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

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#2760011 14-Aug-2021 16:21

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Geektastic: Trying to park in Wellington.

Then today finding a park, keying in $2 amount of time from the machine, which spits back that it will cost another 65 cents to use your card to pay.

That’s outrageous!

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#2760269 15-Aug-2021 16:55

Going along to a sports game with my son and I'm watching one round he's keeping score for between two other kids. One of the kids playing would glance back at his dad every time he lost or gained a point.

What's that kid's dad doing? Must have been something super urgent going on elsewhere due to his head and eyes being glued down to his mobile phone.

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#2760272 15-Aug-2021 17:03

Handsomedan:

Then today finding a park, keying in $2 amount of time from the machine, which spits back that it will cost another 65 cents to use your card to pay.

That’s outrageous!

they do it in Rotorua , but it is only 50 cents to use your card. What is worse is they usually have 2 machines on a street , one on each side and the only one of them take coins and , Murphy's Law, it is often not the one you go to first and to make it more of a rip off it is only a $1 for an hour any way.

Common sense is not as common as you think.

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#2760382 16-Aug-2021 08:07

Articles like this one that technically give an answer, but it's completely unhelpful (in this case because it doesn't last; Firefox plonks itself back onto the Taskbar again periodically*).

There's a thing on the right for "was this article helpful?" and when you select No, it just says "sorry to hear that" and gives no place to enter any comments. Of course, the article's not going to get any better if they don't ask for feedback on it!

*This is a separate grizzle. The Microsoft docs say "Don't call the pin API without explicit user interaction" so it's wrong for it to be putting itself on there in the first place!

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#2760401 16-Aug-2021 09:33

It's annual review season and we have an ask to provide feedback on our peers and Managers.

Not in a super-discreet and confidential way, but by way of an email to their boss, in your own words, with three questions:

What does X do well?

What could X do better?

What are some things that X could do to develop and improve (or words to that effect)? Specific examples are encouraged.

It's not ideal, in that if you're honest and you don't rate that person particularly highly, it becomes essentially a complaint, but if you don't outline the areas for improvement, nothing can possibly change (if it actually needs to).

Of course with it going to their boss, it makes it very hard for it not to be filtered down and specifics give away who has written it and that can make for an awkward working environment.

Edit: Spelling

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#2760474 16-Aug-2021 10:25

A couple of weeks ago I got an email from my ISP announcing a price increase. Our 12 month term was up, so I went looking for another ISP, found a good deal, and signed up. Then I let my existing ISP know. They replied - is there anything we can do to keep you as our customer?

Ordinarily I would say yes, but we had already signed up with the new ISP. But moreover, it bugs me that companies seem happy to raise prices (which is fair - everyone has increasing expenses) but it turns out those price rises aren't that necessary if you threaten to leave. If they are able to offer me a lower price, why raise the price in the first instance? It just makes a mockery of the whole thing. Advertise your best price, and keep it simple. Enough with all these games, and having to haggle and negotiate every time.

The stupid thing is that I was quite happy with my existing ISP. The 12 month term had run its course a couple of months back, and I would have probably continued paying the old price and never thought about leaving. But instead they raise the price, which makes me look at the whole landscape differently. And then they are either in the position of having to offer a lower price to retain me as a customer, or lose me altogether. If they had done nothing in the first place, they would have been better off.

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#2760490 16-Aug-2021 10:55

On a similar vein and it does remind me of something that annoys me. Is all these retailers that say "show us someone with a better price and we'll beat it"......but if you outright ask them there will be bugger all movement and much hand wringing about how difficult it is.

So it takes another company to do the hard work and lower the price and then everyone else just jumps on the bandwagon.

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#2760598 16-Aug-2021 11:50

Salespeople who want to sell you an extended warranty and insist on arguing with you when you say no.

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#2760609 16-Aug-2021 12:06

alasta:

Salespeople who want to sell you an extended warranty and insist on arguing with you when you say no.

Or the (admittedly lovely) bloke from Sky, who when asked to cancel Sky Sport, spent ten minutes trying to sell me every upgrade they had available, despite my obvious reason for calling.

It helped that he was a nice chap, but had he been curt or in anyway annoying, I would have made a complaint.

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#2760617 16-Aug-2021 12:13

Injury, moon boot, limited mobility, missing out on doing stuff I love to do and how long it takes to do even basic things otherwise!

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#2760621 16-Aug-2021 12:15

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Injury, moon boot, limited mobility, missing out on doing stuff I love to do and how long it takes to do even basic things otherwise!

You'll be mobile again.

It'll take a wee while, but you'll get there. I thought the worst when I broke my ankle and had to give up football, but here I am a few years later, mountain biking and moving and having fun again.

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#2760626 16-Aug-2021 12:17

networkn:
Injury, moon boot, limited mobility, missing out on doing stuff I love to do and how long it takes to do even basic things otherwise!

Been through a similar situation twice now. I feel your pain.

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#2760631 16-Aug-2021 12:22

Lizard1977:

But moreover, it bugs me that companies seem happy to raise prices (which is fair - everyone has increasing expenses) but it turns out those price rises aren't that necessary if you threaten to leave. If they are able to offer me a lower price, why raise the price in the first instance?

It's not all or nothing. Most customers will just pay, they will let a few customers that complain slide and overall their revenue will increase.

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#2760632 16-Aug-2021 12:23

Handsomedan:

You'll be mobile again.

It'll take a wee while, but you'll get there. I thought the worst when I broke my ankle and had to give up football, but here I am a few years later, mountain biking and moving and having fun again.

Yeah, it's not as bad as it could have been, only a 40% tear, no surgery, no damage to achilles and relatively low risk of re-injury with proper rehab. My body wants to be active!

On the plus side, I get plenty of guilt free sit on my ass time, something in short supply other times.

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#2760639 16-Aug-2021 12:41

networkn:
Handsomedan:

You'll be mobile again.

It'll take a wee while, but you'll get there. I thought the worst when I broke my ankle and had to give up football, but here I am a few years later, mountain biking and moving and having fun again.

Yeah, it's not as bad as it could have been, only a 40% tear, no surgery, no damage to achilles and relatively low risk of re-injury with proper rehab. My body wants to be active!

On the plus side, I get plenty of guilt free sit on my ass time, something in short supply other times.

And, with the moon boot, you're a sure-thing when it comes to delivering an ass-kicking!

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