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Can we discuss pet peeves here? (6 Viewers)
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BobbyLayne
Footballguy
What do people who creep forward at a red light do with all the time they save?
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
offdee
Footballguy
This is no longer a pet peeve of mine (because she's now an ex), but a conversation on Reddit brought back the PTSD.
Anybody else's gf/wife just refuse to complete tasks fully? They do 90% of it and then just let it sit?
- Tie up the kitchen trashbag, but instead of taking it all the way out to the garage garbage can, just leaves it sitting by the garage door (6 feet away from the can)
- Do laundry and fold, but never put the pile of folded clothes away...just sits in the laundry room.
- Helps mow the smaller area of grass in the front with the push mower....when finished just turns the mower off and lets it sit where her last mow was.
- Wash the floors, but just leaves the dirty water pail and wet rags sitting in the hall floor where she finished
- Vacuums the house, but just leaves the vacuum sitting in the last room that she finished
- Washes dishes, but has to leave 2 pans or cups to "soak"
- Sweeps the kitchen floor, puts all the crap into the dustpan...then just leaves the broom and dustpan full of crumbs sitting on the floor where she finished.
- Maybe not a "task" but never finishes a drink and at the end of the day there's 7 cups, cans, bottles of half finished liquid scattered all over the house (of course just sitting where she decided that was her last sip)
So g'damn maddening!!!!
Anybody else's gf/wife just refuse to complete tasks fully? They do 90% of it and then just let it sit?
- Tie up the kitchen trashbag, but instead of taking it all the way out to the garage garbage can, just leaves it sitting by the garage door (6 feet away from the can)
- Do laundry and fold, but never put the pile of folded clothes away...just sits in the laundry room.
- Helps mow the smaller area of grass in the front with the push mower....when finished just turns the mower off and lets it sit where her last mow was.
- Wash the floors, but just leaves the dirty water pail and wet rags sitting in the hall floor where she finished
- Vacuums the house, but just leaves the vacuum sitting in the last room that she finished
- Washes dishes, but has to leave 2 pans or cups to "soak"
- Sweeps the kitchen floor, puts all the crap into the dustpan...then just leaves the broom and dustpan full of crumbs sitting on the floor where she finished.
- Maybe not a "task" but never finishes a drink and at the end of the day there's 7 cups, cans, bottles of half finished liquid scattered all over the house (of course just sitting where she decided that was her last sip)
So g'damn maddening!!!!
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belljr
Footballguy
Like my wife would mow the lawn.......In all seriousness - the only one my wife does sometimes is cleans up the trash, ties it up , carries it to the door to the garage and leaves it there. That drives me insane, as the opening the door and walking into the garage is a chore. It would be different if the cans were out back or soemthing.
But the rest of that sounds like something is off....... not kidding.
Who leaves a long mower sitting there when they are done. Or just leaves stuff sitting there.
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wlwiles
Footballguy
It would make my life 10x easier if my wife would do this, and I could just throw it in the can when I see it.offdee said:
She'd rather play trash-Jenga with the can in the kitchen, just stacking it up 2 feet out of the can rather than empty the can like a normal human. So then I get to disassemble the Leaning Tower of Crap so that I can get the lid off the can, carefully slide out the far-too-crammed-full bag from inside, double bag it because it tore while extracting and is leaking, get a third bag to put all the stuff from the top of the disassembled pile in, and now carry two bagged piles (using three bags) out to the outdoor cans. Then when I get back inside to put a fresh bag in the can, I first have to fish out something that she's "accidentally" thrown into the empty can in the 10 seconds I was outside because she somehow didn't notice that the lid to the can is sitting on the floor and there's no bag currently in the can.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
Maybe she's your ex because you wouldn't do 10% of the work?offdee said:
offdee
Footballguy
I know that pain as well.
offdee
Footballguy
Funny thing is I always did the final 10% because it was just easier than asking “why?” It was always “I was getting to it”. Sure you were.Maybe she's your ex because you wouldn't do 10% of the work?
the moops
Footballguy
Hard to imagine you aren't still togetherFunny thing is I always did the final 10% because it was just easier than asking “why?” It was always “I was getting to it”. Sure you were.Maybe she's your ex because you wouldn't do 10% of the work?
Scoresman
Footballguy
I've never understood the hype over the new car prizes on game shows. A car is something I pick out myself, getting the things I want, the color I want, etc. What am I going to do with this crappy low end Ford? Just give me cash.
belljr
Footballguy
i don't want to go into much detail but my job consists of mainly problem solving our tech....... I don't know if covid has made people dumber or what but I spend half my time passively aggressively answering questions I've already answered to the same people, wondering why people who have worked here for years think the process has changed all of a sudden OR my new favorite - I have to spend most of my day proving to you what you say is the problem is in fact not the problem before you will move on and let me actually fix the problem.....
I've had the same guy tell me 3 times now the file he has is wrong, I keep sending him screen shots, and emails explaining the file is correct, yet he swears up and down its wrong..... I keep telling him I don't know what you are looking at but here is the package to download....... yet he says its still wrong. He refuses to delete or move it and redownload I'm about done
/RANT
I've had the same guy tell me 3 times now the file he has is wrong, I keep sending him screen shots, and emails explaining the file is correct, yet he swears up and down its wrong..... I keep telling him I don't know what you are looking at but here is the package to download....... yet he says its still wrong. He refuses to delete or move it and redownload I'm about done
/RANT
UOFI_316
Footballguy
Not understanding how money works.
Wife will buy something, then return it and get store credit, and go to the store the next week and buy something we don't need and proudly proclaim "And the best is that this was all free!!"
She had bought a groupon or something for an indoor climbing place to take the kids over the summer that was half price. Turns out the thing expired the week before she wanted to use it, so I explained that for most of those it is only the "deal" that expires, and that the money she already paid would still count towards the admission. So we won't get the deal, but won't lose out on the money she already paid. She went and I guess the person working the ticket booth was in a good mood and they accepted the deal anyway. Wife came home and was excited to say that "since they accepted the deal the day was free."
Wife will buy something, then return it and get store credit, and go to the store the next week and buy something we don't need and proudly proclaim "And the best is that this was all free!!"
She had bought a groupon or something for an indoor climbing place to take the kids over the summer that was half price. Turns out the thing expired the week before she wanted to use it, so I explained that for most of those it is only the "deal" that expires, and that the money she already paid would still count towards the admission. So we won't get the deal, but won't lose out on the money she already paid. She went and I guess the person working the ticket booth was in a good mood and they accepted the deal anyway. Wife came home and was excited to say that "since they accepted the deal the day was free."
belljr
Footballguy
RIght behind I saved us $200 today because I used our cash coupons..... No you randomly spent 200 on stuff we didnt need
Snoopy
Footballguy
Or furniture ads around here: "The more you buy, the more you save!" No, the more you buy, the more you spend.
nirad3
Footballguy
Not to mention, the winners must pay the tax, title & license on their new rides.
But hey, they always tell you they "come with floor mats!".
belljr
Footballguy
I mean I would still pay the $2500. Then keep it if I was in the market or just sell it at a discount but it annoys me
Keith R
The Don
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
And most people can't afford the taxes on the cars they win, so they sell them anyway.
DallasDMac
Footballguy
Since work topics seem on tap for this page... conducting OJT with someone via Zoom. When it's all said and done, they say "Thanks, I'll probably have to have you show me that two or three more times before I remember it." Translation, the entire Zoom as you were walking me through this step by step, I didn't bother to take a screenshot or two, or write down any notes, so we have to do this all again later. It makes me stabby.
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
Speaking of work meetings. What about those people at the end of their meeting that say "well I'll give you 10 minutes of your day back" when a meeting ends 10 minutes early.
No, you didn't "give" me anything. I just gave YOU 50 minutes of my time.
Just because it's easier to schedule meetings in 30 minute increments doesn't mean the topic deserves that much time.
No, you didn't "give" me anything. I just gave YOU 50 minutes of my time.
Just because it's easier to schedule meetings in 30 minute increments doesn't mean the topic deserves that much time.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
Men do this, too. You just weren't married to any of them.offdee said:
STEADYMOBBIN 22
Footballguy
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
They can't help themselves. To them the beach looks like one giant ashtray.People smoking on the beach.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
They are the same nimrods that zoom past you so they can get to that same red light faster.BobbyLayne said:
mr. furley
Footballguy
mr. furley
Footballguy
converse for me.
when people teach someone something totally new, and expect said person to absorb every nuance and walk away rock solid in their understanding, never needing to ask another question on the topic again.
"but it's so easy, i understand it.. everyone should."
you have years experience with said process/project.. they're learning it for the first time. patience is a virtue. everyone learns at a different pace.
Drunken knight
Footballguy
nirad3
Footballguy
People smoking on the beach.
Or while driving and stopped at a red light.... and they just hold the death stick out the window to let it smolder and send nasty-### smoke into the general area. I typically drive with my sunroof open, but even if I don't, I don't always have the "re-circulated air" button hit... so invariably I start to smell the foul stench.
the moops
Footballguy
My wife would be ####### ecstatic if I got anywhere near 90%. I am generally in the 50% range
scorchy
Footballguy
Our kitchen trash and recycling bins are in a cabinet that slides out, meaning my wife really can't play jenga. What she will do, rather than take out the recycling, is try to compact everything down into the bin so she can close the cabinet. The empty milk jugs or 2-liter bottles of course, just re-expand in the moments after she pushes the bin back in, meaning that when I go to throw something away, I can't open the cabinet because it's jammed. Grrrr...
Gr00vus
Footballguy
Then, rather than using the ####### ash tray in their car, they flick the butt, or even the unextinguished remainder of the cigarette onto the street. That always ticks me off. Thanks for shoving your disgusting saliva encased cancerous choking hazard trash on the rest of the world.
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General Malaise
Footballguy
Surely this has been mentioned before, but this most recent example was egregious....
The setting: Hoh National Rainforest - one of the most peaceful and beautiful spots in our country. Getting there is a chore; it's not really near anything, so if you want to visit and hike around the pristine landscape, you're putting in some effort.
There's quite a bit of parking available that puts you on trail heads. Some are short hikes others are full day hikes. To the person who set their hyper-sensitive, loud as F car alarm and set off for a full day hike, let me be the first to say "F YOU!" Why did you feel the need to set that alarm and leave on an 18 mile hike??? Every 15 minutes, your car alarm blared out a warning that the ENTIRE rain forest could hear because the lovely peacefulness was broken by your "HONK HONK HONK HONK" that lasted 5 minutes and went off the entire day because you felt like bad guys would travel all that way to break into your crappy white Chevy Malibu.
Enough with the car alarms. They don't need to be set at a National Park where people are enjoying solitude. Or were.
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The setting: Hoh National Rainforest - one of the most peaceful and beautiful spots in our country. Getting there is a chore; it's not really near anything, so if you want to visit and hike around the pristine landscape, you're putting in some effort.
There's quite a bit of parking available that puts you on trail heads. Some are short hikes others are full day hikes. To the person who set their hyper-sensitive, loud as F car alarm and set off for a full day hike, let me be the first to say "F YOU!" Why did you feel the need to set that alarm and leave on an 18 mile hike??? Every 15 minutes, your car alarm blared out a warning that the ENTIRE rain forest could hear because the lovely peacefulness was broken by your "HONK HONK HONK HONK" that lasted 5 minutes and went off the entire day because you felt like bad guys would travel all that way to break into your crappy white Chevy Malibu.
Enough with the car alarms. They don't need to be set at a National Park where people are enjoying solitude. Or were.
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General Malaise
Footballguy
Part II - running a generator for hours at a campsite where most people are tent camping. WHY???? How is that "camping"? There was a family across from us that lugged their giant camper with them and ran the generator constantly. I don't think they stepped out of their camper once, just stayed inside and consumed whatever the generator was powering. Just stay home.
scorchy
Footballguy
I just had to google how to lock a car without setting the alarm but obviously it's different for pretty much every model. Never even considered it. Not disagreeing that a blaring alarm is a major annoyance or anything - you've just given me something to think about.Enough with the car alarms. They don't need to be set at a National Park where people are enjoying solitude. Or were.
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nirad3
Footballguy
Do cars these days even have ash trays? I know mine doesn't. It's a '20 Kia, and come to think of it, I don't think the '04 Corolla had one either.
parasaurolophus
Footballguy
I hate when i am teaching somebody something and they take zero notes. Full on expecting that they will just always be able to ask questions and get help.
New older sales reps are the worst. Like computer work is beneath them.
parasaurolophus
Footballguy
nirad3
Footballguy
General Malaise
Footballguy
I'm driving around in a 2005 Acura that I just lock when I leave and don't set the alarm. Our mini-van is newer and I think I have to press a button on the key fob to set it.
scorchy
Footballguy
Some jacklegs in my neighborhood keeps dumping out the entire contents of his car ashtray in the middle of the street. Most of the time, a homeowner who lives near the pile must be sweeping it up b/c it's gone in the next day or two, but there's still a mass of old, water-logged cigarette butts piled up at one intersection.
scorchy
Footballguy
mr. furley
Footballguy
i've a hard time listening, focusing and writing notes at the same time without having the trainer/speaker pause to hear my questions and let me absorb what's been said.
not every training session leaves time for pauses, or Q&A. so i have to fully listen and absorb as much as possible. then review by doing and taking notes on what worked/didn't work.
i've been in both scenarios where a trainer was patient, listened to questions and provided answers so that people could clarify notes... and others where trainers treat questions like a personal attack by idiots too stupid to understand the simple new concepts they're teaching that won't allow for questions.
here at my office, we have both. the person that can't stand being asked questions while training is unable to get back on track when interrupted so he just rolls and fills all the time. he gets visibly angry when asked questions. he expects people to get what he's saying.. when i've come to learn he's giving a very high level overview.... because he doesn't know the specifics (doesn't have to) so any questions asked of him expose his lack of depth on the topic(s) and that's embarrassing.
the person i learned best from spent the time listening, answering and considering the ins, outs and variables. that way works best for helping me understand.
General Malaise
Footballguy
It's my son's car and he's taking it to college with him in the fall. I don't even really have a car of my own.Look at me, I drive a classic Acura!
LOOK AT ME, I USE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION!
wlwiles
Footballguy
Or the guy that has the 11:30 AM presentation and always starts it with "well it looks like I'm the only thing between you guys and lunch, hyuk hyuk hardy har har".
To me that's on par with "whatcha doin Bob? Working hard or hardly working? hyuk hyuk" I WILL STAB YOU
parasaurolophus
Footballguy
I am talking 1 on 1 where i am showing somebody standard ERP busy work. If you arent taking notes, you suck.
I am talking some of the simplest stuff. Like checking stock where you just have to write down drop down menu titles.
Or they just need to be able to search our shared drive where there are fancy powerpoints showing these drop down menus.
