I think it’s just businesses that do business in the EU.
Forget the *how *they hand you a receipt.
The annoyance **is **the receipt. It’s nice that they offer that service for people who ask for one. But 99% of the time, when I buy a bottle of coke, I don’t need to be handed a foot and a half of thermal paper.
I suspect that the fact that cash registers and register tape are often both sold by the same company has contributed to the rise of both mandatory receipts, and receipts that are super long for no real reason.
I know that people who work drive-thru windows at fast food establishes have a routine, and that it’s for a reason (presumably, the make sure they don’t forget steps in the process). Still, I get irrationally annoyed when I pull up to the window and can see that the drinks I’ve ordered are already ready to go. But they won’t hand them to me at the same time as I give them money, which would allow me to get the drinks settled while the machine processes my card.
Instead, they take my card, run it, and then try to force my drinks, my food, my card and my receipt on me all at once. And then they seem annoyed when I can’t get that all organized and out of their way quickly enough for the drive-thru metrics they’re trying to meet.
My fast food annoyance is having to memorize the proper phraseology and order to use so they won’t try to upsell you which wastes time and feels patronizing (like the companies think I am stupid.) With some places I can append a quick that’sitnothingtodrink, with others I have to order in reverse order “water to drink, regular fries, and a cheeseburger”. Other places are happy with just a “that’s it”.
I stopped going to Five Guys due to this. I was ordering from them online and their system fucking tried to upsell me right before checkout. No thanks! Haven’t been there since.
The real reason is that the back of the receipt is usually various coupons/ ads/ promos. In other words, the register tape is now an advertising medium.
My annoyance is other drivers while driving in a snowstorm. Invariably, the people in front of me drive like they’re in ox carts, and the people in back of me like they’re in rocket cars. Granted this is the automatic result of me catching up to slower people and faster people catching up to me; but it’s still annoying.
I’m in the ox cart 
I figure I’m OK plodding in a storm – that’s what the other lane is for!
George Carlin: “Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”
Yes, this is true, my bad for not being more specific.
I go to Five Guys all the time and have never been upsold once…what are they trying to upsell you? Are you sure they aren’t just suggesting other products?
Drivers who stop half in the pedestrian cross walk at red lights. Why? So they can get where they are going 2 seconds earlier?
I would include pushing other products in the definition of upselling. And he’s right that Five Guys does this when you make an online purchase. However, they have a check-box on the upsell screen that allows you to not receive those requests anymore (with wording akin to, “I’m a pro online orderer and don’t need these suggestions”).
That’s what I mean, they are trying to suggest other products: they wouldn’t even give me a chance to mention what I wanted to drink or if I wanted fries before asking me. If I gave them enough time to type in the ingredients I wanted on the burger, more than half the time they would either ask if I wanted fries with that without giving me a chance to specify (which I did, but I’m not an idiot: if I didn’t want fries I simply wouldn’t order them), or we would talk over each other. Same thing for drinks, and then once I got the proper way in which to order to prevent that (“water to drink, regular fries, and a burger with…”) they then started to always ask me if I wanted a shake, and it took me awhile to figure out that I had to start the previous order with “no shake”.
Their website set up false expectations that they would not be doing this with their online ordering. I may not have minded so much if they had tried to upsell early on in the process, but I had been pleasantly surprised when I got through all the way to the “submit order” button without such nonsense, when instead of actually submitted my order a popup came up with “oops! Did you forget our luscious shake?” crap instead of actually letting me submit my order quickly. So I haven’t been back there since.
AMEN. At work the toilet paper is always, always under so apparently the cleaning crew think that is the “correct” way, but the rolls are already too big to fit comfortably on the holder so putting it this way only ensures you get exactly 1.17 squares of toilet paper. Maybe it’s a diabolical cost-saving measure.
Even worse are the dispensers that apparently are carefully gauged to the breaking strength of the toilet paper perforations, so you can’t get more than 3-4 squares at a time.
Ah, ok. I see what you mean.
Ditto this.
Repeating the same answer over and over does absolutely no good. The customer was due an explanation and was treated like an idiot instead. SOME THINGS AREN’T BLATANTLY OBVIOUS. You may think they are because you deal with the same issues every day, but the rest of the world is not you. The rest of the world does not have your job. The rest of the world does not see through your eyes and think the same way you do.
Yes, repeaters bug me. I understood what you said. I just didn’t have the benefit of your context.
Music Label/Distro websites that don’t include a sample of the band’s music they’re trying to sell. Nearly everybody has a bandcamp page or a video on youtube. Embed that shit! Don’t make me google every damn band on your website.
People who must come to a complete stop in traffic before making a turn.
Before turning at 1/2 mile per hour, perhaps so the G forces don’t kill them. :rolleyes:
Ever since that $70 ticket I got for “running a stop sign” (yeah right), I’m a big fan of the complete, rock-the-car-back stop.
Oh, at a stop sign, sure. I get that you’re supposed to come to a complete stop there (although I think a slow roll should be allowed). I’m talking about people who need to come to a total standstill just to turn into a parking lot, or a corner without a stop sign.