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

[ForgedBlades]

When the Community Features box gets longer than the goddamn Magna Carta.

Oh look it happened again.

 

[Jace on ice]

A co worker keeps pulling the "muh autisms card." Being a massive fucking asshole is not a disability.

 

[Yours Truly 2095]

I'm really tired of narcissistic people, and I don't label that lightly. I'm almost glad I grew up around who I did because I am immune to the bullshit tactics. It's really pathetic how important someone can think they are, and try to ruin anything you invite them to or God forbid you don't invite them to something. Meanwhile they never lift a finger to help you or care about you. Cut those people out ASAP boys. Alternatively learn how to fuck with them and never stop.

 

[AnOminous]

I wouldn't mind but it's the exact same bitching every six months.

It's retarded, annoying, and utterly fucks up international meetings when people fuck up and can't figure out when the meeting actually is because it didn't change time where they are, but it did wherever the meeting time is set.

 

[internet friend]

The feeling of wet socks inside my "waterproof" boots. Really love it.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

It's retarded, annoying, and utterly fucks up international meetings when people fuck up and can't figure out when the meeting actually is because it didn't change time where they are, but it did wherever the meeting time is set.

Yeah, I heard you the first time. And the year after that. And the year after that etc.

 

[Crunkle]

When people I genuinely like use newspeak. It's like they've been infected.

A very good friend of mine in real life actually said "cooked" and "mid" the other day and I felt that twitch in my arm to lash out. Where does this urge to speak like you're in a Bossmanjack Twitch chat come from?

The Tophiachu stuff yesterday reminded me of when someone in my family (15 year old zoomer) used the words "PDF-file" and "unalived". Sickening stuff.

 

[Captain Syrup]

I got no hang ups with Indians but Christ you’d think a man could at least get his order number barked out in something closer to English.

 

[Sean_Igger]

Officemates/coworkers who really treat each other like close friends sharing every little detail about their lives. Holy crap does it ever get loud during prime working hours talking about inane shit. And the arguments people get into when politics get involved...

I used to be cautiously skeptical of people working from home permanently but my tune has long since changed if only to get these retards out of the office so I can get some peace.

 

[Rick Nekieta]

Officemates/coworkers who really treat each other like close friends sharing every little detail about their lives. Holy crap does it ever get loud during prime working hours talking about inane shit. And the arguments people get into when politics get involved...

I used to be cautiously skeptical of people working from home permanently but my tune has long since changed if only to get these retards out of the office so I can get some peace.

90s sitcoms played a huge role in perpetuating the trope that coworkers should be involved in each others lives because many sitcoms revolved around a workplace and incorporated elements of the various characters personal lives.

Added in edit: This observation brought to you by the human equivalent of ChatGPT

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

A co worker keeps pulling the "muh autisms card." Being a massive fucking asshole is not a disability.

I have to deal with at least two yelling out random shit nobody cares about but the higher ups won't do anything because that'd be CRUEL and HEARTLESS.

 

[Absurdist Laughter]

You know what grinds my gears, confident lacking asshole drivers. If you're gonna cut me off at 80 miles an hours, do it in one move not five fuckin' stages!

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

Sounds like personal experience. I have something similar with certain outgoing women. It's one thing to be extroverted and friendly. It's another to lace everything you say with a humble brag. I have some horror stories about that.

My unofficial rule of thumb as a party-goer is that I should be offering t help with setup if I'm the first one there and I should offer to help with any cleanup or take-down if I'm the last one there. Even if the host declines in either instance, they generally appreciate the offer.

The "all landlords are bastards" crowd needs to grow up, but some landlords legitimately live up to the worst of stereotypes. At the end of the day, it is on the aggrieved party to provide/gather evidence.

Agreed. For every bastard landlord there's probably a bastard tenant for it all to balance out in the end. It's a shame "Be civil," or "Act like reasonable people," are foreign concepts to so many adults today when it comes to dealing with other people - especially when it comes to landlord-tenant relationships.

Reddit's incessant blocking of VPNs

I'll reiterate a past gripe of VPNs being advocated for security purpose only for places such as banks or online shopping sites to block VPN users from logging in or even browsing their sites - usually without any notice that they disallow VPN users either by choice or policy.

Yeah it used to be a bit worse with movies. I think what bothers me is how many TV shows just have tons of sex and nudity now.

I think my gripe is similar: TV shows that have more scenes of sex or couples in bedrooms than they do for what's supposed to be the main plot. I still remember when my mom stopped watching a medical-themed show because there was more time spent showing people in bed before, during, or after sex than there was time spent on the medical aspects of the show.

Those stupid fucking spam letters with the fake cardboard credit cards. Who's that for?

From my experience, it's a sales pitch for credit cards or other banking services. Bonus points for those such offers where the fine print spells out criteria the recipient doesn't (and may likely never) meet. Banks, especially one's own, seem especially notorious for this.

Adding on to the shitty coworker gripes,

A coworker I'll call X had the bright idea that all of us need to have an assigned day of the week to make sure the copier isn't too low on paper at the end of the day and that the countertop in the copy room is neat and clean among other housekeeping duties. The irony is X is notorious for making messes and doing as little as possible when it comes to these very items and tasks.

The TL; DR is that most of us discussed this "idea" and its impracticality the next day when X had not yet arrived. We decided: (1) we're going to maintain the status quo where whomever makes a mess or uses the last of an item takes care of it on the spot, and (2) We're not going to tell X because we're curious if X will actually do these tasks on the self-assigned weekday.

My dad drilled into me when I first entered the workforce that arriving 10 minutes early is being on time, arriving exactly when your shift is supposed to begin is late, and anything after that is just being a dick. I’ve stuck by that mindset since.

My dad being a supervisor at one point in time instilled something similar to me when I first joined the workforce: Don't arrive late and don't leave early.

Fucking shit YouTube, it always shadowbans (hides as spam) my comments even if they're comprised of basic & polite english words. It's impossible to comment in that shit website, all the while the flood of pornbots conquer the platform's comment section.

Social media in general sucks in this regard. I've seen Facebook bots spam URLS whose sole purpose is identity theft. Reporting these comments almost always get an auto-response of "Sorry, but this doesn't violate community rules." Meanwhile, someone making an on-topic post to a group gets the post auto-deleted for violating the community rules. Nothing makes sense these days.

Ai written slop on the internet that only exist to reach the top of search engine queues.

AI may have its benefits, but the AI content I see on social media leaves little to be desired and falls into two categoriesmost of the time:

1. Text narratives with glaring inaccuracies ornformation that is completely false, or
2. Artwork of humans having freakishly mutated anatomy (usually the wrong number of fingers/toes) or glaring inaccuracies such as a fictitious character having short red hair when they really have long blonde hair.

Thread tax: Sales people that can't answer the most basic of questions. During a recent shopping trip, the in-store kiosk claimed the item I was looking for was in aisle 26. When checking the aisles, the numbering jumped from 24 to 29 with no indication where aisles 25-28 were. I asked a salesperson where aisle 26 was. Instead of taking me there, he took me to a different aisle even after I said the items there were not what I wanted to buy.

 

[Jarl Varg]

Door-to-door sales people. I understand they're trying to do a job, but fuck them! I have a no trespassing sign in my front yard, and a no solicitation/legally binding agreement sign(solicitors pay $50 a minute)on a post on the front porch. Fuckers still come knock on the door, and when I come outside to jump their asses, they say "I didn't see the signs!". I then tell them they're either lying, or have their heads up their asses. Either of which case, they need to leave, and never come back. Just had 2 fucking pest control sales people knock on my door at 9pm. If they had a brain in their heads, they'd realize how fucking stupid it is to knock on someone's front door, in the dark, here in Texas. I've been thinking about putting a chain across the patio with the signs on it, now I'm going to do that for sure.

 

[Rick Nekieta]

^^^ That was, BY FAR, the most people quoted in one post I have ever seen. AMAZING!

 

[Eadred]

Keep watching it, it gets good after 8 episodes.
Keep reading it, it gets good after 400 pages.
Keep playing it, it gets good after 18 hours.

No, it never does.

 

[Hubelublub]

Newfags who fuck up interesting threads because they don't know the culture of KF and treat it like their own personal blog.

No one should have almost 2000 posts within their first three months on the Farms, it's fucking insane. Newfags limited to 1 post a day for the first three months, or until they can prove they're capable of not shitting up threads.

 

[Guiron]

Redditors excusing shoplifters, arguing that the average paying customer doesn't have to make up the cost, even though there's actual, verifiable evidence that it does, as in order to afford costly insurance premiums, companies will raise prices, making you pay more.

As for these guys arguing that shoplifting doesn't hurt corporations, yeah it might not hurt the big corporation in the short term... they can just close everything down and move away if there's too many fuckers walking out with whole trolleys full of goods, and then everyone else has to suffer from the lack of infrastructure. There's also the fact that a company plagued by theft and other crimes tends to be looked down on by the public, and people are less likely to go there for fear of being pickpocketed or assaulted. So actually, it does hurt the corporation. In reality, shoplifting is a blight on society, and I'm tired of seeing basement dwelling types argue that it isn't.

 

[Hubelublub]

then everyone else has to suffer from the lack of infrastructure

then they'll just complain about "food deserts" which are caused by racist whites, and not the niggers who keep lifting shit and driving companies away.

You can never win against a Redditor, because everything is always someone else's fault.

 

[Not A Bunny]

I feel salty as fuck today.

At my job, there's a TV screen playing the news in the lobby. The story that was on while I was walking in was something about a terminated USAID worker moving on and pivoting careers.

Oh., you mean just like the rest of us who have lost jobs and had to move on?
Having spent some time in the federal government, it shouldn't surprise me. Of course, quickly shifting narratives shouldn't surprise me anymore (we all used to think there was no one more useless than a govvie; I can't possibly be imagining that). But I'm really cranked up about these spoiled former feds acting like losing their jobs was so traumatic and newsworthy.

I don't know, something about when you're privileged, equality feels like oppression or some shit.