What is your pet peeve of the day? -- 2021

[athena53]

In the same vein as unnecessary "Reply all" e-mails: the endless chain of e-mails, starting with the latest and with the initial one at the bottom. What a PITA having to read through them all to re-construct the story or issue! I understand the need to preserve the initial conversations but sometimes I'd just start a new one to the people involved with a concise intro of the issue in my reply instead of including all the prior messages.

 

[JoeWras]

Our garbage collection is done by waste management. I think they have a contest to see who can do the best job mangling the bins. This was after our last collection and contacted them. Said put it out on the curb on Monday and they’ll exchange it. Still there on Wednesday and contacted them again and said it takes up to 5 business days. I asked what should I do with the trash piling up and they said put it in after 7 PM today as Thursday is pickup day in case they change it out. When I said it would probably get stuck if the can if the truck tried to pick it up and their only response was well we can’t see the condition of you bin. Ridiculous service. I’m sure the driver will put a note on the bin to contact customer service to replace it.

If they don't grab them hard to destroy them, the whole thing may dump in the truck. The system overall has issues.

This is my favorite "garbage container fail" I've found on the internet. Someone called it art, as the wheels and axle go flying and spinning around, while the whole container is gone forever. Good stuff. 10 second video.

 

[GalaxyBoy]

In the same vein as unnecessary "Reply all" e-mails: the endless chain of e-mails, starting with the latest and with the initial one at the bottom. What a PITA having to read through them all to re-construct the story or issue! I understand the need to preserve the initial conversations but sometimes I'd just start a new one to the people involved with a concise intro of the issue in my reply instead of including all the prior messages.

I had a project manager who would forward me these long chains with no direction. I’d spend a half hour trying to figure out what he wanted and maybe I’d find something in message 14 of 22. Usually I’d have to reply asking what the heck he wanted of me. Of course this would irritate him no end. Did I ever mention I’m glad I found this website and FIRE’d?

 

[CO-guy]

People who turn ordinary emails into an opportunity to mansplain some unrelated info.

"Just a quick update on the meeting yesterday, but first here's a few paragraphs about what happened in history on this date."

Often these are the same people who will approach you later and ask if you read their email. "No. I probably just deleted it."

 

[The Cosmic Avenger]

If they don't grab them hard to destroy them, the whole thing may dump in the truck. The system overall has issues.

This is my favorite "garbage container fail" I've found on the internet. Someone called it art, as the wheels and axle go flying and spinning around, while the whole container is gone forever. Good stuff. 10 second video.

I think the bar that's usually on the side facing away from us is supposed to keep that from happening. The part on this truck that's supposed to brace against or grab that metal bar must have been broken, or that bar was missing. Our current service has trucks like that, and also seems a lot more gentle with the can than that! It lifts the can up, STOPS for a fraction of a second, and then tips the can.

 

[GalaxyBoy]

My pet peeve today is the listicle article such as "The 95 BEST gifts for men." 95? Really??

 

[FIYes]

Cake mixes! They have been hit by shrinkflation! I have an excellent cookbook, The Cake Mix Doctor, that uses cake mixes as a base. Cake mixes used to be 18.25 ounces. Now the are now 15.5 and even 13.5 ounces! I hate having recipes ruined by shrinkflation.

Yes, there are tactics for bringing the new smaller cake mixes up to the old size, but it is very annoying.

 

[jollystomper]

In the same vein as unnecessary "Reply all" e-mails: the endless chain of e-mails, starting with the latest and with the initial one at the bottom. What a PITA having to read through them all to re-construct the story or issue! I understand the need to preserve the initial conversations but sometimes I'd just start a new one to the people involved with a concise intro of the issue in my reply instead of including all the prior messages.

During my "glide path to retirement" time at Megacorp I found these to be hilarious. One notable time was when the assistant for one of the executives in my chain of command sent out something to the wrong mailing list of several hundred people. Not only was the message long, but the "to:" section listed everyone's email, instead of just the distribution group name. Things quickly got out of hand, between the "please take me off of this list" reply-all responses and the "please do not reply all when you request to be taken off the list" reply-all responses. Then of course a few folks would reply-all with "please keep me on this list, this is giving me my laugh for day". Not me, of course, I just quietly observed and chuckled . You can do that when you are on your glide path.

It took about 3 days for things to settle down. We had to report how we were spending our time (to "prove" the majority of our time was spent on customer related projects). For that week I put in a large number for "administrative" work, and told my manager in advance "this is the cleanup time for all of those emails". He just laughed.

 

[JoeWras]

Cake mixes! They have been hit by shrinkflation! I have an excellent cookbook, The Cake Mix Doctor, that uses cake mixes as a base. Cake mixes used to be 18.25 ounces. Now the are now 15.5 and even 13.5 ounces! I hate having recipes ruined by shrinkflation.

Yes, there are tactics for bringing the new smaller cake mixes up to the old size, but it is very annoying.

This is a real crisis for classic recipes. I'm not kidding, they are all broken.

My sister's really nice tasting jello-mould (don't laugh) got ruined by the shrinkage. It was, uh, too jello-y, not enough creamy. Then she realized it was because the 1/2 gal is no more.

 

[imjustawarrior]

I hate that it is so hard or impossible to completely remove the seal off the top of bottles. It seems like every time I open a new bottle of spices or vitamins part of the seal stays stuck to the mouth of the bottle. This triggers me every time. I try so hard to peal it off cleanly, but it is almost impossible. I know, my life is hard.

 

[JoeWras]

I hate that it is so hard or impossible to completely remove the seal off the top of bottles. It seems like every time I open a new bottle of spices or vitamins part of the seal stays stuck to the mouth of the bottle. This triggers me every time. I try so hard to peal it off cleanly, but it is almost impossible. I know, my life is hard.

I keep a box cutter on hand to solve this problem. That's ridiculous!

Then again, we can thank the creeps out there that decided to poison the general population. (Started with the Tylenol murders.) The seals are for the better good.

 

[Gremlin]

If they don't grab them hard to destroy them, the whole thing may dump in the truck. The system overall has issues.

This is my favorite "garbage container fail" I've found on the internet. Someone called it art, as the wheels and axle go flying and spinning around, while the whole container is gone forever. Good stuff. 10 second video.

Late to the game, but that “garbage container fail” clip is definitely art! And, sadly, I couldn’t find the reply-all button to use when responding.

 

[Koogie]

Pet peeve of the day is how everything now uses stupid pictograms or symbols instead of just putting the word to the action. Phones, computers, programs. Even the stupid fridge has pictograms on the buttons instead of actual words.

I don't want to guess. Just tell me what the (&&*(^*^ button does.

 

[imjustawarrior]

Pet peeve of the day is how everything now uses stupid pictograms or symbols instead of just putting the word to the action. Phones, computers, programs. Even the stupid fridge has pictograms on the buttons instead of actual words.

I don't want to guess. Just tell me what the (&&*(^*^ button does.

I agree 100%. I still don't know the difference between I and O on a power switch.

Newer cars also have all these crazy universal symbols that represent who knows what. I know a lot of them have to do with safety features. I also have a hard time with the front window defogger vs the rear window defroster. Neither picture looks like the shape of my windshield or rear window.

 

[Momcpa]

My pet peeve: I rarely get migraines. And I have a prescription that handles the headache if I take it as soon as the symptoms start. That's good. The pet peeve is that the prescription tablet is packaged in VERY child-proof packaging that is frustrating/difficult to get open when I'm trying to get my major headache under control. Maybe I should just open some up ahead of time and put them in a pill bottle/container.

 

[Sunset]

My pet peeve: I rarely get migraines. And I have a prescription that handles the headache if I take it as soon as the symptoms start. That's good. The pet peeve is that the prescription tablet is packaged in VERY child-proof packaging that is frustrating/difficult to get open when I'm trying to get my major headache under control. Maybe I should just open some up ahead of time and put them in a pill bottle/container.

I think you can request non-child proof lids , maybe they can even put it on your file, so you no longer have to think about it.

 

[Walt34]

I think you can request non-child proof lids , maybe they can even put it on your file, so you no longer have to think about it.

You can get the plain lids, but the default is the child-proof ones every time. You can't have them default to plain, at least at the pharmacy I go to. But hey, if that's the biggest thing I have to complain about then life is pretty good.

 

[TN Jim]

You can get the plain lids, but the default is the child-proof ones every time. You can't have them default to plain, at least at the pharmacy I go to. But hey, if that's the biggest thing I have to complain about then life is pretty good.

With CVS you can default to plain, not child-proof, if you are old enough. Or so I was told. : )

 

[FindingForward]

2 different lawn services were in my neighborhood bright and early Thanksgiving morning with their ear blasting commercial blowers. Sheesh. I think it's incredibly rude to do this in the early am of a national holiday.

 

[MichaelB]

The first fake ad on SNL was for an arthritis medicine in a bottle with a childproof cap. The medicine was called “Tryopenen.” It ended with an image of a hammer alongside a broken container.

 

[JoeWras]

2 different lawn services were in my neighborhood bright and early Thanksgiving morning with their ear blasting commercial blowers. Sheesh. I think it's incredibly rude to do this in the early am of a national holiday.

Uncalled for. Totally rude.

I'm a leaf blower user. At home I use my calm battery operated one. Even so, I don't use it on holidays, odd times, or for more than 5 minutes at a time.

Yesterday on Thanksgiving, I heard a few bursts of blowers in the neighborhood, for less than 30 seconds. I presume that was just to dust off a porch for guests coming. That's OK in my book.

But now those commercial backpack blowers. Geez. I use one of those too on a property in the country. Not the city. Every Friday, we have a lawn service here in the city that has TWO guys with those backpack blowers going for about 20 minutes on this tiny lot down the street. I have no idea what they are doing, perhaps scrubbing the rocks out of the dirt? It is ridiculous and uncalled for. We're talking 1/4 acre or less lots. There's not a lot there. And it requires two backpack blowers for 20 minutes? Backpack blowers are a whole new level of ear splitting noise.

 

[ERD50]

I think you can request non-child proof lids , maybe they can even put it on your file, so you no longer have to think about it.

For years, my meds have come with a cap with different threads on the top/bottom. Screw it on one way, and it is child-resistant, flip it over to screw it on the other way, and it's a simple screw on-off. So you can chose as needed, so special ordering required.

 

[GrayHare]

This is more strange than peeve. After leaving them up and illuminated since last Christmas, a neighbor removed their outdoor holiday lights this month (November).

 

[TrvlBug]

With CVS you can default to plain, not child-proof, if you are old enough. Or so I was told. : )

Yep, we use CVS and all our meds have plain pop off caps.

 

[skipro33]

After years of using my Husqvarna backpack blower, I opted for the biggest, baddest blower I could find.

The world’s most powerful backpack blower. The PB-9010 backpack blower is a professional-grade windstorm built to power through the toughest workdays with ease.

While it is noisier, I'm only using it 1/4 the amount of time I needed to with the old one. I have 5 acres, and this thing is so powerful, I blow a perimeter of 15' around the 2 acres immediately around the house to bare dirt, so there is no fuel source that could torch off the house. Takes me about 30 minutes a week.
I did have one neighbor mention they could hear me, so I decided to include their driveway and walkways with my weekly blowing, clearing off all the pine needles and leaves for them as well while they are away at work. Now I get a gift card, a donut or other small appreciation for providing the service. At my age, I count this time as a workout!
Not my photos, but attached for a size perspective;