Biggest pet peeves?

Discussion in 'The Lounge' started by silas, Jan 28, 2010.

  1. silas

    silas MajorGeek

    What are some of your pet peeves out there? And lets keep it civil please.

    - I don't like it when people are on your arse driving and I can see in the mirror that the person is on the phone with one hand and the second hand is on the steering wheel.. and shes staring more down then up.

    - People that cross right in front of you when your driving down the street and have the right away

    - People that get in front of the TV when I actually do want to see the whats on the television.

    - People that shouldnt be driving still and barely see over the wheel itself.. And then those people try to park into a spot that they cant fit yet they hit your new car and scrap it and then leave the scene and I am pretty sure they didnt notice the bumping to begin with.
     
  2. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    People who ask me what my biggest pet peeve is. :-D:-D
     
  3. silas

    silas MajorGeek

    I didnt want to have to use this but I may have to bring out the gloves. :boxing
     
  4. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    Oh, yeah, that's my other one!! roflmao
     
  5. LI_Geek_95

    LI_Geek_95 Post-and-Run Geek

    When you wait on hold for 15 minutes with a computer company to find out that 1 laptop hinge costs $275 usd!
     
  6. Kodo

    Kodo SNATCHSQUATCH

    when people use "your" instead of "you're" when using the contraction of YOU ARE. (TIMMAY!!)
     
  7. LI_Geek_95

    LI_Geek_95 Post-and-Run Geek

    I really think your overreacting.
     
  8. silas

    silas MajorGeek

    I am sure someone could post this against my post I make

    - People who get 'their' 'there' and 'they're' mixed up. Also 'two','to' and 'too'.
     
  9. LI_Geek_95

    LI_Geek_95 Post-and-Run Geek

    Or, teen girls. Ther and 2. lol
     
  10. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    Did I do dat???? :-D:-D


    People who point out grammatical or spelling mistakes. ( Where is Lev when you need her???? ).:-D:-D
     
  11. Kodo

    Kodo SNATCHSQUATCH

    No. the other Timmay..
     
  12. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    Oh that one!! LOL. Could also mention Halo, too!! The boy is all thumbs with his phone!! :-D
     
  13. Paxton007

    Paxton007 MajorGeek

    Lev was a her? eek!

    FINGERS POINTING AT ME! Man, that makes me want to punch a kitten!
     
  14. Kestrel13!

    Kestrel13! Super Malware Fighter - Major Dilemma Staff Member

    inline logs LOL it means I have to make extra effort in the mornings
     
  15. Spad

    Spad MajorGeek

    Mail-in rebates. What a con . . . they only exist because they get people to buy products at an attractive "reduced" price - but a good portion of those same people will fail to redeem the rebate, or fail to complete properly the usually multi-step and often confusing procedures for redeeming them.

    I often refuse to buy products that offer mail-in "rebates" - especially if they involve internet stuff . . .
     
  16. Phantom

    Phantom Brigadier Britches

  17. silas

    silas MajorGeek

    I got a mail in rebate for this last christmas and I found out you got to call a number to get the rebate active and then I sent it into this address.. They sent it back saying not the right thing but it was the only thing that I had. So I recent and they sent back saying no such address for the mailer so I just gave up. Now to add back to original topic.

    - I dont like it when you order something from a company and they (put you down for a subscription)and charge it without you knowing. My mother order few things from different places. And they said she was marked down for subscription and she had to bitch and moan to get off one thing.. and the other keeps sending stuff monthly. She just got the reply we got the rest of the year of goodies lol..

    - Also people/companys that advertise and call you saying they can help you and they got all the "legit" stuff but then again somethings fishy. My mom got called by a place near by saying they would give her a lower bill if she combines two bills together.. Well she said no hung up they called few times.. and 4th time she listen to what they said and they said we are going to record you for our "safety" but only answer yes to what we ask.. so they ask legit questions and she says yes then at the end they say something about a "special fee of 1500 dollars!" She said oh no I cant do this I cant pay that you didnt tell me this!! Anyways they stopped the recording and said maam we cant help you if you don't do as we said.. So she eventually said screw it and hung up.. Now she had to close her bank account totally.. and had banks look out for her "personal info being used" but luckly nothing so far. And another thing is that commercial sending you gold in and you'll get money back. Well they finally did investigation and found a person paying small percent of whats its really worth and now there talking to him.
     
  18. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    1. NOT reading instructions or guides properly and then saying I have read the guide!
    2. NOT answering questions asked in tech support, dont ask them for good of health and not as if you'd be giving away state secrets
    3. LAZY people
    4. See Silas's first 3
    5. Those call centres that use, Press 1 for XXXX, Press 2 for XXXX, that then take you to a sub menu of Press 1 for XXXX, then you go in a queue ahhhhhhhhhhh
      5a. On Call centres one of my banks, is a corker, call them up and get the Press 1 etc for which dept, ok fine, then it asks you to pop in your account number, DoB and other stuff to speed up the process of authorising you are who you are, great so that you'd think that when you get to an advisor all your account info is on their screen..... BUT NOOOOOOOOOO they say Hello how may I help you today Mr xxxxx and then say we'd like to confirm your ID, and ask you same bloody questions again, I'm sure they are taking the pee and having a good laugh at you wasting your time, or its a ploy to keep you on the chargable phone rate to make more money out of you.​
    6. Text/SMS or l33t 5p34k on forum posts, honestly its not the "in" thing to do these days, it was all the rage in the 90s when folk wanted to think they where part of a l33t h4x0r group, but much better to type as close to whatever English you know (ood spellwing mystakes are acceptabubble, I make them as I think quicker than my fingers can type... also not looking at the keyboard when typing doesnt help much), trust me it will help you in later life as your employeer is not likely to be impressed.
    7. Being told a delivery will be definatly on a specific day, I take a day off work and wait upto the 5pm deadline for daily deliveries, then to ring up (yes the Press 1, Press 2 thing) to be told the driver couldnt make it today, he was running late, GREAT I took a day off work for this wait of time.
    8. Wasting money though lack of thinking and developing new ideas and cost saving schemes, this is a work thing, people are in a job in finance, but then waste money hand over fist due to not listening to ideas and developing their own, stuck in a job rut that they are confortable with annoys the hell out of me as I develop and change things all the time, travel is my bugbear.... case in point: Train travel to London and Hotel, I go in the internet and get good deal on train travel and even 1st class coming back, then a hotel, email the hotel and ask for a good rate and they give a really good one for central London, then goto finance and say all I need is payment of these good deals, answer OH cannot do that you have to go through our mechanism, ok great think after filling in what looks like a document signing over my soul, thing its a done deal. NO they have a set route train travel is set standard of what was £200 over the price I could get online direct with train company, the hotel they said they have preferential rates for workers in our dept, YES but £25 over what I got direct from the hotel, so all in all with the folk that where going to this meeting in London we spent £500 more than we should have due to lazyness (see 3) and job incompetence. Back to using another route saves our budget money but causes the finance dept above more paperwork. I have told them how and what gov agency they can get an account with that gets travel and hotels cheap to save money.

    Think thats enough for today :)
     
  19. brandypeppy

    brandypeppy MajorGeek

  20. oma

    oma MajorGeek

    Being on a "do not call list" and still getting frequent sales calls! They get an earful from me, poor sales people. :mad Call display helps but not all the time. That's just one for the time being.
     
  21. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    If the call is on their dime then use the attached as its FUN way to wind them up ;)

    Used part of it before, especially the "do you like you job" and "do you get time off to goto the dentist" couldnt keep a straight face for most of it, office where I worked were killing themsleves laughing.
     

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  22. Rikky

    Rikky Wile E. Coyote - One of a kind

    Ignorant people who interrupt me and continue to speak like I'm not here/people who get louder after interrupting me.

    If I'm speaking wait your turn to F&&&ing speak!If you start speaking by accident because you thought I'd finished just apologise,it is then my prerogative to allow you to speak or not.

    If we don't follow the laws of conversation the discussion will get louder and louder and I will become angrier and angrier until I may be liable to cut the top of your skull off and inscribe what I was unable to say directly onto your cerebral cortex with a pick axe while screaming it into your ear.

    And extended warranties.
     
  23. oma

    oma MajorGeek

    roflmao :cool Printed it off and put it beside the phone. However, this won't work for the robot telemarketing calls. Well, one cannot have everything, right Halo? Thanks!
     
  24. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Hi Oma

    sadly no on the roboto callers, pitty there is no dog whistle thing you can blow down the line to blow their computer/server up!

    But works with real folk, just listen for them pondering a reply when you ask about dental, they will be going HUH :)
     
  25. silas

    silas MajorGeek

    I thought they passed something in the USA were for the people that keep getting calls from people trying to sell and you tell them to stop calling you and they do it again its consider harassing. Even many still do it. Theres been people on the news where a woman got called by a guy and the guy was part of 30 boxes(in a office area) so 30 people and they just go down list of numbers.. anyways the guy that was trying to sell got told no from the woman and he threaten her and said she was going to die and go to hell and all that. But after investigation guy was charged but not fired. I get long distance calls on my cell for whatever reasons.. I just called 1 last night saying stop calling.
     
  26. oma

    oma MajorGeek

    About the telemarketing calls. Depends how they pronounce my last name. If they can't pronounce it correctly and their tel# doesn't look private, I usually ask them if they're selling something. Then tell them right off the bat that I'm on the do not call list, take my tel # off their calling list and will report them if I get another call from them. They don't get much of a chance to put a word in first. :-D 99.9% they're telemarketers. It irks me that they usually call around dinner time and one has to make a trip to the phone. No, I don't take my portable phone into the kitchen for their calls. I used to remember all of Canada's area codes but have forgotten them. Believe I'm getting also USA (robot) marketing calls? (Banking/credit card)

    Guess they'd be terribly surprised if/when going through Halo's list. :-D:-D Can't wait for the next telemarketer to try it out.
     

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