Trivial things that annoy you Part 43

Maximus Alexander · 01-08-2014 02:28PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Service charge for "parties of six people or more" - why? Don't you make more of a profit the more people are in the group?

I suspect larger groups stay longer but don't necessarily pay more per person to make up for it.

BeerSteakBirds · 01-08-2014 02:30PM

When I open a webpage and before I can even read the article a big ''feck off'' popup appears and hovers over everything. It can be closed at the tiny x in it's corner but it's very awkward. The content of the obstructing popup is the most offensive thing of all and usually says something like ''You appear to enjoy reading this website so how would you like to blah blah either give them cash or subscribe to something''. At that point I have not had an opportunity to read a single letter of content on their website due to the big hovering irritating popup so the question lies somewhere between irritating and stupid. Give me a fecking chance...

Hotfail.com · 01-08-2014 02:31PM

The surcharge on mobile phone top ups.. How can the five cent make that big a difference!?!?

eisenberg1 · 01-08-2014 02:31PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Eh?

What I meant was, some women have a tendency knock a few years off the real age;)

OldNotWIse · 01-08-2014 02:34PM

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

I suspect larger groups stay longer but don't necessarily pay more per person to make up for it.

Ah yes, group mastication tends to slow everything down.

eisenberg1 · 01-08-2014 02:36PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Service charge for "parties of six people or more" - why? Don't you make more of a profit the more people are in the group?

That one has always puzzled me...I would love top know why they do that. I could understand if the reverse was the case, but yeah, surely the profit on a group of ten people means you should not have to apply charge.

czechlin · 01-08-2014 02:39PM

Getting used to a new *ahem* clothing item.

osarusan · 01-08-2014 02:39PM

Big groups might need more than one waiter/waitress to wait on them, but still only tip like there was one waiter/waitress?

Maximus Alexander · 01-08-2014 02:40PM

czechlin wrote: »

Getting used to a new *ahem* clothing item.

...

I ain't sayin' nuthin'.

grundie · 01-08-2014 02:46PM

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

I suspect larger groups stay longer but don't necessarily pay more per person to make up for it.

A restaurant manager explained this to me once. He said that a couple might spend on average €30.00 per person, 4 people might spend €28.00 per person, a group of 6 €25.00 per person. In other words the bigger the group the less per person that is spent, plus as you said they stay longer and usually need more staff to attend to them.

Also, people in groups tend to buy the cheaper options with lower margins.

whirlpool · 01-08-2014 02:48PM

The Diabolical Monocle wrote: »

Why the fvck do some people not respond to a message. Be it email, text or even voicemail.

This rant is really about concluding a discussion with someone.
(someone with unlimited texts in my case)

I mean the times when you've already been in contact with them, maybe setting up some situation or doing business, generally trying to get sht done.

A conclusion is the end goal, any conclusion, good or bad - what you get is just this sense of eternal waiting.

If they could just confirm in some tiny tiny way that they got the information, that there is a plan agreed, and that they didn't lose their phone or get kidnapped or suddenly decide to travel to Thailand and not tell you.

An 'ok' is perfectly acceptable, two letters is fine.

Even a 'no fvck off' is grand.

It could be something like this

Text.
Person a: I'll meet you about 6
Person b: Cant make it there before 8
Person a: Right Ill probably be there around 7:00

Person b : .............(nothing)...........

Person a (to self): does this non-response mean yes or no. Should I go for 7:00,and wait for an hour wasting time, or go for 8:00 and find they've waited for an hour.

No, because they've just said they can't make it before 8. Why would you even consider 7 as an option after they'd just said that?

Aidric · 01-08-2014 02:53PM

The rampant abuse of that laughing smiley with the tears.

deise08 · 01-08-2014 02:56PM

When someone is talking to you but rattling the change in their pocket at the same time. Fcuk sake. SO VERY ANNOYING!!

Boom_Bap · 01-08-2014 02:59PM

deise08 wrote: »

When someone is talking to you but rattling the change in their pocket at the same time. Fcuk sake. SO VERY ANNOYING!!

Maybe they are not rattling thier change :eek:

OldNotWIse · 01-08-2014 03:01PM

osarusan wrote: »

Big groups might need more than one waiter/waitress to wait on them, but still only tip like there was one waiter/waitress?

Isn't is meant to be a percentage?

deise08 · 01-08-2014 03:07PM

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Maybe they are not rattling thier change :eek:

Must have brass balls so! insert Shock smilie here.

whirlpool · 01-08-2014 03:17PM

Re: higher service charges for tables of six people or more...

What a load of BS.

Unless there's someone who works in the industry who can confirm the official reason for this?

Each person in the restaurant pays for their meal. This doesn't change, no matter what the customer:table ratio is.

Each person in the restaurant pays 10% tip on their meal. This doesn't change, no matter what the customer:table ratio is.

The waiters and waitresses work for the same amount of time, and like every job the amount of pressure they are under will increase and decrease at different times. This doesn't change, no matter what the customer:table ratio is.

So why should there be an extra charge based on customer:table ratio?

Charging an increased service charge for tables of six people or more is in fact simply saying that because some of the people in the restaurant are sharing the same piece of wood to rest their plates on, the restaurant needs to charge them more. That is all it's saying. It's a blatant con.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

01-08-2014 03:20PM

czechlin wrote: »

Getting used to a new *ahem* clothing item.

Is it weighted hems :pac::pac::pac:

blueser · 01-08-2014 03:21PM

Double parking. Are people too damned lazy to park 50 yards up the road from the local post office and walk back? Going through the local town this morning and it was like something off the Crystal maze, with all the double parked obstacles to weave around.Oh; and a tip for my fellow motorists. Indicators are put on cars for a reason. Use them. Thank you.

Frigga_92 · 01-08-2014 03:27PM

This new thing of having to put your card in the visa machine and take it back out yourself, nearly walked out of 2 shops this afternoon without my card because the person behind the till just handed me over my receipts and moved onto the next customer. This is despite the fact that the machine is on their side of the counter and directly under their arms.

conorhal · 01-08-2014 03:35PM

I was giving directions to some American tourists and made the mistake of reffering to a 'petrol station'

Queue a bemused look on her face and the question 'what's a pettal station'?

Jesus. PETROL, as in petroleum, from the latin petra oleum meaning rock oil, an apt description of the stuff they pump out of the ground in the middle east. And wipe that look of 'oh you wierd Europeans' off your face! We're the once that should be bemused that you insist on referring to a liquid as 'gas'.

eisenberg1 · 01-08-2014 03:38PM

whirlpool wrote: »

Re: higher service charges for tables of six people or more...

What a load of BS..

Plus, anytime I have been out for dinner with a group, there tends to be more drinking done than if you were out as a couple .

blueser · 01-08-2014 03:40PM

conorhal wrote: »

I was giving directions to some American tourists and made the mistake of reffering to a 'petrol station'

Queue a bemused look on her face and the question 'what's a pettal station'?

Jesus. PETROL, as in petroleum, from the latin petra oleum meaning rock oil, an apt description of the stuff they pump out of the ground in the middle east. And wipe that look of 'oh you wierd Europeans' off your face! We're the once that should be bemused that you insist on referring to a liquid as 'gas'.

Hope you put her right on how to pronounce ''aluminium''.

eisenberg1 · 01-08-2014 03:41PM

conorhal wrote: »

I was giving directions to some American tourists and made the mistake of reffering to a 'petrol station'

Queue a bemused look on her face and the question 'what's a pettal station'?

Jesus. PETROL, as in petroleum, from the latin petra oleum meaning rock oil, an apt description of the stuff they pump out of the ground in the middle east. And wipe that look of 'oh you wierd Europeans' off your face! We're the once that should be bemused that you insist on referring to a liquid as 'gas'.

Now, shove that in yer trunk and get off the goddamn sidewalk,

czechlin · 01-08-2014 03:42PM

bluewolf wrote: »

Is it weighted hems :pac::pac::pac:

Haha nope, I decided to leave the floating skirt at home!

But thank you for reminding me of this, I must get that sorted.

Generic Dreadhead · 01-08-2014 03:56PM

The Red Messages/App Store Updates/Email Icon on my iPhone
AND
People who don't click on them in their phones and just leave them there :mad::mad::mad:

Vel · 01-08-2014 04:07PM

When you see some tourists standing around perusing a map looking confused and decide to stop to try to help them, forgetting that you haven't a bog's notion how to read a map and are also very challenged in the direction giving department. At one stage, they were helping me get my bearings on the map. I eventually had to stop another passerby who took over while I slunk away into the shadows like a right pleb

mickydoomsux · 01-08-2014 04:10PM

blueser wrote: »

Double parking. Are people too damned lazy to park 50 yards up the road from the local post office and walk back? Going through the local town this morning and it was like something off the Crystal maze, with all the double parked obstacles to weave around.Oh; and a tip for my fellow motorists. Indicators are put on cars for a reason. Use them. Thank you.

"Shere, I'm only going in for a minute"

And?

You're still parked like a dickhead.

eisenberg1 · 01-08-2014 04:13PM

Vel wrote: »

When you see some tourists standing around perusing a map looking confused and decide to stop to try to help them, forgetting that you haven't a bog's notion how to read a map and are also very challenged in the direction giving department. At one stage, they were helping me get my bearings on the map. I eventually had to stop another passerby who took over while I slunk away into the shadows like a right pleb

And if you are in Barcelona when that happens, you better check your wallet/bag..................

Vel · 01-08-2014 04:15PM

Took the kids to a coffee shop today for a quick refreshment break. They have been eating out in appropriate places since they were tiny and it has been drilled into them how to behave appropriately. We were minding our own business when some total knob jockey and his companion were shown to the table next to us. He sits down, clocks the kids and immediately starts complainly loudly to his companion about having to sit beside a table with children and throwing dirty looks our way. They were genuinely being as good as gold. I was having none of it and decided to call him out on it and asked that he please move as I didn't want my kids near someone as rude and unmannerly as him!! He moves, and then spends the rest of his lunch roaring into a mobile phone loud enough that other people were turning to stare, making more of a disruption than my three kids together and completely ignoring the poor woman he was dining with. The ironing!!!

Trivial things that annoy you Part 43

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