Published on 12, July, 2020
Glad Tidings, Anyone reading. Please add your own 'Weeny Peeve', here, and VENT about it, if needs must. A Small (weeny) thing, which is irritating (peevish)... enough to be irritating, yet not so large as to breakdown One's life... I shall try examples of what I mean, thusly:
...Packets which say:"Pull here to open" --- Yet upon pulling, only the "Pull Here" part opens, and One must resort to the use of tools such as Scissors to open the rest of the darn thing.
...That floating bit of FLUFF which just *will not land* and so can constantly evade being swept up or cleaned away. (Vacuum Cleaners must be employed, here.)
...Things which state that they cost under "X" amount of money, yet only because they cost "X minus 1 plus 99-pence"... The saving of just 1 Pence is ALWAYS touted loudly as a bargain!
...TV Shows which are fictional but when beginning to discuss a real-life impasse, it is as if the writers know this and so change the subject... usually with something loud/dramatic/exploding.
...Not something I myself do, but have often seen done: When eating something "crunchy", upon the first bite, the rest of it fairly disintegrates so much that collecting the fragments is no longer worth any nutrition gained from the effort.
... Even if no-one else replies, I Myself may add to this Thread, now that I have started it, for everyday things. Good Fortune and Stay Safe, All.
Windows 10. Libraries, Quick Access .... seemingly hundreds of ways of getting to the *same place* in the file structure, which all seems a reasonable idea until you open a favourite bit of software that can't see these shortcuts and then you have to go hunting manually for a file whose location you never learned because "it's in Quick Access", and actually, all of those different ways of getting to the same place just make it more complicated to remember where stuff is, not less?
Bookmarks, Favourites, Links. What are Links? Isn't everything that points to somewhere a link?
"Windows is searching for a solution as to why this programme crashed" - has it *ever* found a solution? Or is it just there to waste our time and beg for yet one more mouse click to make it go away so we can re-launch?
Grrrr....
That is Windows full stop (ever since 95 from memory/experience) including shortcuts.
Plus I may add no induction into anything when you start work:-
- Policies and Procedures
- Ways of Working (File management, where to find things, how/where to store files, housekeeping)
- Training/Upskilling in the Tools (Complexities of a Work Processor, Spreadsheet, etc)
- New Starter checklist
I also remember a colleague did not have the authority/permission to correct the time on his machine (WTF?)
File management ... what a nightmare. I get so annoyed over this : p I've set up a file naming and management system now in my office, explaining where to save every little file. And then I audit the project folders. It wastes so much time when things aren't saved properly!