Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.

Auspice · Mar 30, 2018, 11:17 PM

Peeve:
People who get angry at subscription services because they don't "remember" signing up.

So? It's not the company's fault you're a moron.

surreality · Apr 6, 2018, 5:07 PM

Lying sack of shit liars who lie all the damned time, and think they're subtle enough to get away with it.

Protip to this type: YOU ARE NEVER, EVER SUBTLE.

Mr.Johnson · Apr 6, 2018, 5:09 PM

When you get yelled at because "Someone" was seen "Somewhere" by "Someone" sleeping on the job, and therefore the blame automatically falls on you instead of anyone else despite the fact you spend most your time locked up in an office watching security monitors. x.x

insomniac7809 · Apr 10, 2018, 2:33 AM

The lady who is never ordering from the webstore again. No, please don't stop giving money to the webstore and retuning it to my store, what will I do without unsellable inventory and less money for the day...

People who won't accept that, no, they don't get a special discount just because. Never hurts to ask, but I am not going to fucking haggle with you. Buy the shit at MSRP or go fuck yourself.

"So X comes with Y, which is $50 separarely. Or you can upgrade to Z, which normally costs $80, for the $30 difference." "And I still get Y?" "...no, you get Y for free or Z for $30." "But why don't I get Y if I buy Z?" "Because you're only paying the difference from the cost of Y." "I don't understand." How do you not understand.

Lisse24 · Apr 12, 2018, 5:33 PM

I hate ending phone calls. Especially business phone calls. It's five minutes of, "Yes, it was so great hearing from you! I definitely want to continue this discussion. I'm so glad you reached out! I'll look forward to seeing that info."

Can we, like, just hang up already?

Auspice · Apr 12, 2018, 8:30 PM

I almost outright quit my job yesterday. Mostly due to crushing depression because being off meds. Forced myself to go in, pushed through. Still feeling it today, but came in...

Boss: "Client is moving to 4 hour block schedules. But because of your special requirements as an office lead/manager and the hours you have to be there to close up the office... this is going to cause you to lose 5 hours a week unless we figure something out."

I'm already barely scraping by each month.

I desperately need this job I'm interviewing for tomorrow.

MagicGirl57 · Apr 12, 2018, 9:39 PM

Not an irk, RL peeve or disgruntlement but....

I'M FUCKING OFFICIALLY OUT OF ACTIVE DUTY!!!!!!!!!!!

Auspice · Apr 13, 2018, 2:35 AM

Thin crack began in corner of screen a few months ago. It's been slowly spreading, but it's been thin, so... okay. Can deal.

And then I get home tonight........

My poor macbook.
School issued it to me almost 4 years ago, but I'm not ready to see it suffer so

Tinuviel · Apr 13, 2018, 4:15 AM

@auspice Well that's what you get for using the wrong Soapbox skin.

MagicGirl57 · Apr 13, 2018, 5:43 AM

@tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@auspice Well that's what you get for using the wrong Soapbox skin.

If it's wrong, then I never wanna be right. I use that skin happily.

Tinuviel · Apr 13, 2018, 5:54 AM

@calindra People that voluntarily use white backgrounds for anything other than word processing or data entry are very odd people.

MagicGirl57 · Apr 13, 2018, 5:55 AM

I repent for my white background sins. Tried the Darkly theme, eyes opened.

Tinuviel · Apr 13, 2018, 6:03 AM

I prefer the 'Cyborg' theme myself. I like the font better.

Auspice · Apr 13, 2018, 6:15 AM

I can't use white for MUing, but the dark backgrounds for nodebb just had other issues that irked me visually.

It's not my favorite, but whatever. I hate nodebb as a whole.

surreality · Apr 13, 2018, 6:17 AM

@tinuviel I miss having TextWrangler on this computer because I could even do basic annotated text files up rather nicely on a black background if I wanted to.

And I am still too broke to spring for BBedit as yet.

Roz · Apr 13, 2018, 6:21 AM

@surreality You can use BBedit for free, it just keeps the premium features locked.

surreality · Apr 13, 2018, 6:23 AM

@roz Ooh, thank you. That is good to know. I think last time I checked, it had been a limited trial for that. Maybe since they retired the free version they switched, though -- that would make a lot of sense.

Roz · Apr 13, 2018, 6:24 AM

@surreality Yeah, you can basically use BBEdit as TextWrangler forever for free.

surreality · Apr 13, 2018, 6:29 AM

@roz It was/is glory above all for writing wiki code, so help me.

ThatGuyThere · Apr 13, 2018, 4:11 PM

@tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@calindra People that voluntarily use white backgrounds for anything other than word processing or data entry are very odd people.

What if we use it because it is the default and we can't be arsed to change it? Do I still count as odd or just especially lazy?