Things that annoy you (12 Viewers)

[fernandopartridge]

My current place has a meeting culture of “keep working cam off if you want” which other than lots of “sorry can you repeat I wasn’t paying attention” seems to work pretty well. But equally there’s a company wide hatred of meetings so they’re quite rare.

Where I work there is now an industry of setting up these meetings, it's virtually fully remote and plenty of people here produce nothing tangible so having meetings I guess is the comfort blanket for them that they're doing *something* while they're not attending an actual workplace.

 

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[ccfctommy]

People that email you then phone you 60 seconds later to tell you they've sent an email or ask you if you've read the email

God, I hate that.

 

[Sbarcher]

Shall I tell the Vice-Chancellor at Warwick or will you??

Never mind the IT Dept, tell him to start digging the new stadium.

 

[ajsccfc]

We're migrating to OneDrive and Office365 and it is absolutely bewildering to me! I try to open a link that someone has sent me and it says it's not accessible - and i have NO idea why!! If i'm WFH, i never know if it's because i'm not logged in to the work VPN, but i am assured not. It keeps logging me out! So i end up just doing it old-school and saving a copy to my hard drive or the network drive and emailing a copy to people.
My wife migrated her organisation (admittedly rather smaller than mine) to Google, and it seems much simpler by comparison.

Teams works pretty well for us, with the dropouts being attributable to my home modem rather than the system, and we use the chat function for daily communication within the team which i don't think Zoom has.
Anyone remember Skype? Microsoft clearly dropped that like a hot brick and put their eggs in the Teams basket (sorry for the mixed metaphors!!).

I don't know what you mean, everything works perfectly so long as you're on the campus network or using VPN via SBL when WFH but only using a managed device, or alternatively an enrolled one but sometimes the enrolment leaves you half-enrolled with only three people having the admin access to actually confirm this so good luck if they're having a shit or in a meeting

Also you can't use USB storage as it's a massive security risk, unless you ask nicely in which case crack on!

 

[shmmeee]

Currently work in FinTech with a bunch of sensitive data, but nothing compares to the overzealousness of educational establishment IT departments.

 

[ajsccfc]

One thing that's particularly annoying is that anyone wanting to run software not licenced or provided centrally needs to first run it by a compliance team. That's all good and sensible, except that nobody's thought to then have a checklist of approved software that can be quickly referred to, so now the compliance team are just batting away constant 'can I use Zoom please?' requests a mile a minute instead

 

[Terry_dactyl]

People who talk about technology/‘computer stuff’…because Im too thick to understand what they’re talking about.

Also see - people who talk about cars/car maintenance, any kind of building work, roads/motorways, business/finance, my job etc etc etc.

 

[shmmeee]

i don’t get car people at all, it’s just a mode of transport. But then I imagine that’s how they feel when I talk computers.

 

[olderskyblue]

mode of transport?

 

[JAM See]

People who talk about technology/‘computer stuff’…because Im too thick to understand what they’re talking about.

Also see - people who talk about cars/car maintenance, any kind of building work, roads/motorways, business/finance, my job etc etc etc.

Also see - me commenting on football.

 

[Sick Boy]

Companies who expect you to be available 24/7 to them on Slack.

 

[shmmeee]

Companies who expect you to be available 24/7 to them on Slack.

Do you not put SLAs in your contracts?

 

[chiefdave]

Do you not put SLAs in your contracts?

In my experience there's two problems, customers ignore SLAs and expect you to be available instantly 24/7 hours a day and managers do nothing when this problem comes up when they should be making it clear to the customer what the terms are

Not to mention its often the managers who are expecting you to be available whenever they feel like contacting you

 

[Nick]

Companies who expect you to be available 24/7 to them on Slack.

Send them an invoice every time they message you. They will soon stop.

When I was self employed I had a customer who was terrible for it, I said my time was chargeable so it would be even more for answering his calls. (Double time).

He soon stopped.

 

[shmmeee]

In my experience there's two problems, customers ignore SLAs and expect you to be available instantly 24/7 hours a day and managers do nothing when this problem comes up when they should be making it clear to the customer what the terms are

Not to mention its often the managers who are expecting you to be available whenever they feel like contacting you

Ive only ever had internal customers on an SLA and you’re right it doesn’t do much but when asked I can point to them agreeing to it at least.

I like Nicks idea though.

 

[ccfctommy]

Companies who expect you to be available 24/7 to them on Slack.

Slack?

 

[Sick Boy]

Send them an invoice every time they message you. They will soon stop.

When I was self employed I had a customer who was terrible for it, I said my time was chargeable so it would be even more for answering his calls. (Double time).

He soon stopped.

I don’t even have a Slack account but a client keeps sending me invitations to sign up - I told them before I don’t have it and don’t intend to - I sent them an email earlier to let them know it’d be a monthly standing charge of €500 to message me on there.

 

[Nick]

Automatic renewals.

Pay £40 for something last year for 12 months.
£150 goes out of my account today even though it's on offer for the same price I paid last year.

Get to fuck. Will fight them to the death for it.

 

[Nick]

I don’t even have a Slack account but a client keeps sending me invitations to sign up - I told them before I don’t have it and don’t intend to - I sent them an email earlier to let them know it’d be a monthly standing charge of €500 to message me on there.

I didn't even give customers my mobile number, didn't want them hassling me when it wasn't work time. Some hated it but if they didn't like it then get to fuck.

 

[shmmeee]

Automatic renewals.

Pay £40 for something last year for 12 months.
£150 goes out of my account today even though it's on offer for the same price I paid last year.

Get to fuck. Will fight them to the death for it.

Why can we get laws about fucking cookies needing express permission but not this?

Ive worked at a SaaS business that knew damn well what they were doing as well and would fight any attempt to make it clear to users.

 

[fernandopartridge]

Why can we get laws about fucking cookies needing express permission but not this?

Ive worked at a SaaS business that knew damn well what they were doing as well and would fight any attempt to make it clear to users.

They've probably met their very minimal obligations under law by hiding it in their terms and conditions. When consumers are asked to agree to terms and conditions especially for SaaS type arrangements there really should be a key facts type summary with things like "What happens at the end of the initial term". "How do I cancel my subscription"

 

[JAM See]

They've probably met their very minimal obligations under law by hiding it in their terms and conditions. When consumers are asked to agree to terms and conditions especially for SaaS type arrangements there really should be a key facts type summary with things like "What happens at the end of the initial term". "How do I cancel my subscription"

All of my 'service' providers: phone contract, broadband, energy utilities etc., contact me a month before my deal expires to inform me that the T&C's will be changing (even Amazon email me to remind me of my upcoming Prime subscription renewal).

Why isn't this done for less generic service providers?

Edit : On the other hand, OS maps take their £25 every year without contacting me.

Maybe we should all stick a reminder in our calendars 11 months after we commit to any annual service payment.

 

[Sbarcher]

All of my 'service' providers: phone contract, broadband, energy utilities etc., contact me a month before my deal expires to inform me that the T&C's will be changing (even Amazon email me to remind me of my upcoming Prime subscription renewal).

Why isn't this done for less generic service providers?

Edit : On the other hand, OS maps take their £25 every year without contacting me.

Maybe we should all stick a reminder in our calendars 11 months after we commit to any annual service payment.

Well I think it's about time you knew where you were!

 

[ccfc922]

The sudden calling Kiev "Keev".

Every fucker has always said Chicken Kiev for years and its a proper box ticking exercise, particularly on MasterChef the other night.

 

[shmmeee]

The sudden calling Kiev "Keev".

Every fucker has always said Chicken Kiev for years and its a proper box ticking exercise, particularly on MasterChef the other night.

Box ticking?

what box is being ticked?

 

[ccfc922]

Box ticking?

what box is being ticked?

I guess political correctness? It just seems forced.

 

[SomersetSB]

I guess political correctness? It just seems forced.

It’s just like Kherson when the war started now it’s Herson.

 

[Deleted member 9744]

I guess political correctness? It just seems forced.

Pronouncing things correctly is just forced wokism eh?

 

[Flying Fokker]

Just like ‘Putin’. Now pronounced ‘wanker’.

 

[ccfc922]

Pronouncing things correctly is just forced wokism eh?

Why do we call Napoli Naples then?

I'm just pointing out it's suddenly been changed to its correct pronunciation by Ukranians since the war broke out. It's a translation, not an English word.

 

[ccfc922]

Just like ‘Putin’. Now pronounced ‘wanker’.

Add that the list, was always Pu-tin, now its Poo-tin.

 

[Mcbean]

Waiting to speak to a human and being offered a chat bot who can’t understand the fuckin question every Utility / insurance company etc that can’t answer the phone - with more than insurance - just impossible to talk to anyone without spending hours waiting - Covid is over so give me that shit !

Have taken to selecting options where you have to pay on the basis that getting paid is more a priority than
Customer service

 

[Ian1779]

I haven’t watched it at all, but surely if you are someone that religiously watches I’m a Celebrity, there is an irony in then complaining that Matt Hancock might win.
He is still a **** however.

 

[Tommo1993]

Missed plenty of episodes but it is pretty nauseating that a few man made “trials” is enough to win over the public.

 

[Terry_dactyl]

Missed plenty of episodes but it is pretty nauseating that a few man made “trials” is enough to win over the public.

Is he liked now?!