Two unrelated rants

1. I fucking hate it when a construction crew (or anyone else) installs an outlet so that the ground is above the current carrying holes. Why the hell do people do this?!?! You practically dislocate your arm reaching like some crazed monkey trying to grab a corndog from some kid at the zoo trying to plug in your appliance because some jackass put the outlet in upside down.



2. Job-title inflation. Don't call a telemarketing job "data research associate." Don't fucking call door to door donation solicitation "development coordination." I don't care if you're a goddamned non-profit. I could go on and on -- how many VPs of such and such does your company have? It's bullshit! When people are looking for a job, they don't need any rigamarole.

[Edited on Apr 08, 2005 by Samebeat]

ok, i'll join the electric outlet rank. i fucking hate when half the room is grounded, and the other half needs adaptors. Also the balanced plugs that have one big side and won't go in upsidedown or into outlets that are for straight plugs.


Fuckin' electricity!!!

Clearly, I just had a very difficult time plugging something in behind a large bookshelf that I couldn't move. And the polar-shift on the outlet didn't help.

why dont you just hold the cord differently? Or just unscrew it and turn it around?

I think the saying goes: "some people are always trying to ice skate uphill"

[Edited on Apr 08, 2005 by SupremePizzaMan]

Screw you. That involves more work than the initial problem entails. If you aren't going to rant or agree then piss off.



[Edited on Apr 08, 2005 by hopey]

I'm with you on #2. In fact, I want to rip my ears off whenever I hear modern day business english in any context. People who say 'going forward' with a straight face should be shot.

Soooo, you're saying I should quit calling myself an "Intoxication Specialist", or a "Liquid Sustinance Mixologist", and just stick with bartender....

oh and also.

How annoying is it when you are erasing, erasing, erasing really hard with the eraser on the end of a pencil and then all the sudden you hit the metal part and you get this like spine-grating metally vibrationy sensation.

i hate that.

like, haterade hate.

i hate that my apartment, because it's 1/2 of a double shotgun, only has electrical outlets on the outer walls, and not the wall i "share" with my neighbors. god forbid i need to plug in a lamp or something on the left side of my house.

US electrics sound scary. Isn't there some code somewhere saying which way round the outlets need to go?

the picture made the thread. i like visual aids. i need them. because i am ignorant.