Minor things that bother you

[kkt]

There's no good way to bandage a minor cut on or near the tips of your fingers.

Either you're letting it get wounded again too easily, the bandage falls off too quickly, or one has to use so many adhesive bandages it renders your digit useless.

Learn to live without one fingertip.  Give your nonprimary hand a chance to shine.

[formulanone]

There's no good way to bandage a minor cut on or near the tips of your fingers.

Either you're letting it get wounded again too easily, the bandage falls off too quickly, or one has to use so many adhesive bandages it renders your digit useless.

Learn to live without one fingertip.  Give your nonprimary hand a chance to shine.

I just raise my index finger up like a commoner who'll never quite fit in with the aristocracy.

[Scott5114]

When I worked at Burger King they used to have these tiny condoms ("finger cots" but nobody ever called them that) you could put on your finger. We used to laugh at them but they were pretty good at keeping an injured finger dry and away from food.

[thenetwork]

a guy who thought Sierra started with the letter C

I mean, cierra (i.e. Spanish for close) does. Pronounced the same way over the phone...

And the automobile sold by General Motors as the Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera, which is funny because GM also sold, and still sells, a pickup truck called the GMC Sierra

The Ford Maverick says "Hi".

[Scott5114]

The Ford Maverick says "Hi".

These technological bells and whistles the manufacturers keep adding are really getting out of hand.

[Max Rockatansky]

We live in a dark time in automotive history.  I never thought we would never enter an age when the Mustang II was not the un-Mustang like version of the marque.  We are being waylaid by a tidal wave of unnecessary tech, sticker shock, a forced push of EVs and everything being recycled into a generic CUV.

[bugo]

We live in a dark time in automotive history.  I never thought we would never enter an age when the Mustang II was not the un-Mustang like version of the marque.  We are being waylaid by a tidal wave of unnecessary tech, sticker shock, a forced push of EVs and everything being recycled into a generic CUV.

Modern high performance cars often have over 500 horsepower. They are quicker and faster than ever before. The common everyday car, the crossover, is dull and boring, and the exciting cars are out of reach. Pickup truck performance has jumped in the last 25 years. Modern turbo and V8 trucks are very quick off the line, much much quicker than a 2000 model truck. The worst trend in pickup trucks is the extinction of the extended cab and the near disappearance of regular cab trucks in all but fleet models. A crew cab truck will never look as nice as a classic single cab truck with a short wide bed.

[formulanone]

We live in a dark time in automotive history.  I never thought we would never enter an age when the Mustang II was not the un-Mustang like version of the marque.  We are being waylaid by a tidal wave of unnecessary tech, sticker shock, a forced push of EVs and everything being recycled into a generic CUV.

Modern high performance cars often have over 500 horsepower. They are quicker and faster than ever before. The common everyday car, the crossover, is dull and boring, and the exciting cars are out of reach. Pickup truck performance has jumped in the last 25 years. Modern turbo and V8 trucks are very quick off the line, much much quicker than a 2000 model truck. The worst trend in pickup trucks is the extinction of the extended cab and the near disappearance of regular cab trucks in all but fleet models. A crew cab truck will never look as nice as a classic single cab truck with a short wide bed.

Salesmen tell me "how am I supposed to sell pickups with a $50,000 starting price to blue-collar workers and tradesmen?"

The tech is profit bloating, and they don't come with longer warranties. (They'll sell you a half-assed one which won't cover most of the added bells and whistles.)

I find the plethora crossover SUVs ironic; apparently everyone wants them but now that they're like 70% of the market, you'd figure the saturation point has been achieved because they greedily forgot a good chunk of the market doesn't have $40K for a rapidly-depreciating asset.

[Max Rockatansky]

We live in a dark time in automotive history.  I never thought we would never enter an age when the Mustang II was not the un-Mustang like version of the marque.  We are being waylaid by a tidal wave of unnecessary tech, sticker shock, a forced push of EVs and everything being recycled into a generic CUV.

Modern high performance cars often have over 500 horsepower. They are quicker and faster than ever before. The common everyday car, the crossover, is dull and boring, and the exciting cars are out of reach. Pickup truck performance has jumped in the last 25 years. Modern turbo and V8 trucks are very quick off the line, much much quicker than a 2000 model truck. The worst trend in pickup trucks is the extinction of the extended cab and the near disappearance of regular cab trucks in all but fleet models. A crew cab truck will never look as nice as a classic single cab truck with a short wide bed.

Salesmen tell me "how am I supposed to sell pickups with a $50,000 starting price to blue-collar workers and tradesmen?"

The tech is profit bloating, and they don't come with longer warranties. (They'll sell you a half-assed one which won't cover most of the added bells and whistles.)

It is frustrating to see the wide assortment of basic new small cars, vans and trucks whenever I visit family in Mexico. 

[roadman65]

I have a diagnosis for depression, or whatever the current clinical term for it is.  My grandmother had diabetes.  She said "I am diabetic."  If I had diabetes, I would say "I have diabetes."  To say "I am..." makes it part of your identity as opposed to describing a thing about you.  My diagnosis is different.  Some conditions affect who you are, or who you understand yourself to be.  In a sense, it becomes a part of your identity.  I don't say "I am depressed," because most people will think that means I'm sad in that moment.  That isn't what depression is.  But to say it that way, to me, is the most accurate wording.  Depression isn't something I have, it's something about who I am.

And yet, don't some people make a full recovery from clinical depression, which is to say permanently cured?  In that sense, even if you consider it to be part of who you are, it's possible that it's only a temporary aspect.

I've also started hearing the homeless referred to as 'people experiencing homelessness', and the poor as 'people experiencing poverty'.  This is a clear attempt to remove stigma, but it just comes across to me as a clunky and unnecessary phrasing.

Also, history shows us that such attempts backfire because the new phrases gain their own stigma.  (e.g. "welfare" replacing "the dole", "mentally retarded" replacing "insane", and the thousands of euphemisms for genitalia)

I wouldn't say they "backfire." Words change meaning over time. Always have, always will.

Security to Loss Prevention.
Personell to Human Resources
Squad Cars to Police Cruisers.
Steward/ Stewardess to Flight Attendant
Dishwasher to Steward
Waiter/ Waitress to Server
Retarded to Mentally Challenged
Road Construction to Road Work
Cockpit to Flight Deck


Grammar School to Elementary School to Grade School.

[Max Rockatansky]

I've never once had "security" as part of my job title during my twenty four years of Loss Prevention work.  The hammy rebranded title that is popular now is Asset Protection.

[roadman65]

I've never once had "security" as part of my job title during my twenty four years of Loss Prevention work.  The hammy rebranded title that is popular now is Asset Protection.

It was done back in the eighties a long with personell to HR.

Actually per Google it really started in the sixties.  So my bad, however the term Security was still around when I was growing up in the seventies and eighties.  I'm guessing it took years to be adapted after it's first initial use.

[Max Rockatansky]

I've never once had "security" as part of my job title during my twenty four years of Loss Prevention work.  The hammy rebranded title that is popular now is Asset Protection.

It was done back in the eighties a long with personell to HR.

Actually per Google it really started in the sixties.  So my bad, however the term Security was still around when I was growing up in the seventies and eighties.  I'm guessing it took years to be adapted after it's first initial use.

My first boss was a 35 year Meryyn's LP Manager (meaning back to 1966).  He had no recollection of being called security there formally.  I'm sure the term was used somewhere, but it wasn't as mainstream as you're claiming it was.

[kphoger]

janitor → custodian
housewife → homemaker
secretary → receptionist or administrative assistant
hairdresser → stylist

[kernals12]

Tongue in cheek
In 1983, Bonnie Tyler put out Total Eclipse of the Heart, which had the lyric "Turn around bright eyes".

But then in 1988, she made a cover of Tina Turner's Don't Turn Around

Make up your mind woman!

[Big John]

Tongue in cheek
In 1983, Bonnie Tyler put out Total Eclipse of the Heart, which had the lyric "Turn around bright eyes".

But then in 1988, she made a cover of Tina Turner's Don't Turn Around

Make up your mind woman!

Well, It's a Heartache.

[CtrlAltDel]

Personell to Human Resources

The French professor in me feels compelled to point out that the spelling is personnel.

[Big John]

Personell to Human Resources

The French professor in me feels compelled to point out that the spelling is personnel.

Thus bothering you.

[Scott5114]

janitor → custodian

I believe these are actually different job titles—a janitor is just responsible for cleaning, whereas a custodian also handles maintenance duties.

It's just that with cost cutting over the years nobody hires plain janitors anymore and the custodians have to do that now.

[kphoger]

janitor → custodian

I believe these are actually different job titles—a janitor is just responsible for cleaning, whereas a custodian also handles maintenance duties.

It's just that with cost cutting over the years nobody hires plain janitors anymore and the custodians have to do that now.

Sure, several examples could have similar arguments made.  You could argue that a receptionist or an administrative assistant does more than just a secretary's work.  Theoretically, anyway.

But really, though, I'm not so sure.  The janitor at school when I was growing up did maintenance work and groundskeeping as well.  But he was still called the janitor.

The change in title, wouldn't you agree, hasn't really been because the old title didn't accurately represent the job duties anymore, but because it was seen as demeaning or belittling in some way.  Cleaning up isn't as noble-sounding as being the custodian of a property.  And taking messages for the boss isn't as noble-sounding as assisting the administration of business.

When I had a job delivering janitorial supplies to schools, I always asked the front office where the janitor was, and I never got any weird looks—even though the janitor's room said 'custodian' on the door.

[roadman65]

The misuse of a turn signal.

I know it's easy to accident leave your turn signal on, but when someone plans to turn left about 0.25  miles ahead and already signals his turn when several driveways appear in that quarter mile for him to turn.  By the time he turns you're about to give up and assume his turn signal is in error.

[JayhawkCO]

When you get an urgent meeting request, re-arrange other meetings to accommodate, and then the requestor has Zoom issues and decides to cancel. Love it.

[kphoger]

When you get an urgent meeting request, re-arrange other meetings to accommodate, and then the requestor has Zoom issues and decides to cancel. Love it.

I know someone who had kind of the opposite frustration the other day.

She had a WIC appointment for her son, so she attempted to 'flex' her work schedule—meaning she was going to shift her work hours to accommodate the appointment—as she has typically done for this type of thing.  The HR department then informed her she'd no longer be able to flex her hours like that, and so she'd have to use PTO.  But she's basically down to zero PTO right now, so it was a big back-and-forth with HR.  They asked if she could just do a tele-appointment, and she informed them that, no, the child has to be present for WIC appointments.  She was frustrated.  But it gets better...

So the day of the appointment comes and, as she's walking up the driveway to pick up her child early from daycare in order to make it to the appointment on time, she gets a call from the WIC office:  can she do a tele-appointment instead?  So, all of that rigmarole with HR, figuring out how to get off work in time, and she could have simply taken a long break at work instead.

[JayhawkCO]

When you get an urgent meeting request, re-arrange other meetings to accommodate, and then the requestor has Zoom issues and decides to cancel. Love it.

I know someone who had kind of the opposite frustration the other day.

She had a WIC appointment for her son, so she attempted to 'flex' her work schedule—meaning she was going to shift her work hours to accommodate the appointment—as she has typically done for this type of thing.  The HR department then informed her she'd no longer be able to flex her hours like that, and so she'd have to use PTO.  But she's basically down to zero PTO right now, so it was a big back-and-forth with HR.  They asked if she could just do a tele-appointment, and she informed them that, no, the child has to be present for WIC appointments.  She was frustrated.  But it gets better...

So the day of the appointment comes and, as she's walking up the driveway to pick up her child early from daycare in order to make it to the appointment on time, she gets a call from the WIC office:  can she do a tele-appointment instead?  So, all of that rigmarole with HR, figuring out how to get off work in time, and she could have simply taken a long break at work instead.

And not to go full circle to the PTO/Sick conversation again, but this is why companies should just all do flex time.

[Scott5114]

this is why companies should just all do flex time.

When practical, yes. There are some jobs that can't, of course, like many customer service jobs. As a casino cashier, there were only so many windows; if I came in late, that would mean the window would be closed until I got there. If I left late, that would mean the third-shifter who came in after me wouldn't have a window to get into and would just have to sit behind me with her bag of cash looking sad.

But if it's an office job or something else where the exact staffing levels at a given moment in time don't matter so much, then yes, flex time all the way.