About pet peeves.

There are few things I really hate in this life, very few indeed. I’m pretty easy-going, I guess, or some reasonable facsimile thereof. But there remain a few peeves of mine that just get under my skin and show no signs of getting any better with age. And I know I don’t use this blog to rant about things like this a whole lot, but bear with me for a while.

First off, people that ask stupid questions when all the tools to find the answer are right at their fingertips. For instance, this morning I had to show yet another person how to set the default printer in Windows. It’s maybe the easiest thing you can do, next to opening a browser window! Why couldn’t you have opened that browser, gone to Google, and searched for “setting the default printer in Windows” or something like that? It would have returned the right results probably in the first available link. And I know it’s easier to ask a question then research it yourself - goodness knows I just did in the other day with a .htaccess question - but I don’t typically do that. Asking people to do things for you instead of doing them yourself when it’s feasable makes for a culture of laziness, in the workplace or in life.

Secondly, there are these people that exist in this world, both male and female, that seem to garner a lot of attention and a lot of friends. And yet, they’re self-important jerks - not always, but there’s always that one popular person that makes you want to scream “What’s wrong with you people! Do you want yo be like this guy?” It’s pretty difficult for me to actually dislike a person… there aren’t many personalities that instantly rub against mine. But that one does - because it seems so backwards or something - I don’t know.

Thirdly, people that never come out of the woodwork except to point out things they think are wrong - but we won’t go there.

Dan ( A little pissy this morning. )

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Posted June 22nd, 2005 in main.

4 comments:

  1. Chris Hubbs:

    I almost never comment here, but I wanted to point out that you’re wrong about…

    Oh wait, never mind. :-)

    It still astonishes me that so few people understand the wealth of information that is a Google search. My pastor, the other day, asked “so how do I find stuff on the internet?”.
    “Well, you go to Google.com and you type in what you’re looking for.”
    “Just like that? Wow!”

    I know I’m a geek, but come on, people, smell the 21st century coffee! :-)

    Happy to add to your rant this morning.

    June 22nd, 2005 at 10:01 am
  2. daniel:

    See… you know how I feel… these people are killing me. It “how do I use the mouse” this, and “why do I keep getting popups” that, and “how do I find my files” this… it never stops.

    June 22nd, 2005 at 12:11 pm
  3. Roger:

    I ask a lot of questions because my answers are always 1) quicker and 2) more understandable than if I have to look it up and try to figure it out myself. Then after I’m told once I can usually do it myself every time thereafter.

    June 22nd, 2005 at 7:48 pm
  4. daniel:

    There’s the rub… I get asked these questions over and over and over again by the same people.

    June 22nd, 2005 at 7:52 pm

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