I hate

People who present PowerPoint decks in the edit view, not as a presentation.

People who present PowerPoint decks in the edit view, not as a presentation

Ha ha haaaaaah!

People who call them 'decks'.

Same with people projecting websites without hitting F11 to go full screen. Agggghhhh.

Purely to join in on the PowerPoint bashing, I recently wrote a business case in the organisation's approved template (Word).
My manager decided it wasn't snappy enough, and asked me to write a more concise version in PowerPoint with one slide per section.
By the time he'd added his twopennethworth, there were 12 slides for 5 sections, and the finance business partner asked for it to be submitted in Word format.

People who create PowerPoint presentations and use a different transition movement for every slide.
Must rank second to strobe lighting on the migraineometer.
Oh, and while we are at it, comedic or cartoon clipart is as amusing as a migraine.

eBay auction listings that describe the item as being a ‘bargain’.

My old company insisted every PowerPoint presentation was sent to them to add corporate branding. To fit it in, they would often alter the text size, meaning it was different sizes on consecutive pages. It drove me mental for some reason.

for some reason

For good reason, I'd say. Shit like that is why corporate PPPs often look so horrible.

Nobody else seemed to mind and thought I was weird.

That would annoy the hell out of me. Produce PowerPoint templates with the right branding, and brand usage guidelines, then trust people to use them correctly.

... and that's another one of the reasons why corporate (but also academic) PPPs often suck: way too many people have not even the first idea of how to present information in an efficient and appealing way. Some at least try, which tbh is all you can ask for, but to many it doesn't even seem to occur the thought that a presentation which is the visual equivalent of a death metal song is not the best way to communicate information.

(Yes, I might be a bit scarred by horrible presentations.)

Where I worked and lots of people were producing PPP's there were two trains of thought. Marketing wanted dull, consistent, and to the point and Personnel wanted flashy and boppy so the staff didn't nod off.

Produce PowerPoint templates with the right branding, and brand usage guidelines, then trust people to use them correctly.

Organisations find this curiously difficult, and employees can't get their heads around the PPT masters system. It bugs the shit out of me, I mostly blame PPT and it's goofy Masters thing.

Personnel wanted flashy and boppy so the staff didn't nod off.

Maybe they should try saying something interesting. Crazy thought, I know.

vehicles leaving their engine running while parked up

also people who sit in their cars with the engine running with no immediate intention of moving or signalling any kind of intention of where they want to go in a position where pedestrians have to pass in front of or behind the car.

Am I supposed to just stand like a lemon waiting for you to get your life together or put myself in a position where you can literally run me over with a slight change in the position of your feet.

I mostly blame PPT and it's goofy Masters thing

Confession time: I pride myself on producing PPPs that are at least vaguely decent, and I still struggle to make the Masters thing work. I'm sure that at the end it's down to me not 'getting' it, but I'm usually pretty handy with this kind of stuff and I've encountered some weird behaviour in the Masters view.

use keynote you fucking philistines.

I heard KN was better...but I’ve learned ppt :(

HSE coordinators. Do they all have to go to some fucking David Brent school of anecdotes? Induction this morning, supposed to be 45 mins.

Actually 75 mins, 60 of which was this never actually happened/embellished to fuck stories

The awful interpretative am-dram stock image poses made youtubers in the thumbnail pics for videos with clickbaity titles.

Too niche?

Drives me nuts for some reason.

Retail websites that saturate their pages with cheesy, irrelevant lifestyle photos that massively slows down the process of buying stuff.

Worst presentation I ever saw was a man reading out an email exchange between a human geographer (himself) and a physical geographer - no slides or anything, just him reading, for maybe 30 minutes. Imagine trying to follow that conversation when you've got absolutely no idea which person is talking at a given point in time. Apparently in social science you can literally just read off a piece of paper and that's fine.

Powerpoint and slideshows in general can get in the bin. Make everyone produce a 10 minute video instead and stand there as it's played. No forgetting your lines, no one overrunning, less stress for the presenter, no last-minute presentation creation on the train to the meeting, no interruptions, fewer (?) technical problems, can be played even if you're sick or someone else has to take your place, can show actual videos of your data/idea/whatever if appropriate rather than fighting with Powerpoint, can be uploaded straight to Youtube after the conference or whatever, could be subtitled, etc.

Great idea. Print me off 50 copies.