In this episode of 'Things That Piss Me Off'.........

rainynight65

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General website stupidity. Trying to enter a credit card, it won't accept spaces. Folks, I was removing spaces with sed 40 effin years ago, I've done it in awk, perl, C, Java, and now Kotlin. It ain't that hard, and it's a hell of a lot easier to spot a mistake in 4 groups of 4 than in 1 group of 16. Especially as it's 4 groups of 4 on my bloody card.
Even worse when they limit the field to 16 characters, so you can't even paste in your number and then remove the spaces yourself.

Yes, I have seen that before...
 

Bardon

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In my experience, these days I the patient don't get the prescription at all. It goes straight from the doctor to the pharmacy. I have to tell the doctor which pharmacy to send it to. If that pharmacy is out of stock or charges too much or is in a different city from where I am working the week I need a refill, I have to contact my doctor's office during business hours and give them three business days' notice that I want to use a different pharmacy.
Wow, that's .... not great. While we can choose to have the doc send our scripts direct to a certain pharmacy, they will happily transfer it elsewhere right then and there if they can't provide it - either to another nominated pharmacy or you get the QR code and take it wherever you will. For certain of my prescriptions such as opiods, I always get them sent to our regular pharmacy because they know as well as I do when the next one will be needed so they've always got stock and as for price - it's gov't listed so they have to charge the set fee.
 
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Wheels Of Confusion

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Just earlier today, I was trying to make an account on a website and first they wanted a country code, but even adding 1- to the phone number wasn't enough; I had to add +1- to the phone number. I had to freaking add a +
Dag.

Usually a plus-one is optional. Probably not going to be a great party.
 

Da Xiang

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View attachment 119116

Notice how the first two sentences in this search response completely contradict each other.....🤬
And today I did locate a full copy of "1967 Blue Skies" available for free streaming on bilibili.com

And about 30 others that the AI said "never existed". Fortunately, even after 3 strokes in 2023 my brain works just fine thank you.......(caused by a chemical imbalance--not a a ruptured aneurysm!)
 

Dzov

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Got my flu shot yesterday, but apparently I wasn't eligible for the covid vax this year.
I had to cross state lines into Kansas to get my covid vax. You could try getting a prescription for it from your doctor?
 

dredphul

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I hate the latest Android UI update.

1: It looks like ass. Instead of icons they decide to change buttons to text (for example the snooze or stop buttons in the Alarm app). Why the fuck do I have to utilize reading first fucking thing in the morning when I wake up? When they do use icons and graphics, it feels very cartoony. They also crammed haptic feedback when it's not needed. I do not need my phone to 'tick' when I swipe away a notification.

2: They broke automation routines again. I have a stupid little routine that verbally tells me the weather, any events on my personal daily calendar, and then plays audio clips of the news from a variety of sources. That routine doesn't work and there are no error messages to determine what's going wrong. The Home app which housed all the automations isn't doing that anymore? The routine I use is now edited in the Alarm app which does nothing to fix my issues. The Home app is now for managing Nest things I guess or connecting to "smart home" devices now?
 
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abj

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I hate the latest Android UI update.

1: It looks like ass. Instead of icons they decide to change buttons to text (for example the snooze or stop buttons in the Alarm app). Why the fuck do I have to utilize reading first fucking thing in the morning when I wake up? When they do use icons and graphics, it feels very cartoony. They also crammed haptic feedback when it's not needed. I do not need my phone to 'tick' when I swipe away a notification.

2: They broke automation routines again. I have a stupid little routine that verbally tells me the weather, any events on my personal daily calendar, and then plays audio clips of the news from a variety of sources. That routine doesn't work and there are no error messages to determine what's going wrong. The Home app which housed all the automations isn't doing that anymore? The routine I use is now edited in the Alarm app which does nothing to fix my issues. The Home app is now for managing Nest things I guess or connecting to "smart home" devices now?
I am still salty about how they changed the alarm so it is no longer swipe one way to snooze the other to stop. The two button design just isn't as good.
 

ChaoticUnreal

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Having to come into my office 20% of my time (and that is with an exemption).

I have no issue coming in when there is an actual reason (like a meeting or needing to print something (printing came up around the start of covid)) but if the only reason I'm in the office is to check a fucking box then why. On top of that the screens they have at the desks here are just so much smaller than the ones I have at my house so everything just looks so squished
 

dmsilev

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I got mine from CVS like usual, the eligibility page lists comorbidities like "physically inactive". Not that they checked.
I got mine at a Kaiser clinic, and the form just had a "do you qualify, yes/no" checkbox. I don't even think they bothered to add a list of the qualifying conditions.

Reminds me of the all-time stupidest safety test I ever took, at a government lab user facility which shall remain nameless. Sit through a slideshow on electrical safety, at the level of "don't lick the busbars", and then at the end a one question quiz, "yes or no, did you understand that material?". And you had two chances to take the quiz. My theory is that at least some people taking the quiz decided to be wiseasses and answer "no", and building a second chance into the structure saved somebody a lot of paperwork dealing with the 'failures".
 
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Backstop

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Ohio had a "Liar's Law" like that for a long time for fireworks; it was legal to sell fireworks here but not legal to set them off.

So the buyer had to sign a paper and check a box indicating the state where they intended to use the fireworks. Of course, all the neighboring states on the list also had laws against using fireworks, too, but no matter.
 
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PhaseShifter

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Reminds me of the all-time stupidest safety test I ever took, at a government lab user facility which shall remain nameless. Sit through a slideshow on electrical safety, at the level of "don't lick the busbars", and then at the end a one question quiz, "yes or no, did you understand that material?". And you had two chances to take the quiz. My theory is that at least some people taking the quiz decided to be wiseasses and answer "no", and building a second chance into the structure saved somebody a lot of paperwork dealing with the 'failures".
That reminds me of all the forms I've had to fill out that included the line "Do you read and understand English?" with a checkbox for "yes" and another for "no."

What about the people who can read English but clearly don't understand it even though they think they do? (Thinking of the MAGAt who couldn't find the definition of treason even after I pointed the to Article 3, Section 3 in the U.S. Constitution, claiming there was nothing relevant to be found there.)

Or also the people who don't read English, and only know that given two options, one is usually affirmative and the other will be negative, and the negative starts with "n" in most European languages (no, not, nein, non, nie, nu, etc.). And negative answers tend to get you shut out of opportunities.
 

PhaseShifter

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Here is the official list, I just used Hypertension.
I could use my weight, but then I noticed this:

Disabilities

People with some types of disabilities may be more likely to get very sick from COVID-19 because of underlying medical conditions, living in congregate settings, or systemic health and social inequities, including:

People with any type of disability that makes it more difficult to do certain activities or interact with the world around them, including people who need help with self-care or daily activities
People with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
People with cerebral palsy
People with birth defects
People with intellectual and developmental disabilities
People with learning disabilities
People with spinal cord injuries
People with Down syndrome

I have to admit it would be funny to pull out my aphasia diagnosis from 41 years ago and say "I need to get a shot because I can't tell you why I need a shot."


Just to test whether the pharmacist is really an AI or something.
 

dredphul

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I actually agree with this change, maybe I am old and out of it but a fair number of icons are mysterious to me, and I find myself wishing they had a word.
Ok, but does the new battery icon need the nipple on the left end?

The alarm buttons are also just white and they melt into any white background.
 

Diabolical

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Civil Servants who are deemed essential get the fun of coming to work and also not getting paid. Like Air Traffic Controllers, TSA agents... and the military.

What's particularly freaking irritating is that I'm in the broad swath of folks required to still be working. Regs state you'll be paid (eventually), including shift differential and overtime, once the shutdown is resolved.

Fun fact (not so fun)? The pay code we're being required to input for working during the shutdown? Doesn't allow you to add said shift differential. Or have any mechanism to log overtime hours.

<sigh>
Paper fucking timecards in order to log corrections, incoming! And then the <x> number of paychecks until the government pays us what it owes us for working shift during a lapse in appropriations......

<grumble grumble grumble>
 

Da Xiang

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What's particularly freaking irritating is that I'm in the broad swath of folks required to still be working. Regs state you'll be paid (eventually), including shift differential and overtime, once the shutdown is resolved.

Fun fact (not so fun)? The pay code we're being required to input for working during the shutdown? Doesn't allow you to add said shift differential. Or have any mechanism to log overtime hours.

<sigh>
Paper fucking timecards in order to log corrections, incoming! And then the <x> number of paychecks until the government pays us what it owes us for working shift during a lapse in appropriations......

<grumble grumble grumble>
yeah, my son also is still required to work but no paychecks coming until whenever this is over. WTF! He can't refuse stating, "No pay, no work" or he would get fired. I sure as hell wouldn't want to have to depend on anything in the Trump admin being guaranteed except that someone will be screwed for sure.
 
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Hap

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My government customer (MDA) is considered "essential" - so business as usual for us, but my wife (Dept of Army) has been at home for 3 days and she is incredibly stressed. Better than Diabolical working for no pay, but she's still stressed and tends to hover while I try to work (I live in meetings).