[Annoy] What's something small that really annoys you?

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#2856098 25-Jan-2022 14:18

Handsomedan:

Having a busy day of meetings and one that is a standing invite every week at the same time being rescheduled just 5 min before it's due, but being rescheduled to suite the rest of the team, who are all in Australia.

i.e. 6pm meeting that was until 10 min ago 2.15pm.

Annoying.

Thank God I am leaving. This is not an irregular occurrence.

"I'm sorry, that is outside of my working hours. Catch you next week."

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#2856106 25-Jan-2022 14:34

Handsomedan:

Having a busy day of meetings and one that is a standing invite every week at the same time being rescheduled just 5 min before it's due, but being rescheduled to suite the rest of the team, who are all in Australia.

i.e. 6pm meeting that was until 10 min ago 2.15pm.

Annoying.

Thank God I am leaving. This is not an irregular occurrence.

I hope you're better at staying motivated than I am.

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#2856125 25-Jan-2022 14:59

lchiu7:

This is a huge thread which indicates there are many things which annoy people and it's possible this particular annoyance has already been documented.

With that caveat (and this is a real first world problem), going to cafes (and sometimes restaurants) where the tables have wobbly legs and you are always stuffing paper napkins or something similar under one leg to stabilise them. For me there is nothing more annoying than being in a cafe and sitting in a table like that. And it's even worse when the proprietor has done the stuffing of the paper under the leg and not bothered to provide a permanent fix.

There was an episode on the UK Dragon's Den many years ago where a guy pitched an idea for funding that involved selling small packets of wedges that customers could take with them to a cafe or restaurant to stick under table legs to prevent the wobbly table problem. He was declined and basically laughed out of the room as I recall.

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#2856127 25-Jan-2022 15:00

allan:

lchiu7:

This is a huge thread which indicates there are many things which annoy people and it's possible this particular annoyance has already been documented.

With that caveat (and this is a real first world problem), going to cafes (and sometimes restaurants) where the tables have wobbly legs and you are always stuffing paper napkins or something similar under one leg to stabilise them. For me there is nothing more annoying than being in a cafe and sitting in a table like that. And it's even worse when the proprietor has done the stuffing of the paper under the leg and not bothered to provide a permanent fix.

There was an episode on the UK Dragon's Den many years ago where a guy pitched an idea for funding that involved selling small packets of wedges that customers could take with them to a cafe or restaurant to stick under table legs to prevent the wobbly table problem. He was declined and basically laughed out of the room as I recall.

Until the "Dragons" stopped at the cafe next door to the studio for a quick coffee after the recording...

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#2856180 25-Jan-2022 16:53

floydbloke:

I hope you're better at staying motivated than I am.

Hmmm...

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Handsome Dan needs to stop adding three dots to every sentence...

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#2856182 25-Jan-2022 16:58

geoffwnz:

Handsomedan:

Having a busy day of meetings and one that is a standing invite every week at the same time being rescheduled just 5 min before it's due, but being rescheduled to suite the rest of the team, who are all in Australia.

i.e. 6pm meeting that was until 10 min ago 2.15pm.

Annoying.

Thank God I am leaving. This is not an irregular occurrence.

"I'm sorry, that is outside of my working hours. Catch you next week."

Or just "I am unavailable at that time"

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#2856194 25-Jan-2022 17:37

My poor little Nexus 7 LTE. It's been hanging on like a wee trooper but of late it will not recognise the SIM card or sum such error. I try toggling flight mode on and off, removing and replacing the SIM. Guess I should check the APNs to see if something have gone out of whack.

Was made more annoying by the motel that I was at having their WiFi down.

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#2856286 25-Jan-2022 19:04

Handsomedan:
Having a busy day of meetings and one that is a standing invite every week at the same time being rescheduled just 5 min before it's due, but being rescheduled to suite the rest of the team, who are all in Australia.

i.e. 6pm meeting that was until 10 min ago 2.15pm.

Annoying.

Thank God I am leaving. This is not an irregular occurrence.

Oof I have similar from a vendor. I have a weekly scheduled 1 hour meeting that I frequently find myself arranging my day and tickets around. A whole hour is a big chunk of a busy day and when it gets rescheduled I suddenly have dozens of tickets that need updating with further delays to issues that often have been previously pushed out. I then have to prioritise the outstanding jobs so they don’t get mixed the next time.

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#2856287 25-Jan-2022 19:08

Yep, some people just do not even consider knock-on effects. They don't even look at shared calendars.

Last week was my first week back and I only had one appointment in my calendar for the whole week. Someone then said "we need to talk about X" and proceeded to schedule a meeting at exactly the same time as the existing appointment.

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#2856294 25-Jan-2022 19:23

Even better when you're the minnow in a big big pond. Meeting with European counterparts, hosted by the French: "It will be very convenient if we can have this meeting after lunch for a few hours, thus not really affecting anyone's day". "Also, because we don't want to work for too long in the afternoon, we shall have three meetings on consecutive days". Great if you're any one of 15odd European countries that attend, not so good when you're up at 2am for three days straight...

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#2856315 25-Jan-2022 20:49

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#2856324 25-Jan-2022 21:42

Ge0rge: not so good when you're up at 2am for three days straight.

Not seeing the problem here, that's normal working hours isn't it?

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#2856434 26-Jan-2022 08:41

Flybuys Store. I have a points expiring in March. Swipe through the items of interest on their webpage, none of which have enough information so you need to click on the item...only to find it is 'out of stock.' Why can’t out of stock be faded out or stipulated in the main listing to save going back and forth. Grrr after many attempts and gave up again.