Pet Peeves

I thought I subscribed to a thread like this, but I can't find it. At least I found this one by doing a search!

I HATE the "How are you?" Yeah, I know it's just a greeting, and people aren't REALLY asking you how are you. Then, they expect the canned, trite response, "Oh, I'm fine. How are you?" I think it's so phony. Why can't people just say hi, hello, good morning, whatever? I esp. hate it when people are WAITING for me to say, "Oh, I'm great." They'll repeat it, "HOW ARE YOU?"

They know I'm not really asking them how they are, but they'll respond, "Great, thank you." They may not be great! I'm not great!

I get this all the time from people I don't even know: Checkers at the store, the guy at the front desk in the gym, the salesperson hovering at the door of the store, the receptionist at the doctor's office, etc.



Not so bad coming from someone who is REALLY asking and really wants to know, but that's rare. And I'd rather they choose different words. It's an overused phrase.

Yeah, I feel strongly about it as you see......

I HATE that too! It's so fake. Most people asking don't even care how I am. For once I'd like to be honest and see what the hell would happen. Hopefully they would just stop asking me.

Some of this stuff sounds more serious than just a pet peeve, like leaving child/animal in a hot car. That's dangerous and a very good reason to get upset!

I can't stand the packaging on anything electronic

Sales people in a commission based job, usually I end wasting tons of these people's time. I can't stand when I can feel the breath of a sales person down my neck when I want to make a large purchase.

Telemarketers that hang up me when I"m just trying to get on the do not call list. They are wasting not only my time but their time in the future when they call me back. Really irksome.

Constant calls (& no message) from some Unknown Caller. It irritates me when callers don't show proper ID. Who wants to talk to an "Unknown Caller"?

Packaging IS a pain! It can be too hard to open things sometimes, and it makes me not want to buy that brand again! I only get Swanson broth now since I can use a can opener on it. Other brands have those tabs you have to pop to open the can, and for me it sometimes breaks off. I've cut myself on them at times!

Go online, online, online, online, online, online, online, for EVERYTHING now! You can't get a live person or even a phone number now. Ads tell you "visit us online" or "find out more about this event online." Even in this day & age, everyone does NOT have constant, fast access to the Internet! And even if you do, sometimes the page is slow to load, it has errors, the site is not user-friendly, etc. No personal contact anymore, just go "online".

And they want you to e-mail, e-mail, e-mail, e-mail, e-mail, e-mail. When did phones become obsolete? They obviously are not, as everyone is either walking around (or driving around) with a phone glued to their ear. Yet businesses & people want you to e-mail. Same issues: E-mail may not be working right, maybe someone doesn't check their mail that often, etc.

My trusted landline phone always works, and it is always available. Not slow to load, connects quickly, etc. But no, they want e-mail and online these days.

As far as that "How are you?" crap, I've actually said, "Terrible" to people. They are shocked and even somewhat annoyed that I would be honest and not give the expected, trite (& fake)response, "Fine!" What BS!

Voice Commands taking over touch-tone menus when you call a business. I get what I need faster by pressing keys rather than trying to tell a stupid computer (they are often stupid) what I'm calling about. AT&T has this now. If it doesn't understand you after 3 or 4 tries, it will THEN connect you to a live person. Or if you don't say anything. I know people sometimes don't "get it" either, but trying to program a machine to mimic a human brain is no easy task. And AT&T's website sucks!!!!

I don't like being followed around by some salesperson when I go into a store either. And no, I don't want to shop online. I wouldn't have the salesperson swooping in on me like a vulture, but I like to HANDLE the merchandise I want to buy. I need to see it, hold it, inspect it.

A salesperson once said she'd leave me be after I told her I'm looking and will get her if I need her. FIVE minutes later, she approaches again, to show me something. I said, "I thought you were going to leave me in peace." She slithered away.

Haha, I totally agree with this one!!! I completely forgot about it, I realized that if you run into places that have a machine trying to navigate the menu for you, you can just cuss 2 or 3 times and they'll send you straight to a person. Of course I figured this out through shear frustration.

I forgot to mention that, LOL. I HAVE sworn at these voice navigated systems, and after a couple of times saying, "I"m sorry. I do not understand that option", it would transfer me to a live person. Geeez!!! All that to save a few bucks by hiring less humans.

horrible music as your waiting to talk to someone. Seriously, I hope people
don't listen to the music then they would have a litget choice that they werent' the ones.

oh and what ever happened to "the customer is Always right?"

Crew

Also hate horrible music while being on hold to these places, like the cable company. What's worse to me is being bombarded with ADS that repeat over and over, say at 2 minute intervals. Like after 2 min pass, the ads play again....The same ones each time.

I hate how search engines were "improved" so when you type they start adding nonsense that you didn't want and make it a pain just to type a simple query as if they know better than yourself what you are searching for.

I find that distracting! It's trying to "guess" what you want or outsmart you. Yeah, sometimes "improvements" are a PAIN!

My biggest pet peeve is having to repeat myself, I really do not like it it takes ALOT to make me lose my temper, but making me have to repeat myself is a sure fire way to get me to blow within a few minutes, and people mimicing what im saying the only reason why I dont lose my temper is because its children who mimic but it defiantly makes me consider not ever having kids lol! (although my nephew done it to me once, so i just grabbed him by the ankles and held him upside down and told him to mimic that lol! bless his heart he did try too lol!!)