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

Two places I regularly go to have doors which only open if you press that button.

same

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3infxqhWKu0

when they place the ball so it's only just touching the white line on a corner kick, as if 1/4 of an inch will make any difference

when someone comes to you to say they're having problems logging in and the error message specifically states "incorrect user name or password". like...it means what it says, what am I going to do other than tell you "reset your password, doofus"

a client attending an event yesterday asked me
(ie me who is importantly *not at the event*), why his badge had incorrecr info on it

i’m like, sir i dont know why but i recommend that you TELL THE EVENT STAFF and get them to print you a new badge

like i understand your need to trumpet to everyone that something was screwed up but this email is just an inefficient use of everyone’s time

"i'm sorry the badge says u r a butthole, but ur kinda acting like one now"

lol

Blame Wufoo or whatever on those name badges.

Sometimes, I'll be given a spreadsheet of fields and asked to generate hundreds of nametags with Adobe macros — {FIRST NAME} {LAST NAME} • {TITLE}, {BUSINESS NAME}.

But then, I have to go back through there and correct the names that are in ALL CAPS, or make consistent someone who works for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and one who works for the F.B.I., etc.

And with some of them, I just let Providence ride it on out.

yeah i’ve been in name badge creation hell before and it sucks for sure

when someone comes to you to say they're having problems logging in and the error message specifically states "incorrect user name or password". like...it means what it says, what am I going to do other than tell you "reset your password, doofus"

I've been going through this process with my water company for awhile.

1.) Enter username or register an account. Okay, let's register an account.

2.) That email address is already connected to an account. Fine, then. I'll reset the password.

3.) The email address you entered is not in our system. Please register an account.

I wound up having to call on an actual telephone to hear what my balance was and then pay through my bank's website.

yeah i've had that happen on 2 or 3 sites and could not get it resolved, I think Afterpay was the last company I had that problem with.

speaking of fucked up badges, the people who process new hires used macros to create like 500 new accounts back in 2022....and one of them fucked the source document up and deleted an isolated cell, so the first names were now no longer in alignment with the last names, and they ran it, and so everybody had an email address that had their first name and someone else's last name.

then they just said "oh well the way the cookie crumbles we'll fix it in 5 days or 240, just apologize to them on my behalf til we get it fixed"

lol jesus

- "Your email address is darlene.huang

- "It's, uh. It's my maiden name."