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

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#3494074 20-May-2026 15:49

jamesrt:

Whilst I agree with your sentiment, Rikkitic, the 'print it out needlessly and put it in a box to keep' describes my father (about to turn 90) so perfectly that I LOLed when I read it. Does that make me a horrible person?

Not at all. People do that. What I am objecting to is the stereotypical assertion (and implied put-down) that only old people do it and it is a marker of age. Some do, some don't. I, for example, don't and I am not that much younger than your father. I am also in no way exceptional.

Stereotypes are a lazy substitute for thought. They can also lead to dangerous assumptions. I object to them as a matter of principle and call them out where I can. I am also guilty of this, of course. But I try to at least know when I am doing it.

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#3494093 20-May-2026 16:42

Rikkitic:

Stereotypes are a lazy substitute for thought.

The stereotype of "old people not coping with IT" is quite out-of-date. People retiring now have had decades of working (or playing) with computers. As an example, my father spent a couple of decades tutoring for seniorNet, teaching retirees how to use Windows and Word and the Internet. His small-town branch of seniorNet shut down a couple of years ago because there was no longer any demand for their services.

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#3494095 20-May-2026 16:50

We have a compulsive print and box person at work. She's not much older than me. Internal invoices all get done and filed away. Things from suppliers that get entered get printed out and a stamp on them with the date and her initial. In the case we ever need to go back and look at them. When we ask about previous ones instead of finding in the email, she will proudly go to right box (eventually) and find it and be all proud that she was able to locate it.

Her justifications are that if the computers are down we can go to the files if we need to look things up. If the computer ever loses stuff we can re-enter it from the printed ones. I responded that if I am ever asked to re-enter stuff because of a computer failure I would be out the door and not coming back.

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#3494453 21-May-2026 13:21

Amazon Australia (again)! Ordered some items on 2nd May and selected free delivery which showed as an expected delivery date of 15 May. Fast forward to 21 May and still no confirmation of delivery date or payment taken for the order. Going on the customer service chat, the bot response is “good news, we’re about to ship your items and they will be delivered by 22 Jun”. ???. Looking at the items on the main pages, they show an expected delivery date of 28 May if ordered now with free delivery

I manage to get an actual person on the chat and explain the situation. The helpful reply is that they can cancel the order so I can purchase locally instead. After some pointed remarks about “lying” and “bait and switch” they agree I can reorder the items with express delivery and they will refund charges as a one off goodwill gesture

Ok , a reasonable outcome in this case but this is the fourth time I’ve had a similar experience with free delivery: they just don’t complete or send the order. I can’t work out why Amazon do this

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#3494456 21-May-2026 13:34

Worst is when you order more things to get to the threshold, and they cancel the thing you really wanted, but ship the others that you could have got locally, and have the cheek to charge shipping because its now below the threshold for being free. Arguing with them over that is pointless and I have basically given up on ordering anything other than things that are free shipping on their own now.

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#3494606 21-May-2026 23:26

Updated list of unsolicited numbers I've received in the last several months alone (links to reverse lookups where available):

03-563-8400 (donations)
03-567-4317
04-886-0148 via Symbio
04-886-6130 (via Symbio)
04-887-8867
04-889-4715
04-901-6966 (Welly Free Ambulance donations)
06-241-8398 (Palmerston North, unknown)
06-920-3951 (New Plymouth, unknown)
07-245-7177 (Clever Contacts: telemarketer from New Plymouth)
09-304-1513
09-886-7059 via Symbio
09-967-8781 (One NZ telemarketer; I'm a former TelstraClear/Vodafone customer and they're probably asking me to come back)
09-886-7405 (Red Cross fundraiser)

The charities mentioned above are very good causes, but cold-calling for donations must be a sign of desperate times. If only our nation's rich-listers did some actual philanthropy, instead of buying politicians.

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#3494665 22-May-2026 09:22

richms:

Worst is when you order more things to get to the threshold, and they cancel the thing you really wanted, but ship the others that you could have got locally, and have the cheek to charge shipping because its now below the threshold for being free. Arguing with them over that is pointless and I have basically given up on ordering anything other than things that are free shipping on their own now.

My items have now been delivered, direct from the warehouse in Sydney. So, I place an order on 2nd May and amazon do absolutely nothing for 19 days then predict delivery in a further 5 weeks. Only when I complain do they actually fulfill the order and then deliver in less than 48 hours.

To say I don't understand their business model is an understatement

Is this just bait and switch to persuade buyers to use the expensive delivery option?

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#3494901 23-May-2026 19:40

Going to a restaurant's website to find out whether they're open tomorrow. It doesn't say, instead just saying "Open Now" and that they close at 9:30 tonight.

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#3494987 25-May-2026 06:35

Behodar:

Going to a restaurant's website to find out whether they're open tomorrow. It doesn't say, instead just saying "Open Now" and that they close at 9:30 tonight.

Have I already complained about restaurants which hide their opening hours on a service which requires you to create an account in order to view them?

I'm not going to sign up to another online service just to see if Joe's Pizza is open, I'll go elsewhere.

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#3495051 25-May-2026 12:31

Seeing this in your email about something you ordered.

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#3495052 25-May-2026 12:31

cddt:

Have I already complained about restaurants which hide their opening hours on a service which requires you to create an account in order to view them?

I'm not going to sign up to another online service just to see if Joe's Pizza is open, I'll go elsewhere.

Are they not on their google listing when you look at their result in search?

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#3495217 25-May-2026 18:21

When you want to buy 6 of something on Amazon AU that is frequently discounted so you set-up a tracker on CamelCamelCamel to be alerted when the price drops. You get that notification then go to Amazon AU to make your pusrchase only to find that they've limited it to only 1 item per customer. Yes I know they are well within their rights to restrict purchases especially during a sale but it doesn't make it any less annoying. I would have still purchased 1 to get me started on my project until the next discount but only buying one didn't meet the threshold for free shipping so they didn't get any money from me.

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#3495231 25-May-2026 19:26

USB devices which have USB "A" sockets on them (supposed to only be on the computer or downstream facing hub ports), requiring the manufacture of forbidden USB "A male - A male" leads, whose presence proliferates devices with cheap USB "A" sockets etc. I wish Jaycar and PBTech wouldn't sell them - PB has 15 variants!!!

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#3495405 26-May-2026 07:46

Seeing a post a few days ago and having a relevant comment to add to it, but not being able to remember whether it was in the Annoy thread, the Small Questions thread, the Brain Dead Software thread, or its own thread.

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#3495527 26-May-2026 15:39

frankv:

Rikkitic:

Stereotypes are a lazy substitute for thought.

The stereotype of "old people not coping with IT" is quite out-of-date. People retiring now have had decades of working (or playing) with computers. As an example, my father spent a couple of decades tutoring for seniorNet, teaching retirees how to use Windows and Word and the Internet. His small-town branch of seniorNet shut down a couple of years ago because there was no longer any demand for their services.

During one of my recent assignments, the client—sitting right next to me—nearly collapsed onto his keyboard from sheer exhaustion at 3:15 in the morning (job started at 10:30 a.m.); that is just how much work was required to make his small business IT system truly secure. (But I only do that in exceptional cases—my health is important to me.)

Yet all I actually needed him for was to provide quick, simplified answers to structural questions as they arose ad hoc—drafting a formal requirements specification would have been unthinkable, as the young whippersnapper didn't even know what he wanted, let alone what he needed.

I charged him a single, flat-rate fee for the whole thing (and the coffee for free 😎). Since then, the issue of the "generation gap" has been a closed chapter for him.

Qui nihil scit, omnia credere debet. - He who knows nothing must believe everything.
Firewalls do NOT stop dragons. Really not. But your smart devices are spying on you!
I avoid Big Tech amap. They try hard to dictate technology and „culture“ across borders.
In effect we have everything to hide from someone, and no idea who „someone“ is.

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