Posted for fun and venting...
This one's probably a popular one. People going the speed limit or slower in the left lane. You don't notice the mile long line of cars stacked behind you, or the multitude of cars that finally get an opportunity to pass blowing your doors off as they go around you? Not to mention, it's against the law (in this state) to use that lane unless you're passing. Never gets enforced, of course. 
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People who complain about me when I’m in the left lane.
If you want a shorter list from BK, ask about things that don't piss him off.
Kitchen help that have all the answers. If you're so smart, watcha doing washing dishes and flippin greasy burgers?
@PackerHawk posted:If you want a shorter list from BK, ask about things that don't piss him off.
Lists piss me off.
Another traffic related one. When the person ahead of you stops before turning right to see if there's oncoming traffic even though there's a lane there with a sign that says merge.
@Packiderm posted:Kitchen help that have all the answers. If you're so smart, watcha doing washing dishes and flippin greasy burgers?
I was at Chick-Fil-A last weekend and saw a hiring sign - $17/hr. Fast food, can you believe that?
Another traffic one. Being behind someone who stops at a yield sign upon entering the highway. Year ago, I came around a curving highway entrance and almost blew up a car in front of me stopped at the yield sign. Didn't expect to see that.
I am in the left lane because I am always passing.
That would be the proper use of that lane, thank you. And me too. 
Except on some roads, the "culture" somehow became the right lane is the fast lane. You get to know it if you drive the same route to and from work every day.
Political ads starting already.
Another driving one for me. When it is foggy, snowing or raining and you people drive with no head lights of any kind on. I always flash mine at them and look in the rear view mirror see to if tail lights come on. Nope, never!!!
People who abuse the express self checkout at the supermarket.
If a regular express lane with a human cashier is 14 items or less, then don't use the express self-checkout if you've got more than 14 items. Especially if you have a bunch of produce that needs to be weighed.
What the fuck? I never mentioned parking lights. Why in the did you need to?
@ammo posted:Another driving one for me. When it is foggy, snowing or raining and you people drive with no head lights of any kind on. I always flash mine at them and look in the rear view mirror see to if tail lights come on. Nope, never!!!
I do the same thing ammo. Lotsa times when riding with others and the weather is cloudy, rainy, poor, I’ll say to the driver can you turn your lights on?? They will say they are on, I’ll say no, your tail lights aren’t on tho, they won’t turn them on. 🤬
@Fedya posted:People who abuse the express self checkout at the supermarket.
If a regular express lane with a human cashier is 14 items or less, then don't use the express self-checkout if you've got more than 14 items. Especially if you have a bunch of produce that needs to be weighed.
Or someone in the express lane decides to order cigarettes that have to be brought from the service counter, and then decides to bust out cash and spend 5 minutes counting out exact change.
One-Lane highways.
@EC Pack posted:Political ads starting already.
Politicians…of any affiliation. And people who turn conversations into political conversations. I immediately disengage.
People who can’t find their seat in a stadium. How hard can it be to find your section, then walk down to your row and over to your seat number. It’s nothing more than finding a point on a graph. Fifth graders think it’s easy.
@Harry Manback posted:Politicians…of any affiliation. And people who turn conversations into political conversations. I immediately disengage.
I like Ike.
@Packiderm posted:One dome light in my truck doesn't work!
Come on try a little,
Nothing is forever,
You can drive it home,
With one dome light.
@Harry Manback posted:One-Lane highways.
That sounds extremely dangerous.
@Harry Manback posted:I was at Chick-Fil-A last weekend and saw a hiring sign - $17/hr. Fast food, can you believe that?
So, did ya get the job?
@Harry Manback posted:I was at Chick-Fil-A last weekend and saw a hiring sign - $17/hr. Fast food, can you believe that?
Tell you what. Quit whatever you're doing, go work at Chik-Fil-A for 6 months and report back at how lucky ducky they are to be making ~30000 a year
There's not enough room for me to write all the stories about my commute to/from Madison on 151. SO glad I'm retired and no longer have to face that drive every morning. One that stands out was a morning commute. It was snowy/icy and the trucks hadn't started on that section yet. We're all going slowly when some young %&(%^ comes up behind me and I can't even see his headlights because he's THAT close! Close enough that I could see in my rearview mirror that he was some young %^&&()&*. If any of the cars in my lane or the left lane had started to skid, that would have been it. We finally got to a salted stretch and away he went. If I didn't give him a "salute" I probably thought it.
Non-driving irritant - quality of household appliances. Received a new hand-held mixer a few Christmases ago. Why doesn't it whip potatoes as nicely as my old one? Because the beater blades are rounded; no sharp edges. Thank you klutz who lost a finger and sued.
Food processor - my original one from years ago was easy to use and easy to clean. Finally had to replace it. New one - who designed this frickin' thing? Some man who never had to wash dishes in his life. Crannies that are hard to clean. At least three pieces that have to be inserted in correct order or the thing won't run, etc.
And don't get me started on refrigerators! Okay, maybe a little. Had a fridge that lasted probably 30 years. First replacement lasted 7 years. (And it was a fancy schmancy one.) Since that one quit so suddenly (and repairman said wasn't worth it to fix), I went out and bought a plain one on sale that could be delivered quickly. That had to be replaced after two days because hubby noticed a kink in some copper tubing by the compressor. So that was replaced free of charge but the temp ranges were goofy. Repairman had to come replace the thermostat. WTH.
Planned obsolescence.
@Timpranillo posted:Tell you what. Quit whatever you're doing, go work at Chik-Fil-A for 6 months and report back at how lucky ducky they are to be making ~30000 a year
Oh I'm not saying they're lucky. I'm just marveling at how quickly the wages have gone up in just the last couple of years. They needed to. To a certain extent.
One thing that does irritate me about this, is the entitlement attitude of some people today. Not every job can pay "livable" wages. The higher wages go, the higher the cost of living. So if everyone who starts working gets $50,000/year, that will become the new non-livable wage due to inflation. Simple economics.
If you're able bodied and able minded, choose a career that pays more and work hard to get it if you're not happy with the money you're making. Too many people today, especially young people, want easy street because they're not used to working for shit. They had it too good growing up and/or are just plain lazy.
@Harry Manback posted:Too many people today, especially young people, want easy street because they're not used to working for shit. They had it too good growing up and/or are just plain lazy.
You realize your parents generation said that about you. And your grandparents said it about your parents. Just like every generation in the history of the world has said about “young people today”
But, I know, this time it’s actually true.
Life for each generation has gotten easier, for sure. The point of my post, however, is that if you want a better job with higher wages, then you have to work for it and quit bitching that your job at McDonald's isn't paying you "livable" wages.
@Harry Manback posted:Oh I'm not saying they're lucky. I'm just marveling at how quickly the wages have gone up in just the last couple of years. They needed to. To a certain extent.
One thing that does irritate me about this, is the entitlement attitude of some people today. Not every job can pay "livable" wages. The higher wages go, the higher the cost of living. So if everyone who starts working gets $50,000/year, that will become the new non-livable wage due to inflation. Simple economics.
If you're able bodied and able minded, choose a career that pays more and work hard to get it if you're not happy with the money you're making. Too many people today, especially young people, want easy street because they're not used to working for shit. They had it too good growing up and/or are just plain lazy.
I politely disagree particularly on the economics but I dare not venture into the explanation of why as certain people will be stricken with poopy butt syndrome.
@Harry Manback posted:Life for each generation has gotten easier, for sure. The point of my post, however, is that if you want a better job with higher wages, then you have to work for it and quit bitching that your job at McDonald's isn't paying you "livable" wages.
So McDonald’s isn’t work?
@Henry posted:I politely disagree particularly on the economics but I dare not venture into the explanation of why as certain people will be stricken with poopy butt syndrome.
I know it's more complicated than that. There are racial, socio-economic, physical and mental limitations that factor in. I realize that, but that's not who I'm referring to. I was born into a family as a white male that had parents who cared about me being successful, and I had a major advantage there. But we were poor, lived in a rough, racially-mixed, low-income neighborhood so I had to earn everything I had. I don't have much tolerance for people who face none of the above-mentioned disadvantages who bitch about their situation but do nothing to change it.
@ammo posted:Another driving one for me. When it is foggy, snowing or raining and you people drive with no head lights of any kind on. I always flash mine at them and look in the rear view mirror see to if tail lights come on. Nope, never!!!
Oh yes that is one of my favorites when I am driving. And don't get me started on not using your turn signal.
And two other ones. When someone is sitting at a red light with their right turn signal on and not turning right on red.
And then there are the morons on the highway when a lane is closed and you get several warnings to merge but no you have to go all the way to the front try to merge then. I wish you luck getting in front of me and I wish an explosive case of diarrea on you for doing that.
@Timpranillo posted:So McDonald’s isn’t work?
Sure it is, I didn't say that. But if you want to better your situation, you have to put in the work to do that.
@Harry Manback posted:Sure it is, I didn't say that. But if you want to better your situation, you have to put in the work to do that.
But you’ve established that work at McDonald’s isn’t putting in the work.
What other jobs have you determined aren’t putting in enough work?
Is sitting in an office working on PowerPoint putting in enough work? Is working at Home Depot putting in the work?
By the way, I have worked plenty of low-income jobs in my life but those were just a path to reaching my goals. My parents didn't have any money to give me. I didn't start having money until I was able to mow lawns, shovel snow, and wash cars until I was legally able to work. Then I got a part-time job that I had through high school, working full-time during the summers at various food service jobs. I wanted to go to college, but my parents couldn't afford it, however, they were earning just enough at that point that I couldn't get a student loan either. So I signed up for the Army because at that time, 4 years of service got you 4 years of college. But I failed the physical because of a prior injury. So I worked full-time in college during the school year ranging from food service jobs to nude modeling for art students (hey, it paid double minimum wage). Summers I worked three jobs painting, landscaping, and being a custodian. But I graduated debt free and I paid for it on my own.
I know what hard work is. And I've been in these low-income jobs. I'm not knocking them whatsoever, or the people that work there. Only the ones that think they should get paid a whole lot more for what they do despite not learning knew skills or having the ambition to better their life if they're quite able to do so.
