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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

Not sure why my post, that had a smiley face attached to show I was also kidding, was deleted. Not even a PM to tell me about it.
 
Yeah, I've been gone for a while :).

For those complaining about HOAs, just how much of an exaggeration was that "X-Files" episode about one?
 
EarlyMon said:
Software failure prevented you from receiving the PM on that, so I resent it - and that's my rant. Why does software fail most when it matters most??
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Because someone didn't get a good systems engineer (like me) to design a system as a whole that's bulletproof.

I want to know why shipping box makers even bother to put in those "tear open" strings that always pull right out instead of opening the box. :mad: Why don't I never learn, and just start off by using my box-opening knife in the first place?
 
Moderators who don't pick on young punks and leave us old coots alone enough. :p


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Bandaid had pull open strings that did the same years ago. You would try to pull the string down, and the string would pull out. So now they put separating tabs on the bandaid that still don't work (you can't grab them) in an extremely dry climate.
 
My stupid weather radio that makes a big racket to tell me that there's a thunderstorm two counties away. Hey NWS, what's so improved about this blankedy-blank S.A.M.E. deal?
 
Your weather station probably covers a couple of counties. We get ours from Pueblo - covers El Paso, Fremont, Pueblo and probably a couple of other counties.
 
Bosses who think that spreadsheets and automated systems are so scary, they not only yell at you for suggesting something could be easier, but make you do all your work on paper with pen...and then they do not even look at the work, but give you more than can be done in an 8hr shift....if only spreadsheets and accounting software existed to make life more efficient and for an international corporation, no less.../rant
 
zuben el genub said:
Your weather station probably covers a couple of counties. We get ours from Pueblo - covers El Paso, Fremont, Pueblo and probably a couple of other counties.
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Sure, I'm in a county with a 1000W transmitter that reaches into neighboring counties. But the whole point of S.A.M.E. is so I don't have to listen to alerts that aren't for my specific area. S.A.M.E. stands for Specific Area Message Encoding.
 
Here's what grinds my gears right now: My ILEC (TDS) that keeps on shutting off my phone and DSL service every few months, and blaming it on me for not setting up auto-pay. It's set up just fine, and I haven't changed anything since the first time I set it up.

This last time is the last straw. Not only did they not restore my service promptly because the business office was closed, the jerk on the phone told me that he couldn't give me my new login (they keep changing their website) to my web account page "because it's FCC law". When I told him that the FCC doesn't make laws or regulate things like that, he insisted that I was wrong and he was right. Now I have to go through all the pain and suffering of having clueless cable installers come in to install my replacement Internet connection. :mad:
 
when you order fast food and they dont put all the food in your bag... and you have to check your bag before leaving so you know you got everything... its like come on man you get paid to do this
 
KnicksALLday said:
when you order fast food and they dont put all the food in your bag... and you have to check your bag before leaving so you know you got everything... its like come on man you get paid to do this
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how about when they take the wrong thing off of your food... for example: im allergic to onions, and i order my burger without onions, i ask when they hand me the sandwich "this has no onions, correct?" they say yes. the wrapper has a 'no onion' tag and when you open it and look it has onions, BUT NO PICKLE?!?!?!?!?!?


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WARNING: Strong language. Look away if you can't handle it.

Today I finally got my Sprint Airave femtocell. It was bad enough that it was sent, and therefore arrived after I was supposed to be out of town to visit my mother for her 89th birthday. (This one might be her last.) But the thing that really grinds my gears is how rude, aggressive and dishonest Sprint agents were when I called for help in getting their device to work.

The bottom line is that it wasn't configured. But they wasted my time by telling me to plug the device into different ports on my switch, and when I said that I had things plugged in and wouldn't just pull out Ethernet cables without good reason they got all authoritative, demanding that I screw my network for their convenience. When I refused, and explained that swapping PHY ports wasn't troubleshooting (it's a shot in the dark), I got the "who are you to tell me...?" bullshit. Well I told them (the 1st level tech and the "supervisor", who read from the same script) what my credentials were and that I knew that they were bullshitting me, they proceed to attack me for not cooperating. "We know best; you know nothing."

The straw that broke the camel's back was when the "supervisor" repeatedly told me to pull the power plugs on all of my networking equipment, then plug them back in. (I was going for broke, and allowed them to connect directly to my cable modem, which was possible because after I got too much 'tude I told the "supervisor to go fornicate with himself and hung up my VoIP phone, he called back on my cell.) This jerk refused to accept a simple "OK" as confirmation that I had just done what he had just told me to do, and made me start all over again.

In the end the femtocell finally worked (it had network connectivity the entire time, so all of that BS was for naught), both plugged directly into my one and only cable modem, and after I put it back on my firewall, so that I could SSH into my home computers.

I can tolerate clueless people working in technology and failing. I will not tolerate anyone who fails and blames their failures on me. The customer is always right.

Sprint, you're fired.
 
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