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Things that annoy

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Doing my shopping today got me thinking of the things that annoy me (and not just with shopping!)

Here's three to start with:

Constant rearranging of which aisle things are in at the supermarket.  It means the shopping takes a lot longer than usual, takes many visits before I know where things are (as need different things each time) and makes me go home without things I had gone for (I even manage to forget things that are on the list as they are in order as I go up and down the aisles).

Customers at the till who wait until everything has been scanned before thinking of packing them up, then packing them into bags before putting them in their trolley.  And only after all that do they get their money/card out.  (I always have my money at the till ready before they start scanning, then pack as they are going through the register, pay immediately when they have finished and continue packing.  Then by the time it hs all gone through I have finished packing and am ready to go.  And I usually add up the prices as I'm going along so I know how much it will be).

Too much choice.  For example, why can't there be one price for electricity, it all comes through the same wires.  I know once when confronted by one of the salesman for an electric company I asked how I would know what electricity was coming through my wires as I was sure sometimes I would be getting someone elses electricity, and how could I be sure theirs was as strong as the other company.  I was told it was all the same, so I said if it was all the same, why should I change?  Life is too short to keep changing over from one company to another and worrying about whether you have the best 'deal' or not.

Anyway, what are other peoples top annoyances of modern life?

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    lostmyway said:

    Well, they can't bully you when you're at home can they?

    Yes, there is that.  I'm reminded of the manager who was a big believer in "presenteeism" amongst his staff but he himself would regularly slope off home for most of the afternoon ("I'm just stepping outside to take this very confidential phone call", as he'd regularly announce early afternoon and then we'd see him driving off and not coming back for hours.  Coincidentally, he lived about 2 minutes away, unlike the rest of us).  Of course that had a similar effect so installed a camera in the office so he could continue to spy on us when he was away skiving.  He was the same one who insisted someone was given a written warning for expressing an inoffensive opinion about something that might be improved, ignoring HR's advice that it was an incredibly bad idea to do so.

    I've worked for some lovely people over the years.

    Yep, I agree with that because so much of it comes across as phoney and playing to the gallery. The thing is, it's better to speak your mind because all PC does is hide people's real feelings and it drives it underground. I'm not advocating, of course, that people should make remarks that are hateful and liable to cause violence, but we are all entitled to express our opinion as we (still) live in a democracy.

    A current case in point. It's just been reported on the news that some advertising executive has been suspended because he said he thought women don't show enough ambition. Crazy.

    It does seem to have a "suppress rather than educate" element to it much of the time, and is more likely to prolong and probably worsen problems: communication of ideas is vital to people's understanding and tolerance so preventing that is probably not very sensible.

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    lostmyway said:

    Well, they can't bully you when you're at home can they?

    Yes, there is that.  I'm reminded of the manager who was a big believer in "presenteeism" amongst his staff but he himself would regularly slope off home for most of the afternoon ("I'm just stepping outside to take this very confidential phone call", as he'd regularly announce early afternoon and then we'd see him driving off and not coming back for hours.  Coincidentally, he lived about 2 minutes away, unlike the rest of us).  Of course that had a similar effect so installed a camera in the office so he could continue to spy on us when he was away skiving.  He was the same one who insisted someone was given a written warning for expressing an inoffensive opinion about something that might be improved, ignoring HR's advice that it was an incredibly bad idea to do so.

    I've worked for some lovely people over the years.

    Yep, I agree with that because so much of it comes across as phoney and playing to the gallery. The thing is, it's better to speak your mind because all PC does is hide people's real feelings and it drives it underground. I'm not advocating, of course, that people should make remarks that are hateful and liable to cause violence, but we are all entitled to express our opinion as we (still) live in a democracy.

    A current case in point. It's just been reported on the news that some advertising executive has been suspended because he said he thought women don't show enough ambition. Crazy.

    It does seem to have a "suppress rather than educate" element to it much of the time, and is more likely to prolong and probably worsen problems: communication of ideas is vital to people's understanding and tolerance so preventing that is probably not very sensible.

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