Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.
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I am so desperate for a haircut that I am about to cut my own hair with kitchen shears
because apparently everyone ELSE is desperate for haircuts too and all the shears on Amazon are on wait until May
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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@Auspice I got my daughter to cut mine yesterday alongside the boys. ...
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@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I am so desperate for a haircut that I am about to cut my own hair with kitchen shears
because apparently everyone ELSE is desperate for haircuts too and all the shears on Amazon are on wait until May
As weird as it sounds....
Dog grooming scissors. We just ordered some with clippers to try and tackle our giant sheepdog's shag.
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I signed up for a 14 day trial of Focus @ Will. It's supposed to help you focus better on what you're working on, by finding the music/sounds that increase your productivity.
I signed up on Friday for a 14 day trial, and then after that if I didn't cancel, they would charge me 150 bucks for a lifetime sub.
They charged my card yesterday - and put me in the hole. I can't get any answer from customer service. I'm pissssssed.
I also don't know what I'll do - because my boss has not yet approved my timesheet from last week. And I need that done before tomorrow morning, but I can't get him on the phone. Or in email.
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If you are writing a piece of software. Be it an app, a major program, or a fun little toy... write proper fucking error messages.
"Hmm, it looks like something went wrong..." is not just useless, it's fucking annoying.
He/Him
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@Macha You call your credit card company and tell them to reverse the charge and file a complaint.
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@Tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
"Hmm, it looks like something went wrong..." is not just useless, it's fucking annoying.
Sometimes there's nothing more to say. Not all software errors have 'here's what you can do...' solutions.
I doubt it would be any less annoying to have a message like: "You shouldn't be seeing this message. If you are, then somebody screwed up something somewhere in the code and we're going to have to go on a scavenger hunt to figure out who and what. Until then maybe try again? Good luck." Because most of the time, that's the honest truth.
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@faraday said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@Tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
"Hmm, it looks like something went wrong..." is not just useless, it's fucking annoying.
Sometimes there's nothing more to say. Not all software errors have 'here's what you can do...' solutions.
I doubt it would be any less annoying to have a message like: "You shouldn't be seeing this message. If you are, then somebody screwed up something somewhere in the code and we're going to have to go on a scavenger hunt to figure out who and what. Until then maybe try again? Good luck." Because most of the time, that's the honest truth.
Programmers can't plan for every single outcome, so a generic error message is kind of required.
If some third-party tool causes a hiccup in their code.... how could they factor for that? And the code is just code. It's dumb. It just does what it's supposed to.....until something stops it. So it doesn't know 'Hey this other thing running on your machine caused a problem! fix it!' It just knows: 'I couldn't execute what I was told to, help!'
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Guys.
Zoom.
That is all.
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@TNP Well here's a funny story.
You know how companies send you those emails about their product? Well I got one this morning, and sent a reply that was snarky as hell - figuring it's going to bounce back, no one's going to read it, etc.
I was wrong. She read it - and got back to me, and started the return before I even got the email (And gave me a month long free trial). Add in that I called my bank, and I will not have any overdraft charges? I'm pretty chill.
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@silverfox said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Guys.
Zoom.
That is all.
My firm does a zoom meeting every day at 1:30 to coordinate. It's rarely if ever over 10 minutes and frequently ends up just being the partners and whoever they need to talk to. I got bumped off the call after about two minutes today. It was amazing.
I am very happy with this arrangement. Everyone else appears to have bosses who think that productivity increases when employees are stuck in meetings.
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@Macha A legit company? Go figure.
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I'm trying to teach from Zoom. I finally just had to put my head down and laugh as the first ten minutes were "CAN YOU HEAR ME?!" <mouth moves with no sound> "TRY TO PICK UP YOUR MIC/TAKE OFF YOUR HEADPHONES!" <silent yelling for parent> "LOOK AT MY POOP!" (thankfully, the last was a stuffed poop emoji. I still almost died.)
There was also the one with the little brother who was totally naked who just sat in the background.
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Hubby has greatly enjoyed the 3 times a week Kindergarten zoom meetings with a very non-techie inclined teacher. And apparently our silly cuddly floppy cat has had a starring role in a lot of the teens' zoom meetings (along with occasional guest appareances by the Kindergartener if he sneaks down to the teen lair while hubby has to do some work.
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So many pets in the meeting. I'm about to just sign them up on the roster.
I found out today one of my kiddos has SEVEN cats. I don't know how I went this long in the year without knowing that!
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@silverfox said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I'm trying to teach from Zoom. I finally just had to put my head down and laugh as the first ten minutes were "CAN YOU HEAR ME?!" <mouth moves with no sound> "TRY TO PICK UP YOUR MIC/TAKE OFF YOUR HEADPHONES!" <silent yelling for parent> "LOOK AT MY POOP!" (thankfully, the last was a stuffed poop emoji. I still almost died.)
There was also the one with the little brother who was totally naked who just sat in the background.
We're using big blue button for teaching my uni class. The first ten minutes is mic problems, and then dogs and children, and partners... and someone has to leave for a shift and ... emotional support because they are all nursing students. TBH I do an hour of teaching and give them stuff to do on moodle.
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Ok. I give in. The sourdough experiment has now gone into the food waste bin. I refuse to feel like a failure because it was eating flour and not doing anything!
Also. I thought it was Friday today.
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<stares at bra 'sale'>
Look, fuckers. I get it. Bras come in endless shapes and sizes and colors and price points.....
Except for us big-titty ladies, where it's like "Now in plain beige! For $70! And it's probably still not gonna fit quite right!"
But whatever this two hundred and five dollar "miracle" bra bullshit you're trying to sell me is, at that price point? I could probably pay a vaguely hot graduate student weeping into his bank account to just walk around behind me carrying my tits in his hands and giving shoulder massages on demand.
https://whatiswrongwith.me/Mia
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@Aria To be fair, you can pay a graduate student to do pretty much anything.
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@Aria Seen Bravissimo?
