start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

on my last project, sometimes I'd find a potential defect, and not being a tech person, would want to run it by the tech team to determine if it was actually a defect, or if I was doing something wrong.

they got mad and said I needed to just start a defect task, that they had *too many emails to read* - couldn't even get to the ones clearly marked as needing attention. so I asked if they really wanted me to send a defect even though I wasn't *sure* it was a defect or my own mistake or if anybody had already submitted one (cos they wouldn't give me a list) and even though a defect took three times as long as an email to write only to wind up being cancelled if it wasn't needed.

they said "yes".

Found out today that the reason one of the communal bins was missing earlier this week when I went to chuck things out was somebody had set it alight last weekend. It's not 100% certain who at the moment but people are blaming local youth who were seen in the vicinity.
Wishing the letting agency would dos omething about those bins anyway since the housing they're in is in a constant state of foulness.
I'm just hoping that when this block gets sold the new owner will be able to do something. Probably shouldn't be holding my breath though.
& in a rented space over here it's the landlord that has the say on bin arrangements apparently. Or at least that's what i was being told when the bin arrangements were changed a couple of years back.

& I think they moved onto these disastrous communal bins because a fire marshall had told the letting agent relevant to this block that it was safer than having th eindividual bins at the bottom of the stairs that had worked ok for the first 6 or 7 years I was here.

Finding my camera out of charge when i go exploring the alternative bits of the paths through the woods between here and the centre where I take a photography class. & it subsequently turning off when I'm wanting to take shots of untrodden parts of the woodlands.

People who print multi page docs as the same time as you and assume they're the only one using the printer and take all the docs off the printer without looking including yours

^^^ garbagepeople imo

Dude today did this at a FedEx office. As I got annoyed and ready to print again I found it....at the desk he was sitting at before he left. PUT IT BACK YOU SHITHEAD

Since the rise of Trump, I've been getting IA about people asserting incorrect facts with confidence.
Makes me notice how often, when corrected, people (a) double-down (b) assert some weird personal experience as evidence of their correctness and then (c) when finally proven wrong attack the other person as lame for knowing the correct answer.

That's definitely a tendency that predates the ascendancy of Trump. It's part of the reason why I basically never discuss anything with anyone ever.

oh yeah, I mean I'm noticing it more now that I see Trump doing it all the time

i hate when people say phenomena when they are only talking about one thing

Ugh, right? I was at the aquarium the other day with a fellow alumni, looking at the octopusses, telling him about the time I was trying to remember my PIN number at the ATM machine and he said it was totally a common "phenomena". What an idiat.

person who asks me to download & convert the files contained in a folder, the contents being a total mystery to me
i send them the converted files
and then they ask me questions about what i sent them "was x included?" "are there any other y files"?

hey guess what the contents are *still* a total fuckin mystery to me, maybe ask whoever sent you the files in the first place? jfc

WINDOWS TEN FUUUUUUCK OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!

Pedestrians coming from the other way who walk around the grate in the sidewalk and play chicken with me for ten feet.

Just walk around the grate. There's a reason why it's called a grate and not "a hole in the ground."

Personal styles that are heavily performative and never turned off. Stop running your lines AT me and have a conversation WITH me, thanks.

^^

those types of ppl are exhausting

I tend to think people like that must be pretty sad inside and/or disconnected from their feelings.

I don't want to get into the why on this site. I just turn into Homer disappearing into the hedge after a few minutes.

When I get on a train and there's only one empty seat, but the guy in seat next to it is using it for his briefcase. I say, "Excuse me" and he just stares blankly for an awkwardly long time, as if hoping that I will just move along.

The second part of this is usually a sigh-punctuated, slow-motion moving of the brief case and then a lot of pushing of elbows and legs into my seat space for the rest of the trip.

Same thing, different dude, every day.

You should engage these fellows in sprightly conversation for the duration of your ride. Or until they just decide to move.

Someone pulled this shit on a Megabus once. As in a multi-hour thing where I'd bought a ticket for an actual seat. It took everything I had to not play my tiny violin as the dude huffingly Paul Rudd-ed his stuff off the adjacent seat.

Preschools making ultra-specific requests for shit you have to bring in/send in. (1) Preschoolers cannot be relied on to communicate anything, and the fact that you stuffed a folded piece of paper into my daughter's backpack in between a change of clothes, her crumpled drawings, and some snacks does not mean I will see it. (2) We have jobs and other things to do with our lives, and not every corner store and supermarket in New York carries individually-wrapped, nut-free, kosher cookie snack packages.

FWIW I finally wound up bargaining a deli into giving me a volume discount on the single-sale paks of Chips Ahoy after going to three other stores.

mark zuckerberg mass posting those parenting photos, like one just came up in my feed of him giving a bottle with the caption "Most important meeting of the day. ‪#‎LeanInTogether‬." Fucking gross dude, can't you just be a dad without branding/sloganeering?

also it's so disingenuous -- "lean in" is bad enough as it is, but his wife really does not need him to "lean in" because they have infinite money.

That's pretty bad. Totally rational hate.

Maybe it's more of a commentary on how shitty meetings are. Like even taking care of a baby is better than going to a meeting. Low bar.

Just found out the block's been sold so I've got a new landlord coming, what fun.

people having long screaming fights in public with their S.O. ... on their phones.

There was a college-age girl doing this in Park Slope, squatting on the sidewalk, the other night, *across the street* from where i was using the ATM. I could hear every word. I gave her a broad smile and yelled "You don't have to yell when you have a phone, asshole!" Made my evening.

Thank you, we need to clean up these streets

People who don't seem to know the difference between data aggregators and critics

websites that don't tell you you can't do something until you're at the very end of the process flow

packages that instruct you to "tear here to open" but don't when you do.

(accompanied by feeling - possibly irrational - that this didn't use to happen as often as it does these days)

i hate the fairly recent thing in social media where an image is cut down to fit the template so you click it expecting a full-size version to open up as an overlay or whatever you call it, and it does open up as that but it's... smaller ???? because they cram the whole picture into the window rather than letting you scroll

especially in twitter, where they also need to fit in the tweet itself so the picture is just tiny

How unrandom the 'shuffle' function is on just about any music player application. I know true randomness is very difficult to achieve but every time I to listen to my catalog on shuffle it's 3 songs off the same album in the first twenty songs, out of thousands of albums!?

otm

packages that instruct you to "tear here to open" but don't when you do.

― how's life, Sunday, March 27, 2016 11:46 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(accompanied by feeling - possibly irrational - that this didn't use to happen as often as it does these days)

― how's life, Sunday, March 27, 2016 11:47 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I briefly ran a perforation machine at a paper factory after high school, so I get this way about perforations in general that don't work the way they're supposed to. And I think you're right that this didn't used to happen in the good old days. But I can confirm that, while a properly-calibrated perforation doesn't happen on its own, it ain't that effing hard to pull off if you have, like, any motivation whatsoever.

Worst with the tear here shit is where its a glued-down foil lid with a little tab, and you pull at the "tear here" tab and it just comes off.

http://36.media.tumblr.com/1b39c361d3a39f9d01e84233aedadd19/tumblr_o25gxh8aJk1qh59n0o1_500.png

I had a sour patch kids that didn't open right and thought of this thread.

I just want to know what kind of fucked up kryptonite-plastic alloy they're making chip bags out of now, the shit doesn't tear in any way. Flap is just a cruel joke.

Maybe I'm just getting old, maybe I need a scissors holster on my belt, should come free with a fucking golf shirt

i solved the problem by just eating the bag

there seems to be a hair on the screen of my touch-screen windows-based laptop

*gently attempts to brush hair from screen*

all open windows are rearranged, resized, Window Media Player is launched, all fonts set to 58, task bar disappears

lol yeah laptop touchscreen has been a nuisance approx 1000x more then it has been useful

Windows/Microsoft is a source of so many of these. Guess eventually I'll have to give up my $75 Dell Laptop and shell out $10,000 for an entry-level Mac.

Understandably peevish thread

they aren't even touch-screen anymore, they are gesture sensitive - just wave your hand within a foot of the screen and it'll flip over your powerpoint pages.

Could you just blow on it?

mobile websites w/ locked menus & banners that reduce the scrollable part of the screen to like 1.5 inches

I installed a VPN adblocker in iOS and that solved a fair bit of that. Not all, but much of it. The only drawback is the VPN blocks all apps not just safari/chrome, so it makes siri not work, among other things. I can live with that tho.