This Really Annoys Me Pet Peeve Thread

[Schlenkerla]

This, for the most part.

Last night I had to have my fiancee's aunt and her 90 yr old friend follow me home from a party. Winding country roads that aren't plowed is one thing, but when the roads were completely clear and straight on the route, they were still going 30 in a 55.

Yeah...always liked this commercial.

https://youtu.be/mHv_-q2YNFE

 

[rawlus]

Quite the contrary. However, waitstaff are usually under pressure from management to to turn your table as quickly as possible. The more times your table gets turned in a night, the more money the restaurant makes. The longer you sit there, the fewer entrees they sell. Time you sit there waiting for food is time wasted.

This is true at chain restaurants which I won't set foot in anyway. If you're going to a chain restaurant then you're getting what you deserve....

 

[Rhumbline]

This is true at chain restaurants which I won't set foot in anyway. If you're going to a chain restaurant then you're getting what you deserve....

Remember, it's also the waitstaff who have a financial incentive to turn those tables quickly. You aren't tipping them more for sitting there three hours than if they hustle you out in 45 minutes.

Even if you are, one table tipping $20 doesn't match four turnovers at $10 per.

 

[MaxStout]

Chinese tourists... There, I said it!

I don't mean people of Chinese decent who travel, I'm talking about the idiots from China who have no clue how to behave outside their little Shangri-La. do they not have lines in China?

On the plus side though, the Brits and Americans can breathe a sigh of releif now that the pressure is off us.

This.

We were standing in a rather long line to get into the San Diego Zoo last year. In comes a family of Chinese tourists, about 8 or 10 of them. They swoop right in to the front of the line, in front of one of the ticket booths. Other people start yelling at them. A zoo employee came over and told them they had to go to the back of the line. Just then the Chinese mom started shrieking indignantly at the poor guy. After a little back and forth arguing with him, the tourists finally shuffled to the back of the line.

Sense of entitlement isn't just an American thing. Ugly tourists come in all flavors.

 

[Schlenkerla]

Remember, it's also the waitstaff who have a financial incentive to turn those tables quickly. You aren't tipping them more for sitting there three hours than if they hustle you out in 45 minutes.

Even if you are, one table tipping $20 doesn't match four turnovers at $10 per.

You have to remember that if you're racking up drinks they make a bunch of money that way and it increases the tip amount pretty fast. It's not unusual if you're drinking that the bill for food is half of the net bill, if not a fraction of the bill.

I have picked up a bill for more than $900. About 80% beer and spirits. Did so at The Keg in Toronto not so long ago. It was a party of four.

Tip was $180 so about 1,080.

Rushing people out if they are ordering drinks is stupid.

A big part of my job is entertaining suppliers when we get together. Many designs have been developed on a bar napkin.

 

[craigger64]

This is true at chain restaurants which I won't set foot in anyway. If you're going to a chain restaurant then you're getting what you deserve....

+1

I've never understood how people can go to a chain restaurant (Crapplebee's, Dead Robin, etc.) and bitch about the service, the food, and/or the beer selection. Those restaurants are geared toward people who don't know any better.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Anyone who refers to their favorite professional sports team as "we" or "us". I don't care if you've been a fan since birth. Unless you actually play on the team, coach the team, or collect a paycheck from the team, you are ONLY a fan, and you sound ridiculous.

What about collegiate teams? If you actually attended the university, I think "we" is acceptable...

However, anyone who refers to the team as "we" when the team is winning, but "they" when losing, annoys me.

 

[craigger64]

What about collegiate teams? If you actually attended the university, I think "we" is acceptable...

However, anyone who refers to the team as "we" when the team is winning, but "they" when losing, annoys me.

Good point! You'll notice that I said favorite "professional" team. If you actually attended a certain university or college, then I have no problem with you referring to their sports teams as "we". No problem at all. But if you never attended a particular university, and are only a fan of the football team, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE do not get the team's emblem tattoed anywhere on your body. I know people like that. They're a completely different pet-peeve altogether!

 

[Schlenkerla]

Anyone who refers to their favorite professional sports team as "we" or "us". I don't care if you've been a fan since birth. Unless you actually play on the team, coach the team, or collect a paycheck from the team, you are ONLY a fan, and you sound ridiculous.

What if you are a season ticket holder?

I'm a season ticket holder. I own two Chicago Bears Seats. Key word is "own". I paid $9000 for them. Then i have to pay $320 for every home game. $160 each seat.

The $9k is a one time expense. I will get the money back when I sell the rights to the seats to a new owner.

I think I have rights to say "We". Oui?

 

[MaxStout]

Since I have been paying extra sales tax levies earmarked for new stadiums for the Twins and Vikings, I'm going to use possessive pronouns when referring to the teams.

I'm not even a big fan, but I helped pay the subsidies, so dammit, I'm claiming my share.

 

[podz]

Remember, it's also the waitstaff who have a financial incentive to turn those tables quickly. You aren't tipping them more for sitting there three hours than if they hustle you out in 45 minutes.

Even if you are, one table tipping $20 doesn't match four turnovers at $10 per.

The whole tipping thing really annoys me in general. It's not part of Finnish culture (in general not part of European culture) but foreigners (mostly USA people and Brits) have tried to import it here and there. Hasn't really worked out too well for them here, though, but they sure like to bitch about not getting any.

 

[JonM]

What if you are a season ticket holder?

Or a Green Bay Packers shareholder?

 

[Quaker]

I'm with craiger on the 'we' for a team thing. I live in WI and understand the Packer aspect, but I don't care.

Chinese tourists are simply acting abroad like they do at home. It's not an entitlement thing, it's just the environment they've been raised in. Still gets on my nerves, but I understand it. I did appreciate the no tipping society there. I had to recondition myself upon returning stateside.

A pet peeve of mine is people driving with only parking lights on or driving with fog lights on a fog-less day. I was embarrassed to be pulled over by the police while driving in the Czech Republic for having fog lights on a clear night. I didn't even know the car I was driving had them, but inadvertently pulled the knob while turning the headlights on. Still, I appreciated they had a law against it and enforced it. Some of our local police drive with parking lights on which really irritates me when I'd expect them to be a role model of good driving habits.

 

[tdiowa]

McDonald's now has breakfast all day, right?

I order pancakes and sausage with a side of scrambled eggs. They take my money. Then bring me the food. I tell them they forgot the eggs.

Then they tell me eggs are only served with breakfast....

I'm like WTF is the deal with breakfast all day?

I say, I want my money back for the eggs... They obliged me.

And these people that work at McDonalds think 15.00 a hour is not a unreasonable wage....

 

[Rhumbline]

The whole tipping thing really annoys me in general. It's not part of Finnish culture (in general not part of European culture) but foreigners (mostly USA people and Brits) have tried to import it here and there. Hasn't really worked out too well for them here, though, but they sure like to bitch about not getting any.

I'm with you. Tipping in the US is necessary because servers can be paid much less than the legal minimum wage. I don't have the exact numbers but if minimum wage is $7.85 per hour then servers can be paid something like $2.75 per hour and it's expected that the tips will make up the difference.

I'm in Italy now, I love the culture here although Rome has been corrupted. Every restaurant I go to in Rome I'm reminded that service is not included.

Anywhere else in Italy, my experience is that there's no rush. In the States, they want to get you in, fed, and gone as soon as possible to seat the next group.

In Florence and elsewhere in Europe, I've ordered a coffee and camped out for hours in one cafe table with no worries from the staff. Don't try that in the States.

 

[podz]

Don't try that in the States.

Don't worry, it's not on my list of travel destinations ;-)

 

[MaxStout]

I'm with you. Tipping in the US is necessary because servers can be paid much less than the legal minimum wage. I don't have the exact numbers but if minimum wage is $7.85 per hour then servers can be paid something like $2.75 per hour and it's expected that the tips will make up the difference.

I'm in Italy now, I love the culture here although Rome has been corrupted. Every restaurant I go to in Rome I'm reminded that service is not included.

Anywhere else in Italy, my experience is that there's no rush. In the States, they want to get you in, fed, and gone as soon as possible to seat the next group.

In Florence and elsewhere in Europe, I've ordered a coffee and camped out for hours in one cafe table with no worries from the staff. Don't try that in the States.

I enjoyed being able to spend a few Euros for a coffee, then relax an hour or two without being nudged out the door.

Unless things have changed, I recall a tip being that you rounded up to the next Euro. Anything more than that was deemed excessive.

 

[Rhumbline]

I enjoyed being able to spend a few Euros for a coffee, then relax an hour or two without being nudged out the door.

Unless things have changed, I recall a tip being that you rounded up to the next Euro. Anything more than that was deemed excessive.

Yeah, anywhere other than Rome. even leaving the change can make them uncomfortable.

 

[Schlenkerla]

The whole tipping thing really annoys me in general. It's not part of Finnish culture (in general not part of European culture) but foreigners (mostly USA people and Brits) have tried to import it here and there. Hasn't really worked out too well for them here, though, but they sure like to bitch about not getting any.

I'm not sure if you know the food service business has lower hourly rates than any other low skilled minimum wage job in the USA. A portion of their hourly pay is considered to be from tipping. I'm not sure why its this way in the US. Maybe to help businesses survive with volatile demand for food service in a day. The thought they can staff higher to cover a meal surge and defray the labor/service cost on the consumer and not be on the hook for 100% of the hourly wage for a slow day. In a non-tipping payment method they would not do this, if they were busy they would just be slow. Pure speculation...

US Tourists do it for a few reasons. Probably they don't know better and think its required or expected. They also don't want to look like cheap-a$$ tightwads to the service staff. If they received good service that its well earned, they want to reward the person. They plan to be around for awhile and want the service next time. With this last thought I am thinking of baggage handlers mainly. When I travel to Europe or Asia its usually for more than a week and I'm usually toting heavy suit cases and I appreciate the help they have given me lugging my crap around. I do this at bars too. I tend to make a connection with that individual and get better service. Timely refills and polite conversation, this often leads to them telling me what's good to see in their town while visiting. Its not a bad thing, its my money, if I want to give it to people, and I can afford to do this, why not?

Whats the matter with this? Do you have a bunch a loud mouth Americans in your favorite dinning or drinking establishment and taking away the service attention you'd get if they were absent? When its time to get you another beer you have too wait longer? Are you thinking, "Stop talking to those fookers over there and get me another beer.... be-otch?"

 

[podz]

Do you have a bunch a loud mouth Americans in your favorite dinning or drinking establishment and taking away the service attention you'd get if they were absent? When its time to get you another beer you have too wait longer? Are you thinking, "Stop talking to those fookers over there and get me another beer.... be-otch?"

LOL, no, you missed what I was saying. There are some USA people and Brits who have moved here, mainly looking for work, and they can't find work outside of the service industry. They expect that people here are going to tip them, they set out tip jars, etc, but it doesn't really succeed - nobody tips them and they get highly pissed off about it.

 

[Schlenkerla]

LOL, no, you missed what I was saying. There are some USA people and Brits who have moved here, mainly looking for work, and they can't find work outside of the service industry. They expect that people here are going to tip them, they set out tip jars, etc, but it doesn't really succeed - nobody tips them and they get highly pissed off about it.

I was wondering if was what you said above or the flip side of not liking tippers...

 

[Schlenkerla]

The whole tipping thing really annoys me in general. It's not part of Finnish culture (in general not part of European culture) but foreigners (mostly USA people and Brits) have tried to import it here and there. Hasn't really worked out too well for them here, though,


but they sure like to bitch about not getting any.

Re-read this, not sure how I missed this.

Edit. Makes me think they're mad about not getting any action from tipping big. I'm sophomoric though...

 

[sudbuddy]

People who say "Belgium" beer instead of Belgian beer

 

[podz]

Re-read this, not sure how I missed this.

Edit. Makes me think they're mad about not getting any action from tipping big. I'm sophomoric though...

Foreigner WORKERS have tried to import it here, not foreigner CUSTOMERS. The foreigner WORKERS get pissed of when nobody tips them. The foreigner workers being mainly USA and British citizens who have moved here looking for work.

 

[rawlus]

Remember, it's also the waitstaff who have a financial incentive to turn those tables quickly. You aren't tipping them more for sitting there three hours than if they hustle you out in 45 minutes.

Even if you are, one table tipping $20 doesn't match four turnovers at $10 per.

There are plentry of people who don't mind processed food prepared in central warehouses and then reheated in a commercial kitchen and served by a drug addicted waitstaff so I don't have to worry about my impact on the rate of table turns.

It's not about tipping, I tip well. It's about going to a chain restaurant and paying good money for something you can make better at home, sometimes for less money too. Chain restaurants are for lazy people.

 

[Stillraining]

I'm taking notes and will get all this taken care of when I'm voted King.

 

[CGVT]

Screw that. When I am King the world will swing.

 

[Schlenkerla]

Foreigner WORKERS have tried to import it here, not foreigner CUSTOMERS. The foreigner WORKERS get pissed of when nobody tips them. The foreigner workers being mainly USA and British citizens who have moved here looking for work.

I know...was goofing on you.

Action = Tipping big and taking some hottie to an "after hours" place.

English a second language?

Sophomoric means pretentious and juvenile, I still laugh at fart jokes. I'm almost 50.

 

[sudbuddy]

People who routinely make a stink at restaurants and talk to the manager over a perceived slight by the wait staff. They almost always have never worked in a restaurant and don't understand life from the other side. They also just look like entitled a$$holes. @Schlenkerla I'm sure you're a good guy and all, but based on your first few posts you seem to fit the bill on this one. I would encourage you to put yourself in their shoes and come down off your high horse on something as trivial as an appetizer.

 

[podz]

English a second language?

Fourth.