Reply to: Minor modern annoyances

[oscarose]

none - practice patience

[northernladuk]

The Log in process for RBS. You hit the log in on the front page, put all your details in including the second page asking your password etc and THEN it tells you that you need to log in to the England and Wales site and start all over again. WTF!!! Why have a log in button on the front page that a vast majority of your customers won't be able to use.

[Sysman]

Feckers who let you sign up for a service via a simple web form but won't let you cancel unless you do so via registered post and preferably the soul of your first born.

[barrydidit]

Oh yeah, the couple in front of me a few weeks ago - wantted mini statements from half a dozen cards.

[BoredBloke]

This happened last night! I needed the cashpoint and a woman was busy using it. Another woman was stood some way from her so I asked if she was waiting to use it. She was so I stood behind her to wait for my turn. Woman number 1 finished off and left the machine. Woman number 2 wanders over and then starts to look for her card through all the mountains of crap that she had hold of. We had both been waiting for a couple of mins before that, so why not use that standing around doing fook all time to get what you need in order to use the machine. You are waiting to use a cashpoint - you know it needs your card, so is it too much to expect for you to have it ready before you get to the machine. She literally prolonged the time it took me to get to my beer by a good 45 seconds. It's usually a woman, and they are probably the same ones who at the checkout will bag all their stuff and wait to see the final bill before looking for their card

[barrydidit]

It will insist on storing random tulip and there is no way to switch it off or train it (the three thumbs down button is ignored repeatedly)

You have to delete all the tulip it stores one by one, there is no nuke button

No you don't - assuming you're on about deleting individual shows rather than at the series level.

You can delete all from a series using the 'clear' button (bottom left IIRC), but remember to delete the series link first otherwise it'll save it all over again for you. Linky

[suityou01]

Bacchus

[d000hg]

The one we have here is the opposite, your hands would dry quicker if an elf blew on them.

Isn't it your company?

Refer yourself a couple of those Amazon vouchers and buy a new one!

[Uncle Albert]

IM systems that aren't consistent in what the return key does.

Half of them use it add a new line and the other half send the message.

[stek]

Trying to click 'OK' fruitlessly on a dialogue box getting wound up about why it won't accept it, 'Cancel' not working either and then realising it's an Alt-Pr-Scn grab I'd done earlier to prove some point or other.

Yes I've just done that.....

[CloudWalker]

Siri is saying" I'm really sorry about this, but I can't take any request right now. Please try again in a little while."
When I've got a full signal

[tractor]

...

I'm sure we've done this one, and not long ago, but here goes:

Google anticipating search results as one types but, for fast typists like me, a few letters later whisking away a perfect briefly glimpsed result which it then never shows again!

Loo hot air hand dryers, like the ones at clientco, that sound like a giant circular saw ripping through a ten foot thick mahogany log

People who stand there drying their hands under them for anything up to half a minute or more

.. after already using a paper towel

I worked at a utility customer contact centre once and one of the guys there used to enter the bog at 1645 every single day and spend exactly 14 minutes washing and drying his hands and then at 1 min to 5, he exited the building - every single goddamned day!!! Why his manager didn't do anything about it I have no idea.

[Clare@InTouch]

Yup. The Google thing is irritating.

And the handdryer in the bog here is easily in the 95dB to 100dB range. Ear defenders recommended before use.

The one we have here is the opposite, your hands would dry quicker if an elf blew on them.

[Antman]

I'm sure we've done this one, and not long ago, but here goes:

Google anticipating search results as one types but, for fast typists like me, a few letters later whisking away a perfect briefly glimpsed result which it then never shows again!

Loo hot air hand dryers, like the ones at clientco, that sound like a giant circular saw ripping through a ten foot thick mahogany log

People who stand there drying their hands under them for anything up to half a minute or more

.. after already using a paper towel

I'm just warming them up after coming in on the bike!

[Mich the Tester]

Apparently Google's rather annoying for kids revising for their Latin GCSEs and trying to find the latin term for 'with ...' while their mum's next to them.