Stuff that makes you disproportionately cross

FFS, I give up

Go on then, giz a clue

Weirdos who eat cheese scones

Those who casually wield umbrellas at others’ eye height.

Go on then, giz a clue

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Health data performance systems that are so up themselves that they require you to read an "Access Approval Matrix" in order to be able work out how you get authorised to look at them.

Weirdos who eat cheese scones

That is pretty messed up to be fair...like a rubbish version of cheese on toast.

Apple. Specifically their over friendly/entirely useless customer service chat/phone bods. Firstly "hello I'm Julia"/finish the chat/get the feedback email for an entirely different name from - I'm guessing - India. I don't care where you're from, just do the thing I asked you to do. I know it's not the fault of the customer services rep, but...

Secondly the script "Yes I buy apple products as well, so think of me as a customer sharing your frustrations". Every. Bloody. Time. Followed by "how is the weather with you". Who writes these scripts? Are we honestly expected to believe them? Again not the CS ops issue but just downright annoying (or maybe I am just disproportionately cross)

Thirdly - how hard is it to change one line in an address? My mistake on post code picker I didn't check shipping address for phone and they missed the house name. DHL tried to deliver it but couldn't. Then the process of trying to get it updated started. DHL won't let you do it as 'it's a high value item and Apple need to update their systems". They tell you this THREE days after failing to deliver it.

I've had 4 chats and one phone call with Apple CS - at the end of which they assured me the address has been changed. It's one extra line. Two words. How hard can it be? Clearly quite hard as it's not been changed at all.

I'm three hours into trying to fix it and nothing works. Some kind of process gap where Apple reckon they've changed it (and spoken to DHL, hmmm) and DHL resolutely denying it in one line emails that might as well just be a finger emoji.

So I cancelled the order. Well I've tried too. Apparently "it may not work as the unit has shipped". Not to me it hasn't. Nor will it ever get here due to the deadly embrace between apple and DHLs systems. I mean I've paid for it to sit in a warehouse in Bristol.

I really like Apple stuff. Had lots of phones/laptops/imacs etc. But I'm not having another one. Keep my old phone for another couple of years by which time i might have calmed down enough to forgive their atrocious CS. I mean they are so nice, but so useless.

I appreciate this rant is nothing more than 'old man shouting at clouds' BUT subsequent to me attempting to cancel the order, Apple sent me an email explaining the address had been updated, and I should express my gratitude because they expect my phone to be delivered to an actual house (maybe ours, maybe not) in the next 24-48 hours followed ONE MINUTE later by this exemplar of customer service by our friends at DHL:

"apologies the goods seems to have been returned to the senders as we wasnt provided with the full address please contact the senders. thanks" - I'm not sure what appalls me more, the terrible grammar or the fact that these organisations are at best loosely connected by two sets of employees united only in their mission to sow confusion and frustration for their paying customers.

I assume the updates between their two systems are expedited by a pidgin fired from a howitzer on the west coast of the USA on an approximate compass bearing to the UK south west.

Will I get a refund? Will some other package be delivered (dead pidgin maybe?), Will at any point someone/anyone explain why two apparently successful companies with very high transactional processes and clear exception reporting cannot add two words to an address over the period of seven days. I feel the answer to all this questions is no.

I'm not angry....etc....etc... too early for a beer?

Weirdos who eat cheese scones

Reported.^^

That is pretty messed up to be fair…like a rubbish version of cheese on toast.

And your accomplice ^^

expedited by a pidgin

That would explain the poor English.

I say Pidgina, you saw Pigeona, let's call the whole thing off 🙂

And thanks, that made me laugh. Especially after I double checked my spelling of appalled 🙂

…websites that ask for user feedback to help improve things - and then ghost the users for months. 😉

Toast.

??weird but OK:

Here's to websites that ask for user feedback to help improve things – and then ghost the users for months. 😉

People who start a sentence with "thing is"

Pubs who have a blackboard outside with events on that happened months ago and can't be arsed to change it.

Teams.

The stupid girl in the pub with the aggro dogs.

Tonight, people blowing leaves (and other detritus) into the road before mowing the verge. Yes I love riding in all that crap, thanks. Just wait for the next car to pass and it'll be blown back again anyway.

Caps on plastic bottles that no longer come completely off, rather fold to one side.

I appreciate it’s to encourage the caps to be recycled, but why would folk only recycle the bottle and not the cap? Savages

This more because any liquid in the lid gets tipped down your face and front.

"it's Yop, honestly!"

People sitting in their cars with the engine running waiting for their kids to finish training, right next to people playing sport. WTAF!

Or the people who park in the bus stop to go to Tesco to avoid a slightly longer walk from the free carpark.

Or the people who circle the carpark at the gym to get a space slightly closer to the entrance, then go and run on a machine.

The person who carried out an emergency stop for a duck on a straight section of the A9 in the wet. Well that got the heart racing, I half expected someone to go into the back of me.

Loose confused with lose. I wish it didn't annoy me so much, as it's so prevalent these days.

Not disproportionate at all, but a friend of mine having to raise a grievance for appalling sexual discrimination in the 21st century.

****ing embarrassing.

Loose confused with lose, thier instead of their often here on this forum but I suppose we can blame it on I before e except after c

It's the idiots with leaf blowers who blow the leaves into the roadside drain.
Do they believe it to be some sort of waste disposal machine , or magically the leaves will dissolve.
Or are they just lazy
Or does their family own a drain cleaner lorry
Then they moan when the roads flood

Seeing someone kickstart a motorcycle and keep the kick lever down as it runs.

Heinz have been canning foods since the yardankitties.

yet, making the tins so that they stack on top of each other, and not across the floor, thus far has eluded them.

Loose confused with lose

I grew up in Loose in Kent, it's definitely pronounced /luːz/

Nat West IVR:

Them: "In a few words please state why you are calling"

Me: "Set up direct debit"

Them: "So you're calling about a bereavement, is that right?"

FML. My first ever experience with Nat West. Thank god it's only a short-term relationship.

Dionne Warwick.

She doesn't even know how to pronounce her own name.

Dionne Warwick.

She doesn’t even know how to pronounce her own name.

The way some people seem to think ignoring yellow lines is OK if you park in the cycle lane or on the pavement. I miss when I was young and double yellows were an urban clearway and single yellows allowed loading but not parking. British double yellows are an unenforced joke and it makes me disproportionately cross.

I grew up in Loose in Kent, it’s definitely pronounced /luːz/

I understand this reference! I lived in Tovil, mispronounced "toe ville" by TVS news.

Insurance companies:

Just why?!?!?!

ve just taken out a home policy, but i got a text saying they coudnt email me the welcome pack
Sent at13:55
so i cant activate my account
Sent at13:55

Please stay connected while I investigate this for you.
13:56

The issue it that we are not able to have two policies under one email.
13:57
I have a car policy with you also, is that what you mean?
Sent at13:57

That would be correct, can I send the documents via post?
13:59
yes that is fine
Sent at14:01

I have also sent them via post as well.
14:02

email
14:02

Please let me know when you get the documents.
14:03
will i be able to see both policies on the website
Sent at14:06

The issue it that we are not able to have two policies under one email.
14:07
ok i have an email with the house insurance documents, thank you
Sent at14:08
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My pleasure, have a great day.?

Aviva by any chance?

Aviva by any chance?

Esure

People who put their dogs (with probably sh1tty ar5e5) on the chairs in cafe's, pubs and restaurants.....then feed them at the table.

In fact, just being around the general public for an hour or so makes me disproportionately cross.

matt_outandaboutFull Member
Teams.

This +1^50

We're being moved to Teams from Zoom to save money. It's just not as good.

People that view or treat nearly every aspect of their lives as a competition.

Fat fingers !!

This +1^50 should be +10^50

This +1^50 should be +10^50

People who don't understand basic maths.

(sorry I couldn't resist!)

People who put their dogs (with probably sh1tty ar5e5) on the chairs in cafe’s,

Improper use of apostrophes!

? (Wink emoji)

Spotify "hey much respected subscribed customer, have some free audio books, for free, no really free, aren't we generous?'

Also Spotify 'that's your lot for this month unless you'd like to be an even more respected subscriber'

Writing cards.

I'm shit at it but equally hate clichéd bollocks that could have been written by an LLM.

Drivers who pootle down the slip road then accelerate when they get onto the dual carriageway rather than using the slip road to match the traffic speed.