What Grinds Your Gears?

[Moonface]

I'm sure we've all seen something that's gotten under our skin since this whole coronavirus thing started (looking at you, protestors), so what stuff grinds your gears?

A big one for me that only started when I began driving is anyone who drives below speed limit. If we're in a 45, be doing close to it; do not do 35 or under. And if you are keeping the speed limit, for fuck sake do not ever do it in the fast lane on the highway. Throwing down 80mph only to come up on someone pulling 65 and unable to get around them because they're matching speed with the other lanes is a huge test of my patience.
Also, driving while using a phone. You do not need to endanger people for a text and if it is that important, pull over. Bonus dickhead points if you're using it because you don't know where you're going and so you're not only swerving everywhere, you're going slow and can't seem to make a decision. That shit gets a honk from me the second it happens because it is so incredibly dangerous to be doing.

[Mr EliteL]

I can imagine seeing people on their phones whilst driving when I'm finally on the road will get me riled up. When I was practising a few years ago I was too busy concentrating so too focused on what I was doing to care.

Right now what annoys me is the absolute moronic ideas my company decides to make. This time they've come up with as soon as we come in at 6am we are to check what needs to go out then drag new stock out. Even though nights would have just finished, but at this time there are home shoppers already in taking items. As we're using a system which has us record what is in warehouse, we are to leave old stock until we have recorded what's left of the new, which has to wait until we have the system guns that aren't allowed until 8AM because of home shoppers needing them. After we're done dragging what we can out the warehouse will need racking away, rotated to have old stock towards the front, then remember what was new to record that into the system. Depending on amount of stock, which has been a lot everyday since Monday when we started this method takes us to after 10AM, 2 hours longer than how we used to do it, where we can work normally at 8AM or earlier if there wasn't as much. Coupled with the already shit system's new update of "binning" in which tells us something can be put out while we're recording warehouse stock, yet it doesn't take into account I'm trying to put 10 trays that can only fit 3 on the shopfloor in there, and it should know because the shopfloor count is way higher than the maxshelf due to me not having recorded yet! Plus more irritating bullshit the electronic system likes to do. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

[Moonface]

That reminds me of how my store likes us to do counts every day. Except they must be done before 10am, and they expect an accurate count. Doesn't sound bad right? Except that you may have a delivery waiting to be worked, and so now your count has to include the sales floor, the back room shelving, and the unworked delivery. If the delivery is 100% untouched, you can just log in to a secondary system, see how much came in, and add that to your counts for the floor and back. Oh, and by secondary system, I mean we have one program for counting, one program for checking stock counts, and another program for max shelves, all with their own logins, so that slows it right down. Back on track, you often find the delivery has been worked to some degree, or you may not get the ability to do counts until after you've started working on the delivery, so now you don't know what got worked to the floor so checking the last delivery date is useless. Is the item on the floor, or is it still in my truck? No idea, so now you either risk a count being too low, too high, or you make the right guess and get a correct count.

If counts aren't done on a particular day, they get moved to the next day. I once came in to 4 pages of counts and there are 30 per page. I just zeroed it all out and tipped it bollocks.

Oh and that lovely max backroom stock feature you have EL? That doesn't exist here, so you get to either drag everything out, guess what you need, or make a list of every fucking item on the floor that needs filling and then look for it.

Biggest pet peeve though is customer service telling customers to come in BEFORE trucks turn up for items those trucks will have. I've had so many people come in at 8am for a dairy product because they were told to come back in the morning, yet that truck is a late afternoon one so really you shouldn't be coming in until like 6pm or even the following day.

[Moonface]

Since it's in the news, something that grinds my gears is how the news can't just call a spade a spade. I've seen video games once again blamed for a shooting, which is a stupid scapegoat argument anyway but more so when this particular shooter literally wrote a manifesto saying exactly why he did it. I wouldn't be so bothered if it wasn't for the fact that there are going to be people who believe the reasons pushed by the news that ignore that manifesto because I could just view such outlets as the village idiot no one listens to, but nowadays the village idiots have the ability to communicate with each other from their respective villages of idiocy.

Accountability in general seems lacking these days though. I feel like seeing the finger pointed at the correct people and reasons is a rarity now more than ever because that doesn't generate the outrage and social media clicks that companies want.

[WR91]

What grinds my gears in the year 2022 the most is the fact that 99.9% of people don't want to hear what anyone else has to truly say. They have their opinions and that's about it. What happened to actual communication? I guess it died in the mid 2000's when the internet became what it is today; an echo chamber.

[Moonface]

Windows Updates.

I swear they always download at the absolute worst possible times, and take a ridiculous amount of time to actually download and install themselves.
Better yet, I told my computer to pause Windows Updates for 7 days and it just decides nah, despite telling you they're paused we're gonna do them anyway. I miss when Windows Update used to tell you there were new updates available and let you initiate the download instead of this shit Windows 10 introduced.

[ShiraNoMai]

People with "Main Character Syndrome", where they feel the need to insert themselves and their perceived likeability into every chance they get like they're the main character in this life to everyone. I suppose you could call this narcissism, but I digress. Encountering these kinds of folk is... it sure is grating, and I dislike having to pretend for them in social situations.

I tend to have more things that oil my gears lately, which I suppose can be a good thing all things considered.

[Moonface]

This bugged me so much it made me remember this thread and go looking for it...
Petty as all heck, but man I really really hate how Peacock's streaming app just decides "Oh, you didn't catch this live event the minute it started? Tough shit you can't rewind to the beginning until the broadcast has ended and we put a VOD up." But only if you use the Chromecast app or their browser site. If you load up the video in the phone app, then it can play from the start, but if you try to cast that to a TV it'll suddenly be like "Nah bruh" and remove the rewind ability. They clearly have the ability to give it to you (and any other service I've used for live events has always offered this) but just....don't. I just want to watch the Olympic opening ceremony from the start without waiting a few more hours for it to finish man!

[Moonface]

I was going to vent this in the "How Was Your Day/Week?" thread but remembered this one exists and it fits too well here to not use it.

I utterly detest when people can not take "no" for an answer and try to bargain, then get offended when you won't go along with any of it like you're in the wrong.
For context, my manager this morning asks me if I can work Thursday morning. I tell him I don't know and I'm letting the team leader know this afternoon because if I can't make it in, he'll be the one to cover what I'd be coming in to do. My manager then says the team leader can't do it (for no given reason) and that I have to do it. I tell him again I don't know yet if I can, so then he starts saying I could come in Wednesday night instead, which I disagree with for the same reasons (being if I get a lot of homework today I won't have the free time to come in no matter the day) until eventually he just says "Okay then let me know later so we can work something out".
I text my team leader this afternoon I can't work, and immediately my manager texts me asking me to call him after class. I do that, and immediately he starts ignoring what I'm saying to him at which point I lost my patience and started getting angry on the phone. This guy has the gall to then question why I'm getting angry and starting to cuss, when he's being respectful and professional despite the fact every time I've spoken with him today he doesn't listen to what I'm telling him and tries to keep bargaining with me. I guess he didn't like that so he starts getting short with me being all "It's a simple question there's no need to act this way" yet I literally opened this call with "I can't work" and he didn't accept the answer!

Like god damn my dude it doesn't matter how respectful your tone might sound when you're actively refusing to accept my answer the first time around and trying to guilt me into doing something.

[azalea]

I was going to vent this in the "How Was Your Day/Week?" thread but remembered this one exists and it fits too well here to not use it.

I utterly detest when people can not take "no" for an answer and try to bargain, then get offended when you won't go along with any of it like you're in the wrong.
For context, my manager this morning asks me if I can work Thursday morning. I tell him I don't know and I'm letting the team leader know this afternoon because if I can't make it in, he'll be the one to cover what I'd be coming in to do. My manager then says the team leader can't do it (for no given reason) and that I have to do it. I tell him again I don't know yet if I can, so then he starts saying I could come in Wednesday night instead, which I disagree with for the same reasons (being if I get a lot of homework today I won't have the free time to come in no matter the day) until eventually he just says "Okay then let me know later so we can work something out".
I text my team leader this afternoon I can't work, and immediately my manager texts me asking me to call him after class. I do that, and immediately he starts ignoring what I'm saying to him at which point I lost my patience and started getting angry on the phone. This guy has the gall to then question why I'm getting angry and starting to cuss, when he's being respectful and professional despite the fact every time I've spoken with him today he doesn't listen to what I'm telling him and tries to keep bargaining with me. I guess he didn't like that so he starts getting short with me being all "It's a simple question there's no need to act this way" yet I literally opened this call with "I can't work" and he didn't accept the answer!

Like god damn my dude it doesn't matter how respectful your tone might sound when you're actively refusing to accept my answer the first time around and trying to guilt me into doing something.

nah i don't have the patience for shitty managers. i'd just be like "you asked me to come in and my answer is no. unless there's anything further you wish to discuss, i hope you have a great day." and let that be that.

[Moonface]

@azalea: That phone call would've maybe gone that way if my manager hadn't picked up on my tone and questioned it, at which point I couldn't help but honestly vent to them that they're not listening.


I had something happen a couple of weeks ago that really got under my skin. I'm driving to work and a cop pulls onto the highway and gets behind me, so naturally I'm watching my speed so they can't try and pull me over. They then put their lights on, so I think they want to pull me over so I get out of the lane to start moving onto the shoulder, only for them to turn the lights back off and overtake me.

So now I'm in the lane next to them but a little behind them matching speed, when they just suddenly slow down and move into my lane behind me. Now keep in mind this is a three lane road with nobody but us two currently on it, but for the next 7 miles this prick decides they're going to ride my sure arse the whole time no matter what lane I move into, and even when I started slowing down to see if they'd overtake me they just slowed down too. Bastard didn't leave me alone until I took my exit and then immediately sped way up and went all the way back over into the passing lane.

Like holy shit I already hate tailgating as it is but for a cop to be doing it because they clearly wanted to be antagonistic and/or find some reason to pull me over (that they never got to find) on some stupid ego trip. That whole incident just really made my disdain for cops increase because nothing they did was necessary nor should they of all people be pulling that crap.