'd rather not be and am sick of plagues I've never heard of wanting to link. I've just given up on my account.
GasEngineer said:
Hugo a Gogo said:
I'm incredibly jealous of the people who say they don't use enough stuff to use a dishwasher, mine is on at least once a day, often twice, in lockdown it was sometimes on three times
2 adults and four kids
As mentioned earlier in this thread: incorrect use of the word jealous.2 adults and four kids
I'm really worried someone will take those non-dishwasher-using people away from me
Ok, I meant envious
roger.mellie said:
r3g said:
Doofus said:
It's never really occurred to me to read anything on LinkedIn. Why would I want to?
It seems to me that if this stuff annoys you, there's a simple solution.
LinkedIn annoys me for a completely different reason - that is why is it locked down harder than Fort Knox unless you sign up with all your personal details for an account you don't want, as you just wanted to have a quick look at someone on there? It seems to me that if this stuff annoys you, there's a simple solution.
In fact make that any site that requires you to create an account before you can view the site content.I don't get any job offers at all. Seriously not one that I can think of. Ok, there is the odd one, but not many.
What I do get is recruiters offering me loads of people and recruiters from every side of the planet wanting to link to me so they can link other recruiters too.
Have a CTO/CEO job title and you'll not be offered many jobs, you'll just get plagues in cheap pointy shoes trying to sell you crap engineers. Guess that puts me in the humble brag category but really I'd rather not be and am sick of plagues I've never heard of wanting to link. I've just given up on my account.
ky projects.The modern placement of the red/green man crossing box on traffic lights does my head in.
Instead of being up and in front of you, effectively where I’m heading - and allowing me to see the red/green man clearly AND see both left and right in my periphery as walking, instead now I’m looking exclusively in one direction - and that direction is always just slightly behind me.
And if the crossing is busy, no fker can even see the green man any more, except for the one guy who’s stood in front of it - and he’s always on his phone and paying zero attention.
It’s unfathomable how enough people agreed that this was a better idea than what we already had to the point that it actually made it to become the new way of making crossings.
It’s a change for the sake of it and a stupid, stupid backward step for safety that makes utterly no sense at all to me.
And it pisses me off every time I cross at a set of lights.
Instead of being up and in front of you, effectively where I’m heading - and allowing me to see the red/green man clearly AND see both left and right in my periphery as walking, instead now I’m looking exclusively in one direction - and that direction is always just slightly behind me.
And if the crossing is busy, no f
ker can even see the green man any more, except for the one guy who’s stood in front of it - and he’s always on his phone and paying zero attention.It’s unfathomable how enough people agreed that this was a better idea than what we already had to the point that it actually made it to become the new way of making crossings.
It’s a change for the sake of it and a stupid, stupid backward step for safety that makes utterly no sense at all to me.
And it pisses me off every time I cross at a set of lights.
Cloudy147 said:
The modern placement of the red/green man crossing box on traffic lights does my head in.
Instead of being up and in front of you, effectively where I’m heading - and allowing me to see the red/green man clearly AND see both left and right in my periphery as walking, instead now I’m looking exclusively in one direction - and that direction is always just slightly behind me.
And if the crossing is busy, no fker can even see the green man any more, except for the one guy who’s stood in front of it - and he’s always on his phone and paying zero attention.
It’s unfathomable how enough people agreed that this was a better idea than what we already had to the point that it actually made it to become the new way of making crossings.
It’s a change for the sake of it and a stupid, stupid backward step for safety that makes utterly no sense at all to me.
And it pisses me off every time I cross at a set of lights.
Word^.Instead of being up and in front of you, effectively where I’m heading - and allowing me to see the red/green man clearly AND see both left and right in my periphery as walking, instead now I’m looking exclusively in one direction - and that direction is always just slightly behind me.
And if the crossing is busy, no f
ker can even see the green man any more, except for the one guy who’s stood in front of it - and he’s always on his phone and paying zero attention.It’s unfathomable how enough people agreed that this was a better idea than what we already had to the point that it actually made it to become the new way of making crossings.
It’s a change for the sake of it and a stupid, stupid backward step for safety that makes utterly no sense at all to me.
And it pisses me off every time I cross at a set of lights.
I happen to know that PHer 'OnTheBreadline' is 100% responsible for this.
roger.mellie said:
r3g said:
Doofus said:
It's never really occurred to me to read anything on LinkedIn. Why would I want to?
It seems to me that if this stuff annoys you, there's a simple solution.
LinkedIn annoys me for a completely different reason - that is why is it locked down harder than Fort Knox unless you sign up with all your personal details for an account you don't want, as you just wanted to have a quick look at someone on there? It seems to me that if this stuff annoys you, there's a simple solution.
In fact make that any site that requires you to create an account before you can view the site content.I don't get any job offers at all. Seriously not one that I can think of. Ok, there is the odd one, but not many.
What I do get is recruiters offering me loads of people and recruiters from every side of the planet wanting to link to me so they can link other recruiters too.
Have a CTO/CEO job title and you'll not be offered many jobs, you'll just get plagues in cheap pointy shoes trying to sell you crap engineers. Guess that puts me in the humble brag category but really I'd rather not be and am sick of plagues I've never heard of wanting to link. I've just given up on my account.
Cloudy147 said:
The modern placement of the red/green man crossing box on traffic lights does my head in.
Instead of being up and in front of you, effectively where I’m heading - and allowing me to see the red/green man clearly AND see both left and right in my periphery as walking, instead now I’m looking exclusively in one direction - and that direction is always just slightly behind me.
And if the crossing is busy, no fker can even see the green man any more, except for the one guy who’s stood in front of it - and he’s always on his phone and paying zero attention.
It’s unfathomable how enough people agreed that this was a better idea than what we already had to the point that it actually made it to become the new way of making crossings.
It’s a change for the sake of it and a stupid, stupid backward step for safety that makes utterly no sense at all to me.
And it pisses me off every time I cross at a set of lights.
this explains all , puffin crossings is the one you want.Instead of being up and in front of you, effectively where I’m heading - and allowing me to see the red/green man clearly AND see both left and right in my periphery as walking, instead now I’m looking exclusively in one direction - and that direction is always just slightly behind me.
And if the crossing is busy, no f
ker can even see the green man any more, except for the one guy who’s stood in front of it - and he’s always on his phone and paying zero attention.It’s unfathomable how enough people agreed that this was a better idea than what we already had to the point that it actually made it to become the new way of making crossings.
It’s a change for the sake of it and a stupid, stupid backward step for safety that makes utterly no sense at all to me.
And it pisses me off every time I cross at a set of lights.
https://sussexsaferroads.gov.uk/safer-for-pedestri...
V8mate said:
On the radio this morning, they interviewed someone with the job title: Social and Emotional Resilience Coordinator.
This person works in a primary school.
I'm regularly annoyed beyond reason by the bizarre (and generally unnecessary) job roles invented by the public sector, but, today, I think I'm annoyed beyond reason that we've created a society where this person actually has a busy and meaningful occupation. What the fk have we done?
But cannot you marvel at an economy that can sustain these jobs? These and the ‘Five a Day’ coordinators, the entire Health and Safety industry, most legal based occupations and a fair few HR departments. All of them produce next to nothing, but somehow pull down above average wages.This person works in a primary school.
I'm regularly annoyed beyond reason by the bizarre (and generally unnecessary) job roles invented by the public sector, but, today, I think I'm annoyed beyond reason that we've created a society where this person actually has a busy and meaningful occupation. What the f
k have we done?Baffles me. Must be better than bashing metal and releasing those naughty carbons into the atmosphere though?
V8mate said:
Cloudy147 said:
The modern placement of the red/green man crossing box on traffic lights does my head in.
Instead of being up and in front of you, effectively where I’m heading - and allowing me to see the red/green man clearly AND see both left and right in my periphery as walking, instead now I’m looking exclusively in one direction - and that direction is always just slightly behind me.
And if the crossing is busy, no fker can even see the green man any more, except for the one guy who’s stood in front of it - and he’s always on his phone and paying zero attention.
It’s unfathomable how enough people agreed that this was a better idea than what we already had to the point that it actually made it to become the new way of making crossings.
It’s a change for the sake of it and a stupid, stupid backward step for safety that makes utterly no sense at all to me.
And it pisses me off every time I cross at a set of lights.
Word^.Instead of being up and in front of you, effectively where I’m heading - and allowing me to see the red/green man clearly AND see both left and right in my periphery as walking, instead now I’m looking exclusively in one direction - and that direction is always just slightly behind me.
And if the crossing is busy, no f
ker can even see the green man any more, except for the one guy who’s stood in front of it - and he’s always on his phone and paying zero attention.It’s unfathomable how enough people agreed that this was a better idea than what we already had to the point that it actually made it to become the new way of making crossings.
It’s a change for the sake of it and a stupid, stupid backward step for safety that makes utterly no sense at all to me.
And it pisses me off every time I cross at a set of lights.
I happen to know that PHer 'OnTheBreadline' is 100% responsible for this.
The reason the crossing button/red man/green man is on the right (looking out from the crossing point) is so that you are looking in the general direction the traffic is coming from.
It's all laid out in:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/governmen...
(Chapter 19 - Puffin crossings)
Toucan crossings (Chapter 20) can use either nearside or farside signals, depending on traffic type, or the likelihood of queuing traffic blocking the far side signal.
My old man has in the past few months started being like the you don't want to do it like that character from Harry Enfield.
From cutting the grass where he suggests I go the other way to sending a letter where I'm advised a little bit of sticky tape will ensure the contents don't fall out. I go to pick my daughter out some clothes from the shop and he will point to an item on another rail saying get this instead it's a penny cheaper.
FFS at 50 can't I make a sodding decision on my own!!
From cutting the grass where he suggests I go the other way to sending a letter where I'm advised a little bit of sticky tape will ensure the contents don't fall out. I go to pick my daughter out some clothes from the shop and he will point to an item on another rail saying get this instead it's a penny cheaper.
FFS at 50 can't I make a sodding decision on my own!!
Sheets Tabuer said:
My old man has in the past few months started being like the you don't want to do it like that character from Harry Enfield.
From cutting the grass where he suggests I go the other way to sending a letter where I'm advised a little bit of sticky tape will ensure the contents don't fall out. I go to pick my daughter out some clothes from the shop and he will point to an item on another rail saying get this instead it's a penny cheaper.
FFS at 50 can't I make a sodding decision on my own!!
cut this loser adrift and get a younger bit of arm candy, From cutting the grass where he suggests I go the other way to sending a letter where I'm advised a little bit of sticky tape will ensure the contents don't fall out. I go to pick my daughter out some clothes from the shop and he will point to an item on another rail saying get this instead it's a penny cheaper.
FFS at 50 can't I make a sodding decision on my own!!
unless he's filthy rich that is, don't cut off your money source.
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