Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 4)
Discussion
Cotty said:
LordJammy said:
Due to my job I can be unable to answer my personal phone for hours at a time, one of my friends knows this but instead of just texting me he will ring and ring and ring endlessly. It’s not uncommon to pick my phone up during my break to 30+ missed calls. That’s pretty annoying.
More annoying is when the person who's phone it is leaves it on their desk and goes to a meeting. Then everyone else has to hear the phone go off 30 times. Tell your friend to not ring 30 times as it really is 
ish behaviour, its what voicemail and text are for, to leave a message. Johnnytheboy said:
Bobberoo99 said:
leigh1050 said:
Bobberoo99 said:
A few miles from where I live there's a pair of cameras on either side of the road just after a bridge, everyone knows they're there and so slow accordingly, a lot of people don't realise that around the bend a little further on is a layby where the police like to sit further down the hill, so many, many people accelerate right after the cameras only to spot the police and then slam the anchors on, at which point it's too late!!!!
A20 by Flamingo Park?
psi310398 said:
Antony Moxey said:
Might be being dim here but how do you leave a voicemail message without ringing the phone?
I think he's referring to the 29 subsequent calls...LordJammy said:
Due to my job I can be unable to answer my personal phone for hours at a time, one of my friends knows this but instead of just texting me he will ring and ring and ring endlessly. It’s not uncommon to pick my phone up during my break to 30+ missed calls. That’s pretty annoying.
I used to have a customer that would call my direct line, but if it was engaged, he'd call back on the main switchboard only to be told "he's on the phone".Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:
On the subject of eBay. You leave a phone number on a message, and your account gets suspended. I can see the intention is to stop off site sales, but sometimes you want to see/ check out something before you buy it, and a number is useful in case you can't find them etc.
I got in trouble for trying to include a Bosch alternator part number in a message to an eBay seller. Looks like their system sees a number starting with 0 and decides it's a phone number. Well done eBay, I ended up buying the part from somewhere else.Cotty said:
psi310398 said:
Antony Moxey said:
Might be being dim here but how do you leave a voicemail message without ringing the phone?
I think he's referring to the 29 subsequent calls...Cold said:
My phone rings me to let me know there's a voicemail waiting. It will do this on and off until I check my messages. So one pocket dial makes me sound very popular if I don't answer the phone all afternoon.
I am assuming you can turn that off. My phone sends me a text when there is a voicemail, but only one, it doesn't keep texting me like a retard.Two work ones today, a guy from support comes over to ask us not to use the network drives at the minute as they need to be restarted, within 10 seconds my colleague sitting next to me asks me when they will be back up?!
Someone is leaving the office in a week and there is the obligatory card going round for everyone to sign. I sign it and pass it to (a different) colleague who signs it then passes it back to me! I give it to someone else in the office and ask them to take it to another (specific) department when they have signed it and 30 seconds later it comes back to me with his excuse of "i don't know who hasn't signed it yet" He has clearly failed to read any of the 4 names already on the card and deduce that there are about another 46 people that haven't signed it yet.
Thank god they are moving to our other office this afternoon and i won't have to put up with them any longer. I will have to deal with their phone calls next week though as they forgot to tell the phone provider that the lines need to be re-routed.
Someone is leaving the office in a week and there is the obligatory card going round for everyone to sign. I sign it and pass it to (a different) colleague who signs it then passes it back to me! I give it to someone else in the office and ask them to take it to another (specific) department when they have signed it and 30 seconds later it comes back to me with his excuse of "i don't know who hasn't signed it yet" He has clearly failed to read any of the 4 names already on the card and deduce that there are about another 46 people that haven't signed it yet.
Thank god they are moving to our other office this afternoon and i won't have to put up with them any longer. I will have to deal with their phone calls next week though as they forgot to tell the phone provider that the lines need to be re-routed.
Cold said:
My phone rings me to let me know there's a voicemail waiting. It will do this on and off until I check my messages. So one pocket dial makes me sound very popular if I don't answer the phone all afternoon.
Are you still in the 1990's or something? That was a "feature" of Vodafone analogue phones that got superseded first by Orange (if I recall correctly) who sent a special text message that caused the "new voicemail message" icon to be shown. Quickly adopted by all the other manufacturers and carriers, for precisely this reason. I didn't realise you could still do the old annoying method and have no idea why you would want to either. Last Visit said:
This talk of voicemail is so delightfully retro.
So rarely get left one these days. If my wife calls and I don't answer she won't leave a voicemail she will leave a WhatsApp message. As will lots of other people i know who ring me to speak when i cant answer.
Most of my business dealings are still over the phone, especially with recruitment agents, and so voicemail is still a 'thing'. So rarely get left one these days. If my wife calls and I don't answer she won't leave a voicemail she will leave a WhatsApp message. As will lots of other people i know who ring me to speak when i cant answer.
That's not a personal choice; that's them electing to contact me by phone and leave a voicemail if I don't answer.
ClockworkCupcake said:
Last Visit said:
This talk of voicemail is so delightfully retro.
So rarely get left one these days. If my wife calls and I don't answer she won't leave a voicemail she will leave a WhatsApp message. As will lots of other people i know who ring me to speak when i cant answer.
Most of my business dealings are still over the phone, especially with recruitment agents, and so voicemail is still a 'thing'. So rarely get left one these days. If my wife calls and I don't answer she won't leave a voicemail she will leave a WhatsApp message. As will lots of other people i know who ring me to speak when i cant answer.
That's not a personal choice; that's them electing to contact me by phone and leave a voicemail if I don't answer.
ClockworkCupcake said:
Are you still in the 1990's or something? That was a "feature" of Vodafone analogue phones that got superseded first by Orange (if I recall correctly) who sent a special text message that caused the "new voicemail message" icon to be shown. Quickly adopted by all the other manufacturers and carriers, for precisely this reason. I didn't realise you could still do the old annoying method and have no idea why you would want to either.
It may well be residual feature left over from my Vodafone account of yesteryear. I've been with them (with the same number) ever since I had a Motorola "something" installed into my Sierra in 1987. I expect it is possible to turn it off, but I've never investigated as it doesn't happen often enough to be bothersome.
If I'm honest, I quite like the attention as it makes me feel wanted.
Network bloody Rail (and it's predecessors).
I went out on my mountain bike this afternoon, and thought I'd "just nip over to the other side of the railway for a bit of an explore". Fking bds! One blasted bridge over the line for miles in either direction, and when I get over it I see "No cycling" and "Private Property - Public FOOTPATH Only" signs. Damn it all, I respected the signs, and obeyed the rules, but it was damned annoying to say the least.
In the end I took a shortcut home across some MOD firing ranges (no red flags, it was OK!) and then, thank heavens for the foresight of the builders of the Basingstoke Canal. That got me back home no problem. Why the hell can't Network Rail build something akin to a towpath alongside the railway? It's not like the idea is fraught with problems or anything...
...it'd be so much quicker too, as hereabouts the railway tends to follow pretty much the straightest, shortest route between towns.
I went out on my mountain bike this afternoon, and thought I'd "just nip over to the other side of the railway for a bit of an explore". F
king bds! One blasted bridge over the line for miles in either direction, and when I get over it I see "No cycling" and "Private Property - Public FOOTPATH Only" signs. Damn it all, I respected the signs, and obeyed the rules, but it was damned annoying to say the least. In the end I took a shortcut home across some MOD firing ranges (no red flags, it was OK!) and then, thank heavens for the foresight of the builders of the Basingstoke Canal. That got me back home no problem. Why the hell can't Network Rail build something akin to a towpath alongside the railway? It's not like the idea is fraught with problems or anything...
...it'd be so much quicker too, as hereabouts the railway tends to follow pretty much the straightest, shortest route between towns.
Cotty said:
More annoying is when the person who's phone it is leaves it on their desk and goes to a meeting. Then everyone else has to hear the phone go off 30 times. Tell your friend to not ring 30 times as it really is ish behaviour, its what voicemail and text are for, to leave a message.
Just to defend myself here, my phone stays in the van so it annoys nobody but me ish behaviour, its what voicemail and text are for, to leave a message. 
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