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What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on? (programming.dev)

submitted 3 months ago by notnotmike@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don't want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That's ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use "less" when they should use "fewer"

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[-] Concave1142@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago

I love telling whiny users who claim they've always had "this" problem that I cannot fix what I do not know is broken. If there's no ticket, then nothing is broken, so quit your whining.

[-] SaintWacko@midwest.social 21 points 3 months ago

Don't you just love when a user submits a ticket that's "super urgent, this is preventing me from doing my job!" and when you ask how long it's been happening: "Oh, about a month"

[-] Concave1142@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

My personal favorite is the people that say it is a hair on fire emergency but then you can never get a hold of them to fix the problem.

[-] ramble81@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

Submits ticket at 4:50p that it’s an emergency. Ping them at 4:55p for clarification but they’re gone, get pinged at 8:02a with “why isn’t this fixed?”

[-] zerofk@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

That’s because nobody helped when their hair was on fire, and now they’re dead.

[-] ramble81@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

It wasn’t critical till now and they were hoping it’d fix itself before then. “But sir, these aren’t rechargeable batteries, nor do we have one of our interns go around and check all the batteries every day”

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