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

[Drizzt321]

People who don't start a new email message and, instead, just pile crap onto something that's (now) weeks old):

To: Hoos
From: Not Hoos
Subject: Hours Report Needed (no rush)
Date: February 19, 2018

This is the subject and there was back and forth for clarification and then some other stuff kind of lumped in there (but related to that specific case). But it's been over and done for a while barring a couple of random "thank you" and "nice", etc.

Then!

To: Hoos
From: Not Hoos
Subject: Whar Be Impurant Info
Date: March 20, oh fuck mylifeteen

The gist of which is: I asked for this [totally different report for a different case]. Whar whar whar is it!

Me replies: Can you resend it? I didn't get it.

Not Hoos forwards me the email chain for the 2/19 email. Yeah. Not my fault. And it's not even the top couple of messages.

Hoos Reply:
I still don't see it. This email doesn't appear to be related. Can you just send me the request in a new email please? :devious:

 

[krimhorn]

People who don't start a new email message and, instead, just pile crap onto something that's (now) weeks old):

To: Hoos
From: Not Hoos
Subject: Hours Report Needed (no rush)
Date: February 19, 2018

This is the subject and there was back and forth for clarification and then some other stuff kind of lumped in there (but related to that specific case). But it's been over and done for a while barring a couple of random "thank you" and "nice", etc.

Then!

To: Hoos
From: Not Hoos
Subject: Whar Be Impurant Info
Date: March 20, oh fuck mylifeteen

The gist of which is: I asked for this [totally different report for a different case]. Whar whar whar is it!

Me replies: Can you resend it? I didn't get it.

Not Hoos forwards me the email chain for the 2/19 email. Yeah. Not my fault. And it's not even the top couple of messages.

Hoos Reply:
I still don't see it. This email doesn't appear to be related. Can you just send me the request in a new email please? :devious:

PS: Not enough screenshots of pdfs pasted into Word

 

[Drizzt321]

People who don't start a new email message and, instead, just pile crap onto something that's (now) weeks old):

To: Hoos
From: Not Hoos
Subject: Hours Report Needed (no rush)
Date: February 19, 2018

This is the subject and there was back and forth for clarification and then some other stuff kind of lumped in there (but related to that specific case). But it's been over and done for a while barring a couple of random "thank you" and "nice", etc.

Then!

To: Hoos
From: Not Hoos
Subject: Whar Be Impurant Info
Date: March 20, oh fuck mylifeteen

The gist of which is: I asked for this [totally different report for a different case]. Whar whar whar is it!

Me replies: Can you resend it? I didn't get it.

Not Hoos forwards me the email chain for the 2/19 email. Yeah. Not my fault. And it's not even the top couple of messages.

Hoos Reply:
I still don't see it. This email doesn't appear to be related. Can you just send me the request in a new email please? :devious:

PS: Not enough screenshots of pdfs pasted into Word

Crappy, highly compressed scans of photocopies of printed out emails.

 

[blahpony]

People who don't start a new email message and, instead, just pile crap onto something that's (now) weeks old):

To: Hoos
From: Not Hoos
Subject: Hours Report Needed (no rush)
Date: February 19, 2018

This is the subject and there was back and forth for clarification and then some other stuff kind of lumped in there (but related to that specific case). But it's been over and done for a while barring a couple of random "thank you" and "nice", etc.

Then!

To: Hoos
From: Not Hoos
Subject: Whar Be Impurant Info
Date: March 20, oh fuck mylifeteen

The gist of which is: I asked for this [totally different report for a different case]. Whar whar whar is it!

Me replies: Can you resend it? I didn't get it.

Not Hoos forwards me the email chain for the 2/19 email. Yeah. Not my fault. And it's not even the top couple of messages.

I worked with someone that did that. She would open the original email, along with everyone still cc:ed to it, for every request she made. One day she sent that email and asked why her new supervisor's email account hadn't been made in two weeks. I dug through the email, with all of the top and bottom replies, and actually found the request buried a couple of pages in. I made the account, sent out the reply to everyone, then cut all the cc:ed people. The stripped down email was sent to just her explaining why she can't just open the original email to send in new requests. I figure I was quite polite about it. I could've told she was doing it wrong with all the people still cc:ed.

 

[Drizzt321]

People who don't start a new email message and, instead, just pile crap onto something that's (now) weeks old):

To: Hoos
From: Not Hoos
Subject: Hours Report Needed (no rush)
Date: February 19, 2018

This is the subject and there was back and forth for clarification and then some other stuff kind of lumped in there (but related to that specific case). But it's been over and done for a while barring a couple of random "thank you" and "nice", etc.

Then!

To: Hoos
From: Not Hoos
Subject: Whar Be Impurant Info
Date: March 20, oh fuck mylifeteen

The gist of which is: I asked for this [totally different report for a different case]. Whar whar whar is it!

Me replies: Can you resend it? I didn't get it.

Not Hoos forwards me the email chain for the 2/19 email. Yeah. Not my fault. And it's not even the top couple of messages.

I worked with someone that did that. She would open the original email, along with everyone still cc:ed to it, for every request she made. One day she sent that email and asked why her new supervisor's email account hadn't been made in two weeks. I dug through the email, with all of the top and bottom replies, and actually found the request buried a couple of pages in. I made the account, sent out the reply to everyone, then cut all the cc:ed people. The stripped down email was sent to just her explaining why she can't just open the original email to send in new requests. I figure I was quite polite about it. I could've told she was doing it wrong with all the people still cc:ed.

A couple of times, widely spaced, and there's no need to call someone out right in front of everybody. After that... either with the manager/supervisor or what not CCed on the email, yes.

 

[grommit!]

My favourites are the people who respond to our end of day status email (where we list any issues blocking our team) to start troubleshooting the problem - on the same subject line and distribution list. If you were that worried about looking bad in front of the senior execs, perhaps look into the issues when we first reported them?

 

[CuriouslySane]

Colleagues who start a chat session by asking if I they can ask a question and then expect me to sit and wait while they type it out.

 

[Drizzt321]

Colleagues who start a chat session by asking if I they can ask a question and then expect me to sit and wait while they type it out.

Hey, mind if I ask you something?

 

[Deleted member 129457]

Colleagues who start a chat session by asking if I they can ask a question and then expect me to sit and wait while they type it out.

Hey, mind if I ask you something?

Usually along the lines of:

I need to figure out how we did that report. You remember? In that case we prepared for trial about 10 years ago? I think it was the day my daughter had her appendectomy and it might have been regarding disqualifying an expert or it might have been a comparison between shoe size and successful free throws in the NBA. Or was that the other case? Do you remember? I'm not sure now. Or maybe it was Boogratz who worked on that case. If you didn't could you check with him? Thanks.

 

[thekaj]

I have a coworker who's notorious for starting a chat session by saying hello, and then getting distracted for several minutes with something else, if not going completely silent for hours. My SOP for her is to reply back with a "hello", and if she doesn't say anything back within a couple minutes, close the window.

The worse ones are the people who will be typing up something for several minutes. So you're seeing the "so-and-so is typing" notice, and just waiting to see what they're going to say. Eventually you realize it's either going to be a wall-o-text, or they're on the 5th revision of a couple sentences. For people I know well, I'll eventually just ask them to hit return to send what they have, so I can start reading while they begin on the second chapter.

There's also the people who ask a question, and then while you're typing a response, you see that they've started typing again. So you're all, do I answer their question now, or wait for whatever else they're writing? Then they stop typing. So you start to type. But they start typing again, so you stop. And then they stop. So you start again. And then so do they...

 

[helel ben shachar]

Chat, yeah, not always the best option. Simple stuff is fine.

For more involved discussions I'll IM someone and ask if they have a minute or so to spare. If they say yes, I reply 'Calling....' and ring them at their desk. The discussion takes much less time over the phone. Also, chat lacks inflection, which disturbs me sometimes.

 

[Frennzy]

Okay...you know that Range Rover commercial where the dude drives up the "999 steps" thing?

Yeah...He gets all the way to the top...but never brings the rear wheels onto the top platform!!!

This bothers me in ways I can't describe.

 

[Drizzt321]

Amazon saying "guaranteed delivery" and then after saying shipped, saying "we're sorry, we don't know when it'll be delivered. we think it'll be in the next day or two".

Fucking hell. Just add a day or two onto the guaranteed delivery date. Prime 2 day shipping means when shipped, not 2 business days for you to get it...although in the past it used to generally mean that. Ever since after this past holiday season Amazon, I've had multiple packages delayed a day or two past the guaranteed delivery date.

And how strange, it always seems to be with Amazon courier service. Hm. There's NO cost cutting going on there. Never. Perish the thought. Also those idiots leave packages in front of a locked business door on a Saturday. Everybody else, even USPS just waits until Monday to try and re-deliver.

 

[mhac]

The worse ones are the people who will be typing up something for several minutes. So you're seeing the "so-and-so is typing" notice, and just waiting to see what they're going to say. Eventually you realize it's either going to be a wall-o-text, or they're on the 5th revision of a couple sentences. For people I know well, I'll eventually just ask them to hit return to send what they have, so I can start reading while they begin on the second chapter.

There's also the people who ask a question, and then while you're typing a response, you see that they've started typing again. So you're all, do I answer their question now, or wait for whatever else they're writing? Then they stop typing. So you start to type. But they start typing again, so you stop. And then they stop. So you start again. And then so do they...

That first one, if it happened too often, I'd probably just cut them off and ask for it in email.

The second one isn't bad though. It's not an uncommon occurrence for me to carry on multiple conversations with the same person in the same text window. The topic chains will branch out, and I just reply to each part when I'm ready. Even though the text is displayed linearly, it's usually not too hard to track, assuming each response has minimal context. It's a decent solution for people that like to talk over each other. Instead of the input/output colliding when you talk, we can pause and digest each response and then respond while the other person is continuing.


-mhac³

 

[Miner0321]

Okay...you know that Range Rover commercial where the dude drives up the "999 steps" thing?

Yeah...He gets all the way to the top...but never brings the rear wheels onto the top platform!!!

This bothers me in ways I can't describe.

I just saw this commercial yesterday and thought the same thing. There is enough room too so it really makes no sense. Plus they portray it like he will be driving on some twisty road and that never happens either.

 

[Belisarius]

Okay...you know that Range Rover commercial where the dude drives up the "999 steps" thing?

Yeah...He gets all the way to the top...but never brings the rear wheels onto the top platform!!!

This bothers me in ways I can't describe.

I just saw this commercial yesterday and thought the same thing. There is enough room too so it really makes no sense. Plus they portray it like he will be driving on some twisty road and that never happens either.

I'm also kind of confused as to why I should be impressed by it to begin with. If your 250+ hp vehicle can't drive up an incline, I'd be a little worried.

 

[Frennzy]

I just saw this commercial yesterday and thought the same thing. There is enough room too so it really makes no sense. Plus they portray it like he will be driving on some twisty road and that never happens either.

There is a 2.5 minute version on youtube that includes those parts.

 

[FXWizard]

Colleagues who start a chat session by asking if I they can ask a question and then expect me to sit and wait while they type it out.

At least they asked...I'd get IMs from an off-site developer with only "Hi" and he'd expect me to initiate the rest of the conversation.

Sorry, dude, but if you're waiting to see if I'm busy before getting down to business, then ask me if I'm busy? If I am I'll say it's not a good time to chat and if I'm good to go I will ask what do you need?

 

[helel ben shachar]

Hey! I’m in Florida to hopefully watch the next Falcon launch!

First impressions:

Why the holy fuck am I being extorted by toll roads. Is this whole fucking state a fucking driving racket? Google maps must have f’ing mob ties given the cash I had to lay down. Fuck Florida. I finally found the iPhone modifier that turned that off. Still, JEBUS.

Also, this entire state drives like old people fuck.

/rant.

 

[Neopassive]

Fuck Florida. I finally found the iPhone modifier that turned that off.

Please share this modifier which lets you turn off Florida with the rest of us. It's important.

 

[krimhorn]

Fuck Florida. I finally found the iPhone modifier that turned that off.

Please share this modifier which lets you turn off Florida with the rest of us. It's important.

never gets old

 

[SandyTech]

Why the holy fuck am I being extorted by toll roads. Is this whole fucking state a fucking driving racket? Google maps must have f’ing mob ties given the cash I had to lay down. Fuck Florida. I finally found the iPhone modifier that turned that off. Still, JEBUS.

Gotta pay for the roads you goddamn tourists clog up for the rest of us somehow.

In this episode of things that piss me off... people who ignore warning lights in the company vehicles. So now, what could have been a simple thermostat fix is going ot to at least be head gaskets and quite possibly a short block instead.

 

[Deleted member 129457]

Also, this entire state drives like old people fuck.

This invites so many possibilities:

Only at night with the lights off?

With the help of a blue pill, paired with the hope that it will all be over soon?

Once a week and never for pleasure?

Only with protection?

 

[StanFL]

In grocery store checkout lanes (especially Express Lanes) I try to be respectful of the personal space of the customer in front of me. Standing two feet behind them however, usually inevitably results in the customer behind me invading MY personal space. Like getting in my personal space will result in them getting checked out faster. I simply turn my back to them and face forward so I don't have to witness their behavior. They rarely however, "get it"

 

[blahpony]

 

[thekaj]

When you’re enticed by a headline suggesting you revisit a game from your childhood, and it’s about a game from the late-90’s.

 

[Technarch]

When you’re enticed by a headline suggesting you revisit a game from your childhood, and it’s about a game from the late-90’s.

At my last job we were talking about movies and I mentioned how great the first Indiana Jones was. One of the engineers admitted he'd never seen it... because he hadn't been born when it came out.

 

[thekaj]

I don't understand how otherwise seemingly nice people can be so clueless about residential street parking courtesy.

Cardinal Rule #1 is of course, don't block a driveway. Followed closely behind by Rule #2 of: the spot directly in front of someone's house is THEIR spot. I'm sorry that you've decided that your 3 adult house needs to have 4 cars, but you've got your driveway, the spot directly in front of your house, space for two cars on the other side of your house, since you're on the corner, and because the neighbor across the street has alley parking behind their house, spots for at least two more cars right there! Why the everliving fuck do you think it's okay to habitually park in front of our house, when you KNOW we park there?

I'm not going to check, but I'm pretty certain the Hatfield and McCoy feud was the result of one person habitually parking their horse in front of the other family's homestead.

 

[Deleted member 129457]

Pet(ty) peeve of the moment: stupid startups with stupid people.

Specifically, the sudden, multiple number of motherfucking dickheads companies that allow you to rent scooter/skateboards (and some bicycles) in the city. Sure it sounds great. But there are no stalls or lockers for them. Currently, I think there are three scooter "startups", one for skateboards, and one for bikes. One of the bike rental services is provided by Ford and they do have specific stands that you rent from and return the bike to.

So people abandon them and ride them. Wherever. The. Fuck. They. Want.

Middle of sidewalks, partially in traffic, etc. You add that on top of regular people with regular issues, the various dogwalkers who don't give a fuck, and the various multiple-dog walkers that really don't give a fuck, and just walking around the city becomes a fucking pain in the ass.

I suppose it's just icing on the cake of the used needles, fecal matter, and overall stench of piss.

I fucking hate the ignorant, self-absorbed startup mentality.

 

[BenN]

The latest thing that annoys me/makes me embarrassed to be a foreigner in Japan:

Foreigners in Mario cosplay driving go karts around Osaka
I saw a convoy of these muppets the other day in central Osaka, dressed up, ignoring traffic signals, and generally behaving like tools. :facepalm:

 

[Drizzt321]

Pet(ty) peeve of the moment: stupid startups with stupid people.

Specifically, the sudden, multiple number of motherfucking dickheads companies that allow you to rent scooter/skateboards (and some bicycles) in the city. Sure it sounds great. But there are no stalls or lockers for them. Currently, I think there are three scooter "startups", one for skateboards, and one for bikes. One of the bike rental services is provided by Ford and they do have specific stands that you rent from and return the bike to.

So people abandon them and ride them. Wherever. The. Fuck. They. Want.

Middle of sidewalks, partially in traffic, etc. You add that on top of regular people with regular issues, the various dogwalkers who don't give a fuck, and the various multiple-dog walkers that really don't give a fuck, and just walking around the city becomes a fucking pain in the ass.

I suppose it's just icing on the cake of the used needles, fecal matter, and overall stench of piss.

I fucking hate the ignorant, self-absorbed startup mentality.

Heh. So are you talking about Bird, or the new one I just saw in Westwood, Lime-S. The idea is fantastic, great last mile or "quick trip for a couple of items from the nearby store", but. Big but. People are people. And don't give a shit about anyone else and leave them every fucking where. Everywhere. Oh, this is where I'm going. I'll step off right in front of the door and walk in, perfect! And right in the way of EVERYONE.

I'm trying to get a new verb/noun going. Birdhole. Like an asshole, but from the Bird/other scooters.

 

[SandyTech]

People who try to complete a passing maneuver when there's no goddamn room to do so. I had to run some round bales of hay from dad's farm up to the neighbors. No big deal, grab the loader tractor & bale forks, drop the requisite number of bales onto the trailer, ratchet strap the fuckers down and off we go. Tooling along down the road at around 20mph with the blinkers & beacons on as the state likes us to, some idiot comes flying up behind me. So I do the polite thing and pull off to the right as far as I can to make passing easier for the person behind me. And they just sit there. I can't go further to the right without risking going into the ditch, and I literally can't go any faster. We carry on with this idiocy for almost four miles. As we approach a bridge over a canal, I'm forced to move back to the left. And that's when the idiot behind me finally decides that the road is clear and floors it to go around me. Except it wasn't clear, there was a farm truck with a load of oranges headed the other way.

 

[Drizzt321]

People who try to complete a passing maneuver when there's no goddamn room to do so. I had to run some round bales of hay from dad's farm up to the neighbors. No big deal, grab the loader tractor & bale forks, drop the requisite number of bales onto the trailer, ratchet strap the fuckers down and off we go. Tooling along down the road at around 20mph with the blinkers & beacons on as the state likes us to, some idiot comes flying up behind me. So I do the polite thing and pull off to the right as far as I can to make passing easier for the person behind me. And they just sit there. I can't go further to the right without risking going into the ditch, and I literally can't go any faster. We carry on with this idiocy for almost four miles. As we approach a bridge over a canal, I'm forced to move back to the left. And that's when the idiot behind me finally decides that the road is clear and floors it to go around me. Except it wasn't clear, there was a farm truck with a load of oranges headed the other way.

You can't fix stupid. But you can record them for posterity and induction into the Darwin Award!

 

[Deleted member 129457]

So are you talking about Bird, or the new one I just saw in Westwood, Lime-S.

SF has both. Along with some skateboard company and a second, city-sponsored bike system. All of them are “dockless”. So people can leave them wherever the hell they want. People have posted pictures of them thrown in the bay or in a garbage can. One guy apparently got into a minor scuffle with a homeless person over one.

I agree with the concept. Handy and great for short trips. I don’t think anything is required beyond a credit card. I think you have to have a license and wear a helmet for motorized scooters, but no one is checking that either.

So you have a fair number of untrained dumbasses creating excitement on the sidewalks before they decide to just leave their shit wherever. From what’s known, there is little/no oversight by or of the companies.

With that lack of concern for users, the public, or the hardware, it seems like the companies are just doing it in the hopes of getting their startup bought out for some filthy lucre.

 

[bluloo]

Pet(ty) peeve of the moment: stupid startups with stupid people.

Specifically, the sudden, multiple number of motherfucking dickheads companies that allow you to rent scooter/skateboards (and some bicycles) in the city. Sure it sounds great. But there are no stalls or lockers for them. Currently, I think there are three scooter "startups", one for skateboards, and one for bikes. One of the bike rental services is provided by Ford and they do have specific stands that you rent from and return the bike to.

So people abandon them and ride them. Wherever. The. Fuck. They. Want.

Middle of sidewalks, partially in traffic, etc. You add that on top of regular people with regular issues, the various dogwalkers who don't give a fuck, and the various multiple-dog walkers that really don't give a fuck, and just walking around the city becomes a fucking pain in the ass.

I suppose it's just icing on the cake of the used needles, fecal matter, and overall stench of piss.

I fucking hate the ignorant, self-absorbed startup mentality.

Does this mean you've lost interest in my SassySox rent-a-sock franchise?

I'll have you know I put a non-insignificant amount of work into the PP presentation.

 

[Frennzy]

Me frantically creates competing startup Sockr to cash in on bluloo's idea.

 

[bluloo]

Me frantically creates competing startup Sockr to cash in on bluloo's idea.

Creates Suckr start-up to sow confusion in the marketplace.

 

[Frennzy]

Signs FIFA endorsement. Retires a billionaire.

 

[bluloo]

 

[Drizzt321]

So are you talking about Bird, or the new one I just saw in Westwood, Lime-S.

SF has both. Along with some skateboard company and a second, city-sponsored bike system. All of them are “dockless”. So people can leave them wherever the hell they want. People have posted pictures of them thrown in the bay or in a garbage can. One guy apparently got into a minor scuffle with a homeless person over one.

I agree with the concept. Handy and great for short trips. I don’t think anything is required beyond a credit card. I think you have to have a license and wear a helmet for motorized scooters, but no one is checking that either.

So you have a fair number of untrained dumbasses creating excitement on the sidewalks before they decide to just leave their shit wherever. From what’s known, there is little/no oversight by or of the companies.

With that lack of concern for users, the public, or the hardware, it seems like the companies are just doing it in the hopes of getting their startup bought out for some filthy lucre.

So I heard Bird was actually started by an ex-executive from Uber. What a surprise.

Although I do know Bird supposedly is dedicated to giving out free helmets, but that assumes people actually bother. And yea, they're not supposed to ride them on sidewalks, only streets/bike lanes. Then again, so are bikes. And not everyone does that.