Gotta pet peeve about our society?

[kenny]

I have several.
Here's one:

Why is being bad considered to be good, or being cool?
Example:



Rules like speed limits protect the live of everyone, even the lives of the speeders.

So why the F U?

And why do memes like this spread like wildfire?
Because, being bad is now seen as the cool club!


Your turn ...

 

[stracci2000]

I hate how computers have taken over our lives.
We used to say "When the robots take over...."
Well, they already have. It's the cell phones and computers that tell us what to do all day long.
And passwords are the bane of my existence.

I wanna go live in a cabin in the woods, cut off from everything and everyone!
But with jewelry, of course.

 

[missy]

I loathe how brainwashed so many people are today. How they blindly follow whatever the popular trend is rather than caring about facts and the truth. I hate how history is being rewritten and distorted. I could go on and on but I’ll stop for now

 

[toomuchB]

I agree with the bad=good/cool thing being strange.
For me, cars - both being in one and when walking on the sidewalk. If I need to cross a street I will try look for a streetlight, even if its a bit of a walk away. Makes me feel a lot safer. I'm always the one that waits for the green light before crossing even if there are no cars in sight.

Illustration by Karl Jilg showing how much space we sacrifice for cars.

 

[Matata]

Gotta pet peeve about our society?​

People.

 

[qubitasaurus]

Oh I hate hate hate the idea that MBAs and management teach you 'the principals of management which should be translationally applicable to leading progress in diverse sectors' and now go out and show your skill set by managing projects in completely different sectors/industries every couple or years by rolling out the same best practices everywhere.

Sure you can promise this much growth that much cost cutting and forward progress on XYZ and then delegate the project for someone else to run in a completely malfeasible state and point fingers later when the bolts come from India, the safety check has been cost cut and the door falls off the plane while it's in the air.

Or tell me it's agile because you're going to run everything in sprint (or scrum). And never mind the whole team is split across different time zones and can't all make the sprint meeting. No the key stake holders can't come at all (because the sprint has morphed into requiring a 2 hr meeting every 48 hrs and there's no time in their calendar for that). No the stakeholders won't allow anyone to make choices and want to micromanage everything so the sprint meetings can't actually be used to pivot the projects. No the meeting notes for the sprints are never read -- who wants to read 3/4 of a page every 48 hours. No one has any time any longer to talk on pair projects outside the sprint meetings so forget training of the younger team members -- whoops did we just ask them to go read the post quantum cryptography NIST release notes and sign themselves up to the PQC forums so they can teach themselves lattice crypto because you know none of the rest of us who are trained to handle these kinds of things can find 10 minutes to help actually train them properly (mind you it takes 5 years to train someone). Why??????? Because agile only works in certain settings -- e.g. ones where none of the above is true. But this is the best management practice so that's what we'll do apparently.

 

[missy]

Gotta pet peeve about our society?​

People.

This is exactly how I feel and you put it into words perfectly. People are my biggest pet peeve too

 

[nkarma]

I'd give almost anything for the smart phone not to exist. I miss making eye contact with people and having close relationships with my loved ones and partner. Plus a lot more things.

 

[nkarma]

@qubitasaurus Best thing I read on internet all month!
My regional director is one of these MBAs who literally has NO CLUE about anything to do with our business. It's been fun to say the least.

I often feel I'm living in Atlas Shrugged in today's society.

 

[Begonia]

Insurance companies. Not referring to the CEO who was murdered, rather my own 2 very stressful experiences with them (one ongoing, in the "delay" phase).

His murder is generating an interesting response by the public tho.

 

[Inked]

YES!!!! My pet peeve is I feel like women are not allowed to age anymore. Maybe it's just my personal experience or my impression, but I hate this pressure to look 30 when Im 50. Why cant i get older? Again, maybe it's just a pressure I put on myself due to society parading women with tons of surgery saying "look how amazing she looks at 50!", but i hate feeling like I am not allowed to look like i am get older.

I also REALLY hate that celebs wont own up to their surgery, like just admit it! I have a before and after, "olive oil" doesnt do that, i am not dumb. LOL

 

[HS4S_2]

YES!!!! My pet peeve is I feel like women are not allowed to age anymore. Maybe it's just my personal experience or my impression, but I hate this pressure to look 30 when Im 50. Why cant i get older? Again, maybe it's just a pressure I put on myself due to society parading women with tons of surgery saying "look how amazing she looks at 50!", but i hate feeling like I am not allowed to look like i am get older.

I also REALLY hate that celebs wont own up to their surgery, like just admit it! I have a before and after, "olive oil" doesnt do that, i am not dumb. LOL

100% feel this.

 

[missy]

YES!!!! My pet peeve is I feel like women are not allowed to age anymore. Maybe it's just my personal experience or my impression, but I hate this pressure to look 30 when Im 50. Why cant i get older? Again, maybe it's just a pressure I put on myself due to society parading women with tons of surgery saying "look how amazing she looks at 50!", but i hate feeling like I am not allowed to look like i am get older.

I also REALLY hate that celebs wont own up to their surgery, like just admit it! I have a before and after, "olive oil" doesnt do that, i am not dumb. LOL

Yes you are so right!!!! This is one of my pet peeves too. It's disgraceful we are made to feel less than if we age naturally. I absolutely hate that so many feel the pressure to get plastic surgery or botox of fillers etc. And the example it sets for younger women and children. We are all responsible IMO and it is heartbreaking how many younger people are so unhappy with their appearance and how many older women too. We work hard our whole lives and it's a shame we are so hard on ourselves. I admit I am not guilt free now that I am aging. I have lines I do not like but I accept myself warts and all so to speak. And I know who I am and I am not my appearance. We are all so much more than that. I truly wish things would change but I am not naive and I know they probably never will

We all must do what we need to do in life to be happy (as long as we harm no one else) but I am sad how much pressure is on women in general to live up to an impossible expectation

 

[canuk-gal]

HI:

Inept drivers--speeders, tailgaters, those who park so close to you, you can't get in your door, drunk drivers, drivers who cut you off and those who nearly hit you when you are in a cross walk and so much more.

cheers--Sharon

 

[caf]

HI:

Inept drivers--speeders, tailgaters, those who park so close to you, you can't get in your door, drunk drivers, drivers who cut you off and those who nearly hit you when you are in a cross walk and so much more.

cheers--Sharon

^ This!

 

[qubitasaurus]

@qubitasaurus Best thing I read on internet all month!
My regional director is one of these MBAs who literally has NO CLUE about anything to do with our business. It's been fun to say the least.

I often feel I'm living in Atlas Shrugged in today's society.

That sounds uniquely painful. I also have a lot of people who don't know anything about what I do managing me. Even when they're well intending I find it difficult. Most just want to fit it into the mold of something they already recognize and are frustrated that it's a square peg in a round hole. They're sure it's going to work if they just set the target and agile methodology the way there or cement the project goal and then get the expert to figure out the details -- and the rest of us are just staring at them as success is going to be dictated by whether it's a valid target and whether there is a well defined process/plan by which we are going to get there, and the resources needed. Ofcourse nobody has checked any of these conditions are satisfied.