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Pet Peeves v. 5.0

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addictivepersona said:
^ That's Wal-Mart for ya, Fjones. Sorry dude. Call the store and see if they still have your bag. Sometimes you can get lucky.
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The problem with this is that fixing the error usually costs more time than it is worth. By the time I got home and realized the error, it would take me fifteen minutes to go back and get the bag, if it is still there. There were two things in the bag totaling $4.00. Hardly worth it.

The same shit happens at the supermarket. You get overcharged by a dollar, but if you want to actually get the dollar back, you have to stand there, wait while the puzzled clerk tries to figure out what to do, wait while a supervisor comes over and does some shit with his supervisor card, etc. The whole process ends up being a waste of time or everyone.

I was recently at a CVS where someone was buying 150 of an item for 2 cents each. (seriously). It was some cheapo piece of shit holiday thing. Luckily I came in at the tail end of this or else I would have gone insane. Of course, there is a problem though, as the clerk now thinks these are supposed to be 7 cents each.

WHO FUCKING CARES! We're talking about a difference of $7.50. Move the line along!!! If I owned a store and ANY clerk ever wasted one minute of a customer's time over an amount less than $10.00, I would fire the clerk on the spot.

Instead, the clerk stops the line I am in, AND starts discussing the matter with the clerk running the OTHER line, bringing that one to a halt also. Are you fucking serious!?? Meanwhile I am late for my friend's daughter's first birthday party!!!!!!! I guess I should have gotten the birthday card sooner.

AAAAAARGH
 
voxmystic said:
^^ Remember when you were in 3rd grade, and, unbelievable as it seems, there were people who didn't get it? A few even flunked out. Well, they're still with us, bless their hearts. Most of them are cashiers at WalMart, but occasionally one become president of the United States. I personally prefer the ones who stay behind the till scratching their vacant little heads.
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Good point. In one of my economics classes we discussed poverty in this country and our attempts to eradicate it. But if we eradicated poverty, who would work all this shitty jobs that no one wants? I am not sure this would actually work in reality. But that's a discussion for a different forum I suppose.

But speaking of school, here's another pet peeve:

TEXTBOOKS

Why the hell do the professors order the newest version of the book, causing people to spend $140.00 for a book that should cost about a quarter of that??? I doubt much has changed in the field of regression analysis in the last 5 years.

I don't fault the publishers for trying to make a fortune with pointless new editions, but why do the schools and professors cater to their needs by asking us to use them? Do they receive vacation packages for using the new edition, similar to the bribes doctors receive for using the expensive new medicine on the market?
 
People that insist on clearing their property of snow by throwing it in the street need to meet the toe of my boot in the afterlife.

You are all morons. Please do not carry on.
 
Fjones said:
Yeah what's the deal with the halftime show. Let's see, last few years we had Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen, The Who, and ..... The black Eyed peas??????

Huh !????

It was partially salvaged when Slash made an unexpected appearance, but t hen it went right back to sucking big time. A Pity we couldn't hear Slash and Axl together instead of Slash and Fergie.
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That halftime show needed moar Janet Jackson titty imo
 
voxmystic said:
^^ Remember when you were in 3rd grade, and, unbelievable as it seems, there were people who didn't get it? A few even flunked out. Well, they're still with us, bless their hearts. Most of them are cashiers at WalMart, but occasionally one become president of the United States. I personally prefer the ones who stay behind the till scratching their vacant little heads.
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That would be me. :)
Fjones said:
WHO FUCKING CARES! We're talking about a difference of $7.50. Move the line along!!!
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You must be doing well for yourself.
 
Fjones said:
WHO FUCKING CARES! We're talking about a difference of $7.50. Move the line along!!! If I owned a store and ANY clerk ever wasted one minute of a customer's time over an amount less than $10.00, I would fire the clerk on the spot.
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just as an aside, the supermarket business runs on razor-thin profit margins. many stores honestly can't afford to lose those few dollars.
 
Damien said:
That would be me. :)

You must be doing well for yourself.
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Not really, I just don't see $7.50 making a huge difference in my life at any point.

But in case it wasn't clear, I wasn't suggesting the CUSTOMER should give up the $7.50 and move on, I was suggesting the STORE should.
 
michael said:
just as an aside, the supermarket business runs on razor-thin profit margins. many stores honestly can't afford to lose those few dollars.
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Yes, they have razor thin profit margins, but we're talking about items that are basically worthless, thrown in a junk bin and sold for 2 to 7 cents just to get rid of them. Also, there is a cost to holding up two lines and irritating customers, a cost that I think outweighs a possible $7.50 error. They ended up realizing the guy was right anyway, which means the entire thing was a waste of everyone's time, as these things often are.
 
addictivepersona said:
^ That's Wal-Mart for ya, Fjones. Sorry dude. Call the store and see if they still have your bag. Sometimes you can get lucky.
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I went back today with my receipt. Though I had to waste ten minutes on the customer service line, when I got to the counter, she told me to just go get the items and come back. When I did, she put them in a bag and sent me on my way, no fuss, no hassle.

I was amazed. She recognized it was pointless and counterproductive to waste any more of my time on a store error even though I was partly to blame.

I wonder how it would have been handled if my two items were a digital camera and a Wii?



Additional Walmart Pet Peeve:

Why are employees so scarce? They seem to be making tons of money, yet it is almost impossible to find an employee on duty to ask for help finding something in the mammoth store. And when you do eventually find one, after chasing him down (since they are always walking very rapidly through the store), instead of actually helping you find something, he points in some general direction and gives you vague instructions on the approximate location of your item.

This is not helpful !!!!!!!!!!!!
 
NationOfThizzlam said:
Fjones, there's a lot of stuff that bugs you dude..
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Yes, this is true. I have probably accounted for 25% of the 5000 posts in the various pet peeves threads. And I post less than half the stuff that irritates me.

I probably wouldn't be bothered as often if I took my medication every day. But it is more effective when I ration it out for the most necessary times.
 
This pet peeve might be a bit too mathematical for many people to care, but I just watched the movie "21" and there was a scene involving the Famous Monte Hall problem with three doors and one prize.

Why the hell do people have a hard time understanding this? The math involved isn't difficult. It's really fairly basic and I don't understand why someone would fail to grasp the concept after one explanation.
 
AmorRoark said:
^ I asked my fiancee to explain it as I've never heard of it. I understood it after one explanation and I don't go to MIT, lol. So yeah, I guess people are hard-wired sometimes.
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When people don't understand the situation with 3 doors, I'll usually switch to an absurd and extreme example, such as "I am thinking of a number between 1 and a million, try to guess what it is."

whatever the person says, I'll then say, "Okay, well, either that is the number I was thinking of, or it is 537,892. DO you want to stick with your original answer or switch it to 537,892."

Most people comprehend that the answer is almost certainly 537,892 at that point, because they grasp that I have eliminated hundreds of thousands of wrong answers for them, and furthermore, that their original guess was most likely wrong.

Though, some people at that point would still probably say either answer has a 1/2 probability.

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Traffic/pedestrian pet peeve:

In a crosswalk in the middle of the street with no traffic light, why do pedestrians have automatic right of way with cars forced to yield to them?

I can think of approximately 7 reasons why this is really stupid:

1) It interrupts the flow of traffic on busy streets

2) It causes cars to behave unpredictably, since different drivers yield differently in this situation (meaning, some drivers will come to screeching halt if a pedestrian is 25 feet away from the crosswalk even though the car and about three more cars behind it would have easily gone before the pedestrian reached the crosswalk)

3) It takes much longer for a person to cross a street than for a car to travel 30 feet. Why not just have the people wait until the cars pass?

4) There is no flow of traffic for pedestrians. Nothing is lost by allowing automotive traffic to flow naturally while pedestrians wait for an opportunity.

5) When it comes down to it, people are going to yield to cars anyway. If a person is in the crosswalk and a car approaches in a manner that makes it obvious he has no intention of slowing down, is the pedestrian going to continue on a collision course simply because he technically has "right of way?" No. He is going to get the fuck out of the way. As he should, since car>person if the two happen to collide.

6) pedestrians don't even appreciate the stupid law that has given them power over a 3000 pound vehicle. Instead of attempting to cross in a timely manner, they often stroll across the street in a most leisurely manner, almost mocking the cars for having to sit there and wait for them.
 
Fjones said:
When people don't understand the situation with 3 doors, I'll usually switch to an absurd and extreme example, such as "I am thinking of a number between 1 and a million, try to guess what it is."

whatever the person says, I'll then say, "Okay, well, either that is the number I was thinking of, or it is 537,892. DO you want to stick with your original answer or switch it to 537,892."

Most people comprehend that the answer is almost certainly 537,892 at that point, because they grasp that I have eliminated hundreds of thousands of wrong answers for them, and furthermore, that their original guess was most likely wrong.

Though, some people at that point would still probably say either answer has a 1/2 probability.
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Pretty sure that confuses people more... There is a lot easier way of explaining this.
 
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