1. When public places have bathrooms that are only for paying customers.
Why: It's a bathroom and people need to pee like who cares?
Answer: They probably want people to buy something from them or discourage homeless people from using their bathrooms.
2. That Gainesville only has one utilities company.
Why: Gainesville is huge there should be more than one utilities company.
Answer: They want to have a monopoly on the prices, and they do.
3. Cox wifi.
Why: My wifi is constantly going down and regardless of how many times I call for help it still sucks.
Answer: Cox wifi just sucks, too many people using it at the same time.
4. When Expedia cancelled my booking of Broadway tickets and then didn't really explain why.
Why: If I book something online, and I plan my trip around it, and get excited about it, don't suddenly email me like "just kidding."
Answer: The Broadway show was probably sold out already so Expedia had to refund me.
5. When you call Apple for tech support and they ask you a bunch of things you've already tried.
Why: Yes I've tried restarting the computer, I don't want to do it again.
Answer: Too many old people don't know how to use the computer so they have to ask you the easiest solutions in case you haven't already tried them.
6. When there is a huge line at the Chipotle on University.
Why: I do not want to wait 40 minutes for Chipotle.
Answer: It's a popular location, plus they have to do the orders that come in online which slows down the entire line.
7. When your phone dies in the car and you can't charge it.
Why: So boring in the car without it.
Answer: If you don't have a car charger and you're in there for a while it'll die pretty quickly.
8. When the WJC games weren't live-streamed.
9. When the Woman's Outdoor Game wasn't live-streamed.
Why: Why are they going to have them play the game if nobody can watch it?
Answer: Because the NHL doesn't think there is a market for women's hockey.
10. The price of textbooks you have no choice but to purchase.
Why: For classes that require online access codes or 100$ textbooks, you have to buy them if you want to pass the class.
Answer: I know that we need textbooks, but there is no reason for the ridiculous prices. I have no answer. Just about making more money off poor college students.
11. That you have to pay a ton of fees in addition to your UF tuition.
Why: I already pay tuition, why are fees like 100 dollars per credit hour?
Answer: UF is a big school with a ton of construction going on, have to get the money from somewhere.
12. When teachers in a math class skip over something because they assume you already know it even if you don't.
Why: I am terrible at math please don't assume I know things from high school.
Answer: They don't have time to go over everything.
13. When you have to pay a certain amount in order to qualify for delivery from restaurants.
Why: Sometimes I just want one thing I don't want an entire meal.
Answer: It's not cost effective to deliver a five dollar purchase.
14. ATM fees.
Why: Does it actually cost the bank money to dispense money from your own account? If it does, there's no way it costs 3$ per withdrawal.
Answer: They just want more money.
15. When the Pizza By The Slice line isn't even a line it's just a giant crush of people and it takes literally 30 minutes to order a pizza because people keep cutting the line.
Why: It's super annoying when drunk people cut you in the "line" of people standing around.
Answer: They have no way of making a line, there's no ropes or anything it's just a window and people around it who want pizza.
16. When you go to fast food restaurants and you ask for water and they just give you a tiny little cup that has like two sips in it, like at Chick-Fil-A on campus.
Why: It's annoying to constantly refill my tiny water cup.
Answer: The water cups are free and they don't want to use the soda cups you pay for. However Chipotle does this and they are a booming company so I think Chick-Fil-A can spare some money for normal water cups.
17. When people don't tip waiters.
Why: Their base wage is a joke they live off of tips, even if the service is meh, you still need to tip them.
Answer: People are rude.
18. When servers at restaurants take nine years to refill your drinks.
Why: When I'm eating food I like to wash it down with a drink, it's annoying when it takes so long.
Answer: Places can be understaffed, super busy, or it could be a bad waiter.
19. When grades take forever to be posted.
Why: I need to know how I did so I know my grade in the place.
Answer: Professors have a lot of students, sometimes it takes a while.
20. The traffic on Archer road.
Why: It just sucks.
Answer: Too many people traveling in the same direction at the same time on a small road.
I did find the bug challenge kind of difficult, mostly because I'm not sure if I did the "why" and "answer" parts of the assignment correctly. Also I wasn't sure if the bug had to be about a specific service or not but I just included anything that came to mind. One thing is that when you have to answer why the bug exists, a lot of the times it's out of your control, so while you hate something, you either can't do anything about it or recognize that is exists for a reason, even if it is annoying to you.
Hello, Taylor
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, I really enjoyed reading your post. I found out that most of your bugs are related to service and money. I completely agree with your bugs on #5, #10, #11, and #14. When it comes to #17, I always tip my waiter/waitress even if the service is not fantastic. I used to work at a restaurant, and I hated people who did not tip me even though everything was perfect! If you would like to visit my website and check on my bug list, here is the address! http://bongjukang.blogspot.com/2016/01/bug-list.html#comment-form
Hi Taylor,
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you on the minimum delivery amount. That really bothers me also. I end up spending way more money than I need. The ATM fees annoy me also. I don't like when I am in midtown and and I end up paying an extra $5 just to take out my own money. I have realized that the same things bother many people!