The "Things that annoy me" thread

^ Nah. I switched back to my brand new/recently repaired desktop, which has a nice, normal Windows 2003 on it. :)

Hopefully it was Office 03 and not Windows Server 2003 :lol::mrgreen::)

I like Office 07. Once one gets used to the ribbon, it's a great productivity booster. :)
 
The ipad. Yes; all of it.
 
The ipad. Yes; all of it.

Yep, as soon as I saw the engadget liveblog image of it ...i was like...this is a giant ipod touch? This is going to be irritating.:rolleyes:
 
It will be a success, though. It will be the star of next Chistmas, together with the stuff competitors have come up with until then.

I'm actually proud of myself, that I resisted buying an iPod or an iPhone so far. Actually I only keep my mobile phone for emergencies and have it switched off almost all of the time.

This whole communications business has become so fucked up by now, that I actually have to remind people, that I still have a normal, stationary telephone at home and that my number can be looked up in something called a "phone book", if someone wants to contact me.
 
Hopefully it was Office 03 and not Windows Server 2003 :lol::mrgreen::)

I like Office 07. Once one gets used to the ribbon, it's a great productivity booster. :)

Augh. Yes, Office 03. I don't know why I said Windows 2003. I know the difference, but I never get the words right. Stupid me.
 
This is bordering on things that make me sad, but I'm really starting to loathe how quiet/awkward/shy/mumbly I am around people I don't know.

It's completely odd, because once I'm around people I do know, I open up quite a bit and am actually a bit loud--perhaps obnoxiously so. Stick me in a room with a bunch of folks I don't know all in conversation with each other, though, and I'm too shy to even butt in anywhere to introduce myself and I tend to want to go off in a corner somewhere and cry. :cry:

I haven't always been this way, but I had a very bad experience with being labelled the weird kid because the things I'd want to talk about are quite random or a bit odd. Nobody told me that they found me annoying to my face, so I didn't even realize that people didn't like me until someone else finally told me. Then I was pretty much crushed--everyone's so nice in person here that I never suspected that they all find me very irritating.

So, I'm just...quiet. I thought I was getting better at this whole you're-in-Texas-and-everyone-expects-you-to-be-friendly-and-make-small-talk-with-other-people thing, but no. I'm still quite bashful and quiet, and this gets me in trouble sometimes when people misunderstand what I'm saying and think I'm saying something quite terrible or weird when that simply isn't the case. I got accused of being baked the other day (I don't smoke) by someone who couldn't understand what I was mumbling on about. I get a disproportionate amount of orders wrong when I go for food because people can't hear or understand me. And I haven't got the cojones to speak up, either.

Ladamaha said I should move to Finland so I wouldn't have to talk much with people I don't know. I don't know Finnish, either, so that might actually work! :lol:
 
This is bordering on things that make me sad, but I'm really starting to loathe how quiet/awkward/shy/mumbly I am around people I don't know.

It's completely odd, because once I'm around people I do know, I open up quite a bit and am actually a bit loud--perhaps obnoxiously so. Stick me in a room with a bunch of folks I don't know all in conversation with each other, though, and I'm too shy to even butt in anywhere to introduce myself and I tend to want to go off in a corner somewhere and cry. :cry:

I'm with you.
 
*hugs ninjacoco* I used to be like that too, so I feel your pain. One of the strategies I used to cope was before I had any sort of situation where I had to talk to strangers (for example waitressing) I would note down three sure fire small talk topics, usually I'd see what the weather forecast was, a big sporting event and some other major news event, that way if I was ever stuck for something to talk about I could call on one of those. I remember when I first started doing that I was talking about the weather 50 times a day, but they of course didn't know that. Knowing something that you can talk about beforehand makes it much easier, and hopefully you'll soon become comfortable with it. I'm pretty confident now and can approach any stranger, which was handy today when I was job hunting :)

And on a related note, I'm annoyed when people don't contact you to let you know you've been rejected for a position. They could at least do that.
 
Another thing that bothers me: student jobs. No one (even work-study jobs on campus!) ever seems to want to hire a graduating senior. Here, your financial aid package doesn't get larger with raises in tuition every year. By the time you're a senior, you really need the extra cash from a job somewhere.

Even when I was a junior looking for a little cheesy desk-sitting job somewhere, I got passed up time and time again for a freshman. They'd waste my time bringing me in for an interview only to tell me, "well, we wanted someone younger who'll be around for at least four years..." Never mind that a lot of freshmen who complain about the high costs of attendance from the start end up transferring out because of the costs. Hiring a freshman is NO guarantee that said freshman will be here for a while. Morons.

I have a friend trying to find work now--she graduates this summer. It's incredibly frustrating just to hear about because I know she'd do good work wherever she got hired and she really does need the money, but they won't hire her anywhere because of her classification.
 
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I have a friend trying to find work now--she graduates this summer. It's incredibly frustrating just to hear about because I know she'd do good work wherever she got hired and she really does need the money, but they won't hire her anywhere because of her classification.

This is also a problem at my school - they *TRY* to offset this for the department involved by making juniors and seniors in certain tech or engineering majors (including mine) not get paid out of the operating budget for that department but out the budget into which the special "I'm a junior or senior in a tech or engineering major" fee lands. They also pay double minimum wage when you're an upperclassman. It doesn't help, though - it just gives them more incentive to pull from within the freshman pool for those majors because they KNOW they'll stick around.
 
It's completely odd, because once I'm around people I do know, I open up quite a bit and am actually a bit loud--perhaps obnoxiously so. Stick me in a room with a bunch of folks I don't know all in conversation with each other, though, and I'm too shy to even butt in anywhere to introduce myself and I tend to want to go off in a corner somewhere and cry. :cry:

To me that is completely normal sans the crying in corner part. Stick six people that do not know each other in a room, for example a waiting room, and nobody will say anything. Being six people makes it a little awkward as there are only four walls, meaning some will have to share space.

If the waiting people are left hanging I expect them to start making annoyed sighs and grunts after about an hour but there'll take more than just an hour of waiting for people to start talking to eachother. Lock them in though and there will be a reason for communicating. Unless there is reason for communicating, people will stay quiet.

I read your original post a little poorly and missed that all the other people are talking to eachother. That is very odd, why would they do that if they do not know eacother and have no reason to communicate?
 
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I was talking about situations where other people know each other, but I don't know them. I hate butting in--it just feels rude. If I don't, though, I'm just bored. That's no good, either.
 
I never butt in because it's a dick move. Also means I can never get a word in edgewise because it appears to be normal conversation to step on the toes of whoever you're talking to and not leave even a half a second between the last thing they said and the first thing you said and then the person (me) who is trying to get a word in edgewise ends up forgetting what they were going to say after the hundredth time of going *person stops talking* "ye-" *other person interrupts you before you can begin* FFFFUUU.
 
:hug: for Ninjacoco because I like her and find her amusing and would probably love to hang out with her, and also my friends would like her, too.

I used to be that way, myself. Then I found a job which required a certain amount of being able to strike, or create, a rapport with someone right off the bat, and also a certain amount (read: a lot) of having to be really assertive. I was terrible at it at first. Now I can size someone up in an instant, figure out how to get along with them an instant later, and never, ever allow anyone to get away with being a cock. I recommend the same for you. :D
 
I was talking about situations where other people know each other, but I don't know them. I hate butting in--it just feels rude. If I don't, though, I'm just bored. That's no good, either.

yeah, that is a hard situation. I've been there before, usually at weddings where I pretty much only know the couple and no one else and so am put on a table of random friends who all know each other. That can be difficult.
 
I haven't always been this way, but I had a very bad experience with being labelled the weird kid because the things I'd want to talk about are quite random or a bit odd. Nobody told me that they found me annoying to my face, so I didn't even realize that people didn't like me until someone else finally told me. Then I was pretty much crushed--everyone's so nice in person here that I never suspected that they all find me very irritating.

So, I'm just...quiet. I thought I was getting better at this whole you're-in-Texas-and-everyone-expects-you-to-be-friendly-and-make-small-talk-with-other-people thing, but no. I'm still quite bashful and quiet, and this gets me in trouble sometimes when people misunderstand what I'm saying and think I'm saying something quite terrible or weird when that simply isn't the case.
Any chance you have a slight touch of Asperger's?

Personally, I'm terrible at small talk, I think my brain just isn't wired for it.
I can never think of much of anything to say, and if I do, I think it's not important or silly.
In the very rare occasion that I do end up in a conversation, I constantly think that I'm mumbling, condescending and an ass (which I probably really am).
I don't really listen to what the other person has to say either, I tend to just wait for the next opportunity to talk.
 
No clue on the Asperger's...never been diagnosed with that.

Grievance of the day for today: lack of things open late in Waco. It's 2:30 a.m., I want curry, and there is no curry! I can't even get a bland Waco-ized version of Mongolian Beef. There's absolutely no Asian food open now. :(
 
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Any chance you have a slight touch of Asperger's?

Personally, I'm terrible at small talk, I think my brain just isn't wired for it.
I can never think of much of anything to say, and if I do, I think it's not important or silly.
In the very rare occasion that I do end up in a conversation, I constantly think that I'm mumbling, condescending and an ass (which I probably really am).
I don't really listen to what the other person has to say either, I tend to just wait for the next opportunity to talk.

I am pretty much the same as you. But I can do the small talk fine over msn so i guess its just a case of nervs for me and not the inability to do it.
 
I am pretty much the same as you. But I can do the small talk fine over msn so i guess its just a case of nervs for me and not the inability to do it.

The difference between small talk over the internet and small talk in a real conversation is: when you chat nobody notices that for a moment you don't know what to say, you just take a minute to think about something, look through what the other person has written so far and so on, and then you come up with something to say... in real life that would mean an awkward pause.
Btw I'm also not very good at small talk in real conversations because sometimes I'm just not interested (family dinners come to mind) in that particular topic and can't come up with any response in a reasonable amount of time. Small talk over icq on the other hand is fine, and you can throw in funny pictures or porn to radically change the topic ;)
 
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