The "Things that annoy me" thread

eizbaer said:
whoever puts these tests together clearly either isn't paid enough to pay attention... or doesn't give a shit.
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It's actually content provided through the textbook company.
eizbaer said:
didn't you have issues with this kind of thing before?
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I seem to combine the superpower of being able to find every error and typo, while also lacking the ability to allow logic-breaking typos and other errors to roll off my back. I'll obsess about them for days.

And then what really gets my goat, is when I get something wrong, and point out that there was an error in the system, the reply is just, "Thanks for pointing out that there was a typo"...and then no follow-up, no grade change, etc. 😅 When I'm getting 100% in the rest of the class, and then I get a question wrong because the conflicting information was provided, so now I've got a 99.99%...man, that drives me bonkers. Ha! I know it doesn't/shouldn't matter in the grand scheme of things because an A is still an A, but...
 
My mother-in-law’s exaggerations and imprecisions are annoying, for example:

gossiping becomes agitation
unpleasant becomes horrific
apparently becomes seemingly

She also has a very limited vocabulary and often forgets that nuance is a very helpful thing.
 
This is IMO a female thing. My wife always complains how I "never" or "always" do this or that.
Being me, and being pedantic, I always correct her. This however, as many things I do, is wrong....

I of course understand her, but 'nearly always' and 'almost never' are not the same thing as always and never.
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NooDle said:
This is IMO a female thing. My wife always complains how I "never" or "always" do this or that.
Being me, and being pedantic, I always correct her. This however, as many things I do, is wrong....

I of course understand her, but 'nearly always' and 'almost never' are not the same thing as always and never.
Factually correct!
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Sounds like my parents……
 
I've been living here for three years (damn, already?).
I've been working here for a year.
I socialized with my direct co-workers ONCE, after a lot of insistence on my part. Some of the other people that work in the same room as me never even reply to my "Good morning".
I was moved to a different office, and this is a room inside a larger room, and today I left the door open, to see if people would at least acknowledge I am here instead of just ignoring me.
The first person that arrived closed the door without even a "Good morning". :rolleyes:
I don't expect Brazilian levels of warmth or lack of social boundaries, but holy salted cod, what's wrong with you people?
 
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Redliner said:
The first person that arrived closed the door without even a "Good morning". :rolleyes:
I don't expect Brazilian levels of warmth or lack of social boundaries, but holy salted cod, what's wrong with you people?
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what the fuck? that's just straight up toxic. am i missing something?
I sometimes feel a bit weird about the fact that I seem to be the only one to just leave their office door open at work and everyone else has it closed. But that may just be a habit that developed for everyone else for some reason, aided by the rather school-like architecture (long corridor with rooms going off to the side, so inter-office communication isn't really possible anyway, even with open doors)- if I actually go visit someone or meet someone in the kitchen or hallway, or hell, even if people walk past my open door, everyone's super friendly and asks how things are going... and I would also be seriously annoyed and weirded out if people weren't/didn't.
 
Because of a particularly violent thunderstorm, my internet connection was out.
After 4 calls to the operator, 2 text confirmations saying "all good on our end" I finally convinced them to send someone over, because everything was surely not all right. At first they thought it was the phone line itself, but the technician quickly found this to be wrong, it was the modem/router which had failed.

As a technician he has a car full of these things BUT since my contract was not with their service directly, but someone else, I was not allowed a modem. Instead I had to call the helpdesk ONCE AGAIN to explain what the technician had done, and to ask for a modem. Which they gladly sent me. By regular postal service. Which takes 2 days.

*epic facepalm*

All good now though, but WFH with barely a 4G signal is a struggle! For emails and stuff it's fine, but a virtual meeting is nearly impossible.
I ended up driving to the parking lot at the train station, where there's 5G and doing my meetings from there.

Also also, I'm fairly tech savvy, and know how to manipulate my modem's settings (like renaming the SSID for the network so everything connects automagically), but the tech support said "you will have to connect every device to the new SSID/password manually".

I was like, "madam, you obviously have no idea how many devices I have connected simultaneously" (18 if anyone cares to know)
 
Perc said:
I just keep a spare modem.
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I would if I could. Technically I don’t actually own the modem, I kinda rent it. And after a couple of years when it’s obsolete/it breaks they send you a new one. You need to send the old one back though
 
It does make the days of just buying any 56k modem and dialling up an ISP (often for free) seem a lot more simple. A lot slower though so comparably still shit.
 
I have a couple of mesh routers with a wired connection to my ISP's modem/router and turned off the wifi from the ISP router. Did it mostly to cover the entire house and garden with decent wifi, but it also came in handy when switching to a different provider with a different modem. All I had to do was swap a single cable.
 
true, but still (way) slower than my shitty 4G signal.
With 4 people in the house, and all of them having a phone, a tablet and a laptop, and me being the only one with an unlimited data plan on my phone, means that there was very little bandwith to go around...
 
Redliner said:
I got a rejection email from the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Frankfurt for a position I applied in July of 2022
Over a year for a rejection in a position I already forgot about.
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I once got a job offer from a place I applied to almost 3 years before.
 
calvinhobbes said:
People, it is called a “moving WALKway”, not a “moving stand-in-the-way”! :wall:
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Thank you for unlocking the spoken phrase used in Ohare airport.

„The moving walkway is now ending, please look down.“
 
calvinhobbes said:
People, it is called a “moving WALKway”, not a “moving stand-in-the-way”! :wall:
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Fun fact, escalators used to be narrower when they were first invented because the assumption was that people would use them to be like stairs, but faster. But as their use spread, people tended to just relax for the ride, so they've been made wider to accommodate a "passing lane"...assuming people don't stand side by side, or on the wrong side, to block it.
 
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