Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

[richphitzwell]

Lol love it

 

[BabyBlues]

[FONT="Tahoma"][SIZE="3"][COLOR="Navy"]I saw this observation on a bumper sticker, back in the '80s:

"There is no gravity. The world sucks."[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

I love it!

 

[9to5cynic]

Here's what grinds my gears, baby blues doesn't hang out in the forum games anymore!


No, what really grinds my gears are inconsiderate people. But then I feel like I'm being inconsiderate towards the original inconsiderate people, and it creates this negative loop. Very close to perpetual motion, but not motion. Perpetual negativity. Or something like that.

 

[BabyBlues]

Here's what grinds my gears, baby blues doesn't hang out in the forum games anymore!


No, what really grinds my gears are inconsiderate people. But then I feel like I'm being inconsiderate towards the original inconsiderate people, and it creates this negative loop. Very close to perpetual motion, but not motion. Perpetual negativity. Or something like that.

Awww. Thanks. I'll be back.

 

[pinkelephants]

I HATE my trig teacher. She called my parents because I'm not doing so good, now EVERYDAY for the past month all I've been hearing from my parents is "Go study" 500 times a day. Its really annoying, and now no PS3, no social life, no track team because of this teacher. Im doing good in every class but trig & I'm really mad.

EndRant

 

[9to5cynic]

When I was in kindergarten I wanted to be a big kid
In elementary school I wanted to be in middle school
In middle school, I yearned to be a high schooler
In high school I couldn't wait for college

All this time I just wanted TIME to fly by and my biggest gripe now is that 24 hours in a day and 7 days in a week isn't enough time to get all my work done, let alone have some fun.

I am a prisoner of time and yesterday just dropped the soap.

I hear ya though, kids don't appreciate the time they have as youth, but then you grow up and now you need more time just to complete everything. As is life.

 

[karandpr]

^^^
Thats Rob's post from page 1 .So it's spam (probably)

 

[9to5cynic]

^^^
Thats Rob's post from page 1 .So it's spam (probably)

Damnit! So I just fell victim to spam bait? Well that surely grinds my gears!

 

[Mada]

My grades grinds my gears. All A's and then BAM a D.

BAHHHHH

 

[Bob Maxey]

Ya know what grinds my geas? The fact that I wasn't able to buy anything this year for black friday. Nooooo moneys. I would of made a killing this year with all the great prices n' sales..... Damn that's what grinds my geas

I hear ya. Our One of our butlers who is responsible for his staff in the east wing only had $125,000.00 for Christmas gifts this year. And that was nearly one quarter of his bi-yearly bonus. The cost of scotch has gone up to $4,000.00 per bottle so I had to make due with only 12 cases this year.

Things will improve when I fire people this year. Better they suffer than I stop drinking the good stuff. I hear the truly poor must get by with 40 year old scotch and that is no way to live.

Things will get better. I found a roll of hundreds in my sock drawer.

My grades grinds my gears. All A's and then BAM a D.

BAHHHHH

Apparently you did not download the right thesis from the net.

Smiley.

 

[Vihzel]

The really "painful" feeling you get after watching an absolutely fantastic movie or finishing a really good book.

 

[RottnJP]

I hear ya though, kids don't appreciate the time they have as youth, but then you grow up and now you need more time just to complete everything. As is life.

"Youth is wasted on the young."
- George Bernard Shaw

Might be my epitaph.

 

[RottnJP]

What rants my gears is having been chosen as the turkey disposal every "after thxgvg".. Its me who gotta habe turkey sandwitches, turkey salad, turkey loaf, turkey potpie, turkey caserole, turkey pudding,

turkey protein shakes, turkeey cake, turkey cookies,...heck evn turkey bones (since we dont have a pooch)...whew! "A N D " by the time I is done "disposing" this yers turkey....its time for the next yers..and I aimt done with t-2010 yet.

..and yet some wanna correct my grammers...youd type cross-eyed too if youre "ful uf it" like I is

No turkey daiquiri's? Yer not even tryin'.

 

[erikiksaz]

When people linger in the passing lane, slowing surrounding traffic.

 

[Tbirmann]

What is pissing me off is also something that I think is un-ethical!
I recently got the HTC AMAZE (eh). I have Tmobile of course, and since I switched from My G2, they are telling me I now have to pay for WiFi tethering. I was doing it for over a year for free with the G2. That really isn't the point though...
The Un-ethical part from what I can tell is that they are charging extra for nothing! If the tethering plan added more allowance at full bandwidth, then fine. Now I have 2GB before I get "throttled back". (don't get me started on "unlimited, i digress). I could see charging if a tethering plan boosted that to 4 or 5 GB per month.
But what TMO is charging for is $14 a month for NOTHING. If I use 2G of traffic a month via the phone I don't pay any extra. Now if I decide to use that same 2G through a laptop what should they care. It is still 2Gigs! Does it matter what device(s) use it!?
I feel like this is something that we are going to hear a "class action suit" about soon. I pay for data and I should be able to allocate that amount any way I want. I don't understand what the $14 is for! HTC made the feature and Android did the programming, I bought those when I dropped the cash for the phone. Why should I pay Tmobile for my right to use those features.
I wish I could start this as a totally new thread.
Anyone agree!?

 

[harmless_abuse]

What is pissing me off is also something that I think is un-ethical!
I recently got the HTC AMAZE (eh). I have Tmobile of course, and since I switched from My G2, they are telling me I now have to pay for WiFi tethering. I was doing it for over a year for free with the G2. That really isn't the point though...
The Un-ethical part from what I can tell is that they are charging extra for nothing! If the tethering plan added more allowance at full bandwidth, then fine. Now I have 2GB before I get "throttled back". (don't get me started on "unlimited, i digress). I could see charging if a tethering plan boosted that to 4 or 5 GB per month.
But what TMO is charging for is $14 a month for NOTHING. If I use 2G of traffic a month via the phone I don't pay any extra. Now if I decide to use that same 2G through a laptop what should they care. It is still 2Gigs! Does it matter what device(s) use it!?
I feel like this is something that we are going to hear a "class action suit" about soon. I pay for data and I should be able to allocate that amount any way I want. I don't understand what the $14 is for! HTC made the feature and Android did the programming, I bought those when I dropped the cash for the phone. Why should I pay Tmobile for my right to use those features.
I wish I could start this as a totally new thread.
Anyone agree!?

I doubt anyone on here would disagree.

 

[Bob Maxey]

I recently saw a TV program about the Las Vegas real estate boom and bust. Apparently, in LV (likely every other place) this can happen:

You are reading the paper and there is a knock on your door. It is the Constable. He is there with an immediate eviction notice; it is called a "forced eviction." You paid your bills and you paid your rent, but your building owner did not, so the bank is foreclosing and the coppers are there to toss you out.

You cannot find a place to live, you have little cash to pay first/last month's rent, no friends to help you move your stuff, and perhaps no cash for a security deposit. Anyone else see the program?

You have 20 minutes to gather your stuff. According to the program, they must allow you to grab a change of clothes and prescription medicine.

You are not allowed to move your stuff out. You have 20 minutes and that is that. The program showed a locksmith changing the locks. Granted, there is perhaps something more to the problem and the renter is protected in some way. I do not know. The show, as presented, just pissed me off for some reason.

I can see evicting dead beats, but apparently, things you have no control over could force you our of your apartment even if you pay your rent on time. I hope the program is old and this issue has been addressed by those in charge.

Hey landlords on the list: is this typical or perhaps the way it has always been?

This grinds my gears.

 

[Mada]

Apparently you did not download the right thesis from the net.

Smiley.

I don't get it....?

 

[Bob Maxey]

What is pissing me off is also something that I think is un-ethical!
I recently got the HTC AMAZE (eh). I have Tmobile of course, and since I switched from My G2, they are telling me I now have to pay for WiFi tethering. I was doing it for over a year for free with the G2. That really isn't the point though...
The Un-ethical part from what I can tell is that they are charging extra for nothing! If the tethering plan added more allowance at full bandwidth, then fine. Now I have 2GB before I get "throttled back". (don't get me started on "unlimited, i digress). I could see charging if a tethering plan boosted that to 4 or 5 GB per month.
But what TMO is charging for is $14 a month for NOTHING. If I use 2G of traffic a month via the phone I don't pay any extra. Now if I decide to use that same 2G through a laptop what should they care. It is still 2Gigs! Does it matter what device(s) use it!?
I feel like this is something that we are going to hear a "class action suit" about soon. I pay for data and I should be able to allocate that amount any way I want. I don't understand what the $14 is for! HTC made the feature and Android did the programming, I bought those when I dropped the cash for the phone. Why should I pay Tmobile for my right to use those features.
I wish I could start this as a totally new thread.
Anyone agree!?

Let me ask you this: was/is tethering specifically allowed by your carrier? I am not clear on that.

Forget bandwidth, what you did in the past, and what you think you should be allowed to do. All that matters is this: does/did your contract specifically allow tethering? In many (if not most) cases, tethering is not allowed. Your contract terms and conditions define your rights, not your opinion or theory about what you think you should be able to do. Rights is a bad word because you have few rights. You are tied to your carrier for several years and if you do not like it, you pay a huge fee to leave.

You are a prisoner in most cases. If you do not like it, they will drop you or you will drop them; regardless, they will get their kilo of flesh.

All carriers hate tethering because it does use bandwidth (a limited and finite resource) and they have data plans they want to sell.

Tethering apps are leaving Google and not allowed in iTunes. At least that is according to Mr. Google.

A Class action suit might work, but it might never see the inside of a court if you cannot provide a compelling reason why a class action suit should be allowed to go forward. I think these kinds of actions require approval and/or certification. Bob is not a lawyer.

The fact is, you should know what is in the TOS of the contract you read and signed. That is what is what is important. Chances are if the judge knows you purposely violated or ignored the terms of the contract you signed, the case will never see a court room. Bob is not a lawyer.

I am not allowed to tether my phone, for example. A root and a free DL of Barnacle makes tethering available to me. Not allowed, but available. I am not allowed to use my phone for business. Should I obey the fine print, or should I say up yours to my carrier? Frankly, when I learned that I could not "legally" use my cell for business, I was taken by surprise. Not sure most users of my carrier know that this is a rule and in the agreement they signed with the carrier.

Seems that if unauthorized tethering became wide-spread, everyone's costs would rise. It is quite obvious that if you can tether you can avoid extra costs for Internet access and in this climate, I can see the appeal. But I can also see that if your carrier imposed a set limit before you are charged, perhaps you should be allowed to allocate that limit as you see fit. If this happens, chances are many would revolt at the huge cell bills.

 

[LOveWerks]

I'll make this quick, as opposed to my normal impressions of James Michener's writing style (Yawwwnn)... Asurion - the warranty provider for Sprint (and everybody else, save Apple, Blackberry and Palm) sends me a replacement Evo 4G on the 17th... the buttons are stiff, and erratic in their operation... there's no 3G/Data (that one was on Sprint)... and the phone's reception, and clarity is awful... on the 26th - I go to a local Sprint retailer... I raise hell, spend about two-and-a-half hours at that retailer, demanding a new phone... they get Asurion on the line, who promise me an EVO 3D, to make up for the defective phone, and late shipment... I say, "Yes - that'd be great." They promise Monday delivery... that doesn't happen... Tuesday comes, and I receive ANOTHER EVO 4G... I get on the phone to Asurion, and end up with a customer service rep on speakerphone, who was completely rude... I threaten him with my attorney, and Sprint on conference call... he gets a Resolution Specialist on the line... she concurs that I was, in fact, supposed to get an Evo 3D... she said that the person I spoke with 'had a difficult time finding out that information', and that she and his supervisor were to have a 'meeting'... she promises to overnight the phone... I still had to call back THREE times before they could give me a tracking number... today... the...
EVO 3D finally arrives . Brand-spanking-new, made in Taiwan - instead of a 'refurb' from The Philippines... and... I'm finally satisfied.

Life Lesson from this: Remember that your rights DO NOT end, where a corporation's rights begin. Fight the good fight - be, unabashedly, politically incorrect - and, most of all:
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." - John F. Kennedy

As always,
BBone

 

[Bob Maxey]

When you don't have the experience for jobs, but every job requires experience.

I'm having some terrible luck in the job market. Haha.

Many do, my friend. Just never give up.

I started pushing a broom and eventually became a professional photographer. I expressed an interest in the darkroom and eventually took over a custom processing lab. I learned my craft and I'll tell you quite honestly, I was (am, is, are) better than many working professional photographers. Certainly better in the lab making fine quality prints. These days, everything is Photoshop and luck and endless numbers of shots hoping to get a good one.

I, on the other hand, took a number of images of structures filled with people and I eliminated the people with just a few large format shots and no PS or silver based printing tricks. Not magic, it was routine. Something experience gives you. I remember applying for a job with the Utah Historical Society. They had just purchased hundreds of thousands of glass plate and nitrate negatives from my employer. They wanted a printer capable of getting the best out of those negatives. I was not hired because I did not have a photography degree.

The person they went with was a slob. She was ignorant and useless. She had no skills. I, on the other hand worked with those images daily and I was a master printer.

Sadly, my skills are not wanted these days. There are no banquet cameras, no dye transfer printers, (a few, but no materials) and fewer and fewer labs printing high-quality prints in a darkroom. The camera store is a thing of the past and Kodak has stopped making 99.9999% of the stuff they once produced. Not it is digital, a clearly "inferior" way to go in many cases. When people lower their standards, inferior means less than it once did.

I am an avid stereo photographer but I am often told I do not know squat. So part of the problem are those Young Turks that are hired and they know very, very, very little. Many lack problem solving abilities.

Some of us live long enough to see the end. Our perfected skills matter not one GD bit because technology has moved on. The smart ones tend to plan for it and learn new skills. I do not like losing writing gigs because I am not also an expert web designer or because I do not know JAVA or something else. In my day, writers wrote and production people put the crap together. Now days, great web designers are hired and their writing suffers.

Everything I perfected is obsolete except for basic underlying principals.

Enough back patting; the truth is what it is.

Smiley.

My advice to you is not to give up. Certainly there must be a job and the slow ecconoimy is not forever. Make sure when you are hired, you give your all to your employer and make yourself invaluable. Here in Utah, a few local temp agency managers complain about incompetent people or people that lack basic skills. Many have jobs, but they cannot fill them. I know for an absolute fact that I could rise tomorrow, eat some eggs, find a job and be home for dinner. Not that I am smart, I just know that employers want skills.

I started soldering connectors and stuffing PC Boards in a production facility and eventually I became a technical writer and joined the training department. This lasted through my days with Megahertz, USRobotics, 3Com, Palm, MSL. I would NEVER, EVER be hired to do the things I mastered and the job I did. The reason: no degree. I'm a relatively smart and talented guy hampered by a lack of credentials.

I started at the bottom and went to the top in every case. I have always had jobs I would never be hired to do.

Perhaps it is different these days. What ticks me off are the writing jobs I could not land because I lacked the credentials. All the while taking assignments to do things the staff members were not capable of doing. Hard to swallow not being not hired to do jobs I am hired to do because those that are hired cannot do the job.

Ah, the circle of BS continues.

Regardless, keep looking and good luck. Companies need employees.

 

[harmless_abuse]

@Bob Maxey - Thanks a lot for the response.

I try hard every day not to give up and not to take the rejections and many times the lack of a response altogether, to heart. Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of time here. It's been a while since I've had a job, and if nothing pans out in the next month or two, I could very well be heading back to the Middle East where I grew up. I never wanted to go back there because one doesn't get the opportunities to build great careers out there like it is out here in North America. But I know I can get a job there pretty easily.

On the bright side, I got a call from a staffing agency a couple hours ago and have an interview setup for Friday. I'm hoping that goes well, but I can't be sure it will. This person set me up for an interview for a job that is well out of my expertise level. But she believes I can do the work, so let's see what happens. Nearly a 2 hour drive each way. Hope it's worth it.

I have a Commerce degree with a major in information systems. I love my field of study. Unfortunately, this sort of degree doesn't set you up for specific jobs the way an accounting or finance degree does. Like, I have business related knowledge, but not enough and I have IT knowledge, but not specific enough.

We'll see what happens. I've put in over 100 applications in the last month all over the country. I've barely gotten 5 calls back. I'm sure there are others who can understand how disheartening that can be.

Furthermore, I've tried applying to places like T-Mobile and Verizon stores, Safeway, Giant, etc. But, nothing. Some don't reply, others say I'm too over qualified.

I'm a pretty avid photographer myself, btw. I'm also relatively young and as such never got into it in the film days, unlike my brother and father.

Thanks for the response.

 

[zuben el genub]

Merchants and other groups with "free" raffles or giveaways. They don't seem to understand that someone may not want the product. "But it's FREE"

You couldn't GIVE me anything from Apple (this goes back well before the current craze) and I'm not registering with an email so you can spam me.

I had to register with Walgreens since some of my friends tend to use the photo service. I set up a separate email account, opted OUT of promotional literature and still get it. So much for opt out.

 

[RottnJP]

@Bob Maxey - Thanks a lot for the response.

...
I have a Commerce degree with a major in information systems. I love my field of study. Unfortunately, this sort of degree doesn't set you up for specific jobs the way an accounting or finance degree does. Like, I have business related knowledge, but not enough and I have IT knowledge, but not specific enough.
...
Thanks for the response.

I think you're onto something there. Maybe you could tailor your background a little better to add value immediately, and then use the breadth of your background to your advantage as you advance your career... For example, if you had commerce as your major and IS as your degree field, you could sell yourself as an IT guy with additional commerce-related skills. But it may be harder for someone to get their head around how a "commerce" degree helps their business in the first 6-12 months. If you'd like to do IT work, though, you might beef up those credentials, perhaps with some certifications or something you can work on near-term.

I'm not an IT guy myself, and my company has outsourced most of that support, so I'm not positioned to advise you on exactly what that market is looking for right now. My main point is, you might be able to tweak your skill set to brand/place yourself a little more effectively. People are still hiring, it's just much more targeted right now. People are looking for the specific things their business needs to add value as soon as possible.

For example, if you were an Engineer, especially with experience, I could get you an interview in a heartbeat. We've been hiring a few hundred engineers a year right through the down-turn, but laying off/outsourcing finance, legal, and other overhead functions.

Have you tried pinging whatever professionsl network you have to find out what your background/skill set might be missing for the kinds of jobs you want? Perhaps get together with a trusted professor or advisor?

 

[jikhead]

Hey RottenJP, that is exactly what I've done and I'm in the same boat as harmless_abuse. I made a career change back in 2005 and went back to school and got a bachelors degree. I had been in retail management nearly all my life, and my degree is a BBA with major in Management Information Systems. This is where it gets tricky like "harmless". A MIS degree is not the same thing as a computer science degree. My school had always pitched that MIS students are managers in IT, and typically you would think you would manage computer science degree holding employees. A CS student is typically (not all) going to start as some type of programmer or developer. Here's were it gets even trickier. I never wanted to be a programmer; had I wanted to...I would've majored in computer science instead. I chose MIS because it allowed me (in my mind) to not throw away all of my years in real-world management. Instead, to incorporate the two as an advantage. However, that isn't what the IT departments for companies are really looking for. Most managers you find in IT depts. came up thru the ranks and where at some point programmers in their career. In my specialty in project management, I have yet to meet or find someone who went straight from a MIS degree (and no IT experience), into some sort of middle-management level IT position. Like "harmless", I too have too little experience in IT; and because I haven't held a title of project manager (only project coordinator), no one wants to give me a shot. It's just like when I first applied for a credit card 20 years ago, and no one would give me/you credit because you don't have any credit. Well, how can one build up credit if no one will give you any? So I've been adding certifications in the mean time this year, but it has yet to help in the end. I have gotten more interviews from it, but only a few. I then hit that wall again of not enough experience. All the other methods such as joining discussion groups, networking, etc. can still only get you so far. None of these things seem to help. For me, it's a matter of meeting someone who's willing to believe in you and give you that opportunity. Still looking for that individual for 17 months.