Inefficiencies That Drive You Nuts

[BCClone]

Definitely this. Plus when I was a cashier, most people waited until the end to pay, and I knew I could do about 5 bags while the customer is swlping the card and going through the prompts. It was more efficient to do that than twiddle my thumbs waiting for the customer.

You want inefficiency. The jackwagons who wait to be told the amount and then they whip out their checkbook and start writing along with filling in the ledger. Hey, you know what the date is, the name of the store, your signature, check number and date for the ledger; fill that stuff out so when they tell you the amount you can t just do that part and move on.

 

[TitanClone]

Driving from CB to Ankeny on Friday, just me and my grandma. Catch up to a Jeep while I had cruise set at 78, they don't get over so eventually I decided to pass on the right. They speed up before I get around them and the semi in front of me. I (32 years old) asked my extremely mild mannered 83 year old grandma if I could gun it. Yep. Went 85 for a minute or 2 to get away from that twat.

Use cruise control and drive in the right lane, it's not hard and will make your and every other person on the roads life less annoying.

 

[Die4Cy]

Driving from CB to Ankeny on Friday, just me and my grandma. Catch up to a Jeep while I had cruise set at 78, they don't get over so eventually I decided to pass on the right. They speed up before I get around them and the semi in front of me. I (32 years old) asked my extremely mild mannered 83 year old grandma if I could gun it. Yep. Went 85 for a minute or 2 to get away from that twat.

Use cruise control and drive in the right lane, it's not hard and will make your and every other person on the roads life less annoying.

The people I encounter who deliberately use the left lane when driving distractedly, ie on a phone call, is innumerable. It happens about every time I'm out. Driving skill in general has declined with the increasing lack of awareness.

 

[Drew0311]

75 questions on a gas pump when it’s 15 degrees and breezy. I don’t need a car wash, it’s 15 degrees

 

[TitanClone]

The people I encounter who deliberately use the left lane when driving distractedly, ie on a phone call, is innumerable. It happens about every time I'm out. Driving skill in general has declined with the increasing lack of awareness.

It's almost always phone or distracted by the passenger. I don't generally get mad quick but that s*** drives me crazy. I 80 is bad enough with the semi traffic, 29 from Omaha to KC or 35 from DSM to KC has no traffic and I still see idiots doing it when we're the only cars in sight

 

[besserheimerphat]

You guys are looking at this from the wrong perspective. The efficiency that businesses are looking for is profit per customer. THAT is what they are maximizing. Everything is only as easy as it needs to be to get the sale.

If gas stations thought they could get away with forcing you inside the store, they would - that's where all the high-margin/impulse buy stuff is.

As long as the flight leaves on time, the airlines don't care if you're uncomfortable. You have to pay first class prices for that.

The big box electronics store can't give you a price difference while your order is in transit because it's still a liability on their books until the shipper says it arrived and accounting doesn't allow that.

The free market is like evolution. It doesn't result in the BEST outcome, it results in the LEAST BAD outcome within the given context.

 

[flynnhicks03]

One of my pet peeves is people that have to completely stop moving to text or talk when movement could easily be happening.

I hate when people are walking with their head buried in their phone and they bump into me

 

[madguy30]

I'm all for this. However, in order for this to work, the flight attendants must be given free reign to tase passengers that try to put their carry-ons in the overhead bins at the front of the plane.

I wouldn't stop there.

Listening to your device on speaker? Zzzzt.

Talking loud enough for the whole plane to hear you? Zzzzt.

I think cattle prods should be allowed for the window seats.

 

[IcSyU]

FYI there isn't a tax break for the companies taking donations. They are making money on the funds held (same reason the PayPal or Venmos of the world hold it for a day or two before depositing it to another account) but they dont have some magic tax deduction for it. It's just a liability.

 

[KidSilverhair]

Just a minor peeve, but when my wife and I got our Real IDs on our drivers licenses a few years back, we had to drag out birth certificates/marriage licenses/all that stuff to prove we were citizens and verify our identity. Fine, okay, of course, I get that.

A few months later we decided to sign up for TSA PreCheck. Would they accept that already-proved Real ID to verify our citizenship/identification? Nope. We had to drag all that stuff out again.

Then last year we got passports. You guessed it … out came the birth certificates again. Only this time we had to actually mail them off and hope we ended up getting them back (we did, but still …).

I mean, how many times should you have to prove who you are, especially when the first time ought to be good enough to be used for the other times?

 

[hoosman]

Using big words when diminutive expressions would be sufficient.

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

Windows 11

 

[Clonefan32]

Two factor authentication using my personal phone. It's how I end up here during the work day.

I use Iowa Land Records for work, which is a database of all publicly available real estate documents that have been recorded since the mid-90s. I have to change my password every 3 months and do a 2-step authentication every single time I log in-- for something that consists of nothing more than publicly available documents. Angers me every time.

 

[Clonefan32]

75 questions on a gas pump when it’s 15 degrees and breezy. I don’t need a car wash, it’s 15 degrees

Added to that, I swear they've slowed gas pumps down. It takes forever to pump gas now.

 

[cycloner29]

Added to that, I swear they've slowed gas pumps down. It takes forever to pump gas now.

Sam's in Ames Friday morning was horrible. Took over 10 minutes to put in about 12 gallons. All the pumps were that way. It was like watching grass grow.

 

[MJ29]

"Do you have Casey's Rewards?"

"HAVE YOU USED YOUR HYVEE PERKS REWARDS?" <--- at top volume so the whole store hears it

 

[Drew0311]

Added to that, I swear they've slowed gas pumps down. It takes forever to pump gas now.

I have one place where my summer home is that takes so long I don't even go there anymore. The last time I started the pump, went into the store, went to the bathroom, bought a drink, walked back out and it was halfway done. It's has been like that for years. So I just shut it down and filled up again at another place a few days later. I get it if stuff isn't working right but it's been like that for years and it's a new station with all the modern type pumps.

 

[VeloClone]

Sitting at a red light with no cars within a 1/2 a mile

This is the best argument for roundabouts over traffic signals.

 

[Drew0311]

This is the best argument for roundabouts over traffic signals.

I like roundabouts. People just need to get used to them. They actually make stuff flow so much better than stop signs and stop lights

 

[CloneLawman]

I use Iowa Land Records for work, which is a database of all publicly available real estate documents that have been recorded since the mid-90s. I have to change my password every 3 months and do a 2-step authentication every single time I log in-- for something that consists of nothing more than publicly available documents. Angers me every time.

I feel your pain.