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

[Not A Bunny]

I'm sure I'm not the only person who's had this complaint, but I feel like I'm becoming more of a Karen every single day. Customer service is non-existent practically everywhere these days.

The latest perpetrator is my mortgage company. I put down more than twice what my mortgage payment is monthly. I've never missed a payment. So, when my mortgage was bought from the original company I was mortgaged with (who never gave me any problems) by, let's call them Cheap Rat Bastard Mortgage Company, one of the first things that happens is that I get a nastygram from them saying I've missed an insurance payment.

Fuck you, you lying sons of bitches. You do not besmirch my good credit score by saying I didn't pay my bills.

So I call them up and lit up the unfortunate gentleman that answered my call. He explains that there was some sort of turnover in their system and they just didn't catch that payment yet. I would be receiving a letter soon that this has been corrected.

That was last year.

Today, I had to call the fuckers to ask when the fuck their website would be up and running again (it's been down for three weeks) so I could start scheduling payments. Apparently, there is a "hold" on my account because, once again, they've got some updates to their system, and they can't allow me to schedule payments until the end of this month. Good thing for me I already scheduled this month's payment and (supposedly) it's still in the system so my payment will go through as scheduled.

Needless to say, I, on their recorded call, explained very clearly that I, as a good customer and someone who pays on time, didn't deserve to be at their fucking whims just because they don't have their act together.

I get my mortgage paid off in under 5 years. Sooner if I move out of my place, which is looking like a real possibility, and probably a good idea anyway because the HOA won't do shit about the squatters upstairs from me (who, by the way, don't have squatter's rights, but for some god damn reason the police won't do anything about it either). I'll be lucky to get back what I paid for this place because of those shitheads.

 

[starborn427614]

People who don't practice what they preach. Doesn't matter which side of the political spectrum you're on, it's a human thing at the end of the day. Don't claim to be empathetic if you're not going to actually employ empathy to try and connect with someone who might be doing something you don't approve of.

 

[WhoBusTank69]

Growing older. This shit just makes zero sense to me sometimes.

When I realized how fast a year goes by and think about how old my parents were around when they had me I get a good feel for how okay it is to be completely lost.

 

[PaleTay]

It feels like every poor person has gone completely insane over the past 5 years. I don't mean homeless people but every "paycheck to paycheck" person seems to be looking for something they can twist in an effort to get something for free.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

People who bring their afraid pets to the parade.

Also, people who bring dogs who aren't properly socialized to a parade or any public gathering. I press X to doubt any time someone insists Rover is friendly when the dog's body language coveys the desire to attack anyone or anything it can get its mouth on.

Homeless people ruin nice places to hang out in. Nobody wants to smell BO, piss or see raggedy people out and about.

It was a giant porta potty meant for homeless people. They are savages.

One of the parking decks I frequent has two entrances. I try to avoid using one of them if I can because it smells like the homeless have used that particular exterior corner of the parking deck as a personal porta-john.

The area newspaper recently posted an article boasting about some new high-tech portable restroom being placed in select parks in the area. I'm not a doomer, but I await the articles saying they've been removed because the homeless and other punks vandalized them beyond repair. Nobody wants to respect public property any more.

I'm seeing a lot of people on my side of the political spectrum both online and irl advocating for draconian and far reaching internet censorship in order to "own the pedophiles."

Solving one extreme by choosing the other extreme rarely works as intended. Online censorship is why we have innocent words becoming substitutes for inappropriate words and phrases: PDF for pedophile, grape for gay rape, noodles for nudes, etc. It's become so ridiculous that a normal conversation has the tendency to have people assuming the worse if one of these words is used in its original context but instead read as its new euphemism.

Where the fuck are we in this timeline that commercials aimed at regular people like me should carry drugs to help with an overdose on fent, instead of commercials demanding that people on fent get help?

Too many social justice folks believe that drug use is unduly stigmatized and that even the most hard core junkie deserves help even if they actively refuse or resist it. I have no problem with someone who accidentally ODs or was given something against their will getting the help they want, need, or deserve. Someone who actively chooses to do drugs deserves the consequences no matter how harsh. In the past, an EMT Kiwi shared their experiences how many of the Narcan recipients they dealt with were repeat customers who kept doing drugs because they either didn't care or saw Narcan as a undo/reset button of sorts.

In my daily visits to the post office because of my job, I hate it when there's only one register open when there's a long line, then all the registers are open when there is a short line or no line at all. I just don't get the logic behind it! Nonetheless, I still get my job done and move on everyday despite that. It can still be irritating. Especially when the other customers are the ones who hold up the lines for many various and often stupid reasons.

This almost sounds like my post office. Every other time I go, there's only one window clerk available. To their credit, one particular clerk works hard and does their best to keep the line moving, but it doesn't help when customers slow down the line because they have no clue what service they want or how to follow the simplest of instructions. for addressing/sending packages.

It's even worse when you go to bed and people are still setting them off. I was hearing a cacophony of pops until well after 11:00 last night. Luckily, I have a large supply of earplugs.

This year, however, at least one person waited until after the local cutoff time to shoot their fireworks off. I'm resigned to the fact that I won't go to bed until midnight the week of the 4th because the after-hours amateur pyrotechnics are going to keep my up until then anyways.

Thread tax: Being accosted by missionaries. I don't care what church they're members of, if three or more of them approach me in public I feel put on the spot and I don't react too favorably to that.

I get suspicious and my self-preservation instincts kick in when 2-3 people confront my for any reason no matter how benign. It might be because I had a duo show up at a former workplace initially wanting to proselytize about Jesus. When I told them I wasn't interested, they revealed their true purpose was to get me to switch the business' phone service to the shady company they shilled for.

In the past, Jehovah's Witnesses were rampant in the neighborhood and more persistent than athlete's foot. But they largely stopped after a neighbor two doors down started reading the current happenings from their own church's weekly bulletin and offered them a copy to take with them.

I hate how every fast food place requires you to place an order using your phone. Or tries to make you.

The local McDonalds switched to kiosk ordering for dine-in and never made it clear that people should use it to order from. I walked in and waited to order with a cashier completely unaware of the change until after the fact. When I did order from the kiosk the next time I went there, it kept wanting to upsell stuff I didn't want. It took longer to decline those upsells than it did to place the actual order. Now, I avoid going there as much as possible.

If these people are just seat fillers essentially why can't we hire American high school dropouts to sit there and do nothing?

At least we'd be able to understand them.

If I recall from the US Politics General thread, Microsoft recently laid off thousands of workers and wants to replace most of them with new H1-B imports. They may as well admit that Corporate America wants cheap foreign labor and cares nothing about hiring citizens for any open position or training locals for the entry-level openings.

Nurses are a special kind of cancer without needing a political leaning to make it worse

Nurses are either fantastic at their job and good people or they're fucking retards that make you wonder how they got a license and how nobody murdered them yet. There's really no in-between. Any HR associated with healthcare are even worse. Fuck those people, all of them, everywhere. They deserve only your scorn.

I agree with Dean. Most of the older nurses have the right bedside manner and usually know how to take care of their patients. The problem comes with the fact all medical records are now computerized - leaving nurses less time for bedside care because they have to do data entry for everything they did during their shifts. It also doesn't help that certain areas require nurses to take a diversity class as part of their license's continuing education in which they get told white health care professionals are inherently racist against minorities.

Jesus did not mean materially poor, he is referring to people who are spiritually poor aka those with wounded hearts and souls.

If I recall the gospels, someone asked Jesus about the materially poor and he replied that there will always be those poor no matter what. It doesn't mean people should be dismissive of the materially poor, but it means there needs to be proper perspective and the realization someone is always going to have the least amount of material things no matter how much everyone has. A hand up is more uplifting than a hand out in both the spiritual and material sense. Forcing equality a la Harrison Bergeron isn't going to work as intended.

Thread tax: People who assume and don't communicate. I recently had repair work done. The crew apparently found a dead animal during their work, wrapped it properly, and then dropped it in my trash can. Unfortunately they did so right after the pickup that day, so it sat in the bin for nearly for a week and stunk to high heaven when it was time to put this week's trash in the bin because nobody knew it was there. If they had said something about it at the time, it could have been better handled without me having a can so stinky it could kill zombies.

 

[Helvetica Black]

people who overstep your boundaries and would rather be fucktards

well excuse me for having my own needs!
people these days are so fucking pathetic

 

[Wimbydong]

When you're about to sneeze (especially if it would've been a big one), but your nose gets blue balled (blue nostriled?) and it never actually sneezes and remains incredibly uncomfortable before the itch dissipates.

 

[ForgedBlades]

Slow/spotty hotel WiFi in 2025.

 

[Loris Yeltsin]

Gonna express my recent grievance in the most patrician way, a dead and gay meme.

 

[internet friend]

People who spend all day yapping at work, but always insist theyre super busy and overloaded with work. Maybe if you spent less time talking shit to your friends and actually doing it, you wouldn't be overloaded.

 

[President Joe Biden]

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.

@Rick Nekieta

 

[A-Stump]

I'm sure this has been posted before but this thread is long as fuck so deal with it.

When games have a 'ready to play' bar with another bar indicating it's still downloading some stuff. So you click to play the game and you're stuck on the main menu with everything locked out except for, maybe, a training mode if you're even that lucky.

If I can't play the fucking game, don't tell me I can. I have literally no idea why they do this

 

[Mysterious Figure]

I'm sure this has been posted before but this thread is long as fuck so deal with it.

When games have a 'ready to play' bar with another bar indicating it's still downloading some stuff. So you click to play the game and you're stuck on the main menu with everything locked out except for, maybe, a training mode if you're even that lucky.

If I can't play the fucking game, don't tell me I can. I have literally no idea why they do this

I hate when I fully install a PC game and it says it's ready to be played, but when I click the play button it starts downloading Direct X shit and shaders.

 

[Mysterious Figure]

I mistakenly dropped a few cheerios under my desk and left them there unknowingly. Now I got nothing but fucking ants all over the floor below my desk. Went out for ant traps today. Fucking disgusting.

 

[Rick The Stick]

>this person is so dedicated and put in the work
>person is obviously on steroids

Every fuckin time.

 

[Jinn in the phone]

For me its gas stations and corner stores becoming gambling dens as their primary form of business, though it might depend on the laws of your state. Closest gas station before I get on the highway has chairs, tables and screens for all this shit. I've got 30 dollars cash for an energy drink, a natty daddy and the rest in gas ready to go, would take 30 seconds. But no, I gotta wait 4-6 minutes while Pedro and Jim decide which arcane composition of scratchies and game tickets they wish to buy.

 

[Jace on ice]

When autists and redditors melt the fuck down and reeeeeeeeeeeeee! When asked "so why do you want to work here?" In a job interview.

The correct answer is "because I aspire to work in x field and this position would be an ideal place to learn/master the skills to do so."

Cmon guys I'm a huge autist and even I can pretend to be human for five seconds and answer the fucking question without sperging out and having a soy meltdown.

Of course the real answer is money but you're supposed to lie and play the game.

 

[Rick The Stick]

People who pronounce "women" as a singular and "woman" as a plural.

When autists and redditors melt the fuck down and reeeeeeeeeeeeee! When asked "so why do you want to work here?" In a job interview.

The correct answer is "because I aspire to work in x field and this position would be an ideal place to learn/master the skills to do so."

Cmon guys I'm a huge autist and even I can pretend to be human for five seconds and answer the fucking question without sperging out and having a soy meltdown.

Of course the real answer is money but you're supposed to lie and play the game.

Agreed but I remember getting asked this once in highschool when I was applying to a burger joint, and actually lol'ing in the interviewers face. Sometimes the question is monumentally retarded.

 

[PaleTay]

Using cell phones at work is usually annoying. Great, I have to enter a couple security codes and hope I can receive some MMS messages.

 

[WhoBusTank69]

Using cell phones at work is usually annoying. Great, I have to enter a couple security codes and hope I can receive some MMS messages.

I had one job that required a work phone, the default ringtone gives me Vietnam War-tier flashbacks.