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Performative horror from faculty whenever you mention weeding the collection in an academic library.

Having to send samples of finished goods to a different company lab for certain tests. Those tests aren't done often enough to justify purchasing another $100,000 piece of lab equipment, so it does make sense. The whole process is still obnoxious, though. Manufacturing QC Technician

A reviewer requesting changes on your one line PR because the file of a thousand lines doesn't follow the current formatting guidelines.

Looking at you K shell

Having to repeat something numerous times, even often when it is being projected onto a giant screen at that very moment.

Query tuning is statistics.

When repairing a computer for anything, it is your fault completely if they do the opposite of recommendation to keep issues from happening again. To the point of, "you broke it and should fix it for free!"

The number of times a child farts 💨 in my face while spotting gymnastics. Can confirm, the kids get enough milk guys. It’s enough, we can stop the milk propaganda.

nobody sign pr ticket outright gives long steps to repro stakeholders

Side work: “You’re a voice actor? How do you get into that? I’ve always been told I have a good voice for it.” “Have you ever taken any kind of acting classes?” “No, but I have a great Goofy impression. It can’t be that hard.”

Groveling to Google or Facebook for their ad platforms to work on behalf of clients and getting asked idiotic and irrelevant questions by “support” staff who don’t understand anything about their own platforms.

Looking up the uptime for a user after the user told me they shut their laptop down all the way that same day before creating a ticket. (Their computer has not been turned off in any way at all in over 60 days) Like just reboot your device and/or don’t lie?? I’m not even asking a lot ☹️

Lawyers Google stuff all the time.

the fact checking mood, followed by the repetition phase: SAY "WHAT" AGAIN! SAY "WHAT" AGAIN! I DARE YOU! I DOUBLE-DARE YOU, MOTHERFUCKER!! SAY "WHAT" ONE MORE GODDAMN TIME!

QA does way more release planning/scheduling than they should.

as an engineering team manager, joining multiple tables in different databases (with close but not quite the same primary key) in a spreadsheet so I can get a high-level view of all of the incoming work and who will do it

Sorting IPs in Excel reminds me of these #Powershell sorting classes I wrote a few years ago specifically for CIDR ranges, domain names, and email addresses. These plus @dougfinke.bsky.social’s ImportExcel module make generating network data spreadsheets a breeze. gist.github.com/rmbolger/371...

How you can do so much with a simple bash or python script, and how bloated most modern vendor apps are.

Having a "developer" look you square in the eyes and say "My computer at home has 32G of RAM and 1TB of storage, why do the cloud instances have so little?" Express developer, mind you. Not like data sciences or a DBA. Just a dude that can't get his code working and thinks bigger VMs would solve it

Having to provide evidence because they are "sure" about something.

Hitting 5000 items in a Sharepoint list.

it's not an artifact, it's just a rock

Stop e-mailing me for access to Monday.com, I do not want to play multiplayer Excel with you, I do not care how good the graphics are

Having to sign out keys, the handheld product scanners and the communications stuff

The bizarrely large number of hairnets you find in Amazon the lockers.

Product photography in the studio done to a professional level means enormous time spent making tiny adjustments to lights, reflectors, etc. Knowing how to manipulate light takes a long time to learn. And then huge amounts of time in Photoshop doing focus stacking, removing reflections etc

Yes

Took a gander at the docs. Looks interesting.

A badly designed kitchen line. Or a badly designed bar well. Or a badly designed SSO process. Or a badly designed tech support queue.

Customers assuming that I have the freedom to do whatever they wish to please them. My real boss is the computer system. The computer says no. I must also say no. There is no flexibility.

People trying to correct you about something they know nothing about by using, shall we say, “alternative facts” confidently generated by an LLM. This is particularly frustrating in a sales-focused role, but it’s annoying anywhere.

Requirement to select & submit a Standardized Job Description to HR with your staffing request, even though you just spent two months writing & receiving approval for a SOMC.

I'm starting to suspect we have the same career. 😂

Can you confirm if this user read this email?

I watched a company replace a $$$$$$$ ERP because one of the owners couldn't be bothered to look at the reporting available to him, not even when it was emailed to him and presented to him in meetings. Ended up, guy just really liked paper.

"no it HAS to be emailed to him as a PDF every day. He won't click on a link."

The number of tasks/situations in my chef week that are objectively disgusting. The smell of a grease trap being cleaned is a brain frying level of horrible to have to work with.

Having someone hand you a walkie talkie so you can change the battery for them instead of just taking the battery from you so they can change it

Having to stop "Friends of the Library" from jerking off to porn in the computer lab of the academic library

Trying to kill the bacterial infestation plaguing the coolant system and enclosure of a CNC mill.

or understanding that COBOL does have a date type and so those suspect 'ages' might actually be something else entirely. Of course, simply ASKING about it might have rendered the answer before making them look like buffoons.

The fun part is, the first feature request might be fine. But here comes the second. And the third. Which then blame the first feature for effing up the semantics.

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