The little things that drive you crazy.

[LocoColt04]

Well, if any of you read my journal today, you'd already know this was coming. So, before we get started, I want to point out that this thread shouldn't be for ANYTHING forum-related. If you have an issue there, there's already another topic for it. Keep this one for non-TFF materials, plzkthx.

I'll probably post up some different thoughts on things that irk me another time.


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I'll start off by saying this much -- I'm not going to be complaining about work here. Hell, it's rare that I do that, and when I do it's usually to tell some awesome story to go along with it. No, these are gripes about people. Really, really, obnoxiously stupid people.

A few, random things:

1 - MUMBLERS. Okay, so you mumble. It's not so terrible if you're standing next to me in the store. I can hear you, for the most part, and that's okay. But sometimes it's busy. Sometimes you need to speak up, or at least speak clearly. There might be too much background noise. But if you're on the phone, and all I hear is "hey do you mmfphmthtmddn?" and expect an answer, I'm going to ask you to speak up. And when I hear "HEY DO YOU MMFPHMTHTMDDN" and expect an answer, I'm going to ask you to speak clearly. And when I hear "HEY. DO. YOU. HAVE. FPHMTHTMDDN." and expect an answer, I'm going to make up some bullshit about how there must be a terrible connection and you'll have to call me right back. No, there's no terrible connection, you just never learned how to dictate your speech and should return to grade school. I'm thinking kindergarten would be a good start, yes?

2 - STUBBORNNESS. "What do you mean you don't have it in stock? I was at the other store and they said you had 4-9 copies!" (I hate when other stores do the database lookup and fail to call; however, in their defense, some customers don't want us to call... I always do anyway.) "I'm sorry ma'am, but the list updates overnight. It is 6pm and I sold our last Wii at about noon today." It's not -always- with the Wii that people flip out at me, but it's usually the case. Or Wii Fit. Or Mario Kart. Or the 60GB PS3 that was discontinued in June of 2007. You know, because a store that was built in July of 2008 will totally just have those laying around everywhere. Insert various other samples of stubborn people getting pissed off because I don't have what they want in stock, because it's MY fault that someone else got here first.

3 - SHORT-CHANGERS. Hi. I didn't grow up yesterday. I tested out of two years of college-level Calculus when I was going to school. If you think I'm going to fall for that whole "oh, wait, I have this much instead, give me that back and we'll work out the change" bullshit, I'm going to say "no, let's just work with what you gave me already." "But the math is easy!" "I know it is, and you're doing it wrong." That tends to shut them up.

4 - IGNORANCE. I'm not talking about personalities, although that's also really annoying. I'm not talking about parents trying to buy crap for their kids, because that's understandable. I'm talking about the kids who come in saying things like "I was setting up my system and the video doesn't work." We'll use the 360 as an example.
"Did you check the connections on the cables?"
"Yeah man I'm not an idiot, it's all plugged in right, I know how to work a TV."
"Is it high-def or standard-def?"
"It's HD man, I ain't poor."
"Did you check the cable to be sure it was flipped in the HDTV position?"
"What? Cables don't have switches, you're an idiot."
"No, sir, the XB360 video cable supports both standard and high definition output; all you have to do is flip the switch at the bottom of the cable."
And then I get a cable. And the guy gets an attitude with me, as though I'm the moron here. I'm sorry that you're too much of a douche to bother reading your instruction manual, or even look at the damn cable itself to find the answer sitting directly in front of your face. Glad I could help.

5 - STALKERS. I think I've only had one or two personal experiences with this in terms of work-related incidents, but this one's less about me and more about my co-workers. For those who know me, you know I used to work at "ChickStop." Our staff was half female, and we got a LOT of phonecalls.
"Is Jess there?" "Nope, she--" *click*
"Is Markie there?" "Not at the moment, she--" *click*
Or my favorite; "Thanks for calling GameStop where you can buy and sell used games, this is Cesar, how may I help you?" *click*
Yeah, I don't have the right body parts for you, you just go ahead and hang up now. I've been running into this a bit at my new store, too. I think a lot of them are wrong numbers since we're still pretty fresh, but I get the occasional heavy sigh before the hang up. There are a lot of calls for Mandy. A guy (who wasn't her boyfriend) called and got pissed off at me because she had the day off. Seriously. WTF. And poor Emily (manager at another store) has a guy who still remembers the outfit she wore the day he first met her... down to the pattern on her stockings. And Andrea... well, lesbians at GameStop have desperate guys crawling all over them. Yikes. Ew.

6 - APPLICANTS. Oh man, this section has subsets. But first, some positive spin. I love hiring new people. I hire a lot of first-timers, too, so I really don't care whether you have experience or not. Sure, it helps, and I generally have to go by what's best for the store, but sometimes experience just can't beat personality.

6.1 - APPLICANTS WHO MUMBLE. Seriously. This is a sales floor. You stand on it and sell things to people. If you cannot properly articulate, you should not be talking, let alone selling. Learn to speak, then come back to see me next year.

6.2 - APPLICANTS WHO ARE IGNORANT. If you're a customer and you're ignorant about something, there are acceptable situations for that, as noted above. But if you're applying for a job to sell things to people and you listed your entire videogame knowledge as "The Sims," I don't think you've got a diverse enough library to sell Rogue Galaxy to an RPG player, or BioShock to an FPS player. I surely don't expect every applicant to know everything about everything. Hell, half of my current staff is still out of the loop on various things here and there. But when you come in to my store and ask for an application, and I ask you what you know about videogames, and your verbatim response is "Nothing, I just need a job..."

And finally, the coup de grâce.

6.3 - APPLICANTS WHO BEG.

I get it. You want a job. You need a job. You have some sick desire to work for minimum wage five hours a week and think that it will help you pay off your $20,000 debts or whatever. I don't care why you want to get hired. Well, actually, I do, but that's not the point here.

If you walk in the door and say "please tell me you're hiring, I really need a job," you're already just a little under my skin. At this point, the relationship is easily salvageable. Talk to me. Let's get you an application. Let's see what you know. Now you can wait until I'm hiring again... when? Could be seasonal hiring in October. Maybe someone will quit, or move, or get fired. I can't tell you.

If you walk in the door and look at things, regardless of whether you buy stuff, and we strike up a conversation on the sales floor, you're a customer. Now, when we're done talking about X game or Y system, and you ask me for an application, you're a customer who would like a job. You're off on the right foot here.

Regardless of how it starts, what matters is how it continues. I've got a couple of guys who come in once or twice a week just to see if we've got any openings yet. Nope. Okay, cool, later! That's awesome.

And I've got a couple of guys who continue to come in... and beg. Literally. "Pleeeeeeease I neeeeeed a job so bad! Can't you just fire that guy?" Is that a joke? Are you trying to be funny? Do you really want me to fire an employee?

Two come to mind. One is needy and one is aggressive. Both beg.

Hi. I am Person One. I like long walks on the beach and whining for a job. I am going to visit you four days a week, strike up a conversation, and then loiter for an hour minimum. I'm going to interrupt your customers to show you how good of a salesman I am. I'm going to slowly get further and further behind your counter when we're talking until you tell me to get out from behind the counter. I'm going to ramble on about things you don't care about in hopes that my vast knowledge of nothing important and outdated systems that you don't even sell any more will get me a job. I'll continue to whine and beg and be really obnoxious because it makes such a good impression on you. I have something reserved, so you have to love me by default.

Hi. I am Person Two. The follow paragraph will be more words than I have ever spoken. I, too, will visit you three or four times a week. I will bring in a game worth two dollars in trade credit and then bitch and you when you take off 20% for cash value. I will loiter in your store for at least twenty minutes at a time. I dress as though I am homeless. I mumble sometimes. I will also interrupt your customers when they ask you questions, but then I won't know the answer so I will make something up. You will correct me and I will look stupid and then I will get angry with you and demand that you hire me. I have virtually no knowledge of the position I am applying for but I am a far better choice than the other guy who keeps begging you for a job. My application looked good on paper but I was probably lying about most of it, because when you ask me questions about games and try to make a conversation out of it, I get frustrated with you and stomp my feet.

Seriously.

So maybe I put a little more detail in those than anticipated.

Despite all of these things, I absolutely LOVE retail. I think I'm sick.

[Anachlirium]

1 - People who chew with their mouth open.
Seriously. Just ew. You're not a cow. Don't ****ing act like one. Food goes in. Mouth gets shut. Mouth does not open again until food has been swallowed. It isn't that hard.

2 - Emokids.
It isn't cool that you scratch yourself with a plastic butterknife to fit in with a silly trend. It isn't cool that you pretend to like those of the same gender because it makes other emokids wantulieksobad. Your black hair hanging over your eyes doesn't make you seem sad, deep and anguished. It makes people pray you can't tell where you're going and will soon crash headfirst into a pole.

All the trend has done is promote disgusting glamourisation of mental illness, kickstart extreme biphobia and create a league of clones that think they're unique because they chopped themselves a devilock and have lieksrsissoos since their custom red and black Xbox stopped working.

3 - Homophobes
They has an evil. I'll stop there, because I could go on for a long time and offend a lot of people. Although I'm sure I probably already have.

[Violet]

Hmm, I should have some fun with this.

Back Stabbers. They pretend to be very caring and understanding. They want to know the latest scoop on your troubles so they can go tell their other "friend" all about it. They don't exactly stand anywhere between the two friends, they prefer to be the little slime-ball they are and say shit behind both each others backs. It's especially annoying when they try to travel along with you and your friends, then try to act all cool or like they're in on something you're not.


Hardcore fan boys/girls of things like Kingdom Hearts and Naruto. The first thing I see when I go on Deviantart.com are all those weird fan art drawings of Sasuke and Naruto going at each other even though they're hardly that way in the actual anime >_>. This is the rule they all go by.. "IF THEY TALK TO EACH OTHER, THEN THEY ARE IN LURVE." The characters don't have to have any connection with each other as far as romance goes. If they look good together, then they're MADE for each other, apparently.


People without a sense of humor. For example. That whole S-Mod thing is just a joke. If you don't like it, then ignore it and it will eventually die out just like any other thing that we've created. People need to learn how to just laugh things off. Stop taking everything so seriously.

Spammers. I can't stand when someone posts in a section with a few words.. like "lol that's cool".. "I don't like it". Oh yeah, especially if they don't know how to abbreviate things. We all went to school at one point in our lives. Just because this is the internet doesn't mean you have to type all lazy. If anything, you need to type more clear so people can understand what you're saying. Otherwise, you sound like a frikkin' retard. So, take my advice: if u typ liek dis, YOU ARE NOT COOL, OKAY!? ENGLISH, please!


Stupid People. No matter what you say, they respond like "What did you say? Uuuh.. okay? I don't understand." And then they keep saying stuff like that in conversations when they're not even being addressed to.


Hypocritical Slobs. You know.. the kind who throw their clothes everywhere and can't cook for themselves.. then they yell at YOU for not helping enough. Like my dad, for instance. I only go on his laptop to talk on MSN or write in the Word Processor. Well, he signed on it before and it wasn't working.. the internet was down. Then, he goes and yells my name and asks "WHAT THE $%@$ DID YOU DO TO IT!?" And I'm pretty much dumbfounded, as I didn't do anything. His logic is that if anything's not working, it's automatically my fault. Lovely thing.

When someone contradicts themselves while trying to prove a point.

Conceited people. Get over yourself. Your attitudes are extremely undesirable. It's a wonder how anyone could be attracted to someone so self-centered to begin with.. probably just to get in your pants or use you like a trophy, if anything. There's more to life than your own damn reflection. Rather than staring at yourself thinking you're the shit, how about actually helping people out for a change? And no.. by that I don't mean "simply being in their presence".. you're not a god or a princess >_>.

[Kyo-san]

1. Homophobes.
It's likely obvious as to why I don't like them, so I'm going to put some restraint on my words of choice. Don't hate. The gay community has never done anything to you. So, say a gay scratches your car with a pin. Go ahead. Hate that one. However, don't hate him because he's gay.

Seriously, though. It's ridiculous.

2. People who breathe heavily.
This is another big annoyance. Even if you don't realize you're doing it, someone will probably tell you. Don't get mad at them. You don't have to sound like you've just run a marathon when you're sitting down watching a movie. It's irritating and distracting.

3. Excessively Critical Untalented People.
It really bugs me when I'm showing some random person (who openly admits that they don't draw at all) my art, and they turn around and tell me I suck at drawing hands. Or that I suck at drawing legs. Or that I just suck at drawing. It's demeaning, pointless, and just wrong. It just really annoys me.

[Corazón de León]

1. People who put things in front of clocks
I am pretty damn sure that this is an OCD thing. I hate it when people put things accidentally over digital clocks. It blocks out the time, so then they make excuses like "Well I didn't know what time it was," when they end up being late. Well, you didn't know what time it was, because you put something in front of your clock!

2. People who look suspiciously like animals
I've known people who've looked like turtles, chickens, and ducks, and I have come to the conclusion that people who look like any type of animal are retarded assholes. The reason for which being that they're just completely stupid. I don't think that there's much more to say about this subject.

3. Clowns
I don't mean people who joke around, I mean literal circus clowns. Children love circus clowns, if they're completely insane. The profession of a clown, if you can call dressing up like a child molester a profession, was started by criminals disguising themselves to escape authority, so I always wondered, why do parents let their children around them? For all they know, the clown could be waiting for the opportune moment to inject his diarrhea into nineteen children's bloodstreams via a syringe in a McDonald's ball pit. As sick as it seems, that's actually a true story. Disgusting, but true.

4. Public school teachers from grades 4 to 12
They don't teach. All throughout high school, I spent every single minute of my time in class reading, instead of doing the work, and every single class, I passed. I literally did nothing in high school, and it pissed me off. It was a waste of four years of my life that I wish were spent doing actual work. Don't get me wrong, I love reading, but I'd rather read on my own time than in replace of bullshit busywork assignments. Now I go to a community college. It's still a public school, but unlike in my high school, I actually get to do work now.

[Pete]

I'd keep this short... but it's so much more fun not to.

1. Emo Kids.
-Dare I say it, but I agree completely with Froggie on this one. It's one thing to have bipolar disorder or other mental illnesses, and wind up cutting yourself. It happens, alright. It's another thing to lock yourself in your mom's basement and wear eyeblack and your little sister's jeans and cry about how the world is so unfair because your mom got you the 20gig xbox and not the 60.

2. Liars/ truth embellishers.
I don't see the need to make shit up. I'm perfectly content with my life and the things I've done. I hate it when people have to go and make up stories in order to sound interesting or cool. To me, there's nothing worse than dealing with someone who constantly lies about their experiences and even about little things. It eventually catches up with you, and you look like an asshole. There's nothing wrong in telling the truth.

3. People who live in a country for years and don't bother to learn the native language.
This one bothers me a lot. If you've lived here for years, you should have picked up enough language from tv alone to be able to converse. I don't want to have to find an interpreter to have a conversation if I'm shopping or doing something that requires me to talk to other people. Plus, it's common courtesy. If I were to travel abroad for a prolonged period of time, I would do all I could to learn the language, just so I don't become the 'asshole tourist.'

4. Overly sensitive people.
This one goes out to everyone who cries wolf and runs to the ACLU every time a joke is made. "Oh no, he used the word 'gay' in a context not referring to homosexuals, but in a derogatory way! My rights have been violated!" Bull. Shit. Or anybody who claims that the Black Plague is a racist term. This doesn't even have to extend so far as to race or gender. It can also deal with people who shit a brick every time someone says Japanimation and not anime. Deal with it; there are bigger problems out there.

5. Holier than thou hybrid owners
Ok, wonderful, you're doing your part to save the world. Good for you. You don't need to call me an asshole because I drive a '91 Olds, that uses gas. For people who can afford these cars, good for you. I can't afford anything other than what I'm driving, sorry. It doesn't make me an asshole; I recycle and use those good light bulbs and all that shit. I just happen to use an older car. Deal with it. Oh and good luck in a head-on collision Mr. Smart Car owner.

6. Shitty drivers
How did you pass the test? Shenequa at the DMV is the closest thing to a Nazi as you'll get, and yet you still wind up having a license? You've been driving for 3 miles with your left blinker on and you've been nudging into my lane the whole time. And no, you can't cross the double yellows to turn into that stores parking lot. DIE!

7. Pretentious people
Ok, you're smart, we get. No, ok, we know, you're REALLY smart, and like to show it off and use big words to prove it. Truth of the matter is that you'd be a lot better liked if you weren't such a smartass. I don't like being talked to like I'm an imbecile. I may come from a blue collar background, but I'm not dumb by any means.

Oh rest assured, there will be a part 2

[Quistis]

Originally Posted by Pete

I'd keep this short... but it's so much more fun not to.

1. Emo Kids.
-Dare I say it, but I agree completely with Froggie on this one. It's one thing to have bipolar disorder or other mental illnesses, and wind up cutting yourself. It happens, alright. It's another thing to lock yourself in your mom's basement and wear eyeblack and your little sister's jeans and cry about how the world is so unfair because your mom got you the 20gig xbox and not the 60.

Lol, that totally reminded me of the South park episode when Stan's gf broke up with him.

As for things that irritate me, liars are one of them and people with no consideration of other people's time. I can make a more organized list but I gotta sleep now ^__^

[Sean]

1. Laze

I hate people who spend their time at a job, at school, or at anything and do it halfass because there are other people around to pick up the pieces for them, the pieces they're too ****ing lazy to do. I have time and again done someone else's job for them at work, and it bugs the living SHIT out of me.

2. Emo kids. See Pete's reasoning, I share about the same. No one cares, just kill yourself already.

3. Emo music. No one cares high school sucked for you because the cheer leader laughed at you and the jocks called you gay. I went to high school with bosnian vs black kids breaking out in HUGE fights, and I was one of 9 US White kids in the school. I'm not cutting my wrists and writing bad music about it.

4. People who like talentless music. Grow some taste already, repeating the exact same riff over and over while some ugly bastard screams in a mic isn't music.

5. I agree with Pete's people living in the country and never learning the language. This has been a huge annoyance for me, I've dealt with a lot of Europeans who came here as refugees and never learned the language, even though they've been here for years, and the little bit of English they can speak is pronounced so poorly I can never understand what they're saying. I can understand the Mexicans who are here illegally; why learn the language when you know you might get shipped home any day.

6. People who voted for George W. Bush the 2nd time around. Seriously. I'd say the same for McCain, but I'm so indifferent this year I can't even bother caring.

7. Pete for SMOD.

[Rocky]

People who can't read that should know by now.
I struggled to keep from cutting my ears off during high school with this one. Honestly, maybe it's just a midwestern region thing, but when you get called on to read in front of your classmates, can you not studder over the words that are larger then one syllable please? I fail to understand how you can get through school, much less life alone, when it takes you over 5 minutes to read a single paragraph in a book. What kind of teachers pass you to the next grade with your lack of being able to read good dur hur.

Attention Whores
Oh. My. Lord. If I could get through a week without some random girl being all like "Look at my tits lol!!!" or some kid like "I'm so sick of this kid talking trash I'm gonna beat his ass", maybe I wouldn't have such a sick migrane, but that's just me. I know a lot of you on TFF that fit this role, and I'm not gonna name names, but you're lucky that I don't know/aren't your parents in real life. As soon as my child starts becoming absorbed in the "drama", I'm giving them a thirty minute timeout in the middle of the highway. Not only will that isolate the drama whore from the situation, maybe a car or two will show them that things could always be worse.

The Current Trend of Hip-hop
I don't know for sure why, but it seems like nowadays these new age rappers can make millions by making some moderately slow synth beat, have a halfway unique heavy bass rhythm attached to it, pay some choreographers to make some half-assed dance for their video shoot, shout the word "YOUUUUUUUUUUU" and throw in some Mother Goose/Dr Seuss rhymes and BAM! "Great success!" [/borat] Anywho, when did people become lazy/unoriginal enough to get away with this, and better yet, why as consumers are we listening and giving positive feedback to it all? WRYYYYYY

Diehard Fanboys of a Certain System
Do you think square really gives a damn about appeasing the "hardcore" fans and only releasing Final Fantasy 13 on the PS3? Hell no. You see, the "hardcore" fans are a subdivision from the "fan" category, and what SE is really trying to do is to appease ALL of the fans, which in return appeases SE more money which in turn appeases more trips to the ski resorts in Switzerland for the executives in the respecting companies. Besides, why would they release it on the "controversially" shittiest system anyway? Square Enix wasn't born in a barn yesterday. They know the trends. And if I hear one more word from the diehard fanatics saying its "unfair" and "unjust", then I'll show you real injustice by putting my boot up your ass, and not removing it even when you politely say please.

People Who are attempting to run against Pete in the race for S-mod
Honestly? Running against Pete? Why don't people try to play Unlimited SaGa, since statistically speaking, the average RPG fan would have a greater chance of beating the game then beating Pete in the race for S-Mod. And Unlimited SaGa is hard. Balls deep hard. Like chewing on a piece of great oak chair hard. And boring too. That game in itself deserves a rage post..

I'll be back when my rage meter redlines again.