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Pet Peeves ver. Fjones vs Redleader

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**hAyzzZZ** said:
I think that it doesn't technically matter what amount is entered, as long as the actual balance in the register at the end of the day balances.

So say I enter $500000 in my til but technically give the correct change, it wont matter what i entered as long as I give the the right amount of money back.

Well, at my work that's how it goes anywho. We have computers, those old manual registers may be different but I doubt it.
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Exactly. As far as the register knows, maybe the customer DID in fact give me $638,000 and I gave him $637,995.25 back. How would the register know any differently? All it knows is that there should be $4.75 more than there was before, which there is.
 
^ Nor mine! lol I never add anything in my head unless it is obvious what the change is going to be.
 
People who announce things that should be kept quite simply for their own self indulgence attention needs.

People who just go around snapping pictures at parties, etc.
 
One thing that makes me rage is people telling ME what I need to do. I realize it's a figure of speech, but fucking ask me. I can't stand people telling me what to do, but don't ever tell me what I need to do.
 
When you're at a freeway stop, and two lanes merge and it says ONE car per green-- and you let the person on the other side go in front of you, and then some rude motherfucker behind them goes in front of you and almost causes an accident because you were expecting them to have some human decency and wait their fucking turn.

When you have to pull over and put your emergency lights on, then no one wants to let you back in the fucking street and the 10th person to fly past your car honks at you when you started moving into the lane WAY before they were behind you but they've obviously speeded up so you won't go in front of them...

AHHH!
 
The fucking congestion on the roads in Melbourne.

Fucking hell, every time of the day, no matter where you are, constant traffic. I am sick of it. Takes ages to get anywhere except at 3am.

Also, no matter how much i brush my dog, he sheds fur so much i practically have to vacuum my bedroom every second day. It's annoying but he can't help it so i'll forgive him for it. lol
 
Fjones said:
This is a good point. As long as ALL the money is handed to the person in the beginning, there is no reason for the cashier to get confused. All he or she has to do is enter that amount. If the bill is $16.08 and a customer hands you $21.10, JUST TYPE in $21.10 and the nice friendly cash register will employ this technique known as "math" and tell you exactly how much money to give to the nice customer.

Mildly related anecdote--

I worked a cash register briefly at a convenience store neara college that I was attending / had attended. I got bored easily so I would add up people's stuff in my head, with tax, and tell them the total as I was entering the items in the register. They would be astonished when the register showed the same thing I said. I wasn't crazy about the job, but that helped me get through the day.

Sometimes I would put somethign absurd in the register for he amount given. People didn't realize that it didn't matter. If the bill was $4.75, and the guy handed me a $5 dollar bill, I would type in $638,000.00 and hand him a quarter.

He would give a funny look as the register said he was owed $637,995.25. Luckily for me no one ever complained about being short changed (probably because it was such an obviously absurd number. I wouldn't do that with an amount someone could have actually given me).

Hey, you have to entertain yourself somehow while at work........
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I'd give people their total in cents. $5.50 was "five hundred and fifty cents." Even something that simple pissed people off and/or just left them starring blankly.
 
^^ Hahaha that is hilarious! No-one's ever done that to me...I wish they would, I would laugh :)

**hAyzzZZ** said:
The fucking congestion on the roads in Melbourne.

Fucking hell, every time of the day, no matter where you are, constant traffic. I am sick of it. Takes ages to get anywhere except at 3am.
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Sydney's exactly the same hun, it's just awful :X
Before the end of the year I'm going to quit my current job and find one 10 minutes from home, PURELY to avoid the traffic!
 
I am especially peeved today.

1) People who make right turns at a rate that would be mocked by a turtle. Seriously man, what the hell? Did someone teach you that the safest way to drive is to remain in the way as long as possible? Finish your turn and get out of the road! You do not need to slow down to 5 MPH 100 feet before your turn.

2) Gym pet peeves -- Someone left the 100 pound (46 Kg) dumbbells in the middle of the floor, in the way. What the hell is this person thinking? 100 pounds !? I cannot even pick those up to move them if I wanted to! Then, I go to use the squat rack. someone who was just doing pull-ups at a different station comes over and says he is using it. Then he proceeds to do another set of pull-ups.

Umm. Huh? I don't know about you, but when I use the squat rack, I do SQUATS. I don't "use" it by doing pull-ups elsewhere while maintaining some sort of imaginary claim on the squat rack.

3) Today, upon driving home on my one lane street (which causes enough problems as it is), I find that a neighbor has double parked his car next to his other car.... BLOCKING THE ENTIRE FUCKING ROAD, even though every other space on the parking lane was unoccupied. I cannot imagine what was going through his mind when he did this. There was NO ONE standing near the cars or anywhere outside for that matter. If there were an inconsiderate scale, this would be 9.99999 out of 10. I am leaving room for the 1 in 100,000 chance that there is something more inconsiderate.

4) Television. Oh man, I fucking HATE television. I have half a mind to throw the damn thing outside and set fire to it. But then I would have nothing to play video games on. I just hate everything about television. Random channel surfing is about 999th on a list of 1000 things I would like to do, and LISTENING to said channel surfing while others do it is number 1000.

Note -- Please do not flame me. It is a PET peeve thread. I realize that most people like TV. No offense is intended. I bear no ill will toward the many who likely think that the things i like to do are 999th out of 1000 on their list of favorite things.
 
Bad stupid drivers in general. I have been doing way too much driving lately and it makes me angry because people are so godamn stupid.

Just a few: people who decide to make random stops in the middle of the fucking road. People who decide it's a good idea to wait for a little bit before moving on a green light, when you're driving up right behind them. People who decide WAY TOO EARLY to give up on a light so you're stuck waiting too. People who go 20 miles an hour in a 45 mile zone when there is only ONE lane.

Also, my GPS. I am extremely dependent on this thing, but it pisses me off lately. It keeps telling me to make a right, then "make a left in 300 feet." Are you fucking kidding me? How the fuck am I supposed to get from the very right-est lane to the left in 300 feet if it's a packed street? Or even moderately ful?
 
^^ haha, it's such an awkward situation too.

On the topic of handshakes, I also hate people with limp dead fish handshakes, or people who go to shake your hand with their hand on top, facing down, as like a dominance thing.
 
Okay, I am so beyond peeved at my internet access provider right now. The following happened between the hours of 6 and 8 this morning. To indicate how servere my sensativity to pet peeves are, I was on 2mg xanax and 5 shots of vodka at this time, feeling pretty great.

I'm having a conversation with a good friend of mine on messenger. Though the conversation this time was same time-zone, on other mornings I am often awake at these odd hours and on the internet (aside from playing around on BL) to talk with my friends from Australia (where I used to live), as well as occasionally with former colleges from my research days in Aus ("Skyping" or whatnot...).

Anyway, I believe it was around 6:25 that my internet goes down. Great....But also odd, because I've noticed that in the past two weeks, this has happened now 5 times. And it's all between 6:25 and 6:45.

Step #1: Wait 5 minutes, give my router a backrub, etc. FAIL.

(This is the point at which a normal person I think would just walk away....:) But no, just scroll down and see how the story is just beginning!)

Step #2: Grab the Yellow Pages and find the name of the company. Call the number. Of course, I get "Welcome to _____. Your call may be monitored, etc. Press 1) for information on a new account, 2) for updating and existing account, ..., 9) for technical support.

I press 9. "Welcome to technical support. [I kid you not] Please bend over (assuming the router was on the floor, hmm it sounded kind of perverse to me) and look at the front. How many lights do you see flashing?"

ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Give me an option 10, for "people who know more than a monkey about a computer, but just want any detailed information about why their server is down from a LIVING, BREATHING HUMAN BEING."

I noticed that the automated thing must have been like a tree structure, so I started going through all combinations, hoping one could get me to a person, who I could just say "can you possibly direct me to what I need?"

But no. FAIL.

Step #3: Call the Business Line of the same company, which is a toll-free national number, in hopes to get a person, even if I sound like an idiot.

I do the tree approach again with their automated process. And it did work, I got a person, and was then transfered to another person.

Redleader: "Hello. Honestly, I couldn't understand the last person's accent. Here's the deal, I'm from ______ and my server's down. Is there any way that you can give me more information about when it will be back up, as in if this is some type of routine downtime, or whatnot?"

Operator1: "Can you give me your telephone number."

Redleader: "Gives it."

Operator1: "And the last four digits of your social."

Redleader: "X-X-X-X"

Operator1: "That's not what we have on file."

Redleader: "Umm, I don't know what else to say. That's it....I promise."

Operator1: "Sorry sir, but you'll need to update that under your account on our website."

Redleader (now level 7 on a 1-10 madness scale): "See, I told you before. My server's down. So that's not possible. But you've got my account pulled up right there..."

Operator1: "I cannot do that. But you say your server is not running? Did it come with an instruction manual? Maybe there's a secret switch to turning yours back on again."

OH MY GOD.

::hangs up::

At this point, I knew that my friend, with whom I was conversing, was probably gone and that now it was just me with a vendetta against my internet provider. So I call a friend of mine who is a computer genius.

Friend: "Dude, I'm in bed with a girl and it's 5am (two time zones back). WHAT THE HELL?"

He used to live where I do now and had the same company. So he was like "here, let me find it. Okay ya, call this number. It's not listed in the yellow pages, but it gets you straight to 24 hour tech support. They are also morons, but might be of help."

Now "moron" to this friend is still like a very smart person to me, so I call the number.

Person on it: "Hey, welcome to ______ support. My name is ______."

Redleader:" Look, I hear you're a cool guy and will cut to the chase with me (I don't even know what I'm saying at this point)."

Person on it: "Umm thanks. You know, we do pound Monster Energy drinks all night....I'm happy as a horse right now (is that even a saying??)"

Redleader: "Apparently I don't even know my own social. But ya, here's my IP address. Can you tell me why I cannot get online?"

Person: "Hmm :minute pause:. Your server's down."

Redleader: "Is it routine maintenence, or is something really f*cked?"

**--BEST PART ABOUT TO HAPPEN--**

Person (in a cold and calm voice): "It looks like.....your server got hit by a car."

Redleader: "Oh really? You don't see that everyday, do ya? What, is it located in the middle of a highway?"

Person: "Our guys are working on it, though. Let's see, 6:50 was when the support arrived and ya, it should be back up, I'd say no later than 8."

Redleader: "Thanks."

I'm not even going to talk about a server getting hit by a car, or in the hypothetical case of that happening, it being repaired in 70 minutes or less.

Okay, so either I'm being lied to, or there actually is someone who religiously is driving some type of magical car that can injure a server for around 2 hours, at the same time most mornings. In this crazy latter case, I am going to pull $500 out of my savings, buy a lemmon, and intercept that car. I will be waiting every morning. Even at the expense of conversations with my friends, I will be waiting (though I am a bit nervous, becuase if a car can do that kind of magic to a server, what will it do to my lemon???).
 
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People who use the word "ouch" when it's really not necessary. My mother does this.

Redleader's Mother: :slams arm into table: "Ouch, ouch, ouch. I just slammed my hand into a table. Ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch!"

Perfect enunciation of the word "ouch," though! I just don't know. When I feel pain, maybe "ahhhh" is the only somewhat word that I want to utter (, lest I should be yelling "stop" or "help"), but never do I want to just start repeating "ouch."
 
Driving

1) I'm waiting at an intersection (stop signs, no lights) to turn left, across traffic. Some other car pulls up to my right, in anticipation of turning right. But pulls up so that our cars are parallel and side-by-side. Then it turns into a glaring contest of the gee, it's now a little harder for me to make my move because I cannot so easily see what is coming, since your car is blocking my vision flavour.

Okay, person in other car, since you're turning right, you only care about what is coming from your left, which could potentially hit you from behind. I care about both sides. So you stop just behind my car, so you can still get a perfect look at traffic approaching from the left, and I have perfect visibility of both sides (which I need, turning left). But no, it's almost like you want this evil starring match, which will distract us even more from responsible driving and increase our chances of crashing!!!

2) When living in apartment complexes, people who park their cars (like weeks) for extended times in popular places. How rude is that? If you're going to have it sit there for the three weeks you are in Hawaii, at least try and park in a place less commonly used!

3) People who mimic the sounds that a turn-signal makes. I already have an issue with turn signals, because my OCD goes nuts over the fact that all cars have turn signals that flash at slightly different speeds. But I honestly had a friend of a friend in my vehicle the other day, who at the intersection, started something of a "ki-ku-ki-ku" chant (while swaying back and forth), and then gave me this death-stare when I didn't join in with her. Now I admit that I used to do this as a kid. And this is one of the major reasons why I will only adopt, becuase even the chance of my genetics somehow passing that desire on to a kid I'd be driving around a lot in the future precludes me from wanting to pass off my own offspring.

4) OH MY GOD, I cannot believe this hasn't been said yet. The "Do you want to buy a car wash?" question that is mandatory before most purchases of fuel. Just seeing that little imagine of a car with bubbles in it makes me cringe, if not lite a ciggerette, throw it a distance, and pull the trigger of the pump. And I've noticed a growing trend where, okay how do I put this, you 1) swipe a debt/credit card, and there's typically 3 questions: car wash, credit/debit and recept? But the buttons you touch are in different orders at different stations.

Station one (say the one a minute from my place, which I almost always use) has:

Debit ->
Credit ->

Receipt ->
No Receipt ->

Buy a car wash? Yes ->
No ->

Then I randomly stop across town for fuel at another place the other week, and I got:

Debit ->
Credit ->

Receipt ->
No Receipt ->

Buy a car wash? No ->
Yes ->

Cleaver, really. I was so used to the Simon-esque memory game of my local store's buttons, that I go and buy myself a god-forsaken car wash!!!
 
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