Minor things that bother you

[kphoger]

When websites auto log you out even if you press the "remember me" button.

The one I'm thinking of even says "remember me for 60 days".  I get on once a week, and I have to log in every time.

[Scott5114]

When websites auto log you out even if you press the "remember me" button.

The one I'm thinking of even says "remember me for 60 days".  I get on once a week, and I have to log in every time.

What's worse is the sites that not only don't remember you, but they two-factor authenticate you, and then act like it's your fault with some sort of message about how they don't recognize you logging in from that browser before. I haven't even rebooted my computer since I logged in here last; if you don't recognize my browser that is strictly a you problem.

[kphoger]

All salt and pepper shakers should be clear.

[webny99]

All salt and pepper shakers should be clear.

I would have agreed, before I discovered the ones where the holes that the salt and pepper come out of are shaped like "S" and "P".

[Scott5114]

All salt and pepper shakers should be clear.

I would have agreed, before I discovered the ones where the holes that the salt and pepper come out of are shaped like "S" and "P".

That's cute, and I kind of want some like that now. But that wouldn't solve the problem of someone accidentally (or intentionally) putting pepper in the S shaker, which clear shakers would obviate.

[kkt]

When websites auto log you out even if you press the "remember me" button.

*cough* College Board's site

That was the one I was thinking about!

College Board is an annoyance to me for the past 3 years. Glad I'll be done with them after this year's AP exams.

Wait 'til you find out how common that is for employer's mandatory email systems and payroll systems...

[Roadgeekteen]

When websites auto log you out even if you press the "remember me" button.

*cough* College Board's site

That was the one I was thinking about!

College Board is an annoyance to me for the past 3 years. Glad I'll be done with them after this year's AP exams.

Wait 'til you find out how common that is for employer's mandatory email systems and payroll systems...

Can you not save passwords?

[vdeane]

When websites auto log you out even if you press the "remember me" button.

*cough* College Board's site

That was the one I was thinking about!

College Board is an annoyance to me for the past 3 years. Glad I'll be done with them after this year's AP exams.

Wait 'til you find out how common that is for employer's mandatory email systems and payroll systems...

Speaking of payroll systems, the fact that NYS "upgraded" their online paycheck site to a system that is exactly the same in every way, except the login now requires a captcha and signing in and viewing your paycheck both have a pointless animation that makes everything take 10x as long as it used to.

[JoePCool14]

When websites auto log you out even if you press the "remember me" button.

*cough* College Board's site

That was the one I was thinking about!

College Board is an annoyance to me for the past 3 years. Glad I'll be done with them after this year's AP exams.

College Board is anything but just a "minor annoyance".

[I-55]

When websites auto log you out even if you press the "remember me" button.

*cough* College Board's site

That was the one I was thinking about!

College Board is an annoyance to me for the past 3 years. Glad I'll be done with them after this year's AP exams.

College Board is anything but just a "minor annoyance".

Word of the wise: If you can get AP credit for a college course but are considering retaking: don't. Take the credit and move on. My GPA would be higher if I didn't retake calc 2.

I took seven AP exams in HS. I got a 3 4's, 3 5's, and a 2 in gov (my online test submission must've gotten corrupted or something, College Board's standards were super strict last year, it very well could've been that my image submitted sideways even though I checked for that.)

It is annoying that I didn't get college credit for government, but I tested out of 6 classes in Civil Engineering so I'm not too salty. I tested out of as many humanities as the school would've allowed me so the gov credit wouldn't have mattered. But that 2 still bothers me...

[kkt]

When websites auto log you out even if you press the "remember me" button.

*cough* College Board's site

That was the one I was thinking about!

College Board is an annoyance to me for the past 3 years. Glad I'll be done with them after this year's AP exams.

Wait 'til you find out how common that is for employer's mandatory email systems and payroll systems...

Can you not save passwords?

My workplace's policy was not to use a password manager for our institutional ID and password, which is what we used for our email, payroll, a few other things.  Our PCs were kept working with the original hard drives basically until they failed, so they did fail every few years.  I'm not sure if they were afraid that the saved passwords would be unrecoverable from the backup, or if they could be recovered by unauthorized persons from the backups.  Policy was we could use a password manager for all sorts of trivial things if we wanted, but not for those.

Also for some of us used shared computers a significant amount of the time, and if we didn't know our passwords we couldn't be moved around to cover absences.

[SSOWorld]

All salt and pepper shakers should be clear.

Dinner guest: Would you pass the salt?

Me: Sure

Dinner guest: I didn't ask for the pepper!

(A take on the "manners" of passing the pepper along with the salt even though it wasn't explicitly asked for)

[CNGL-Leudimin]

This doesn't affect you, since you have the originals. But why the heck they "translate" the commands??? For example, I press Ctrl+S expecting a program to save the file, but instead I turn the underlined text on because the save command is Ctrl+G instead. And that starts a chain, because underlined text is Ctrl+S as said instead of the expected Ctrl+U, which in turn is open a new file instead of the expected Ctrl+N, which in turn is bold text instead of the expected Ctrl+B, which in turn is search alongside the expected Ctrl+F. Seriously, they couldn't keep all the commands the same for every language, like it happens with Ctrl+X (cut), Ctrl+C (copy), Ctrl+V (paste), Ctrl+P (print) or Ctrl+Z (undo)? Interestingly, the print one doesn't get changed to Ctrl+I, which is still italic text despite that getting an alternate command, Ctrl+K.

[formulanone]

As long as TWC continues to name winter storms and expect members of the general public to go along with it, they will continue to be worthless.

If we were all worthless because of one or two annoying things, we're collectively bankrupt. I don't care about winter storm naming anymore than I care about the announcer's name, but I'd like to know if my travel plans are about to be borked.

Their tendency to sensationalize is a genuine annoyance. "200 MILLION AMERICANS AFFECTED BY RAIN EVENT" and "WORST ICE STORM EVER STAY TUNED" (...but it's in Yakutsk), is the troubling part but I suppose it puts them in line with modern news media standards...

[1995hoo]

All salt and pepper shakers should be clear.

Dinner guest: Would you pass the salt?

Me: Sure

Dinner guest: I didn't ask for the pepper!

(A take on the "manners" of passing the pepper along with the salt even though it wasn't explicitly asked for)

My father once said you have to pass them together so the salt shaker won't get lonely.

[SkyPesos]

Word of the wise: If you can get AP credit for a college course but are considering retaking: don't. Take the credit and move on. My GPA would be higher if I didn't retake calc 2.

That's what current Purdue students are telling me too, so I'm going with it.

[webny99]

All salt and pepper shakers should be clear.

I would have agreed, before I discovered the ones where the holes that the salt and pepper come out of are shaped like "S" and "P".

That's cute, and I kind of want some like that now. But that wouldn't solve the problem of someone accidentally (or intentionally) putting pepper in the S shaker, which clear shakers would obviate.

Yeah, it does require placing a bit of faith in whoever filled them, but that's about as good as you're going to get for a non-clear option.

[texaskdog]

When websites auto log you out even if you press the "remember me" button.

The one I'm thinking of even says "remember me for 60 days".  I get on once a week, and I have to log in every time.

What's worse is the sites that not only don't remember you, but they two-factor authenticate you, and then act like it's your fault with some sort of message about how they don't recognize you logging in from that browser before. I haven't even rebooted my computer since I logged in here last; if you don't recognize my browser that is strictly a you problem.

Any time I see a captcha I want to drink poison

[texaskdog]

All salt and pepper shakers should be clear.

Once I wanted parmesan on my spaghetti.  Wouldn't have occured to me why someone put sea salt on the table.

[GaryV]

Wait 'til you find out how common that is for employer's mandatory email systems and payroll systems...

And it gets really stupid.  I have to log in to Windows when I open the laptop.  Then I have to log in to the VPN. I have to log in if I want to get to my company profile, including payroll, vacation, benefits, etc. There are several apps that require logging.  The stupid part - we have coordinated logins, so all of them have the same account and password!  (And if you click the "remember me" box for those that have it, it only remembers you for that day.)

[kphoger]

1.  The new timeclock system at work only lets me submit PTO requests in whole-hour increments.

2.  Cortana.

[GaryV]

People who delete their posts (particularly the OP) or edit out everything, so the thread no longer makes sense.

[JoePCool14]

People who delete their posts (particularly the OP) or edit out everything, so the thread no longer makes sense.

As if 7, o, and sorry weren't the top 3 threads on AARoads of all time.

[kphoger]

Threads you'll never see on AARoads...

[jmacswimmer]

People who delete their posts (particularly the OP) or edit out everything, so the thread no longer makes sense.

As if 7, o, and sorry weren't the top 3 threads on AARoads of all time.

The ironic part is that all of those edited OP's were completely reasonable, especially compared to some of the other content from the user in question