You know what really grinds my gears?

[AUChase]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Haha good find!

I always try not to be hypocritical so thanks for pointing it out.

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I'm hypocritical all the time. I just thought it was funny when I read it.

[Caulfield]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I'm hypocritical all the time. I just thought it was funny when I read it.

Haha good find!

I always try not to be hypocritical so thanks for pointing it out.

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My own personal golden rule is "do as I say, not as I do" lol
It's other people that grind my gears, I dont really find that I get on my own nerves

[Majingir]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Power went out due to the weather. I can understand bad weather causing problems, but it happens so often in the neighbourhood for exact same reason. The transformer is insanely outdated and they keep building condos which just adds to the power consumption.

There were explosions because of the overload and weather. Despite this, the city likely does nothing about it to fix this issue. I guess next bad weather day I should just turn off lights and electronics in advance. Although even good weather days the power could go too.

[SmashMan]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

People just want to have opinions and say ridiculous things and then get mad/annoyed when they get questioned on it.

It's kinda weird to me but whatever.

From my experience, it's because the opinion isn't based on anything they can actually explain.

[Fresh Tendrils]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

From my experience, it's because the opinion isn't based on anything they can actually explain.

I feel this is the majority of opinions.

[l3ulvl]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

backstory:

Spoiler

The fedex driver who keeps canceling my delivery. I don't even understand why. The reason listed is "local delivery restriction - delivery not attempted", and then they reschedule the delivery for the next day and then cancel it again.

What if I was calling off work for this? It requires a signature so I literally have to be home all day waiting for them to show up, only to have them cancel every time. There is no restriction, this doesn't make sense. I honestly feel like the driver doesn't know where the apartments are located.

What makes me even more frustrated is the local fedex pickup is 1 mile from here but they won't allow me to select "hold at fedex location".

Spoiler

yeah yeah I know, better call someone

It's an item I don't even want. I'm being forced to upgrade my phone because 2G is being phased out. So frustrating (and kinda ironic now that I think of it)

it gets better, after another full day of waiting for the delivery, the online tracker finally updated to say "delivered" today, and yet I have no package. Someone apparently signed for it too. This is a nightmare

This is astonishingly happening again. There was a valentine's clearance sale for phone upgrades and I really wanted an upgrade because the phone I got before is just brutal. Was apprehensive because I remember the hassle with the Fedex delivery issue from before. I finally tracked the package down last time with help of my landlord, she happened to recognize the name that signed for it from a local business.

So today is the day of delivery for the new phone, and I'm high anxiety again because I know that door knock is coming and if I'm not prepared it could trigger an "amygdala hijack", plus the fear of the driver screwing up AGAIN. Welp, it happened, I saw the Fedex truck drive up, pass the entrance, pull in next door, sit for a minute, and drive away. I refresh the tracking page and it now says "Incorrect address - street number", so I double check my shipping address and everything is correct. This is unreal, and of course the suggested action is to call a number

[Caulfield]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

backstory:

Spoiler

This is astonishingly happening again. There was a valentine's clearance sale for phone upgrades and I really wanted an upgrade because the phone I got before is just brutal. Was apprehensive because I remember the hassle with the Fedex delivery issue from before. I finally tracked the package down last time with help of my landlord, she happened to recognize the name that signed for it from a local business.

So today is the day of delivery for the new phone, and I'm high anxiety again because I know that door knock is coming and if I'm not prepared it could trigger an "amygdala hijack", plus the fear of the driver screwing up AGAIN. Welp, it happened, I saw the Fedex truck drive up, pass the entrance, pull in next door, sit for a minute, and drive away. I refresh the tracking page and it now says "Incorrect address - street number", so I double check my shipping address and everything is correct. This is unreal, and of course the suggested action is to call a number

lol
but they have your phone

[dsallupinyaarea]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

backstory:

Spoiler

This is astonishingly happening again. There was a valentine's clearance sale for phone upgrades and I really wanted an upgrade because the phone I got before is just brutal. Was apprehensive because I remember the hassle with the Fedex delivery issue from before. I finally tracked the package down last time with help of my landlord, she happened to recognize the name that signed for it from a local business.

So today is the day of delivery for the new phone, and I'm high anxiety again because I know that door knock is coming and if I'm not prepared it could trigger an "amygdala hijack", plus the fear of the driver screwing up AGAIN. Welp, it happened, I saw the Fedex truck drive up, pass the entrance, pull in next door, sit for a minute, and drive away. I refresh the tracking page and it now says "Incorrect address - street number", so I double check my shipping address and everything is correct. This is unreal, and of course the suggested action is to call a number

You sat and watched all of this and didn't say anything? A simple "hey, do you have a package for x?" probably eliminates all this back and forth.

[l3ulvl]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

You sat and watched all of this and didn't say anything? A simple "hey, do you have a package for x?" probably eliminates all this back and forth.

To clarify, the entrance is about 100 yards away from my building, he pulled into the fitness studio in a way that made me think he missed his turn and was about to turn around. Also, the fitness studio put up a giant fence to block their members from having to see us, so I would've had to run down my parking lot, through the restaurant parking lot, turn down the street, run into the fitness studio parking lot, hope he was still there, and ask if he had a delivery for me. This guy claimed through customer service that the apartment number wasn't listed on the package anyway, so he likely wouldn't have given it to me regardless.

Note: I double checked the shipping label and my apartment number was listed correctly on the tracking page, so this person was either lazy or couldn't figure out where to turn.

It's not like the truck was right outside my door and I could go greet him

[KG]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

When cable networks completely sell-out and totally abandon their original raison d'etre, e.g. MTV (the original example), Bravo, VH1, etc. etc. The latest example that is really bugging me for some reason is the Travel Channel. It used to be one of my favorite channels, but there is literally nothing on now but ghost adventures and stupid paranormal shows. What the hell does any of that even remotely have to do with travel? I suppose I wouldn't mind the occasional off-topic show, and certainly every show doesn't have to be about travel directly, but they literally have no travel programming whatsoever any more. They don't even have any shows that are peripherally about travel, even if by accident (!).

The problem with that strategy is that it's fool's gold. MTV had short-term success with things like 'Jersey Shore' and whatever else, but once they completely abandoned music programming their cache as a network is basically now zero. I haven't turned my TV to that station in decades. I realize I'm out of the target demo, but there's no reason to ever even look at what's on over there (even as music videos for background music). Travel Channel is now in that category, unfortunately.

100%

All of my go to nature channels are like 80% reality crap now. I low-key don't even want to see people on nature channels unless they're reenacting something or narrating the intro.

[pietasterp]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

To clarify, the entrance is about 100 yards away from my building, he pulled into the fitness studio in a way that made me think he missed his turn and was about to turn around. Also, the fitness studio put up a giant fence to block their members from having to see us, so I would've had to run down my parking lot, through the restaurant parking lot, turn down the street, run into the fitness studio parking lot, hope he was still there, and ask if he had a delivery for me. This guy claimed through customer service that the apartment number wasn't listed on the package anyway, so he likely wouldn't have given it to me regardless.

Note: I double checked the shipping label and my apartment number was listed correctly on the tracking page, so this person was either lazy or couldn't figure out where to turn.

It's not like the truck was right outside my door and I could go greet him

I hate to laugh, and I really hate to laugh at someone else's misfortune, but I hope you never move, l3uvl.

[slickdtc]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

FedEx dude doesn’t feel like dealing with those goofballs in your building you were talking about earlier. Tough route I guess, but it’s not cool he’s BS’ing to get out of doing his job and the onus is on you. But if you want your stuff, I don’t see any way but to either wait for the delivery guy (which would be weird for both of you) or make that call. Maybe someone can help ya out.

[NinerFan1983]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

People who drive the wrong way in parking lots.

[dubcity]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

When you're driving behind someone who just pulled out of the driveway, and they're in "I'm going to do 10 MPH and drive like a 90 year old because I'm obviously distracted and probably still on my phone" mode.

[dsallupinyaarea]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

To clarify, the entrance is about 100 yards away from my building, he pulled into the fitness studio in a way that made me think he missed his turn and was about to turn around. Also, the fitness studio put up a giant fence to block their members from having to see us, so I would've had to run down my parking lot, through the restaurant parking lot, turn down the street, run into the fitness studio parking lot, hope he was still there, and ask if he had a delivery for me. This guy claimed through customer service that the apartment number wasn't listed on the package anyway, so he likely wouldn't have given it to me regardless.

Note: I double checked the shipping label and my apartment number was listed correctly on the tracking page, so this person was either lazy or couldn't figure out where to turn.

It's not like the truck was right outside my door and I could go greet him

Yeah, I read that wrong then. My bad.

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