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Really minor annoyances


Select coaches said:
9am and 5pm yesterday tractors/ jcbs trundling along the a19 holding everyone up. Absolute areseholes 😡. Should be banned at busy times.

Should be in the major annoyances thread.
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a few weeks ago i was heading back to teeside in the wagon and got stuck in a massive queue behind a shunter tractor unit on the a19. got back to our yard, finished work, came home up the a19 and got stuck in a queue behind the same bastard shunter. had to laugh really.
 
Startrite said:
My wife when telling a story will go into great detail about who is not involved in the incident in question, on the mistaken assumption that I might think they are involved in the story. I helpfully pointed out that it might be easier just to tell me who is involved, rather than have the added excitement of eliminating irrelevant characters but she cant take constructive criticism :lol:
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Similarly (?) my wife - and perhaps a lot of other women - will describe an actor or actress to me via the "...you know, it's that one who's married to ..." method... as if I somehow keep up to speed with random actors marital status.
 
c032745y said:
Mrs described a bit of a kerfuffle she'd read about on local Facebook page. I asked who had been involved & she said " D'you remember the lad that used to have the house opposite, had a little Staffy?"

"He seemed like a nice lad, always said hello when I saw him?"

"Yeah, well, it's not him, it's the other bloke..."
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That sounds like my mam. Or she loves to give directions. It is something my dad used to do and I think she is filling the void since we lost him. Except I don't usually need directions or ask for them.

I went to Uni at 18 and ever really came back, so I know the north east pretty well, but have blanks or it can take me a while to remember some routes. If she hears me doing that, she comes to help in a flash. Except I'm usually just putting it in my phone, which she hates the thought of me using for some reason. Except all the directions are based on what used to be there and are not there any more. If I don't know where the pub is that I'm meeting some friends, then I don't know what used to be there.

The best one was last year. "Oh if when you turn off that road you go in the direction of where your aunt Ruby used to live". "I have an aunt Ruby?", "Yes, she was your great aunt really", "Ok but I can't remember her or where she lived". "Well you wouldn't, she died before you were born. (saying as if I'm stupid) Well anyway, if you get to her house then you have gone too far you want the turning before".

It is a beautiful combination of needing to be able to see into the past for a dead great aunt who I ever met and see into the future for the road I'm going down to make sure I don't go that far.

I used Google Maps.
 
Accidentally just caught five minutes of a soap opera.

How do folk enjoy watching these? It's all so bleak and characters just screaming in each others' faces. Total buzzkill.

It's like doing jury duty without getting off work and paid expenses.

I'd be wary of having a relationship with anyone who enjoys these kind of things. They can't be wired up right.
 
Filling in forms you get sent by email. Full of pointlessness.

I think it was 5 different forms I had to do before a visit to my dentist. I got a mail and a text about them, each saying Dear (my real name). Then the first things I had to fill in were my name, email address and phone number. They already know that, they have just used all those details.

One form needed multiple signatures, but I could not upload an image and had to do something with a mouse that looked nothing like my signature. Why in 2026 do we still have people who insist that a badly drawn signature with a mouse is any form of authentication of anyone's identity? They have nothing to compare it against, it is all utterly useless information. All my signatures looked different.

A bit like some government forms I had to fill in. I had to sign them, but they could not trust it was really me signing them, so I had to have my father-in-law witness and to prove it was him, he signed them. Same problem government, you have just moved it one person over.

Lots of admin created time wasting around.
 
"In the time available, I can do what you've asked me to do or I can have a bunch of silly arguments about how to do it. Not both. And it's your deadline, not mine."

"Choose carefully."
 
When work suddenly has a drive to judge all tickets by the speed you close them or pass them on, rather than looking at the issues. Because it makes perfect sense (in an IT context) to imagine that someone asking if a mail is spam, can take exactly the same amount of time as someone asking for help to design a secure collaborative research environment where half the resources are shared with two other institutes.

Chaos here as people hurry to get any ticket off their list by closing issues which are not fixed or passing tickets around like a hot potato pretending it is someone else's problem if it is not an easy fix that has been done 100 times before. Users are now pissed off because they are being fobbed off, tickets closed without resolution or get updates every few hours as tickets go around the whole of IT with nobody wanting to take responsibility for difficult problems. But the stats say we don't have many tickets without an update in 3 days, so lets celebrate.
 
DaveH said:
When work suddenly has a drive to judge all tickets by the speed you close them or pass them on, rather than looking at the issues. Because it makes perfect sense (in an IT context) to imagine that someone asking if a mail is spam, can take exactly the same amount of time as someone asking for help to design a secure collaborative research environment where half the resources are shared with two other institutes.

Chaos here as people hurry to get any ticket off their list by closing issues which are not fixed or passing tickets around like a hot potato pretending it is someone else's problem if it is not an easy fix that has been done 100 times before. Users are now pissed off because they are being fobbed off, tickets closed without resolution or get updates every few hours as tickets go around the whole of IT with nobody wanting to take responsibility for difficult problems. But the stats say we don't have many tickets without an update in 3 days, so lets celebrate.
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I manage the team who get the user complaints (amongst other things) when you lot have fobbed them off and not fixed their issue - I hate you all 😊
 
Table service in bars. Takes longer then just walking up to bar and queuing - also feels really American and a crap attempt at trying to build a ‘boutique’ experience.

And a way to try and screw you out of a 10% service charge.

Thankfully still rare in the North East but it’s coming.
 
Unbalanced Views said:
I manage the team who get the user complaints (amongst other things) when you lot have fobbed them off and not fixed their issue - I hate you all 😊
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Good. If it takes two weeks to fix an issue, I would rather it takes two weeks and tell someone it is going to take two weeks. People want it today, but if that is not possible then tough. That is far better than not fixing the issue and closing the ticket like you don't give a shit. Then we wonder why people buy or try to implement their own IT solutions and create major security issues. I do think if we get compromised it will be through something not run by central IT and the reason to purchase was because of crap service.
 
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