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

fuck screen protectors. not once in my entire life have i been able to successfully put one on a phone. ~lint~ can suck it.

(and then two minutes later i dropped my phone and chipped it, but that anger is probably not irrational tbh)

people that still haven't figured out how to determine whether an elevator is going up or down before getting on it

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There's something uniquely awful about when you're speaking to a customer service rep in another country and they use some kind of boilerplate customer service phrase in a slightly off/wrong way:

"Hi, I'd like to book a flight for tomorrow"
"Yes, great, thank you, well I do understand your concern."

It's like this extra layer of passive-aggressiveness where they've memorized an already annoying passive-aggressive phrase and are clearly just saying it on autopilot which also feels passive aggressive.

And of course that is irrational, they're probably on autopilot bc they're on 12 hour shifts and it's not their fault that american consumer capitalism requires these sorts of incantations of them.

if it makes you feel any better they're earning a pittance xp

yeah, again, IA

recently i bought some airpods, one was busted and they had to go back. this week i bought a lightning-to-3.5mm adapter, no sound in one channel, had to go back. today i bought some bluetooth headphones, something's rattling around in the fucking earcup, they have to go back. so utterly fucking over this.

A thing I have acknowledged but have yet to come to terms with is that technology in practice is just a loose and inconsistent approximation of what it's actually supposed to do. Unless what it's supposed to do is alternate between working properly and inducing rage strokes, in which case my bad.

wouldn’t be surprised tbh. nearly half of all the tech things i’ve ever bought have been faulty out of the box. at least i’m buying from reputable retailers who swap on the spot.

I mean, seriously it’s got to the point where i check the more expensive stuff in the shop (e.g. phones) just so i don’t have to go back.

can't stand my neighbours, which is probably rational

- co worker on one side of me constantly eats raw carrots and the crunching is driving me murderous. I think I have misphonia or something
- co worker behind me has some seriously effed up sinuses or allergies or something and sneezes NON STOP ALL THE TIME. I mean I feel for the poor guy buy jesus. I mean it is relentless, snotty sneezing and nose-blowing. Erry day.

...it occurs to me i may have ranted about the latter on here before oops.

I feel for you. Cannot imagine how awful I would feel having to hear carrot munching or sneezing or nose-blowing all the bloody time. Capitalism has stuck us co-workers too close together imo. It's not right.

(yes, I blame capitalism)

We sit at long, open benches with piffly partitions front-facing, but no partitions at all for the people next to each other, it sucks.

That's fucking horrid, bordering on abusive.

So it's like sitting next to each other like you would at a lunch table? Damn.

today i bought some bluetooth headphones, something's rattling around in the fucking earcup, they have to go back. so utterly fucking over this.

― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 2 November 2017 23:19 (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

on friday i went to take them back and they stopped rattling as i was going back to the shop. tonight, the day before a public holiday (when obv i can't go into the shop), they're rattling again. this anger is probably rational by now.

We sit at long, open benches with piffly partitions front-facing, but no partitions at all for the people next to each other, it sucks.

Agh that sucks, I would hate that.

The other related dept in this building also sit side by side with no partitions, and there's talk about moving both depts in together, which I'm p. sure means "cram all you lot in like the rest of them", and I'm dreading it tbh. Hate being shoulder-to-shoulder or back-to-back with people and expected to turn off some primordial part of my brain which feels like it has to constantly monitor any tiny noise or movement within 2 metres of me, so I can concentrate on spreadsheets or code instead. Not built for office life tbh but def not built for any other kind of job either so here we are.

The people in this office do love their crunchy food which drives me mad too (I try to take a 20-minute break when I see the guy next to me open his lunchbox as it always contains a giant stick of celery, a load of carrots and 2 apples) but the office food noise currently driving me most insane is the guy who eats pistachios all through the morning. Something about the tiny sound of a pistachio shell cracking every 10 seconds for a long stretch of each day is bizarrely enraging to me - but apparently not to anyone else in this office. Thanks, brain.

XP sounds irritating

TBF our office also has wall to wall windows 13 floors up with views of the city and suburbs and bay in all directions, and we have a pool table and 2 playstation cubbyholes and a giant espresso machine so like, I cant complain :)

i fucking hate it when chinese people call me “uncle”, doubly so when they massively overdo it in the space of a few minutes

Rounded corners on eg Facebook comment boxes.

ohhhh lord 2pac big please talk to this sucker cause they killing FB they taking the pain and struggle of social media the only thing we coulda express our minds and pain. and these suckers took it and made it look like garbage thats why we get judge so much cause these shit dont be making sence

Assholes smoking joints on the subway. Yeah, bro, now I get to go pick up my kid from school with a clothes that smells like weed. Sessions, get on this now!

OK!

<shuts down all public transport>

local sandwich shop’s menu display has reached nonsensical proportions

large menu board display
+
little printed pieces of paper taped on menu board with additional items
+
hanging signs attached to menu board with additional items
+
at least 3 plastic stands on the counter with more items
+
separate small table with laminated flyer listing more “new” items (these new items are at least 5 yrs old)

there is literally no complete menu, not even online.

and if you don’t know which of the 900 displays to look at, you miss out on some a+ sandwiches

it’s fkn STUPID & it drives me insaaaane

then when you finally choose one, they're out of a key component.

ia today: when you ctrl+c something in one document, go to another document to paste it in, highlight where you want it to go, then click ctrl+c instead of ctrl+v

otm

the software I use every day at work also likes to put things in your clipboard without asking, which is super annoying

xp, and if it's anything like the sandwich shops round here it's in a tiny cramped shop (obv that bit isn't their fault) where you can only see the display board if you're at the front of the queue, and if you spend more than 0.2 seconds contemplating the options once you're at the front then everyone behind you gets super restless bcz they're in a hurry and they want their lunch

(also not anyone's fault cz I am totally an impatient queuer too, but if you aren't already familiar with the menu you have to blurt out the first kind of nice thing you spot and then immediately stop looking to avoid regrets)

God yes it's an actual daily struggle that last one I feel like I spend most afternoons consumed by lunchers remorse

i refuse to patronise those kind of sandwich shops, literally cannot deal unless i can peruse the selection in peace for as long as i need

http://www.underconsideration.com/artofthemenu/project_images/shopsins_PDF_01.jpg

How large is the soup?

It says it's large. I'd take their word for it.

xxpost yeah if you’re a newbie that place would be v stressful

it’s also why i order the one sandwich I know bcz it’s too daunting to change it up

Zoomed in immediately on cream of spinach poutine in that insane menu, that wld do me

Observational anecdote: I'm a little ashamed at the schadenfreude I experience watching the IA well up in the Starbucks employee in my work building, but it's like comically OTT how constitutionally unfit he is to be working in that environment.

Starbucks guy: (forced smile) 'Hi, can I help you?'
Customer: 'Hi, can I get literally just a coffee? Like the lowest impact order I could possibly inflict upon you?'
Starbucks guy: (pained grimace with raised eyebrows, mild incredulous headshake, deep sigh) 'Okaaaay. Can I get a name?'
Customer: (makes eye contact with and nods at barista) 'Oh, he knows me, I'm in here every morn...'
Starbucks guy: (strained, verging on panic) 'Can I just...can I get a name, please?'

He acts as if everyone that ever lived and everything that ever happened is a personal inconvenience to him, so I only feel a little bad about the delight I feel in watching him shit his pants.

My OP IA

not exactly IA but more gobsmacked incredulity and mild annoyance

Power steering in the car got out of whack, horrible clunking grinding noises when you turned the wheel, high pitched whine, very disconcerting. Anyway, took it into the mechanic for repairs and quickly diagnosed the pump as the issue.

The cost to refill the pump?

$5.61

Like, almost every other repair ever done on the car runs easily $100 or more. And yet this one problem was the cheapest repair ever? It sounded so bad it gave me PTSD from the time when the rubber boot on my universal joint literally tore off and fell out on the road while I was driving. I thought it was that level of nightmarish repair.

Weird.

Good, obviously. But just so randomly ridiculously inexpensive I'm still kind of amazed 2 days later

I just got a bill for £600 for replacing a water pump on my car after misdiagnosing so I am a bit miffed. most will be paid by insurance co but still.

people who do GoFundMes and ask for an arbitrary amount without explaining what it is going for.

(I donate to GoFundMes for friends all the time, but usually they are clear about why they need it and what it's for)

Hotel mode on TVs so you can't adjust the brightness and it resets the volume when you switch it off & on, because what kind of fool would try and watch tv with a sleeping baby in the room? Figured out how to disable it. Nothing on anyway.

JUst not getting the Xmas thing in Galway this year.
Is there a reason that the students had an XMas all day do on the 16th of BOIvember where everybody was wearing Xmas jumpers and getting vomiting drunk around town in the late afternoon.
Then teh Xmas market in the town's main square starts on the next day 17th of November, and this year runs to the 8th December. Odd up til now I think it's gone 22nd Nov to 22nd Dec which to me makes more sense. People wanting to get Xmassy at Xmas time.
NOw there's like 17 days between the end of teh market an dXmas day. &I don't know what they have planned afterwards.

I thought the black Friday week was closer to the traditional Xmas day usually too. That's on this week.

I mean LIDL starts in with teh Xmas stuff before Halloween and I think the other Supermarkets are similar. BUt this seems to be an entire town wanting a calendar to be rewritten. Is it happening elsewhere too?

it’s that special time of year when 9,000 people in china wish me “happy thanksgiving!!!!!” because they think the whole world is exactly like north america

this is infinitely dumber and far less hilarious than christmas day, when they send me stock photos of an apple. not any special sort of apple, just a plain apple. because it’s christmas.

<3

Better than photos of apple stock tbf