1. People who claim to be something more than they are. Specifically, people who work in day care and introduce themselves as a teacher.I worked hard to get that degree and certification, dangit!
2. The mail service at my apartment- there are boxes to receive your mail, but no outgoing mailboxes. What's the point in that?
[ December 17, 2003, 10:11 AM: Message edited by: Coccinelle ]
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Software designers who say "There's no point in making it idiot-proof; idiots shouldn't be using a computer."
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Hee hee hee. That's not the worse Kat, the worst is people like me who think they're only making the software for themselves and thus make it really complicated and easy to crash and then distribute it to other people.
Hobbes Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
*grin* But you'll listen to the tech writers and usability experts when they have a say, right? Right, Hobbes? Is that right? *holds breath because if Hobbes wouldn't, there's no chance she'll ever convince the arrogant programmers upstairs to do so*
[ December 17, 2003, 09:38 AM: Message edited by: katharina ]
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
things that annoy me..
Teachers that still don't know the rule of "i before e except after c" like in the word receive.
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
Secrecy based on mode of how it is obtained. Like how Kennedy got in trouble for the U2 photos he showed of the Cuban Missle installation. Or how there either was or wasn't documentation of WMD in Iraq. The methods of collecting the intelligence are so advanced that we can't tip our hand by letting people know how much we are able to know.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
[ December 17, 2003, 09:58 AM: Message edited by: katharina ]
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
Two other things that annoy me (pet peeves)
People who say "hot water heater" when they mean simply "water heater" (there is no need to heat hot water).
and..
oh heck. Got interrupted by a phone call, now I can't remember what the other thought was... <SIGH>
FG
Posted by Coccinelle (Member # 5832) on :
quote:Teachers that still don't know the rule of "i before e except after c" like in the word receive
You know, that anoys me too but what irritates me even more are my many typos and how I never know exactly where a comma goes.
thanks kat! I've been looking for something like that!
[ December 17, 2003, 11:50 AM: Message edited by: Coccinelle ]
Posted by Coccinelle (Member # 5832) on :
Students who cheat on open book exams
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
How can you cheat on an open book exam??? Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
The book is open to you and you still copy from another student's paper.
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
People who don't know that the "i before e except after c or when sounding like a as in neighbor and weigh" rule has even more exceptions, like forfeit and weird.
[ December 17, 2003, 11:56 AM: Message edited by: Jon Boy ]
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
We rent a giant inflatable slide to schools for their carnivals and lock ins.
It looks like a tidal wave.
Its called the Tsunami Wave Slide.
The teachers I am talking too do not know either how to pronounce Tsunami or what it is.
Posted by Coccinelle (Member # 5832) on :
What's even worse is that I had three versions of the tests and they copied from someone with a different version. *sighs* The answers were all in the book. They could have passed if they didn't cheat.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Oh, now that's gotta suck.
Posted by Sweet William (Member # 5212) on :
Radio programming and commercials that are not matched in volume.
Permit me to explain: I am currently listening to a nationally syndicated radio program. The program and the national ads associated with it are at a low level of volume, so I have to turn it up to hear it.
Unfortunately, the local commercials are just as loud as they can be. So they go blaring through the office, and I have to turn it down when they come on.
Why is that so hard to equalize? Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
Coccinelle, many "daycare" teachers also have degrees. In early childhood development. And if they haven't yet earned their degree, they do have to have a certain number of credit hours completed. I know that at least three of the teachers at my daughter's daycare have degrees, and one of them has a masters. Some higher education in ECD is required to work there. They really *are* teachers...I can't tell you how much my daughter had learned since starting there a couple of months ago. She's started signing (which has helped her frustration level *enormously*). They helped her learn to roll over and crawl in the body cast she'll be in until TOMORROW (have to shout that last part, she's getting out TOMORROW! YAHOO!!!). They're incredibly patient teachers. Not just care providers.
That aside, they also make a *lot* less than elementary school teachers. The *director* of the center only makes $30K.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Wow, the cast is coming off already? (I know, it's been eons to you, but time flies when it's someone else's life!) That's so great! Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
What's the deal with the body cast? I must have missed that thread!
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
I guess I can add one--I hate it when I miss a thread about something going on in the life of a Hatracker I really like, and then have no idea what they're talking about when, at a later date, they make causal reference to the events detailed in that thread.
I also hate it when I'm gone from Hatrack for awhile, somebody disappears in a dramatic fashion, and then I can't find the thread in which it happened. I have to piece the story together from what I can glean about it from other threads.
Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
Rivka, you *know* it! It seems like she's had it on forever, and it's almost hard to remember what it was like when she was walking all over the house. But the cast comes off tomorrow, and then she'll be in a brace 23 hours a day for the next month. They say that it is possible to learn to walk in the brace. I suspect that Rayne will figure it out, because for the past couple of weeks she's been trying *really* hard to walk in the cast, which isn't physically possible. She can kind of cruise in it, pulling up on furniture and shuffling her way along the edges. She can climb the stairs in it. It's all very weird to watch.
I can hardly wait for tomorrow. Tomorrow, she'll be able to take *baths* again. And wear pants or tights. Best Christmas present EVER!
Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
Quick sum-up, though, my daughter had corrective surgery on her hip in October. She's been in a body cast since then.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
I think you should've nicknamed Rayne "Shelley."
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Thanks jeniwren!
rivka!
Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
LOL, rivka! We DO call her Turtlegirl.
Thank *you* Noemon. Your annoyance above was very heart warming. Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Posted by zgator (Member # 3833) on :
Aackk! I never saw the update about Rayne having surgery. I'm so glad it's almost over.
If it helps, I had to wear braces on my legs at a very early age. Even though it was somewhat traumatic for my parents, I don't remember it at all. The only way I know about it is because they've told me.
And for my annoyance, people who walk down the middle of the parking lot aisle. Pick a side.
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
I'm annoyed by insincere people. I'm really good at reading people and I can usually tell when someone is being insincere about something important. I especially hate it when I see it happening to other people that I love.
I also get really annoyed when I find myself being insincere. OOOooooo, it bugs me.
Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
Really, Zan? What were the braces for?
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My rational annoyance: Instruction manuals that are not very instructive. I'm trying to set up our home theater system and it is *not* working. Grrrr.
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
Woah Jennifer. You have my admiration. Sheesh!!
Posted by zgator (Member # 3833) on :
Something to do with the fact that my legs turned in. I don't really know the details. Although, maybe I better mention to the pediatrician the next time we go for Ryan's appointment so they can be checking for it.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
People who don't know the difference between "your" and "you're."
And kids with huge egos who don't understand how important it is to have an education. *twitch* Either because "I'm in a band," or "I'm going to be a tattoo artist," or.."I'm going to be a sooper moddle."
-pH
Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
LOL, Narnia, you can admire me when I get it working! *I'll* admire me when I get it working. Stupid instruction manuals. (you were talking about the home theater system, right?)
Zan, makes sense. Ryan's probably too little yet to worry about it, though your pediatrician does need to know just in case. If they ever get concerned about it, insist on seeing a pediatric orthopedic specialist before anything is done for it. They have all kinds of posters for turned in feet and that sort of thing at our orthopedist's office. It looked to me like most of the time, kids outgrow it on their own.
Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
Jon Boy.
Posted by efrum (Member # 6030) on :
People who drive right across empy parking spaces as though they own the dang place! Rrrrrrgh! you can kill people that way.
And I'm a people...
Posted by zgator (Member # 3833) on :
efrum , that is actually better than driving across parking spaces that already have cars in them.
Posted by Paul Goldner (Member # 1910) on :
Commercials.
All of them.
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
pH posted!!
Oh wait, that's not my rational annoyance. I just wanted to say HOWDY!
I hate when syrup from my pancakes gets into my eggs.
oh, and...
GO RAYNE!!! She's such a great little one. I'm sorry I missed the post about her surgery back when. I'm glad she's getting out of the cast.
I'm betting she and Mooselet could have fun racing each other. He's pretty darn fast by any standards, not just making allowances for his foot problem/treatment.
Rayne is a real cutie and I hope she learns to walk in the brace and makes you chase after her all the time.
Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
I hate when syrup gets in my eggs too, but I really like it on my sausage and bacon.
And Paul, you have it totally right, there is nothing more annoying in the world than commercials. All of them. (except maybe that squirrel herding one, but I can't remember what they were advertising, so it doesn't count -- it was entertainment, not a commercial.)
Bob, she's recently learned how to kiss. That would slow Mooselet down a little. Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :
(Psst, Coccinelle... quick comma usage)
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
At least I'm a rational annoyance.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
No More Santa ads! Please!
Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
Why stop there? How about no more ads whatsoever?
Posted by MaydayDesiax (Member # 5012) on :
People inadvertedly telling you that you're stupid for not going to the midnight RotK showing because you had a job interview at nine the next morning.
Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
Radio stations that think 24 hours a day of Christmas music beginning in November and lasting through the first week of January is something every listener wants.
jen, I wore braces as a kid too, because my feet turned in and I don't remember a thing. Daniel doesn't seem to remember all the time he spent in the corrective shorts that held his hips together in line. He walks, runs, jumps, and only because I know what to look for (W sitting, wide stance, etc.) can I tell he's any different.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
BELLE!
*tackle-hugs*
And btw, I so agree on the radio station thing!
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Good lord, it's Belle! This is great--all my favorite absentee hatrackers are popping up (often for a limited time only, but still, you take what you can get). Icarus, David Bowles, pH, now Belle--it's great!
Hi Belle! Glad you could stop by! Hope things are going well for you.
Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
quote:Radio stations that think 24 hours a day of Christmas music beginning in November and lasting through the first week of January is something every listener wants.
I so agree. Luckily, my favorite station is playing "Sounds of the Seasoned" instead. Basically, every weekend, they pick a band that laid a foundation for rock today, and whenever they play that band, they'll play two songs by them. It's a modern rock album, though, so they don't really get much older than U2 or Nirvana, but it's still better than Christmas music.
Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :
You have to admit, this is the right time of year for Belles...
Welcome back!
[ December 17, 2003, 03:39 PM: Message edited by: Chris Bridges ]
Posted by zgator (Member # 3833) on :
Belle, would you and your turned-in feet like to dance with me and my turned-in legs?
Posted by efrum (Member # 6030) on :
People who say "that's a whole nuther thing"...
efrum
Posted by MaureenJanay (Member # 2935) on :
quote: Why is that so hard to equalize?
Actually, SW, I think they do it that way on purpose. They don't want you to miss their ads.
People who insist on using y'all, and then spell it ya'll. Makes no sense, I say.
Posted by efrum (Member # 6030) on :
Howdy ya'll!
Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
Belle!! Yay! It's so nice to see you post!
I know Rayne won't remember a thing of this, and it's my hope that the experience will make her more indomitable (a wish I have no doubt I will suffer for as she gets older, but better a daughter with a will of her own than one with no will at all). She has definitely gained some serious "I can do it"ness.
For my rational annoyance of the moment: people who think that just because you didn't do exactly what they expect, it must mean you're mad at them. Sometimes we're just busy, or thinking of something else.
Posted by JaneX (Member # 2026) on :
BELLLLLLE!!
*tackle hugs*
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
Sweet William now a thread will wander or derail from time to time. But from "rational annoyance" to luvfest is a little weird.
I am rationally annoyed by people who post in threads manifestly not for them. Like tom in that girl's room thread. Or all the arbitrary parameter threads. Now there's a singles thread. Of course, I've been making quite a pest of myself in the ROTK threads.
"But when I do it, it's cute"
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
People who don't have any concept that other people in the world would like to move through the doorway/narrow hallway/turnstile/stairwell they've decided to stop in.
I had someone stop right at the bottom of the escalator in an airport once!
Dagonee
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
That was me. My bad.
Posted by Coccinelle (Member # 5832) on :
quote: Coccinelle, many "daycare" teachers also have degrees. In early childhood development. And if they haven't yet earned their degree, they do have to have a certain number of credit hours completed.
I know many hard working, wonderful people that I went to college with who now work in as early childhood preK/ pre-school teachers and they really are teachers- I don't discount that- they are wonderful people and do an incredible job.
Please allow me to clarify my annoyance- it stems from one person in particular, who has only a high school diploma, and introduces herself as a "teacher." She works as an aide in a day care- it's a day care, not a school. What really annoys me is that she gets discounts for teachers on her housing, meals, office supplies, and other such things that are for teachers.
Jeniwren- I am so happy for your daughter that she is making progress!
[ December 18, 2003, 08:22 AM: Message edited by: Coccinelle ]
Posted by Javert Hugo (Member # 3980) on :
Consultants who, KNOWING the proper way to write a manual, decide to write a screen by screen description of the program rather than a task-based manual.
So, if a user wants to do something, they have to thumb through the manual looking for a screen that looks familiar, rather than going to the page that tells them how to do something.
The screen description is much easier to write. It's also lazy, unhelpful, and arrogant. Programmers, your program is not so beautiful that users want a blow by blow description. It's a tool, dang it, and if they have to learn elvish to use it, it's a useless tool!
The task-based manual is hard to write, but it's actually useful.
And the consultant KNEW this. He kept saying the manual was for the help desk and may be "too technical" for end users. It's not "too technical", it's USELESS!!!! I get to "tweak it" for end users.
I'm not tweaking it, I'm rewriting it! And it has to be done by noon tomorrow. And I have tickets for LOTR tonight, and I don't have time to do this.
[ December 18, 2003, 05:27 PM: Message edited by: Javert Hugo ]
Posted by Lissande (Member # 350) on :
Teenagers.
Ignorance.
Craving Papa John's in full knowledge that even if someone were to mail you a pizza it would arrive all cold and gross...and probably green...
People who don't lift a dainty finger to help complaining that the Christmas party decorations are lame. ("Man, that place is so pathetic! The walls are all, like, white. I thought we'd at least have some garland or something, it's gonna look retarded." Yes, we have white walls. What did you propose to hang on them? And with what? Why don't you find some nicer decorations? Oh - couldn't find garland? Imagine.) I'm just going to assume he didn't know I was the one in charge of decorating. (I mean honestly, everyone ELSE thought it was nice, and it was more than we've ever decorated before - *grumble*)
People - er, same person as above - who refuse to take initiative in planning or executing anything. Not like I'm great at this, being fairly shy-violet and having run out of new ideas (uh, let's go to a movie) but planning activities is part of our JOB. It's a significant part of what we're here for. Last Wednesday I told A (my coworker who thinks my decorating was lame ) that I wasn't planning a weekend activity but he should feel free to come up with something and I'd support it. A: "Well, I usually wait for you to announce something." I know. *sigh*
Arbitrary time limits. (Though for anyone interested, I think mine's going to be lifted within the next month...) *dances*
Stupid people.
Rude people.
People.
additional edit: Not to imply that I have a huge problem with my coworker. He's a great guy. I was just thinking about those two things tonight and this thread was sitting here just begging to be posted on... *grin* (and no. we didn't have an activity last weekend.)
[ December 18, 2003, 06:12 PM: Message edited by: Lissande ]
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
Car drivers who drive in your blind spot for miles. This morning on my way to the hospital there was this guy following along in the left lane right of my bumper. I signaled to move over and then sped up to get further in front of him. He sped up to cut me off. Then I slowed down to let him pass and he slowed down to cut me off. Finally, I just forced my way in and honked at me.
Service desks that tell you they aren't authorized to provide any services.
Students who complain that 90% is only an A- and not an A.
Science journalists and reporters who not only get the science wrong but get it stupidly wrong.
Posted by odouls268 (Member # 2145) on :
quote: People who say "hot water heater" when they mean simply "water heater" (there is no need to heat hot water).
George Carlin
Outstanding reference Farmgirl.
"Flammable...Inflammable...and Non-Inflammable. Why are there three? I mean either the thing flams or it doesnt flam."
Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
Anyone - ANYONE - who does something deliberate that ends with me having to plunge a toilet, or in any way, shape or form remove something from said toilet.
Kids who nock arrows and point them at each other on the archery range.
People who use "retard" as an insult. Man, does that ever piss me off like nothing else.
Posted by odouls268 (Member # 2145) on :
People who post links without any description or quote whatsoever.
Posted by Black Mage (Member # 5800) on :
Dobies.
Dobby.
People who spell "yeah" yea or *shudder* yah. Yea is pronounced yay, people!
Posted by odouls268 (Member # 2145) on :
the typed word L33T
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
People who feel that unless people are behaving in exactly the way they would like them to those people are wrong and must be changed.
People who first tell you that a guy almost raped them, and then later say that actually, what the guy did was perfectly understandable in the context of the situation and that he stopped the minute she asked him to. And don't seem to see any hypocrisy between the two at all.
Posted by Nick (Member # 4311) on :
My sister haughtily telling me that if I eat the way I do, I'll be fat soon.
Cars that speed up when you put your blinker on when you're in an exit only lane.
People who tailgate.
My dad. Last night he tried to tell me that I choose to dislike school.
School in any shape or form. Hate it. Always have, always will. Posted by Toretha (Member # 2233) on :
Belle! it's great to see you! and my roommate has been complaining about the exact same thing radio-wise since...November.
MAYDAY! GET ONLINE AT NIGHT SOMETIME! I"VE NOT TALKED TO YOU SINCE FOREVER! *glares* or i'll chop your head off
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
I HAD to resurrect this thread because I found yet another ANNOYANCE yesterday that I had forgotten to mention....
My son and I love to read sci-fi, and since we have a limited budget, we often check them out from the library instead of purchasing them.
However, our big city library must have a moron in charge of ordering books for the sci-fi section.
Looking at a certain Sci-Fi series yesterday, we could see they had Book 1 of the series, and then Book Four and Book Five. I went to their catalog computer to see if Book 2 and Book 3 were checked out or at a different branch -- and they DON'T EVEN HAVE THEM!! Now what library moron would order Book 1, Book 4 and 5, but not the ones in between?
All their series' books are out of order on the shelves, always. Once I sat on the floor myself and totally re-arranged the Orson Scott Card section.
Robert Jordan's Wheel in Time, they have book 1 through Book 3, then they had put book 5 in storage (what they do when they have too many to shelve them all) but then had book 6 up.
I HATE it when they break up a series.
Farmgirl
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Yeah, I hate that too FarmGirl. Luckily, you can always turn to interlibrary loan.
On a related note, something that annoys me is when your interlibrary loan orders vanish from the library's computer system, or when your name on the reserve list for a book disappears. It's so irritating, and I've had it happen in a number of different library systems, so I don't think it's just a particular library employee who has decided to peck at me every time they get a chance.
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
I'm reviving this old thread because I didn't want to start a new one.
My most recent best annoyance:
Websites that have the word "com" or "net", etc IN the website name, ie: www.azstarnet.com, and bible.gospelcom.net. What is the point?
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rivka!
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Sheesh!!
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And I have tickets for LOTR tonight, and I don't have time to do this. ![[Mad]](mad.gif)
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I'm just going to assume he didn't know I was the one in charge of decorating. ![[Grumble]](graemlins/grumble.gif)
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