Tuesday, September 20, 2005
(7:29 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Tuesday Hatred 18
I hate reading Nietzsche's remarks on women -- they always make me cringe.I hate it when the dishes pile up for days and eventually just stink to high heaven. I hate how passive-aggressive I am. (I think I've done pretty well about not bitching about roommate cleanliness issues of late, though.)
I hate accidentally sending the wrong message. I hate saying "no" to non-ridiculous requests.
I hate getting preemptively angry. I hate it even more when the preemption turns out to have been justified.
On the positive side, I've stopped waking up in the middle of the night completely stuffed up, so that's a lot better.
UPDATE: I hate my bank's website for the following reasons:
- It's impossible for me to bookmark the login page directly -- I have to go to a page that tells me about their online banking features, and then I have to click the "Go!" button to get to the login screen. Obviously, this is an unnecessary step.
- When I click the "Go!" button, it resizes my window to take up the entire available screen, but doesn't maximize it. I used to keep my browser windows at a particular size so that my IM window would be visible at all times, so this was annoying -- if it was a "real" maximize, then I could just click the "restore" button, but no.... (I came up with the workaround of opening a new window every time I went to my bank site and making sure that a correctly sized window was always the last window I closed. Now I usually keep my browser windows maximized, so it's not as big a deal, but it still bugs me.)
- It keeps displaying closed accounts for well over a year after they have been closed. I got a loan from them in 2003, paid it off in 2004, and have had to see it on my "balance inquiry" page for the past year.
- When I want an account history, the default account is always the most recently opened account -- so since I opened my checking account first, then a savings account a couple years later, then a loan account, I always have to manually select the checking account. They apparently think that I'm going to want to be constantly reassuring myself that no transactions have happened on the loan account I paid off over a year ago (or the savings account that I closed earlier this summer).
- All the messages are aggressively cute and friendly -- very unprofessional. I suppose they're trying to position themselves as a "neighborhood bank" as opposed to Chase or Bank of America (which is kind of ridiculous in itself since they have two branches in the Loop and probably about 20 scattered throughout the city and the suburbs), but they don't have much follow-through in terms of friendly tellers. Overall, my experience has been one of constant low-level abuse; I just stay in the relationship because the pain doesn't outweigh the inconvenience of switching, and anyway, do I really expect to be treated better elsewhere? (Those commercials where the woman acts like she's explaining to some deadbeat husband why she's leaving him, but then it turns out to be why she's leaving her bank -- they really are on to something.)
UPDATE (2): I hate it when I am unable to write something precisely because I know exactly what points I want to focus on and what I want to say about each point.
