I admit it, I have next to no patience. I hate waiting in line, holding on the phone, waiting for the books I ordered on Amazon to arrive in the mail. I like things to be done as efficiently as possible, so nothing infuriates me more than when my time is wasted.
This morning I had to go get fingerprinted for my job. I haven't been in Washington three years, so any job requiring a background check also requires my prints. It's reasonable enough, I suppose, I work with vulnerable patients, it's smart to make sure my record is clear of violent acts.
So, I go into this weird office this morning and tell the dozing receptionist that I have an appointment. She looks at me a bit puzzled, then rummages through a datebook and says "oh, Carly, you're here to take the security guard exam?" It was then that I knew I was in for a holy timesuck.
The fingerprint tech was located, and when I handed her my ID card, she stared at it from all angles. "Texas? You don't have a Washington ID?" "No," I thought of telling her, "I do, I just carry this Texas ID around to screw with fingerprint techs."
She looked at the photo and looked at me over and over again. "It's me," I said "twenty pounds and three haircolors ago, I'm 16 in that photo."
Then she told me her computer wasn't recognizing my ID as valid. It was then that I blew my lid. "Listen, lady, I didn't stay up all night making that ID in my bathroom, it's real. I've flown with it, opened bank accounts with it, and if you'll just hold it up to a light, you'll see a hologram of a smiling George Dubya Bush. It's real."
She grudgingly typed in my information and took my prints.
What activities do you feel are just huge timesucks?
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Going to Best Buy to have something looked at on your laptop that they could fix right there in in the store, but insted they deside that they need to send it in and it takes you almost three weeks to get it back.
waiting in traffic. it drives me INSANE.
People like that, doesn't really know what their doing and they just waist so many people's time.
How ironic, I had to go through the same thing to work as a Teller here in Washington, and I also have a Texas Drivers License =D I had a few issues with it, but I just told them, hold it at the angle, see the lone star watermark? Your welcome.
The fuckin DMV..that shit takes forever for NO reason. Also, any customer service provider..like for cable, bank statements, insurance, those friggin hotlines that put u on hold FOREVER.
Commercials waste my time as well..but my impatience is at an ungodly level
Dazed stole my answer. lol
DMV = Hell.
Working at my job anywhere around my former department.
The DMV makes me want to pull my hair out.
lol.
previously on "24"
Hah...I'm losing my patience too with an apartment I got.
So heres what happened.
I applied for an apartment, telling the lady that I had to know ASAP if I got accepted, because my time was running extremely low. She tells me to call back at dinner time the following day. I do, she says to call me back at 7pm that night, I do, no answer. I spend the entire week trying to call her, getting no answer. The following friday, a week after I was supposed to find out, she calls me and I got the apartment. I figure all can be forgiven...
She tells me that the people currently living in the apartment don't want anyone looking at it until they are out, so I must go Friday to look at it. I get off work early to go...my cell rings...I have to wait until Monday to look at it because the people are not fully moved out yet.
By now...I'm extremely aggravated. I got off work early for nothing.
Monday comes around...I get off work early and go to look at the apartment. (Yesterday)
....They're closed. A civic holiday...she tells me to go look at it...AND THEY'RE CLOSED FOR THE HOLIDAY!
Stoplights. If I'm at a stoplight, and noone else is coming, I go. Down here, we have cameras that take pictures of people who do naughty illegal things like that. I'm sure that one of these days, I'll get caught and fined, but until then I'm not going to waste my time doing nothing.
Talk about an extremely angry answer machine message...
I probably won't get that apartment after this.
So yes I know how you feel
Xanga, work, everything that is not sleeping.
waiting in traffic. thats why I usually speed so I can avoid traffic and avoid being just one more number. The faster you're on and off the road, the better. I think its being efficient.
The golf outing that I attended on Saturday. Best ball.... waited at each whole to shoot. The entire 18 holes and dinner was 8 hours. When they were giving these little dinky prizes away I was kickin' myself for sticking around even longer for something that would make it worth my time . I won a cooler. It would have been fun if the crowd were a little more lively and the women's t's had a little more advantage which make it totally stinky! We were all walking zombies by the end. The poor guy we took along had a 50 minute drive home. ehhhhhh......
Try calling AT&T tech support. Sometimes it takes over an hour to speak to a real human being.
I hate automated customer service lines. Just let me connect to a real, live human being and my issue would be solved so much faster. Of course I am usually already pissy for having to call in the first place! Grrrrrrr Just thinking about it is driving me crazy.
My doctor has a horribly thick middle eastern accent....Drives me nuts.I feel like I should drag a translator with me when I go in....
Agreed on the DMV being hellish.
I also hate when stores hire cashiers that are terrible at cashiering.The local walmart has many cashiers that struggle to count back money correctly or they scan my item twice.Before I leave,I ALWAYS have to double check my damn receipt.I wait in line for 20 minutes to have to turn around and go stand in the customer service isle for another 20 minutes to fix the damn issue.By the time I get home my friggin milk isnt even cold and my ice cream is all melty.grr.....
grr. customer service lines - be it for a bank, whatever. always those.
@Shooting_Star20 - I gave them a camera once. They sent it out and it came back in the same disrepair that it had been in when I had handed it over. I informed them that there was no chance that I was going to pay for that. I went to a different store and bought a lovely new camera for a little over the price Best Buy had asked me to pay to send it out to be repaired . . . again.
Also I am saying customer service phone lines. At my bank it is mostly automated and by the time they say "please hold for a bank representative" I am about ready to hang up and save myself the headache, but no. I stay on the line because I must be some sort of masochist to sit the and listen to that god awful music that cannot be good for the brain in any way, shape, or form. Then the music momentarily stops and I think I might just be saved! Except that it is just another automated message telling me that my patronage is important to them, and I bloody well had better stay on the line. Finally the phone is answered and I get the help I need after answering several security questions, then before the action is confirmed the telephone wanker, oops, Banker lists off advertisements for a bunch of special offers that I could not care less about!
Damn, that is ridiculous. It's like, how much harder can you guys make this? I've run into some similar problems just trying to get my marriage license.
My job is a HUGE timesuck. I'm 17, I'm working on getting my 5th job. The job I have now involves wasted time and lots of chipped nailpolish.
I like that word, timesuck.
waitin for elevators is definitely "timesuck". i think i spend 30 mins/day for that. queue is also time-wasting. queuing for registration, queuing for food, queuing for getting on the bus....
Beaurocracy . . . if it was a rock concert it would be called Suckapalooza!
Waiting for people who are never on time...make an effort, it isn't that hard. I am not talking about people who are a few minutes late once in a while...i mean people who are never ready to go or always running at least 40 minutes late..i know some..they drive me nuts.