Pet peeves, niggles and minor annoyances

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Pet peeves, niggles and minor annoyances

1. emails from noreply accounts. which means that if you have a question you have to waste your time trying to contact support.

2. 'support' that is based on an AI bot that doesn't understand more than simple questions, then referring you to a KB post that is irrelevant to your inquiry.

3. this modern world. back in the olden days we were assured that computers would make life easier.
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HR

Before TikTok convinced the weak minded that dancing and ranting represent informed thinking, someone created HR, and the HR Director, who generally stir resentment, and made obsolete the admin staff who could type, file documents in the right place, and presented any CVs to the persons best qualified to understand the qualifications of the applicant.
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automated telephone responses from ur bank
squeezing the tooth paste tube from the middle

" how much to go....?"
"Up to you..."
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Morons that put their pronouns in their email signature.


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ItWasntMe wrote: Tue Nov 21, 2023 9:00 pm
John Bingham wrote: Tue Nov 21, 2023 8:41 pm Kind of dumb. Most laptops are PCs anyway.
Personal computers? Which ones aren't?
The ones your significant other’s family stole from you?
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Blame shifting is the modern malaise that has replaced problem solving,why bother when you can just make out that it’s someone else’s fault and move on with polishing your nails etc?

As for social media do NOT even get me started!
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Earl of Mercia wrote: Wed Nov 22, 2023 6:13 pm
As for social media do NOT even get me started!
…and why is it called Social media, when so much of it is devoted to being anything but?!
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Something that always gets me.

When someone asks for advice on a subject matter-- then people start applying their personal views without answering the question

sample responses ie: drugs are bad, I would never allow it in the first place, You really shouldn't do that, resigning/quitting a job- (giving notice)
It's dangerous blah blah blah

I usually see that on reddit or quora

If someone asks a question-- just answer it.
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newkidontheblock wrote: Tue Nov 21, 2023 9:26 pm
ItWasntMe wrote:
John Bingham wrote: Tue Nov 21, 2023 8:41 pm Kind of dumb. Most laptops are PCs anyway.
Personal computers? Which ones aren't?
The computers you don’t see.

[Yadda yadda]

Of course it’s Asinine. All computers are personal computers. Alexa says so and so it must be true. Alexa laughs, Siri laughs, Cortana laughs.
Oh wow. Can you for once try and grasp the context before you type out a page of words.

I clearly quoted what I was replying to, do it again and do it right.
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How about not being able to chat to your overseas bank by computer ( messages app )
Gotta call only a toll free number from a land line which neither is available.
Or wasting time on “ hold “ waiting ..
I solved it by conatacting the bank on social media and have them call me back ..
Business hours are not the same but it works if you don’t mind talking in the middle of the night
Also with the computer company apple , to straighten out any problems requires a phone call .
Why can’t they chat or screen share with you ?

Nuts .. 🥜


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