start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

Online sellers who aren't satisfied with the fact that you purchased a product from them and did not try to return it or complaint about it, but hassle you RELENTLESSLY to leave feedback, tell us what you think, post about us on social media, blah blah blah

FUCK YOU I gave you money. You gave me a product. We're not married now. I don't owe you anything. I don't have to go to your parents' house for Thanksgiving and I don't have to write a review of your GOD DAMN cocktail shaker. Fuck.

Also:

I was printing out my parents boarding passes from Spirit Airlines last night and they offered the normal nickel-and-dime-you-to-death services and the option to voluntarily pay an additional $1 or $5 to help the airline be more green.

So not a service, just some random fucking guilty bullshit about how if we want this airline to be more environmentally friendly, give us extra money. We're already paying extra money to check a bag and have more leg room than a chicken a 12-by-12 factory farming crate, and now these fuckers have the nerve to try to extort money for their environmental initiative? I'm still so angry about that I can barely form a coherent objection to it.

I'm underemployed right now working as a temp in a law firm.. I got a ton of overtime last week but I am FUCKING FURIOUS because I HATE overtime and I hate my line of work because Im subject to the whims of capricious lawyers who dont give a fuck about my life or free time (or common sense/decency). The irony being I'm making time and a half and have a bunch more money than I would yet I am still FUCKING FURIOUS because theres a lot more overtime in the future.

It also doesnt help that because I'm a temp I'm realizing about 2/3ds of what my employer is paying the temp agency, which is basically the same amont of money I used to make like ten fucking years ago.

thanks obama

^^^great CSR, there, carl. *screams*

I was a participant in the following exchange last week:

Cashier: 'Thanks for shopping with us. Can I take your e-mail address?'
Me: 'No...'

Hate it when I'm too fast for a website. Site loads, I put the cursor on something like "SEARCH" and click, but in that split second between those two actions, the site has loaded up just a little bit more and I wind up clicking on something like "CONTACT US".

When I started at TCS they encouraged us to ask ppl for their email addresses at the register. At first they said it like, "Hey, people might want to know when we have sales! Just ask, if they say no, that's fine obvs." By the time I left they were offering positive incentives to workers who got the highest percentages of ppl to give them an email. I got the feeling negative incentives were right around the corner.

Radio Shack has been really obnoxious about the email stuff for years

lol Radio Shack was way ahead of the curve, they used to ask for your address years ago

I just had one of those, cash purchase of an overpriced-yet-undeniably-effective hair care product for one of my daughters from a salon I visit for no other purpose.

"What's your last name?" "Is it 'Dusty' Perry?" "I'm supposed to ask." "How do you spell your last name?" "Who normally does your hair here?" Ha ha ha, who does my greying, thinning hair.

Canada Goose Parkas

It also doesnt help that because I'm a temp I'm realizing about 2/3ds of what my employer is paying the temp agency

Not to stoke any further IA, but it's possible that you are grossly overestimating the cut that your temp agency is willing to part with.

Very true. I used to be temped for Accounts Payable jobs, so the most hilarious thing to me was knowing the 'big secret' of exactly how much the company was paying for my services because I was the one processing the bill! (Of course temp agencies never ever want their temps to know this stuff).

I recall more than one job where I got hourly $13, and the agency was getting $22, and that this ratio was pretty usual, so, I got more than half, but less than 2/3 of the payout.

However, and this really ticked me off, one job that was largely funded by taxpayer dollars paid me way less than half of the outrageous sum the temp agency got! I think I got $9 out of $25 bucks on that one! No business like soaking the people.

temp agencies take that much?! damn.

i guess companies will pay to screw people out of benefits

Most of the times I was ever offered to 'go perm' it was usually with a pay cut from what I had been getting as a temp ('but you'll get benefits') so, no, thanks.

One reason I did temp for a long time was that the pay rates had at least something to do with demand, whereas permanent positions tended to be successfully squashed. While it was humiliating in some ways to have the agency taking a lot of money for doing nothing but landing me the spot, that did save me a lot of dreadful human resources interviews and frankly, I just wouldn't have found those positions on my own. I also used to see the most interesting trainwrecks: places where I'd take over the suddenly vacated position of an embezzler, a revenge case, a blazing incompetent. Whole little histories there. The work of course was more boring than not so regular changes of scenery were helpful as well.

lol Radio Shack was way ahead of the curve, they used to ask for your address years ago

That reminds me of this collection of anecdotes (I thought it mentioned the hassling-for-address thing but it doesn't seem to):
http://www.ihateworkinginretail.com/tag/i-hate-radioshack/

I particularly enjoyed VIII and XV, if you've got better things to do than read the whole collection of longwinded rants. But who would have better things to do than that?

omg XV is amazing, I have no idea what that is

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t53/baldie0522/doin-brum.gif

baldie doin-brum.gif

ia: egregiously bad service in restaurants. i'm sooooo chill and forgiving about minor food service slip-ups. i don't care if you smile. i don't care if you refill my water without me having to ask. if i don't say when i'm ordering that i'm allergic to XYZ food item (which would be a gross overstatement, since my food allergies are really trivial), it's a minor inconvenience but not the end of the world if the kitchen forgets to leave it off. i just want a baseline level of transactional ease if i'm gonna choose your place over other places. i had work to do last night and i ran out to get a quick takeout order so i could scarf down some food and meet my midnight deadline. i ended up waiting probably 40 minutes for a dish that at most would take ten minutes to cook from pre-prepped ingredients and assemble in a styrofoam box. and the restaurant was busy, but not slammed. it just made me very stressed out. which is my problem, not theirs. i don't handle stress well. 40 minutes is a long time to wait though.

no i in yr a

so to speak

the level of stress made my a feel i

_lol Radio Shack was way ahead of the curve, they used to ask for your address years ago_

That reminds me of this collection of anecdotes (I thought it mentioned the hassling-for-address thing but it doesn't seem to):
http://www.ihateworkinginretail.com/tag/i-hate-radioshack/

I particularly enjoyed VIII and XV, if you've got better things to do than read the whole collection of longwinded rants. But who would have better things to do than that?

Whoa thank you, aps! I read the first few of those when it was first posted, but missed the great ones you pointed out plus my favorite, the one w/ Stoned Craig going "I'm hungry, Paw." (Which I've said a lot to various people over decades for no reason I can discern, so maybe it's just part of the collective human drive to say it.)

Stoned Je55e

OK that Brum story looool
Original Brum theme was instrumental but TIL there is an extremely lengthy modern version

bill gates the spider

News sites showing handheld video but blurring out the edges? I feel like I see something like this every week or two. Sorry, this is some really traumatic video.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/dying-among-strangers-metro-victim-found-fellow-riders-who-tried-to-save-her-life/2015/01/13/98f6c37e-9b7a-11e4-bcfb-059ec7a93ddc_story.html?hpid=z3

lately every time i watch some crappy viral video prank, i get IA imagining myself just out and about trying to run an errand and getting trapped in a viral video prank. like that dumb telekinesis coffee shop thing.*

*maybe the reactions are fake, idk.

It's very likely my last dying words will be "Turn your phone sideways if you insist on recording this."

Yeah, it's not because something is being blurred out, it's because people don't shoot in landscape and for some reason news organizations have chosen to present it like that. I think they should just reject all portrait videos.

Why can't phones just format videos in landscape regardless of the position of the phone?

camera sensor orientation? the actual sensor isn't square iirc, I may be wrong

those takeout containers with interlocking flaps - eating from them makes me ia bcz the flaps get in the way

i usually dump it out onto a plate of something but sometimes you can't & raaaaage

Like Chinese take out containers?

if you hold it from the side you are holding down three of the flaps automatically

Blurred margins - you'll also see this sometimes when shows re-run old 4x3 segments in their new 16x9 format.

Was cutting up a carrot for some soup for dinner and lost about half of it to the 3 slices just rolling right off the cutting board and onto the floor.

Weather getting even worse and still not collected flat pack. Had stiff neck on Monday the one day this week when there hasn't been really bad weather, think it was actually calm and sunny.
Snowed last night and now there's a major storm happening tonight and tomorrow.
i was just hoping I'd be able to get this thing home on the bus. Which will be a load of fun in itself. Thing is about 5 foot or so long which means it's a bit awkward. Maybe will have to get taxi and I'm really broke this week.

xp
I don't know your floors but you can rinse stuff off.

Having so much fun trying to get my cursor to keep things selected so it can organise them. Not sure where flaw lies is it a thing with Windows 7 or something.
JUst tried to sort out a load of music on Foobar and instead of it clicking ad dragging a set of tracks it would just shift the highlight across other tracks or click and start playing on any track among several selected.
Then just had even more fun trying to scroll up a page elsewhere on this site to try to click on the link to here.
aaaaaargh

These cutsey little browser messages that appear when a problem occurs.

For example, I guess Firefox didn't shut down properly last night, so now I've got it over here in the other window saying "Well, this is embarassing…" Like it somehow dinged my bumper as it was trying to back out of its own driveway.

The worst is Chrome. "There's no way you can see this PDF of your parcel map because we're Chrome and AWWWWWWW SNAP!"

while we're on computer issues - windows programs which, when you go to open a file, always take you back to some obscure folder on your hard drive rather than the last one you were on, meaning if you want to open multiple files you have to go through the rigmarole of locating the folder you wanted each time.

Oh yeah that sucks. Why do they do that?

there must be a 1337 way of stopping that. it's so frustrating.

i can admit that i am irrationally angered by the npr program "invisibilia"
i hate the way they edit it
the topics are just barely quasi-deep and today i learned the urgent lesson of "your fears aren't real"
the style of speech exemplified in that program annoys me
ugh

invisibiiiilya
so precious, so deep

ok i feel better
definitely need to avoid this program though

Ha Just 15 minutes ago I subscribed to this podcast b/c my therapist recommended one particular episode (not the fear one).

I do hate that but I also hate it sometimes when programs do what you suggest and default to the last one, e.g. if 99% of the files I edit are in a standard documents folder but one day I need to use the same software to edit some configuration file in an obscure location or something that e.g. Google Talk has hidden in its own downloads folder, and then next time I open a document it shows me that folder and not the standard one

in short, why can't software just read my mind

(but please don't actually read my mind either, it is full of junk and secrets)

xxp I just heard the first Invisibilia double-bill this week and kind of liked it - it was good for my walk home, where I don't want to think too hard about anything because I might have to check out for a minute and concentrate on not being hit by a car etc - but while the interviewees were interesting, the questions the presenters asked were so point-missingly "so, a bad thing happened. did that feel bad?", and at one point they were almost falling over each other to emphasise that they totally didn't know anything about this mental health gobbledegook because lol not crazy, I mean this stuff is for the crazies, right? and I felt embarrassed

(ok, I just checked and I've heard the Thoughts double-bill but not the Fear one yet)

i heard the thoughts one
it wasn't so bad tbh
it contained some essential truths -- i guess it's the way they're delivered that makes me want to barf

mostly it's the radiolab-style
my irritation is totally irrational

Yes, esp on Montreal style bagels

― Crack's Addition (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 11 April 2025 17:37 (two days ago) link

these are even good plain

"Hey, I'm opening a bookstore. Unfortunately I could only afford a small retail space, but I'm going to make the best of it."

"Cool, you mean you're going to pack every inch of usable space with loads of interesting books?"

"Wha? No, I'm going to preciously display a small handful of books on impractical modernist shelves and refer to my store as 'curated'"

When driving after midnight, I get irrationally angry at stores that leave ALL of their lights on when they are closed.

So this ridiculous shit just happened
-------------------------------------

"I'm available to help you move Sunday"

"Cool, I'll need you at 1"

*today arrives*

"Confirming we're still on for 1?"

"Ugh idk ask my boyfriend he's coordinating"

"O....k?"

*I ask him*

"He says because you're tired the U Haul stuff is going to happen tomorrow"

"What? How can we do it tomorrow, i don't see how that's going to w-..."

"OMG TALK TO YOUR BOYFRIEND JFC HE'S IN THE SAME ROOM AS YOU - why are you telling me?"

*silence as the realization sinks in with friend the absurdity of what they're doing*

gah, massive spoilers in the commentary tracks of dvds. I'm watching them as i go so saying that a character dies in episode 14 in the commentary of episode 3 is a dick move

(although at this point even the covers to said dvds are spoilers. character A must survive season 8 because he's on the cover of season 9 dvds...)

The Sopranos were bad about this, the season posters.

i put disk 3 in the machine instead of disk 2 yesterday and i thought i'd lost my mind. took me 20 minutes of wondering how they got where they were (half-naked, locked in a container) to realise the mistake. it doesn't help that they sometimes play with time in the cold opens anyway.

Ok, so you're definitely not watching The Sopranos.

Got a notice from UPS that an eagerly anticipated package will be arriving some time between 2:00 and 6:00 pm. Hear a knock on my door at 10:30 am, but I ignore it because I'm on a work call and it's almost always someone trying to sell me roofing service or some bullshit, but of course I then find a note from UPS on the door, they couldn't deliver, so now I have to pick it up at one of their locations tomorrow.

I don't know why it bothers me so but it grates me to have someone keep trying to sell me after I've said "ok". my mother does this all the time. It only really bugs me when I'm involved in something and each extension of the conversation is a further distraction.

"Neanderthal, can we put together an order for groceries? for a few items?"
"Yes"
"Because there's a lot of items we're out of, we need to replace..."
"Ok."
"Because we need like beverages and some lunch items."
"Ok."
"It's not going to be a huge order, it's..."
"I said ok already!"

it's one thing if I'm a guy who perennially says 'no' to everything but I don't.

(it's one thing if the convo requires my input but if I'm asked a "yes" or "no" question I get annoyed at having to answer "yes" five times, it feels like being subjected to a computer 'are you sure you want to do this?' test)

I've got a co-worker, who I get along with, who talks all the time.

Hard at work on a project, he wants to know if a schedule can be adjusted. But instead of just asking "can the schedule be adjusted?", he was like Neanderthal's someone up there — except instead of saying "ok", I just sat there and made eye contact with him as he went on his spiel. He even almost faked me out, going "can the schedule be adjusted... ...because with all the other work coming in..."

Finally, he furrows his brow and says to me, "I'm not asking for much, just wondering what your thoughts on about it because—" and I finally interrupt. "I'll tell you my thoughts once you're finished talking."

He realizes what he's been doing and clamps it. So I tell him that the schedule can be adjusted.

All that to say. don't bother with the ok's. If they continue to "ask" after you've already said yes, let them keep going. Maybe they're trying to sell themselves.

"Things you hate that are not socially acceptable to hate"

is just a different way of saying 'irrationally angry'

Overlap with unpopular opinions (and variants)

xp yeah idgi there seem to be several of those threads active

ILX's aging demographic firmly in shouting at clouds territory

Pull to be the youthful voice saying "who cares?!" but that's just a variant of the same old trap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQhX8PbNUWI

It doesn’t make me angry exactly but it really bugs me when people stick out their tongue to take a bite of food.

catholic?

hmm I never thought about communion, I just meant in the normal course of eating food.

"You may leave your message now. Press the pound sign for more options."

So ok, when she said "now," she really meant "five seconds from now."

there are so many doctors offices i've worked w/ that have voicemail like that and silly me I assumed people were actually monitoring them and then I'd call back after not hearing something and get it again and hear 'mailbox full'.

I do eat saltines by putting them on my tongue and pulling in into my mouth.

Youtube prevew images with the host/creator making a stupid mugging-for-the-camera expression.

^^^ especially when they re-use the same 4 or 5 images.

I haven't used it myself, but there is a browser extension called DeArrow: "DeArrow is an open source browser extension for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube. The goal is to make titles accurate and reduce sensationalism. No more arrows, ridiculous faces, and no more clickbait."

The pantry where I volunteer a lot often has leftover food at the end of the shift, typically perfectly good private donations/rescues that nonetheless won't last until the next distribution and are offered to the volunteers to take home, since otherwise they'd have to be composted or thrown away to make space for new donations or rescues. I sometimes bring home a bag or two of bread, veggies, fruit, a pie, whatever - some things for the fridge, some things for the freezer, some things for the counter - but then there's an avalanche of annoying questions. "What are you going to do with that bread?" "Don't forget to use up the bananas." "Do you have plans for that salsa?" And my response is always more or less the same: I brought it home because it was free and was going to be disposed of, and if I think of something to do with it, good, and if not, that's fine, too, since throwing it out or composting it is what would have happened to it had I not brought it home in the first place!! So stop hassling me, maaaaan.

I'm part of a triglyceride drug study. I used to have the same nurse take my blood every time. She was great and it was always easy.

She left and now it's some clown who just seems unconfident in blood taking. He will search for veins like he's looking for acorns in an ocean, then finds one, rubs it with alcohol, then grabs the tourniquet, after which he loses the vein and starts the hunt over again.

I've bruised every time he's taken my blood, and the first time it was a bad one because he had to abort and reinsert because he fucked up. Last time I chugged mad water before hand and he still struggled.

Anyway I get a reminder call from the office and they add am extra message asking me to come hydrated this time to make the blood draw easier.

WHAT??!!!

Feel like fuckin coming in with an arrow tattooed on my forearm pointing to it

Haaaa. I'm literally at the clinic getting my weekly allergy shots right now. I get one in each arm. It's usually the same nurse and very painless. Today it was a different nurse, who I recognized because last time she was here a little while back, the shot in my left arm hurt like he'll and gave me a massive welt which lasted for days. When I get a big welt, I have to tell them the next time and they dial back my shot. Sure enough, she does left and I can feel her pressing it in and it really hurts. After she says "that left arm has really been giving people problems today, must be something in the serum." FFS

Hahaha. That's some real "wet streets cause rain" logic

Last time I got blood drawn the nurse was all but drooling over the size and prominence of my veins; it was like something out of Naked Lunch. Going in for one next week; hope whoever I get is competent.