Having one right now. Engineer: "Hey, we have a 122 page powerpoint we need you to put into the company format, clean up a little, make it look nice." Me: "No problem! Send it over." 2 hours later, I've been struggling to make the pile of shit look good, have reformatted 60 out of 120 slides including adding highlights, changing fonts (yes, the wrong font!), bering creative. Then I get a call: "Hey, we've been working on the original and making LOTS of changes. I'm gonna send you the new one.: So now I have to go thru it page by page to catch the changes and incorporate them in the one I've killed myself to reformat.
^^^ We have customers who, when they send changes to us, we know not to do anything for a couple days because they will inevitably change their minds several times.
Shoes on the bed. I cannot stand it when people put their dirty shoes they've been walking around filthy streets in all day up on the bed. Disgusting. It even bugs the hell out of me when I see it happen on tv and in movies.
People who will honk their horn at you, because they want you to move out of the parking spot faster so they can use it. I will sit my ass there until they fucking leave, or get back out of the car and just walk around until they leave. And the word honk... it looks weird.
See I take a no small amount of pleasure when its me they are trying to merge in front of me. I always play the game of "do you really want a fender bender?" So far everyone backs off.
Helicopter parents. Back the fuck off and let your kid have some freedom. Teach them how to deal with failure but let them deal with it. Nanny parents who want the world to cater to their kids unique needs. Look I understand the peanut butter allergy. OTOH when little Chauncey can't do something don't expect the rest of the world to have to stop and sacrifice. The real world doesn't act like that. Teach your kid to work around obstacles and quit making like un-fun for the rest of us. People that feel the need to politicize every damned thing on Facebook. When waiting in line, those ass hats who wait until it is their turn to be served to get their shit together. People who walk in the middle of the aisle in a store or else where. Pick a side and stick to it.
I play the same game, "You're car is smaller, I will win everytime" or "You car is much nicer than mine, do you really want to do that?" While not many times, but I have won that game. Like the guy who cut me off by pulling out in front me to make a left turn, and the lanes he was trying to pull into were stopped. Well let's just say "If I had another 6-8 inches, I never would have t-boned him".
People who say "Um" all the damn time when they're speaking! It adds nothing and makes you sound like an idiot!!!! People who are so self-absorbed that they have no clue as to their physical proximity to others around them. I've had people bump into me, stand somewhere blocking me, etc... all because they are oblivious to their surroundings. I'm sorry, but I shouldn't have to shout and stomp around just to clue you in! People who use the word "literally" incorrectly. People who say "ideals" when they obviously mean "ideas"
I like... really hate like those kids who say like "like" like literally every five nanoseconds! Also, I want to literally disintegrate like literally everyone who like says like literally totally like out of context. Do you like get what I am saying?
Another one. People who get so pissed off that their vehicle gets a minor scratch or a ding. I'm not talking about brand new vehicles that still have the new car smell. I'm talking about machines already several years old. So many people act like a scratch on their vehicle is like losing a kidney.
All of the paint is peeling and falling off of my car. This just started happening, and I couldn't care less! Its a 1999 Toyota Camry, and I have personally owned it for 12 years. Other than the paint, it's in excellent condition and runs great! So yeah, I agree with Dayton on this one.
Speaking of paint scratches . . . what is it with these fools who have to park right on top of you? I mean, I'll park way out in the edges of the lot just so that there's no-one close to me, and when I come out to the car again there's ALWAYS some dipshit parked right next to me, some times so close that I can't open my damn door!
Whenever someone does that to me, I almost always bang my door into the side of their car on purpose. On purpose and repeatedly. Reeepeeeaateddddlyyyyy. Once, in my old company vehicle, I banged my driver side door into their passenger side door for two minutes straight. Hard.
On topic: I generally get along with the public and don't have any major beefs other than minor traffic annoyances. My serious pet peeves are almost entirely work related.
This. You know you have to pay or submit something when your turn comes. You have time to get ready while waiting. That fucking drives me crazy!!
Writers of TV promos who don't know the difference between "intergalactic" and "interstellar." "Stay tuned for the intergalactic adventures of the starship Enterprise." No, you science-illiterate boob! They don't travel between galaxies! Look up what a galaxy is! Do you think driving to the next town makes you an "intercontinental" traveler? GGAAAARRRGHJH!!!
Or those thrice-damned animated graphics promoting some stupid shit you don't care about that they throw on the screen during the program you ARE trying to watch. Oh sweet Jeebus if I could find the retard who started that practice I would beat them to death.
Similarly, Google taking over YouTube and then using it to sell shit by putting the ads bottom center of the video with a tiiiiiiiiiny little X to close them. An X so small that unless you stop watching the actual video and lean in, your odds of clicking the ad -- and thus opening a new window and missing your damn clip -- are about 1:1.
I don't have that problem. It's the in-line ads on Youtube that drive me nuckin' futs. You can't skip 'em, you can't close 'em, you have to wait 'em out.
I get annoyed at people who can't speak their mother tongue properly. Some examples that particularly grate on my ears: "To be like" instead of "say" or "think" ("I was like, 'What's going on?'" to mean "I thought, 'What's going on?'"). "Try and do" instead of "try to do" ("I'm going to try and catch the bus" to mean "I'm going to try to catch the bus"). And don't even get me started on "whole 'nuther"...
This one is both personal and professional: I hate the crawls that run during during the news. They started it with 9/11, which was understandable because there was so much news going on that the crawl was kinda helpful in finding out quick details about something. Now, though, when there's typically NOT a lot going on? They suck. They're distracting and they don't even contain any useful information. Just stupid headlines, if that. What's even worse is that local newscasts now have them. They're even more pointless there than they are on CNN or something. But, they give producers and consultants wood, so they'll be around for a while.
I really, really fucking hate it when you're at a reading, and there are several poets lined up but one blowhard—always the worst poet and usually a man—goes on and on and on and everyone else has to cut their program short.
I hate that any weather event has become news.. and 4 - 6 inches of snow and the bread and milk aisles are shown as being empty as people wait out the "storm of the millennia"
I am a graphic designer, not a computer repairman. I hate that when you give someone advice on how to get rid of their spyware, or remove their worm, they will now go to you for EVERY electronics problem under the sky. Fax machine not working? "Hey man, whassup?" Tablet won't power down correctly? "Uhh, I need your help." People who call ONLY when they need something from you. I have a few people on my phone where if I see their number, I expect they'll ask about how I am, how's the family, etc. for about 2 minutes before asking me for something. I now preempt these pleasantries now with "What can I help you with today?" I tolerate it because other than this, they are pretty nice people. Also, poor communicators annoy the piss out of me. They'll either avoid sending you answers they were suppose a week ago via email when the deadline is tomorrow, or they'll give one sentence replies that are so vague you need to shoot back a bunch of other questions about their cryptic response. Good thing with being a freelancer now is I can drop those dumb fucks like an ugly chick at a Victoria Secret's party.
Oh! This reminds me of another one, "I'm" in place of "I was." "So I'm at the store yesterday..." "No, you're fucking not! You're here, right now! What are you, a time traveling fucking clone?!" *SMACK!* "Hey, is that fucking hurting yesterday, too?!"
This might be more Pacific Northwest because it rains so much here, but when it's raining and you don't have an umbrella so naturally you walk on small area of the sidewalk that's covered by a store awning. The assholes with umbrellas that walk underneath the awning even though they have a fucking umbrella. And then they don't even move for you when you walk in to one another. Also, fuckfaces who ride their bicycles on the sidewalk.
I have a pet peeve about Europeans and South Americans who complain that "in America they call it football even though they rarely use their feet on the ball".
overflowing trash cans. ice cube trays with one or two cubes left or a gallon of milk with a teeny tiny amount of milk left. intelligent people with no humility or grace. people who are looking for a reason to be offended.
