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

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#2809312 8-Nov-2021 14:18

At work we have a horrible piece of software called Teams, which some of you may have heard of.

It has now started going "HEY! LOOK AT ME!" when someone presses the "like" button on one of my messages, despite having the settings configured to not pester me with this nonsense. That setting was respected until today, when it's suddenly decided it's going to ignore me.

Why oh why do we have to put up with this sort of software...

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#2809414 8-Nov-2021 15:49

When contacting retailers in NZ...

"Thank you for contacting us with your query. I have forwarded this to "Jon\Billy\Sharon\Karen" to make contact with you."

I have zero idea who they are and why this even matters. When filling in the online form it simply states someone will contact you in X hrs.
Time fillers and time wasters.... sigh

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#2809433 8-Nov-2021 16:25

Behodar:

At work we have a horrible piece of software called Teams, which some of you may have heard of.

It has now started going "HEY! LOOK AT ME!" when someone presses the "like" button on one of my messages, despite having the settings configured to not pester me with this nonsense. That setting was respected until today, when it's suddenly decided it's going to ignore me.

Why oh why do we have to put up with this sort of software...

We use Teams and all the other corporate MS stuff like SharePoint, Outlook etc. Outlook has Viva which gives me a daily briefing which I neither want nor need. I tried to set it up to send those emails directly to the Junk folder which didn't work then I found another way to stop it annoying me then in the last day or so those bloody annoying Viva emails are back.

Why Oh Why do outfits like Microsoft decide their intrusive and f..king annoying features are so important they do their utmost to stop you disabling them?

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#2809435 8-Nov-2021 16:30

Technofreak:
Behodar:

At work we have a horrible piece of software called Teams, which some of you may have heard of.

It has now started going "HEY! LOOK AT ME!" when someone presses the "like" button on one of my messages, despite having the settings configured to not pester me with this nonsense. That setting was respected until today, when it's suddenly decided it's going to ignore me.

Why oh why do we have to put up with this sort of software...

We use Teams and all the other corporate MS stuff like SharePoint, Outlook etc. Outlook has Viva which gives me a daily briefing which I neither want nor need. I tried to set it up to send those emails directly to the Junk folder which didn't work then I found another way to stop it annoying me then in the last day or so those bloody annoying Viva emails are back.

Why Oh Why do outfits like Microsoft decide their intrusive and f..king annoying features are so important they do their utmost to stop you disabling them?

'It look like you're writing an online rant. Would you like help with that ?'

Most of the posters in this thread are just like chimpanzees on MDMA, full of feelings of bonhomie, joy, and optimism. Fred99 8/4/21

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#2809438 8-Nov-2021 16:34

elpenguino:
Technofreak:

We use Teams and all the other corporate MS stuff like SharePoint, Outlook etc. Outlook has Viva which gives me a daily briefing which I neither want nor need. I tried to set it up to send those emails directly to the Junk folder which didn't work then I found another way to stop it annoying me then in the last day or so those bloody annoying Viva emails are back.

Why Oh Why do outfits like Microsoft decide their intrusive and f..king annoying features are so important they do their utmost to stop you disabling them?

'It look like you're writing an online rant. Would you like help with that ?'

Thank you, but I cope very well writing my rants without any help. 🤣🙃😇

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#2809462 8-Nov-2021 17:24

Technofreak:

elpenguino:

'It look like you're writing an online rant. Would you like help with that ?'

Thank you, but I cope very well writing my rants without any help. 🤣🙃😇

Clippy is joining Teams

https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/1/22756973/microsoft-clippy-microsoft-teams-stickers-return

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#2809464 8-Nov-2021 17:34

Shadowfoot:

Clippy is joining Teams

https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/1/22756973/microsoft-clippy-microsoft-teams-stickers-return

Wow - back to the future.

Most of the posters in this thread are just like chimpanzees on MDMA, full of feelings of bonhomie, joy, and optimism. Fred99 8/4/21

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#2809568 8-Nov-2021 19:45

The knob in the BP ad.

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#2809580 8-Nov-2021 20:14

Technofreak: Outlook has Viva which gives me a daily briefing which I neither want nor need. I tried to set it up to send those emails directly to the Junk folder which didn't work then I found another way to stop it annoying me then in the last day or so those bloody annoying Viva emails are back.

Why Oh Why do outfits like Microsoft decide their intrusive and f..king annoying features are so important they do their utmost to stop you disabling them?

Exchange Online or Outlook 365 or whatever it's branded as this week does this too, it insists on sending you analytics reports and burbling on about how great it is, and it prevents you from adding the address to the spam senders list since it's so critically important that you always read the spam that Microsoft sends you.

Just had a thought, I might file this as a (hopefully public) bug in their spam blocking to see what happens...

I think it's part of Microsoft's general strategy to make the whole experience as painful as possible for its victims. The worst part of it is that fact that by the time it's finished drawing the thirty odd toolbars, button bars, menus, borders, and icons, you're left with a 5x5cm postage stamp to read or compose mail in. For example with everything I can possibly turn off turned off, in Outlook 365 or whatever I've currently got an Office toolbar, an Outlook toolbar, three lines of To/CC/Subject, a postage stamp for the body, then another toolbar line at the bottom that duplicates the Outlook toolbar at the top, then quite a bit of blank space that's not used for anything, and then some sort of tab bar whose purpose is as unclear as the blank space above it.

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#2809803 9-Nov-2021 11:24

For your consideration, the toolbar in the latest Word update.

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#2809857 9-Nov-2021 13:25

Behodar:

For your consideration, the toolbar in the latest Word update.

I'll blame the Objective plugin....

(Shudders at the memories of that software)

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#2809902 9-Nov-2021 14:35

Probably not a small thing but angry that some vital medication went missing from our hotel room while away for our anniversary. Just as well me had some back up in our car safe. Be careful our there folks.

Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.

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#2810097 9-Nov-2021 20:54

Auckland's Slowest Bank. Was reminded of this again today while waiting at a branch of Auckland's Slowest Bank from which you can see two other banks, and in particular the people moving through them at a steady pace while you're standing there waiting endlessly for your turn.

And this isn't any recent Covid-related thing, it goes back at least twenty years. At what's quite possibly the slowest branch of Auckland's Slowest Bank, the Queen St. one close to the library, in the times I was reluctantly forced to use it I always took a book with me to deal with waits of 20-30 minutes before being seen. One time a group of us, who had been waiting for around quarter of an hour with no sign of progress, car-pooled out to Ponsonby to do our banking there in a marginally less slow branch. When we were dropped off back at the Queen St branch, the queue had barely moved.

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#2810202 10-Nov-2021 08:53

neb: Auckland's Slowest Bank. Was reminded of this again today while waiting at a branch of Auckland's Slowest Bank from which you can see two other banks, and in particular the people moving through them at a steady pace while you're standing there waiting endlessly for your turn. And this isn't any recent Covid-related thing, it goes back at least twenty years. At what's quite possibly the slowest branch of Auckland's Slowest Bank, the Queen St. one close to the library, in the times I was reluctantly forced to use it I always took a book with me to deal with waits of 20-30 minutes before being seen. One time a group of us, who had been waiting for around quarter of an hour with no sign of progress, car-pooled out to Ponsonby to do our banking there in a marginally less slow branch. When we were dropped off back at the Queen St branch, the queue had barely moved.

Banks don't want you in their branches anymore.

They want you to do everything online, or through a smart machine.

But it has nothing to do with reducing cost. Nothing at all.

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#2810218 10-Nov-2021 09:28

I once read about this "Microsoft" of which you speak....

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