Hated household/office products

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What and why? (For me it's that sticky-backed plastic stuff we are forced to use instead of a proper laminating machine.)

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 08:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Mice. I think they're bad things and it's time for a rethink.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 09:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh come on, Nick, there's lots of different designs for you to use! Surely there's one you're happy with? If you don't like the ones without a wheel get one with a wheel, if you don't like the normal type get a trackerball ect ect. No, the real crime in my workplace is the false economies practiced by the ppl who buy ONE PLY PAPER TOWELS for the loos which are totally useless for drying your hands on and so ppl end up taking huge handfuls out of the dispenser, many of which end up on the floor.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 09:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Not with the rollerballs or pads you get on laptops because they give you RSI.

Sellotape dispensers, and their home equivelent cellophane dispensers. I always manage to slash my finger or a prt of my hand open using them. Or else they just don't work and you end up with a huge quantity of unusable, wasted plastic.

― Anna, Wednesday, 4 September 2002 09:13 (twenty-three years ago)

anything with a cathode ray tube in it. bastard space hogging fuXoRs.

― Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 09:16 (twenty-three years ago)

No, I meant like mice mice.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 09:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Squeak

― Anna, Wednesday, 4 September 2002 09:25 (twenty-three years ago)

As opposed to unlike mice mice?

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 09:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Computers. I've decided I hate work computers, coz they crash, go slow, and I have to do boring work stuff on them. Computers should only be used for entertainment and rambling on the internet.

Swivel chairs, they get on my nerves. I hate being able to spin around.

Ceiling fans, make it too cold, and just generally bug me.

It's great being at home this week!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 09:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Staplers, carwash tokens, and worst of all products which don't scan, customer says "it's ok I know the price, it's 1 euro", "YES I FUCKING KNOW IT'S 1 EURO BUT I NEED TO SCAN IT GGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH".

While I'm on a roll here another one is "what are these like, are they nice?" "emmmmmm I don't fucking sample milkybar munchies or cornetto soft or whatever other fucking horrible shit we sell, LEAVE ME ALONE".

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 09:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Also, anything to do with oil, "will this work in my car", "I don't know", "that's terrible, which one will I buy, my car needs oil", "I don't know", "thanks that's a great help", "yes please come again".

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 09:46 (twenty-three years ago)

keeep going, ronan!

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 10:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Bah don't encourage me! I can actually think of ten more infuriating things........people asking to use the toilet which is in the staff part of the shop when you're the only one on the till, your brain says "fuck off there's a mcdonalds next door i cant leave my till, leave me alone", your mouth says "yeah sure just wait until there's noone in the shop so i can leave my till", real meaning=NEVER AHAHAHAHAHAHAH.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 10:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Hehe straying from 'products' there, but what the hell - I hate it when people ring up and when I explain that we don't offer what they want, they still expect me to give them information and numbers for everywhere that WILL help them as if I'm some kind of cross between Talking Pages and the CAB grrrrrr.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 10:29 (twenty-three years ago)

what about those horrible blinds in offices? Numerous thin strips of metal arranged horizontally, which can be pulled up by string. Cue "hilarious" office antics:

I pull the wrong string. Nothing happens.

I pull the string. It comes off in my hand.

I pull the string. The blind doesn't come down/go up equally on each side and so fans out across the window.

Or this afternoon:

The blind falls off completely, gashing my hand and I wasn't even trying to touch it at all, merely open the fire escape door it is attached to, to let an angry wasp out of the office.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 13:26 (twenty-three years ago)

The rods for twisting them shut keep falling off ours. But I've found that stroking them with my magic wand has much the same effect.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 13:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Isn't that sexual harrassment, N.?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 13:48 (twenty-three years ago)

haha what makes a venetian blind!!??

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 14:07 (twenty-three years ago)

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