For me:

(In no particular order)


1. Traffic. Oh my, good old traffic. It wouldn't be so bad if there was a valid reason for the traffic, but if the traffic is being caused by people who are slowing down to watch someone changing their tire on the side of the road, my blood starts to boil and it seriously makes me wish I had a james bond-like missile launcher! (this also includes people who drive really slow for no damn reason, well below the speed limit and don't let you pass, people not knowing how to merge correctly and thus causing traffic to start, oblivious cell phone talking drivers (mostly women or guys in big trucks), etc, etc) I wish Americans were required to go through an intense drivers course, much like the one in Germany, and I also wish that getting your drivers license was much more difficult than it is currently! Perhaps then traffic won't show its ugly face at every hour of the day on every damn road and freeway in most populated areas. I know that traffic can't be avoided all together due to crowding of the roads, but it can def be reduced a lot by removing the "stupid driver element".


2. Outsourced jobs. I frigging HATE when I have to work with some guy from some non-English speaking country (Cough* India *cough) who speaks almost NO English just because the company wanted to save money by not hiring an American. It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't need to communicate with them as much as I do, but communication between us is VITAL for my line of work, and I need to know EXACTLY what is going on with different servers, etc, that they are in charge of handling. I can't even do my job half the time because I can't understand what they are verbally saying, so I have to have them send me an email with what they are talking about, and even the email is a scrambled mess and I have to have like 5 different people dicipher so I'm even able to respond to their email in the first place. Where's the logic there? Is the company really saving money by charging these guys $20 an hour Vs $40 an hour if they were americans? (I pulled that pay rate out of my *** btw) I hope you guys don't think that I hate a certain race of people because they can't speak English, that is not the case at all and that's not what I'm saying, I'm saying that I hate the fact that non-english speaking folks who have a weaker skill set get hired over more qualified American/British/Etc speaking candidates just to save a buck here and there! (This doesn't only apply to Indian people, but thats just the vast majority of people outsourced in my line of work which is) In the long run they aren't really saving that much money because productivity is lowered, communication between the US teams and their teams is crap which wastes time and money left and right... These folks aren't as trained as most American people that we hire so they tend to screw things up very often too that we have to fix which in turn wastes even more time and money!

3. Drama at work. The typical workplace drama where everyone gossips about everyone for no damn reason. Also, fake *** people who coddle you (at work) because they feel by kissing your *** to the extreme that they will somehow get the further in the company, or get them something out of it, not sure what that something is, but they make it so damn obvious that they are kissing *** and not being "natural"... They then go and gossip about you behind your back to other people (who are actually your friends) who tell you everything. Why does this drama have to occur in the work place!? Why can't everyone keep to themselves and be productive at work or even post on message boards all day like I do!? WHY!? Work isn't some social playground anymore! We're not 16-20 working at a fast food joint/store/etc anymore dammit!


That is my rant, now lets hear yours. Only list 3 things that bother you the most about your daily lives (home or work).

 

#1 and #3 are the same problems i face daily... my #2 would be


Gym. The people who sit on their ****ing cell phones at the gym while on a machine that they only have one of and talk like they are the only people in the world, or the people who came with a friend who do the same thing. There are times that I am able to do 3-4 completely different excercises at 4 sets each and they are still sitting there talking on their god damn cell phone, or to their friend. I think all gyms should have a no cell phone policy, no one in this world is so important that they can't go an hour or two without a damn cell phone on them. if they are this important, they probably shouldn't be at the god damn gym!

 

I deal with traffic everyday too (30 minutes/10 miles)... but I just compare it my old commute of 1 hour/16 miles or 3 hours/45 miles and consider myself lucky.

I don't have much complaint about work... well, some... my manager is gutless and doesn't take much risks in decision making and no recognition. one of the senior engineer always get the say in stuff even when the decision is BAD! but other then that, I love my job

Plus, I always have my personal business, Stupid Dent....

 

I only have one and its school lol.

 

insubordination
Dumba** Superiors
Sand(lots of it)

 

1. Heavy-footed upstairs neighbors stomping up the stairs to their apartment at 2am every night of the week and letting their door slam shut just because it's spring-loaded.

Hmmm....I guess that's the only thing that bothers me on a daily basis.

 

Before i got my two story apartment, my upstairs neighbors were redic. I swear to god they would have cannon ball competitions off their beds onto the floor sometimes, then they had a dog that would never shut the **** up when they were gone. Then when they were there they would throw a ball across the apartment and I got to hear the ball hit the ground, hit all the walls... then I could cheer as I heard the dog grab the ball and bring it back to it's owner. Then to top it off I was playing music not even loud at 9pm one day, instead of coming down and knocking on my door they called the police... The cops came thinking there would be a party and when I opened the door to just me he looked at me like ....

Now i have the privalage of my roommate being directly above me through most of the day, and he gets pissed when playing xbox and throws down the controller and stomps his feet in anger... I almost want to go up stairs and throw his 360 out the window at times

 

1. driving on the street (traffic, road conditions, ****ing rock chips from big trucks)
2. nuclear arms race of racing (people spending $35/gal and $7000 on a miata engine to buy their way up front)
3. boredom (everyone else is back to school and mine starts in next week... it's a ghost town)

 

Stupid Drivers. That's about the only thing that consistently gets under my skin.

It's really frustrating when you've been to other parts of the world where driving is actually a "priveledge" and people treat it as such. Less traffic and less road rage result.

-Brian

 

a-holes at work...

 

Field trucks and big rigs flinging mudd and rocks all over 129 and driving 20mph under the speedlimit.

Stupid threads started by darkonion.

My brother drunk in the livingroom when I get home from work. Makes me feel bad to crack a beer after a tough day.

 

1. sand -Im in kuwait so its everywhere and there is 2-3 sand storms a week
2. my supervisors - think they are god's gift to the world
3. boredom - we have a week of constant work, then a week of no work. its good to have time off, but I am in Kuwait and there is nothing to do but watch movies and work out. you can only do so much of that before you are out of your mind.

 

Yeah, not so many hot chicks in Kuwait, eh? Are you in the military or are you a private contractor?

 

Im in the Navy.
and no, not many out here. The ones that are here are "desert princesses" and pretty much have a flock of guys behind them.

 

^^^Fahaheel has some nice chicks. That's by the Hilton Hotel downtown. I'm down in Al Udied.