You know what really grinds my gears?

[JMD]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

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[Caulfield]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

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that's a great bit, but I also bet it's a gear-grinder for Yankees haters, albeit different reasons. this is literally one of a couple moments that led to the Yankees winning 4 championships in 5 years. yeah, it was a nice extra to have Torre, Jeter, Mariano & company, but the glue that kept it all sticky wasn't Big Stein, it was little Georgey

[Blzer]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

This guy has a gear to grind dealing with customer service working in retail. It's pretty funny too.

Throws around the s-word a couple of times so I guess NSFW:


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[Majingir]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

This guy has a gear to grind dealing with customer service working in retail. It's pretty funny too.

Throws around the s-word a couple of times so I guess NSFW:


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Too many things about retail leads to gear grinders.

I wasn't even an employee, but recently had a gear grinding incident with someone (aka the stereotypical "Karen").

I was shopping for groceries, had to check something relating to my list on my phone (I don't have a physical list, or can remember what I need, so I have the list on my phone), so I pulled aside in an aisle, near to some part of the aisle nobody is in. Who knows how long later, some women angrily walks up to me from behind and is like "ARE YOU BUYING ANYTHING OR WHAT?!", aka wanting me to move so she could get something from that shelf.

Never fails though (having someone needing to go to a section of the store I might be standing by. I've had moments in the past where I've stood by an empty shelf in an aisle with no customers, and some customer came into the aisle, basically waiting for me to move, so they can get a closer look at the empty shelf).

Part of it is my fault for shopping early in the morning (aka when the store is mainly filled with older people, I'm legitimately the youngest customer every time I go shopping), but still, people just don't have decency to simply be like "excuse me, can I pass through here to get this item"

[Hammerhunker]

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"excuse me, can I pass through here to get this item"

Exactly! I am a sweet lovable teddy bear; I go out of my way to be courteous and out of the way, but when someone shows me discourtesy, I can be a royal prick!

Yesterday the wife and I are in a Walmart. As we were walking by the bathrooms, it occurred to me that I had to go, but an older attendant was standing in front of it, and that closed for cleaning sign was right next to her. She must have seen me assessing the situation because he gruffly said, "It's open". So I turn to my wife to tell her I'll be just a sec, when the lady very gruffly said again, I told you it was open. So I headed for the bathroom but stopped and let her know that she can speak more kindly and that I was telling my wife to wait a sec. Nothing rude, loud, or anything. I just can't stand rude sounding people, no matter their situation.

[LambertandHam]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Too many things about retail leads to gear grinders.

I wasn't even an employee, but recently had a gear grinding incident with someone (aka the stereotypical "Karen").

I was shopping for groceries, had to check something relating to my list on my phone (I don't have a physical list, or can remember what I need, so I have the list on my phone), so I pulled aside in an aisle, near to some part of the aisle nobody is in. Who knows how long later, some women angrily walks up to me from behind and is like "ARE YOU BUYING ANYTHING OR WHAT?!", aka wanting me to move so she could get something from that shelf.

Never fails though (having someone needing to go to a section of the store I might be standing by. I've had moments in the past where I've stood by an empty shelf in an aisle with no customers, and some customer came into the aisle, basically waiting for me to move, so they can get a closer look at the empty shelf).

Part of it is my fault for shopping early in the morning (aka when the store is mainly filled with older people, I'm legitimately the youngest customer every time I go shopping), but still, people just don't have decency to simply be like "excuse me, can I pass through here to get this item"

I seem to have some sort of super power where I'll go down an aisle that is empty and as soon as I'm comparing two flavors or items, it'll suddenly be swarmed with people.

[Master Live 013]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Asking a question in reddit or a forum etc. and people not answering specifically what was asked and instead offering alternatives. If I ran a forum I would make it some anyone contributing would have to follow a template:

1) *answer that directly addresses what was asked* or *statement that said user can't answer what was asked*

2) *kindly offer an alternative solution*

Like, people of course can offer alternative solutions, but some people either have to be a jerk about it and/or don't understand that I may already know about the alternatives but still want what I want. Makes me wanna punch through a wall.

[Majingir]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I seem to have some sort of super power where I'll go down an aisle that is empty and as soon as I'm comparing two flavors or items, it'll suddenly be swarmed with people.

And those people have to go to the very item you're blocking. Some people have had me move, so they could go, pick up an item, look at it, put it back, and walk away. Did they think I was standing there hiding some special item?

Asking a question in reddit or a forum etc. and people not answering specifically what was asked and instead offering alternatives. If I ran a forum I would make it some anyone contributing would have to follow a template:

1) *answer that directly addresses what was asked* or *statement that said user can't answer what was asked*

2) *kindly offer an alternative solution*

Like, people of course can offer alternative solutions, but some people either have to be a jerk about it and/or don't understand that I may already know about the alternatives but still want what I want. Makes me wanna punch through a wall.

Places like that are good at times to get quick tips, but there's definitely moments where people are stupid.

Recently I had an issue with a feature on a program on my secondary/old laptop, I even specifically said it's not my main laptop and I know it doesn't have the best specs. Someone simply posts "buy a new laptop". Thanks captain obvious. You mean if I paid several hundreds dollars for a new laptop with better specs, I could achieve getting this single feature on the program to work?

[l3ulvl]

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speaking of ignorant store people...


entering the store, following someone who grabbed a cart and chose to take one step inside the store and wipe the cart down, are you aware that no one can enter the store while you block the entrance?

[KSUowls]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Getting calls in Microsoft Teams from people that I don't have an active IM going with.

One of those things that people have had to adapt to working from home.
For some reason, very few people in my organization will send a quick "hey have a second for a quick call?". Instead I just random incoming calls.

Which is quite annoying since I could be in the bathroom or working on something. If we were in the physical office, people would usually send an IM before coming to talk to me in my office. Not sure why people don't do that before calling now that we are all at home

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[SuperBowlNachos]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Theaters will be fine. People have been saying it's a dying industry for 10 years. They were still building NEW theaters right before covid. People will flock back in 2022 assuming studios stop the home releases which they will. Studios don't want theaters to fail. You don't make $1 billion on a movie doing a streaming release even if it's for $20 initially.

[dubcity]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Theaters will be fine. People have been saying it's a dying industry for 10 years.

Honestly they've been saying it since at least the 1960s, when TV really started cutting into their business and theaters started closing down drastically compared to what it was.

I see it as dying as someone who has zero interest in going out to see summer blockbusters and generic genre movies year round. It has turned into a very specific thing, with less and less variety, compared to even 10-15 years ago.

[Speedy]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

YouTube ads.

I just want to a watch a 3 minute video. Why are there two ads at the beginning and another ad in the middle? Of a 3-minute video?

[Blzer]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

YouTube ads.

I just want to a watch a 3 minute video. Why are there two ads at the beginning and another ad in the middle? Of a 3-minute video?

I want to know why my videos on my math YouTube channel show ads when I'm not monetizing the channel. I thought ads only played if you chose that option.

[Master Live 013]

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I got to say, I don't really remember the internet before Ad-Block. I do remember the impetus for starting to use it, a long time a go in a galaxy far away Gamespot decided to clutter their site with ads. I remember thinking "this is new, this is different. I have never seen anything like this before. This is borderline-unusable, I'm going to have a really hard time visiting this site going forward".

As a solution people in the forums kept mentioning Ad-Block again and again, I had heard about it, but didn't know if it was a scam or what, but thought I had nothing to lose so I decided to give it a shot.

That must have been like 10 years ago.