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

kind of an awkward supermarket chat yes

people who insist on straightening up qr codes, missing the entire point of qr codes

straightening them up? What d'ye mean?

IR currently happening: can hear work colleague talking in low (volume wise) but very girly sounding voice one cubicle over, almost beyond my level of hearing, and she just isnt pausing for breath. Between being basically unable to hear it and it not stopping, it is getting on my nerves for some reason. Who is she talking to!? Gah stop talking woman.

QR Codes in general ffs

straightening them up? What d'ye mean?

you can scan them at any rotation and from any angle (which is why they were invented), but everyone insists you do this annoying and totally unnecessary ocd alignment thing ("wait wait let me turn it round for you" etc)

grown adults who manage to work Harry Potter into every discussion

Any

I scheduled my midyear performance review for Monday morning because Mondays already suck. So of course the program manager is out sick today, which means my review is pushed back at least one more day. I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT.

grown adults who manage to work Harry Potter into every discussion

I do this with the Simpsons so I cant hate on anyone else :(

idk to me like if you work a funny quote in, in context, I can appreciate.

it's when people bend over backwards to make EVERYTHING fit into Harry Potter world, no matter how clumsy.

it's worse here cos we have Harry Potter World at Universal Studios here lol

Heh, was IA on my way into work this morning when I saw Waterstones were hosting a 20th anniversary party for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

the metaphor "a car crash in slow motion"

if the car is in slow motion there will be no crash

That one's pretty irrational, clearly it means a car crash in slow motion you can't avoid/stop, even though it is in slow motion.

I'm positive I've posted this before, because it's a perennial, but I hate it when you slow or stop your car to let someone get across the street, and they always give you a courtesy wave and like .5 seconds of hustle, like they're launching themselves off the curb, but as soon as they step out into the road they just take their time. Sometimes for added frustration they'll make a few extra motions, like pumping arms or grimacing or a little waddle, just for effect, even though they don't actually move any faster.

this is the irrational irritations thread, hence me choosing to post it here

Indeed!

I scheduled my midyear performance review for Monday morning because Mondays already suck. So of course the program manager is out sick today, which means my review is pushed back at least one more day. I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT.

― Diana Fire (j.lu), Monday, June 12, 2017 9:51 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand the program manager is out sick again today. I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT.

IMO you should get to write your own review now

when you go to restaurants and order something from the menu and they're all like "we don't have that anymore".

not 'we're out of it', but 'lol not an option'.

makes me afraid to order!

When someone accidentally ends up in a turn-only lane when they want to go straight, and instead of putting a turn signal on, stopping and waiting for an opportunity to get into the proper lane, just keeps going forward parallel to another car, trying to outrace it. It feels crazy, since you're not expecting there to be a car right next to you after the lane ends.

Ugh yes

Like what is this, Tron?

IMO you should get to write your own review now

― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Tuesday, June 13, 2017 11:19 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I actually drafted mine! What's been postponed is the meeting between me, my team lead, and the program manager, where they actually give me feedback. When it comes to meetings in general, I'm more nervous than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs, and the postponements are just ramping up the tension. I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT!

However things work out, j.lu, your instincts are probably right that you can and should look for something new.

If your review goes well, it shows you're of value, and you deserve a workplace that doesn't make you this anxious. If it goes poorly, well, then, that's evidence that it's not a great fit and it's to everyone's benefit for you to find a greener pasture.

(/advice from total internet rando who knows exactly zero about you and your situation)

Another traffic thing which shits me is people who break a traffic rule supposedly out of courtesy, e.g. appearing to give way to you when they're not supposed to, but leave you wondering what they're going to do because they seem to regard traffic rules as a kind of guideline subject to personal waiver. e.g. letting you cross their lane while stopped at lights, but continuing to inch forward a bit so you're not sure if the gap will be there when you try to take up the offer. Argh I'm not expressing this properly, contributing to IA.

I know what you mean. that drives me nuts too cos the 'charity' only winds up annoying the people behind that driver and contributing to a more dangerous situation since the person they're accommodating isn't expecting the gesture.

in other words - "just go"

Did I do "record labels that try to pass CD-Rs off as CDs" yet? Because I just got four CDs and three (two on Particles, one on the formerly-reputable Sunbeam) are fucking CD-Rs. SEALED but still. Glad I only paid $6 for them, will probably never buy their shit again.

I'm assuming this wasn't disclosed?

And the motherfuckers reissuing the Cure deluxe 2cd sets as unlabeled CD-Rs? FUCKING EAT SHIT IN HELL.

xp nope

definitely got to send them back an excrement pie

In a jewel case.

Another traffic thing which shits me is people who break a traffic rule supposedly out of courtesy

all the traffic issues listed here are totally rational. people forget these are killing machines and drive like toddlers.

And the motherfuckers reissuing the Cure deluxe 2cd sets as unlabeled CD-Rs? FUCKING EAT SHIT IN HELL.

Who the crap is doing that nonsense?!!?! That's pretty bad.

And a thousand times yes RE: driving stuff. People are totally careless and seem to forget that they're in control of 2000+ pound murder boxes.

i don't know if this is irrational anger or not, but the fact that streaming services have destroyed the dvd rental market at least in the area i live means my options are limited when it comes to tracking down a lot of movies. i've been buying more dvds lately, since some aren't available on the streaming services or at the library, and i won't do netflix by mail (i mean does that even still exist anymore, idk.) we had a really good dvd store near us, lots of deep selections, foreign films, etc, but they shut their doors a couple years ago.

netflix still deliver by mail

no idea who to

Are you near South Pasadena nomar? Videotheque there is very impressive, even more so when you consider it's So Pas.

http://www.vidtheque.com/

when you slow or stop your car to let someone get across the street, and they always give you a courtesy wave and like .5 seconds of hustle, like they're launching themselves off the curb, but as soon as they step out into the road they just take their time.

yeah sorry, I'm gonna support this one. Cars have right of way and it annoys me when I courteously wait at a kerb and a car just stops and waves me on, and I'm like... "but you can just go, I'll wait". and we do this little dance then I give up and walk across. I'll take my time when I do so if you didn't wanna go first when you have the right to, not my problem! ;P

/oldgrump

Cars have right of way

the rules for this are confusing as fuck (p 82, goes on for 10+ pages)

When turning at any intersection (except at a roundabout), you must give way to any pedestrians crossing the road you are entering.

what about pedestrians crossing the road you're leaving? this is unclear and stupid and now i'm irrationally angry

cosign Trayce, the driver is making a big show of saving you the 0.02 seconds it would have taken them to go past, and in return you're expected to express gratitude and leap across the road to reciprocate. Just drive buddy, I've been pedestrianing for 4 decades and I got this.

Speaking of roundabouts, death from above to fuckers who approach one with no blinker on, so I start crossing the road and then almost get run over when they turn left, WHICH THEY WERE NOT INDICATING THEY WOULD DO.

This happens in Brunswick SO OFTEN I am about ready to jump on the hood of someones car and Mad Max them.

i got IA this morning at an intersection when i arrived at the same time as another driver and i waved them to go, and then they wouldn't go but instead did that thing where they waved for ME to go. i swear 80% of the time when i motion for the other driver to go first they refuse. it's not even them being polite, it's something else. someone waves for me to go, i just do it. idgi.

― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, January 28, 2015 8:23 PM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this happens with walking as well. i'm about to cross the street and a car is waiting to go, i motion them ahead and they'd apparently rather wait for me to cross the street in front of them. idk

― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, January 28, 2015 8:24 PM (two years ago)

There's a busy two-lane one-way street that separates one building of my kids' daycare from another. The crossing guard is pretty good about getting out there to stop traffic, but on some days, Beeps and I are left on our own to fend the raging torrent.

Not a big deal. There's a light up the block and a light down the block, so the traffic comes in waves. However, like this morning, we'll get a straggler who decides to be such a Good Samaritan, coming to a dead stop and trying to wave us on. Meanwhile, another wave surges behind him.

Keep in mind this is a two-lane avenue, so even if traffic was to stop behind him, there's still the other lane to traverse. It's dangerous and for us to cross out of turn like that sets a really bad example to the Beepster holding my hand next to me. Meanwhile, the surge arrives and the driver gets all mad and peels out down the road because we didn't take advantage of his good intentions. Now I know how you broads must feel when you don't smile after a fella suggests that you do.

― pplains, Tuesday, July 14, 2015 9:43 AM (one year ago)

i hate when cars stop for me unless there's a red light - it throws everybody out, i do that dithering thing where you've still got to look the other way...just let me cross when there's a natural gap, i'm not giving you a courtesy medal for anything

― MC Whistler (Noodle Vague), Sunday, August 23, 2015 4:30 PM (one year ago)

Congratulations, you can look things up?

I just cross. Hit me cars.

when you slow or stop your car to let someone get across the street, and they always give you a courtesy wave and like .5 seconds of hustle, like they're launching themselves off the curb, but as soon as they step out into the road they just take their time.

Oh, don't get me started. On pedestrian crossings where pedestrians have the right of way when I'm crossing and a car comes barreling along too quickly and aggressively before grudgingly coming to a stop, I slow riiiiiigght down to a crawl just to annoy them even more.