Minor things that bother you

[kphoger]

There's also the option of (a) taking a picture of the ports with your cell phone and just saving the picture, or (b) sketching it with pen and paper and just keeping the sketch with the remote controls.

[D-Dey65]

I just tried to add music to a brand new SD card, and my PC wouldn't let me because it claimed the card was write-protected. THERE WAS NOTHING ON THE CARD WHEN I OPENED IT!!!

[ZLoth]

I am not a mall person. Usually, my shopping methods is to go into the store, get what I need, and get out. So, I haven't been in a mall for years.... until this last Summer.

Myu 84yo mother fell and had a leg fracture last June. So one of the things that I've been doing is taking her to the local indoor malls to have her walk. If she wants to look through a store, fine, I'll be seated right over.... where? It seems that the malls have reduced the amount of seats where you can sit and relax and listen to an audiobook unless it is at a food court. I can probably understand why... it probably has to do with loitering... but still.

[mgk920]

I am not a mall person. Usually, my shopping methods is to go into the store, get what I need, and get out. So, I haven't been in a mall for years.... until this last Summer.

Myu 84yo mother fell and had a leg fracture last June. So one of the things that I've been doing is taking her to the local indoor malls to have her walk. If she wants to look through a store, fine, I'll be seated right over.... where? It seems that the malls have reduced the amount of seats where you can sit and relax and listen to an audiobook unless it is at a food court. I can probably understand why... it probably has to do with loitering... but still.

Yepper, the 20th century ended a quarter century ago.

 

Mike

[freebrickproductions]

I just tried to add music to a brand new SD card, and my PC wouldn't let me because it claimed the card was write-protected. THERE WAS NOTHING ON THE CARD WHEN I OPENED IT!!!

Did you accidentally flick the switch on the side of the SD card? That switch lets you set the card to be write-protected or not, IIRC.

[D-Dey65]

I never touched the switch, and that doesn't always work.

[D-Dey65]

Yesterday, I went to the 2025 Dade City Bug Jam in order to take pictures. What I didn't know was my camera decided to set itself to panoramic mode, and kept giving me error messages at almost every picture I took. Once I realized what was happening, I didn't know how to get out of panoramic mode, partially because the sunlight kept me from seeing what I was supposed to be doing. To make matters worse, the heat was so bad, I had to leave earlier than I wanted to. By the time I got home I found out that I ended up missing about a couple of hundred decent shots of some really interesting cars, trucks and other vehicles.

These conventions are usually two-day affairs, so this time, I was willing to consider going there on the second day. Nope. Fate intervened once again in the form of another hospital visit for my mother. Usually, I can just drive her to the emergency room and drop her off, but our half-crazed yet lovable Jack Russell Terrier refused to let either of us put the leash on her (You don't want to leave a Jack Russell alone for too long), so we had to call an ambulance. To make matters worse, it rained on and off today, so I never would've been able to get enough good shots even if I could've gone.

The only good thing about this day is finding out the game between the "New York" Giants and Chicago Bears had some snow there, and that the hospital actually discharged my mom on the same day.

[Fredddie]

Drivers who make a big effort to pass you and then immediately turn off of or exit the highway

[freebrickproductions]

Drivers who make a big effort to pass you and then immediately turn off of or exit the highway

I think Ashley Neal on YouTube tends to refer to that as "Must Get In Front Syndrome".

[Rothman]

Hotel clerks that need a credit card for "incidentals," tell you that the room charge will be on the card you reserved with, but then everything ends up on the card that you give them for incidentals.

(and there's an obvious reason why this is minor...just remember which cards are for which hotels if necessary)

[formulanone]

Hotel clerks that need a credit card for "incidentals," tell you that the room charge will be on the card you reserved with, but then everything ends up on the card that you give them for incidentals.

(and there's an obvious reason why this is minor...just remember which cards are for which hotels if necessary)

Gotta love the places with menu prices for missing items.

Previously-used washcloths are a bargain at $5.

[TheCatalyst31]

Hotel clerks that need a credit card for "incidentals," tell you that the room charge will be on the card you reserved with, but then everything ends up on the card that you give them for incidentals.

(and there's an obvious reason why this is minor...just remember which cards are for which hotels if necessary)

This becomes less minor if the hotel is booked through work but you have to use your personal credit card for incidentals because you don't have a company card. I've done that a handful of times, but fortunately I've never been stuck with the room charge on my personal card.

[vdeane]

Junk mail with personalized quotes.  That means I have to shred it instead of just tossing it in the recycle bin.

[Rothman]

Hotel clerks that need a credit card for "incidentals," tell you that the room charge will be on the card you reserved with, but then everything ends up on the card that you give them for incidentals.

(and there's an obvious reason why this is minor...just remember which cards are for which hotels if necessary)

This becomes less minor if the hotel is booked through work but you have to use your personal credit card for incidentals because you don't have a company card. I've done that a handful of times, but fortunately I've never been stuck with the room charge on my personal card.

Just happened to me a couple of nights ago.  Got in really late and wasn't thinking clearly when handing over my card.  Second time this year, to boot.

[bugo]

Black plastic electric devices that have the switches labeled in the same black plastic in tiny letters so they are invisible without strong light and reading glasses.  Designers, please remember that the things you design are primarily supposed to be useful, not objects of art.

Frozen items like pizzas often have the cooking instructions in tiny letters (Jack's, I'm looking at you) that would be hard to read for somebody with perfect vision, and nearly impossible to read without reading glasses and a bright flashlight. Not all companies do this, but too many do. My vision is still pretty good, but I imagine that these would be terrible for somebody with severe vision problems. It's ridiculous.

[Molandfreak]

Black plastic electric devices that have the switches labeled in the same black plastic in tiny letters so they are invisible without strong light and reading glasses.  Designers, please remember that the things you design are primarily supposed to be useful, not objects of art.

Frozen items like pizzas often have the cooking instructions in tiny letters (Jack's, I'm looking at you) that would be hard to read for somebody with perfect vision, and nearly impossible to read without reading glasses and a bright flashlight. Not all companies do this, but too many do. My vision is still pretty good, but I imagine that these would be terrible for somebody with severe vision problems. It's ridiculous.

Everything is good for 350° and 10 minutes these days. 

[Scott5114]

Black plastic electric devices that have the switches labeled in the same black plastic in tiny letters so they are invisible without strong light and reading glasses.  Designers, please remember that the things you design are primarily supposed to be useful, not objects of art.

Frozen items like pizzas often have the cooking instructions in tiny letters (Jack's, I'm looking at you) that would be hard to read for somebody with perfect vision, and nearly impossible to read without reading glasses and a bright flashlight. Not all companies do this, but too many do. My vision is still pretty good, but I imagine that these would be terrible for somebody with severe vision problems. It's ridiculous.

I've also noticed at some point they started printing them on one of the narrow edges of the box instead of on the back where you would expect them to be. Which of course means they have to make the instructions tiny to get them to fit.

[D-Dey65]

Cloudfare obstructing my ability to see websites, including this one.

[vdeane]

My landlord's constant lies.  It's too a point where I've been making what in hindsight are flagrantly wrong decisions because I'm going by what they're telling me regarding when they'll finish dealing with the maintenance issue in my apartment (which has recurred numerous times over the past several months; I think April was the last month were I was actually able to relax in my own space consistently and not have my life disrupted by water leaks or repairs to the damage caused by the water leaks).  They keep telling me they'll be "done" on a given day, and then that day will come and go, and they'll still be nowhere close to done.  I'm sick of it.  I'd rather live in a hotel than deal with these shitlords.  My apartment is supposed to be my rock, my island of stability in a hostile and constantly enraging and depressing world.  Instead it's become the primary cause of stress in my life.  Why can't they just tell me the fucking truth instead of lying to me?  At this point I suspect they're trying to force me out, because they clearly want to be slumlords and need to get rid of the tenants who expect a higher standard of living to do so.

Seriously, this is beyond ridiculous.  Check out the timeline:
-May: I notice a new dimple on the ceiling, which proves to be soft from water damage.  Since my parents are coming in a week or two and it seems somewhat stable, they agree to repair it afterwards.
-June: They repair it, but shortly after the ceiling bulged out.  It shrunk back, but not cleanly.  I call them again,.
-June or July: Second round of repairs, which again quickly gets damaged.  I'm already fed up and resolve to not call them until it starts dripping so that they'll actually fix it properly.
-October: The ceiling bulged again, and on Columbus Day, it was dripping.  I call hoping that they'll come fix it that day and, being a holiday, I'll actually be able to supervise and make sure they take care of it.  They take hours to show up, and by that point, it stopped dripping.  They rip open the bulge (getting debris all over the floor and into the bucket I had been using to catch the water - a bucket that I STILL haven't figured out how to clean, by the way), find it dry, do something that probably won't permanently fix anything in my neighbor's apartment above me, and say they'll finish it later that week.  I needed to clean my apartment (in fact, the shower floor was already gunky and needing its monthly clean before all this went down), but knowing how this goes, decided to hold off until after the work is complete.
-November: Maintenance never came back.  After weeks of frenetic and increasingly emotionally charged phone calls, I finally get them to come back.  The finally remove and patch the bulge on Friday 11/7 and say they will finish painting on Monday 11/10.  I decide to finally clean my apartment, and since it needs it, I dust on Sunday 11/9 in anticipation, saving the duster to finish the bathroom for when they finish, after which I'll do the floors, vacuum, and clean the shower (at this point, a month over due).
-Monday comes around, and I get a nasty surprise email about painters being scheduled on Wednesday.  Turns out they never did anything on Monday, and insist they need professional painters, and that they're available Wednesday, and only Wednesday.  I despise this because I'm out of town for a workshop then, but accept it because they said I'd go back to the end of the queue and that it would be several weeks before they get back to it.  I'm assured that this is the last step, so I very reluctantly go along with this.
-Tuesday I go down and ask if they can do the bedroom as well, since it suffered from a similar leak but had a (horrendously awful) repair with spray paint.  Since I've seen the professional painters, I figure they can get through this without trouble, and that if I must accept them coming while I'm out of town, at least I'll get something decent out of it.  Management assures me that this is as easy as I think it is and that everything will be completed Wednesday.
-Today I get back to find out that no painting was done.  More sanding and filling, making more of a mess of things, this time out of two rooms and not just one.  This is not what I agreed to.  If i had known this would happen, I would have never agreed to let them anywhere near the bedroom, in fact I would have told them in no uncertain terms that I didn't want them coming on Wednesday at all, and in fact that I'd rather they just cancel all future work completely.  But I didn't, because of the lies.  And unfortunately I didn't get back before they left for the day, so who knows when this saga will end.  I've been absolutely furious and fuming at them all night long.  Why can't they just tell me the fucking truth?

[kkt]

Geez.  I'm sorry.  Is this the only place you can afford?  They are probably not deliberately lying, they just don't give a damn.  Not that that makes it better.
Document, in case they give you a hard time when you break your lease.

[Scott5114]

You are definitely at the point where you should be consulting your state's tenant's rights laws to see what your legal remedies are.

[kphoger]

I don't know.  They came on Wednesday and began doing work.  That's a good sign.

[JayhawkCO]

Working in a remote environment, having two people on a team that deals with urgent matters, having one of them on PTO, and then the other has some kind of "emergency" and no shows for a couple of hours in the morning.

[Max Rockatansky]

Referring to co-workers as a team, team members or teammates not felt correct to me.  It isn't as though I'm going out to play softball with them after work.

[kphoger]

Referring to co-workers as a team, team members or teammates not felt correct to me.  It isn't as though I'm going out to play softball with them after work.

In a work environment where everyone shares responsibilities and picks up each other's slack and everything, it seems less grating than in a work environment where everyone has his or her own tasks and responsibilities to take care of.