You Know What Grinds My Gears? - Things that personally piss you off

This is a late rant but why can’t I find winter gloves that keep my hands warm?!
I second that. I found a pair of winter gloves where I could use my smartphone; it barely keeps my hands warm. I have bulkier gloves and the issue persists with them.

I hate workplace group chats. They always say it's just for important stuff, not drama. It's always a source of drama. You want to just mute it or block it, but then actual important stuff that really should be communicated more formally is there instead, and you don't want to be the idiot who didn't know about it.
I hate group chats in general. I get notified for every text. Annoying. Oh, and the workplace group chats magically don't work when you need help at work. Thanks.
 
When you get that prepackaged bacon and when you try to peel the strips apart they separate in the middle and the fat becomes all stringy and you have to try to try to peel off the little left over bits so you can get just 1 full strip out of the 5 you've ruined, makes me want to punt a puppy. I know I should just get some actual butcher bacon but it was on sale.
Don't be a pleb and get thick cut. Or if it must be thin, don't get that prepackaged shit that is squished together in vacuum sealing, get some bacon that isn't stuck together from whatever weird shit they add to that other stuff and just comes loose straight from the butcher.
 
Don't be a pleb and get thick cut. Or if it must be thin, don't get that prepackaged shit that is squished together in vacuum sealing, get some bacon that isn't stuck together from whatever weird shit they add to that other stuff and just comes loose straight from the butcher.
IT WAS ON SALE!
 
Where on earth do they not have yellow indicators?
Many cars in the US now just have the brake lights blink as the blinker. I would say it's becoming the majority. I'm proud to say I have never owned a red blinker vehicle and never will. I've seriously seen people defend it too "well it's blinking that's what matters durrr" No buddy your brain responds faster to the color than waiting that little extra to realize if it's blinking or not.
 
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Can someone please tell him to tone down that toothy, smug, rich prick grin?
 
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Is it just me or do companies prefer to hire people with little to no experience and skills so that they can pay them less. Which I guess is their prerogative... Also disturbing that most of the employees in my local hospital are still in highschool.
 
Can't find quality appliances, anymore.
I forget what brand it was that was not recommended the last time when I recently replaced my fridge because its entire product line is infamous for being absolute garbage.

It's a shame too many major appliances have shorter lifespans today in the name of planned obsolescence. So many old brands had loyalty because their products lasted and only needed occasional routine maintenance until they stopped working altogether. Unfortunately, companies today care more about making money than making quality products or developing consumer loyalty.

Friends who don't have the balls to tell you why they removed you, why they want nothing to do with you .etc

They prefer choosing the melodramatic route. Quietly blocking, removing and all that shit.
I can see both sides of this. I generally agree it'd be nice to know why someone decides to go incommunicado rather abruptly, especially if you largely got along and/or the friendship was a long-term one. At the same time, though, I've encountered people so insufferable that quietly dropping them like a hot potato was the best option.

I know you can block certain numbers but I can't physically block them when they use different numbers for every text. so annoying.
It grinds my gears that phone scammers can call repeatedly using spoofing equipment that generates a new random phone number each time as a way to evade call blocking techniques. I'm at the point I hardly answer any calls if I don't recognize the number on the display or the call rings with my default "I don't know who this is" ringtone.

Also disturbing that most of the employees in my local hospital are still in highschool.
Could it be the case they're nursing co-op students? When I attended high school, there was an internship/co-op opportunity for hopeful nursing students to perform menial tasks at a local hospital and get a feel for whether they wanted to pursue the field as a career.

That said, it is scary to see people who look younger than they should for their position.

Thread tax: People who don't speak directly to you and get angry when you ask them to repeat what they said so you can know what they were trying to say in case it's important.
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People who call indicator lights "blinkers". You sound seven.
Indicator? I just met her

Is it just me or do companies prefer to hire people with little to no experience and skills so that they can pay them less. Which I guess is their prerogative... Also disturbing that most of the employees in my local hospital are still in highschool.

It goes both ways. Boomers refusing to train so they won't hire anyone without 5 years experience for a $17 an hour job, and then other times companies can't afford skilled workers so yeah that happens. By the way if you ever are planning to have a kid or be in the hospital avoid July. It's when all the residents start.

Somewhat related thread tax: Apprenticeships are disappearing. They aren't really apprenticeships anymore. They already expect you to have gone to trade school and be in debt and then work for years at what's modern day minimum wage. When your basic interview questions score matters more than what you actually scored on their pre interview math and skill tests. You can score perfectly on your tests and then if you aren't in the top 10% of interviewees where they ask you basic questions you won't get in. There's a trade shortage and it's because of these institutions
 
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It's funny, isn't it? A massive film franchise can take 2 or even 4 years between sequels, and people are still excited for the next one. But if a streaming show takes even a year off, it’s like the entire thing collapses. Why is that?
You are used to having your cliffhangers resolved weekly, perhaps a few weeks in holiday seasons, and the alternation of pace throws you off.

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Thread tax: You're in the passing lane, doing 5-10 over the speed limit, to pass a car going the limit. Someone rushes up on you 10 mph faster than you're going and is driving like a lunatic. Your plan is just to pass the car on your right by a few car lengths, take the right lane and let the maniac earn his speeding ticket. Then, as you try to graciously get out of the maniac's way, he tries to slalom between cars and zoom by you in the right lane causing a chaotic situation that is risky to all three vehicles.
 
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Those people at work - and everyone has one - that massively over share and always completely unsolicited. It's typically a fat, balding, middle aged man who readily jumps into lengthy spiels about how he gets his balls emptied at the weekend. Fuck off. The jobs hard enough on my brain without having to visualize your sexual exploits you walrus shaped dropped lasagna of a man.
 
Those people at work - and everyone has one - that massively over share and always completely unsolicited.
It's not just the guys that delve into TMI territory at the workplace. When I worked a summer job between college semesters, a 20-30 something female coworker believed the rest of us wanted to know how she and her boy friend broke their shower curtain rod earlier that morning during a bout of wild passionate sex.

Thread tax: People who know you need certain information to meet a deadline and refuse to provide it when it's needed and when it's requested. I shouldn't have to beg for the same information every single year because the data is never provided proactively.
 
Thread tax: People who know you need certain information to meet a deadline and refuse to provide it when it's needed and when it's requested. I shouldn't have to beg for the same information every single year because the data is never provided proactively.
I'm going to make a very similar gripe. When you are planning something and you rely on a second party for outside information that only they can procure. Due to legal privacy issues or otherwise, you can not go around them to get the information directly. Nonetheless, you have to do a flow chart of plans based on potential answers and outcomes and flow charts OF the resulting flow charts and present dozens of potential cases, rather than a single known case, because the definitive answer that solidifies the plan is missing. It would only take said party a matter of minutes to provide said information, but they blow you off and blow you off and blow you off, until one day you have to have a multi-hour fight to finally break them down into a state of reluctant compliance, whereupon you're the bad guy. This party spent hours, days and weeks avoiding minutes worth of work, prioritized minutes of their time over hours of mine and made me out to be the monster who razed the earth when dozens of avenues of diplomacy were attempted and good faith cooperation would have resolved the problem in a matter of a few phone calls and internet logins to get requested information. Another way to put this is "people who make you put in hours of work for seconds worth of information and minutes worth of research" and "people who will blow you off over and over again when it is very clear that they have had multiple opportunities that they weren't particularly busy."

My policy is this: If I can't oblige a request immediately, I set a plan for a day and time I will make that information available. If I am pressed by an active emergency, I inform them of when I can return communication (later that night, next day, etc.) Unless it is literally an ambulance level emergency, I will do one of these things. If a second emergency interferes with time 2, I make damn sure to make it happen on time 3. I try to resolve matters immediately. Failing that, I set a deadline. Failing one deadline, I don't fail the extension unless some crazy one in a million situation prevents it. Once you have been blown off three times, they intend to dodge you until eternity and don't value your time at all.
 
Thread tax: You're in the passing lane, doing 5-10 over the speed limit, to pass a car going the limit. Someone rushes up on you 10 mph faster than you're going and is driving like a lunatic. Your plan is just to pass the car on your right by a few car lengths, take the right lane and let the maniac earn his speeding ticket. Then, as you try to graciously get out of the maniac's way, he tries to slalom between cars and zoom by you in the right lane causing a chaotic situation that is risky to all three vehicles.
Or the driver you're overtaking suddenly wakes up from his narcoleptic retard coma and speeds up to match your speed. Now you're trapped beside him in the passing lane with a maniac riding your bumper, and your only escape is going significantly faster than what you've determined is a safe speed.

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I have this conversation about once a week at work:

Salesman: "My customer asked for this weird special request we've never done before. I need a price adder."
Me: "Okay, I'll get some quotes from our suppliers and get back to you."
Salesman: "How long will that take?"
Me: "Our main supplier for this kind of thing usually takes a couple days."
Salesman: "I can't wait that long. This job goes out to bid this afternoon."
Me: "Then decline to quote it."
Salesman: "This is an important job. Just give me a price."
Me: "Fine. Give me an hour to look into it."
Salesman: "I don't have an hour. I need time to put the quote together and-..."
Me: "Fine. Based on the retail costs from this thirty-second Google search, and adding in a 10% safety margin, I think it will take about $10,000."
Salesman: "That's too much. They aren't going to pay for it."
Me: "Then let me get some quotes or decline to bid."
Salesman: "How about $5000?"
Me: "We'll lose money."

[Salesman bids the job with a $5000 price adder anyway. The customer spends weeks sitting on this bid that could apparently not wait an hour. We sell the job and fail to make our desired profit.]

Salesman: "How come we lost money on that job? I thought you told me the adder was $5000!"

Utterly maddening.
 
This one is very specific. There's an old road near me that is quite narrow and that gets even narrower for part of its length, down to a single lane. Basically a country track that identifies as a main road and got highway-affirming tarmac at some point in the past. It's on a hill, with good visibility, so the usual behaviour for two-way traffic is that cars at one end will give way while cars from the other end pass, until a small queue has formed. Then the cars at the other end will wait for that queue to pass and vice-versa. Everyone seems to understand it, local or not. Sometimes you get a moron who sees a car stopping at one end and decides to pass him because he obviously deserves to go first and shouldn't be made to wait, but generally people prefer to do it properly. The one thing that you have to do is make sure you're waiting far enough back for oncoming cars to pass you.

Every so often you get a retard, who despite seeing traffic already on the narrow part of the road when he reaches his end of the narrow spot, continues pushing forwards until he realises just how very narrow the road is. Then he will sit there, almost blocking the passing point, with some combination of smug and angry expressions on his fat, stupid face as everyone slowly tries to squeeze past him, while he occasionally jerks his car forward another couple of inches and flails at his horn like a complete mong because the five or six cars ahead of him haven't all collectively decided to reverse back down the road to let his house-sized electric go cart can zoom the way he wants.
 
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