The "Things that annoy me" thread

Just had another 3 of them daft phone calls int past hour bringing the total to about 7 today. I'm writing down all the ones that aren't witheld. The last one kept calling me by me fathers name. -_-
 
DanRoM said:
The tie is what annoys you about it?
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Yarp, to be precise it's my almost complete inability to follow (successfully) any of the instruction videos on YouTube. "Kent" was easy, but looked it, "half-Windsor" worked on my fourth-ish attempt but didn't sit well with my g/f and "Full Windsor" is just impossible. Hope my tie survives...

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Shirahime said:
Just had another 3 of them daft phone calls int past hour bringing the total to about 7 today. I'm writing down all the ones that aren't witheld. The last one kept calling me by me fathers name. -_-
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You certainly don't seem like a person who'd hesitate to tell them off very clearly, so I'm guessing that simply doesn't work?
 
calvinhobbes said:
Yarp, to be precise it's my almost complete inability to follow (successfully) any of the instruction videos on YouTube. "Kent" was easy, but looked it, "half-Windsor" worked on my fourth-ish attempt but didn't sit well with my g/f and "Full Windsor" is just impossible. Hope my tie survives...
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Personally, Videos don?t work so well with these "step-by-step" procedings ...

google a nice diagram, that works much better for me.
 
calvinhobbes said:
You certainly don't seem like a person who'd hesitate to tell them off very clearly, so I'm guessing that simply doesn't work?
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It depends on what mood I'm in. Had some fun with the first few today, sometimes I leave the phone ont side an' walk away while they rabble on wi' their piece. If they ask to speak to the phone/SKY account holder me usual reply is 'No you can't'. Either that or I put on some daft voices. Current favourites are; 5 year old who's seen mother talking ont phone a lot and wants to do the same or terrible screaming Manc mother, but then again most of the time I just hang up or give them shit. But most of the calls we get are silent calls.

Thank God for caller ID though.
 
In related news, my health insurance company called me yesterday to offer information about some scheme to get part of your premiums back if you don't visit a doctor. I kindly replied that while I appreciate their take on privacy (because clearly that marketing department had no access to my patient data), they did an utter rubbish job on filtering out likely candidates for that program because of my chronic illness...
 
Ouch, yeah, knowing what you're on about... :blink:

I would have been an ideal candidate before last year since I've never been ill the 25 years before, but now I have to visit a doctor every 3 months, too...

Thank god I don't get those calls, I think I've gotten one when I cancelled my old cell phone contract from the provider I had back then, but they couldn't do "no basic fee, no minimum turnover, no minimum lenght of the contract". I have cell phone bills between 3 and 8 Euros usually so even the lowest basic fee would be more than I have on average.
 
Shirahime said:
It depends on what mood I'm in. Had some fun with the first few today, sometimes I leave the phone ont side an' walk away while they rabble on wi' their piece. If they ask to speak to the phone/SKY account holder me usual reply is 'No you can't'. Either that or I put on some daft voices. Current favourites are; 5 year old who's seen mother talking ont phone a lot and wants to do the same or terrible screaming Manc mother, but then again most of the time I just hang up or give them shit. But most of the calls we get are silent calls.

Thank God for caller ID though.
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When I was younger, I used to do an Arnold Schwartzenegger or Kim Jong Il (from Team America) Impression whenever a telemarketer called.
 
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I am very grateful that cold calls are illegal here. By opting out of the "we may phone you" option with practically every contract I sign, I get less than a handful of marketing calls per year. Mostly from my health insurance, actually. Maybe I should do an opt-out with them, too... if I find that option. :D
 
calvinhobbes said:
True for almost all videos that I've found, but there's one for the half-Windsor that's actually helped me every time I've been forced to use it. As for diagrams... well, I guess I'll have to give those another go.
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just in case this might be still relevant and wasn't covered by the videos or instructions or anything: don't look at what you're doing. for me, this is the make or break of the whole knot. apart from the length, that always goes wrong 3 times. but yeah, if i try and look at what i'm doing it's guaranteed to go wrong.
 
I can tie a tie while driving better than I can while standing in front of a mirror.
 
In the beginning of June in purchased a fine piece of german engineering. As per law requires i registered it at my local DMV (DIV here). Since i still had a license plate left from my previous iron stallion that went kamikaze on me, i decided to carry that plate over to my new vehicle. I explained this to my insurance guy and he did what was necessary. When picking up the bimmer they mounted the plate and i was on my way home.

After weeks passed i still had not received the deed that my vehicle was registered with my license plate. I contacted my insurance guy and het told me that the piece of paper was sent back to the head office in Brussels because i was not home to sign for it... (note: all other packages that require me, or anyone else, to sign off are left at the local post office if nobody is home) But not with me.

So yesterday i ventured to our capital to pick up this piece of shit paper. When i arrive at the office there are like 50+ people waiting to get their shit done. Luckily for me i came only to pick up the paper and not register the vehicle, so i didn't have to wait for long. After +-15 minutes i was back outside on my way home.
Twas there that i noticed they had given me the wrong paper, it was for some Yamaha thingy.

So today i went back there, back our capital i hate so much from the bottom of my heart.

I explain my predicament to the lady at the counter. She goes to the back and after what must have been an eternity she came back and asked me to step aside and wait a little bit. The was a problem and another colleague was finding out what went wrong. After 5 minutes i look back into her booth and she tells me that they suspect that they did the same to my paper as they did to the poor Yamaha owner, give it to the wrong guy.

I start to get annoying, and while they are talking they suggest they could give me a new license plate, to which i reply that i'm leaving on vacation tomorrow, with my bike. I ask if they can't reprint the paper, but they can't. They have to follow procedure and must ask permission if they can reprint it, and it's not even printed there.

So after another 10 minutes the same dude that gave me the wrong paper yesterday came back with the right paper. He explains to me that they hadn't come around to sort it to the right box (or whatever they keep it in).

Am i wrong to hate government employees for being incompetent and stupid?
 
TTAM: Double standards.
 
Adamar said:
Am i wrong to hate government employees for being incompetent and stupid?
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You're not wrong in hating incompetence, but you are wrong in thinking that it's typical of government employees. In fact, the only time that I've had to deal with a case of "lost paperwork", it was the fault of the postal company (a private competitor of Deutsche Post) and the government agency in question caused me no extra trouble at all.
 
Our postal company is partialy owned by our government, and they let the one competent person in that hellhole go because they (the government) wanted to pay him less than he deserved.

And it's the postal guy that made the first mistake. I never received a paper which said he came by when i wasn't home.
Second mistake was to send it to the fucking headquarters and not our local post office, as was the case with every other package or signed letter, ever.

And let that headquarters be in the city i hate the most in this country. /rage

So, why do i hate our government employees so much? They are our first point of contact with our government, and they screw it up this big. And it's not the first time they fuck me. The previous time was when they denied my new address. But that's a story for another time.

How can i have faith in our government when those with the simplest job are so stupid, and those running it are doing everything they can to fuck up this country.
 
"You should network a little"

"There's the battle of apps at Web Wednesday this Wednesday"

"I'll be at my friend's crowdfunding launch party"


I just want a job, I don't want to mix in that hipster entrepreneurial networking bullshit.
 
it seems the whole 'networking' spiel is part of the deal, nowadays :| don't get me wrong, i like meeting people, but somehow that whole thing mixes work and private life too much...
 
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