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

[ForgedBlades]

I had to mail out some business checks today. I print them directly from Quickbooks which conveniently prints the payee's address on the check, and after slipping them into a windowed envelope, I throw a stamp on and toss it in the mail. I was out of windowed envelopes and needed to get these checks out so I had to go to Office Depot to get some.

Let me tell you about fucking Office Depot. This has been their business model for at least the last eight years:

• We'll stock items that small business people need (copy paper, printer ink, fucking ENVELOPES).
• We'll mark them up at least five bajillion percent
• We'll wait until retards like @ForgedBlades realize that they need something now and can't wait one or two days for Amazon Prime to deliver it
• ???
• PROFIT

I go in there and pick up a fucking box of 250 double windowed envelopes.

FORTY-NINE FUCKING DOLLARS

NO. I'M NOT BULLSHITTING YOU

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You want to know how much a box of 500 costs on Amazon?

THIRTY FUCKING DOLLARS​

NO, I'M NOT BULLSHITTING YOU

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It gets better.

I drive back, feeling like a retard, boiling with rage. I go to stick a check in. The first two lines of the fucking payee address on the check are covered up by the white strip separating the receiver's address and the return address. This printing of the address cannot be altered. I cannot make the text smaller, I cannot add a couple of line breaks, Quickbooks will not allow you to do any of this.

I do a little research. Apparently the checks my bank sends me are a proprietary size. This means I can only use specially designed envelopes sold by the check manufacturer if I want both addresses to line up properly in their windows. You want to know how much a box of those costs?

EIGHTY-ONE FUCKING DOLLARS​

NO, I'M NOT BULLSHITTING YOU

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[Hunter Hearst Helmsley]

Communism sounds good some times.

 

[The Cringe Connoisseur]

[]EIGHTY-ONE FUCKING DOLLARS[/]
[]NO, I'M NOT BULLSHITTING YOU[/]

Proprietary bullshit needs to be banned it's always a fucking scam.

Communism sounds good some times.

I mean ACTUAL communism is just a government designed to benefit and promote a self sufficient communal village/tribal style of society where everyone has a job to do and role to play in keeping things moving so society only works when everyone pulls their own weight which means everyone is going to be pulling said weight. It's a simple life and these days that shit sounds inviting as fuck but it's technically both never actually been done in the modern sense of the term and absolutely impossible to implement on a large scale because most humans are lazy entitled greedy retards who don't know what it's like to suffer or truly do without. The "communism" we know is nothing but crime syndicates and drug lords larping as politicians and common dictatorships. China, Russia, Vietnam and shit tons of asian crap holes ETC all being shining examples.

 

[AnOminous]

Communism sounds good some times.

But in gommunism you'd only have one type of envelope, and one type of paper, and they'd both be wrong. You'd have to wrap them up in toilet paper, but there is no toilet paper in the entire country.

 

[Señora Airi]

I'm convinced that a lot of retail stores are going out of business because their websites don't fucking work on mobile devices at all. The interfaces lag. The pages don't load correctly. It constantly logs you out. It never remembers the zip code you put in to find a store near you. Generally just slow as shit. How

That and they won't list a phone number or website online.

Ordering the shrimp tackle box at Popeyes. You will wait three times as long as everyone else because no one else orders it. And because no one else orders it, they don’t have any ready. And because they don’t have any ready, you’re essentially asking them to start fishing.

That and, like the Zaxby's shrimp thing they got going on, you never get enough shrimp.

TAX: The whole ordeal of grocery shopping. You get to deal with people not knowing how to drive in a parking lot, looking for an ever slightly closer parking spot, as well as people driving around the speed bumps in front of the store and pulling out in front of you.

Once getting into the store, you see that a sizable portion of items on your grocery list aren't in stock, and there's no stocker childs or managers around to see if there is any coming in. Finally, when you're ready to check out and pay, there's always some passive aggressive middle aged woman who wants to cut in front of you despite having 3 times the amount of items, and gets upset when you aren't "chivalrous" and "aren't a real man".

I honestly don't blame the people who have their groceries delivered. It's far less a headache.

 

[Lovely Kin]

When they travel to another country and act like they're the most educated being once they get back. Bonus: They talk about how they were more accepted there than in the United States.

 

[Sean_Igger]

When they travel to another country and act like they're the most educated being once they get back.

Yet stick to the most touristy of tourist spots around. I can read a book and/or watch a video on the country and sound just as informed without being arrogant about it.

Bonus: They talk about how they were more accepted there than in the United States.

Because the locals love them tourist $$$ and these idiots have fooled themselves into believing it's they who are special and not the money they bring. In every country some people are assholes, others are genuinely accepting, but MOST won't give a damn about you once you leave. People are people everywhere so just because they speak not-English doesn't make them exotic.

 

[The Last Stand]

Ordering the shrimp tackle box at Popeyes. You will wait three times as long as everyone else because no one else orders it. And because no one else orders it, they don’t have any ready. And because they don’t have any ready, you’re essentially asking them to start fishing.

Why is the text white in some posts? In light mode, that's annoying.

 

[UnsufficentBoobage]

Ordering the shrimp

People here love shrimp so much, even KFC got them on the menu, yet you still have to wait 10 thousand years for your shramp. International shrimprostination.

 

[AnOminous]

Ordering the shrimp tackle box at Popeyes. You will wait three times as long as everyone else because no one else orders it. And because no one else orders it, they don’t have any ready. And because they don’t have any ready, you’re essentially asking them to start fishing.

On the other hand, if you order food at fast food that requires they actually make it, it actually comes hot and fresh and you know it hasn't been sitting under some heat lamp for hours.

 

[Hunter Hearst Helmsley]

 

[Captain Syrup]

Shitty mobile game ads are now airing during prime time television. Rome had the Colosseum, we got a Candy Crush ripoff that looks nothing like the footage shown. America is so cooked.

 

[Not A Bunny]

All right, so I was on a Zoom call for a group that was all about better socializing.

The moderator clearly had no idea how to run this meeting, because he scheduled for an hour, but we all got kicked out 25 minutes in. Also, he didn't mute all participants at the start.

I swear, Zoom and all these other remote work environments have made people behave like idiots. Like, okay, even if the moderator doesn't mute all participants, maybe YOU be mindful of that too. Nobody wants to hear your background noise.

And there is nothing, absolutely nothing worse than a moderator who gives an intro period and lets the bunch of randos in the room direct it. "Oh, who are you going to toss it to?" "Hey, can you hear us?" "I'm gonna toss it to that guy." That guy who already introduced himself two minutes ago. Then some random woman jumps in that wasn't called to speak but butts in anyway because she wasn't paying attention, "Sorry, I had to do something with my kid."

And that's another thing that gets on my nerves. You're doing the whole "I have a kid so I have an excuse to be a rude asshole" schtick. If you're going to be on a Zoom call of any kind, you should probably not be tending to a kid, because now we know your attention is split and you're going to have more rude asshole moments like that one, "Hey, could you repeat that, I had to deal with my kid." I realize kids need attention, but maybe you shouldn't be on a perfectly voluntary Zoom call if your kid is going to be a distraction. Take care of that first, then socialize.

I swear, one of my problems in life is that I'm fine with the idea that maybe I need some self-improvement, but then I look around and everyone else has devolved into monkeys flinging poo, and I'm like, "Maybe I'm not the problem here. Maybe the problem is I'm too civilized for these weirdos."

 

[DavidS877]

I swear, Zoom and all these other remote work environments have made people behave like idiots. Like, okay, even if the moderator doesn't mute all participants, maybe YOU be mindful of that too. Nobody wants to hear your background noise.

One thing I like about Teams is, at least how many places have it setup, is anyone can mute anyone. I've certainly used it a few times on coworkers who think an airport is a good place to hold a call. "Flight 333 Now boarding"... click.

Personally I've been on work conference calls for 25 years now and I still remember the first system. "Ok, everyone please dial star-6 to mute yourself now until you need to talk." Then on the larger calls you'd have an operator on standby the host could call to figure out who just put the conference call on hold with hold music.

My lawn, something something.

 

[pyrinyx]

we got a Candy Crush ripoff that looks nothing like the footage shown.

Especially if that kind of trash is being advertised. Hey guys! We're blatantly lying to you but with a broader audience!
And you just know there's going to be thousands of retarded Americans who's going to give that app clicks and attention, because that's the main goal. Just go and mislead people deliberately and get attention, see how many dumbasses start seriously investing in you and profit!

 

[Mysterious Figure]

I fucking hate the Walmart fitting rooms. I can't ever use them to try on jeans because assholes go in there and take all day. They also only have fitting rooms in the women's section and not the men's.

Time for me to start shopping for clothes at Kohls.

 

[Lovely Kin]

I try not to be the rude public sector worker who acts like a dick to others and I do think some public sector needs reforms, but god, some people. If you bring in the wrong paperwork, not just something that's not filled out, I can't fucking do anything. I'm not making your life harder, I'm genuinely more bewildered that you brought something meant for somewhere else and then have the nerve of accusing me of "wasting my time".

 

[MF-690T]

I keep getting this ad on Spotify for "BetterHelp" which is an online therapy service. The lady's voice sounds like nails on a chalkboard (kinda, it's a really nasally "soft-spoken" voice) and I've always been vehemently against therapy shit from my own past experiences with it.

She boasts about how 62% of people felt less heckin' depressed after 6 weeks of online therapy, which seems like a rather poor figure all things considered. There's also a little tidbit at the end where she's like "BetterHelp, that's better H-E-L-P"... as if I don't know how to spell a 4 letter word. It's just very patronizing, I guess. I'm sure the SSRIs are so amazing.

 

[FamicomGorby]

I keep getting this ad on Spotify for "BetterHelp" which is an online therapy service. The lady's voice sounds like nails on a chalkboard (kinda, it's a really nasally "soft-spoken" voice) and I've always been vehemently against therapy shit from my own past experiences with it.

She boasts about how 62% of people felt less heckin' depressed after 6 weeks of online therapy, which seems like a rather poor figure all things considered. There's also a little tidbit at the end where she's like "BetterHelp, that's better H-E-L-P"... as if I don't know how to spell a 4 letter word. It's just very patronizing, I guess. I'm sure the SSRIs are so amazing.

Online ads in general have just gotten completely intolerable. Everytime I see one now cause my adblock doesn't work it just reminds me of how all advertising execs deserve to get punched.

 

[Captain Syrup]

Ignoring people until they're geopolitically useful. 9/11 gave us the perfect excuse to stop pretending we give a microscopic shit about Native Americans. Now they’re back in the conversation, but only as a blunt instrument to hit Canadians in the head with. There's something Tibet/Uyghur about it.