Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 7)
Discussion
TameRacingDriver said:
Same. Just tell me what you want FFS, I'm sure you don't want to talk about the weather, and neither do I 
Sadly some do. Some colleagues whose sole job seems to be the theft of oxygen love to waste time with inane chatter, in fact they insist upon it because it makes them look like they're doing work (stats) instead of bothering people who actually work.
Same with inane phone calls. Usually when they finally get to the point, it's something they could have done themselves in half the time they wasted calling me... But that call was an extra stat for them.
I work from home now but when I was in the office it used to do my head in when someone sent an email then walked over to tell me and talk about it.
I partly understand the logic of sending an email (so it's in text form) then we can discuss it. But it's the whole inconvenience that it's generally never a good time and worse still are the entirely unimportant ones.
Them: "I just sent you an email about some leave I wanted to take"
Me: No worries, will look at it in a bit
Them: thanks, it's just for three days in July as my Sister is getting married
Me: Oh cool, sounds nice
etc..
I partly understand the logic of sending an email (so it's in text form) then we can discuss it. But it's the whole inconvenience that it's generally never a good time and worse still are the entirely unimportant ones.
Them: "I just sent you an email about some leave I wanted to take"
Me: No worries, will look at it in a bit
Them: thanks, it's just for three days in July as my Sister is getting married
Me: Oh cool, sounds nice
etc..
TameRacingDriver said:
Instagram. Or more accurately, the way it serves you some absolute crap like some tosser making videos in the gym, so you say you aren't interested. What does it do? Gives you even more posts that you've just said you're not interested in. FFS.
Pinterest does this too - for some unfathomable reason it appears to have decided I want to see pics of men with tattoos and women's hairstyles 
MartG said:
TameRacingDriver said:
Instagram. Or more accurately, the way it serves you some absolute crap like some tosser making videos in the gym, so you say you aren't interested. What does it do? Gives you even more posts that you've just said you're not interested in. FFS.
Pinterest does this too - for some unfathomable reason it appears to have decided I want to see pics of men with tattoos and women's hairstyles 
redrabbit29 said:
I work from home now but when I was in the office it used to do my head in when someone sent an email then walked over to tell me and talk about it.
Similarly I have a mate that I see once a week. He's recently started a Facebook group for a particular interest of his, and while I only have a marginal interest, I've joined the group. Each week when I see him, he'll tell me what he's posted on the group since I last saw him, and about what others have posted. That would be fine, it's just a way of making conversation, but I'm in the group, so I've seen what he posted, and what everyone else has posted. That's sort-of how Facebook groups work, albeit in a random order.Being told by the dentist receptionist yesterday when I got through two minutes after their phone lines opened that all the emergency appointments had gone. I asked if it was worth going down in person to save sitting in a phone queue, to be told I had to ring up like "everyone else".
This morning I rang a couple of minutes early, so I was in the queue ready and my call was picked up bang on time. However, all the appointments had gone and when I queried why, I was told they open the doors 15 mins early and people had come in and booked them.
Not a happy chap as I had an hours sleep last night and only a couple the two nights previous, with raging toothache keeping me awake. 111 is useless as they just give a list of emergency dentists who don't have any appointments either.
This morning I rang a couple of minutes early, so I was in the queue ready and my call was picked up bang on time. However, all the appointments had gone and when I queried why, I was told they open the doors 15 mins early and people had come in and booked them.
Not a happy chap as I had an hours sleep last night and only a couple the two nights previous, with raging toothache keeping me awake. 111 is useless as they just give a list of emergency dentists who don't have any appointments either.
Micro-Insults
They're everywhere. For instance, we go to pay a cheque into our bank, There's no tills anymore, just three machines of the cash dispenser type. We fill in the paying-in slip, follow the instructions on the screen and the transaction is refused. We try again. Same result. The bank employee comes over and has a go, still no joy.
So she says she will take the cheque etc and get it paid in manually. That's all fine. The micro-insult occurred when she first arrived- "Do you need some help?"
No, we don't need any help, we want your f
king machine to work properly. Better if she had said "is it playing up again?" I confidently expect that would be a more accurate question in 90% of cases.
Same thing at the self-operated checkouts in supermarkets. "Please call for assistance".
If they must use cost-saving machinery then they should make sure that it, and the software, work properly, rather than implying that it's the fault of the users and that they need help.
They're everywhere. For instance, we go to pay a cheque into our bank, There's no tills anymore, just three machines of the cash dispenser type. We fill in the paying-in slip, follow the instructions on the screen and the transaction is refused. We try again. Same result. The bank employee comes over and has a go, still no joy.
So she says she will take the cheque etc and get it paid in manually. That's all fine. The micro-insult occurred when she first arrived- "Do you need some help?"
No, we don't need any help, we want your f
king machine to work properly. Better if she had said "is it playing up again?" I confidently expect that would be a more accurate question in 90% of cases.Same thing at the self-operated checkouts in supermarkets. "Please call for assistance".
If they must use cost-saving machinery then they should make sure that it, and the software, work properly, rather than implying that it's the fault of the users and that they need help.
singlecoil said:
... Same thing at the self-operated checkouts in supermarkets. "Please call for assistance" ...
On this, people who are queueing and have reached the start (or is that end) of the self-serve queue simply daydreaming, not looking down the line to see if a terminal is free, who is likely to be leaving soon etc. and just mindlessly waiting like a braindead idiot to be directed to an available machine by the lone member of bored staff. I'll either just walk past them to any available spot or tap them on the shoulder and point down to a free terminal, saying 'there's one right there', which usually wakes them up with an 'oh yeah sorry!' reply.singlecoil said:
Micro-Insults
So she says she will take the cheque etc and get it paid in manually. That's all fine. The micro-insult occurred when she first arrived- "Do you need some help?"
That's not an insult... In fact it's the opposite, it's someone asking if they can assist you. Someone is trying to be kind to you. So she says she will take the cheque etc and get it paid in manually. That's all fine. The micro-insult occurred when she first arrived- "Do you need some help?"
And if you're getting upset over that, you really do need some help.
captain_cynic said:
singlecoil said:
Micro-Insults
So she says she will take the cheque etc and get it paid in manually. That's all fine. The micro-insult occurred when she first arrived- "Do you need some help?"
That's not an insult... In fact it's the opposite, it's someone asking if they can assist you. Someone is trying to be kind to you. So she says she will take the cheque etc and get it paid in manually. That's all fine. The micro-insult occurred when she first arrived- "Do you need some help?"
And if you're getting upset over that, you really do need some help.
MartG said:
TameRacingDriver said:
Instagram. Or more accurately, the way it serves you some absolute crap like some tosser making videos in the gym, so you say you aren't interested. What does it do? Gives you even more posts that you've just said you're not interested in. FFS.
Pinterest does this too - for some unfathomable reason it appears to have decided I want to see pics of men with tattoos and women's hairstyles 
singlecoil said:
Micro-Insults
They're everywhere. For instance, we go to pay a cheque into our bank, There's no tills anymore, just three machines of the cash dispenser type. We fill in the paying-in slip, follow the instructions on the screen and the transaction is refused. We try again. Same result. The bank employee comes over and has a go, still no joy.
So she says she will take the cheque etc and get it paid in manually. That's all fine. The micro-insult occurred when she first arrived- "Do you need some help?"
No, we don't need any help, we want your fking machine to work properly. Better if she had said "is it playing up again?" I confidently expect that would be a more accurate question in 90% of cases.
Same thing at the self-operated checkouts in supermarkets. "Please call for assistance".
If they must use cost-saving machinery then they should make sure that it, and the software, work properly, rather than implying that it's the fault of the users and that they need help.
Haven’t paid a cheque in for years but always used to use the banking app to do it. No need for visiting a bank and mingling with the staff.They're everywhere. For instance, we go to pay a cheque into our bank, There's no tills anymore, just three machines of the cash dispenser type. We fill in the paying-in slip, follow the instructions on the screen and the transaction is refused. We try again. Same result. The bank employee comes over and has a go, still no joy.
So she says she will take the cheque etc and get it paid in manually. That's all fine. The micro-insult occurred when she first arrived- "Do you need some help?"
No, we don't need any help, we want your f
king machine to work properly. Better if she had said "is it playing up again?" I confidently expect that would be a more accurate question in 90% of cases.Same thing at the self-operated checkouts in supermarkets. "Please call for assistance".
If they must use cost-saving machinery then they should make sure that it, and the software, work properly, rather than implying that it's the fault of the users and that they need help.
singlecoil said:
captain_cynic said:
singlecoil said:
Micro-Insults
So she says she will take the cheque etc and get it paid in manually. That's all fine. The micro-insult occurred when she first arrived- "Do you need some help?"
That's not an insult... In fact it's the opposite, it's someone asking if they can assist you. Someone is trying to be kind to you. So she says she will take the cheque etc and get it paid in manually. That's all fine. The micro-insult occurred when she first arrived- "Do you need some help?"
And if you're getting upset over that, you really do need some help.
"Do you need some help?"
"Nope, your machine does though"
With a huff the purple haired woman scans her card, the item goes through, she goes away slightly miffed the script hasn't been followed.
ASDA has the worst self-checkout machines. You select 'use your own bags' and do that and then it requires a person to come and verify the bags. It's a st interface. Since they started getting rid of the people on the tills I buy a lot less though, because I can't be arsed. Saving me money at least.
t interface. Since they started getting rid of the people on the tills I buy a lot less though, because I can't be arsed. Saving me money at least.Auxillis, they handle claims for Adrian Flux, I had a bump I'm January, the car has been fixed, the third party's insurance company afmitted liability and the money has been claimed back by my insurance company for the repair, all good so far you're thinking, no not really, it's taken three attempts to get the useless tts to claim my £250 excess back, the third time I emailed the receipt to them was Friday the 17th March, I chased them up today to see what was going on, the useless bunch of s hadn't even opened the email, the woman I was talking to put me on hold so that she could forward it to the third party's insurance company!!! 
ts to claim my £250 excess back, the third time I emailed the receipt to them was Friday the 17th March, I chased them up today to see what was going on, the useless bunch of s hadn't even opened the email, the woman I was talking to put me on hold so that she could forward it to the third party's insurance company!!! Cold sales calls. This time it's on my mobile, companies trying to sell me a better contract with my existing mobile phone company. The first such call, she wanted to know how much I'm paying at the moment. I suggested to her that if she was going to give me a better price, why did I need to tell her how much was paying right now?
She didn't have an answer except to repeat that she needed to know how much I'm paying now so she could get me a 'better price'. Now I just ring off when I realise that it's another such call.
She didn't have an answer except to repeat that she needed to know how much I'm paying now so she could get me a 'better price'. Now I just ring off when I realise that it's another such call.
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