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Dip Viscous posted:Asking you to use an app instead of just using a regular web browser is essentially the company saying "our web site is dogshit and we know it and no we won't fix it". Half the time the website is perfectly fine, maybe even better than the app! But the app lets them mine more data to sell and gives them more metrics to track so that they can look for numbers going up. Semi-related: I hate it when websites have a huge SIGN UP NOW button and a little tiny existing user log in off in the corner somewhere. Yes, I already knew that all you cared about is signing up new users and not providing services to existing ones, but you didn't have to rub it in like that.
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Brawnfire posted:No, they are. Smooth as hell. the holy poopacy posted:Semi-related: I hate it when websites have a huge SIGN UP NOW button and a little tiny existing user log in off in the corner somewhere. Yes, I already knew that all you cared about is signing up new users and not providing services to existing ones, but you didn't have to rub it in like that.
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InediblePenguin posted:twenty minutes after we closed for the day i found some customers still leisurely browsing the grocery store and asked them "Can I help you find anything?" Big memories of the restaurant industry here. Jackasses sitting around two hours after closing and the manager won't tell them to loving leave.
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May 15, 2022 09:49
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InediblePenguin posted:we're not allowed to ask people to leave or urge them to bring their final purchases up or anything 
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May 15, 2022 10:35
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I've never felt so unwelcome in a store! People hovering around, replacing things I'd hosed up, running mops, what kind of atmosphere are they going for?
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May 15, 2022 13:55
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I wish the people who I have to talk to during the course of a business day would either start flossing or else continue to wear a mask. FLOSS YOUR loving TEETH. I can SEE your GUM POCKETS. They are like FRENCH CHEESE CAVES.
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May 15, 2022 14:25
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Brawnfire posted:I wish the people who I have to talk to during the course of a business day would either start flossing or else continue to wear a mask. As both a poo poo teeth-haver and a lover of french cheese I'm hurt 
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May 15, 2022 15:11
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For a while there were a bunch of memes about dentists making you bleed and telling you to floss and?? you would not be able to relate to these memes if you'd loving floss your teeth, a basic part of hygiene, you absolute grognards?? next they'll be posting about not wiping their rear end
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May 15, 2022 16:34
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Working in food and service I don’t like to go to places sooner than a half hour before they close. But there are some people who would pound on a door and when told that registers are closed and money is being counted that they need to shop, and everyone should reopen so they can get 10 dollars worth of non emergency items
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May 15, 2022 16:47
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WTF. Stores here will absolutely tell you to leave, and when I've accidentally wandered into a restaurant 20 minutes before closing they politely said "Sorry, we're closing in 20 minutes." And this is in an at-will employment hellscape state.
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May 15, 2022 16:49
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Killingyouguy! posted:For a while there were a bunch of memes about dentists making you bleed and telling you to floss and?? I'm not going to bow to this propaganda from Big Tooth. I haven't even rinsed my mouth since the Bush Years. Gingivitis is a blessing from God.
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May 15, 2022 17:23
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When I worked in customer service we opened at 7:30 and employees got there at 7 and probably 20% of the time people were already there and you had to walk past them to open the door and they’d start asking if you could open up early because they really needed to get going.
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May 15, 2022 17:56
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Memories of the early morning Trader Joes hordes. Back up off the doors, bitches, I'm still scraping yesterday's stickers off the goddamn floor. You ain't need speculoos butter that bad.
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May 15, 2022 18:00
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Dip Viscous posted:WTF. Stores here will absolutely tell you to leave, and when I've accidentally wandered into a restaurant 20 minutes before closing they politely said "Sorry, we're closing in 20 minutes." And this is in an at-will employment hellscape state. In my experience it's mostly a corporate vs. non-corporate thing. The big chain stores/restaurants are mostly afraid to put their foot down because no one there has real authority and they're afraid of getting punished by higher ups. Local businesses are more likely to have the owner or someone tightly connected to them that can tell customers to gently caress off without fear.
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Just own your own grocery store so you can set a "gently caress off, we're closed" policy yourself bing bong Yeah, it's corporate poo poo. Same as lovely restaurant customers getting comped by managers for obvious lies Once had a customer send back a plate for having a hair on it -- that customer was the only person in the entire building with curly hair like the hair on the plate lmao stringless has a new favorite as of 18:17 on May 15, 2022 |
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the holy poopacy posted:In my experience it's mostly a corporate vs. non-corporate thing. The big chain stores/restaurants are mostly afraid to put their foot down because no one there has real authority and they're afraid of getting punished by higher ups. Local businesses are more likely to have the owner or someone tightly connected to them that can tell customers to gently caress off without fear. Probably depends also on the chain. I used to work for a wholesale warehouse (think Costco but not actually Costco). 15-20 mins before close, the closing manager would get on the loud speaker telling customers "We close in x minutes. Please bring your final purchases to the front to check out." We still got people who completely ignored the warnings and hung around for 10 mins after close, but we at least told them we were closing/closed. I don't know what kind of authority we had to eject people from the store if they refused to leave. Didn't happen in the time I worked there.
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May 15, 2022 18:50
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GET THE gently caress OUTTA MY BJ'S
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yeah, we are a new location and corporate higher-ups have been up our collective assholes lately, so we dare not risk making a customer feel unwanted and unloved by implying we might want them to go home after we close at the moment lol
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Brawnfire posted:GET THE gently caress OUTTA MY BJ'S Hey I didn't say it was BJ's but yeah, it was BJ's. 
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May 15, 2022 20:04
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I'm starting a new job this week which entails going to a non-local office once per week. I asked my new boss what sort of time I should arrive and leave (ie is it 9-5 or is there some leeway for travel time) and he's come back with 'we're totally flexible, so long as the work gets done!' Like, I'm sure that's true, maybe, but on the other hand that's also kinda useless to me, as there's obviously gonna be expectations and etiquette that apply, and I gotta plan around that. You've already told me it's always gonna be Wednesdays in that office and have now told me that this week it's Tuesday, and I have to make sure that my wife and two kids are able to do what they need to do with the one car we have. So, a pretty specific peeve... People being 'flexible' when actually just being precise would be much easier.
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May 16, 2022 00:03
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I know I've bitched about this before but right now it's pissing me off again. People, if you live in a place with communal laundry machines, for the love of all that's holy remove your poo poo promptly when the cycle is done. Other people need to use these loving machines and it's infuriating looking at your poo poo clogging up the washer for 10+ minutes after it's finished, waiting for your scatterbrained rear end to move it along. Set a timer if you have to! I don't care. Just somehow remove it promptly. It shouldn't be this loving hard!
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Silver Falcon posted:I know I've bitched about this before but right now it's pissing me off again. Laundry machines should automatically incinerate laundry after 5 minutes of inactivity imo
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May 16, 2022 01:07
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Fuckers have had their clothes in there for an hour now and I'm not going to be able to do laundry today! Small bit of schadenfreude on their part: their clothes are going to be siting in the washing machine all night and they'll be mildewy come morning! A small consolation on my part. Inconsiderate fucknuggets.
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Geeze, I remember that from my first apartment. Some neighbor practically used the machines as closets. I swear I thought sometimes he'd come get something out of a dryer and just leave the rest in there. Eventually my roommate and I started bringing a trash bag down there when it was laundry time, and if the laundry in a machine when we got there was unattended for ten minutes, we'd bag it up and stack it outside the laundry room door. Eventually the landlord put a sign telling people not to do that on the wall in there, but we kept doing it til we moved out anyway.
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The Perfect Element posted:I'm starting a new job this week which entails going to a non-local office once per week. I asked my new boss what sort of time I should arrive and leave (ie is it 9-5 or is there some leeway for travel time) and he's come back with 'we're totally flexible, so long as the work gets done!' Relatedly, people using "Flexible" to mean "we cannot/will not plan ahead properly".
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Laundry here gets thrown onto the ground if the owner is not there within 5 seconds of it finishing, and that's just fine with me.
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of the two dryers for my little apartment complex, even the better dryer still sucks unless the door to the laundry room is open so there's some air movement through the room's window and yet the assholes close the door even when I put things in place to make it clear that the door should not be closed while a dryer is operating "someone might show up and steal our underwear" loving get your clothing out, then
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One of my favourite shirts is yoinked out of an apartment dryer and I'm not sorry Thanks for the shirt, mysterious lazy stranger
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I've had communal laundry rooms throughout college and in the apartments since then. By far the biggest issue I had was when I lived in an apartment building that was just two apartments. The family of three in the other apartment did a mind-boggling amount of laundry and were pretty bad about moving it in a timely manner. The worst was throwing a load in the washer on Friday and then leaving for a holiday weekend.
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Every fuckin goddam commercial at work breakroom TVs has people dancing. I'm usually wearing big headphones and sometimes a helmet or thick hat too. So no knowledge of what the ad is for. Drugs for seniors? Tourism in Idaho? A new season of HLN's hit series Sex and Murder? gently caress if I know. I can't hear your nonsense, cable. It's all just people dancing. And the dances are lame! Stop that! How do people pay like sixty dollars a month for cable TV?
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Have I bitched about this already? Because it happened again today. People who have the right of way: just loving drive. You're not doing anyone any loving favors by holding up traffic so you can like, let me through or whatever. Legally, it's your loving turn, and I drive with the expectation that you're going to take your turn; if you with all your good intentions decide not to take your turn but instead give me a jump in the queue, I don't loving know that -- for all I know you could just be looking at your phone and the second I drive out into the intersection you'll drive right into my rear end and it would still be my fault since you have the right of way. Or maybe the sun is glaring off your windshield and I can't see your friendly gesture saying I can go. Just loving go. Just go go go goddammit.
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That really gets me when I'm a pedestrian. I'm not walking until you're definitely stopped. By slowing down in a quiet residential street you've just wasted both of our time. New York has the right idea. Just YOLO into the street in packs, eyyyyyyy I'm walkin heah, slap the hood. That I can get behind.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:That really gets me when I'm a pedestrian. I'm not walking until you're definitely stopped. By slowing down in a quiet residential street you've just wasted both of our time. People are even worse for this if you're pushing a pram or a buggy or whatever. There's a kinda risky junction near my house which isn't that busy, but has quite low visibility so you're never entirely sure when a car is gonna whiz round a bend and take you out. I've learnt to just completely avoid eye contact with any drivers when I'm walking around there, cos there's a risk someone's gonna try to let me through, when I'd rather just wait til there's no cars so I can cross securely. Sometimes I avoid eye contact and they STILL TRY TO DO IT, so I just look up after a few seconds and they're still there awkwardly waving at me. If they'd just driven past I could have crossed by now anyway!
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There's a bike path I ride along regularly, that crosses a particular road that gets extremely intermittent traffic. There'll be a line of a dozen cars followed by absolutely no traffic for several minutes. If there are cars coming when I approach that road, I have to stop a good couple of metres back or, guaranteed, some idiot will hold up that entire line of cars by stopping for me. It would have taken about five seconds for them all to go past, but now everyone's being held up - including me, because I'm not going until they do. Sometimes stopping that far back isn't even enough. They'll still try to stop and wave me through. It is baffling to me.
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I hate referring to the country you were born from as a "we." I didn't invade Iraq. I didn't storm the Bastille. My wife didn't invade Ukraine. My wife didn't defeat the nazis. We're a we because we chose that. You don't choose your birth. Stop being nationalists and stop self-flagellating. It's important to know history. It's important to correct ongoing injustice. It's stupid to go "woah is me, someone geographically near here did a bad thing, we are the worst." US americans think they're the worst. Russians think they're the worst. French people think they're the worst. Germans think no, it's us, we're worst. Just shut up, you didn't do the thing, be decent yourself. Doubly grating when the people saying this poo poo act like they're the very enlightened knowers of reality, unlike all their idiot neighbours.
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credburn posted:Have I bitched about this already? Because it happened again today. People who have the right of way: just loving drive. You're not doing anyone any loving favors by holding up traffic so you can like, let me through or whatever. Legally, it's your loving turn, and I drive with the expectation that you're going to take your turn; if you with all your good intentions decide not to take your turn but instead give me a jump in the queue, I don't loving know that -- for all I know you could just be looking at your phone and the second I drive out into the intersection you'll drive right into my rear end and it would still be my fault since you have the right of way. Or maybe the sun is glaring off your windshield and I can't see your friendly gesture saying I can go. Just loving go. Just go go go goddammit. Oh god this so much. The number of people who don't seem to know how an all-way Stop works is just baffling. Go when it's your turn! This is not hard! I tend to operate on the assumption that everyone around me is going to be an rear end in a top hat. Most of the time it works pretty well because I live in the northeast and people drive pretty aggressively. Occasionally though I'll get someone who doesn't do that and it just throws off my groove. Just loving go man I can work around you!
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:"woah is me" I think I just found a new peeve. :P
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Woah is me Bam ba lam
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The best is when they stop and start waving at you to cross even though they're in one of two or more lanes of traffic. All "Please pedestrian, please accept my charitable gift of you getting flattened by a speeding car to my immediate right that is not beholden to our little exchange!"
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