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Trivial things that annoy you intensely. (Part 3)
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Zeropoint1
30-06-2016
I forgot to add to my long post -

One night I was in the rock bar on my own as usual watching a band play when a woman walked up to me and asked if I worked with Dave xxxxxx I said yes and they invited me over to sit with them and I had a great night and often hung out with them on Friday or Saturday nights until they all moved away to Uni later that year.
grimtales1
30-06-2016
Originally Posted by MadBetty:
“When orders from the breakfast menu stops at noon and someone who has decided to wait until 12.01 to go out somewhere to buy breakfast sits down and it goes like this:

Diner: Is it too late to order the Big Breakfast Stack?
Wait Person: I'm sorry it's just after midday and the lunch menu is what is now available.
Diner: But I really would prefer to have something from the breakfast menu.
Wait Person: Chef is no longer cooking breakfast items and the kitchen is now prepped for lunch. Can I show you the lunch menu?
Diner: I don't want to see the lunch menu.
Wait Person: Chef is no longer cooking breakfast......

Now for the killer line....

Diner: Can you go and ask anyway?

Like, it's after midday and you've now decided you want breakfast and your life is depending on it?

Like chef says: "There's a wee greasy-spoon around the corner that does all-day frys, tell them to go there instead".”

Reminds me of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eREiQhBDIk
grimtales1
30-06-2016
Originally Posted by davads:
“Was this customer Michael Douglas in Falling Down? ”


I thought the same thing!
Zeropoint1
30-06-2016
I'm extremely ticklish and it's something some of my fiends find highly amusing. One day in a factory I worked in I mentioned this fact to somebody and another man overheard it. He then went and told everybody and at every opportunity he would creep up behind me and start tickling me which meant I couldn't do the fast moving production line job. I kept politely telling him to stop before finally turning round and shouting extremely loudly 'f*** off and leave me alone'
A few days later he did it again and I told him if he continued I'd stop working and let the whole line f*** up and let the line runner know why I'd stopped working, he didn't believe me on so I just stopped. He carried on so walked away from the belt and let the whole line screw up ending production for about half an hour. The line runner came running over absolutely furious wanting to know what happened so I told her and I was fed up with it, she actually knew he was annoying me but couldn't get enough on him to report him to the manager. It worked and he stopped for a few weeks until he tried again so I just walked away from the belt as he quickly realised I meant it and helped catch up before everything screwed up.
WBs Sailed
30-06-2016
Originally Posted by davads:
“Was this customer Michael Douglas in Falling Down? ”

It reminds me of an advert for Pound Shops I heard on the radio. It went something like this:

Customer: 'Aaar much is this, love?'

SA: 'That's a pound sir'

Customer: 'I'll give you 87p for it'

SA: 'Sir, this is a pound shop, everything is a pound'

Customer: ' Hmm, will you be 'avin' a sale?'
davads
30-06-2016
Originally Posted by WBs Sailed:
“It reminds me of an advert for Pound Shops I heard on the radio. It went something like this:

Customer: 'Aaar much is this, love?'

SA: 'That's a pound sir'

Customer: 'I'll give you 87p for it'

SA: 'Sir, this is a pound shop, everything is a pound'

Customer: ' Hmm, will you be 'avin' a sale?'”

All joking apart, in one of these pound shop documentaries recently a staff member said "How much?" is a genuine question they frequently get!
davads
30-06-2016
People who upload things to YouTube with little context or "provenance", and don't get back to any queries you post.
Tiger Rag
30-06-2016
Originally Posted by MadBetty:
“Ditto

I wont answer the phone if the number is withheld. If you want to be smug and keep your phone number unlisted and ex-directory then don't bother calling me and certainly don't bother giving me your mobile number either. I know people who are at home most of the day, every day, and have a landline but refuse to give you their landline number when you ask for it. I'm not going to spend money calling your mobile so you can stick your mobile number.”

South west water do it.

Someone did it years ago and my parents blocked incoming withheld numbers. He whinged because he couldn't get through.
grimtales1
30-06-2016
Originally Posted by WBs Sailed:
“It reminds me of an advert for Pound Shops I heard on the radio. It went something like this:

Customer: 'Aaar much is this, love?'

SA: 'That's a pound sir'

Customer: 'I'll give you 87p for it'

SA: 'Sir, this is a pound shop, everything is a pound'

Customer: ' Hmm, will you be 'avin' a sale?'”

In my local pound shop a few things are either less or more than £1
attitude99
30-06-2016
Originally Posted by Zeropoint1:
“I'm extremely ticklish and it's something some of my fiends find highly amusing. One day in a factory I worked in I mentioned this fact to somebody and another man overheard it. He then went and told everybody and at every opportunity he would creep up behind me and start tickling me which meant I couldn't do the fast moving production line job. I kept politely telling him to stop before finally turning round and shouting extremely loudly 'f*** off and leave me alone'
A few days later he did it again and I told him if he continued I'd stop working and let the whole line f*** up and let the line runner know why I'd stopped working, he didn't believe me on so I just stopped. He carried on so walked away from the belt and let the whole line screw up ending production for about half an hour. The line runner came running over absolutely furious wanting to know what happened so I told her and I was fed up with it, she actually knew he was annoying me but couldn't get enough on him to report him to the manager. It worked and he stopped for a few weeks until he tried again so I just walked away from the belt as he quickly realised I meant it and helped catch up before everything screwed up.”

I share this problem too. It's incredibly annoying but surely you can do something about that man? He sounds horrible and almost stalkerlike to me.
BleedRed
30-06-2016
Went to a group assessment for Aldi. It consisted of very few questions being asked and the interviewer doing most of the talking about Aldi. Then we filled out a small questionnaire. Anyways I have been rejected by them, but the thing that annoys me is we weren't really given the chance to 'sell ourselves'. What a waste of time 😤
Tiger Rag
30-06-2016
How impatient some people are. Man in doctors waiting room had appointment at 3pm and turns up at 2.50pm. He was whinging at 2.55pm that he still hadn't been seen. he got seen at 3pm. At least unlike me, he hadn't turned up at 2.45pm for a 2.50pm appointment and got seen at 3.10pm.

He finally shut up when he was called in.
dodrade
30-06-2016
Football commentators who talk in injury time as if the match is already finished only for a last minute goal to change the result.
ladysilence
30-06-2016
Originally Posted by BleedRed:
“Went to a group assessment for Aldi. It consisted of very few questions being asked and the interviewer doing most of the talking about Aldi. Then we filled out a small questionnaire. Anyways I have been rejected by them, but the thing that annoys me is we weren't really given the chance to 'sell ourselves'. What a waste of time 😤”

I have had interviews like this before..it's very frustrating
kiviraat
30-06-2016
People who give vague, unhelpful answers. Mr Kivi is terrible for this. Example:

Me: "Where's your bank card?"
Him: "In my wallet"
Me: "Where's your wallet?"
Him: "In my bag"
Me: "Which bag?"
Him: "In my X bag"
Me: "Where is X bag?"

Etc etc...

Why can't they just take a shortcut and say "it's in X bag in the hall / spare room" etc?!? I don't understand folk who give the vaguest bits of information and expect your psychic abilities to fill in the blanks
degsyhufc
30-06-2016
Originally Posted by dodrade:
“Football commentators who talk in injury time as if the match is already finished only for a last minute goal to change the result.”

My annoyance is when a team scores with about 5 minutes plus injury time to go and the commentator shouts "He's won it for them!!!"

Especially when the other team then equalises.
Zeropoint1
30-06-2016
Originally Posted by attitude99:
“I share this problem too. It's incredibly annoying but surely you can do something about that man? He sounds horrible and almost stalkerlike to me.”

Oh yeah he's a total freak and I always reminded him of that but he thought it was a complaint. The same freak constantly asking me how a date went that I had months before and didn't even tell him about. Fortunately I was moved to another line and then upstairs where it was much more friendly.
attitude99
30-06-2016
Originally Posted by Zeropoint1:
“Oh yeah he's a total freak and I always reminded him of that but he thought it was a complaint. The same freak constantly asking me how a date went that I had months before and didn't even tell him about. Fortunately I was moved to another line and then upstairs where it was much more friendly.”

Sounds like a right weirdo. Glad you are free of him now though, it must have been very odd having to put up with him hounding you and touching you especially when you asked him to stop multiple times. If that was happening to me I probably would've ended up kicking him in the balls or something, especially since you don't know him that well.
evil c
01-07-2016
Originally Posted by kiviraat:
“People who give vague, unhelpful answers.<snip>”

You should try doing IT support for a few years! Vague unhelpful replies are what you get day in day out.
Zeropoint1
01-07-2016
I hate the offers in the pound shops that aren't actually legally available but are clearly on display. The best near me is:

3 x 16 packets of paracetamol for £1

The maximum you can legally buy over the counter without a prescription is 2 x 16 (32) I've asked many, many times if I'm allowed to buy them at the offer price, I already know the answer thanks to much 'restricted sales' training and am obviously told no but I can buy 2 for £1! I'm not sure how they continue to keep that 'offer' running.
kiviraat
01-07-2016
Originally Posted by evil c:
“You should try doing IT support for a few years! Vague unhelpful replies are what you get day in day out.”

I've heard many stories from friends over the years about working in IT support - I definitely take my hat off to anyone working in that part of the industry!
MadBetty
01-07-2016
Originally Posted by Zeropoint1:
“I'm extremely ticklish and it's something some of my fiends find highly amusing. One day in a factory I worked in I mentioned this fact to somebody and another man overheard it. He then went and told everybody and at every opportunity he would creep up behind me and start tickling me which meant I couldn't do the fast moving production line job. I kept politely telling him to stop before finally turning round and shouting extremely loudly 'f*** off and leave me alone'
A few days later he did it again and I told him if he continued I'd stop working and let the whole line f*** up and let the line runner know why I'd stopped working, he didn't believe me on so I just stopped. He carried on so walked away from the belt and let the whole line screw up ending production for about half an hour. The line runner came running over absolutely furious wanting to know what happened so I told her and I was fed up with it, she actually knew he was annoying me but couldn't get enough on him to report him to the manager. It worked and he stopped for a few weeks until he tried again so I just walked away from the belt as he quickly realised I meant it and helped catch up before everything screwed up.”

You mean he put his hands on you and did it again even after being told not to?

Had that been me the first time he'd have gotten a warning, the second time he'd have been nursing two very painful bits between his legs with my knee imprint on them

There are some instances where you simply don't muck about.
MadBetty
01-07-2016
Originally Posted by BleedRed:
“Went to a group assessment for Aldi. It consisted of very few questions being asked and the interviewer doing most of the talking about Aldi. Then we filled out a small questionnaire. Anyways I have been rejected by them, but the thing that annoys me is we weren't really given the chance to 'sell ourselves'. What a waste of time 😤”

Group assessments are the equivalent of an anal fissure. The interviewer has a captive audience and the passive aggressive attitude of 'I hold your fate in my sweaty palms'. It's like throwing a bag of grain to a mass of famine victims and watching them fight over it. An ego trip and box-ticking stunt for the employer and a form of communal degradation for the individual.

Despite all these trendy verbal-reasoning/psychometric/group-assessment processes these days most businesses still end up employing numpties who cannot manage a smile and display the IQ of a banana.

In short, they don't work.
grahamzxy
01-07-2016
Originally Posted by kiviraat:
“People who give vague, unhelpful answers. Mr Kivi is terrible for this. Example:

Me: "Where's your bank card?"
Him: "In my wallet"
Me: "Where's your wallet?"
Him: "In my bag"
Me: "Which bag?"
Him: "In my X bag"
Me: "Where is X bag?"

Etc etc...

Why can't they just take a shortcut and say "it's in X bag in the hall / spare room" etc?!? I don't understand folk who give the vaguest bits of information and expect your psychic abilities to fill in the blanks ”

Why don't you say, man I use your bank card??, please get it for me......
silversox
01-07-2016
My trivial annoyance for now is cold calls. At the moment these cold calls/scams are a real pain and just lately I've been getting about fifteen a day. I've made a note of them all, as advised by my provider, including date and time. I have a spreadsheet as long as your arm for June! I don't answer if I don't recognise the number.
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