Things that Mildly Annoy You

[Riku]

I have no voice whatsoever. I mean, I can whisper, and I feel mostly okay aside from being a bit out of breath from a gross cough, but I'm still "sick" and incapable of audible speech.

I couldn't go to work today because I have to man the customer service counter, which means answering inane questions, giving directions to people who don't know how to read signs/tags and and answering the phone. Not to mention the general chatter that anyone older than me tends to expect in a transaction. I hate missing work. .-.

[Airra]

I lost my voice for a week, once. I had to communicate with my family entirely through writing things.

It was nice.

[Soapbar]

It's finally the weekend and I wake up with a headache and super sore throat. No prob, just take medicine it'll be fine.

I did, and those two things are gone and now replace with lightheadedness and the fact that my head feels like it's near a burning fire all the time. Fuck.

[betrippin]

i was sick not too long ago and my mom kept referring to dayquill as "Daytime nightquill"

[Ersatz]

My favorite band is in Montreal tonight and I can't go because I couldn't find someone willing to go with me and I can't possibly find my way to and within Montreal by myself, especially with the remnants of jetlag I still have.

[Ersatz]

Bad programming

First off:
Java is garbage. It's an anachronistic, absurd and rotten from the core abomination that should never have been more than a toy and just won't die. Its features are a joke, its standards are illogical and counterproductive and its implementation is elaborately moronic. The entire stack of Java libraries, frameworks, middleware, applications and enterprise solutions is a grotesque monument to mankind's failures. If someone asks you if you want to do some Java, just say no.

Secondly:
Aaaaauugh. I try to uphold and promote good practices within our team of programmers but I seem to be the only one who cares/understands the need for them. I've always been vocal about the inconsistent and negligent formatting and the lack of any proper refactoring whatsoever and, most important of all, the code duplication. Holy shit the code duplication. No one gives a shit about writing the exact same algorithm in 12 different files every week for a year. No one sees this and thinks "hey what if we have to change the way the algorithm works at some point?" or "hey couldn't there be a way that I can do this common and insultingly trivial task in 2 seconds rather than 5 minutes + an hour of testing?". No one uses the nice utility classes I write for the express purpose of not slowly drowning us all in spaghetti.
And then, two years after this quarter-of-a-billion project has begun, it turns out we have less than a month to dig through the ginormous and pastastic code to fix the literal thousands of instances of the exact same three lines of code because it turns out they're faulty (the Java framework that backs these lines doesn't work properly, who would have thought) and all this time no one else but me bothered to put it in a dedicated method in case this exact situation arrived and also because it's the smart thing to do. Hope you guys enjoy spending the next weeks+ knee-deep in ugly dusty old code that you'll end up inevitably breaking, causing completely avoidable bugs and even more "unforeseen" delays.

[Riku]

I appreciate your pasta-based scale of disaster.

Also, I am not sure how you avoided getting more upset than this. I've never been in THAT severe of a situation, but I would be well beyond the "Things that Mildly Annoy You" thread in my level of anger at such an inefficient lack of foresight form coworkers who are supposed to be skilled.

[Ersatz]

I appreciate your pasta-based scale of disaster.

It's also a programming in-joke. Confusing, disorganized code is called "spaghetti code", and codebases with too many unnecessary layers (e.g. Module A queries Module B which in turn does nothing but forward the query as-is to Module C, and so on) is called "lasagna code". Our project is more of a lasagna. That's not anyone's fault at least, it's the architecture that was picked (which in turn was kind of forced on us by the terrible and pointless framework that they decided to use for the whole application). I had to refactor a vital module last week and again this week, and I had to add about 60 new functions in the lowest layer for the top layer to use, which meant writing the actual code in 60 files and then copy-pasting the exact same useless code that simply calls the actual implementation in 3 more layers of query-forwarding files, for each one of those 60 functions. It's ridiculous and offers no actual benefit.

Also, I am not sure how you avoided getting more upset than this. I've never been in THAT severe of a situation, but I would be well beyond the "Things that Mildly Annoy You" thread in my level of anger at such an inefficient lack of foresight form coworkers who are supposed to be skilled.

The main problem is a lack of oversight. The leaders have too much on their plates and the customer needs to be babysat all day so they have no time left to take a look at what we produce and spot problems. We used to have mandatory code reviews in which more experimented programmers would go through every new line of code and made sure it followed the standards/good practices/made use of the convenient utilities to avoid duplication, but we had to stop because there was simply not enough time. Also, to keep costs low, there were very few senior developers (4 at most, 1 now but she's also the leader and the analyst so she has no time to program) and only ever 1 intermediate (who has since left the project). This leaves only interns (who only stay for periods of three months, which is not enough to reach full efficiency, especially with the steep learning curve that our project has, plus they need more handholding and break things more often), part-timers (some of which work from home so communication is sparse and kept to a minimum) and juniors (such as myself, and the two others left want to become analysts at some point and are only programmers for the time being, so they're not that much into code quality and foresight so much as concrete results). I'm not rustled because everyone is doing what they can and is honest and full of good will, but also and probably mostly because I get to be a smug smartass and say "I warned you about this six months ago but you didn't listen" every time this kind of situation arises.

Also re:skilled coworkers. I always thought big IT companies hired only über-nerds obsessed with programming and who see it as an art, but it turns out the vast majority of people are more balanced than I am and only see programming as a job they do to earn a living (which is perfectly fine), so the requirements are lower than I expected. Most just don't care enough or know enough to acknowledge the weaknesses in projects and the potential benefits of thinking outside of the box.

[Airra]

But all the code goes into the box.

Where else are you going to type it? Some not-box?!

[Riku]

Finally decided to go out for the first time in forever for a friend's birthday, and everyone is late. It's not the friend's fault, since the cousin who demanded to drive her (it's a 21st birthday) is the one running farthest behind. We were all supposed to be here at 9, and the cousin hasn't even picked up the friend yet (15 minutes late and counting). At least it's a pleasant temperature for standing outside.

[Kamak]

Kitty please stop meowing at my door every hour. I know you are lonely but my room is not a good place for you and your sensitive belly while I am unconscious.

Also tell that daisies bird outside to stop singing right outside my window. They started 3 hours ago and why are they singing at night?

[shazza]

when you're on a vacation you aren't having to pay for in a huge booty house on the beach but the beds are REALLY uncomfortable and you can't sleep :'(

[Riku]

I should not have agreed to be a bridesmaid for a friend who is way more into the full-on, tacky party shit than I am.
I am now being asked to attend TWO separate party-type events aside from the wedding itself, which are all scheduled on Sundays, which is the day that I get paid the most, and they're all a pain in the booty to get to,
I am apparently in charge of half the fucking food for these parties because I'm "the one who cooks"
I apparently have to acquire some tacky booty printed t-shirt in addition to the dress.

All of this is way more of a cheddar sink than I ever requested of this friend when she was my bridesmaid, (mostly by her heavily-implied, but not outrightly stated request, as I was originally only going to have my sister be a part of it). And I didn't realize that she (or her other bridesmaids) would expect so much more of me. Not that I could really say no without hurting her feelings.
But there's also a (hopefully very high) chance of me living 7 hours away by the time the wedding comes up, due to a teaching job on the other side of the state. I can't make it to all this extra shit if that's the case, especially if I"m going to be annoyed the entire time by the environment.

[Blitz Walrus]

There's someone doing something to our dvds at the library. We've been finding empty boxes scattered among the shelves, usually in places people don't frequent like the far end of the foreign language section. I hesitate to say steal too, we've got rfid tags on everything including the discs. If you try and take anything out, disc or case, without checking out the alarm sounds and we act accordingly. We haven't found the missing tags to indicate someone pulling them off, or any shenanigans at the front gate so we're utterly befuddled. My theory is its just some weirdo taking discs and hiding them for no reason other than being weird.

[SaintCrazy]

In Overwatch, last competitive season I ranked higher than Brock from Pokémon. This season we played all our placement matches together, so we got the same win/loss ratio and played the exact same games and this season I ranked lower than him. Not slightly either, a full tier below. Which is also a full tier below what I was ranked last season.

?????