Little things that annoy the hell out of you

[Lord Satori]

Banned from Off Topic. You didn't see anything because there wasn't anything to see.

Nothing that didn't happen on a daily basis, at least.

[BIL]

Cock sucking mother fucking muppets at DWP send me a mysterious letter saying I owe them money. Now apparently it's my job of fucking work on a Friday night to phone them, repeatedly, to ascertain WTF this is about as they don't have an automated queue. I thought the English were really good at queueing, or something? I like clearing my debts but hoooly shit do I hate it when cunts make a fucking riddle of it. "can i habe monie pls bos?"

Pictorial irritation barometer (don't click, Satori-kun! ;3 apologies in advance if you already did! ;3 ;3 ;3 )

Spoiler

[Lord Satori]

I'm hardly phased by anything that happens in manga/anime/whatever. It's real life that tends to disgust me more.

[Ed Oscuro]

Cock sucking mother fucking muppets at DWP

I read this and I was like "BIL owes DTP enterprises for pro strats?!?!?"

Pos. related: DWP ALL AROUND THE WALD</sf1announcer>

[JBC]

Unreliable employees, unreliable friends. Can't count on anyone but yourself. Pisses me off man.

[BIL]

Oh, to receive mysterious letters from DTP... settled the matter with Dept of Willywonkas & Petticoats promptly, so dull. Imagine the fun of being chased up for cash by our absent icon!

"You owe me xx poundfordshires for quality forum entertainments, but we both know my reaching the bank without being hit by a bus, or falling in an open manhole, or having your cheque pilfered by rogue seagull is impossible. I will write you again within the month pending your advice."

[Ed Oscuro]

It's always the manhole's fault - wait, the call came from inside the house; DTP is deliberately sabotaging himself!

(m. night big reveal as BIL takes off mask to reveal DTP, then takes off the mask again to reveal THE GENERAL )
...alright, enough indulgent banter for now, sorry

Suddenly I am happy that some forms of government have local employees. Dealing with wait times in every call to national and even statewide offices is just harrible. All I had to do was get the right local number and leave a message.

[MOSQUITO FIGHTER]

Getting a decode error every time I try to play a video on my Windows phone.

[Lord Satori]

Windows phone.

There's your problem, mate.

[MOSQUITO FIGHTER]

Windows phone.

There's your problem, mate.

It seems like it used to be a lot better. Other annoyances are not being able to rotate the phone when doing a Bing search with the new Cortana front end. And everytime I adjust the volume the bar takes up like 1/3 of the screen blocking what I'm trying to look at.

[Satan]

I saw an internal human resources document today where the candidate for a job was actually listed as 'the resource.'
"The resource will..."
Fuck the world.

[BareKnuckleRoo]

Human "Resources" in general is a shit term. People aren't resources like bushels of wheat or whatever. Most good applications will refer to the person as "the successful applicant".

[Satan]

It's a shit term employed to strip employees of their humanity. I hate this place at the best of times.

[Xyga]

I'm hardly phased by anything that happens in manga

There are manga with stuff in it you can't unsee, stuff that would probably get their authors arrested in most countries you know... but you probably haven't heard of those.
[img]hipster_cat.jpg[/img] :p

'the resource.'

yeah stuff like that, not human, just live meat.

[Iron Peach]

Anyone who uses a knife to make a sandwich, especially spreading PB & J is a doofus. Either the fork or the spoon is a far better tech, Sir.

[BulletMagnet]

People aren't resources like bushels of wheat or whatever.

To middle management and up they absolutely are; the rest of the world exists only to further enrich their bottom line, and should be tearfully grateful for the opportunity.

[mamboFoxtrot]

I wouldn't be surprised if this has been in here several times already, but, when a game suddenly jumps in price. SNES Sparkster was $40 or more last time I looked at it. Now its $80 or more! (And that's still cheap compared to a lot of other games! Retro markets be so cray cray)

I guess I'll be playing the SFC version, as its still ~$40, and hopefully stays that way for a while.

[Mischief Maker]

To middle management and up they absolutely are; the rest of the world exists only to further enrich their bottom line, and should be tearfully grateful for the opportunity.

This to me is the worst part of the job search. I saw a career counselor the other day and was going over a failed job interview and her advice that really stung was, "You might not want to let them in on the fact that you're going to night school. Employers don't like to think that they aren't the number one priority in your life."

[Ed Oscuro]

PayPal

Nothing personally, but was just reading about some various ways they fuck people over, sheeit

Either the fork or the spoon is a far better tech, Sir.

Hey now, don't start trolling the annoyances thread

[Formless God]

When you tell someone what you plan to do with your money and they reply with "what about food and electricity?". No fucking shit, Sherlock. Because someone wants to spend money on something, they must be wanting to live in the streets at the same time, right?

[BulletMagnet]

Employers don't like to think that they aren't the number one priority in your life.

But it's the workers who have such a crippling problem with "entitlement".

[JBC]

Marvel Unlimited offers such an enormous amount of content through a lackluster app. It really shows how behind the game the comics industry is in terms of keeping up with today's technologically driven world. I'm trying to renew my subscription & not only can you not do so through the iOS app itself, but now the website is refusing to accept a perfectly good pre-paid credit card. I just made a purchase through Amazon with the same card without any problems.

So, I've had to resort to email & there's no telling when I'll get a response. This sucks for me because the whole reason I even got the card was so I could spend these next few rainy days catching up on some old favorites. The app is annoying & crashes alot but it's a nice, legal way for me to check out some comics I may otherwise have never been able to get into. For instance - the plan was to read alot of classic Doctor Strange, a character I've always liked but never got around to perusing.

I hope they get back to me soon.

[BareKnuckleRoo]

The idea that asking about salary in an interview is seen as an affront to employers. An article from one of my favourite blogs, Ask A Manager, deals with this:

You, job seekers, are apparently all seeking jobs out of the kindness of your hearts, out of a desire to be industrious and assist companies in their pursuits. You are certainly not interested in what kind of compensation you will receive for your work.

This is ridiculous.

Penalizing job seekers for inquiring about something so central to why they’d take the job in the first place betrays a serious lack of common sense, as well as something disgustingly arrogant — as if job seekers should simply be grateful to have been granted an audience with an employer and shouldn’t jeopardize that by anything so vulgar as acknowledging that they’ll be working for money.

[BulletMagnet]

I found this particular quote from the link you posted absolutely priceless:

If you ask about salary in the first interview, “it makes you look as though you’re applying for the job because of the money. That [can] seem too mercenary.”

This, from a card-carrying member of an executive class which has, for several decades running, gone all-in on the Ayn Randian, scorched-earth "greed is good" trollop, which states unequivocally that short-term, personal enrichment should be the only motivating factor for anybody to do anything, and that the faintest trace of moral/ethical quandaries or passing concern for other affected parties only messes the whole system up and must be mercilessly purged from the conversation. Now, it seems, they've added an amendment without telling us: that whole self-righteous spiel applies only to them, as we commoners are still required to exhibit a downright philanthropic mindset when it comes to the expending of our labor, at least when its fruits are destined for a higher rung on the ladder.

It's stuff like this that makes me wish that every corner-office desk came outfitted with a guillotine.

[BareKnuckleRoo]

Get up bright and early. I have a government office and I want to avoid a stupid busy lineup. What happens? As I'm getting in my car, guy across the block asks for a jumpstart. He tells me about how he got his neighbour to do it last time but didn't want to wake him up and "I shoulda bought a new battery".

Get to the government office, as I'm getting into the parking lot, super sketchy looking lady walks up telling me about how she slipped and fell on some ice and please give me a ride home I'm just around the block (while practically reaching for the back door). Thankfully, I was with my husband, so I wasn't too concerned about getting knifed or strangled, but I'd spent the past 5 minutes looking for parking that wasn't ungodly expensive to no avail, only to finally be accosted by her when I settle for the overpriced parking. I let this lady in, who thankfully lived nearby, but wouldn't pick up on the hint when asked if anyone parked in her driveway. No free parking alternative for me in this bargain (she said something about staff park there, but it was a residential house, so I wonder if she lives in a supervised group home).

Turns out the office was unusually quiet, contrary to my expectations, and the problem was much more easily resolved than I thought and I was out so quickly that the parking fee was minor. I can't tell if I'm annoyed that I only get asked for help by strangers on the one day I'm really in a hurry, or if I'm grateful I got lucky and/or karma balanced everything out and made the rest of the day quite pleasant.

[Ed Oscuro]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wynx1ukwdVA

[MOSQUITO FIGHTER]

Obamacare penalty.

[Formless God]

People who use the word "fetish" in criticism of things that do not directly cater to them. If it exists, it's already a fucking fetish.

[Xyga]

People dumb enough to think being racist is okay, rational, should be part of any society's values and at the core of government policy.

And that's a lot, really a lot of people now. I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

[Mero]

Can't breathe through my nose atm