Shit that annoys you

[lifelinksplit]

Fuck I live in podunk MT and they're here. One city commissioner and prob soon to be mayor drives a big white suburban with (gasp!!) Vanity plates that say "XTEXAN". Majority of town hates the guy but nobody has the time or energy to run against him...sigh. Also like most local politicians he has multipes STRs and manages a local business. I will give him credit for genuinely caring about the issues except for they almost always align with his bank account.

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[yeahman]

Chuckle. Nice to see that as you're growing up you continue to meet expectations. Sorry...



Useless with Android but we're getting there.

Tile trackers are the Android version of Airtags.

[Brock Landers]

Well, describe to me what the wallet looks like

Gonna bet there’s Velcro in it

[The AD]

I mean - if I was into all that, I'd move back to the Midwest. At least there would be fewer Texans there.

Yeah, I'd say go to Wisconsin if you don't mind the cold winters.

[Meadow Skipper]

If i was physically broken, didnt care about the outdoors, and loved to drink alcohol i would very seriously consider moving to Texas or Arizona. If your interests all revolve around being inside, eating food, and getting drunk then why wouldnt you move to a place where your money goes a long ways, and the whole society is setup for you to be in air conditioned space at all times because the climate is unforgiving.

Still, there’s gonna be Texans or Arizonans there, a lot of them.

[gravitylover]

Well, describe to me what the wallet looks like

Grey fabric bifold in a metal frame.

Did you check the fridge?

Lol

Tile trackers are the Android version of Airtags.

I like minimalist sized wallets so no room for an extra card. I figure now that that's open we'll see wallets with it integrated soon.

Gonna bet there’s Velcro in it

Us old guys prefer slip-ins.

[Ted Striker]

Ummm... if I wanted a glutinous sedentary lifestyle, it sure as hell wouldn't be in Texas. Austin is nice to visit, but NYC, Chicago, and LA have electricity, and wouldn't involve converting to Republicanism.

[Mustonen]

I dunno man, if you’re gonna be sticky the place to do that might actually be TX.

[Ted Striker]

Ha! those are the best autocomplete typos.

[Brock Landers]

Need to run this by the masses…

Had an appt with an ear doctor scheduled for today. Booked it 4 months ago (they were booking 4 months in advance for a new patient). Audiology test before, then exam after.

Get 2 calls last week that the doctor needs to reschedule because he’s going on vacation. Vacation? Motherfucker I scheduled this 4 months ago! Finally get back to the US this weekend, call yesterday play phone tag- eventually the scheduling service (not his office) says he’s booking out to November/early December. I’m like wtf?

Call today, get in touch with his office secretary who does his scheduling- she can move things to get me in late August, and I have to do the audiology exam at a separate day/time- only Fridays and Saturdays,limited times, available before a late August exam.

I actually went ballistic on the phone. So now I have no appointment.

Am I right to be a little perturbed? The secretary was amazingly awful. “Doctors do go on vacation you know”

[yeahman]

Yes you are right to be perturbed. If they cancel on you they should fit you in first possible chance, even if they have to come early or stay late.

[mcski]

The doc prob sprung the vacay on his staff now they are scrambling to move cancellations in an obviously overbooked schedule. Shit happens. A 4 week delay isn’t worth being a Dick to office staff. YTA here.

[Buster Highmen]

Yes, you're right to be perturbed, but blasting the front line office people is never, ever the right thing to do.

The exception I can think of is the callers who want to buy our house who constantly bombard us, virtually daily. I'm incredibly cruel to those chumps, leading them on with feigned interest and asking for contacts and references until I suggest that they should try to better their lives rather than being some loser schmuck cold calling donotcall numbers, usually icing the call with a loud FUCK YOU DO NOT CALL US.

[riser4]

Grey fabric bifold in a metal frame.

Lol

I like minimalist sized wallets so no room for an extra card. I figure now that that's open we'll see wallets with it integrated soon.
Us old guys prefer slip-ins.

[californiagrown]

I actually went ballistic on the phone. So now I have no appointment.

Am I right to be a little perturbed? The secretary was amazingly awful. “Doctors do go on vacation you know”

Usually being really nice a collaborative/solution oriented with customer service produces the best results. Easiest way to get fucked over is to blame and get mad at CS for issues out of their control and demand they go out of their way to help you. This is like life skills 101.

Asking to be fit in right at closing/opening of another date, if any weekends have openings, if they can call any partner Dr offices to fit you in, etc are all much better options than going ballistic. And yeah, doctors go on vacations too, and sometimes they arent planned 6months in advance... its annoying and frustrating for sure, but you also didnt do yourself any favors with that kind of reaction.

[old goat]

When you get up early to leave for a long road trip workday and can't find your wallet. Turn the house and cars upside down and inside out. No luck. Grr... Workweek ruined because replacement cards take 2 days and soonest dmv appointment for replacement license is Thursday because can't replace stuff online after you've stopped your cc and debit card

You're going to be even more annoyed when you find the wallet after you've canceled everything. Had that happen once with my wife's wallet. The good news is, our debit cards are apparently separate, even though they're for the same bank account--but if one of us loses our cards at least we have a working debit card.

I had a ~$!0 fraud on my business Amex. Canceled my card and sent me a new one, but it takes a week, and multiple transactions keep getting declined. Gonna have to change the # on a shitload of accounts when I do get it. Pretty inconvenient.

I have a handy list of all the accounts I have on CC autopay. It has simplified the process greatly. Until I lose the list.

The doc prob sprung the vacay on his staff now they are scrambling to move cancellations in an obviously overbooked schedule. Shit happens. A 4 week delay isn’t worth being a Dick to office staff. YTA here.

The doc is the AH. If you're scheduling appts 4 months out then schedule vacations 4 months out.

[skaredshtles]

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I have a handy list of all the accounts I have on CC autopay. It has simplified the process greatly. Until I lose the list.

Your list is on a piece of paper?

[old goat]

Your list is on a piece of paper?

Yeah, with my passwords

[skaredshtles]

Yeah, with my passwords

Sheesh. At least get that shit into an encrypted document on Google Drive or OneDrive or Dropbox or something... I keep that kind of shit in Bitwarden, myself.

[old goat]

I think the chance of someone breaking into an online acct, even an encrypted one, is a lot less than someone breaking into my house, stealing my passwords, and being able to use them with 2 factor authentication.

[skaredshtles]

I think the chance of someone breaking into an online acct, even an encrypted one, is a lot less than someone breaking into my house, stealing my passwords, and being able to use them with 2 factor authentication.

You're right.

But I think you meant to write the opposite. In which case...

[MontuckyFried]

Pretty sure I'm not the first one to mention it here, but screw Microsoft Teams. Amazing how lousy software can be from one of the largest (and richest) developers on the planet.

Hope Teams didn't screw me over too badly but I had a big 2nd stage job interview today with a major international company for years now. I had a whole presentation set up, tested Teams out several times this morning to do a dry run and make sure it was all humming along. Was totally fine. Interview time comes and I click on their link for the meeting and Teams tells me to log in even though it was open and running. Do that and it hangs up, endlessly "logging in." Shut it down, try again, couple minutes late now, and while it lets me in, it doesn't let me select my custom background I use. Just had to proceed and then my camera window doesn't show up. Just a grey square. Confirmed with the interviewer (an exec at this company) that my camera was working but I had NO idea what I looked like. No idea if I was squared in the frame, giving good eye contact, or wtf my background was (blurred, my office wall, I have no idea). So just had to act like nothing was wrong and proceed. Was an hour long so I hope it went well, but Imma be proper pissed if it was Teams that hurt my chances here. Up against lots of competition.

In general, Zoom seems to work much better for me but Teams always manages to screw up SOMETHING just about every time I've used it. Especially with logging in to sessions. When they told me the meeting was going to be on Teams, I was like "Aww, balls. You have got to be kidding me." Haha.

[MontuckyFried]

...and then to add insult to injury, my cat was apparently sleeping in the room when I started and I hadn't noticed. About halfway through, she wakes from her slumber and starts frantically pawing at the office door like she has to hit the litterbox stat. Tried throwing things at her on the side to distract her, but no dice. Very distracting. Finally had to excuse myself from the interview for a second to let her ass out. Stupid cat.

[anotherVTskibum]

The doc is the AH. If you're scheduling appts 4 months out then schedule vacations 4 months out.

This. Although I'd suggest that your vacation scheduling should actually be beyond the appointment horizon, and doing otherwise (particularly when you have extended wait times to get an appointment) is definitely an AH move.

I had an appointment that I booked six months out, had to push because I ended up on a work trip at the time, and then the office called like a week before the appointment because the doctor--who, by the way, only does office visits one day a week--wasn't going to be in. The doc did give up his lunch break a couple of weeks later, though, so he gets credit for that.

Unfortunately, at least around me, both primary care and specialists are understaffed and booking far enough out that they don't have to care about actually treating customers reasonably. I showed up for my kid's appointment AT THE TIME ON THE REMINDER LETTER and was told I needed to reschedule because I was late. I thought I must've misread the time, but then I get home and verify that I have it right...so I call the office and they acknowledge that they know the automated system is sending out letters with the wrong time (actual appointment vs check in), and they're "working on it." If I had brought the letter with me, I might have really lost it.

I didn't want to reschedule with them, but it was literally that or wait a year plus to get an appointment elsewhere, which would've screwed up the vaccination schedule.

[Brock Landers]

For the record, I was on the desk at work so by going ballistic I just calmly, methodically basically said the doctor was an asshole in multiple ways…blah blah, mentioned 4 or 5 times I was just venting, I know it wasn’t your vacation to the woman, thank you for hearing me out I wish I could tell the doc directly. Afterward we had a laugh after I said my piece.

I understand doctors go on vacation. I understand it could theoretically have been last minute (it wasn’t, she dropped that it was planned a month earlier and they meant to send LETTERS to patients but their systems suck…). And yes, trying to work on a solution is what I tried to do. But coming in on a Friday or Saturday in the next couple weeks isn’t what I had in mind. Only to come in again for the exam on the only open time (no this dude was not working late to accommodate).