Can we discuss pet peeves here? (1 Viewer)

[mr. furley]

The people in meetings that keep asking “did you consider adding AI” any time a new site or app at my company is launched or enhanced.

we had a corporate email go out celebrating the interns that won a contest to bring the most innovative idea to the table.. out of like 500 people or something

their winning idea: "use AI"

REVOLUTIONARY

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

8am Monday morning “circling back on what we talked about on Friday afternoon” e-mails. If I said that I would get back to you on Monday, at least let me have my coffee before hounding me.

My boss whom I would take great pleasure in putting my hands him does this.

Recently he sent an email in the afternoon asking me if I’m attending and out of town event next month, my shirt size (for the 80th time in 8 years,) and something else that requires some research.

An hour before we start work the next day he’s already emailing .

 

[Pip's Invitation]

The people in meetings that keep asking “did you consider adding AI” any time a new site or app at my company is launched or enhanced.

we had a corporate email go out celebrating the interns that won a contest to bring the most innovative idea to the table.. out of like 500 people or something

their winning idea: "use AI"

REVOLUTIONARY

15 years ago it was "use social media".

30 years ago it was "use the internet".

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Can we upgrade from peeves to active gripes? The NFL Redzone is going to have commercials. Yippee!

 

[TheBaylorKid]

The people in meetings that keep asking “did you consider adding AI” any time a new site or app at my company is launched or enhanced.

we had a corporate email go out celebrating the interns that won a contest to bring the most innovative idea to the table.. out of like 500 people or something

their winning idea: "use AI"

REVOLUTIONARY

15 years ago it was "use social media".

30 years ago it was "use the internet".

Good point I forgot about social media was the thing. I’m in insurance so about 8 - 10 years ago it was all about how will this help us adapt to self driving cars

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Can we upgrade from peeves to active gripes? The NFL Redzone is going to have commercials. Yippee!

Look at the bright side. Scott Hanson will now have a chance to pee.

 

[parasaurolophus]

Should be illegal to only have an option to save your credit card. I just want to buy one thing. If i want to buy more i can easily enter a card again. Sorry Birch Ln. You just lost a sale.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Should be illegal to only have an option to save your credit card. I just want to buy one thing. If i want to buy more i can easily enter a card again. Sorry Birch Ln. You just lost a sale.

Yep. I want the checkout as guest option. I don't need more passwords and spam.

 

[parasaurolophus]

When a company that I am a customer of sends me a snail mail advertisement for new customers only.

 

[dino259]

When the scorebug doesn't follow normal convention. In the US men's soccer friendly, Japan is wearing blue jerseys but the US score is highlighted in blue.

 

[nirad3]

I listen to Pandora on my phone while at work. I also, from time to time, take breaks and play games like Words With Friends. Can't stand the stupid ads' audio that pre-empts Pandora. Have to "x" out of the ad and flip back to Pandora to re-start the music.

 

[wlwiles]

This is going to be very specific to just me but I'm about to throw something through the wall over it. One of the programs that we use frequently in my job just went through some sort of software update and we got a nifty little unintended side effect from it somehow. When you hit backspace, it deletes the last TWO letters you typed instead of one. Super fun trying to do my weekly reports today. No matter how many times it does it to me, my brain can't rewire itself from 30 years of typing normally.

 

[kupcho1]

I listen to Pandora on my phone while at work. I also, from time to time, take breaks and play games like Words With Friends. Can't stand the stupid ads' audio that pre-empts Pandora. Have to "x" out of the ad and flip back to Pandora to re-start the music.

That's the free version, right?

 

[nirad3]

I listen to Pandora on my phone while at work. I also, from time to time, take breaks and play games like Words With Friends. Can't stand the stupid ads' audio that pre-empts Pandora. Have to "x" out of the ad and flip back to Pandora to re-start the music.

That's the free version, right?

Free version of Pandora? No, I pay for the ad-free version. The ads (and associated audio) are coming from the game, which I don't pay for.

 

[parasaurolophus]

My company is getting a little bit too entrapmenty with the fake phishing things.

They put one out today that snagged quite a few people. If you tried to go to our company page it wouldnt let you connect because your password needed to be changed. Then after changing your password they sent an email to "click here" to verify that you it was you and not somebody else that changed your password.

The only reason I didnt fall for it is because it said that the password change was completed using microsoft edge for my browser. I dont use that. Then i looked at the from email address and it was an abbreviation. Reported it and thats when it said it was a simulated phishing test.

 

[Bracie Smathers]

I still like the ramen noodles you get for 25 cents a pack

Pre-packaged noodles under a microscope.

 

[TheBaylorKid]

I still like the ramen noodles you get for 25 cents a pack

Pre-packaged noodles under a microscope.

Shrimp ramen!

 

[parasaurolophus]

I still like the ramen noodles you get for 25 cents a pack

Pre-packaged noodles under a microscope.

Definitely fake.

 

[BLOCKED_PUNT]

I still like the ramen noodles you get for 25 cents a pack

Pre-packaged noodles under a microscope.

no wonder they taste so good

 

[titusbramble]

Shark Pool pinning game day threads. Point of pins is to highlight important stuff that might get missed. When a game is in progress the relevant thread(s) are on page 1 99% of the time anyway, nobody needs help finding them. Forum was almost readable yesterday when they forgot to do it, but then early in the 4pm slate, bang, pin 8 games that had already finished and another that won't start for hours.

 

[ignatiusjreilly]

Has there ever been a buggier piece of software than Siri? I would estimate conservatively that 30% of the time, it doesn't work and asks you to repeat your request (after spending 10 seconds thinking it over). If it mishears you, it just makes an assumption about what you wanted that bears zero relation to what you said. ("Siri, play Red Hot Chili Peppers." "Now playing Yanni.") Only thing worse is if I try to use it in concert with the Reminders app, which is the second buggiest piece of software.

I don't know why it's so hard for Apple to get it right. Sometimes I use voice recognition inside the Google app and, while it's not perfect, it's way more accurate than Siri

 

[ignatiusjreilly]

The people in meetings that keep asking “did you consider adding AI” any time a new site or app at my company is launched or enhanced.

we had a corporate email go out celebrating the interns that won a contest to bring the most innovative idea to the table.. out of like 500 people or something

their winning idea: "use AI"

REVOLUTIONARY

Maybe they meant they wanted to hire Iverson as corporate spokesman?

ETA: Mentioning "Iverson" and "spokesman" in the same sentence is the perfect excuse to post the greatest fake quote in the history of corporate press releases.

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

Has there ever been a buggier piece of software than Siri? I would estimate conservatively that 30% of the time, it doesn't work and asks you to repeat your request (after spending 10 seconds thinking it over). If it mishears you, it just makes an assumption about what you wanted that bears zero relation to what you said. ("Siri, play Red Hot Chili Peppers." "Now playing Yanni.") Only thing worse is if I try to use it in concert with the Reminders app, which is the second buggiest piece of software.

I don't know why it's so hard for Apple to get it right. Sometimes I use voice recognition inside the Google app and, while it's not perfect, it's way more accurate than Siri

Jobs is not around to crack the whip.

 

[Don Quixote]

Threw on a Commanders hoodie this morning before racing my son to the bus stop and then getting back to work. I live just outside DC, so nothing out of the ordinary and did not think too much about it. As I’m walking back, someone who lives in the neighborhood, I guess, who I haven’t met, shouts at me “Go Bills!” I sort of give a slight chuckle of acknowledgement and give him a thumbs up and carry on my way. Then he shouts it at me again and starts tugging at a Bills flag hanging on his porch in my direction, like he’s taunting me.

Commanders don’t even have the Bills on their schedule this year; so, it’s not like they have a game coming up this week or anything, and not rivals.

I’m not sure my peeve here. Maybe just people.

 

[Scoresman]

May have been mentioned but people need to stop saying things like "un-alived" instead of "killed", or "un-housed" instead of "homeless". I'm more on the woke side of the spectrum than not woke, but this is getting ridiculous.

 

[Gally]

May have been mentioned but people need to stop saying things like "un-alived" instead of "killed", or "un-housed" instead of "homeless". I'm more on the woke side of the spectrum than not woke, but this is getting ridiculous.

totally agree. Sometimes words are just descriptors and don't have any further meeting. No need to change a perfectly good description of something like homeless.

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

Threw on a Commanders hoodie this morning before racing my son to the bus stop and then getting back to work. I live just outside DC, so nothing out of the ordinary and did not think too much about it. As I’m walking back, someone who lives in the neighborhood, I guess, who I haven’t met, shouts at me “Go Bills!” I sort of give a slight chuckle of acknowledgement and give him a thumbs up and carry on my way. Then he shouts it at me again and starts tugging at a Bills flag hanging on his porch in my direction, like he’s taunting me.

Commanders don’t even have the Bills on their schedule this year; so, it’s not like they have a game coming up this week or anything, and not rivals.

I’m not sure my peeve here. Maybe just people.

Next time remind him that you guys gave them their first SB loss.

That was your 91 team, top 3 all time team, imo.

 

[Gally]

Threw on a Commanders hoodie this morning before racing my son to the bus stop and then getting back to work. I live just outside DC, so nothing out of the ordinary and did not think too much about it. As I’m walking back, someone who lives in the neighborhood, I guess, who I haven’t met, shouts at me “Go Bills!” I sort of give a slight chuckle of acknowledgement and give him a thumbs up and carry on my way. Then he shouts it at me again and starts tugging at a Bills flag hanging on his porch in my direction, like he’s taunting me.

Commanders don’t even have the Bills on their schedule this year; so, it’s not like they have a game coming up this week or anything, and not rivals.

I’m not sure my peeve here. Maybe just people.

Next time remind him that you guys gave them their first SB loss.

That was your 91 team, top 3 all time team, imo.

I believe the Giants and Ottis Anderson gave the Bills their first Super Bowl loss on the Norwood "wide right".

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

Threw on a Commanders hoodie this morning before racing my son to the bus stop and then getting back to work. I live just outside DC, so nothing out of the ordinary and did not think too much about it. As I’m walking back, someone who lives in the neighborhood, I guess, who I haven’t met, shouts at me “Go Bills!” I sort of give a slight chuckle of acknowledgement and give him a thumbs up and carry on my way. Then he shouts it at me again and starts tugging at a Bills flag hanging on his porch in my direction, like he’s taunting me.

Commanders don’t even have the Bills on their schedule this year; so, it’s not like they have a game coming up this week or anything, and not rivals.

I’m not sure my peeve here. Maybe just people.

Next time remind him that you guys gave them their first SB loss.

That was your 91 team, top 3 all time team, imo.

I believe the Giants and Ottis Anderson gave the Bills their first Super Bowl loss on the Norwood "wide right".

Man Im getting old. I got confused. I initially wrote to remind him about Scott Norwood but remembered that was the Giants but forgot the Giants went first, the Skins, then Boys.

 

[Dan Lambskin]

Threw on a Commanders hoodie this morning before racing my son to the bus stop and then getting back to work. I live just outside DC, so nothing out of the ordinary and did not think too much about it. As I’m walking back, someone who lives in the neighborhood, I guess, who I haven’t met, shouts at me “Go Bills!” I sort of give a slight chuckle of acknowledgement and give him a thumbs up and carry on my way. Then he shouts it at me again and starts tugging at a Bills flag hanging on his porch in my direction, like he’s taunting me.

Commanders don’t even have the Bills on their schedule this year; so, it’s not like they have a game coming up this week or anything, and not rivals.

I’m not sure my peeve here. Maybe just people.

Next time remind him that you guys gave them their first SB loss.

That was your 91 team, top 3 all time team, imo.

I believe the Giants and Ottis Anderson gave the Bills their first Super Bowl loss on the Norwood "wide right".

@ScottNorwood

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

Mosquitoes.

 

[kupcho1]

Has there ever been a buggier piece of software than Siri? I would estimate conservatively that 30% of the time, it doesn't work and asks you to repeat your request (after spending 10 seconds thinking it over). If it mishears you, it just makes an assumption about what you wanted that bears zero relation to what you said. ("Siri, play Red Hot Chili Peppers." "Now playing Yanni.") Only thing worse is if I try to use it in concert with the Reminders app, which is the second buggiest piece of software.

I don't know why it's so hard for Apple to get it right. Sometimes I use voice recognition inside the Google app and, while it's not perfect, it's way more accurate than Siri

Jobs is not around to crack the whip.

Nor Ives.

Apple used to be an innovation driven organization. It is now a finance-oriented company.

 

[ignatiusjreilly]

Has there ever been a buggier piece of software than Siri? I would estimate conservatively that 30% of the time, it doesn't work and asks you to repeat your request (after spending 10 seconds thinking it over). If it mishears you, it just makes an assumption about what you wanted that bears zero relation to what you said. ("Siri, play Red Hot Chili Peppers." "Now playing Yanni.") Only thing worse is if I try to use it in concert with the Reminders app, which is the second buggiest piece of software.

I don't know why it's so hard for Apple to get it right. Sometimes I use voice recognition inside the Google app and, while it's not perfect, it's way more accurate than Siri

Jobs is not around to crack the whip.

Nor Ives.

Apple used to be an innovation driven organization. It is now a finance-oriented company.

Yeah but I’m not sure Siri has ever been good. Maybe it was cutting edge technology when Apple acquired it in 2009, but it’s barely evolved since then

 

[ChiefD]

Threw on a Commanders hoodie this morning before racing my son to the bus stop and then getting back to work. I live just outside DC, so nothing out of the ordinary and did not think too much about it. As I’m walking back, someone who lives in the neighborhood, I guess, who I haven’t met, shouts at me “Go Bills!” I sort of give a slight chuckle of acknowledgement and give him a thumbs up and carry on my way. Then he shouts it at me again and starts tugging at a Bills flag hanging on his porch in my direction, like he’s taunting me.

Commanders don’t even have the Bills on their schedule this year; so, it’s not like they have a game coming up this week or anything, and not rivals.

I’m not sure my peeve here. Maybe just people.

Next time remind him that you guys gave them their first SB loss.

That was your 91 team, top 3 all time team, imo.

I would have done similar. I would have shouted something like:

“Sorry, didn’t see you there. The sun was reflecting off our Super Bowl trophies. How many you got?”

 

[Don Quixote]

Threw on a Commanders hoodie this morning before racing my son to the bus stop and then getting back to work. I live just outside DC, so nothing out of the ordinary and did not think too much about it. As I’m walking back, someone who lives in the neighborhood, I guess, who I haven’t met, shouts at me “Go Bills!” I sort of give a slight chuckle of acknowledgement and give him a thumbs up and carry on my way. Then he shouts it at me again and starts tugging at a Bills flag hanging on his porch in my direction, like he’s taunting me.

Commanders don’t even have the Bills on their schedule this year; so, it’s not like they have a game coming up this week or anything, and not rivals.

I’m not sure my peeve here. Maybe just people.

Next time remind him that you guys gave them their first SB loss.

That was your 91 team, top 3 all time team, imo.

I would have done similar. I would have shouted something like:

“Sorry, didn’t see you there. The sun was reflecting off our Super Bowl trophies. How many you got?”

I thought about responding with something like that. But, like most things in life, I settled on the approach of just ignoring and complaining about it on a FF message board instead.

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

Threw on a Commanders hoodie this morning before racing my son to the bus stop and then getting back to work. I live just outside DC, so nothing out of the ordinary and did not think too much about it. As I’m walking back, someone who lives in the neighborhood, I guess, who I haven’t met, shouts at me “Go Bills!” I sort of give a slight chuckle of acknowledgement and give him a thumbs up and carry on my way. Then he shouts it at me again and starts tugging at a Bills flag hanging on his porch in my direction, like he’s taunting me.

Commanders don’t even have the Bills on their schedule this year; so, it’s not like they have a game coming up this week or anything, and not rivals.

I’m not sure my peeve here. Maybe just people.

Next time remind him that you guys gave them their first SB loss.

That was your 91 team, top 3 all time team, imo.

I would have done similar. I would have shouted something like:

“Sorry, didn’t see you there. The sun was reflecting off our Super Bowl trophies. How many you got?”

I thought about responding with something like that. But, like most things in life, I settled on the approach of just ignoring and complaining about it on a FF message board instead.

This is the way

 

[-fish-]

May have been mentioned but people need to stop saying things like "un-alived" instead of "killed", or "un-housed" instead of "homeless". I'm more on the woke side of the spectrum than not woke, but this is getting ridiculous.

Some of this stuff is dumb but serves a purpose. Unalived gained regular usage because twitter was filtering posts for words like "killed".

Unhoused is just political correctness evolving and getting worse. It serves no actual purpose other than to make some people feel better about themselves.

 

[-fish-]

The people in meetings that keep asking “did you consider adding AI” any time a new site or app at my company is launched or enhanced.

we had a corporate email go out celebrating the interns that won a contest to bring the most innovative idea to the table.. out of like 500 people or something

their winning idea: "use AI"

REVOLUTIONARY

They probably used AI to come up with it.

 

[Gally]

Unhoused is just political correctness evolving and getting worse.

Yeah, plus I am thinking if I was homeless I would have bigger issues to worry about than what people labeled me as. Being called homeless wouldn't hurt my feelings.

 

[parasaurolophus]

Subscriptions you forget to cancel

Just paid 95 bucks for FBG and I dont even play fantasy football anymore.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Subscriptions you forget to cancel

Just paid 95 bucks for FBG and I dont even play fantasy football anymore.

Wait- you aren't paying for our charming company?

 

[Don Quixote]

Subscriptions you forget to cancel

Just paid 95 bucks for FBG and I dont even play fantasy football anymore.

Think they have a 30 day refund policy.

 

[nirad3]

Unhoused is just political correctness evolving and getting worse.

Yeah, plus I am thinking if I was homeless I would have bigger issues to worry about than what people labeled me as. Being called homeless wouldn't hurt my feelings.

I work in affordable housing and hear the term "homelessness" plenty. Those that use other, "softer" terms are just loony.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Unhoused is just political correctness evolving and getting worse.

Yeah, plus I am thinking if I was homeless I would have bigger issues to worry about than what people labeled me as. Being called homeless wouldn't hurt my feelings.

I work in affordable housing and hear the term "homelessness" plenty. Those that use other, "softer" terms are just loony.

I’m surprised “differently housed” hasn’t caught on among the “soft term” people.

 

[Gally]

Unhoused is just political correctness evolving and getting worse.

Yeah, plus I am thinking if I was homeless I would have bigger issues to worry about than what people labeled me as. Being called homeless wouldn't hurt my feelings.

I work in affordable housing and hear the term "homelessness" plenty. Those that use other, "softer" terms are just loony.

I’m surprised “differently housed” hasn’t caught on among the “soft term” people.

What about "pre-housed"? Alternately-housed?

 

[Snoopy]

Housing impaired?

 

[the moops]

People who share way too much info and way too in depth info when just meeting and making small talk.

Hey moops, nice to meet you, I'm Steve. Been sober for 12 years. Stopped drinking after I got my 3rd DUI and nearly killed some people in a car crash...

 

[ScottNorwood]

Threw on a Commanders hoodie this morning before racing my son to the bus stop and then getting back to work. I live just outside DC, so nothing out of the ordinary and did not think too much about it. As I’m walking back, someone who lives in the neighborhood, I guess, who I haven’t met, shouts at me “Go Bills!” I sort of give a slight chuckle of acknowledgement and give him a thumbs up and carry on my way. Then he shouts it at me again and starts tugging at a Bills flag hanging on his porch in my direction, like he’s taunting me.

Commanders don’t even have the Bills on their schedule this year; so, it’s not like they have a game coming up this week or anything, and not rivals.

I’m not sure my peeve here. Maybe just people.

Next time remind him that you guys gave them their first SB loss.

That was your 91 team, top 3 all time team, imo.

I believe the Giants and Ottis Anderson gave the Bills their first Super Bowl loss on the Norwood "wide right".

@ScottNorwood

Never happened

 

[Charles in Houston]

The people in meetings that keep asking “did you consider adding AI” any time a new site or app at my company is launched or enhanced.

we had a corporate email go out celebrating the interns that won a contest to bring the most innovative idea to the table.. out of like 500 people or something

their winning idea: "use AI"

REVOLUTIONARY

15 years ago it was "use social media".

30 years ago it was "use the internet".

Good point I forgot about social media was the thing. I’m in insurance so about 8 - 10 years ago it was all about how will this help us adapt to self driving cars

I remember back in 1990, in our small construction office, the question was do we spend all this money on an rolled onion-paper style fax machine when we don't really see how it will change our communications any.

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

I miss washing machines that were capable of causing death.

New washers don’t really clean and require way too much of my time babysitting them.

Stupid thing goes OOB (out of balance) 30% of the time. Fleece? Almost impossible without me present.