Things I don't like (TIDL) thread

chroniclard said:
I agree, I banned ours from playing anything pre 90's :p

Sadly I had no control over this one and he played the standard *badwordshere* stuff.
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It is one of my major hates over the decades listening to people moan about a DJ they booked to then moan all they played was 'boom boom boom stuff'. If you book them you tell them what to play. Oh and if you don't want strobes or other types of annoying lights then tell them.
 
OpenToSuggestions said:
The place I work has had so many improvement projects and restructures over the last 3 years it is hard to keep track of what is going on!
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This is down to all new managers needing to “put their stamp” on their team/department/division. Often against advice of employees who’ve seen X, Y and Z tried and fail before.

Don’t get me started on vanity projects where a senior manager is visited by the Good Idea Fairy one night and decides this is the best thing since sliced bread. Cue 6 months to a year later and said failed project is quietly shelved after wasting man decades and a small fortune on it.

Apple was shocking for this and I’ve personally been involved in 2-3 of these that wasted millions of dollars.
 
SMN said:
Oh, a new one for me. I dont know how to phrase this, so i'll just say "material idiots". By that I mean people who have no concept of fixing / repair / maintenance and just throw things away when they no longer function.

Case and point; "Shop well for less" (a BBC one programme): the family on there bought a new vacuum cleaner every 6 (?) months, because the old one stopped working. They never threw the old ones away or recycled them, or bothered to investigate why. Turns out it was a £5 filter needed changing (or even easier, washing). This attitude drives me up the wall. They literally had 5-6 vacuums worth £1000+ just sitting there 'broken'.... and never wondering why they were broken. I despair. Disposable planet syndrome.
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That must be frustrating for the people who design those vacuum cleaners as people will go online leaving reviews bashing the product for being unrealiable.
 
SMN said:
Oh, a new one for me. I dont know how to phrase this, so i'll just say "material idiots". By that I mean people who have no concept of fixing / repair / maintenance and just throw things away when they no longer function.

Case and point; "Shop well for less" (a BBC one programme): the family on there bought a new vacuum cleaner every 6 (?) months, because the old one stopped working. They never threw the old ones away or recycled them, or bothered to investigate why. Turns out it was a £5 filter needed changing (or even easier, washing). This attitude drives me up the wall. They literally had 5-6 vacuums worth £1000+ just sitting there 'broken'.... and never wondering why they were broken. I despair. Disposable planet syndrome.
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That's lack of common sense or just plain stupidity.

Even if the vacuum cleaner was actually breaking every 6 months, any normal person would return it back under warranty for exchange or repair.
 
circles. The geometric kind. They remind me of an idiot who insisted 1 + 1 must always = 2. It took me another 2 years to discover Russell's logic text, which dismissed the teachers myth.
 
SMN said:
Case and point; "Shop well for less" (a BBC one programme): the family on there bought a new vacuum cleaner every 6 (?) months, because the old one stopped working. They never threw the old ones away or recycled them, or bothered to investigate why. Turns out it was a £5 filter needed changing (or even easier, washing). This attitude drives me up the wall. They literally had 5-6 vacuums worth £1000+ just sitting there 'broken'.... and never wondering why they were broken. I despair. Disposable planet syndrome.
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I'll add the tv show "Shop Well for Less"

You spent £400 on this kitchen aid mixer yet you couldn't tell a difference when swapping to this £80 Aldi model. You've saved £320

We no i haven't you **** wit because i already own the £400 model and don't need to buy another.
 
NVP said:
I do this, but only after a fag because it's better to smell like Ralph Lauren in a meeting than trash.
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It doesn't work - there's a few people at my workplace who do this and you can still smell the smoke. Best way to not smell of smoke is to not smoke.
 
Marvt74 said:
I'll add the tv show "Shop Well for Less"

You spent £400 on this kitchen aid mixer yet you couldn't tell a difference when swapping to this £80 Aldi model. You've saved £320

We no i haven't you **** wit because i already own the £400 model and don't need to buy another.
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Indeed, they seem to miss this fact. Why not "and if you swapped the family dog for a rabbit you could've saved £1500".
 
Terminal_Boy said:
This is down to all new managers needing to “put their stamp” on their team/department/division. Often against advice of employees who’ve seen X, Y and Z tried and fail before.

Don’t get me started on vanity projects where a senior manager is visited by the Good Idea Fairy one night and decides this is the best thing since sliced bread. Cue 6 months to a year later and said failed project is quietly shelved after wasting man decades and a small fortune on it.

Apple was shocking for this and I’ve personally been involved in 2-3 of these that wasted millions of dollars.
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Another big one is putting people in charge who are barely out of University. How on earth can you be the a decent senior manager over design and manufacturing engineering when you've got 2-3 years of post-degree experience?! It is always amusing when a 25 year old is trying to tell a design engineer of 40 years how long a project will take.
Problems often are caused by 'high potential' people who only have to tread water in a role for 3 months before moving sideways/upwards.
By all means let people with talent rise upwards, but jumping up so quickly means they rarely have any idea what is going on.
 
Wizzfizz said:
People blocking the shopping aisle to chat.
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This has been more noticeable to me recently (past few years), it's rather annoying. I now just say "excuse me" quite loud, but not in a sarcastic way, just loud. I get good results, sometimes (rarely) an apology.
 
Recently came from the USA;

Seeing the price of an item in store and then getting to the till where 3 different taxes are then added,! making the cost more than the money in your pocket, so you have to put it back.

Donald Trump defenders/apologists
 
Re. Acronyms (from upthread), im about to add to the public store of those with a structure of them. My apologies in advance! In my defence, its a timesaver.
 
SexyGreyFox said:
You do realise it doesn't work?
The amount of smokers who spray thinking the smoke has now left their space is unbelievable.
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Indeed. It's the same with alcoholics that think brushing their teeth or having something strong in flavour to eat will mask/remove the smell of the alcohol. It really doesn't.
 
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