Things that annoy everyone

[Higgins III]

  I bloody hate call centers. They have no purpose of being except to really annoy absolutly everyone. Its like a bloody casino. They pick your number out of a hole giant list of numbers and try to sell stuff to you.

Surly under the data protection act if we wanted we could get them to delete any information held on us. But i have a good technigue now. If you pick up the phone and they don't talk right away put the phone down or simply wait until they do start talking...

...then try to sell them something. 

Please people give me your insights on call centers and things that annoy you. 

[Appelmoes??]

I once lived with a guy who always made up stories when he was called. Like he was dying and then he started to cry and stuff. That was really funny. The callcenterpeople never knew what to say

I never get called, but when  do, I'll ask for their personal number and say I will call them back in their own time. See what they think about that...



I get annoyed by old people at the checkout point

[Xanxtuary]

I've worked in a call centre when I was desperate for a job.  I stuck two months at a train company dealing with enquiries and one month doing market research.  I hated them both!

Having seen the other side of the fence, it ought to make me more tolerant of cold callers but just tonight, I answered a call and although I wasn't rude, I was very firm.

Other things that annoy me ...

Being served in a store by a cashier who is more interested in having a conversation with another staff member

Being asked if I want to sign up for store cards practically everytime I make a purchase

When browsing in a store, having a staff member bounce up to me and ask if I need help ...this usually results in me exiting the shop ... If I want help, I will ask ... and when I do want help ... guess what ... no staff in sight to ask!

Being watched too closely at an automated cash dispenser

So-called-Friends who say they'll phone, email or visit ... but never do ... yet they complain if I don't phone, email or visit

Software that is described as being easy to install and user friendly ... but hours later still doesn't work

Clients at work who seem to think that they are the firm's only client and that we can immediately drop everything and see to their needs

Junk mail and junk email

Pop-up ads on websites (thankfully this site doesn't have them!)

[Deenfan]

I'm annoyed by people who keeps count of what THEY've done for others, completely oblivious to what other have done for them.

@ call centers: I know a man who, when they call and ask for his wife, says that she's out chopping wood, and that she's not permitted to come in until she's finished!! He offers them the possibility to call back in four hours. They never do... 

[keyboardistmatt]

I bloody hate call centers. They have no purpose of being except to really annoy absolutly everyone. Its like a bloody casino. They pick your number out of a hole giant list of numbers and try to sell stuff to you.

Surly under the data protection act if we wanted we could get them to delete any information held on us. But i have a good technigue now. If you pick up the phone and they don't talk right away put the phone down or simply wait until they do start talking...

...then try to sell them something. 

Please people give me your insights on call centers and things that annoy you. 

QUESTION...




Have you ever been called by a call centre??

BE HONEST -- Or I'll know!

[creme anglais]

call centres..........hmmm.........I have had 4, yes FOUR calls this evening.......one trying to sell windows, one conducting market research, and two trying to persuade me to use a different phone company!

I try to be firm in not accepting calls from folk who want me to buy stuff........IF I wanted to go to the expense of new windows, would I as a reasonably intelligent person sit at home and wait for a call from some jerk? or would I do some research and approach companies that had been recommended to me?

I do answer the market research calls tho..........I feel sorry for the poor girl on the phone, and I put her on speakerphone....... the kids were so entertained at these RIDICULOUS questions and my RIDICULOUS answers they were still chuckling several hours later

what annoys me most tho, is the person in front of you in the queue.........talking on their mobile phone ...........if you want that conversation, leave the queue and let me have my turn first!!!

CAx

[gelert]

...people who want to push in front of you in the shopping queue, whilst you're busy juggling planet-saving mobile-'phone calls against dog food shopping....

Wait your turn, or get to the check-outs before me....!

[Appelmoes??]

...people who want to push in front of you in the shopping queue, whilst you're busy juggling planet-saving mobile-'phone calls against dog food shopping....

Wait your turn, or get to the check-outs before me....!

You know, there IS a reason they make the carts from metal, not soft plastic stuff

Just bump ahead and then say: "Oh sorry, I didn't see you..."

[keyboardistmatt]

Abbey national bank!!!!

I hate it!  They are bloody useless!  There's always something... always some stupid-ass reason why I can't do something!  Yesterday I couldn't pay my phone bill there because it isnt set up with my account!  They don't mean by Direct Debit, I hasten to add, they mean I must have 'BT' listed on my record under 'bill payments' in order to pay my bill!  What a bunch of cock smokers!

[Xanxtuary]

I Just thought of one more ...

People with clipboards who harass me in the street (usually when I'm on my lunchbreak or just leaving work) asking for charitable donations, to change your phone/energy provider or take part in a survey. 

Sorry to say this but Amnesty are the worst for this.  When I was unemployed and told their representative that I couldn't make a donation for that reason, he had the audacity to ask "well when do you think you will get a job?"  I ought to have reported him for that ... and the same guy hassled me AGAIN as I was walking back past him later on that day!!

I have seen a clipboard-carrying woman chasing after a man in the pouring rain!  They must be really desperate for victims!

I know they've got a job to do but their overtly harassing techniques are going too far. 

[Lady_Reaper]

It really withers my wick (Not literally, of course!) when old women and young mothers just stop smack bang in front of you on a busy street. No one knows WHY they've stopped, perhaps they felt that tree 20 yards to the right looked nice..... or something like that, anyway. Then they give you the evilist look (That I guess they pratcice once they reach motherhood) for walking into them. [Insert illegible mumbles here]

@Cold callers: Just do what I do, wonder away from the phone untill you can hear them desperatly trying to seek your attention and then tell them you're not interested. Thus wasting 10 to 20 minutes of THEIR time. It also works with door to door sales men / Mormons. Many a time have I shouted from the living room "Yes I can hear you from here!" while turning up the T.V. 

[Wilford Jr.]

One thing that really gets to me is when you are in a restaurant trying to enjoy your meal and at a table somewhere in the restaurant is a very loud child whose parents are ignoring him or her.  The child then proceeds to get down from his or her chair and wander/ run around the restaurant, bumping  into your chair several times, while all the while his or her parents are STILL ignoring them.

[Appelmoes??]

Abbey national bank!!!!

I hate it!  They are bloody useless!  There's always something... always some stupid-ass reason why I can't do something!  Yesterday I couldn't pay my phone bill there because it isnt set up with my account!  They don't mean by Direct Debit, I hasten to add, they mean I must have 'BT' listed on my record under 'bill payments' in order to pay my bill!  What a bunch of cock smokers!

Yesterday some guy in my home town (Enschede) hold some bankemployees hostage because his account was cut off. What a silly world we live in.
(btw, the dumb idiot forgot that the bank was located very close to policebuilding )

[keyboardistmatt]

(btw, the dumb idiot forgot that the bank was located very close to policebuilding )

ROFL

[Higgins III]

QUESTION...




Have you ever been called by a call centre??

BE HONEST -- Or I'll know!

for your information my dearest i have. The phone rings 24-7 with a little voice on the other end saying..."Hewwo. Do you own a mobile telephone? Would you be interested in buying one? Do you want an O2 or orange or nokia? Do you like my voice? Why for you kick my dog and call him piss off" Bloody call centers

[Appelmoes??]

I was called once by the mobilephone company where I had, at that time, a phone from. The first question they asked was: "Is this phone yours?"

No, I just stole it! *sigh*

[keyboardistmatt]

Mobile phone companies are the worst... they don't listen, so neither do I... so the phone hangs up!

[Xanxtuary]

It really withers my wick (Not literally, of course!) when old women and young mothers just stop smack bang in front of you on a busy street. No one knows WHY they've stopped, perhaps they felt that tree 20 yards to the right looked nice..... or something like that, anyway. Then they give you the evilist look (That I guess they pratcice once they reach motherhood) for walking into them. [Insert illegible mumbles here]

This happens to me a lot too.  Especially during my lunch break when I am trying to fit in things like queuing at banks/post offices/music stores, etc and time is of the essence.  You don't get men doing this ... they are usually a lot more purposeful.  I am a woman on a mission during lunchtimes and woe betide anyone who gets in my way!!!  But then they are probably thinking ... who's that stroppy mare with the messy hair who just barged so rudely into me, rushing around everywhere like a whirlwind! 

It also works with door to door sales men / Mormons.

A friend of mine used to invite Jehovah's witnesses and salespeople into his home, then proceed to bore them rigid showing them his holiday videos, slide shows, and even trying to get them to sign up for his evening classes!  (He is an adult education tutor).  They couldn't get out of there quick enough.

My trick with the JWs is to state firmly "This is a Pagan household" ... you should see them run off down the driveway in horror and revulsion! 

Political canvassers ... whichever party they represent I state firmly that my household votes for one of the others!

[gelert]

My trick with the JWs is to state firmly "This is a Pagan household" ... you should see them run off down the driveway in horror and revulsion! 

Q by JWs: Do you know about the ONE god...?
Gelert A: Yes. Indeed, I believe in the ONE God, but probably not the same one as you...
JWQ: But surely, there is only one, er, ONE god.
Gelert A: Ah good. So it's agreed. OUR god has horns and a pointy tail...?


Usually works. 

[Wilford Jr.]

Q by JWs: Do you know about the ONE god...?
Gelert A: Yes. Indeed, I believe in the ONE God, but probably not the same one as you...
JWQ: But surely, there is only one, er, ONE god.
Gelert A: Ah good. So it's agreed. OUR god has horns and a pointy tail...?


Usually works. 
That is pretty good.  I bet it does work!.  But would you feel bad for causing one of these people to have a heart attack.?  I don't know if I would.

[gelert]

That is pretty good.  I bet it does work!.  But would you feel bad for causing one of these people to have a heart attack.?  I don't know if I would.

A "bank robber" risks a heart-attack whilst running on adrenaline, during the commission of the crime.

So why not a door-to-door "privacy robber"...?

[Moonloop]

Hates:

1. People who smoke in no smoking areas
2. (Usually Pensioners) in 2.0 lit Mercs/Beamers who drive at 25mph in 40mph zones
3. People with a full trolley in the 'basket only' isle in supermarkets
4. (Pensioners again) who, having all day everyday to go to the bank/post office, ALWAYS go in the lunch hour
5. Middle lane drivers on the motorway
6. My salary

[kmorse]

Co-workers who call me up on the phone at work and the moment I answer, they say, "Just a minute," and proceed to carry on a conversation with someone in their physical presence while leaving me on the line. Today, a variation of that happened. I was helping a computer user solve a problem when one of my colleagues grabbed the phone from him, said to me over the phone, "Wait a minute," and then had a conversation with the user while I sat on the phone. I waited five minutes before I ran out of patience and hung up.

The best way to deal with JWs? Show them even a smattering of knowledge about the Bible. I like to greet them by saying, "I've been hoping you'd stop by to visit!" That usually throws them off. Then I go get my Bible and open it up and start showing them verses that cause them problems. I also invited them to come back for a deeper discussion of what the Bible says. I've only had one taker and he only lasted one more visit.

It's also fun to ask them if they thought the world was going to end in 1975. Or 1942. Or 1925. Or 1918, the way the Watchtower Society predicted. Most of them today would only remember the 1975 prophecy, and even then, they'd be a little old.

[Higgins III]

To be honest when i started this thread i was sort of hoping that it would kick off a little better because it is after all something that everyone can relate to but to those of you who have replyed with things that annoy you i thank you and notice most if not all of your comments do actually annoy me aswell. Its nice to know that in a world that is constantly, slowly but surly turing into a world of hate we can still be all brought back together in a feild of mutual hate. Common ground, great

[gelert]

Aw...go-on then...

My personal worst-hate / best-hate in the world EVER....

...that at least one other member agrees with me about...!



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