What (besides politics) irritates you?

[defcon]

Originally Posted by aicdmb

40 and 50 yr olds telling stories about high school, or elementary school. Nobody gives a fuck man. It goes in one ear and out the other, shorten the fucking story, or dont tell it at all

The older I get, the more it seems like life sucks a little more each and every day. I'm probably going to get one of those people.

[K270]

Originally Posted by defcon

I haven't been to the movies in quite a while, lucky if I go once a year. Why overpay for shit you can get free on the internet?

Here's some work related annoyances

Having to physically escort people to the door/register at closing time. People, that message you keep hearing the last fifteen minutes means the store is fucking closing. As soon as you hear that message, even if it says 15 minutes are left, just fucking stop and check out. People would like to go home.

If you wear any of the following:

a beanie in the summer, sunglasses, a thick coat/hoodie in the summer, have a baby stroller without a baby in it, have large bags/multiple bags/backpacks/tote bags, you will be followed by store security on camera or in person, asked to either remove the offending clothing, let us check your bags/stroller for you, or leave. Don't get offended.

When your kid gets hurt because you weren't watching him and we warned you that the child shouldn't have been left unattended on a fucking treadmill and ASKED you to leave after you failed to take care of your shit, it ceases to be our fault legally. You are a horrible fucking parent and deserve to have your kids taken away.

Stop putting your hands in/out of any purses or pockets frequently.

Under no circumstances should you enter the fitting room/bathroom of the opposite sex. You would be surprised how many people don't understand this most basic rule that we all learned by age 4.

If you are ever caught stealing, don't deny it or you're gonna have a bad time. Just give the shit back and chances are if you sign an admission you'll be let go and maybe have to pay restitution. If you don't, you will be criminally prosecuted.

If you have a problem with your bags/receipts/purse being checked or searched, leave them in your fucking car.

When you check out, check out. Make sure you got all the shit you intended to, and fucking leave. Don't keep shopping with a store bag. And don't get pissed when I send out an associate to ask you if you need anything else.

When you are bringing a return, don't shop first...go straight to customer service. I thought this was common sense, but common sense isn't so common.

No, you can't test drive our shit. No, you can't borrow/rent our shit.

If you are going to try on lingerie, a swimsuit or underwear, wash yourself or wear underwear beneath. Jesus, I've had to do about three destroyed merchandise reports now...whatever they're called, due to bodily fluids,

The store is not a place to chill, kill time, fuck, etc. If you aren't actually shopping but are sitting down in shoes or fucking around, you will be asked to leave.

You can't just name your own price...this isn't priceline.com. Some real or fake ad you printed from the internet is not a valid competitor's ad. We consider brick and mortar stores within 25 miles to be competitors. We will not match ads/prices in New Mexico or from Amazon. We do not care about similar merchandise, if we're gonna price match it has to be the exact same product down to SKU.

Code Adam isn't a free post-facto babysitting service. It is store policy to call the police if the child has left the store. Do not call and issue threats because DSS took your kids. Learn how to fucking parent.

No food and beverages in electronics or formalwear means just that. I don't give a fuck if it's a spillproof container or your food is sealed and you're just passing through. I don't want to deal with the paperwork when you spill your smoothie on a demo.

Do not get mad at our MPU people. They're not the ones who fix shit...everything is sent away. We don't fix shit on demand.

If your card is declined, its not our fault. We will not negotiate with your bank or take IOUs. You may place certain things on layaway or apply for our store credit card.

We do not accept checks. The year is 2013. Get a debit card.

When you decide you don't want something, put it back where it goes.

If you're gonna claim an associate shorted you on change, you better make sure your shit is proper because we have a main camera on each register as well as a pretty nifty system to avoid shit like this.

We don't do rainchecks. Shoulda got here sooner.

Bravo...brilliant post. To the bolded ones. Nothing pisses me off more when something doesn't ring up and the customer chimes in "Ohhhhhh, it doesn't ring up, that means it's free." WRONG!!! No, it doesn't mean it's free. It means that I get to go get the price, hand ring it in and then tell my manager to put the price in the system.

And the bag issue. It amazes me how many people get mad that they are asked to leave their back pack up front. We don't have a loss prevention agent and we're short handed most of the time. We don't need your skummy looking ass filling your back-pack up with Tri-Tips and Steel Reserve Beer. Just leave your bag up front. What ever you have in your bag, we don't want it. We also don't have to watch you now.

[thebestauntie]

Not being able to sleep.

[justink]

Originally Posted by thebestauntie

Not being able to sleep.

high five. i'm with you there.

i need to get out and exercise more. this i know as fact. if i worked my body to fail everyday, i wouldn't have such a hard time sleeping and i would be about 70 el bees lighter too.

but that's my own cross to bare. it might fit someone else's lifestyle as well.

[justink]

running out of beer in the fridge...

[dmbetc]

When someone asks a question/makes a complaint and no matter what you say or suggest satisfies them. I had a guest call down to the front desk and ask "Do all of the rooms have this strong chemical smell?" I replied "I am unsure as I do not work housekeeping, but maybe they had to use more chemicals in your current room for one reason or another. We have another room you are welcome to check out to see if it is more satisfactory." She replies "Well...wouldn't they use the same chemicals in each room?" It's my last week here, so I replied "You seemed to answer your own question, ma'am. As I stated before, I don't work housekeeping, I don't know what each room smells like. We have rooms available if you'd like to check out another." My customer services is beaming tonight!

[Tomriddle]

Students who score less than a fifty on a test but want to quibble over a few points...you going from a 22 to a 24 isn't worth my fucking time. A test evaluates how well you learned the material, and your evaluation winds up being "jack fucking shit" either way.

Students with any score who think "come on man" is a valid argument for additional credit.

Students who were wronged because they "didn't understand the question" and "it's not an English class." An institution of higher learning reserves the right to judge you for not having the slightest hint of reading comprehension skills, even not in English class.

Students who will e-mail you with their grading complaint but will refuse to visit office hours. If it's not worth your time it's certainly not worth my time.

[defcon]

Originally Posted by Tomriddle

Students who score less than a fifty on a test but want to quibble over a few points...you going from a 22 to a 24 isn't worth my fucking time. A test evaluates how well you learned the material, and your evaluation winds up being "jack fucking shit" either way.

Students with any score who think "come on man" is a valid argument for additional credit.

Students who were wronged because they "didn't understand the question" and "it's not an English class." An institution of higher learning reserves the right to judge you for not having the slightest hint of reading comprehension skills, even not in English class.

Students who will e-mail you with their grading complaint but will refuse to visit office hours. If it's not worth your time it's certainly not worth my time.

Holy Shit Lord Voldemort is back and he's a professor at Hogwarts.

[Lcsulla]

Originally Posted by aicdmb

If shes hot, it is ok thought...amirite??

Nope

Originally Posted by ExistenceNow

Laugh tracks.

Agreed, they suck, I love DVD's where you can turn it off.

Originally Posted by Tomriddle

Students who score less than a fifty on a test but want to quibble over a few points...you going from a 22 to a 24 isn't worth my fucking time. A test evaluates how well you learned the material, and your evaluation winds up being "jack fucking shit" either way.

Students with any score who think "come on man" is a valid argument for additional credit.

Students who were wronged because they "didn't understand the question" and "it's not an English class." An institution of higher learning reserves the right to judge you for not having the slightest hint of reading comprehension skills, even not in English class.

Students who will e-mail you with their grading complaint but will refuse to visit office hours. If it's not worth your time it's certainly not worth my time.

Nothing is ever a students fault these days. It is always the fault of a parent, a teacher, the administration, society, discrimination, bullying - blah blah blah - insert relevant psychobabblebullshit. Couldn't possibly be that the kid is lazy, stupid, unmotivated, ignorant or just plain hopeless. It is ALWAYS on the teacher now.

[AJF_41]

when guys stand at a urinal, and put one hand up on the wall

http://cache2.asset-cache.net/gc/200...vcnPocf0uq4uyn

[Beefsteak1138]

People that don't clean out their nasty, moldy food from the company fridge.

[ExistenceNow]

Originally Posted by AJF_41

when guys stand at a urinal, and put one hand up on the wall

http://cache2.asset-cache.net/gc/200...vcnPocf0uq4uyn

I do that at home, but not at a public urinal.

[Beefsteak1138]

You have a urinal at home?

[ExistenceNow]

Doesn't everyone?

[defcon]

Originally Posted by AJF_41

when guys stand at a urinal, and put one hand up on the wall

http://cache2.asset-cache.net/gc/200...vcnPocf0uq4uyn

Exception to the rule is when someone is clearly inebriated. Man law.

Originally Posted by Beefsteak1138

People that don't clean out their nasty, moldy food from the company fridge.

coin flip: People who clean out shit from the fridge outside of regularly scheduled intervals, like, every Friday, for example. This one place I worked shit was cleaned out daily even though it was supposed to be done on a Friday. So that sucked.

Related: When shit is stolen from a work fridge. It took a lot of laxative to put a stop to that. Laxative brownies? yup.

[daveshookme]

Originally Posted by dmbetc

When someone asks a question/makes a complaint and no matter what you say or suggest satisfies them. I had a guest call down to the front desk and ask "Do all of the rooms have this strong chemical smell?" I replied "I am unsure as I do not work housekeeping, but maybe they had to use more chemicals in your current room for one reason or another. We have another room you are welcome to check out to see if it is more satisfactory." She replies "Well...wouldn't they use the same chemicals in each room?" It's my last week here, so I replied "You seemed to answer your own question, ma'am. As I stated before, I don't work housekeeping, I don't know what each room smells like. We have rooms available if you'd like to check out another." My customer services is beaming tonight!

I. Fucking. Love. Them.

If I can't make you happy, I'm at least going to make myself laugh a little bit.

Originally Posted by Tomriddle

Students who score less than a fifty on a test but want to quibble over a few points...you going from a 22 to a 24 isn't worth my fucking time. A test evaluates how well you learned the material, and your evaluation winds up being "jack fucking shit" either way.

Students with any score who think "come on man" is a valid argument for additional credit.

Students who were wronged because they "didn't understand the question" and "it's not an English class." An institution of higher learning reserves the right to judge you for not having the slightest hint of reading comprehension skills, even not in English class.

Students who will e-mail you with their grading complaint but will refuse to visit office hours. If it's not worth your time it's certainly not worth my time.

Even as a student I agreed with all of these. Same for a student trying to get an extra point to go from, say, a 92 to a 93. WTF's the point? 79->80, 89->90, 99->100 I can understand.

Originally Posted by AJF_41

when guys stand at a urinal, and put one hand up on the wall

http://cache2.asset-cache.net/gc/200...vcnPocf0uq4uyn

Broken links irritate me.

[AJF_41]

people that call out non-broken links.



and this.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...e-console.html

christ.


the mom was also shot while pregnant with her.

n/r
n/r

[davidw.]

Originally Posted by daveshookme

I. Fucking. Love. Them.

If I can't make you happy, I'm at least going to make myself laugh a little bit.

Even as a student I agreed with all of these. Same for a student trying to get an extra point to go from, say, a 92 to a 93. WTF's the point? 79->80, 89->90, 99->100 I can understand.


Broken links irritate me.

My school is on a +/- scale so I would absolutely argue 92>93

[GSUdawg521]

Originally Posted by AJF_41

people that call out non-broken links.

People that claim that broken links are non-broken links.

[Beefsteak1138]

Link works for me.

[uro55]

In the bathroom vain, people who talk to other people in their works bathrooms

[GSUdawg521]

Originally Posted by Beefsteak1138

Link works for me.

Ah, it worked after I C/Pd it, never after clicking it

[ExistenceNow]

Defcon's post reminded me of something...

I was working at the university book store. During peak times (right before classes started) they'd put a loss prevention agent on every aisle. One day this dude keeps digging in his bag. I can tell that he's just looking for his schedule but I see the LP guy on his radio, so I tell him "hey, quit digging around in your bag. Security is about to crawl up your ass. I can print your schedule out if you want."

Couple hours later I get called into the VP's office and am accused of helping that guy steal books.

[Lcsulla]

Laying out $350 for a vacation ticket for someone - and being about 80% sure I will not see a dime of it again. I am happy I did it but am not sanguine about being paid back anytime this decade.

[jackisback24]

Originally Posted by Lcsulla

Laying out $350 for a vacation ticket for someone - and being about 80% sure I will not see a dime of it again. I am happy I did it but am not sanguine about being paid back anytime this decade.

along the same lines, making plans to go on a road trip for a concert with a buddy, planning for months and even take care of their ticket/hotel expenses with the caveat they drive and either they can't drive at the last second or the day of the show they suddenly have shit to do and can't leave for a 2 hour trip until like 230 in the afternoon instead of 10-11am like we planned.

[ExistenceNow]

I hate making travel plans with people. There is like one person in my life other than my wife who is reliable enough to actually plan a trip with.

[Lcsulla]

Originally Posted by ExistenceNow

I hate making travel plans with people. There is like one person in my life other than my wife who is reliable enough to actually plan a trip with.

Me too bro, usually my buddy is my only reliable travel companion but in this case I shall ask you a hypothetical question. What is one thing that can cause an otherwise sane guy to do something that is likely stupid?

[ExistenceNow]

Does it rhyme with wussy?

[AlexK79]

Originally Posted by jackisback24

along the same lines, making plans to go on a road trip for a concert with a buddy, planning for months and even take care of their ticket/hotel expenses with the caveat they drive and either they can't drive at the last second or the day of the show they suddenly have shit to do and can't leave for a 2 hour trip until like 230 in the afternoon instead of 10-11am like we planned.

This happens to me almost every year, so annoying. I've gotten to the point where I stop being 'the guy' that plans the concert trips every year because I'm so sick of people waffling, being unable to commit, or committing and then backing our or changing around the plan at the last minutes. Now I just get tickets for me and the wife, tell everyone else when they go on sale, when we're leaving, and where we're staying and if they want to join, they can. But I'm done buying people tickets, reserving hotels rooms, etc. just for people to flake out.

[ExistenceNow]

Yea, my plans are now always: this is where I'm going. This is when I'll be there. This is where I'm staying. Hope to see you there.