technology things that really irk you.....

[just being honest]

As technology creeps into our lives more and more, you come across things from time to time and think to yourself "what the fuck were they thinking"???

I'll start:

I use excel a LOT for quoting etc and what bugs the shit outta me is when you are changing the format of a group of cells from a bare "number" format to currency. if you have any cell already formatted to currency, it changes everything to 2 decimal place number format as opposed to changing it to fucking currency which is what I wanted to fucking do in the first place...

I SO want to slap the idiot that put this into the application. I mean W T F were they thinking???

 

[Visions of Codeine]

Another one that gets me everytime:

I was at a site the other day (amongst others) and it was some bullshit site on some product or another and in order to view prices (not to order, not to do anything other than view prices) and they had a password format set to a MINIMUM of 7 characters with a MINIMUM of 2 digits.

I mean W T F is with THAT level of security? Online banks don't even spec that!!!

I mean W T F were they thinking????

 

[ariamna d]

Actually most phones now irk me.
All I want to do is talk and text.
I don't need a camera, I don't want to read my emails, I don't want to surf the net, or update facebook or anything like that.
If I need something to work like a computer then I go to a computer.
My fingers are too fucking big to use those touchscreens.

 

[Jackie M]

Automated voice response systems. If I can find out who came up with this stupid idea I am going to kick their asses!!

Until you reach to fucking customer rep. you forget what the fuck was the problem or question you had! Specially Telus!! they had one AVRS! holy mother of god!!! it takes couple of hours to reach someone from tech support!! ASSHOLES!!

 

[Samantha Boyle]

It gets worst. If you are an asian and have an english with heavy accent!:

 

[Staci]

The new file format for Office files... e.g. docx, xlsx etc... WTF was wrong with the format being used for the last 15 or so years???

Gadget Packaging: I bought a web cam the other day... thing is not even 4 cm's square... in a box about the size of a six pack of beer! WTF! Not to mention the fact that it was hermetically sealed!

Speaking of packaging... I HATE THOSE PLASTIC BLISTER packs! WTF! I mean REALLY! :grrrrrr:

Software to run the gadgets... Just give me the software needed TYVM! I don't need/ want all the fucking BS that comes along with it!!!!

Windows Vista... what a complete piece of shit!

(Rant over for now...)

 

[joshieboya]

I'm with you cg on the packaging, I ordered a new video card the other day online and I got the notice that it was available for pickup at the post office (funny, up here? they don't even bother trying to get it to your house, they just stick the delivery notice in your mail box lol).

Anyhow, when I got to the post office they hadn't logged it in yet, the delivery(s) were still piled up on the counter behind the desk. So the girl's looking for it and I (stupid me) say: oh, it can only be about 10" x 8" x about 2" thick. No, WRONG..the freaking box was about 2 feet long, 1 1/2 feet wide and about 6" thick.

As for the hermetically sealed packages lol. I can't tell you how many people say "oh, wait, let me get my custom specially designed one type use special tool for opening that"....I say "I already have one, it's called a utility knife....AND I can use it to trim, wood, leather, lino flooring, gaskets....".....

As for software, that is why I have stopped and will never, buy LG products ever again. I bought an internal DVD Blu Ray HD DVD drive for my computer. I hooked my PC up to my Plasma TV. So I had yet to watch a blu ray on it so I ordered Transformers from Amazon.ca when it first came out. There was a problem with the order so 2 weeks later it was cancelled. I ordered it from another place, 2 weeks later it arrives. I put it in the machine, grab the microwave popcorn, get all settled in to watch finally, NOPE. I need a software update. So right on the opening screen it says LG Cyberlink DVD player....so I click on the update tab, nothing happens. I go to cyberlink.com to their update page? All the links are broken and dead. So I write to LG and their response is: we don't support the software. I wrote back: but your freakin name is on it? Their response? You have to go to the software company's website. I said "their site is full of broken links, so I can't use your pos drive, nor can I use YOUR software". Their response? I can't help you and will no longer respond to your emails. W T F????

Seriously, so their attitude would compare to me selling corvettes, putting my name on the corvette, but if anything goes wrong with it I say "hey sorry, go to GM, I don't support them".......Then you go to GM and they can't help you......

So far, I've talked about 30 people out of buying LG products. I went so far as to be out with a buddy one day and he was looking at Blu Ray players. The LG was 20 bucks cheaper than the pioneer. I said "get the pioneer". He didn't have the 20 bucks so I gave it to him...JUST so he wouldn't buy an LG. I also know 2 couples who were going to buy LG washer and drier combos when they were on sale last boxing day at Future Shop. Leons had Whirlpool ones on for the same price, I talked them into Whirlpool.

So now anytime I talk someone out of LG, I write to them and tell them hehehehe. I know they don't really care, but I do like rubbing it in....so far they've lost about $15,000.00 in sales.....

 

[Michelle2love]

Windows Vista is the worst windows ever.

 

[ladydi]

I totally agree...suppose to be the most secure version of windows yet.....YA I GUESS SO IT WON'T LET YOU DO A FUCKING THING!!!!!!:grrrrrr:

Permission for this permission for that.....what next time I wanna fuck my wife I gotta ask vista for permission??

 

[Pompal 09.]

rotflmao :

 

[rownak5]

Is your wife's name Vista?

 

[marief2rnurse]

Why yes how did you know?

 

[gibson_sg345]

Windows 7 is kind of like that too. I think best version of windows is XP Pro. rest of them are peice of junks.


I hate new cell phones. They put everything in it.. i mean everything!!! wtf! cant you make it simple??!! you get lost in those settings!!