Pet Peeves

[Bürggermeister]

Or pop a cap in her ass?

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

    

[OpenSores]

 

[astfgyl]

 

[Mooncat]

No riding, busting, popping, or banging of any kind unfortunately. Not that I've been on one in a long time now, but dating apps are a pet peeve category all of their own.

[Ducky]

   

I would 100% sign up for a QUB course on gangster rap 

Today's peeve - young ones/Gen Z working service industry.

Was in buying a birthday card today, approach the counter. No one else in the shop bar the young lad on the till. He looks up from his phone, makes eye contact with me, then puts his head down back into his phone.

I give him ten seconds, then clear my throat really loudly. He looks up again, takes the card off me to scan without saying anything. I hand him twenty quid, he takes it off me, puts it in the till then goes back to his fucking phone! (As an aside, he has poor self safety - his eyes are off me, his till is open within my reach).

I actually got properly thick with him and told him to finish the fucking transaction first. I wasn't proud of saying that, but WTF.

He's handing my change back, €17.25. Hands me the 15, then looks up confused, scratches his head. Had to say "a two euro coin, a twenty cent coin, and a five cent coin".

I get not wanting to be stuck behind a till in a minute wage job, but don't act the bollocks with customers. No more than than the young lass working the bar I was in on Thursday night who says "uh yeah I suppose" when I ask can I get two fizzy waters.

[Mooncat]

I know every generation says this about the next gen to come along, but something about this gen does feel especially thick and lacking in social skills. Though I guess you would be too if you were raised by social media. Isn't there a literacy crisis among that age group?

I'm a supervisor in the place I work and holy fuck, trying to get the young ones off their phones when they should be working is a constant battle.

[Ducky]

Fair point regarding being raised by phones. It's basically brain-rot at this stage.

Their attention spans are shot, and they have handwriting that would have disgraced a six year old from

[Goosebumples]

I dunno, in my anecdotal experience cognitive dysfunction and pure apathy is universally widespread across all cohorts. I see this sorta carry on regularly where I work from people of all walks of life and all educational levels. Guilty of it myself too on days where I just can't be fucked with life in general

[Anvil]

My neighbour got someone with a lawnmower and a sprayer to tidy up their garden.   He was cutting the grass and spraying in the dark a few weeks ago.  Today I noticed an ivy that is growing over the fence between our gardens is dying off, no problem there, it is on their property... So they are in their back garden this afternoon, so I asked if they poisoned the ivy.  They said that he did... well the problem and pet peeve is the fucking idiot has over sprayed into my garden and there are a number of plants that live along that fence that are looking particularly unwell. Thankfully the plants aren't really that important, they are only in that part of the garden after been dug out of somewhere else and I had no where else to put them... but I am still not happy. They said they would speak to the person (I refuse to call them a gardener) and their faces dropped when I said I would be having a word with them as well.  f

[Giggles]

It's not just the youngsters acting the bollox at the tills, people of all ages can be miserable cunts incapable of a hello, please or thanks. The workers at some Lidl stores I've been to don't even acknowledge their customers, they just chat away to each other on their headsets.

The mathematical skills of till operators has been declining rapidly since covid. I still pay cash, and the amount of people I see staring at the till and scratching their heads is actually worrying. People using a calculator to subtract 16 from 20. I'm not exaggerating.

[Carnage]

God forbid you'd give them the change with a note to make it handier, they'd look at you as though you're the confused one. New yung wan behind the bar in my local like that, pure head scrathing stuff.

[Bürggermeister]

People in customer facing roles wearing headsets just gets to me. One ear on, one ear off, you never know who the cunt is listening to. It's very unprofessional, to my mind. If you're engaged with someone, they should know they have your attention and you have theirs. I always take out the earbuds if I go to a shop and interact with the staff, they should do the same.

[Anvil]

If I have headphones on, I don't want to talk to anyone.  Why can't other people understand that?  I can't actually hear what you are saying, I haven't responded to you, so why are you still trying to talk to me... I can't hear you, I haven't taken my headphones off, take the fucking hint! 

Cashiers having a conversation with someone else when they are serving you gets on my nerves.

Also, if you say to someone more than once "I am waiting on another call" and they keep talking... I know mobiles have call waiting and can pop up the new call, but please take the fucking hint!

Jesus I am grumpy today!

[Bürggermeister]

More lazy journalism, namely where anything above mediocre is now a "masterclass"

Cunty.