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A list of silly things I don’t appreciate

14 February 2026 ·

Following up on this post from Andrea Contino, which appeared in my RSS feed last week, here is my list of 10 “first-world problems” I don’t appreciate.

  1. People who don’t close a door after walking through it.
  2. A dual-monitor setup where the monitors are connected vertically and aren’t horizontally aligned.
  3. People who call on a speakerphone in public.
  4. People who misbehave toward public servants and hospitally personel.
  5. LinkedIn, the place where everyone has the best job/employer ever until they sign up for their next job. It’s one big show-your-ego network.
  6. People who show up late.
  7. Audio messages instead of a text message.
  8. A desk that isn’t properly organized.
  9. PowerPoint presentations where the slide content isn’t aligned to the grid and where consistency is missing from slide to slide. You’ll lose my attention right away.
  10. Emails from non-native English speakers that are full of em dashes (—). I know within a second that you didn’t write the response yourself.

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