Invidiousness
My stupid male friends who have NO FEMALE FRIENDS = CAN'T GET INTO ANY CLUBS = ALWAYS BRING 10 OTHER GUYS WITH THEM. ANGER!!!!!! Wtf is wrong with you? Let me name off their first initials so they know who I'm talking about: V, P, J, ABCJKASIFOJELKMDOUGASFJKZTPXANSFASIUASF ALL OF YOU
Stupid rational economic arguments that completely fail to take social, personality, or other psychological factors into effect. "People should act like X," a dumb economist might say--to which anyone who knows anything might reply "BUT THEY DON'T!!!" I think economists do some cool work, and the intersection of psychology and economics is truly awesome. But people don't always behave in rational ways, so please stop building useless models around that. Thanks
Mail-in rebates
Workplace politics, including turf wars and ego battles. For a project I was working on, I redesigned a system to be a lot quicker and more efficient. When I went into the meeting to present my design, one of the guys was REALLY antagonistic: "Well, what about this? What about that? You didn't do X, Y, and Z." He was not persuaded by the DATA I HAD COMPILED SHOWING THE NEW SYSTEM WAS OBJECTIVELY BETTER AND MORE EFFECTIVE. As I walked out of the meeting, wondering what the hell was going on, I discovered the real reason: That guy had invented the original system
When somebody raises their hand in class after somebody else just commented and says, "Just to agree with what she just said..." -- STOP. STOP NOW!! We don't need your agreement with a point that was made 5 seconds ago! PLEASE TELL ME SOMETHING NEW
When it comes to tipping, my tips have a huge amount of variance: If I get excellent service, I will give a really big tip, but if I get terrible service, I am happy to leave nothing. The problem is when you go out with a group of people, and here I specifically mean girls. See, girls WILL NOT LET YOU TIP $0. No matter HOW bad the service is, you end up looking like the bad guy. I've been out with friends where we were all PISSED at the service, but when the bill comes, what happens? "Oh...she wasn't that bad. You can't give her nothing! At least give her 10%!" By the time they frantically kick in money (and the guys then have to, reluctantly), we've tipped 20%. This strikes me disingenuous and dumb. Why tip someone who did a POOR JOB? Their ONLY job at that moment is to do a good job serving. Smile, check on our drinks, and that's IT! But if you're with a group of people, just suck it up and kick in the cash, learning from my mistakes. And as I type this, this has become an Oprah-esque saga. Many apologies
Sucka MCs
Stupid rational economic arguments that completely fail to take social, personality, or other psychological factors into effect. "People should act like X," a dumb economist might say--to which anyone who knows anything might reply "BUT THEY DON'T!!!" I think economists do some cool work, and the intersection of psychology and economics is truly awesome. But people don't always behave in rational ways, so please stop building useless models around that. Thanks
Mail-in rebates
Workplace politics, including turf wars and ego battles. For a project I was working on, I redesigned a system to be a lot quicker and more efficient. When I went into the meeting to present my design, one of the guys was REALLY antagonistic: "Well, what about this? What about that? You didn't do X, Y, and Z." He was not persuaded by the DATA I HAD COMPILED SHOWING THE NEW SYSTEM WAS OBJECTIVELY BETTER AND MORE EFFECTIVE. As I walked out of the meeting, wondering what the hell was going on, I discovered the real reason: That guy had invented the original system
When somebody raises their hand in class after somebody else just commented and says, "Just to agree with what she just said..." -- STOP. STOP NOW!! We don't need your agreement with a point that was made 5 seconds ago! PLEASE TELL ME SOMETHING NEW
When it comes to tipping, my tips have a huge amount of variance: If I get excellent service, I will give a really big tip, but if I get terrible service, I am happy to leave nothing. The problem is when you go out with a group of people, and here I specifically mean girls. See, girls WILL NOT LET YOU TIP $0. No matter HOW bad the service is, you end up looking like the bad guy. I've been out with friends where we were all PISSED at the service, but when the bill comes, what happens? "Oh...she wasn't that bad. You can't give her nothing! At least give her 10%!" By the time they frantically kick in money (and the guys then have to, reluctantly), we've tipped 20%. This strikes me disingenuous and dumb. Why tip someone who did a POOR JOB? Their ONLY job at that moment is to do a good job serving. Smile, check on our drinks, and that's IT! But if you're with a group of people, just suck it up and kick in the cash, learning from my mistakes. And as I type this, this has become an Oprah-esque saga. Many apologies
Sucka MCs
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Ramit, one time we were out to dinner for my dad's birthday, and we had this Eurotrash waiter with a shitty Steven Seagal-type ponytail and obviously fake accent. I asked if they had Coke, and he told me "We do not serve (snort) SOFT DRINKS" with his nose high up in the air, like I was some bumpkin or something. Then he refused to bring my mom any water the rest of the meal. Guess what he got? A nickel. Who's got cultural capital now, Alfonso?
Now, some things I hate:
When someone's email tag is just their first name. I get emails all the time from "Christina" - as if I don't know at least five of those. Also, when I want to know your last name, it's fucking annoying.
Girls who are proud of getting with guys from a given frat.
Museums that only have one cool part and fifty-two boring ones.
People who are proud of not reading. Way to go, Mr. Philistine. I'm always amazed how many of these people go to Stanford.
The reason that economists always use a rational agent is that there is usually only one way to act rationally, whereas there are infinite ways to act irrationally. So don't hate the models. Definitely continue to hate those economists that forget their models DO NOT WORK on an individual basis.
Also hate, or at least profit from, people that think statistics applied to the population will apply in small groups. "Oh, 50% of Stanford students are californians? Then I guess 5 of the 10 people in this room are from California!" Care to wager?
I hate the diacritical marks the New Yorker puts on normal, everyday words like cooperative. You're innocently reading along and suddenly you come across coöperative. I'm thrown every time. Stupid New Yorker and its stupid, distracting diacritical marks.
Hey, did anyone else read the comments on this post?
"Diacritical"?
"Rational agents"?
Apparently there are some smart people reading this damn thing.
Personally, on the tip thing- It's much more effective to give them the 5 cent tip. If you get nothing you're viewed as a cheap and poor college (in your case ex-college) student who majored in poly-sci (the dumbass, we all know poly-sci majors dont get jobs!) and now cant afford to pay me my tip. But if you write in the 5 cent tip on the check it sends a nice up yours.
Oh, and I totally hate when places have the "Tipping is not a city in China" on a jar at the greeter's desk. WTF?! What did you do but say, "Party of 4?" Why the hell would I tip that?! Way to be greedy!
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