RL Peeves
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@RightMeow said in RL Peeves:
Can I just say hard pass? So I’m RL peeved that this is a thing.
You can turn it off. There have been similar apps on the market for ages. The Apple 8 is just making it a bit easier to use. Obviously there are perfectly understandable reasons to not want it personally, but some people do. Someone trying fertility treatments, for instance, might find such tracking invaluable.
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I have a recurring stress nightmare that I’m late (years late) for some job I quit but apparently did not quit the right way, so my employer can call me back in for a shift I no longer remember the location of.
I’m in a nursing home as I write this, on the psych ward, keeping someone company. One of the residents is a former nurse who does not know where she is or why, and is very distressed because she thinks she’s supposed to be working here but has gotten lost on her way to the unit she’s meant to be on.
It’s getting to me. It’s not frightening me or depressing me–I don’t know the right word for what I’m feeling as I watch this woman live my nightmare in her waking life, but it’s getting to me.
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This is a whole lot more than a peeve, but oh my god, seeing Skywater’s Twitter account suddenly posting to quote retweet NFT bullshit because the account has clearly been stolen is just – Jesus Christ. Infuriating. I’ve reported it, but still.
Five years after her passing. She was a good egg.
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Digital ghosts can be difficult enough to look back on. Digital necromancy is scummy as fuck.
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@Roz Someone did that to the account of a dear family friend who died several years ago of aggressive brain cancer. It’s miles beyond awful.
Also I miss Skywater.
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Digital ghosts can be difficult enough to look back on. Digital necromancy is scummy as fuck.
I wasn’t close with Skywater, so it at least didn’t have to be a horrible gut punch for me. But I ache for any of her close friends or family that might still have been following her on Twitter and had to see that.
Scummy as fuck indeed.
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Lying to set leads, then getting mad at me for not closing them.
(Edit: Spelling.)
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HAVE YOU FUCKING TRIED TURNING IT OFF AND ON AGAIN?
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Unsure which way your peeve cuts. But I will say, I get sad when people tell me they have rebooted and I pop into their machine and see this:
Pressing the power button once to put your screen to sleep doesn’t count agggghhh.
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sob Truth. So true.
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The residents of the dementia unit at the nursing home are all agitated and the facility staff is handling this by shouting at them to stop being agitated, because everyone knows that arguing with and threatening people who can’t comprehend reality is both a very effective tactic AND a super cool thing to do to an octogenarian in distress and just I swear to god I don’t know if I can keep doing this job.
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FOUR support tickets in a row that were solved by a reboot, two of whom yes lied about trying it, as they do. It’s nice to be able to solve problems, but I was working on things that were actual issues! Mutter.
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“Please shut down your computer, wait one minute, and start it up again.”
“I already tried that.”
gritted teeth “Please do it again.”
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@Snackness said in RL Peeves:
“Please shut down your computer, wait one minute, and start it up again.”
“I already tried that.”
gritted teeth “Please do it again.”
Yep! My go-to, “Okay, great! Let’s do it again, so I can see what it looks like.”
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My office managing partner sent out an email to the entire office thanking me and a few others for our adopt-a-family event. She spelled my name wrong. Again.
My name has four letters. There is an H at the end. The H at the end of my name is not optional. I HAVE WORKED HERE FOR 8 FUCKING YEARS GET MY GODDAMN NAME RIGHT.
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@bear_necessities I know a Sarah who has an extremely similar complaint.
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As someone with a common name that is spelled differently - I feel this.
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Just work stuff. My life would be less stressful if people followed processes and behaved with some agency.
Another team needed something to happen like YESTERDAY several weeks ago and needed my input. So I do my thing and tell them. Crickets for weeks. Reader, they’re still chasing their tales on this and acting confused about something very simple.
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My favorite part of the holiday season is compulsively checking my e-mail and watching the expected arrival date of the gifts I bought creep ever closer to being late.
