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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

Yeah. 3:30 they send an alert with NO INFO. Didn't even mention it was an AMBER alert.

3:45 second alert, this time it mentions there are missing kids...look online for more info.

4:30 kids found safe in New Mexico(I'm in Nevada). You can go back to sleep now.
 
I turned it off.

Where it usually helps is if you are stopped at a convenience store or rest area. You tend tnotice more then when you are driving rush hour or you are with someone like the Vulcan who gets about 10 miles per rest area. He says to never pass up an opportunity to use a rest stop.
 
bjacks12 said:
Being woken up at 2 in the morning by my phone receiving an AMBER alert notification. Holy hell, could they make that sound any more jarring? It's not a damn nuclear air raid! Then, I get it shut off and manage to get back to sleep. One hour later it goes off again, letting me know the kids were found. SHUT THE HELL UP! THEY'RE SAFE NOW DONT WAKE ME UP!
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Think the idea in theory is probably OK, but seems to be badly implemented and so far too much cry wolf basically. And so if you can turn it off, it gets turned off.
 
When you get out here, there can be nothing much between state highways and interstates for escape. Broadcasting with signs on those roads is probably more effective. But if the criminal is on the interstate and you are on a county road in east Bedrock, there usually isn't a bat's chance in hell that you will see anything anyway and the road only winds around cattle country to West Bedrock.

TV does a bit better with the crawler. You get more info. We had a missing child close by and I would have been more alert going for a walk. (Kid was safe. Family member had picked her up from school)
 
My supervisor does not understand the concepts "important notes" specifying that it is "mandatory" for the part to be installed and the tooling used to install it be the same.

Seriously, it says right there! We can't provide the mechanic a tool until we know who is making the part; so why are you trying to get me to find the tooling (while you clock out and go home)?
 
People turning up late to band rehearsals. One band I'm in rehearses over 60 miles away from my home. I'm always there 20 minutes before start time. Yet people living just around the corner turn up 10 minutes late. Agggh!
 
I don't think it is unreasonable of me to expect that a restaurant who is charging me $29 for a steak (whilst a snooty waiter looks down his nose at me) have linen napkins.

Seriously, the place I usually go to, that charges me almost half that price for a steak that tastes just as good, can afford linen napkins. Why can't you with your "prime" locations and your snobby staff do the same?

Or am I so far below your usual clientèle that you assume I must be too used to paper napkins to know what to do with linen ones?
 
Dngrsone said:
I don't think it is unreasonable of me to expect that a restaurant who is charging me $29 for a steak (whilst a snooty waiter looks down his nose at me) have linen napkins.

Seriously, the place I usually go to, that charges me almost half that price for a steak that tastes just as good, can afford linen napkins. Why can't you with your "prime" locations and your snobby staff do the same?

Or am I so far below your usual clientèle that you assume I must be too used to paper napkins to know what to do with linen ones?
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Go in the bathroom and drag out half a roll of toilet paper, You will get a reaction, guaranteed.
I've had that reaction, but more from lack of Kleenex than napkins. I prefer paper napkins if I get a runny nose. Since I like spicy food, a runny nose is common.

I don't have any pockets to carry Kleenex.
 
zuben el genub said:
Micro SD card slots with springs to keep card in. I just had a micro SD fly out of an ereader across the room and I can't find the micro card!
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Yes, that is a horrible idea IMO also.
The first time I tried to remove the micro SD card out of my video camera, which was still mounted on the motorcycle: the chip took off and went out into the driveway..... 32 gB of video just disappeared

To color me pissed does not even come close to what I thought of the idiot that designed that thing.

( I had thought that it would just back out an 1/8th inch and I would need to pull it out of the slot. )
 
Ditto on the cards popping out. I had that happen in a little booth I sat in as reception at my old job. The floor was carpeted in black and grey. Less than 10' by 10' area and I never did find that card.
 
This past Saturday afternoon I suddenly got a bunch of texts saying I'd cancelled various text notifications - and I hadn't. I'm still trying to figure out what caused that to happen.

This happened sometime after I installed the latest Google Exchange Services update.

Saturday morning I installed 2 email apps to try out (both of which I'd installed earlier in the week & removed, but thought I'd try again): K-9, & Aquamail.

Saturday night I was notified that "someone was trying to access my Gmail account" & Google locked them out.

I'm not sure what's going on, but it's a hassle.
 
I am very annoyed at AT$T Uverse. They have been trampling all over my last nerve for about 6 weeks. culminating in a scheduled appointment Thursday afternoon my wife took off work to be there and they called at the appointment time and cancelled. Then to add insult to injury, they rescheduled for Friday afternoon (I took off work for) came out on time and promptly told me the Fiber network in our neighborhood was showing red and they could not do the upgrade install. THIS IS AFTER THEY TOLD US WE HAD TO UPGRADE TO FIBER because our neighborhood had phased out the copper standard service. (This all came up -the fiber upgrade- when they cut off our service on Tuesday - making me miss The Flash - and informed us we HAD to be on fiber)

God love you and your reliability we can rely on. :mad:
 
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