Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[DaveReading]

I once witnessed someone eating a single fresh tomato with a knife and fork.

The fork is a bit OTT, but cutting a tomato in quarters in order to eat it seems pretty sensible to me.

 

[MontyVeda]

The fork is a bit OTT, but cutting a tomato in quarters in order to eat it seems pretty sensible to me.

Cutting into quarters as part of a salad makes sense... but just a single tomato, eat it like an apple.

 

[DaveReading]

Cutting into quarters as part of a salad makes sense... but just a single tomato, eat it like an apple.

Yebbut apples don't dribble down your chin as soon as you bite into one.

 

[Pblakeney]

Yebbut apples don't dribble down your chin as soon as you bite into one.

That's if it doesn't squirt over fellow train passengers as happened to my wife.
She learned a valuable life lesson that day.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Cutting into quarters as part of a salad makes sense... but just a single tomato, eat it like an apple.

Heathen!!!

I cannot stand the idea of just biting into a tomato

It just goes everywhere
Much better cut up
my preference is normally to cut it in half then cut each half into 3

 

[Andy in Germany]

Cutting into quarters as part of a salad makes sense... but just a single tomato, eat it like an apple.

My word, they let just anyone on cycle chat these days, don't they?

 

[No Ta Doctor]

That's if it doesn't squirt over fellow train passengers as happened to my wife.
She learned a valuable life lesson that day.

Sit opposite someone you don't like the look of?

 

[No Ta Doctor]

Heathen!!!

I cannot stand the idea of just biting into a tomato

It just goes everywhere
Much better cut up
my preference is normally to cut it in half then cut each half into 3

If you cut it up you can put salt and pepper on it as well.

 

[Pblakeney]

Sit opposite someone you don't like the look of?

The aim is somewhat unpredictable though. 😉

 

[Electric_Andy]

I am changing employers from one NHS hospital to another. My new employer wants me to digitally complete an HR/IT/Payroll form. So of course they've sent it to me as a PDF. I email back saying I can't complete it, haven't got access to a printer/scanner and my hand writing is poor. So they send it back to me in MS Word format. Half of the fields are objects or pictures instead of editable fields. I suspect they've used a pdf>word converter that hasn't worked very well. And of course they didn't check it before sending to me. So now I'm waiting to see what they send next. I can't be the first person to have ever filled out one of these forms can I????

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I am changing employers from one NHS hospital to another. My new employer wants me to digitally complete an HR/IT/Payroll form. So of course they've sent it to me as a PDF. I email back saying I can't complete it, haven't got access to a printer/scanner and my hand writing is poor. So they send it back to me in MS Word format. Half of the fields are objects or pictures instead of editable fields. I suspect they've used a pdf>word converter that hasn't worked very well. And of course they didn't check it before sending to me. So now I'm waiting to see what they send next. I can't be the first person to have ever filled out one of these forms can I????

When I was applying for jobs as an IT Technician I got a lot of forms "to fill in online"

They were often PDFs that could not be filled in online - or Word docs that could have been done on a computer but were so badly designed that they could but it would look rubbish if you did

Given the job I was applying for I spent some time on each one making it so that it COULD be filled in on a computer - then emailed the completed version back to them

Several places where I got an interview commented that I was put down for an interview just because I had shown I was "good at IT" by doing that
One of two thanked me and said they would be using my version from now on!

As I don;t bother working (AKA retired) anymore that was a while ago
but i have noticed that some jobs I have looked at are still the same

which is a bit pathetic to my viewpoint!

 

[mistyoptic]

When I was applying for jobs as an IT Technician I got a lot of forms "to fill in online"

They were often PDFs that could not be filled in online - or Word docs that could have been done on a computer but were so badly designed that they could but it would look rubbish if you did

Given the job I was applying for I spent some time on each one making it so that it COULD be filled in on a computer - then emailed the completed version back to them

Several places where I got an interview commented that I was put down for an interview just because I had shown I was "good at IT" by doing that
One of two thanked me and said they would be using my version from now on!

As I don;t bother working (AKA retired) anymore that was a while ago
but i have noticed that some jobs I have looked at are still the same

which is a bit pathetic to my viewpoint!

I had a similar experience but one of the questions was “how do you rate your IT skills?”

I replied “well, I re-formatted this form for you”

I didn’t get the job…

 

[Supersuperleeds]

I am changing employers from one NHS hospital to another. My new employer wants me to digitally complete an HR/IT/Payroll form. So of course they've sent it to me as a PDF. I email back saying I can't complete it, haven't got access to a printer/scanner and my hand writing is poor. So they send it back to me in MS Word format. Half of the fields are objects or pictures instead of editable fields. I suspect they've used a pdf>word converter that hasn't worked very well. And of course they didn't check it before sending to me. So now I'm waiting to see what they send next. I can't be the first person to have ever filled out one of these forms can I????

You can get free pdf editors that will let you put text boxes on the form allowing you to type in the info. Not ideal but the best solution I can think of if you just want to get it done.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

My word, they let just anyone on cycle chat these days, don't they?

These days? I originally joined in 2010! 😆

P.S. I hate tomatoes, so no, I wont be doing ANY of the utterly repulsive and degenerate things above, thankyou very much!

 

[Electric_Andy]

APologies if I've mentioned this on here more than once, but it really does grind my gears. My ongoing saga with the NHS payroll form continues, and this time I have found the (un-editable) field for "status". I can only choose between single/married/divorced/widowed/civil partnership. Well, the only one of those that is true is "divorced". But that was 8 years ago. Why must I define myself in this way? It is my understanding that insurers ask this because divorcees might be higher risk (obviously we all go around keying our ex's cars, doesn't everyone?). But I don't know how this is still legal, let alone moral, to define someone's status by something they did 8 years ago, and what's the point?