Annoying?

[InvaderTMNT]

What annoys you?
Here's a few of the things I find annoying (please feel free to add anything that you find annoying) =) 1. When ppl rev up their engine in their vehicle right as they pass you. (yes, i see, your car is really loud, but why don't you just do it around someone who really wants to go deaf?)
2. Ppl who think they're always right and that you're always wrong.
3. Most screamo bands,
4. Really super loud who just talk way to much.
5. The Problem Solvers.

[InvaderTMNT]

i forgot to add ppl, btwn the loud and who

[CriticalCrittles]

Oh hey, working in retail, I've got quite a few things! lol I'll start off with this:
~Customers who think they know how to do my job better than I do (This happens at LEAST once a day every day btw!)

[Raphael]

Never worked in retail myself, but I have friends who did...and I know they'd agree with that.

"You can give me a discount on this material."
"No, I can't. I'd need to contact the manager."
"No, I know you can give me 10% off"
"No, I can't, I don't have that authority."
"Yes you do."

Sure, someone who doesn't work in the store would know the store's policies better than the employee would. Of course!

What about customers who are just plain rude or inconsiderate? Different store, same friend had this happen:  The customer was looking at curling irons, knocked one off the shelf and rather than pick it up, he kicked it under the shelf. When he came to pay for the one he eventually chose, she casually asked him if he wouldn't prefer the one he'd kicked under the shelf.

[Danceingfae]

Oooh I have soo many I could add to list. For those who don't know, I work in pizza. So you can imagine what I get.

- When taking an order and the customer can see we have at least three or four other order tickets up then ask, so is it going to be five minutes for my cooked pizza?
       Me: *Blinks* Uhhh sorry no. There's other orders in front of you we have to make first. (Not to mention it takes 5 and a half mins to go and cook anyways!)
       Customer: Why?
       Me: *Holding back from stabbing the customer with my pen*

- Then I so despise when some one tells me they want a pizza, then come back and swear it was something completely different. Listen! I repeat orders back when I take them!

- Last but not least. Customers on a cell when I'm trying to help them. Ugh!

[BubblyShell22]

Great thread. Here are some of mine:

1. Politicians

2. Judgmental people.

3. Family members who continually don't learn from their mistakes and continue to keep secrets from others.

4. Bad drivers.

[Aignatius]

The Occupy movement was pretty annoying, but they don't get as much media attention as they did initially.

[Raphael]

While I can appreciate the goals of the Occupy movment, I'm just not sure what they were hoping to accomplish with it.

[BubblyShell22]

I think the Occupy movement was trying to be a protest for greedy corporations and how the people are tired of it. But I doubt it's doing anything for us.

[Aignatius]

It was a pro-Socialist, anti-capitalist movement that sought to disrupt business in general, and to keep people from getting to work. People were protesting for so many different things, there was little cohesion other than the overly vague "bring down corporate greed" and "we need jobs". You're right, though, that method wasn't very effective. What were they really protesting? corporate greed has been around for generations. The economy has fluctuated, sometimes wildly, over the years. Why protest all that now? *shrug*
And, compared to how other countries have handled protests, the police here behaved very well, all things considered.

[CriticalCrittles]

Ugh Fae, I'm totally with you on the cell phone thing. I HATE trying to check people out while they're on their phone! All I can do is just guess everything they put in front of me is what they are buying, and give them their total. Oh but wait, they didn't want that, and they wanted to ring that up separately, and oh they just wanted to know the price of that, and oh yeah they had a coupon for that but if they can't use it on that item then they just plain don't want the item...ugh. It's such a pain because if people decide they don't want an item after I've hit the total key, then I have to have a manager come up and make a key turn and remove the item, which can take awhile depending on what said manager was already currently doing, and if they would have just gotten off the phone and told me these things while we were going along it could have been avoided. But instead, I get to look like the stupid one while they wait impatiently because of what appears to be MY mistake. And ya know, if I wait for a customer to get OFF the phone before I start checking them out, they give me looks like hey check me out stupid....so it's like I just can't win, really. 

[Raphael]

Cell phones should be banned in check out lines of any kind. To talk on the phone while someone is trying to ring up an order, is just plain rude. And it goes both ways. As a customer, I've had salespeople say "Just one moment please" while they answered a cell phone/text message.

Is it any wonder I hate telephones?  They're just another way for people to become ruder to each other.

[Mindy]

Working at a drive-thru, I can list a thousand things.

Mostly, moody people annoy the crap out of me, in and out of the drive-thru. hehe

[BubblyShell22]

Yeah, moody people can be annoying. While Mom and I were in the checkout line once at Wal-Mart, we had to endure the person behind us talking on her cell phone and complaining about the person in front of us who had a lot of gifts that she needed to buy. It was just so pointless to complain about it. The lady could've just gone to another register or something. Ugh.

[InvaderTMNT]

Speaking of drive-thru's that reminds me of something i heard from a comedian, Dane Cook.
I could imagine how annoyed someone could be if the person ordering through the drive-thru was shouting at the top of their lungs. Poor person on the headset is probably wondering if their ears are bleeding. It would also drive me nuts if I could barely hear the person. Do you ever have like a line of 10 cars, and while you're taking the order of the first person all you hear is this, "....*very low voice* mac.... no pickles... fri.. the shake.. and the pickles...*silence*.. tarts." ?

[BubblyShell22]

Yeah, I hear where you're coming from. And sometimes you have a hard time hearing the person taking your order, too. Mom and I have had that happen a few times.

[Mindy]

My husband avoids drive thru just for that reason, hehe.

[Aignatius]

Fast food places are too fast for me. I go in, once every lunar eclipse or so, stare up at the menu, bewildered by the variety, tell the person behind me to go ahead, tell the 2nd person, go ahead, tell the 3rd person to go ahead... in the space of about 30 seconds. 

[BubblyShell22]

I don't mind fast food in general, but sometimes the drive-thrus are a bit of a pain. But most of the time, I'm satisfied with fast food.

[InvaderTMNT]

Another thing that I find annoying: When ppl stop in the middle of the aisle or hallway. (Like I don't have somewhere to be? GAWSH)  >

[Raphael]

Ooh, on the subject of 'standing around' - I hate it when people stop at the bottom of escalators, to chat.  Then they give you a dirty look because you've practically run into them when you have no other place to go, due to the moving staircase behind you.

[BubblyShell22]

Yeah, that's really rude. I've always hated it when I had somewhere to be and I'd politely say to people, "Excuse me," when walking around crowds and they'd ignore me like I never said anything. That happened at school a lot.

[Fugitoid]

Yeah, I hate when people just stop in the middle of a obvious high traffic area without consideration of the people behind them. Like at the grocery store, sidewalk, at the mall. I'll be honest though, sometimes I get so frustrated that I'll "accidentally" bump into them.    But it's a clean hit. 

[InvaderTMNT]

Ooh, on the subject of 'standing around' - I hate it when people stop at the bottom of escalators, to chat.  Then they give you a dirty look because you've practically run into them when you have no other place to go, due to the moving staircase behind you.

I agree. Some dude in Walmart gave me a dirty look when my cart got one of the wheels caught in a vent. Why? Because he decided to stop right in the middle of the aisle, so I tried to just go around him. If I wasn't a quiet and nice person I would have liked to tell him, "Like dude. Don't give me the dirty look. You're the... who decided to stop in the middle of walmart traffic." Then I'd mak him. hahaha 

[Mindy]

I agree with all of these statements. People are usually polite here when it comes to grocery stores, malls, etc. but the irony hits when they get in their cars and forget there are other drivers on the road. 

[BubblyShell22]

I think people are getting worse about politeness every day. It just seems that they forget about what it means. And kids today are even worse. I tell you, if I acted like that, I'd be spanked within an inch of my life.

[Mindy]

I'm pretty flabbergasted by it, too. I do remember when I was young and hearing the adults say the same thing

[Raphael]

As much as I love the internet for the good things it has done/brought about, it's producing a generation of rude people (young & old alike!).  People are able to be anonymous online, so they can be rude. After a while, they get so used to being rude on the computer, they forget and start acting that way out in amongst people. Social skills are going right out the window.

[InvaderTMNT]

Some don't learn. A teacher would tell a student to sit in their seat, and guess what they do? They go sit by their friends everyday. They act like it's going to kill them. *to the ppl who do it* Darling, it ain't gonna kill you if your friend has to sit ten feet away from you. This is a learning place, not your social playground. NOW SIT DOWN!

[BubblyShell22]

I agree about the Internet. It's a good thing and a bad thing at the same time. I think kids are spending too much time on sites like Facebook and MySpace that they forget that there's a real world out there. And like you said, cyber bullying is a big problem where kids just constantly bully others. It's awful.

[InvaderTMNT]

Pop-ups are annoying. Especially the one's that say; Congratualtions you won $1,000,000,000!!!!
Me: No i didn't. You're just trying to scam me.
And the worst ones are the ones that you could click on the "x" button and they won't go away.
*click* *pop-up* *click*... *pop up again* *repeatedly clicking*.... *pop up again and again and again* *throw computer across the room* *tell the technician that it tried to attack you.*

[BubblyShell22]

Yeah, I sometimes get that on FF.Net with Chrome. It'll suddenly come up, and I just click the Skip Ad button to skip over it. It gets really annoying, too.