You Know What Grinds My Gears? - Things that personally piss you off

The Last Stand said:
I just learned that calling an ambulance in the US can cost thousands of dollars. And NOBODY has a solution of how to fix that. I guess we're stuck with bloated healthcare.
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And paramedics only make around $30k a year and work up to 72 hours a week. It's a grind and you burn out pretty quickly, leaving you a bitter husk that hates most of humanity.
 
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Mesh Gear Fox said:
And paramedics only make around $30k a year and work up to 72 hours a week. It's a grind and you burn out pretty quickly.
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Then where is that money going to then?
 
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The Last Stand said:
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Then where is that money going to then?
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I know that part of it, especially for Air Ambulance is that you have to pay for full staff 24x7. It's not like they can be on-call and show up some time after they're called, they're literally sitting there next to the helicopter or ambulance and can't leave which means they have to be paid.

This means that if there's just one call in a day it has to cover everyone's salaries for the day. And I'm sure there are plenty of CEOs and executives who need to be paid.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
Maybe it's because of "The New Normal": they think everyone works from home now?

I think back in the days before people had mobile phones 24-7, appointments had to be scheduled for a narrow window. Otherwise not much could be done because they lacked the constant connection of now.
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Timekeeping was much more important in the old days and most things were planned far in advance. One had to be where one was expected to be at exactly the right time. We had telephone boxes and payphones, and answering machines so it wasn't actually that difficult if there was an emergency.
If anything it was easier: if you wanted to speak to someone, you rang the phone at their place and it was answered if anyone was in. There was none of this looking at the mobile phone screen, reading the name and then deciding whether or not to speak to the caller rubbish. I preferred it back then.

Oh and in relation to the topic: face masks. They don't work.
 
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Miss Chance said:
Oh and in relation to the topic: face masks. They don't work.
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They really do look like muzzles. Then there's the "mask breath", and how they're messing up socializing. They can also be seen as a representation of the isolation and anonymizing of modern "society".

Also I miss when it was accepted that if no one answered a phone, (s)he likely just wasn't available.
 
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Legal-sized paper. It makes copying and scanning large chunks of documents a nightmare, and for what? So Saul Goodman can lord it over all the rest of us peons who use letter-size, because he's a Great and Important Lawyer who needs Official Super Special Documents.
 
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Meat Target said:
Legal-sized paper. It makes copying and scanning large chunks of documents a nightmare, and for what? So Saul Goodman can lord it over all the rest of us peons who use letter-size, because he's a Great and Important Lawyer who needs Official Super Special Documents.
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lot of this BS arbitrary standards in legal.
legal paper, legal ink, legal font....
law is made as complex as possible to protect the income of this parasitic industry, thus ensuring only the rich get to win.
lady justice is blindfolded but she still feels the weight of the shekels in her drug pans
 
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The Last Stand said:
Why do professors feel the need to cuss during lectures? In a BUSINESS course? Do you know how distracting it is for an adult to talk like a millennial? It's unprofessional, vulgar and immature.
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I once had a professor in a public speaking class lampshade this. He said something like "kids are starving in Africa. Can you believe that shit?" He then proceeded to show how the audience paid more attention to the word "shit" than the message that kids in Africa are starving.
 
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Meat Target said:
I once had a professor in a public speaking class lampshade this. He said something like "kids are starving in Africa. Can you believe that shit?" He then proceeded to show how the audience paid more attention to the word "shit" than the message that kids in Africa are starving.
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So it's for emphasis? Well, it's cheap when it's every other word on top of a bratty attitude. I don't mind profanity, but when it's uttered like it's going out of style, that can get tedious to listen to.
 
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Meat Target said:
Legal-sized paper. It makes copying and scanning large chunks of documents a nightmare, and for what? So Saul Goodman can lord it over all the rest of us peons who use letter-size, because he's a Great and Important Lawyer who needs Official Super Special Documents.
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If you've ever had to take notes in some retarded hick court that doesn't let you have anything remotely electronic, the ability to take notes without having to flip the page every 10 minutes, just having to do it every 15 minutes instead, is okay, I suppose.

There's a reason for the legal pad. Like most legal things, it sucks, but it beats the alternative.
potatofarms said:
lot of this BS arbitrary standards in legal.
legal paper, legal ink, legal font....
law is made as complex as possible to protect the income of this parasitic industry, thus ensuring only the rich get to win.
lady justice is blindfolded but she still feels the weight of the shekels in her drug pans
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Lmao get some teeth you limey faggot.
 
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