Your very petty pet hates

[victorbrunswick]

Re: Your very petty pet hates

Add "specialists" to all of the above.

[victorbrunswick]

Re: Your very petty pet hates

Something that's been niggling me more and more recenty: Government departments referring to me as a "customer."

Restaurants that call themselves a "store."
Groups of Business, Government or Industrial buildings called a "Campus." (Are we still in school???)

[amethyst]

Re: Your very petty pet hates

Call Centres waiting in the queue from 5 mins----------?where a message comes up every so often you are in a queue your call will be answered as soon as possible.Having to listen to music in between,I much prefered the days when we had small offices where phone calls would be answered quickly

[victorbrunswick]

Re: Your very petty pet hates

Call Centres waiting in the queue from 5 mins----------?where a message comes up every so often you are in a queue your call will be answered as soon as possible.Having to listen to music in between,I much prefered the days when we had small offices where phone calls would be answered quickly

When I call a Call Centre I usually get this spiel:

"If you would like to hear this message in Spanish, press 1 now"
"If you would like to hear this message in Mandarin Chinese press 2 now"
"If you would like to hear this message in Urdu press 3 now"

And then finally...

"If you would like to hear this message in English press 85 now."

[Richard1978]

Re: Your very petty pet hates

I've never had that from a call centre, but I remember once using a system that spoke all he numbers in an American accent for some reason.

[amethyst]

Re: Your very petty pet hates

When I call a Call Centre I usually get this spiel:

"If you would like to hear this message in Spanish, press 1 now"
"If you would like to hear this message in Mandarin Chinese press 2 now"
"If you would like to hear this message in Urdu press 3 now"

And then finally...

"If you would like to hear this message in English press 85 now."

How bad things have got English should be first not last

[PC66]

Re: Your very petty pet hates

Well, at least some of them say "Press one for English" before they go on to "Para Español marque dos."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEJfS1v-fU0

[amethyst]

Re: Your very petty pet hates

Brand new cars with those chain led lights on permanent dont like them.I find they dazzle me if someone is behind me as I look in the mirror so I have to adjust the mirror to dark new European laws mean we have to put up with them whether we like it or not!

[victorbrunswick]

Re: Your very petty pet hates

Being that we were on the subject of Call Centres I found this hilarious film.

[darren]

Re: Your very petty pet hates

thats is strange restaurants calling themselves stores no sense it makes.
people complaining abiout the weather when its not warm they want it warm when they get it warm its too warm when it finishes and rains they say its never does anythinng but rain.

Restaurants that call themselves a "store."
Groups of Business, Government or Industrial buildings called a "Campus." (Are we still in school???)

[victorbrunswick]

Re: Your very petty pet hates

I don't know whether this is more of US or UK thing as restaurants here tend to serve large portions but when I eat out with my housemates they'll ask for a takeaway box for half their meal which is fine but the problem is once they bring it home they FORGET TO EAT IT so quite often my refrigerator is crammed with up to a week's worth of takeaway leftovers.

[Richard1978]

Re: Your very petty pet hates

I've not known any restaurants in the UK to do take out boxes.

The BBC website had a feature on it a while back.

[PC66]

Re: Your very petty pet hates

Brand new cars with those chain led lights on permanent dont like them.I find they dazzle me if someone is behind me as I look in the mirror so I have to adjust the mirror to dark new European laws mean we have to put up with them whether we like it or not!

That goes for all daytime running lights - Totally unnecessary. We started seeing them here with Volvos after Sweden mandated them on new vehicles, then over the years more and more countries have required them on new vehicles, and that was just before the EU started its usual interference. The manufacturers are also always trying to save as much as possible these days by minimizing differences between various markets as much as possible, hence situations such as Canada now mandating daytime running lights on new cars so some North American manufacturers are providing them as standard in the U.S. as well, even though not required.

[PC66]

Re: Your very petty pet hates

I've not known any restaurants in the UK to do take out boxes.

Yep, the "doggy bag" isn't really a common feature in Britain. Nor the bottomless coffee cup.

[Sly]

Re: Your very petty pet hates

Something that's really bugging me is the endless takeaway menus I keep getting pushed through my letterbox. Eaxtly how many takeaways do I have near me to have at least 1 per day shoved through. Most of them don't even push the menu all the way through, I ended up having to pull them through the letterbox myself most of the time.

I did have a funny thing happen once where a guy came to post a menu, saw one was poking out the letterbox and carefully pulled it back through to dispose of it. I thought that was pretty funny thing to happen, there's that many takeaways that the competition is throwing away rival menus that have been half posted.