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Poorly- or unmarked construction sites. Construction near my work has gone on since time immemorial, and yet it's anybody's guess where detours, closed roads, or parking is on a given day. If you're lucky, a piece of plywood or back of a sign will have inscrutable directions scrawled haphazardly in safety orange spray paint, which will lead you down a path of boulders into a group of workers staring incredulously at you over their lunch.
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cyberia posted:I know this is the most 'old man yells at cloud' peeve ever but... People who are constantly on their phone anywhere. My wife and I go for a lot of walks, and 85% of it she's looking at her phone. We'll sit down on a bench by the lake and she'll make me watch youtube videos while I'm trying to enjoy the evening scenery. Just show me when we get home ffs. cyberia posted:Secondary peeve - people who can't handle their drugs. If you're going to get high at a gig don't get so high that you blow-out and pass out in the pit. And if you're going to get super high and things are getting a bit overwhelming go and sit the gently caress down and have some water and get a grip before you try to get back on the dance floor. loving kids these days, I swear. That's why I've never done drugs at a concert. I can handle various things pretty well, but just in case. I don't want to miss the show, I paid 80 bux for these tickets drat it. Henchman of Santa posted:Sorry, everything you like is actually for children, unlike the things that I like. It's me. I'm the 28 year old who doesn't respond to texts. On behalf of all of us, just call. (To be fair, most of the texts I get are from my sister talking about what she's doing in Fallout or Skyrim. All. The. Time.) The Mighty Moltres has a new favorite as of 17:36 on Nov 28, 2016 |
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Current peeve, short version: -- colleagues who have a meltdown over scheduling/deadlines at the 11th hour, due to their own negligence, and then expect me to gently caress over my own schedule so that they can go skipping off to commune happily with the fairies. If I cave I get nothing in return except for stress and a really lovely schedule that will screw up some of my own future deadlines, part of my commute, and my finances (since I will end up having to cancel or blow off commitments I made in the time since I ok'd my schedule in the month since it was released). Knowing my head of department, who is the poster child for settling conflict with the path of least resistence (whether it pisses people off or not) as well as delegating tasks downward to avoid taking responsibility, will probably pressure me to change schedules with this muppet -- setting a bad, bad precedent. (Not to mention me wanting to smack this muppet up the side of the head for not sorting out this particular issue when he had the chance not weeks, but months ago.)
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Henchman of Santa posted:Pet peeve: people who suck at responding to texts. There is no excuse for anyone under 30 to have a reputation for being hard to get a hold of But I h- Henchman of Santa posted:unless they have severe depression or something. Aight, we good
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Low Desert Punk posted:But I h- Or severe anxiety. I have 14 voicemails I haven't listened to. Some days I can't open my emails much less check my actual mailbox. Or make phone calls. Then I end up doing it and I'm like, "wtf was I so worried about this went well." Pet peeve: myself. Also, people who are like, "just do [thing]". I get that you don't know how my crippling anxiety feels but when I spend 20 minutes explaining it to you every time you say that, maybe use your brain and realize I can't "just do [thing]"
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Nov 28, 2016 18:19
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Ms Boods posted:Current peeve, short version: -- colleagues who have a meltdown over scheduling/deadlines at the 11th hour, due to their own negligence, and then expect me to gently caress over my own schedule so that they can go skipping off to commune happily with the fairies. Oh hi, me from Wednesday. A client's coworker made some huge gently caress-all mistake in her budgets, charged the wrong account, and this poor lady is stuck fixing it. So she asks accounts payable to help. But they have to have a meeting NOW, TODAY, the day before Thanksgiving when almost no one is in the office, and it has to be before noon, because that's when SHE leaves to go on HER vacation. So suddenly it's everyone else's problem because her partner screwed up and absconded, and she wants to pass the buck before she can do the same. It's literally the day before Thanksgiving so they're hustling to finish out end-of-month and can't help her until after the holiday. The kicker? I don't work in accounts payable or procurement. My department has zero to do with their budgets. I'm not even sure how I got on the email chain except she was blasting everyone who happened to be at the office that day.
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yeah ok the noisy guy got evicted BUT NOW THE APARTMENT'S BEING RENOVATED WITH A JACKHAMMER
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Nov 28, 2016 18:46
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Ms Boods posted:Current peeve, short version: -- colleagues who have a meltdown over scheduling/deadlines at the 11th hour, due to their own negligence, and then expect me to gently caress over my own schedule so that they can go skipping off to commune happily with the fairies. Somewhat related I guess: people who refuse to schedule anything. "I'll stop by your office tomorrow" is not acceptable to me. Schedule a time, you aren't the cable guy, I'm not going to wait around wondering if you're going to show up or not. They invariably show up at a ridiculous time like 6pm. I come in at ~8am so I don't have to stay in the office until dinner time, you know this, I shouldn't have to suffer because you come in after lunch and stay until 10pm. Also: if you do schedule a time, you drat well better show up +/- 5 minutes, or email a good excuse why you can't.
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The Snoo posted:yeah ok the noisy guy got evicted BUT NOW THE APARTMENT'S BEING RENOVATED WITH A JACKHAMMER Holy crap, did you possibly walk under a ladder before breaking a mirror over the head of a black cat that had crossed your path? Because that's the only explanation I can think of for your luck.
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Nov 28, 2016 19:32
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starkebn posted:My pet peeve is english words (and other languages) you can have no idea how to pronounce unless you've already heard it. gently caress the idiots who wrote the dictionary. My mom was a first grade teacher for over 40 years and says how she always hates having to explain to her students (especially the ESL ones) how there's no rhyme or reason to the way many words are spelled/pronounced and that you just have to memorize them.
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Oh, it gets better. I've tried to work out every possible compromise that won't screw up my schedule, but nope. It's not scheduling's fault -- they can only work with the info they were given weeks/months ago, and now timetables are pretty much set. At this point, changes should really only be of a minor variety. Unless, of course, they swap two of the schedules around so that one person benefits and another gets hosed over. In this case, that's now me, through no fault of my own: Dude is telling me he has to have either a Monday or Friday off because his partner is going back to work in January after her maternity leave is up, he has to be there one full day either on Monday or Friday, because childcare is too expensive for 5 days a week, and grandparents can't be there every week and  How in the name of gently caress, exactly, are his domestic issues my problem? As predicted, my head of dept wants me to roll over and gently caress up my own spring schedule to accommodate this muppet's wife, effectively. Thanks so much. But then again, this is the same guy who regularly caves in when students' parents phone up or email the department complaining about how their precious snowflakes are being treated. I get exactly nothing in exchange for this except a lot of stress and pretty much loving up two planned research projects (finishing a book on the one hand, and setting out what was going to be a fairly substantial grant proposal on the other).
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Nov 28, 2016 20:49
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Forums pet peeve: people who quote a really long post (either because there's a lot of text, or a series of images) before their response. Cut out everything but what you're commenting on, and I don't have to scroll so much!
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Nov 28, 2016 21:10
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Henchman of Santa posted:Pet peeve: people who suck at responding to texts. There is no excuse for anyone under 30 to have a reputation for being hard to get a hold of unless they have severe depression or something. Hi, I'm 29, a recovering call center rep, and when I come home from work, I throw my purse (with my phone in it) into my bedroom before I come back out to the living room to chill out. This is a bad habit and I am working on it. I'm just not nearly as glued to my phone as most people are, for better or worse. (edit: at least I'm not the kind of jackass who is so into their phone that I zigzag across the sidewalk because I can't be bothered to stop looking at Facebook for long enough to walk somewhere?) At the very least, I have discovered the joys of cats on Instagram, so I have slight encouragement to look at my phone slightly more than I do. 
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Nov 28, 2016 21:11
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Ms Boods posted:Oh, it gets better. I've tried to work out every possible compromise that won't screw up my schedule, but nope. It's not scheduling's fault -- they can only work with the info they were given weeks/months ago, and now timetables are pretty much set. At this point, changes should really only be of a minor variety. Unless, of course, they swap two of the schedules around so that one person benefits and another gets hosed over. In this case, that's now me, through no fault of my own: So, I get that it's not always this simple, but what happens if you just say "Sorry, I already have plans for those days"? Particularly it sounds like it's entirely true (beyond the usual "I plan not to be at work" sort of plans).
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Nov 28, 2016 21:15
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YeahTubaMike posted:Hi, I'm 29, a recovering call center rep, and when I come home from work, I throw my purse (with my phone in it) into my bedroom before I come back out to the living room to chill out. This is a bad habit and I am working on it. I'm just not nearly as glued to my phone as most people are, for better or worse. (edit: at least I'm not the kind of jackass who is so into their phone that I zigzag across the sidewalk because I can't be bothered to stop looking at Facebook for long enough to walk somewhere?) This doesn't sound like a bad habit to me. You are not obliged to be available to all and sundry 24/7 just because technology exists that allows you to do so.
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Nov 28, 2016 21:19
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cyberia posted:People who go to a live music event and spend the entire time filming / taking photos with their phones. Specifically there was one kid with a camera that seriously lit up the whole area bright as day every time it went off. I had to move a long way away from that because I felt I was developing epilepsy on the spot. Who puts that on a camera let alone one for children?
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YeahTubaMike posted:Hi, I'm 29, a recovering call center rep, and when I come home from work, I throw my purse (with my phone in it) into my bedroom before I come back out to the living room to chill out. This is a bad habit and I am working on it. I'm just not nearly as glued to my phone as most people are, for better or worse. (edit: at least I'm not the kind of jackass who is so into their phone that I zigzag across the sidewalk because I can't be bothered to stop looking at Facebook for long enough to walk somewhere?) I'm thinking more of people who take literally days to respond to things.
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Family members who inevitably ask at gatherings if I have a Facebook account yet. You know I'm not an outgoing person and have my phone number. If you really need to contact me call me or send a text. Not everyone wants to spend all their free time constantly wading through selfies, pictures of your meal or family drama on Facebook.
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Henchman of Santa posted:Pet peeve: people who suck at responding to texts. There is no excuse for anyone under 30 to have a reputation for being hard to get a hold of unless they have severe depression or something. How about people who don't respond but you know they've seen it because when you are around said person they are always messing with their phone? Perhaps when people do this to me they simply don't want to talk to me.  Devdisigdu posted:Family members who inevitably ask at gatherings if I have a Facebook account yet. They want to keep in touch without making an effort to do so. bean_shadow has a new favorite as of 22:06 on Nov 28, 2016 |
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docbeard posted:This doesn't sound like a bad habit to me. You are not obliged to be available to all and sundry 24/7 just because technology exists that allows you to do so. Whew  Henchman of Santa posted:I'm thinking more of people who take literally days to respond to things. I do feel bad when I find out seven hours later that my grandmother hopes I had a nice day, which is why I'm trying to at least abandon my phone in the living room these days.
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Nov 28, 2016 23:02
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docbeard posted:This doesn't sound like a bad habit to me. You are not obliged to be available to all and sundry 24/7 just because technology exists that allows you to do so. I agree. I've been making a conscious effort to leave my phone at home when I walk my dog each night and it's nice just to tune out and not be tempted to play with my phone for an hour. I think people need to find a balance between having their phone in their hand 24/7 and actively ignoring it for days at a time.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Somewhat related I guess: people who refuse to schedule anything. "I'll stop by your office tomorrow" is not acceptable to me. Schedule a time, you aren't the cable guy, I'm not going to wait around wondering if you're going to show up or not. They invariably show up at a ridiculous time like 6pm. I come in at ~8am so I don't have to stay in the office until dinner time, you know this, I shouldn't have to suffer because you come in after lunch and stay until 10pm. Devdisigdu posted:Family members who inevitably ask at gatherings if I have a Facebook account yet. bean_shadow posted:They want to keep in touch without making an effort to do so.
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My friend asked me to join their RPG group. I said sure and asked them about the setting. They won't tell me? Like, any time I ask for specific information, they just say it's "open-ended pretendy funtimes game, just make up what you want!" but at the same time there clearly IS an established setting for the group because they gave me a list of locations and asked which one my character is from. I asked for more information beyond... a list of loving names of places I know nothing about... and got the "oh it's an open-ended pretendy funtimes game!" non-answer. I'm very annoyed about it and will probably just not play
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InediblePenguin posted:My friend asked me to join their RPG group. I said sure and asked them about the setting. They won't tell me? Like, any time I ask for specific information, they just say it's "open-ended pretendy funtimes game, just make up what you want!" but at the same time there clearly IS an established setting for the group because they gave me a list of locations and asked which one my character is from. I asked for more information beyond... a list of loving names of places I know nothing about... and got the "oh it's an open-ended pretendy funtimes game!" non-answer. I'm very annoyed about it and will probably just not play It's a Call of Cthulhu rpg. They aren't telling you that because popular culture is too aware of Lovecraft's works these days, they don't evoke the existential horror that they used to. So the best way of creating that dread, that fear of the unknown that Lovecraft wrote about, is if the players literally don't know what they're getting into. Oh it'll start normally enough, characters will be wenching and bluffing guards, and then things will start to go a bit wrong. Eventually your characters are just going to be trying to survive with a sliver of their sanity left. That will be the closest thing to victory they can achieve. Sorry I ruined the surprise. (Honestly I'm 95% sure that it's just going to be rolling dice and quoting Monte Python and poo poo. But I can always hope.) docbeard posted:This doesn't sound like a bad habit to me. You are not obliged to be available to all and sundry 24/7 just because technology exists that allows you to do so. Pet peeve: A culture that actually makes people feel bad for wanting to disconnect for a loving hour.
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When someone makes a stupid pun in a thread and then 10 people trip over themselves to continue making vaguely related puns. Even if the first one was funny, the entire next page is sure not to be.
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My thought on it is, if someone actually wants to talk to me / cares they would make the effort to text. If they don't, then I'm clearly not important enough to them. And 99% of my friend list was just random people and not anyone I particularly cared about myself, like weird internet friends, old coworkers, etc. I just don't see the point
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Thin Privilege posted:And 99% of my friend list was just random people and not anyone I particularly cared about myself, like weird internet friends, old coworkers, etc. I just don't see the point This is your fault. I have 27 people on my Facebook friends list.
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Tiggum posted:These days, not having a Facebook account is like someone thirty years ago saying "No, I don't have a telephone, if you really wanted to talk to me you could write a letter." You're just making yourself inconvenient to talk to and it's your own fault that you don't hear from people and get overlooked for event invitations, etc. I'd say this was much more accurate for like 2006-2010ish but at least in my age/friend group, hardly anyone is still active on it aside from the ones who had kids and need to post about their poo poo (sometimes literally) every day, or the ones who got roped into MLMs and use it for another shilling platform. It's certainly not dead but it's getting to be kind of like AIM where at one point that's pretty much how everyone on the internet talked to each other but it's declining in popularity. If you want to invite someone to something and know how to get in touch with them but you choose not to just because it's not your preferred means of communication, you're kind of a dick and/or didn't want them to come anyway in the first place.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:If you want to invite someone to something and know how to get in touch with them but you choose not to just because it's not your preferred means of communication, you're kind of a dick and/or didn't want them to come anyway in the first place. The thing is, Facebook is basically like an address book. When you're thinking about who to invite, you look through your friends list. If someone's not on Facebook then you just don't see their name and it's really easy to overlook them.
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Tiggum posted:The thing is, Facebook is basically like an address book. When you're thinking about who to invite, you look through your friends list. If someone's not on Facebook then you just don't see their name and it's really easy to overlook them. There's also your phones contact list/whatsapp, or just, you know, remembering who your friends are.
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I'm rapidly discovering a new pet peeve, which revolves around people looking for stuff in my office and whispering to themselves. I feel like I'm in one of those creepy ASMR videos and hope she finds whatever it is she's looking for extremely soon.
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Well, if Tiggum is to be believed, not having a Facebook account makes me less likely to be invited to parties. Maybe there's a downside as well.
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Tiggum posted:The thing is, Facebook is basically like an address book. When you're thinking about who to invite, you look through your friends list. If someone's not on Facebook then you just don't see their name and it's really easy to overlook them. Like I said, if they actually cared about you they would remember you regardless of whether or not you have a facebook. Content: people with the default iPhone ringtone. I may have complained about this already. It's extremely annoying.
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Our laptops at the office use some pretty glitchy WiFi drivers that can't handle the laptop being closed and then opening again, as well as remote desktop software that just crashes to desktop when it loses its internet connection. The result of this combination is that closing your laptop significantly disrupts your workspace. This is not my pet peeve. My pet peeve is that people have adapted to this by carrying around their laptops, open. Sometimes holding onto them by a corner, dangling at their side like a toddler holds a favourite blanket. I have no reason to hate this, but I guess that's what makes it a pet peeve. You all look ridiculous! Close your drat laptops and take the 5 seconds to restore your sessions!
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Thin Privilege posted:Like I said, if they actually cared about you they would remember you regardless of whether or not you have a facebook. I don't see what's so wrong with wanting to talk to/invite people who you aren't necessarily close with. I mean, reaching out to people you don't know well is how you become close to them in the first place.
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Yeah but why does Facebook have to be the gatekeeper for that? The only people I know who still uses that are grandmas.
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Ytlaya posted:I don't see what's so wrong with wanting to talk to/invite people who you aren't necessarily close with. I mean, reaching out to people you don't know well is how you become close to them in the first place. I don't have a problem with facebook in general, or with people inviting people they aren't close with. What I meant was that if they're inviting said people and they don't invite you simply because you're not on facebook, that pretty much means they don't care enough about you.
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I have no opinions on Facebook. I DO hate when people get all cheerful and pleased about unnatural weather patterns. It always happens this time of year, with people saying how much they just love the temperature staying in the 60s throughout October/November, and every time it dips below 50 you get someone whining about how they wish it could stay 70 forever. The news meteorologist just said something like "Well, we've been spoiled by this fantastic weather so far, but now it looks like that's over-- pretty sad about that, right?" No, motherfucker! Being this warm in November isn't awesome, it's unnerving!  I realize how much this makes me sound like some kind of bizarre weather zealot, but every time someone says "Oh golly gee, don't you just love that it's 70 degrees again?" I want to scream and smack them with a report on climate change. Plus, every time the temperature goes back up, all the bugs un-freeze and I just want to be rid of them already. 
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On one hand, yeah, record-setting warmth is definitely disconcerting and I fear for the future. On the other hand, I live in Minnesota and will take mild winter weather for as long I can get it, particularly if I have the complete and inevitable destruction of humanity to look forward to later.
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