Geek Pet Hates.

Customers who have large or multi-monitor setups and email 10Mb attachments of their entire desktop when the error message is a single line pop-up.

Bonus points if they have a browser open and the open web pages include Facebook, Party Poker or a jobs website. Saying that I felt sorry for one guy who had an open email to a friend telling him that he had no friends at work and was miserable :(

Also Lotus Notes users. All of them.
 
People leaving the office printers in hold, without paper or with a paper jam.

People wiping their screens with snot rags.

:mad:
 
A person who looks over your right hand shoulder at the monitor and you feel the air coming out of there nostrils on too the back of your hand you are controlling the mouse with.
 
Here are mine so far:

- People who double click on links.
- People who go to point at something on a TFT type monitor and touch it!
- People who install IE toolbars
- People who when trying to launch an application and a security message stating "Are you sure you wish to run this program?" pops up and they click "No"!
- People resetting a shared router because THEIR connection has suddenly died!
- People who use a tabbed browser but insist on multiple browser windows with 1 tab per window.
- People asking on how to do something when just a little snooping around normally solves it anyway
- People who mange to plug a USB plug into a socket the right way first time!
- People who type a post code and press the caps lock button to capitalize each letter individually
- People who think "Internet Explorer" is "The Internet" and nothing else is
- People who choose a low resolution on an LCD monitor to make things bigger especially when they buy a 22" monitor
- People who send and also the people who forward those emails stating that "You must forward this email to 45 of your friends or else you will die" type emails
- People who call monitors computers!
- People who use "Comic Sans MS" for everything!
- People who browse the entire list of applications in Vista or 7 - Just type in the search box
- When people ask you to solve a problem over the phone about a program you have never used before and expect you to know exactly what they are seeing on their screen.
- When you use a keyboard shortcut instead of clicking something with the mouse (for example, bringing up the desktop), and say something like "Woah woah woah, what did you just do"
- When you are explaining to someone how to do something and they double click too slowly so the application/file doesn't launch. You know yourself that waiting longer isn't going to help the situation but something prevents you from telling them right away and you wait with them until shortly telling them 'try again'.
- People who who ask for your help, you ask them to log off, they shut the pc completely down
- People who cannot remember passwords!!!!
- People who store pictures in Word files just because they know how to use word files.

Been a great laugh reading through these. Most of them are just so true and yes they are the most minor of things but it's just soo amazing how annoying they can be.
 
I used to annoy a workmate of mine at an old company I worked for. I'd be at my desk, on the phone, to a site engineer / sub-contractor etc. talking about a set of architectural drawings I'd sent out.

I would be looking at the drawings in AutoCAD, while the site guy/contractor etc would have the printed plans. Quite often, while discussing a particular point on the drawings, I'd be pointing at my screen.

Without fail every-time I hung up after I did this, my workmate pointed it out to me, exasperated that I should be so stupid, 'Did I not understand the other person on the phone could not see what I was pointing to?'

It was purely a sub-concious action, but it really got under his skin.

Nate
 
Excel pet hates:

Being told by my manager to hard paste all numbers into a spreadsheet, thus losing an audit trail, because the sheet was crashing the office network because it was too large with too many formulae and links. The firm was being paid £500k for this job and wouldnt invest in an infrastructure that allowed us to do it properly. AAAAAARGH Its a 70mb excel sheet with no visual basic, just simple functions......

Then 2 years later when the next project comes in, trying to recreate the audit trail on other projects because other people didnt see the potential issue.

MADE ME WANT TO SMAAAASH!
 
Another good one, I often get students come up to me and say...

"Dan, your good with computers...how do you hack?"

LMAO idiots
 
This one might be a bit esoteric but I get annoyed when peeps look for classes using the package explorer in eclipse rather than hitting Ctrl-Shift-T and searching for the class directly. Same thing applies for methods in classes (using Ctrl-O).

I also get annoyed at users who use Windows but could easily adapt to open source software.
 
uvarvu said:
This one might be a bit esoteric but I get annoyed when peeps look for classes using the package explorer in eclipse rather than hitting Ctrl-Shift-T and searching for the class directly. Same thing applies for methods in classes (using Ctrl-O).

I also get annoyed at users who use Windows but could easily adapt to open source software.
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eclipse for classes.. do you work in a school then?

you sound like my old boss, his motto was "students dont need mice, they should learn keyboard shortcuts!"

and he loooooooooooooooooooves open source O/S and software.
 
Haha nope not in a school. I mean the Eclipse IDE. It's a tool for programmers.

One more the list, admirers of your desktop wallpaper who look at it and say "nice screensaver".
 
people that poke my screen when im using the pc and there showing me what to click

i hate greasy prints on me screen!!!!!
 
People that use their keyboard more than they have to. For example, unless you are typing or literally can't do it with the mouse then your left hand should be used to rest your head, or scratch your balls. And win-d IS slower than dragging the mouse down to the bottom right screen and just clicking.
 
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