What is some of your Pet Peeve's

[WinterDeere]

Nurse Practitioners (NP) and Physicians Assistant (PA) started a long time ago.
My little town had a PA in the late 60's and a NP about a decade later.

Of course they existed. But the practice of making them the primary front-line of patient interaction was increased orders of magnitude by the financial constraints ushered in by the ACA. Talking with several physicians about this, it's not that your doctor doesn't want to see you personally (in fact, they do!), it's that they no longer can afford to see every patient themselves.

 

[Oaktree]

People who are talking about concrete yet use the word cement.

I'm guilty of that. Even though I know better, I consider the two to be interchangeable.
Don't suppose it's all that different than talking about an ATM machine.

 

[Oaktree]

Many of us like everything being in the same place and looking like it has for the past 2 or 3 decades. It makes us "efficient". Tell me I am wrong.....

Not wrong, just getting old.

 

[thepumpguysc]

Funny u should mention this..
When I asked “what’s the name of the Dr. I’ll be seeing??”..
I was hit with, “Oh, u won’t be seeing a Dr on your 1st visit, it’ll be a P.A.”.. “BUT she’s fully capable of writing you a prescription”..
Lol

 

[Oaktree]

Of course they existed. But the practice of making them the primary front-line of patient interaction was increased orders of magnitude by the financial constraints ushered in by the ACA. Talking with several physicians about this, it's not that your doctor doesn't want to see you personally (in fact, they do!), it's that they no longer can afford to see every patient themselves.

Been that way in small towns/rural areas long before the ACA. Tough to attract/keep good doctors when there's considerably more money to be made in/near a larger city. That just leaves the handful that really like the area or the borderline quacks to serve the smaller towns. 40-odd years ago remember doctors' visits where you were one of several patients scheduled for the same time, and the doctor would kind of "time share" between them.

 

[Oaktree]

Yahoo changed their email look a few months ago. It looks like a 3rd grade kid drew a cartoon. The comments when it came out were stupendously accurate.
Yet we are stuck with the new "improved" version. I've had my account there since 2000 so it would be difficult to swith over.
Yet I use it as little as possible and normally access via my phone.

I use Outlook for my email, and MS is really trying to do away with passwords and push you towards some sort of biometric login. Not sure how you're supposed to do this on a desktop PC. Gotta click past a bunch of setup prompts every 3rd or 4th time I log in.

 

[mrmikey]

Not sure how you're supposed to do this on a desktop PC

Probably wanting to use 2FA via your phone fingerprint recognition. I'm using the Timebased One Time Password ( TOTP) on any important accounts that support them ever since our local power corp got hacked and all private info got leaked, SIN number, passwords, bank acct info etc. Something I find strange tho is my bank doesn't support it, still the text message with a passcode.

 

[Oaktree]

Probably wanting to use 2FA via your phone fingerprint recognition. I'm using the Timebased One Time Password ( TOTP) on any important accounts that support them ever since our local power corp got hacked and all private info got leaked, SIN number, passwords, bank acct info etc. Something I find strange tho is my bank doesn't support it, still the text message with a passcode.

Not all of us have (or want) smartphones.
Several of my online accounts have gone to some form of 2FA, where they'll send a code to an email address they have on file. Kind of a PITA, but I guess that's the way things are going. Like yours, my bank doesn't do this either. One nice thing with the bank, is that they let me write my own security question instead of having to choose one of several generic ones. Did one that NO ONE but me would know the answer to.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

I'm guilty of that. Even though I know better, I consider the two to be interchangeable.
Don't suppose it's all that different than talking about an ATM machine.

VIN number
Vehicle Identification Number number

 

[NoTrespassing]

Don't get me started on that subject spent 2 hours finding the valves for my AC gauge set, I just had out less than week ago...... Turns out is set them behind something but on the correct shelf. Then a schrader valve destroyed my tool and itself. 2 more our to extract the pieces, and make a tool out of a bolt until I get one ordered. Thank god I still have the smaller set for tires, etc.
Some days ....

I was going to get my sticker for my truck license plate the other day. I looked for the 3x5 card in the bills where I thought I put it. Nope not there. Crap, maybe I put it in the truck, nope not there. Maybe it's in the car, nope. Running out of ideas I texted my wife who's 20 years younger than me. She says, " It's on the refrigerator where you put it." Happens all the time.