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Things that frustrate us all

When you wipe the sweat from your brow with a paper towel, applying more pressure in the action than you otherwise would, had you remembered how sore and sunburnt your whole face is.

That’s frustrating.
 
rhubarbodendron said:
being sick sucks. But there is that phase where you are still too sick to work but already healthy enough to enjoy that. And that's a part of being sick that I really like :D
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I don’t think I’ve ever experienced that one. Instead, we have:

1. Sick enough to feel miserable, but not sick enough to stay home.

and

2. Sick enough to not go into the office, but not sick enough to not work from home.

With the advent of working from home, the expectation really does seem to be that you’ll be able to work unless you’re so seriously ill that you can’t function. (Just going from my own experience; obviously this wouldn’t work for all professions.)

Scribble said:
I'm really not very good at being a human. :(
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If I may suggest, this might be one of those instances where the self-perception differs from the perception of others.

(Or, what @Butters said.)
 
Butters said:
When you wipe the sweat from your brow with a paper towel, applying more pressure in the action than you otherwise would, had you remembered how sore and sunburnt your whole face is.

That’s frustrating.
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First, take a cold shower (to cool down your body) and then you won't sweat so much (at least for a while).
 
When you talk to someone for like ten minutes and then they say something that shows that they've completely misunderstood what you're saying.
 
Avro Arrow said:
I don’t think I’ve ever experienced that one. Instead, we have:

1. Sick enough to feel miserable, but not sick enough to stay home.

and

2. Sick enough to not go into the office, but not sick enough to not work from home.

With the advent of working from home, the expectation really does seem to be that you’ll be able to work unless you’re so seriously ill that you can’t function. (Just going from my own experience; obviously this wouldn’t work for all professions.
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I'll normally work through my typical illnesses, and I'll use my "sick" days more for mental health days, when I just don't feel like working. That'll be when I don't have any major projects or meetings that day!
 
When people deliberately act dense, like they don't "get" a point that's being made, as a way to bait you into some petty argument.

Kor
 
I just drained 100ml of excess water from my chicken drumsticks, that’s 10%

No wonder my marinades wash off when they cook.
 
When you have a warm meal on the table and someone at the door manages to keep you there for no good reason for so long that the meal is no longer warm when you get back to it.
 
For fuck's sake. It says in BIG, BOLD letters in every employee notice, that online workers must be physically in the U.S. or U.S. territory to work for the company. They may not, for legal, tax and security issues , work from outside the US.

Then today, I get one worker who says, "Hi! I'm on vacation but I'm scoring." OK, fine. I ask for contact phone number and she gives me the number for an island off of the coast of South America. Um...NO. I contact the home office and check that I have to give this woman the boot, and check that they can reschedule her. The operator says, sure, they'll work her in sometime in the next week or two.

I contact the worker, who has a fit. "But I'm on vacation!" No one cares you're on vacation, numbnuts. You're outside the U.S. Rules are rules.
 
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I don't like clueless or reckless drivers. Today I was wondering where one driver in an SUV thought he was going. He's in the far left lane but decides at the last second he needs to get into the far right lane to turn right. Then later on he gets into a center turn lane to turn left, but gets out of it almost as fast as he entered. I was directly behind him and if I had being going straight instead moving into the center turn lane as well, he would've hit me.
 
When a non-fan asks you what your favorite Star Trek series is, and you give an answer that's not TOS or TNG. They look at you like you have two heads, because TOS and TNG are the only two Star Trek series they know about.

In my case, I had to explain to someone what Discovery was. But it would've been the same if it were DS9, VOY, or ENT.

If they hear about Picard, it won't register to them as a new series. They'll just think, "Oh! They're bringing back Picard!"
 
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