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

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  • #121
    thekaj said:
    The only place I still write checks for is our on-campus cafe, to reload my badge with funds. For the longest time, you could only do checks or cash to load your badge. They then installed an ATM machine, but it charges something like $3 per withdrawal. They recently added the ability to reload your card online. There's something like a $5 fee per reload.

    I still use my checkbook.
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    I still use checks for tithing at church. Almost everything else is credit cards now.

    When I started at my current job the cafe was cash only (and they had an ATM that didn't charge a fee so not that big a deal) but they have switched to taking cards so its an oddity that I have cash right now.
     
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  • #122
    ChaoticUnreal said:
    thekaj said:
    The only place I still write checks for is our on-campus cafe, to reload my badge with funds. For the longest time, you could only do checks or cash to load your badge. They then installed an ATM machine, but it charges something like $3 per withdrawal. They recently added the ability to reload your card online. There's something like a $5 fee per reload.

    I still use my checkbook.
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    I still use checks for tithing at church. Almost everything else is credit cards now.

    When I started at my current job the cafe was cash only (and they had an ATM that didn't charge a fee so not that big a deal) but they have switched to taking cards so its an oddity that I have cash right now.
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    Tender Greens, at least the one by work, has switched to cashless. Credit/Debit only.
     
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  • #126
    I really enjoy the job application sites that are all "just upload your resume!" You do so, the next page is their automated attempt at pasting it into a form, and it failed miserably at it. So you spend the next half hour correcting the various errors, wondering why they didn't just skip the upload step. The last one I did added the extra fun of inserting random punctuation errors in job responsibilities, like randomly capitalizing words and adding commas where none existed in the resume. Since the job actually includes the need to draft and proofread documents, submitting an application that looks like it was punctuated by the average YouTube commentator seemed like a bad idea!

    I'm actually hoping that it was a test. An easy way to weed out the people who didn't bother to check their work, when it's a major aspect of the job. But the reality probably is that it's just a shitty HR widget that they bought.
     
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  • #129
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    People that say things in an internet forum that they probably would not say to your face because if they did they would have to crawl around hand & knee to find their teeth. :mad: :mad: :mad:
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    People who claim to be badasses on internet forum and make vague random threats.
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    You better not say that near Cincinnati or you'll be sorry. :mad:









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  • #134
    Rowan said:
    Drivers that get to a red light and start looking at their phone. Drivers that get to an intersection and start looking at their cell phone. Drivers that get to an intersection and don't stop looking at their cell phone. People that get in their cars and start driving but can't stop looking at their cell phone. Point made yet?
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    You don't like drivers?
     
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  • #136
    Drizzt321 said:
    People that post text as an image to whatever social media platform. !@*#Y%()*Y!@#&^T$(&*#!T^&*_&#^Y)(*IUH#BF@*#$^&B()#!!!!!!!
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  • #140
    Delivery companies that have a 'track my shit' ability on the website but insist on posting information that is way out of date.

    I am WFH today and waiting on two parcels, one just turned up despite the tracking saying that the driver still has 98 more stops...

    Spoilered because huge image.

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    I have the parcel in my hand, it has been delivered.

    Now I am waiting for the second, apparently that is still on target for 'before 5PM'...
     
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  • #143
    I once got a notice that an Amazon delivery was going to be delayed AFTER I actually received the package. Turns out the first one they sent out somehow managed to not get counted as "shipped", so they then sent out another one. Took me forever to figure out a way to actually contact Amazon to let them know. It was a set of gardening gloves, so naturally they told me to keep both pair. A coworker got an unexpected gift from me.
     
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  • #144
    thekaj said:
    I once got a notice that an Amazon delivery was going to be delayed AFTER I actually received the package. Turns out the first one they sent out somehow managed to not get counted as "shipped", so they then sent out another one. Took me forever to figure out a way to actually contact Amazon to let them know. It was a set of gardening gloves, so naturally they told me to keep both pair. A coworker got an unexpected gift from me.
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    Amazon is so big now (and they have a decent chunk of money set aside to cover loss), I imagine there's a dollar value threshold where it costs more to recover the item than they would make on it. Good PR too (Amazon gave me free stuff!). They have a pretty good system for tracking abusers, so it's a win-win to let the occasional screw-ups slide.

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  • #149
    SandyTech said:
    I love my wife dearly. But she has one habit that pisses me off to no end. When she's loading the dishwasher, she will not separate the silverware into the little basket jobber by type.
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    Do you mean that spoons go in one section of the basket, knives in another, etc.?

    If so, that's cool. But I'm with your wife. Well, not literally. Hell, I've never met her. But I agree with her.
     
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  • #152
    Hoos said:
    SandyTech said:
    I love my wife dearly. But she has one habit that pisses me off to no end. When she's loading the dishwasher, she will not separate the silverware into the little basket jobber by type.
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    Do you mean that spoons go in one section of the basket, knives in another, etc.?

    If so, that's cool. But I'm with your wife. Well, not literally. Hell, I've never met her. But I agree with her.
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    Yup. One big clump of silverware in the closest section to the door and a second in the next one in.

    I recognize that it’s a childish and ridiculous thing, but it still gets on my nerves.
     
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  • #153
    Mike_B said:
    SandyTech said:
    I love my wife dearly. But she has one habit that pisses me off to no end. When she's loading the dishwasher, she will not separate the silverware into the little basket jobber by type.
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    If you do this then they nest and won’t be cleaned properly. It’s better to mix them up.
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    Or even better, have a dishwasher with a third rack for cutlery!
     
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  • #154
    leet said:
    Mike_B said:
    SandyTech said:
    I love my wife dearly. But she has one habit that pisses me off to no end. When she's loading the dishwasher, she will not separate the silverware into the little basket jobber by type.
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    If you do this then they nest and won’t be cleaned properly. It’s better to mix them up.
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    Or even better, have a dishwasher with a third rack for cutlery!
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    This! And even my 8-year old son knows that when you sort the cutlery there it's the easiest to just grab a handful of single type when unloading.
     
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  • #155
    Alright, if you know that an update of the data in your app is going to take an hour or two in order to download via wifi (because you say so in the click-through), why the hell do you not code your app so that this can happen in the background? I have to keep the app on my screen that entire time? AND since it's a GPS navigation app, it's going to be sucking down battery power through a fire hose? Yeah, fuck you very much Garmin.
     
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  • #156
    EVERY F'ING NEWS SITE I VISITED TODAY IS AUTO-PLAYING VIDEOS. Special hatred (Grrrr :mad: ) to those F'ing pages which are headered by a giant auto-playing video which when you scroll past so you can read the article just resizes and follows you down page in the browser.

    Hell, even the BBC (which initiated this rant) led off the header of the page with an auto-playing video, and when I scrolled down, it shrunk the video, rooted it to the top of the browser page. It then proceeded to play another embedded video in the article.

    Is this what people really want? Do this on this site and people go apeshit. But we're a little different I suspect. Does the general populous love auto-playing videos? Do they get off on distractions, motion, and noise?
     
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  • #158
    Oh, and CBS news, you are so guilty of video fuckery that I won't visit your site anymore. I blocked videos, frames, all sorts of crap to make your site readable without video following me around everywhere. But somehow I've managed to not block the audio stream associated with the video. It's separate from the VIDEO? I can literally visit a page and even though there is no video stream, the F'ing audio plays through my speakers. Piss right the F off.
     
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  • #159
    Hoos said:
    You can disable autoplay in Firefox in about:config. Just search for autoplay and double click it to disable.

    There’s something similar for Chrome but don’t recall it.
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    Yeah, chrome. I'm going to have to research that. First site I checked after a brief search: Lifehacker "How to Automatically Silence Annoying Autoplay Videos in Google Chrome". Didn't have a real answer though.

    It did however have to auto-playing videos........ sigh
     
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  • #160
    EVERY F'ING NEWS SITE I VISITED TODAY IS AUTO-PLAYING VIDEOS. Special hatred (Grrrr ) to those F'ing pages which are headered by a giant auto-playing video which when you scroll past so you can read the article just resizes and follows you down page in the browser.
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    There's a wiki that I've been visiting lately that does this. Extra fun when on a phone, as the video is 1/3 the size of the screen. :rolleyes:

    At this point, on my work computer, I just permanently have headphones plugged in (but not in my ears), and at home, I default to having the sound muted. Way too many incidents of SUDDEN AUDIO FEED when browsing these days.
     
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