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People who use workplace jargon and expect everyone else to understand it. I had this yesterday with a hospital phone call. I had to remind the person that I don't work there so I didn't have a clue what she was talking about 🤦♂️
It's not really that hard to work out. It would be pt or even px if it was workplace jargon.
But yes healthcare is riddled with impenetrable terms and expressions reinforced by a power imbalance that means patients and families don't always feel comfortable to ask "WTF?"
Agreed, it's not hard to work out in that example but why use workplace jargon outside of work? I don't pepper every post on here with comments about aleatory and epistemic risk.
Communication is critical in every aspect of life, not just work, so why make it harder for others to understand you?
took my kiddo to beavers last night. As always, the first driver to get there parks in front of the "no parking" sign, across the double yellow and in the way of the pedestrian gate.
I leave my bike behind his car, cause he's in the way.
Has the CHUFFING AUDACITY to mutter "dont mind me then", as he returns to his car.
Its not me thats "in the way" mate. Annoyingly, i was so impressed by his complete lack of self awareness i didnt rise to it.
it’s not hard to work out in that example but why use workplace jargon outside of work?
My industry is endemic with TLAs but most Techs learn to communicate with normal people. Meanwhile, we had all-hands (ugh) meetings where the CEO would pap on about queue two ebbit dah and most of the workforce are thinking we've just taken on a load of Welsh coal miners.
Even when you know what Q2 EBITDA is, it's still dull but it gives the members of the ExCo* a proper boner
(* ExCo another jargon term I hate - the Executive Committee is usually a group of old white men in the boardroom all demonstrating that they are alpha males and that they are right and everyone else is clueless - BURN THE LOT OF THEM)
Acronyms.
No point in them at all on many an occasion.
Every time someone uses them they tend to say the whole thing, then say or, the acronym.
Always hear it on the news for example, 'today, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, or 'NICE' said that blah blah blah'
You might as well just say the thing lol laugh out loud, rofl rolling on the floor laughing.
You might as well just say the thing lol laugh out loud, rofl rolling on the floor laughing.
Oh, that's one in itself. "LOL" as punctuation. "I've just been to the shops lol" Really? You're saying you've just been shopping BWAHAHAHAHA!!! Are you some sort of maniac? What were you buying, organic fertiliser, a chainsaw and quicklime? Where's the hilarity here?
"ROFL." You're not, are you. "LMAO." I'm fairly confident that your arse is still attached. Are you 12? Stop it.
It's got to a point where if something I read makes me laugh out loud I feel compelled to qualify it, "actual LOL."
I have never heard of a GP practice doing that and imo its shit for patients especially vulnerable ones.
I hope that there is a " prefer privacy" option
My gps still have open surgeries for urgent stuff
People taking to me from another room.
Being asked to do something that I was just about to do
Oof! yes, both of those irritate the shit out of me.
For the first I just ignore it now, if you want to speak to me come and find me, I'm not having a conversation from three rooms away.
2nd one I have to bite my tongue and carry on with the task I was about to do whereas I'd really like to not do it out of pure spite.
To add to the list, people driving who start indicating as they're turning, yes we ******* know you're turning, moron, would have been useful a few seconds earlier.....
both of those irritate the shit out of me.
For the first I just ignore it now, if you want to speak to me come and find me, I’m not having a conversation from three rooms away.
... whilst the Big Daft Telly is blarting away to itself in an empty third room and I've got my head under the kitchen extractor hood. "You never listen..." fox sake. Come and stand here whilst I go and mumble at you from the other end of the building, see how long your patience holds out.
Acronyms.
No point in them at all on many an occasion.
Every time someone uses them they tend to say the whole thing, then say or, the acronym.
Always hear it on the news for example, ‘today, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, or ‘NICE’ said that blah blah blah’
You might as well just say the thing lol laugh out loud, rofl rolling on the floor laughing.
That's something I liked about defence, internally it was unapologetic with their use without explanation. ask the question or go find out.
That and indecipherable abbreviations that don't exist anywhere else.
Being asked to do something that I was just about to do
Likewise is being asked a question about something to which the answer has been briefed on already.
I have never heard of a GP practice doing that and imo its shit for patients especially vulnerable ones.
We have ways of ensuring that our vulnerable patients can get an appointment with a GP or nurse or any one else that they need to.
I hope that there is a ” prefer privacy” option
If you mean can you come to/ring the surgery and make an appt with a GP for a couple of weeks time without having to tell any one what its about? Then no. The reception team will either direct you to online - you can put as much or as little info as you want on the form, or can fill it in for you over the phone, or can do it for you if you come down to the surgery. But you can't by pass it. This is becoming more common, as frankly we're better at managing the incoming daily workload than the patients are.
My gps still have open surgeries for urgent stuff
I don't know any surgery that doesn't have some sort of "On the Day" "On-call" type arrangement for acute issues, we're no different .
To add to the list, people driving who start indicating as they’re turning, yes we ******* know you’re turning, moron, would have been useful a few seconds earlier…
Ah yes, the “I have just turned right/left” crowd, delete as appropriate. *rollseyes*. There aren’t enough words in the English language to describe how much I want to hit you in the face with a chair!
Paracetamol tablet removal , any other tabs are easy to push through but not them
I need them for arthritis in the wrist and struggle unless I’ve got a knife to pierce the foil/film
I have arthritis in both thumb joints. I also am lucky enough to be the recipient of millions of years of development in various things, like eyes, fingernails…
Speaking of which, I take a whole bunch of tablets with the foil tops, and I find that slicing around the edge with a fingernail makes it really easy to then push the tablets out through the opening in the top. Simples. 🤷🏼
I hope that there is a ” prefer privacy” option
Privacy? That horse has well and truly bolted at my GP's surgery. There's a big touch screen to check in where you can put your date of birth in full view of the waiting area. If you get that right you're rewarded by the question "are you John Smith?"* flashed up in 2 inch letters just in case anyone wants to know. Maybe they'll want to send you a birthday card?
Check in at the outpatients of my local hospital is the same with the addition of your postcode but an only partial phone number so they can pretend they've thought about privacy at least a little bit.
I have arthritis in both thumb joints. I also am lucky enough to be the recipient of millions of years of development in various things, like eyes, fingernails…
Speaking of which, I take a whole bunch of tablets with the foil tops, and I find that slicing around the edge with a fingernail makes it really easy to then push the tablets out through the opening in the top. Simples. 🤷🏼
Unfortunately, in my case the "millions of years of development" has been overtaken by several years of a disease, one of the more minor but annoying effects of which makes my nails fragile and very prone to splitting. If I've managed to get a fingernail to slicing length it's still too soft to cut through the foil on most of the 8 or so tablets I take each day. Not so simples.☹️
Sorry to hear about your arthritis though.
There aren’t enough words in the English language to describe how much I want to hit you in the face with a chair!
That's what's known as a High Four.
Token vegans on Masterchef
Seriously… what’s the point? It’s just embarrassing for all involved.
The person before you just cooked a tandoori rack of lamb. Nobodies interested in your cabbage risotto
Stepping on my yoga mat.
Seriously, I don't mind putting my face where my feet have been but not yours, FFS.
Someone posts thread "What is your favourite"
Favourite. The implication is singular. Not plural, which what are your Favourites.
Before to long some such and such comes along with a long list.
Grrrrrr &^$@#&£ 😡 🙄
Not spotting errors until after the edit window has closed
People who tell me what I am interested in and/or what I am thinking.
Trying to get a duvet back into a newly washed cover due to partner staying at my place this weekend and finding you eventually get it kind of into place the button it up to find they are out of sequence when you get to the end one . 15 mins of my time to do a fairly simple task , easy for her to do but she can't change a punctured tube or fold a map back without adding extra creases and ruining the map
Not spotting errors until after the edit window has closed
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There you go.
I washed our favourite(😁) duvet set a couple of days ago and one of the pillowcases has disappeared. I can, just about, appreciate the odd sock but how the %^&* does an entire pillowcase disappear? Bastarding thing.
People who say "I'll tell you what you should do..."
The polar opposite is usually the best path in my experience
Drunk people on trains.
Essex accents.
The combination together when you’ve been awake 36 hours straight.
Websites that offer 'filters' to narrow down your product search, but refresh after each selected filter.
Drunk people on trains.
Essex accents.
The combination together when you’ve been awake 36 hours straight.
Not so much 'cross' as hilarious but this reminds me,
I was on the Metro (Manchester's equivalent of the Tube) picking my way home a few weeks ago. Half a dozen "youths" got aboard, loudly taking about sex and alcohol like they'd just invented them both. One of the classier ladies belts out "YOU'RE NOT ****ING KISSING ME AFTER YOU'VE BEEN LICKING ME FANNY!"
Just a follow up on this from earlier:
My mum unplugs the TV before going to bed at night. Because her mum did. Because IDK, something about thunderstorms? It’s absolutely potty. We have one of the safest, ludicrously over-engineered domestic electricity supplies on the planet.
Some years back we had a few thunderstorms, and I was watching the strikes on one of the online sites, and one or two were out near Corsham, and my mate lives between Corsham and Lacock. When I next saw him, he was bemoaning the fact his big Sony Bravia tv, his Mac, and several components of his HiFi system had been fried by one of those strikes…
My dad always used to unplug the telly, mainly because of the risk of our chimney mounted aerial being struck and the current blowing out the house.
There was one storm one evening which was local, and I was watching it from my open bedroom window, and there was one strike on a house about 100 metres away, there was no bang, but the air crackled loudly and I felt all my hair stand on end!
That was sodding scary, I shut my window immediately.
Dunno how relevant it is, but I'm having my house re-wired at the moment, well, starting monday..when they were pricing the job up, they priced in a new consumer unit (fuse box)...
I questioned why, as mine is probably 5years old at most and still all shiney and new looking....
They said to get the work signed off & certified etc, they have to have surge protection built in at fuse box level now... He said I could keep the existing box and fit an additional surge protection unit between the meter and the consumer unit, but by the time he'd faffed about with doing that, it's easier to just fit a new consumer unit that's 'up to code'.
Dunno how sound that advice is, but consumer units arent exactly expensive considering it's a full re-wire of the house...so I just said, yeh whatever 😕
You can of course buy surge protected extension cords for expensive equipment such as these https://www.belkin.com/uk/products/surge-protectors-power-strips/
But at £30-£40 a piece, more if you want ethernet pass-through, it quickly makes more sense to have surge protection built in at consumer unit level...?
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I washed our favourite(😁) duvet set a couple of days ago and one of the pillowcases has disappeared. I can, just about, appreciate the odd sock but how the %^&* does an entire pillowcase disappear? Bastarding thing.
it’s in your duvet cover. I know you think that you checked there but it will be there.
** stitch incoming **
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I think it’s already been mentioned on here, but people who feel the need to correct your spelling/grammar even though they understood perfectly well what you meant.
Failure to spell things correctly can often lead to misunderstandings, because people didn’t understand perfectly well what someone meant.
For roughly thirty years my job involved my spelling things correctly, and proofreading to make sure others spelled things correctly, for that very reason.
Draw, is a very different thing to a drawer.
And correct spelling, for clarity of meaning and communication, is a hill I’m willing to die on.
My new car doesn’t have a handbrake
Whoah, what now?What car is this?
I thought handbrake was tested as part of MOT?
There’s all sorts of variations on the theme of electronic brake these days, and I hate all of them! Especially when you’re driving a very wide range of cars built across about five or six years. Some wouldn’t release when trying to pull away on a slope, some would let the car start to roll back… 😖🤯
Mine is a semi-automatic, with a real handbrake, but pulling to a stop on a slope, and taking your foot off the brake, the car will happily sit there until you accelerate.
People who replace zero with "oh" when giving telephone numbers. In fact I do it at times so I annoy myself 🤣
The misuse of it’s to denote possession, especially by people paid to write for a living –
https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/hutchinson-claims-its-new-blackbird-tyres/
Eh? “Its” rather than “it’s” is correct in this context. Unless I’m missing something?
They've removed the rogue apostrophe since my post on here. That's the power of STW.
The woman in the meeting that i'm in right now that keeps referring to a "thought bubble."
It's a thought. Why the bubble?
Online companies that offer “three months free”, but then auto-renew the contract without notifying you in advance.
there should be a law, making it mandatory for such contracts to be annulled at their end date, unless explicitly agreed by the consumer.
Just sign up for the free trial and then immediately cancel it
People who replace zero with “oh” when giving telephone numbers. In fact I do it at times so I annoy myself 🤣
This got many of us screamed at by a stereotypical Platoon Sergeant when in training whilst our regimental numbers were still new and not stamped on our brains.
"Oh!? It's ZERO! Oh is the noise you make when you're having sex. And we're not having sex right now are we?"
There were far more expletives, but the swear filter would make a mess of that quote.
Good times.
there should be a law, making it mandatory for such contracts to be annulled at their end date, unless explicitly agreed by the consumer.
You have explicitly agreed for it to continue after the free period. It's not the company's fault if you didn't read the terms and conditions.
Edit: People whinging about T&Cs they willingly signed up to but couldn't be bothered to read properly makes me disproportionately cross
Online companies that offer “three months free”, but then auto-renew the contract without notifying you in advance.
My 15-yr old has just been caught by this. £60 annual subscription for the Berlingo language app. Bastards.
Now in debt to the bank FFS !
I've worked with him to cancel & get a refund but aaaagh.
If you cancel your free three months of Amazon prime, immediately after, you’ll lose three months of free.
yes, the minutiae of the contract may stipulate a rolling contract, but we humans are intrinsically too busy/ lazy to mark these things in our diaries.
The contract should terminate automatically, after x months.
doesnt matter a fig if it’s worded into a contract, there’s no corresponding legal precedent for this in the not-online world.
Or is there?
My family 'loading' the dishwasher ! Why ????? I could load it better by throwing it from the other side of the room.
The trend on social media short videos claiming to be POV, but aren't.
Being stopped on the village high street by a former colleague asking me to vote for her at the general election. She is a Reform candidate. We had a robust discussion with a particular focus on their Deputy Leaders interview this week where he said people should be allowed to drown in the channel to “face the consequences of their own actions”. I may have sworn.
I "bought" Dune on Prime because it cost 50p more than renting it, amounting to £4. Watched it in two sittings this weekend as a refresher in preparation for Dune 2.. However to bloody well rent Dune 2 (with a mere 48 hours to watch it once I start) bloody sixteen quid farrrrk. Or I could wait 2.5 weeks and watch it in the cinema for half the price. Pish.
Edit: People whinging about T&Cs they willingly signed up to but couldn’t be bothered to read properly makes me disproportionately cross
I'm pretty sure that most T&C that we come across (but especially on-line) are written like that to make sure we don't read them.
"twitch" indeed.
They've recently - like, a couple of years ago - redone the main road near me, including nice patterned stonework on the pavement. They've painstakingly continued the pattern across access panels, except someone's had one up and replaced it back-to-front so the pattern no longer aligns. It disproportionately pisses me the **** off every time I walk past it.
I’m pretty sure that most T&C that we come across (but especially on-line) are written like that to make sure we don’t read them.
Almost certainly.
I don't see the point, unless it's intentionally meant to catch you out. Absolutely no-one in the history of ever has read a 16-page EULA for a ****ing printer driver.
See also, corporate email signatures. "This message is intended for the recipient..." - well who the **** else would it be intended for? Half a screenful of boilerplate corpspeak gibberish which is the same as every other goddamn corporate email signature (and holds precisely zero legal currency anyway), with the email body text reading "Yes. Kind Regards."
On hold.
I've worked in a call centre. I know what being picked off the queue and slammed straight back into it because you can't be arsed to talk to me and it looks good on your "calls answered" stats sounds like, you shower of bastards.
Local shops that buy five star trustpilot reviews from shysters, to make it look like they're any good at anything, when they are in fact, crap.
On second thoughts, maybe I'm not disproportionately angry, just correctly angry.
someone’s had one up and replaced it back-to-front so the pattern no longer aligns.
Yep, saw one of those in Wolverhampton only last week, and it irritated me more than you'd think reasonable. That slap-dash approach gets my goat. Will get a pic next time I go past it; I can't keep it to myself.
I genuinely wonder whether it's malicious or just lackadaisical.
The mindfulness training we had today. A bizarre fascination with feeling my buttocks on the seat and breathing. Live in the moment and think about your next breath.
Still your mind like Karen's snow globe....erm... Brownian motion and kinetic energy those molecules ain't still you Muppet.
The utter ****s who attach phones and sat navs in the middle of the windscreen. Bottom right where it isn’t obstructing your view of the road you absolute dicks!
Slow moving people.
I realised this last week whilst getting to my car at work. Guy a few cars down was already getting into his whilst I was 10m away from mine. I managed to walk that short distance, get in my car, bag in footwell, hi-vis off and in door card, start engine, put Spotify on, seatbelt on and finally set off by the time the slowest man on earth was sitting down. It had no impact on me other than annoyed me to the point of audibly uttering "how can somebody be that ******* slow"
Quite unreasonable of me.
Slow moving people.
I don't mind slow-moving people per se. It's the ones who do so with no spatial or social awareness, like a sodded shopping trolley. If you're going to be shit, at least have the grace to be predictably shit so that I can circumnavigate you. Like the bastards with soluble children who get to the doorway before deciding that they need to batten down the hatches because it looks like it might rain next Thursday. Fine, whatever, just take two steps to your left first, you throbber.
I refuse to go to supermarkets on weekends because of slow people
I rarely go to supermarkets at all because of them.
Guy a few cars down was already getting into his whilst I was 10m away from mine. I managed to walk that short distance, get in my car, bag in footwell, hi-vis off and in door card, start engine, put Spotify on, seatbelt on and finally set off by the time the slowest man on earth was sitting down.
I went to the retail park this weekend, it wasn't particularly busy but enough that I had to wait briefly while someone reversed back into a space (badly). After they'd pulled back out and tried again they beckoned me past.
I parked, went into the car supermarket place for the 5ltrs of screenwash I needed (picked up as walked in the door, up to counter, no queue, tap and go, need a receipt?/no thanks, I won't be returning screenwash) and back out to the car.
They were still straightening up.
I can't say it made me disproportionately cross other than we share roads with this skill level.
just take two steps to your left first, you throbber.
cf: stopping at the top of escalators, taking two steps out of the lift and stopping...Pretend you live in a city, people...
People who get annoyed with wheelchair users or infirm people in supermarkets. Show some compassion.
Any people in pickups who block the pavement with there overhanging rear bed. Especially in the Maidstone hospital carpark.
The Eurovision Song contest being on the news. It is not news.
cf: stopping at the top of escalators, taking two steps out of the lift and stopping…Pretend you live in a city, people…
Add to the list people trying to push there way onto a train the second the doors open rather than standing back and letting folk get off first, clowns, you should be allowed to thump them the second the doors open 😁
My colleague has just left the office and on the way out said "sees yous later". Hopefully not if you murder the English language in that way.
Butter falling off the knife before reaching the bread. It makes me unreasonably mad.