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

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

When you're doing group work and no one seems to respond to your messages even though you all have the same thing due at midnight.

What could you possibly be doing that's more important than working on a fucking group project that's due that very night? It wouldn't bother me so much if people would at least say what they're doing, like if they can't get to their computer for whatever reason, but I'd rather know that when we're working on the damn thing.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

People who can never apologize for anything wrong they have done, or mistakes they made. I'm not one of those assholes who want someone to grovel and beg for forgiveness, I'd be happy with a simple "oh, my bad dude" and leave it at that, but can't even get that.

Amen to this.

Fresh out of college, I had to take a job outside my major to make money and pay bills. I ended up with a boss from hell. One of her bad traits was her insistence that she was automatically right because she was the boss, had more experience than I did, I shouldn't question anything she told me, etc. On the one occasion it turned out I was correct about something and she wasn't, she couldn't even apologize and instead chose to be more mealy-mouthed. Her exact comment was along the lines of, "Remember what I told you yesterday about x? Well, disregard what I said." This was the one job I had no regrets resigning from.

To add something new: people who share their sob stories more as a form of emotional blackmail and less because they want or need support from someone they know or trust.

 

[UnsufficentBoobage]

I wanted to try if our old keyboard (Chicony kb-2323, made in 1995) still worked, had to spend 10$ at the adapter to plug it into PS/2 port.

It works perfectly, and tapping away on it feels real pleasant.

 

[Teadrinkr]

Those people that leave their garbage in the fold-down trays you see on trains. Especially when it's gum. Like I just wanna put my cup down I don't want diseases from these cretins.

Oh and people who spit on the pavement.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Shitty cables - like video out or power cables - really suck.

Reminds me of the days when bunny ear antenna on analog TV had to be constantly adjusted to get any good (and easily lost) signal.

 

[Large]

My thermostat turning on random shit whenever it turns the heater on/off.

 

[Prince Jello]

Watching movies with my brother. Whenever there's a sex scene, he gets excessively bothered and irritated, he hides his face in his shirt's collar and asks me to tell him once it's over. Mind you, he's thirty years old and the expanse of his hentai collection is ghastly.

 

[Freya]

an update for nobody(because nobody cares).

I received a job offer over a week ago and they asked me to provide references to call. I provided them but have NOT heard back since then. very frustrating. Now THAT personally pisses me off.

 

[AprilRains]

an update for nobody(because nobody cares).

I received a job offer over a week ago and they asked me to provide references to call. I provided them but have NOT heard back since then. very frustrating. Now THAT personally pisses me off.

You shouldn't have used Zaiger as a reference.

 

[Freya]

You shouldn't have used Zaiger as a reference.

who are you and why are you bothering me

 

[AprilRains]

who are you and why are you bothering me

I couldn't resist the shot at Zaiger, sorry.

Yes, not hearing back in a reasonable timeframe sucks. I hate the suspense. They should at least explain the delay if they haven't made a decision yet.

 

[Pissmaster]

There is no such thing as a clean table at the food court at Costco

 

[GinnyPotter]

People who don't seem to understand they're making you apart of their crime.

Please don't tell me you're gonna do X, Y & Z if this happens. I don't want to know. I don't want to be part of this.

People who hold you emotionally hostage.
"Well if you weren't here, I would definitely do this."
So if I don't hang out with you, you're gonna do horrible things....?
Great....Who doesn't want to go get breakfast with that person.

 

[Fliddaroonie]

People who don't seem to understand they're making you apart of their crime.

Please don't tell me you're gonna do X, Y & Z if this happens. I don't want to know. I don't want to be part of this.

People who hold you emotionally hostage.
"Well if you weren't here, I would definitely do this."
So if I don't hang out with you, you're gonna do horrible things....?
Great....Who doesn't want to go get breakfast with that person.

I had a coworker similar to this a long time back. After I finished Uni, I bumped my hours at my part time job til I found a job in my field. It was the worst three months of my life, I'd not realised the level of genetic slops some of the full timers were.


One of them told me how he and his missus were conning the state benefits system by lying about cohabitation and that she was getting extra money for flogging her pain meds. I didn't want or need to know any of this and it was super awkward.

Also, on a similar note, and related to my former job. Christmas Cunts. What we'd call a specific type of customer who would be all "REEEEE!!! IIISSS CHRISTMASSS!!!" but be a massive fucking shit to anyone working retail/hospitality/bar. Double cunt points if they were unemployed people. Every fucking day is the weekend for them, why do they get so excited about bank holidays?

 

[The Sauce Boss]

I had a coworker similar to this a long time back. After I finished Uni, I bumped my hours at my part time job til I found a job in my field. It was the worst three months of my life, I'd not realised the level of genetic slops some of the full timers were.


One of them told me how he and his missus were conning the state benefits system by lying about cohabitation and that she was getting extra money for flogging her pain meds. I didn't want or need to know any of this and it was super awkward.

Also, on a similar note, and related to my former job. Christmas Cunts. What we'd call a specific type of customer who would be all "REEEEE!!! IIISSS CHRISTMASSS!!!" but be a massive fucking shit to anyone working retail/hospitality/bar. Double cunt points if they were unemployed people. Every fucking day is the weekend for them, why do they get so excited about bank holidays?

Ah, yes. The Christmas Cunt. The Holiday Headass. The Xmas Xceptional. Many names for the same phenomena. Retail is worse than any hell I can conceive of.

Unrelated to bitching about retail, though, and on a heavier note- I hate people who are intentionally assholes about small things, and when confronted, say 'it's literally just a -insert thing here-.' As much as you shouldn't sperg out at teh small stuff, there are people in this world where, just due to how the cards have fallen for them, the small stuff is all they have.

What purpose does being that much of a dick serve?

 

[ProgKing of the North]

Oh, people bitching about the small things is actually quite related to retail.

A few weeks ago some cunt wrote in on her survey that we asked her if she was finding everything too often

 

[Fliddaroonie]

there are people in this world where, just due to how the cards have fallen for them, the small stuff is all they have.

What purpose does being that much of a dick serve?

I know exactly what you mean. I noticed this a lot in my previous job. Slightly unrelated as well, but I loathed the people who would look down on us.


Another thing that's pissed me off lately is the middle class, wealthy people I know who've been urging Britbongs to vote Labour and bragging about how they can afford to pay extra taxes. That's nice for them, really,but if they've a surplus of money then they could always donate to charity or volunteer if they feel strongly about anything. But nooooo, these people always expect someone else to fix everything for them

 

[Silence of the Troons]

I got a Spotify ad today which opened with the line "Twenty-twenty (2020) is coming". In Swedish, saying twenty-twenty (tjugotjugo) is incorrect and makes you sound like a total moron, but this way of referring to years has become more widespread now. Then again, a lot of Swedes (particularly Millennials and Zoomers) are shit at their own mother tongue

 

[The Great Chandler]

I know exactly what you mean. I noticed this a lot in my previous job. Slightly unrelated as well, but I loathed the people who would look down on us.


Another thing that's pissed me off lately is the middle class, wealthy people I know who've been urging Britbongs to vote Labour and bragging about how they can afford to pay extra taxes. That's nice for them, really,but if they've a surplus of money then they could always donate to charity or volunteer if they feel strongly about anything. But nooooo, these people always expect someone else to fix everything for them

Why would anyone brag about paying taxes? Here in America, everyone in all classes hate to pay taxes!

 

[AnOminous]

Also, on a similar note, and related to my former job. Christmas Cunts. What we'd call a specific type of customer who would be all "REEEEE!!! IIISSS CHRISTMASSS!!!" but be a massive fucking shit to anyone working retail/hospitality/bar. Double cunt points if they were unemployed people. Every fucking day is the weekend for them, why do they get so excited about bank holidays?

Especially if they're two of the most insufferable sets of cunts in the world, Christians who get angry because some store fucking MAKES retail employees say "Happy holidays," or euphoric fedoras who literally get mad at Christmas existing. Fuck both that kind of person hard. Great, you just turned a holiday about love and forgiveness and generosity into a "let's be the biggest cunts in the universe" day. Good job fuckers.