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The following 10 things irritate the shit out of me.
1. Cashiers who talk to the cashier in the aisle over the entire time I am getting my groceries. Is it too much for you to look at me as I help pay YOUR FUCKING WAGES?
2. When getting drive-thru breakfast, McDonald’s automatically mixes cream and sugar in your coffee, but Burger King hands you the coffee with the cream and sugar balanced on top of the coffee lid. WTF? Who’s going to have an easier time mixing up coffee? The person at the counter making drinks, or the guy driving to work? And if you’re not going to mix it in, put that shit in a bag. You think it’s easy to balance a coffee cup with cream tubs and sugar packets on top?
3. Tip Jars at coffee shops. What’s that about? Coffee Shop employees get paid to make coffee. Unlike waitresses, coffee shops pay full wages. So, why should I tip a person for doing their job? Should I also tip the guy at McDonald’s? Can I put a tip jar outside my office door? Fuck that!
4. Stubbing my toe. Sweet fucking Christ does that hurt.
5. People on software support forums who treat less skilled users like shit. For example, answering basic questions with links to google searches on the subject or links to another thread instead of just answering the question. I see this too often. If you know an answer, give it. Many people going to support forums have no advanced computer knowledge, and are often pretty basic users. Everyone started somewhere.
6. When I call a service line and get a person that is clearly Indian, yet goes by the name of Steve, Chad or Susan. I could care less if a company decides to have a call center overseas, but how fucking insulting is it that they think I can only handle dealing with an Indian if they have pleasing American names? I’ve known many, many Indians in my time, and not once have I met one with a non-Indian name. So the chances of three random Indians in a call center IN INDIA having names like Chad or Susan are about the same as me sprouting wings. Please, companies that do this, stop. I know why you want to, I do. America isn’t really the most welcoming to foreigners lately. But no one should be forced to go by another name at work. Something’s wrong with that. Oh. Except for strippers. No one wants a hot stripper named Beulah.
7. The number seven. It just rubs me the wrong way.
8. Ipowerweb. They are, hands down, the worst hosting company in the world. Their call center and live chat team are actually composed of chimpanzees. Honest to God, chimpanzees. And no one likes chimps more than me, but c’mon! Put ‘em to work filing or something, and have people with functioning human brains answering the support calls.
9. George Bush. If he isn’t the worst president ever, then I’m a pogo stick. And the fact that I am typing this pretty much makes it clear that I’m not.
10. Racists, Bigots and their ilk. I’ve had enough. I really have. We are living in 2006, people, not 1954. People are different. You’re just going to have to accept it. This country is great because of its diversity. If GWB and his followers had their way, this country would be nothing but straight white Americans. And who would want to live there? Seriously, people, is now the time to be pushing legislature through to ban gays from adopting or marrying? Is that the number one issue in people’s minds today? How fucked up is that? There should be one rule for adoption. Are the parents financially stable, in a long term relationship and loving? There you go. That’s more than most kids get growing up. Is now the time to be pushing to abolish Affirmative action in colleges? Are we all being treated equally yet? Not that I can see. When I play Halo 2 and see people with white hoods as their game icons, named WhiteKnight and WhitePower, I suspect we’re not. Maybe we should realize that there are real problems in this world. Real problems that can only be solved through cooperation and unity. Real problems like children without insurance. Real problems like terrorism. Real problems like possible pandemic flu. If you think gay adoption trumps those, then you are part of the problem. And you should find another blog to read.
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I agree on most of them, but:
5: Posting a link to a place where the answer is, takes way less time then writing the entire answer, and saving that time speeds up the support for everyone.
6: If they give a name you can remember you save some time there. Speeds up the support for everyone. Also, some people unfortunately do have a problem with someone being called buyahka, they might cause problem, which would slow down the support for everyone. It’s really better this way
Nice rant. In response to:
5. I do this sometimes, but it’s not meant to be mean. It’s part of the whole “Give a man a fish and he eats for a night, teach him to fish… yada yada”. Some people will never actually *learn* anything if you keep giving them the answers. They need to learn to figure the shit out themselves.
8. Agreed. I have two hosting accounts with them, and three with three different companies, and I seriously hate them the most.
9. Amen! Holy Christ that guy is bad, I mean really really bad. What does it take to impeach a present around here anyway!
Nick and Sean-
Re: 5 - It’s one thing to link to a specific help file or such, with explanation. Often I see links to google searches. Like that helps anyone? Or, links to support threads that don’t actually answer the question. And yeah, I understand the help/teach a man to fish philosophy, but sometimes it’s not that easy. I frequently see such behavior on the wordpress forums. Sometimes people without HTML or PHP knowledge ask something like “how do I get a signature to appear after every post” and get an answer like - adjust the php call in the loop. To a normal person, that means nothing. Okay, enough defending my position on that one. On to the next.
Re: 6 - Understand your point, Nick, but will have to agree to disagree.
Re: 8 - HATE THEM SO MUCH. SO GLAD TO BE GONE.
Re: 9 - It takes an affair with an intern.
Call Silky Johnson, there’s a new hater in town.