Things that piss you off

[Cthulhu]

Damn thunderstorm. It's scaring the crap out of my dog and I'm going to have to leave for work in about half an hour. I don't want to leave him alone just on principle. Also it's going to make me nervous about getting a shower, but I can't not shower before work.

Or you can train him to not be scared of thunderstorms and things like that. Best method is to just ignore the dog and not be scared of thunderstorms yourself or act like you're not - the dog will catch on and copy your own behavior.

Our dog ain't afraid of no thunderstorms or fireworks or the like. He's a wimp, but not for that. We took him to an air force demo when he was like ten weeks old, . Jets flying a few hundred feet away and (tens of) thousands of people will make a dog used to anything.

Hm...something that pisses me off on a daily basis...it'll have to be traffic.

This, plus one. Whenever I have to go to my job's HQ - usually two days a week, with a project done probably every day (when I cba), I can pick between two evils. By car, in which case I either have to go early and leave late due to massive daily traffic jams around Amsterdam which I have to pass (theoretical travel time of 40 minutes, an hour to an hour and a half with traffic), or by public transit (travel time of an hour and a half, transfer between bus and train, walk around a lot). So either it's having to drive myself and be frustrated by traffic jams, or be driven and be frustrated by spending 3+ hours a day in transit.

The alternative is to just work at home, which the boss is fine with too.

I don't get the logic behind people ordering a pizza and then leaving for like 30 minutes.

I actually did this, . Or well no, I ordered a pizza via the internets to be delivered at around 6 PM, then went to get my car from the garage. That took a bit longer than expected. Luckily the guy was still waiting for me when I got home.

Didn't tip him though, I paid through the internets and tips are rather uncommon here, .

also, I pretty much always shut down my PC. Mainly because of the annoying bright blinking blue light though, . I put my work laptop in sleep mode, but reboot it every couple of days to fully clear the memory etc.

Speaking of, I need a memory upgrade for that one - 4 GB for development purposes just won't cut it, especially not if you run an IDE, an SQL editor, a Java webserver, two virtual machines and whatever else. Which brings me to the next thing that pisses me off: Fucking tiny stuck laptop screws, . I want to check how much memory I can add to it. The specs say I've got four memory slots in my workstation laptop thing, but I want to check how much of those are occupied.

If one (4 GB), I can add three 4 GB slots for 16 GB of memory. If two (2x2GB), I can either add 8 GB (12 GB total), or replace the existing ones for 16 GB.

With 12 or 16 GB of memory, I can do funky and awesome stuff like install a RAMdisk, for great justice and performance .

 

[Bex]

student finance ffs why are you so shit

 

[Hisako]

also, I pretty much always shut down my PC. Mainly because of the annoying bright blinking blue light though, . I put my work laptop in sleep mode, but reboot it every couple of days to fully clear the memory etc.

Yeah I know how you feel. My computer case came with these annoying bright blue LEDs that illuminate my entire room at night and it makes the darndest noise while it tries to keep itself cool (even though I know for a fact that it's doing this without any problems at all), and thinking about the ridiculous amount of power I waste with it just sitting there downloading a couple files for 7 hours, urgh

I'd much rather use my laptop which probably uses less power to do the same thing, except my bro is overseas atm and he's taken it with him >:

 

[Alessa Gillespie]

woke up way too fucking early and i have no idea what to do today

HO HUM

 

[Alex]

I just went shopping today. I am now the hottest, sweatiest and most grumpy individual in all of Yorkshire.

 

[Strangelove]

Unfortunately, not necessarily. One of my local trade-in places will put out the cases for enhanced versions of games (and DVDs) even if they only have the standard version. Bringing it up with them only gets apathetic shrugs. To paraphrase Good Omens, you should consider yourself lucky they're accepting your money.

The idea of this kind of stuff happening pisses me off

 

[Max Caulfield]

My sister waking me up three hours than I normally get up to ask if I was up yet.

 

[Tifabelle]

and apparently she's labeled as 'deceased' so they need proof

Proof of what exactly?

 

[Tifabelle]

But SS cards still exist even if you're dead. It doesn't disappear when your heart stops. An SS card has nothing to do with status of life. I mean, looking up the SS number would tell them if someone has died (assuming a death certificate was filed). But she should just be able to give them the number and show photo ID to verify.

How does one prove they are alive? Could she bring a doctor's note? lawl

 

[Lord Noctis]

My sinuses hurt everytime I swallow and are leaking a steady supply of yuckiness down the back of my throat. Also my back feels like somebody worked it over with a hammer.

 

[Max Payne]

I had an absolutely terrible dream last night that left me completely drained when I woke up, on top of me still being sick.

Do not want.

 

[Alessa Gillespie]

CAT WHEN I AM TRYING TO CUT FABRIC THAT DOES NOT MEAN LAY THE FUCK ALL OVER IT JUST FOR SHITS AND GIGGLES :I

 

[Vivi]

I was outside for 5 minutes. Already have 3 mosquito bites.

 

[ForceStealer]

CAT WHEN I AM TRYING TO CUT FABRIC THAT DOES NOT MEAN LAY THE FUCK ALL OVER IT JUST FOR SHITS AND GIGGLES :I

 

[Celes Chere]

Well, I won't go into much detail but I am so pissed, probably the most upset/hurt/etc I've been at anyone (that I know) in my entire life.

 

[Vivi]

I believe that this is relevant to everyone's interests:

 

[Dashell]

Okay, YES I was a cook at another Pizza Restaurant, but we made pizzas differently. That includes how we spaced the toppings, how we put the sauce on and even how we did the dough. Not every place makes them the same way. If you would just SHOW ME or walk me though it instead of just expecting me to know everything and then go "That's wrong" and then give me a lecture about how it's the same at every pizza place, maybe I could be more of an asset to you.

 

[Ⓐaron]

New policy restricting internets speech at work. At the recommendation of the store manager I'm going to be removing all references to the name of my workplace; henceforth it will be "a major retailer specialising in books and music." Additionally, this should be so obvious I don't even need to point it out but all posts have been representative of my personal opinion and not the company's. I mean come on, does anyone really expect that some bookseller dictates corporate policy?

 

[Madame Mayor]

New policy restricting internets speech at work. At the recommendation of the store manager I'm going to be removing all references to my working for the corporation for whom I work; from henceforth it will be "a major retailer specialising in books and music." Additionally, this should be so obvious I don't even need to point it out but all posts have been representative of my personal opinion and not the company's. I mean come on, does anyone really expect that some bookseller dictates corporate policy?

I had to sign something along these lines when I started.

I can't talk about which video game store I work at because my opinions on video games is the opinion of [insert big video game company here]. Or at least, that's obviously how it looks and not just some random nerd who also happens to work there.

I forget sometimes but when I remember I do actually try not to say the name in case the people at head office feel the need to prove why they have a job and look around forums that mention [insert big video game company here].

 

[Dashell]

Now I'm paranoid, I'm going to remove all the posts where I mentioned the name... I now work at pizza place

 

[looneymoon]

Cineplex

fuck you

 

[Ⓐaron]

Someone just called the house. At 7:15 am. Who the fuck does that?

 

[Super Mario]

They removed Thor from cinemas...fffffuck.

 

[Tifabelle]

Forgot today was Friday and that I had to be to work at 8am. FFUUUU. I only got two hours of sleep

 

[Ⓐaron]

Fuck you, TV Tropes. I should not still be up and I blame you.