What Grinds you gears??

Vega@Autopia said:
Horrible food service. Nothings worse than being at the mercy of someones laziness. I went to Buffalo Wild Wings last night and the server forgot every drink request and walked by our table a few times without ever making eye contact or checking on us.
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I now (when at your average restaurant not higher end places) time my own food service by timing my orders, order salad or appetizer say I'm not sure on the meal yet and wait 10 minutes to order that so they dont come out together. Then if the wife wants to split desert we order her tea first while we "Decide" what we want for desert so that they bring her tea first so it can steep and be ready to drink while we split desert. I hate getting my meal at the same time as a salad or app and wife hates when we are done with desert before her tea shows up. So knowing the average 17-27 year old wait person has no clue how to time a diner we help them time it coyly.
 
What grinds my gears is how much of a throw-away and designed-obsolescence society we've become.

Working in the mechanical engineering field for many years, things were designed to last 7-10 years. Now it's three. I've worked on retrograde/updates/rebuilds to machinery that was 20-30 years old. Not any more. Computer-aided design can now allow you to design machinery that will last only three to four years. Most times it's the electronics that control it, because it changes that fast. Look at washers and dryers. Ask anyone who has purchased one recently, and chances are they need a new one in four to five years. You do not upgrade a home computer; you buy a new one.

One consumer item that has improved tremendously is new cars. It's NOTHING today to get 150,000 miles out of a car. That said, look at new car prices. With the average new car purchase price around $30,000, is it any wonder why there are 5-to-6 year long car loans. We would hope that the car would outlast the life of the car loan payments! Which is a plus for those in the car detailing/car-care and repair business. I read somewhere that the average age of registered cars on the road in America is 12 years (this apparently does not include antique/hobby/collector cars). My Subaru Outback is 13, going on 14, and, yes, it looks it with almost 175,000 miles on it (just broke in, as most longtime Subaru owners will tell me). Even used car prices are outrageous, at least in my eyes. Most secondary used car lots (as opposed to new car dealers) have ONLY cars with 100,000 miles (or more) on them, and still want ugga-mega dollars for them for a 5-7 year-old vehicle. Guess I can blame Obama for the "cash of clunkers" program and bailing out GM and Chrysler for the current car-price economy.
 
Who are the people that think (?) that everyone will want to watch green fat round boogers talk to you while you are getting ready for work, at the movies, heck, about everywhere????? I so dislike those ads and cannot watch them..

Then, some drunk clown thinks its great to have big, pink bladders AND colons walking around pulling us to the bathroom, or talking to us about something else !!!

This just has to stop!!!
Dan F
 
Just got a call today...

(recorded message) -

"The IRS is seizing all your assets and taking legal action against you for federal tax penalties... call .... xxx-xxx-xxxx"

Call comes from Washington DC. I proceed to get the same call 4 more times. Apparently, this is a scam where you call them back and they ask you to send them pre-paid debit cards for "tax penalties".

It's pretty sad. I did some research and it says citizens have been scammed out of over 14 million dollars with this scam. Immigrants have their citizenship threatened if they do not pay.

Just an FYI, this is a known scam per the IRS website. The IRS is aware of the scam and reports they never will contact you in this manner.
 
Slobs that throw their fast food wrappers out the window because they are too lazy to throw them away when they get to their destination.
 
It's that time of year again, time for me to be irritated by people who mispronounce "February" by leaving out the first "r". IIRC it started with Walter Cronkite, but back then it was one of those things that people recognized as incorrect and rolled their eyes about. Now everybody seems to say Feb'uary" and yeah, it bugs me.
 
Swanicyouth said:
Just got a call today...

(recorded message) -

"The IRS is seizing all your assets and taking legal action against you for federal tax penalties... call .... xxx-xxx-xxxx"

Call comes from Washington DC. I proceed to get the same call 4 more times. Apparently, this is a scam where you call them back and they ask you to send them pre-paid debit cards for "tax penalties".

It's pretty sad. I did some research and it says citizens have been scammed out of over 14 million dollars with this scam. Immigrants have their citizenship threatened if they do not pay.

Just an FYI, this is a known scam per the IRS website. The IRS is aware of the scam and reports they never will contact you in this manner.
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I love stuff like this, because revenge is amazing (Not that I live for it). I had something like that happened to me, in a different circumstance. Long story short I got just a snippet of info from it, couldn't find the exact individual so I went straight for throat. Found the persons mother, had my attorney send a letter saying her child would be getting a visit from the attorney general in 1 day if she didn't respond immediately. I definitely think she knew her child was up to no good, so I wasn't exactly nice (Nor was it my job to be after being ignored). Long story short, I got my money back asap and I swore to her if I ever heard about anything from her child doing this to anybody I'd make sure the GA would have a slam dunk of a case.... haven't heard a thing since.
 
You purchase something at the store (any store) with a total of $7.28 and you hand the clerk a $10.00 bill. Before get your change out they have already entered the transaction into the cash register when you say "Oh, I have the 28 cents" and they stand there like a deer in headlights until you explain to just give you $3.00 in change.
 
pwaug said:
You purchase something at the store (any store) with a total of $7.28 and you hand the clerk a $10.00 bill. Before get your change out they have already entered the transaction into the cash register when you say "Oh, I have the 28 cents" and they stand there like a deer in headlights until you explain to just give you $3.00 in change.
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Pwaug ---

YES !!!!!
Looks like most kids today (not all), do not have even simple math skills to know how to make change at all.... :(
This is so sad......
Guess the new common core math book really sux.... :)
Dan F
 
Ok, here is mine for this year ----

What is up with all these guys wearing these Nanny-Goat-Wannabe-Beard things ?????????
They look awful..
They make me want to pull them down...
What is their purpose - except to annoy real goats and most people ???
If you can't grow a full beard, please for the sake of humanity, don't grow this wispy, flying in the wind 12 inches below your chin thing...
Dan F
 
Stokdgs said:
Ok, here is mine for this year ----

What is up with all these guys wearing these Nanny-Goat-Wannabe-Beard things ?????????
They look awful..
They make me want to pull them down...
What is their purpose - except to annoy real goats and most people ???
If you can't grow a full beard, please for the sake of humanity, don't grow this wispy, flying in the wind 12 inches below your chin thing...
Dan F
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Like this guy?

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Stokdgs said:
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Looks like most kids today (not all), do not have even simple math skills to know how to make change at all.... :(
This is so sad......
Guess the new common core math book really sux.... :)
Dan F
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Not a new phenomenon, can't even blame Common Core; I had this problem with my students back in the '80s-'90s. Finally just had to plan to diverge from the course's Subject Matter and give them a quickie Remedial Math course with an emphasis on how that relates to US Currency..."how many nickles and how many dimes will it take to add up to..."-sort of problems. These were College students and the MBA guys auditing my class weren't much better than the at-risk Freshmen from crappy High Schools. Funny thing is, they all picked it up just fine, problem solved (presumably for life) and back to the Course Material.
 
pwaug said:
You purchase something at the store (any store) with a total of $7.28 and you hand the clerk a $10.00 bill. Before get your change out they have already entered the transaction into the cash register when you say "Oh, I have the 28 cents" and they stand there like a deer in headlights until you explain to just give you $3.00 in change.
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I always enjoy handing them enough so iget a nice round ten or something like that back. So for a $11.20 purchase i would give them $21.20 and yes, you get this wierd look, or it was only 11.20 sir. Mostly they dont realize what you have done untill after they type it in to their register. Are they trained to only look at what the register says? It's much worse going over to get a 5 dollar bill back.
 
I like telling them to "just give me a ten, it'll make even-change that way...actually, if you would, give me two fives". I like to think that maybe it'll get the gears turning, and if not perhaps I've at least clued them in that some other people know more than they do.
 
For me it's similar, but that same store clerk who tells me that it's $7.28, then they stick an open hand out towards me as they are busy doing something else with their eyes. IOW they look away with an open hand reaching for my money. I usually drop the coins so they hit the thumb and bounce around the counter. I'll politely place the money properly into their hand as long as they use the eyes to pay attention. I don't want to play blind mans bluff chasing your hand.
 
glfnaz said:
For me it's similar, but that same store clerk who tells me that it's $7.28, then they stick an open hand out towards me as they are busy doing something else with their eyes..
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Can't help but suspect that they think they're above their Job Description and/or are trying to multitask the making-change with something else they'd rather think about. Can't just be all about "being a checkout clerk" while on the clock.
 
people that tailgate me in my daily driver when I am already going 5-10 over the speed limit

then they wonder why I am slowing down

come on people

all these ppl moving into Austin area drive like CRAP!
 
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