Shit that annoys you

[Danno]

Freaking deer flies have been awful this year. Bought one of those battery powered bug zapper tennis rackets, but it freaks the dog out so no go. Record kill of five in one back of the neck slap last night. Daughters wedding in a month in the field should be interesting.

I was talking with my daughter about life in Vermont (she's grown up in Colorado) and was explaining how there's black fly season and mosquito season (who am I kidding, mosquito season lasts 5 months!) and she ain't seen nothing when it comes to biting insects.

[riser4]

I was talking with my daughter about life in Vermont (she's grown up in Colorado) and was explaining how there's black fly season and mosquito season (who am I kidding, mosquito season lasts 5 months!) and she ain't seen nothing when it comes to biting insects.

Heh. She has no idea. And Maine has worse black flies. I used to visit my uncle every April break and we'd always do some firewood on his woodlot. They weren't even out in force in late April and it wasn't fun.

[highangle]

tsetse flies were epic on Mt Marathon Sunday and ought to be bigger Thursday for the races

housefly-sized, aggro af and bite like a deerflies or little horseflies, spread plagues across Africa - yep

tsetse flies

[Dantheman]

I believe the inventor said that, in retrospect, he fucked that up.

USB-C should have completely replaced USB-A by now, but of course it hasn't.

Concur expense reporting.

Hahaha, I feel your pain. Not only do we also use Concur, we just switched our entire project management software suite to SAP which is made by the same company.

[stayhighstaydry]

Guy stocking the chips at the supermarket trying to jam as many bags in his allotted space as possible.
As a result they're all broken into pieces ! WTF !
You think I will buy them now ?

[Flounder]

Concur expense reporting.

One of the big reasons I now avoid work travel whenever I can. Gone are the days of status on multiple airlines and tons of hotel points but my blood pressure is much better. Good luck!

[halliday]

One of the big reasons I now avoid work travel whenever I can. Gone are the days of status on multiple airlines and tons of hotel points but my blood pressure is much better. Good luck!

Everybody in my office refuses to use the travel booking portion of Concur and we have had no push back from our Big Cheese. He understands comfort and wants everybody to be happy and productive and he knows that all of us are the face of the brand in the United States so no troubles there. We all have our numero uno airline and we can put an annual airline club pass (one airline) on our company card. Lots of plusses but Concur is a huge negative for our operation.

[Cocximus]

This probably came up before but wtf is up with fabook feed. All I get is garbage suggested content that I don't care for. Clickbait rage content. I'm in some ski and mountaineering groups to get beta but that never shows up. I get it, they have to push ads. Show me an ad every 3 posts. But enough of the random shit IDGAF.

[MontuckyFried]

UPS for the millionth time in this thread. Had big plans to replace all the suspension bits on my wagon last weekend. Ordered with plenty of time to make. Arrived to UPS depot last week. Couldn't figure out why it refused to go out for delivery, and online chatbot is worthless and customer service # REFUSES to get you to a real person no matter what you do. Took days for it to get flagged as undeliverable so THEN customer service finally allowed me to get through to someone yesterday. Ends up the shipper accidentally swapped my billing (a PO) and shipping addresses. Somehow UPS managed to magically get 1 of my 3 packages to my house yesterday so I tried tracking down the rest. They said I'd have to go the customer office at the hub from 8-9 last night since it should be in some special room. Drive about 45 minutes to get there. I was there from 8 to about 9:30 when the guy there finally gave up saying he thinks the package is lost and may be getting shipped back to the sender. Of course, tracking still shows it as being in limbo here.

Annoying because this was a sizable order that I finally got around to saving up and ponying up for. Got skunked on getting it done last weekend, and I probably will this next one too. Ordered bump stops too from a dealer about 45 minutes the OTHER way from my house. Went to go pick them up and they only ordered 1 of them so they had to order the other one and I'll have to make yet another trip. FFS. Can ANYBODY get their orders straight these days?

Update: STILL waiting on my lost package. Shipper put in a claim last week. UPS's dragging their feet. Just got off the phone with customer service AGAIN who's now telling me they are waiting til the claim is complete until they can get a replacement out. Starting to go from being merely annoyed to being kinda ticked off since this package has been sitting at the hub since June 13th and I REALLY need to get this job tackled post haste.

[MontuckyFried]

Concur expense reporting.

One of the big reasons I now avoid work travel whenever I can. Gone are the days of status on multiple airlines and tons of hotel points but my blood pressure is much better. Good luck!

Everybody in my office refuses to use the travel booking portion of Concur and we have had no push back from our Big Cheese. He understands comfort and wants everybody to be happy and productive and he knows that all of us are the face of the brand in the United States so no troubles there. We all have our numero uno airline and we can put an annual airline club pass (one airline) on our company card. Lots of plusses but Concur is a huge negative for our operation.

Whoever the MBA dickbags who came up with Concur (AND the corporate suits who decide to force it on employees) seriously deserve a massive kick to the balls. Travelling sucks enough as it is, but getting some points or having control over your journey at least made it SORTA worth it all. Company my wife works has tried forcing that, and she mostly just books all her own travel anyway. ESPECIALLY when 9 times out of 10, she can figure out a cheaper way to do it AND get better digs or picking a better airline. Whenever she points that out to the management, they always approve it. When she meets colleagues out on the road, she'll be at a nice Hilton or somethimg while the corporate butt smoochers are stuck at some roach motel on the opposite end of town from the job, usually in the hood. She's totally pulled the "I have to stay over here for my own safety" card, as she should.

Corporate travel ain't what is used to be. Well, at least there are nefarious forces at play TRYING to make it suck more. Screw those guys.

[Thaleia]

This probably came up before but wtf is up with fabook feed. All I get is garbage suggested content that I don't care for. Clickbait rage content. I'm in some ski and mountaineering groups to get beta but that never shows up. I get it, they have to push ads. Show me an ad every 3 posts. But enough of the random shit IDGAF.

Yep. It's just unusable at this point.

I'll admit sometimes I catch myself mindlessly scrolling and it's just shit content after shit content. I literally get embarrassed at how bad it is then close it again for a few days.

[Mustonen]

Update: STILL waiting on my lost package. Shipper put in a claim last week. UPS's dragging their feet. Just got off the phone with customer service AGAIN who's now telling me they are waiting til the claim is complete until they can get a replacement out. Starting to go from being merely annoyed to being kinda ticked off since this package has been sitting at the hub since June 13th and I REALLY need to get this job tackled post haste.

Dealing with that right now with a package, though not UPS. I ordered a pair of pants 5 weeks ago. Was supposed to take 4 days or whatever. After 3.5 weeks I reached out and said hey how about a refund or maybe you just send a second pair along, doesn’t matter much to me. They tell me they have to open an investigation first. I told them they don’t actually have to do anything they don’t want to, and if the company wanted to take care of their customer first and sort shit out with their shipping partner second, they could actually do that.

They seemed confused by that. Every few days they tell me the investigation is ongoing and that they can’t do anything until it’s done. Every time I respond and ask them to please pass on to the decision makers that they choose not to take care of me, and please stop saying that they can’t.

It’s $40. Annoying. I might be done with Columbia products at this point.

[Cocximus]

Yep. It's just unusable at this point.

I'll admit sometimes I catch myself mindlessly scrolling and it's just shit content after shit content. I literally get embarrassed at how bad it is then close it again for a few days.

Safe space? I hate how they also became the standard classifieds market. Sometimes I click on the feed from the marketplace and I scroll the dumb content. When I click on the comments I wonder if it's all AI generated arguments. Market search always sucks initially, then after I find what I need it feeds me lots of relevant ads. I'm winning, with tires though. 2x offroad sets, spring set, and winter set.

I found two fixes:
Mobile: options>feeds is the old feed from groups
Browser: Firefox social fixer extension. It really cleans up FB.

Regardless, this should not be necessary. The quality of good content posted is decreasing. Most don't want to deal with this shit.

[evdog]

We usually don't have biting flies in socal but I've been feasted on in almost every mountain range here in the last 2 months. Then got accosted by this beast the other day. Big ones are easier to swat. Wing span was about as wide as a quarter Got stomped on post photo.




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[Viva]

Wow.

I don't recall biting bugs in any of the SoCal ranges.

And I've run most of them.

[Core Shot]

Yep. It's just unusable at this point.

I'll admit sometimes I catch myself mindlessly scrolling and it's just shit content after shit content. I literally get embarrassed at how bad it is then close it again for a few days.

Agree. FB was a great way to stay in touch with distant friends and families.
Now I got fake titties and “follow me for watch more”
Hell, they are probably AI fakes.

Don’t get me started on the upgraded Sonos app. wtf. It was working just fine.

[Cocximus]

I can't believe half the shit FB PUSHES is legal on an open channel. There's a lot of anti women, neck beard motivational memes for incels. And people are worried about some sexual book in a high school's library?

[rideit]

Don’t get me started on the upgraded Sonos app. wtf. It was working just fine.

Preach! I have like 6 Sonos devices, what a flaming PITA. got everything working and learned a few things, but what a clusterfuck.

[KQ]

Fireworks in the hands of morons.

Our police scanner on FB is post after post of fires and for some reason for the first time in 15 years my surrounding neighbors are lighting off fireworks. We are acres and acres of standing wheat and natural cover. WTF?

Not to mention the toll it's taking on livestock and wildlife. Horses are calling, cattle are bellowing, turkeys are gobbling, hawks are screeching and the Lost and Found FB pet page is full of posts about dogs who have run off terrified from the noise. When will people stop this insanity?

I know.... I know.... MY FREEDOMS! Fuck that. What about mine?

[gravitylover]

Once I fell asleep yesterday I was down for the count and slept through what sounds like the worst fireworks we've ever had here. My wife and kid said the windows were rattling! This morning I went out and two trees in the empty corner lot were blown to bits, someone dragged the big branches out of the way already. Fuckn wussies blocked a dead end street that they don't even live on Our poor dog who was already partially sedated had a complete meltdown and finally passed out under the bed.

[Mustonen]

I can't believe half the shit FB PUSHES is legal on an open channel. There's a lot of anti women, neck beard motivational memes for incels. And people are worried about some sexual book in a high school's library?

None of that is in my shitty FB feed. I get a bunch of basketball clips, fishing and weird animals, home improvement and auto repair, welding (why???), and product advertisements.

You should maybe listen to what the algorithm is trying to tell you.

[skaredshtles]

Preach! I have like 6 Sonos devices, what a flaming PITA. got everything working and learned a few things, but what a clusterfuck.

So what you're telling me is that I should just stay on S1 as long as possible?

[skaredshtles]

Fireworks in the hands of morons.

Our police scanner on FB is post after post of fires and for some reason for the first time in 15 years my surrounding neighbors are lighting off fireworks. We are acres and acres of standing wheat and natural cover. WTF?

Not to mention the toll it's taking on livestock and wildlife. Horses are calling, cattle are bellowing, turkeys are gobbling, hawks are screeching and the Lost and Found FB pet page is full of posts about dogs who have run off terrified from the noise. When will people stop this insanity?

I know.... I know.... MY FREEDOMS! Fuck that. What about mine?

[Touring_Sedan]

Hmmm ....

[Name Redacted]

Gave my dog some Gabapentin last night. He was way chiller about the fireworks. Last year he spent the night in the shower.

I don't get it though. There is a full firework ban in effect in this county. But I have neighbors who put on a full on professional firework show every year and get away with it somehow. Like full on hudge mortars and everything. Been happening for years.