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

Sniperwoof said:
As someone who works in tech I am so fucking sick of these fucking poos with their shitty tech skills, and shitty snotty attitudes, and shitty incomprehensible poo accents
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I mentioned it in a post here some time ago but

I work with a language company and recently I've been on projects that require frequent coordination meetings and such. The team is mostly Americans for financials and negotiation with the customer, Latin Americans for project and linguistic management, and Indians for "Engineering" (making PDFs, essentially).
Of course, the Latin Americans all have our various accents, but we're all fully understandable. But anyone asks Pajeet anything and it's

Pajeets: fsgdfhsfdsgd sdfgsd dhdfdsgshs PDF files agfsgsdfsgs linguists afsgsdfasd the email.
Manager: ... Sorry, didn't get that
Pajeets: dsafas sdgdsftgertgws asdfafa files sdgdfghdssdg server sdgsdgasfda the linguist for Estonian sdgdfhd gsd tomorrow.
*several seconds of silence*
Manager: ...Ok, anyway...

And you always have to send them instructions in the absolutely simplest terms you can, because otherwise they'll fuck up and do whatever random thing they understand because THEY DON'T REALLY SPEAK ENGLISH, not at the level a language company should demand anyway.
 
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So are pajeets just the poster children for "diversity hire" then? Because every interaction I've ever had and every interaction I've seen/read leads me to believe they're somehow even more worthless than niggers. Especially when it comes to people who have had to actually work with them. Just seems like there's no good reason to have them outside of their shit streets.
 
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Rick The Stick said:
So are pajeets just the poster children for "diversity hire" then? Because every interaction I've ever had and every interaction I've seen/read leads me to believe they're somehow even more worthless than niggers. Especially when it comes to people who have had to actually work with them. Just seems like there's no good reason to have them outside of their shit streets.
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In the case of the company I work with, it's different offices of the company in different countries handling different parts of the production. So it's less of a diversity hire thing and more of an "outsource it to the cheapest place with the minimum required level of competency". You can't do it with linguists or even managers, they have to be skilled in various ways, but you can do it with people who'll just convert files from one format to another and do menial computer tasks.
 
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Sniperwoof said:
As someone who works in tech I am so fucking sick of these fucking poos with their shitty tech skills, and shitty snotty attitudes, and shitty incomprehensible poo accents, oh my God fuck them and fuck the politicians who keep importing them by the millions.

I am going to lose my fucking mind.
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Oof I felt this.

Now, I've grown up around accents so I'm accustomed to some of them but my god, do the others just sound like gibberish. Granted, our language is hard and has weird grammar rules so I get it's difficult to learn. But please, work on the pronunciation.

Power level here but I went to a psychiatric hospital once and a pajeet was the doctor in charge of me. I could not understand one word of what he said and he got so offended at me for not catching on. He was a proud fucker who got this offended pissy look when his assistant who spoke way better had to step in as translator. Maybe it's because she was a woman and you know how India treats its women.

On a less depressing note, I was taking the bus once and the pajeet driver misdirected me because I couldn't understand a goddamn word that came out of his fucking mouth.

Is it too much to ask for people who can actually talk coherently especially when you put them in positions where they are responsible for the well being of others?
 
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One of my math professors at college had an impenetrable Indian accent, could barely understand a word he said. One night, an older lady in the class asked him to please slow down, she had trouble understanding him. The guy asked, deadly serious, without a hint of irony, "You're having trouble with my English accent?" It was like something out of a movie, everyone in class turning in unison to look at each other like, "Is this nigga serious or not?" Dude seriously thought he sounded like the Prince of Wales or something.

I've noticed Indians in particular just try to talk way too fucking fast. If they'd just slow down enough to put spaces between their words, most of them would be at least be somewhat understandable. Is there a reason Indians feel compelled to speak so damn fast?

The Last Stand said:
You work in tech, you better know how to understand enunciation for the letters F, S, X, P and T. They sound so similar, it's not uncommon to mistype an email or serial number when a customer speaks it so fast.
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It grinds my gears when people make up their own phonetic alphabet. Foxtrot, Sierra, X-Ray, Papa, Tango? No, we're going to use Fam, Sam, Xam, Pam, and Tam. Or Fungus, Susie, Xylophone, Popcorn, and Trampoline. Holy fuck, just use the standard NATO alphabet.

DenseDeerFather said:
Granted, our language is hard and has weird grammar rules so I get it's difficult to learn. But please, work on the pronunciation.
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It grinds my gears when people say English is hard to learn. It's hard to master, sure, every language is. It's not particularly hard to learn. Unlike Asian languages, we have one alphabet with a mere 26 letters. Unlike the Romance languages, our articles and adjectives don't change spelling based on the gender of the fucking noun, because our nouns don't have genders. In English, the chair is big, and the pen is big. En frencais, la chaise est grande, mais le stylo est grand. English has weird grammar rules and exceptions, but memorizing them is no harder than memorizing whether every noun in the language is male or female. Our dumbest inner city youths can be taught to speak it at a level that's at least mutually intelligible with real English, it's not that hard to learn.
 
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Shart Attack said:
It grinds my gears when people say English is hard to learn. It's hard to master, sure, every language is. It's not particularly hard to learn. Unlike Asian languages, we have one alphabet with a mere 26 letters. Unlike the Romance languages, our articles and adjectives don't change spelling based on the gender of the fucking noun, because our nouns don't have genders. In English, the chair is big, and the pen is big. En frencais, la chaise est grande, mais le stylo est grand. English has weird grammar rules and exceptions, but memorizing them is no harder than memorizing whether every noun in the language is male or female. Our dumbest inner city youths can be taught to speak it at a level that's at least mutually intelligible with real English, it's not that hard to learn.
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Yeah, I agree. When it was my time to learn English, I found it easy even if it was grammatically different than my native language. Still got a hint of accent (th become hard d) but pleasantly manageable.

Now German on the other hand.....hahahahaha. Feels like I'm fucking trudging through the about me page on a genderspeical's tumblr page with all the fucking pronouns and shit.

All this learning shit makes me think of how much I fucking hated and still kinda dread group work. I suppose I've always been fucking unlucky with shit classmates during my school days. Either being the one to do all the work or being thrown to the sidelines because I got stuck with a pair of cunts who'd rather let me stare into a wall than suffer the indignity of my efforts. It might also be because I had teachers that would rather let us teach ourselves than actually do their job.

This goes without saying but adults are, for the most part, far better at it. Note, for the most part. Been forced to work with some real fucking bitches who don't cooperate or bother to keep up with deadlines or proper communication.

"DDF, why are you so mad?"
Because I needed the files, you were meant to write, two fucking days ago, you bitch.
"Sorry, I was having a ✨mental health day✨ (or some other excuse for why they just randomly skipped work that or several days)"
Okay fine whatever but at least fucking tell me and don't ghost me for two days past the deadline. Why did you get fucking hired again?
 
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Shart Attack said:
Unlike the Romance languages, our articles and adjectives don't change spelling based on the gender of the fucking noun, because our nouns don't have genders. In English, the chair is big, and the pen is big. En frencais, la chaise est grande, mais le stylo est grand. English has weird grammar rules and exceptions, but memorizing them is no harder than memorizing whether every noun in the language is male or female.
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I can tell you that, in Spanish at least, you can guess with reasonable accuracy the gender of a noun by the vowel on the last syllable. If it's an "a" (the sound at the start of the English "i"), it'll be feminine. If it's a different vowel, and particularly an "o" (the sound at the start of the English "o"), it'll be masculine.

La casa, la mesa, la silla, la bola, la cuna
El cine, el maní, el ojo, el bambú

Don't take it as a rule, more of a loose observation, and it'll have plenty of exceptions, but it'll give you decent results most of the time. I've observed, much more loosely even, similar things in French and Italian, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to make any claims about them.
 
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Shart Attack said:
It grinds my gears when people make up their own phonetic alphabet. Foxtrot, Sierra, X-Ray, Papa, Tango? No, we're going to use Fam, Sam, Xam, Pam, and Tam. Or Fungus, Susie, Xylophone, Popcorn, and Trampoline. Holy fuck, just use the standard NATO alphabet.
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You mean you don't use a phonetic alphabet made up entirely of slurs? That's a BEANER-ABO-DAGO CHINK-HABIBI-ORIENTAL-INJUN-CHINK-ESKIMO
 
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Shart Attack said:
It grinds my gears when people make up their own phonetic alphabet. Foxtrot, Sierra, X-Ray, Papa, Tango? No, we're going to use Fam, Sam, Xam, Pam, and Tam. Or Fungus, Susie, Xylophone, Popcorn, and Trampoline.
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In earnest, I forget the phonetic alphabet sometimes. If I can understand the word, it's no biggie.

An hour lunch is not enough to digest your food.
 
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Climatefags who coddle Africa, praise India and pay China to combine into 90-95% of the entire planet's source of every kind of pollution, who claim that food sources must be eliminated for the climate, and yet they import and pay for brown people to breed like literal rats. No one with a brain is buying into this shit and we can see what they're doing. These are the same people who want to charge you thousands of dollars per month to rent an apartment and tens of thousands to rent a shop while entire blocks are vacant and developed. They're not interested in doing business, not interested in sensible measures and solutions. They just want to control you, suck your blood and fuck you over as niggercattle.

I'm getting even more sick of the Ruling Tribe and their shit every day. It's exhausting and I want to stop caring, but I would knowingly become part of the problem if I managed to. Bliss at the price of ignorance isn't worth it if the real cost is put onto the people who are trying.
 
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Perhaps this is me just being the zoomiest zoomer, but I really can't stand when people call without checking if you're busy first. There are countless free services to send a quick "you busy?" before requiring me to take myself out of whatever I'm doing just to talk. That goes double when you don't have anything important to say, or something that could have very easily been a text message.

Bonus gripe: when people can't just send what they want in one message, but instead split it over five. Just slow down on that send button, cowboy. "Haha" does not need a seperate message, it's perfectly fine on the end of the previous one.
 
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Honka Honka Burning Love said:
Not a Zoomer, but I fucking hate anyone who actually calls me instead of just texting me.
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Felt this really hard. I got a personal philosophy that if it's important or something that requires further elaboration, sure call me. But otherwise, just fucking text.

Had a friend who'd call and flat-out ignore it when I asked him to just text me instead. The reason for that was his "loneliness" and how it was "easier to call."

The issue is that these calls would be at least an hour long and filled with dead air when he wasn't busy talking about himself or trying to one-up me in some regard.

I was too polite to just hang up so that's on me. At least I don't talk anymore with him.
maguyver16 said:
Numbers calling me that aren't saved to my phone also give me anxiety.
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Same tbh. Due to contact with doctors, I've been forced to answer them however since they use a "hidden number".

Also to add to this; people who bully telemarketers. More times than not, it's just some young university kid trying to make a living. Fuck the people who think it's fun to mess with them. You are wasting your time and you are wasting their time. You are making a boring job even more unbearable by being an ass to someone who is just trying to fucking work.

Got a family member who'd waste their time by talking Norwegian at them until they hung up. Had another one basically trying to intimidate them with levelling threats about violence or doing one of those "you got child porn, I know you do" scams.

In fact, fuck the people in general who try to fuck with others just doing their job. Like throwing drinks at McDonald's workers as a prank or spitting/screaming at some poor cashier because management by decree of the government has a mask mandate - or they don't have Kellogs Frosted Testicles on sale anymore.
 
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internet friend said:
Bonus gripe: when people can't just send what they want in one message, but instead split it over five. Just slow down on that send button, cowboy. "Haha" does not need a seperate message, it's perfectly fine on the end of the previous one.
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I'm adding to that. People always tell me they never hear from me. Then when I TRY to initiate contact, they'll get mad or repeat the same questions to me. Like. What do you want from me?
 
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