You Know What Grinds My Gears? - Things that personally piss you off

[Lady Bizness]

ALL I AM ASKING IS FOR YOU TO ACT LIKE A GODDAMN HUMAN BEING.

das racis

 

[Zyklon C]

Zyklon C wants to buy a new filing cabinet, one not quite so monstrous as the one in his office. For years Zyklon has been pestered by local business. "Buy local!" "Support your local community!" "Keep money and jobs here!"

So he hits a web site of a local office supply store with two locations and looks up file cabinets. Almost none in stock at either location, but you can order them in. I want it today.

He then visits another web site for a local store and after selecting "In stock", finds none in stock.

Zyklon C then visits a third business' web site and once again searches and selects in stock. None in stock.

He realizes that all of these stores have largely been taken over by jeets and can't even keep legal sized paper in stock, much less the vessel one might wish to store them in.

Fed up, Zyklon C goes to Amazon and finds a fucking file cabinet within 10 seconds that meets his needs and orders it. It will be chinkslop trash, but it will do exactly what he needs it to.

I don't know how many fucking times this has happened in the past few years. Local businesses that specialize in the thing I'm looking for, not actually carrying it. Or actively trying to not sell it to me. One time I walked into a store and asked about a product I wanted to order.

"Hey there, do you have any PRODUCT?"
"Ummm, no, doesn't look like it."
"Can you order it for me? No rush and here is the SKU. I'll pay for it up front."
"I don't think our supplier carries it."
"They do, they're the only ones in the country that does!"
"Yeeeeaaaah, we don't really do that."

Okay. Fuck you too then.

 

[Lady Bizness]

"Support your local community!"

Well, we supported somebody else's local community in Indiana when we bought our vacuum. Didn't get it for 2 weeks but we've just gotten used to not getting what we want immediately anymore. Glad we at least got a good deal at a real place and could actually talk to knowledgeable staff on the phone first too.

 

[Jesse Nicholas Radin]

The job application process in general.

Interviews, not that bad, usually. They don't usually work out, but getting to the interview is the problem.

They always need a lot of information, even if it's already on the resume or job board. You have to give details on every job you've worked.

And then the ghosting.

 

[The Foxtrot]

The job application process in general.

Interviews, not that bad, usually. They don't usually work out, but getting to the interview is the problem.

They always need a lot of information, even if it's already on the resume or job board. You have to give details on every job you've worked.

And then the ghosting.

A lot of times they're farming your data to sell later.

My current big bitch? Fucking 18-wheelers, period. I don't give a fuck if sukdeep dikshit from jeetistan or some methhead white dude is driving one, they all collectively are terrible drivers and they actively make the roads less safe/more time-consuming. It's getting to a point where I need both hands to count how many times during my daily commute to work a fucking semi has almost caused a wreck or blocked traffic due to being retarded.

It should be legal to shoot at them if they start driving unsafe, and I will happily cheer for when they get put out of a job by a mix of AI-driven trucks and a resurgence of train-based shipping. Trains are cheaper anyway!

 

[General Patton]

I went to return some clothes I bought at the store. Go to customer service. They tell me they're closed when I get to them. When I check the hours, it says they (customer service, not the main store) close at 8 pm. I got there 30 minutes before that.

LOL, fuck this shit.

 

[Cun75p4rkl35]

Getting really sick of when I follow otherwise apolitical content creators from Canada, and they randomly start sperging about "Not for sale", "No 51st state", or muh "Elbows Up!" shit on social media. As an American, I really don't give a rat's ass about Canada normally, and I don't think anyone here is actually sincere with talks of making them our 51st state. If someone makes jokes about Infidel Castreau or the fact that Canada is a de-facto vassal state of India then I'll be the first person to laugh -- believe me. Otherwise, I have no desire to invade or acquire their nation.

On the contrary, I think the US should downgrade to 49 states and surrender Minnesota and its citizens to Canada so it's not our problem anymore.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

People opening up 60-count coffee pods like "uh I only want one". Bitch just buy 12 count. Better yet just don't fucking come to any store ever if you can't simply behave.

Lately people do this with packages of print paper too. The office section always need to be trimmed because some asshole just ripped open the package of paper and stole half of just left the whole thing there with sheets of paper eveywhere.

Why in the fuck? Buy a notepad, you retard.

Another pet peeve of mine.

Person: where's the batteries?

Me: it's on aisle-

Person walks away before I can finish explaining: I cAn'T fInD iT

Maybe if you FUCKING WAITED UNTIL I WAS DONE TELLING YOU, you'd be able to find it.

In truth I wouldn't even care if they didn't come back to bitch at me as though it was my fault somehow.

 

[Dendyy]

The worst is those "first time listening to" channels, and all they do is review classic rock. You're telling me that you haven't even been exposed secondhand to these songs? Like there's no way they haven't heard Stairway to Heaven or Highway to Hell.

Baby boomers love it when younger people--especially blacks--validate their shitty musical tastes. If a 25-year-old black dude on Youtube bobs his head and says "this Pink Floyd nigga spittin' fi-yah!" while listening to boring 60s soft-rock, then he will get at least half a million views from senile white boomers who will pound down his door to give him money and attention.

 

[Meat Target]

They don't even have the balls now to say 'rape' or 'murder'. Those are censored too. Sometimes they'll censor even 'drugs'. People are picking the dumbest hills to die on with this shit.

I fucking hate the word "unalive" with a passion.

You can't even say the word "suicide" on youtube anymore, or "committed suicide" in general. Now it's "died by suicide/self-delete/whatever". It's not "committed" because suicide is "not a crime".

I trace it back to that gayass 13 Reasons Why book becoming a Netflix special.

 

[Cun75p4rkl35]

You can't even say the word "suicide" on youtube anymore, or "committed suicide" in general. Now it's "died by suicide/self-delete/whatever". It's not "committed" because suicide is "not a crime".

I trace it back to that gayass 13 Reasons Why book becoming a Netflix special.

And it's all for their own comfort in the same way funerals are for the living. If you've successfully committed suicide you don't give a fuck about what the liberal newspeak term is because you're fucking DEAD.

you can commit to a lot of things, it's very very telling what with their eternal catch and release of violent criminals that the first thing liberals associate with the word "commit" is "crime"

 

[seri0us]

the stuff I saw from people posting on 8ch from Venezuela would make you lose sleep it was so horrifying

Like what?

 

[Foundinglaunderer]

Like what?

People begging for money from pedophiles in western countries, their fathers long abandoned their family you often had these 16 year old kids being the bread winners for the family just by whoring out their bodies to the most degenerate filth on the planet. Really just depended on the board and how they'd applied said begging on their to feed themselves. but all I can say is it's one of the main reasons now I don't see communists as people anymore after what I saw

 

[Sig]

Anyone that used Ishowspeed gifs

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

I spent nearly 8 hours between yesterday and today fighting with AI. The fucking thing even failed the language it ITSELF recommended. Something that should have taken 15 minutes cost me EIGHT HOURS.

In the meantime I'm dealing with a peer who thinks they're my quasi-boss, and it is causing me to have to spend time doing the stupid corporate passive-aggressive pushback and side-conversation extra work bullshit. No, my courtesy update and polite "does this [decision already made by me, just covering bases and facilitating teamwork] work for you?" does NOT mean "can I?" or"how do I?" or "what do I do now, master?" I already know the answer, just making sure you're good before I pass the baton for you to get your work done.
(...When an ISTJ and an ENFP/J meet, goddamn)

 

[DavidS877]

Today's esoteric grinds my gears. Which actually turned out fine in the end today.
There are two major kinds of silicone sealant/caulk sold to consumers. neutral curing and acetic curing. Neutral cure is the "low odor" stuff, more pleasant to deal with, more or less safe for electronics, etc. Acetic cure is the one that smells like vinegar when it cures.
The big difference is when acetic cure goes bad in the tube it solidifies, so it's pretty obvious. Neutral cure looks exactly the same, so you could, say, run a bead around the tub and come back the next day and it's not cured and have to remove it with alcohol and put a fresh bead of working silicone. don't ask me how I know.
But today I was surprised, I have a small tube of neutral cure I use for electronics or electronics adjacent stuff. I opened it, was reminded to test it, checked the label and it said use by sometime in 2025, put some on a piece of wood and came back and it still cured. Usually it fails a few months before the use-by date. So I was able to finish my project, except for the lack of 1.5" 6/32 screws, which is a different issue.
Moral of the story, test your silicone or any caulk/sealant before use.

 

[The Last Stand]

My town still hasn't cleared a few sidewalks from the snow. I have to walk on the street just to properly WALK.

 

[The Foxtrot]

My town still hasn't cleared a few sidewalks from the snow. I have to walk on the street just to properly WALK.

At least, unlike the mummies in your profile pictures, you won't break your hips when you fall on your ass.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

I don't know how many fucking times this has happened in the past few years. Local businesses that specialize in the thing I'm looking for, not actually carrying it. Or actively trying to not sell it to me.

I've had similar experiences with office supplies and equipment. The local stories either don't have items in stock, or the cost is more than the budget can handle. I understand one is going to pay more for the rare US-made items that aren't made from Chinesium, but local business don't seem to care that other local small business can't spend money like it comes from an endless supply, either.

Thread tax: The lack of rhyme or reason when it comes to school closings. If it's too cold and unsafe for kids to be bussed or driven to school, it makes no sense to expect them to show up for after-school or extracurricular activities. Yet, in many cases, schools will still allow those to run as scheduled even with a snow or cold day cancelling classes.

 

[General Patton]

Riding on the sidewalk at night because usually people aren't out at that hour. Guy is running on the sidewalk. He has the right to be on the sidewalk as a pedestrian, so I ride in the grass to move out of his way.

The guy runs right in that direction on the grass, so I have to ride to the other side to get out of the way again.