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Dumb, small things that irritate me for completely irrational reasons.
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irrationality.md

Dumb, small things that irritate me for completely irrational reasons: a living list

Inspired by Michael Lopp (author of Managing Humans and Being Geek), from the podcast episode “The One About Manager READMEs” from The Important Thing podcast.

Continually updated.

Writing

  • Double-spaces after periods. This is leftover from the typewriter days.

  • People who use .. (which isn't a thing) instead of a proper ellipsis, …, or three periods (the "poor man's" ellipsis), ....

Speech

  • People who use the word irregardless.

  • People who say "off of" instead of "on". It's not based off of, it's based on.

Courtesy

  • People who spend the time to park backwards in a parking lot — blocking the other cars — just so they can pull out faster.

Technology

  • People who upload Microsoft Word documents (also PDFs, Excel, Powerpoint) into a wiki (e.g., Confluence) instead of just pasting the content. Instead of being able to just read the content, I now have to download/open the document before reading the content.

  • Having to manually type-in my phone number at the grocery store in order to get my rewards.

  • When stores in the U.S. don't accept Apple Pay.

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