Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

End-of-quarter work assessments! A lovely lady from a version of HR arrives to give us new directions to "keep our jobs fresh and interesting," i.e., take courses on your own dime and time to fill in so they don't have to pay for training or replacement for sick or retiring colleagues.

She suggested that I take a stock tracking course and gave me a list of the free/subsidised courses on this, pretending I didn't know in advance. I had a look and told her that I couldn't take these courses as they didn't have downloadable notes. My dyslexia means I can't be relied on to remember a big chunk of info when presented in the usual manner, and my handwriting is illegible even to me. She snapped at me "You can type can't you"? and "You can record the lectures and transcribe them later" which of course brought the temp in the room down hugely.

1.. Duh! Like I'm not smart enough to have thought about that! TTTAAAA

2. Just bc she has very positive outcomes in standard education it means we all do(even tho she is in a field where she should be seeing the impact of the educational inequality common in Ireland on the daily)

3. My fav one from this situation, record and transcribe is the problem with this "solution" not obvious?

Bet she had me down as uncooperative now.

Clickbait headlines when you open your search engine, with titles so broad ranging they would include nearly everyone reading them.

Some of today's examples :

Warning for anyone who uses shampoo or conditioner.

I cut out this one thing in my diet and lost 8lbs in a week.

Urgent warning for anyone who takes paracetamol.

I'm a vet and this is why your dog .....

And why is there always one about The Chase???

10 foods you should never eat again. Number 5 will shock you...

I got a new cooker yesterday and I automatically assumed they all have timers.

Only after I wired it up I noticed it hadn't.

I wouldnt have bought it had I known.

Major TA at how so many companies now treat their customers like absolute dirt. Have just had a month of headaches with an insurance company over something they did wrong. Logged a complaint on the phone with an agent, no response, logged complaint with the email address they say to use on their own website, got a snotty response saying they aren't complaints and to mail another address, emailed that with follow ups and no response.

Have now cancelled all three policies I had with them and then get an email asking if I'd recommend them to a friend or family member. I was rather honest with them in my feedback.

They're not the only ones of course, it seems endemic in finance and insurance in recent years.

If you're going to treat your customers with this level of contempt, at least stop with the crappy ads where you pretend all you want is for us to be happy, nothing to with profit, golly biff, we do this because we love you.

Ars*holes.

The problem is a lot of these companies are owned by a big parent company. They can treat you like dirt and what are you going to do about it? Move to another one of their firms and get the same treatment.

I got really really sick of this crap, as I'm mostly the one available to do the endless calling/emailing. I had such a meltdown that they finally got off their donkeys and asked around, long story short, finance/insurance companies like brokers much more than individual customers! Ta that it's this way but as regulations are scarce and rarely enforced!!! Ime brokers are worth their fees just to avoid that kind of crap from a faceless organisation that likely dont know where you are in the world.

I'm an awful grumblesock today, but I guess that's the purpose of this thread. Venty McVentface

TA at people telling me I look like Conor McGregor. Please note that aside from the nefarious character of the person, being told you look like somebody who gets punched in the face for a living is NOT a compliment.

faces south I suspect

it’s years like that. It’s American. I think it’s actually more accurate/correct. 21st January is more correct than January 21st

I know what he meant. It’s an American thing to say it this way. I was saying that I think it’s more accurate how they say it.

Oh if the postal service is what you’re slagging , you’ve made a powerful enemy 😁