Tiny Things That Annoy You • Page 424

And yada yada I know I shouldn't work when I'm having sick symptoms but also the one terrible thing about my immune system is that I do not get sick frequently but when I do get sick the symptoms linger forever. So unless I take like 3 weeks off of work this is where we're at smh. At least wearing masks is more normal since covid

 

Sore throat is bar none my least favorite/the most annoying sick symptom

 

I was just in line to buy a movie ticket at 11:50. A guy in front of me bought a ticket for a show at 11:30. I can’t even comprehend that.

 

Now he’s in line behind me for concessions and it’s super long. What a psychopath.

 

I accidentally left my coffee at home this morning when I left for work. I hit up Starbucks because I have a birthday free drink. I roll up, and my birthday reward is nowhere to be found on my app…

 

Weird guy in the office I frequently post about was just asked what he thinks of Kamala Harris (annoying question in an office) and all he could come up with was “I hate her laugh.”

 

it is pretty awful

 

drunk wine mom cackle

 

People that hate her laugh should hear mine, then all complaints will be gone. Mine is “weird”.

 

I saw Trump talking about how much he hated her laugh so I hope she laughs every chance she gets tbh

 

So tired this week due to all day quarterly planning through Thursday and my team decided to come in an hour earlier than usual. Literally got home at 4:45 and slept till 9. Took a shower, about to eat dinner, then back to bed haha

 

When you schedule an “important” and “urgent” meeting and one of the invitees asks if you can reschedule for sooner.

Asshole, do you think I just randomly chose the day and time? If a time was available sooner, get this, I would have fucking scheduled it for that day and time.

So today when that question was asked I immediately responded with a screenshot of everyone’s calendar for the next 3 days and told them to let me know if they find something sooner than Friday morning and shockingly I didn’t hear back. How about that.

 

My thing lately is when I get everyone's availability for a meeting and let them know how long it'll be and then when they join they're like "so I need to leave early and can only be here half the meeting." ???? If you could only be here for half then why did you say you were available this date/time??? Usually is a good indicator it's not a priority for them and that they're not going to be very helpful. Maybe if it was going to be some "this could've been an email" type meeting, but I promise I don't initiate those. Feels v disrespectful

 

I schedule for execs a lot and they'll give me an exact time they can be available and then just straight up skip the meeting sometimes, it's infuriating. Sometimes it'll be to the same person like 3x in a row, 3 separate days/times - it's wild.

 

I don't wanna hear big brick and mortar stores whining about nobody shopping in person anymore when they're actively hostile to those shopping in person. I'm sure there's a name for it but it reminds me of the idea of hostile architecture except it's how they're running their stores.

Stores near me are constantly taking self checkout stands away, putting them back, taking them away, etc. I never know what to expect when I go. This makes customers cranky which then makes the cashiers cranky and then literally everyone is unhappy

Everything is locked up. I needed DayQuil and had to press the button four times and nobody came. Eventually I walked one aisle over and found a worker to unlock it

When self checkout is open and it flags that I need assistance from an employee and they're not paying attention.

The other day I was at Fred Meyer and was looking at pants and you couldn't even take the pants off the hanger. They're all locked on the clothing rack with like a bike lock looking thing. Looked around, didn't see an employee to help, so I just left.

 

Similarly fast food places are very inconsistent about having kiosks versus cashiers and the cashiers are also doing drive thru

 

I feel like every place near me is charging a fee for using a credit card. I get that they have to pay for the service but my pay isn’t going up any and I’m sick of everything being passed on to the customer to pay. My mechanic is charging a credit card fee now and they are being extremely sketchy about it. No signs up anywhere and they don’t tell you when you use a card. I only know bc I overheard another customer mention it. That’s kind of a hard thing to have cash for bc unless it’s something basic like an oil change the price could fluctuate and I don’t always have that much cash bc I’m poor!! And they already raised their prices for their services and now they want to charge another fee on top of that? Can’t wait for my nephew to become a mechanic lol

 

Stores like Wal-Mart and Target even by me are starting to lock everything up in glass cabinets. Like… underwear and deodorant? Ok.

I have to imagine these will be short-lived because they don’t have enough staff to fulfill requests so none of that shit will sell so no money being made.

Also humorous is that the cases are only like 5-6 feet tall and stores will still stock the excess inventory on top of the case, available to simply grab like a normal shelf lol

Galaxy brain idea: just turn every store into order ahead / customer pickup and downsize the physical space of these gross structures and give that space back to nature. But in reality it will go to all order ahead but then we’ll just be assaulted by robot cops when their card reader doesn’t work or the wifi is down.

 

No it's discriminatory to make everything an app , more humans not less lol

 

We should have more jobs for people, but also, work sucks and in an ideal society we wouldn't have to work nearly as hard, so I understand where both of you are coming from. Literally had that thought as someone was checking my receipt at Walmart last week

 

A Tiny Thing That Annoys Me is that I ahd a co-worker as if I was going "MAGA" just because I criticized Harris over her stance on Israel. Democrats and neoliberals drive me up a wall because of course Donald Trump and the Republican party is just plain evil; that doesn't mean I can't criticize the party with values I agree with when they never actually follow through on them!!

 

Yet another stupid hot day in New England. Feels like 97 out

 

Feels like Florida here in Buffalo today, disgustingly hot and humid

 

Yeah, of course it's brutal the week I'm going to a concert

 

I wanna go to the county fair so bad but it’s gonna be in the 90’s this weekend here. ugh