You Know What Grinds My Gears? - Things that personally piss you off

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Lady Bizness said:
And yes I know, young people have always sucked. But this time it's different. They are incapable and pitiable.
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Our work blocks ChatGPT and other AI programs due to cybersecurity reasons. We had interns cry on the job when they found this out. A few of them actually quit because they were just hoping to do all their work with AI this summer. As far as we could tell, they had no plan B so they just decided to hang out and do nothing during the summer at home apparently.
 
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The Hardest R said:
Our work blocks ChatGPT and other AI programs due to cybersecurity reasons. We had interns cry on the job when they found this out. A few of them actually quit because they were just hoping to do all their work with AI this summer. As far as we could tell, they had no plan B so they just decided to hang out and do nothing during the summer.
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Lol I had a goldbricker last year. I'm so damn patient, but OMFG. Got the job bc we didn't dare turn down an additional fte, but he didn't last 4 months, despite multiple managers and supervisors and mentors (including yours truly) spending scores of hours trying to help him do one god damn thing, plus a whole formal program oriented to ushering in "tomorrow's leaders." Apparently they're teaching students in business programs these days that all you have to do is spend all day 3 2 hours a day "networking" by chatting and having coffee, and then you can fuck off doing your other business and planning your weekend the rest of the time.

To be fair, the other person I had come through, through the same program, was very good - she worked hard and did good work (a little overconfident, but forgivably). This first guy was something else (and also older, cusp of millennial and gen z!).

As for AI, pretty sure anything but Copilot within our environment and proprietary AI is blocked for security reasons as well. But the permitted ones are being heavily heavily heavily encouraged.

Fine, I'll get good at it. I did actually use it to generate a bunch of financial analyses, dashboards, models, and related views for my personal use today. It's not perfect, but it's good (though trust nothing; it forgets things you tell it and makes a ton of mistakes) - and it helped clarify my decisionmaking and put some hard data and dates to it. I spent about 3 hours and probably saved 20.

So it grinds my gears bc it's going to fuck up a ton of stuff, guaranteed, but it has its uses/value.
 
What grinds my gears is seeing the 11th "504 bad gateway" after trying to enter this thread lmfao.
 
The Hardest R said:
Our work blocks ChatGPT and other AI programs due to cybersecurity reasons. We had interns cry on the job when they found this out. A few of them actually quit because they were just hoping to do all their work with AI this summer. As far as we could tell, they had no plan B so they just decided to hang out and do nothing during the summer at home apparently.
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Principal friend of mine has already had to deal with several parents defending their kid's use of AI. Not denying it, but defending the use. They have their lawyers comb through the district's AI policy and think they found loopholes. It's disgusting. Well good job assholes, now your kids are fucking stupid and useless.

Would love it if the local schools could block it too "for security reasons" but we have so many retards in this profession that think we have to teach the children how to use this "wave of the future" technology when they don't understand it well enough to teach it anyway.

The longer I work in education the more these idiots keep proving the "those who can, do. Those who can't, teach" saying, which grinds my gears to no end.
 
Autists on the internet who think it's necessary to correct harmless typos that anyone could make by mistake or extremely minor spelling errors. You clearly understood the point well enough if you knew what needed to be corrected, which is all that matters. Stop trying to derail the conversation by being a pedantic cunt.
 
On Friday I talked to a guy on Discord who said he had a working modded copy of a game I wanted to test out. Only problem is that he's out of town and can't access his PC until Sunday (today). Waited until 2 PM today for him to send me the files, he's radio silent. Finally I garnered the courage to ping him and ask "hey, sorry for the ping, but could you send those files?". He replied an hour later and tells me "oh I just got home, I'll do it in a minute. Ping me repeatedly if I don't respond".

Not wanting to come off as a total jackass, I waited 3 hours for him to send me it. He apparently forgot again. So I just now pinged him for the second time (I'm probably making myself look like a fool at this point) and I have no idea if he's ever going to follow through. The worst part is that he's the only guy who has the files, since all of the modifications were done by him. He made the build as just a test and never released it anywhere.
 
Since I don't want to dig for/start a Caribbean menace thread ala the Indian menace thread, I'll just post this here. Can companies stop hiring Caribbeans and claiming "oh they're ESL but they speak great English?" No they fucking don't. They parrot it, but they don't fucking understand it beyond a child like level when you get into any topic/conversation that extends beyond simple yes/no, at least in my experience.

I am sick and tired of dealing with customer service reps who sound like they just got here on a floating door last week. They're slightly better than jeets or latinos but that's not a selling point, slightly different textured shit is still shit.

God forbid you have to work with them/manage them, they pull every fucking hackneyed "the dog ate my homework" excuse known to man, and if you lean on them they blame ESL misunderstanding, then they immediately cry racism faster than jeets or latinos do if you don't buy it.

GO THE FUCK BACK TO YOUR ISLANDS AND SIT AROUND ON THE BEACH LIKE GOD INTENDED, IF YOU WANT A CIVILZATION BUILD YOUR OWN!

Same for other islanders like Hawaii or the Samoans or the Pacific Islanders. STAY ON YOUR FUCKING ISLANDS PLEASE. FUCK IT, GO FISHING/HAVE A BIG BONFIRE ORGY/PRACTICE THOSE ADMITTEDLY COOL TRIBAL WARFARE DANCES SOME OF YOU HAVE, I DON'T CARE, JUST GET THE FUCK OUT/STOP COMING HERE! I'm beyond tired of your patois fucking gibberish.

I'll gladly take my tophats now, thank you for your time.
 
People who feed seagulls. Is this some low IQ thing or are there otherwise intelligent people that are retarded enough to do this as well? Almost every time that I walk around my local lakeside park, some prick is feeding these things from a park bench or from their car. A few weeks back, someone in their car threw all of the bread pieces, or whatever they were, right in the middle of the road, then took off. Inevitably, the next car that came along could not get through, even after incessant honking, because the seagulls were going nuts in the middle of the road. Are these the people without inner monologues, just living in the moment, not thinking ahead to what others will have to deal with because of their actions? We live in a society!
 
sherwoods110 said:
A few weeks back, someone in their car threw all of the bread pieces, or whatever they were, right in the middle of the road, then took off. Inevitably, the next car that came along could not get through, even after incessant honking, because the seagulls were going nuts in the middle of the road.
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This is a pro IRL Mario Kart move.
 
Normaltards online claiming the new War of the Worlds is some kind of misunderstood masterpiece of "so bad it's good" filmmaking. It isn't. It's one long Amazon ad.
 
NH-8340 said:
On Friday I talked to a guy on Discord who said he had a working modded copy of a game I wanted to test out. Only problem is that he's out of town and can't access his PC until Sunday (today). Waited until 2 PM today for him to send me the files, he's radio silent. Finally I garnered the courage to ping him and ask "hey, sorry for the ping, but could you send those files?". He replied an hour later and tells me "oh I just got home, I'll do it in a minute. Ping me repeatedly if I don't respond".

Not wanting to come off as a total jackass, I waited 3 hours for him to send me it. He apparently forgot again. So I just now pinged him for the second time (I'm probably making myself look like a fool at this point) and I have no idea if he's ever going to follow through. The worst part is that he's the only guy who has the files, since all of the modifications were done by him. He made the build as just a test and never released it anywhere.
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Why you care so much about what a random guy on the internet thinks about you? The guy told you he was going to send you the files, is on him to do it.

Also, it's porn, right? 90% sure you want some porn mod.
 
Rokto said:
Autists on the internet who think it's necessary to correct harmless typos
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Same guy who says "LOL calm down” or “very bad take” before majestically leaving the argument since you're too immature to "debate."

Usually they get called out on it, but like 1 out of 10 times they land a hit, and it kills the thread instantly, which is why they keep coming back. I've never seen one of them offer anything substantive.
 
Misuse of the term "liminal" leading to it practically having a new definition.
It does not mean "creepy room picture". It means something that occupies both sides of a boundary. Airports are liminal spaces. Werewolves are liminal creatures. Liminal things exist at the limit from one thing to the next. It does not mean "empty" or "surreal" or "reminds me of Silent Hill" or "yellow grain filter".
 
Law said:
Misuse of the term "liminal" leading to it practically having a new definition.
It does not mean "creepy room picture". It means something that occupies both sides of a boundary. Airports are liminal spaces. Werewolves are liminal creatures. Liminal things exist at the limit from one thing to the next. It does not mean "empty" or "surreal" or "reminds me of Silent Hill" or "yellow grain filter".
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There's also a strong implication it's not somewhere you stay, but somewhere you go through to get to somewhere else. That's why so many are transportation-related. This is also why they convey a sense of danger. Predators seek out those who are neither here nor there, and those are places like airports and subway stations. There's a reason cults often seek out people in such places, because they are rich in rootless people.

If you're at an airport, odds are higher than normal it isn't just a vacation, but you're doing something like attending a funeral, leaving where you used to live to live somewhere else you haven't lived, or some other tumultuous event, and might be psychologically or otherwise under stress.

Liminal spaces are places you don't want to be. You want to be where you're going. Not being able to get out of one, or being trapped in an endless one, is the stuff of nightmares.
 
AnOminous said:
Liminal spaces are places you don't want to be.
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Disagree. The beach is a liminal space, as it exists at the limits of both land and sea. Conversely, my garden shed - while creepy, dimly lit, and full of unsettling and bizarre objects that are quickly becoming the hot new vacation spots for spiders - is not a liminal space.
 
Retards at movie theaters. Went to see a horror film the other day, and a few seats away was a literal retard. Guffawed like a cartoon character at the funny bits, and when things actually got scary, he made weird groaning/whining sounds like an infant. When there was gore, he made loud, dry-heaving sounds, I actually thought he was going to vomit. And at the end as things started going well for the good guys, he started to loudly cheer and yell at the screen. Guy could barely even handled the horror aspects of a horror movie, but I guess going anyway is what makes him a retard.
 
Lone Star said:
Guy could barely even handled the horror aspects of a horror movie, but I guess going anyway is what makes him a retard.
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Plenty of autists go to movie theaters, and I’ve sat next to most of them.

Last month, I was next to these two teens, siblings I guess, both wearing yarmulkes, one of them cannot sit like a human for more than a minute. So he starts folding himself into these weird origami shapes and by the end he's curled up in a full fetal position, knees to chest. I guess I’d rather he be doing that than getting all emotional and yelling at the screen.
 
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