What grinds your gears? - Page 71

People with complete lack of foresight, and/or people that don't consider how changing a step early in a process will necessarily effect the following steps, and expect you to immediately make said changes without any negative outcomes. People that don't consider more than one variable, as if there were only a single variable in whatever problem they're solving.

Agreed with whoever said they can't stand people that say math classes are pointless. I'd add that to just about any class though. Econ is pointless, yeah, not understanding the basics of supply/demand, and opportunity cost are two big reasons that people fail every day in their finance management.

English is useless, I'm not going to write novels, and what job will I ever need to write a 10 page essay in? No, you're right, learning how to properly research an item and build a strong case around it is completely useless in all facets of life. Diagramming sentences is pointless? The analytic skills involved in that are just utterly worthless, and completely inapplicable in any real life/work scenario, right? Except you'd have to be a complete fucking retard to think that. Then they bitch about how hard life is when they're stuck working at some shit-hole job for the rest of their lives, because they never learned how to use their brains beyond putting their pants on and getting fucked.

People that are obsessed with cars and fixing them, (but don't do anything work related with them) and try to talk to me about them. Cars are great, and I'm glad that at least some group of people really loves them enough to design and fix them, and I get that having an idea of how to do basic maintenance on your vehicle is a really good thing since it'll save you thousands throughout the year. Beyond that, cars get me from A to B, and maybe look kind of cool while getting me there. I don't care, and please, keep that fucking lame ass discussion somewhere else.

Also people that are overly interested in guns and military weaponry and aren't in the military. Why? It just doesn't make sense. At least cars are worth knowing about; I can understand people's passion for cars (doesn't make their conversations any less awful), but weapons? Who cares what bullet can hit what target from how many thousand yards, or what plane is faster and better than the others? This actually has no practical application to your life if you're not working on/with them or designing them. SHUT UP.



It isn't about expecting people to act to their full potential and getting mad about it. It's about being an absolute prick in delivering that message. One could say "I'm really disappointed in the way you handled that, I thought better of you," and deliver a very impactful message that might actually inspire someone to do better with themselves. The message above serves as nothing but a way for some jerk to vent, typically will not be received well (or with anything but disgust and resentment), and will serve nearly no purpose in changing future outcomes.

I'll agree that most people are overly sensitive: I think you should be able to flat out tell people when they fucked up, and how to do the job better next time. Like, in my line of work, if someone overlooks a very simple process, and escalates it to the next support level, I should be able to say that behavior is unacceptable, and they need to shape up. The only reason that should make someone mad is because they got caught being a lazy shit stain and got called out on it: they should be mad at themselves. But there's still a line that has to be drawn somewhere, and taking your anger out on someone because they made a mistake, in such an overt manner is almost never the best way to handle a situation (granted, if someone is repeatedly doing the same thing, and other methods are not working, maybe it could be beneficial... or maybe that person needs to be thought of as less/fired in a work scenario).

Also, agreed with whoever said they dislike when people speak in memes. I have some friends that talk like that. "I gives no fucks," or "I can has," or "I has xyz." Stupid. I'd actually expand that to say that it's a mild irritation when people bring the internet culture into pop culture at all. I think it's because I was part of it when it was all really starting to bloom, and these people are just riding the waves of popularity, and in some sense I feel like they're stealing from us. It's like when your favorite band sells out to make some crappy music for a couple of albums, and everyone loves them and is a bigger fan of them than you are. The internet used to feel like a secretive club to me, where inside jokes came about very rarely, and meeting someone who knew what you were talking about was kind of exciting... now, ever asshole on the planet knows what a lolcat is, and they tell me about it as I haven't seen this stuff since its inception, practically. I guess it's just a part of me that felt like there was a real sense of community and belonging, and everyone being in on it has kind of killed that feeling for me.