I hate

cloudflare

drivers when it snows or gets icy the first few times in a season

Parklife!

Job interviews.

Cap on back tooth just fell off. Hurts like hell.

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Small business owners who think the disabled spaces at the supermarket are reserved parking for them and their German saloon; which they drive around hyper aggressively as a facile boost to their underlying insecurity brought about by their membership to the toxic masculinity fraternity.

Adding to that. Always amazed at how many of them also magically become disabled when they arrive at Sainsburys.

the new ebay 'AI' generated listing texts. they're so full of utter useless bullshit that reads like it's written by an estate agent forced at gunpoint to produce copy

example

Used for display purpose only- immaculate and unused. This Alessi coffee maker is a designer piece by Allesandro Mendini, featuring a multicoloured design that will brighten up any kitchen. It is a drip coffee maker that will make brewing your favourite coffee a breeze. The brand has a reputation for producing high-quality products, so you can trust that this coffee maker is well-made and durable. The coffee maker falls under the category of Other Coffee, Tea & Espresso Makers, Coffee, Tea & Espresso Makers, Appliances, and Home, Furniture & DIY. It is perfect for coffee lovers who want a stylish and functional coffee maker in their home. Get this beautiful coffee maker today and enjoy a cup of coffee with a touch of elegance.

Yeah exactly, the other thing, oddly, they often have TFL taxi licence stickers too

These listings are trying to include as many trigger words as possible for internet searches. They often have lines of words at the bottom.

Is that a cap or an implant? Ow and omfg ow.

Similarly annoying, the AI generated "review" websites that are basically a rehash of the specs in narrative form.

Omfg! This is so fucking annoying. Especially as it takes me a minute to clock it, so it's the overall time spent fucking about scrolling past all of the Google ads, going to the site, rejecting the cookies, starting to read, only to swipe back and start all over again.

I wonder if this is a Which? deep conspiracy to get you to subscribe.

I guess the only upside is that maybe it gives a clue as to the reality of AI.

So instead of destroying white collar jobs and forcing the middle classes into the fields and care homes, there will actually be loads more work fixing shit copy and managing validating/issues.

One can dream.

Except that when I'm doing that I don't have the opportunity to moan about someone else's stupidity/laziness

actaully laziness is still there i guess

Fucking estate agents, still, again, forever.
After not letting me move in after I questioned the extortionate and probably illegal fees we got someone else and I'm carrying on subletting (sshhh). They also took ages to sort things out with him, charged the same over the top fees, which we've sucked up for now to get the contract sorted so we can contact the landlord and trading standards with a year on it. They then got the new guy to pay the old tenant their deposit, which is dodgy but common, and one of the things they've illegally charged for, so you'd think they'd sort it properly, they didn't know how much it was when he asked. Sorted that, end goal in sight, guy is moving in soon. The house just had an email saying the rent was £65 short this month after the recent increase, an increase that's not been mentioned to anyone, at anytime and the best they could come up with is that they thought everyone knew about it as they'd charged the new guy more. Absolute fucking joke, every time you think they've reached peak shitness they somehow go a step further, it's impressive in a way. Just want to get the official tenants signed on the new contract, which no-one has seen, so we can throw many heavy books at the awful cunts.

Just to cheer you up slightly:

In the early 90s property crash many estate agents lost their jobs. We were recruiting senior sales staff and any CV mentioning 'estate agent' was instantly binned, every one of us had been ripped off by the bastards, I doubt we were alone.

The next property crash is coming...

They just need to be competent enough to get the paperwork sorted so that we can start fucking them over for their extreme incompetence.

Their competence begins and ends at money for nothing.

any CV mentioning 'estate agent' was instantly binned, every one of us had been ripped off by t

Surely they have some useful skills, so when the next estate agent mass job cull happens I’ll make sure to give them all interviews. I would just love to work with former estate agents, I hope I can find the right one. It may seem like a lot of paperwork, references, interviews and other hurdles that I wish we could avoid, but my hands are tied.

(Laughs maniacally)

The early 90s were a less enlightened time.

Should your company specialise in clearing cesspits using operatives dressed in swimming trunks, estate agents should get priority interviews.

Worked for an estate agent, they are the epitome of capitalism.

Seems to me that the industry needs tighter controls. Specifically a property inflation cap. It is in the interest of agents and their clients to get as much money from the property they are selling as is poss. At a time of low interest rates we see property prices rising day-on-day as each new client looking for the ‘best’ agent is tempted with a bit more bricks n mortar value than they were expecting. Open-house selling just feeds this inflation as every potential buyer feels they have to up their game a bit to out-do the other bids.
When the interest rates rise owners are stuck with mortgage payments they didn’t predict and can’t sustain and buyers have less loan capacity for purchases. All because of greedy agents feeding aspirational home owners onto the property market (life financial millstone) rollercoaster.

I used to share a house with an estate agent (fuck capitalising it). He was a tragic, sociopathic, coke- and NOS- loving late 30yr old who behaved like a jealous teenager.

I mean, he fitted right in.

Train operates - couldn't go and see my parents last week due to engineering works in the South West, booked to go this weekend and now the Overtime ban is in place until next Saturday so my return journey has been cancelled with the alternative taking 14hrs to go from Kent to Devon.

The silver lining of this is estate agents will probably get binned off by AI, since the only work they do is write these ludicrous descriptions and fail to reply to messages. ChatGPT can do that job already