Category: Rants
Miserable UX on Weather.com and Its Android App
In this blog, I will becalling out weather.com for a shitty user experience. Who the hell do you have there as product designers? Let me tell you who. All assholes. Hire me instead because you have to be an absolute idiot to make the decisions they made… Unfortunately, I tried many other weather apps and they pretty much all suck. Weather.com is one of the better ones.So weather.com, let me explain why your shit’s weak. Wizzzeak:
Ain’t got time to fill out this long assed survey.
Saved Locations are different on the Android App and on the Web version. Wut?
What in the actual hell is the point of creating a user account to save locations when they are not the same on the web version and in the Android App?I created an account on the Android App via my Google account and saved some locations. Then I went to weather.com and logged in with my Google account. None of the saved locations were there. Plus, the web version is limited to 10 locations. Makes less than 0 sense.
What the hell is this Minus bullshit under manage locations in the checkbox area and why can’t I delete this location?
I literally cannot remove this from my saved locations and have no idea why. I don’t give three shits about LaGuardia Airport. I don’t understand why this got here and why I cannot delete it:
Get the goddamn temperature out of my status bar
I don’t want to see a temperature in my status bar based on your “follow me” feature. No matter what I do, I cannot turn it off, so I need to block notifications for this app on the OS level to get this to disappear. Fix your settings and let me turn this off.
mPoints rewards are a cluttered waste of life
They include this third party mPoints bullshit to “reward you” for using their app. 1) You need to sign up for an account with mPoints and then you’re supposed to get free shit for using the app loyally?Nope. I’ll use your app more if you remove this horse shit. I can almost guarantee that weather.com gets paid by these morons to include their shit in theapp and it most likely tracks all your user data. How else is this mpoints bullshit company going to make money?
Get a load of thislong ass survey nonsense (left image)
Another reason why they suck at life is that they hire these independent companies to give users these long assed surveys. May I ask who has time to fill out all this bullshit? Not me. I started to fill it out because I wanted to tell them everything I’m complaining about here, but then I saw how long it was and decided it wasn’t worth my time and I could at least write a sarcastic blog about them instead. Again, don’t you assholes understand that no one has time to fill out this fucking monstrosity of a survey? Less is more.
Too Many Ads
Greedy motherfuckers
In Conclusion…
Hire me as a consultant. I’ll fix your shit in no time.
PS: Myblog’s theme has shitty looking styling. This looked so much better in the WordPress editor than it does on my actual blogand I’m too lazy to worry about it so whatever.
The MTA Can Blow Me With Their Toll Gates
I was driving over the Whitestone Bridge tonight and some asshole in front of us didn’t have enough money on his EZPass. The fucking toll gate was down and it caused a backup for 5 minutes. We had to wait for some asshole MTA traffic cop to come over, get his license plate and manually override the gate.
You fucking idiots. It’s 2015. Why is this necessary. Remove the God damn gates and put cameras up. Can’t you see how much money this will save? Just let them through, take a picture of their plates and send them a bill in the mail. If they don’t pay, fine them and don’t let them renew the registration on the car until it’s paid. Idiots. You’ll make more money that way.
- The gates use unnecessary electric to move them up and down, which is a waste of money and pollutes the environment.
- They are mechanical and can break, which means you need to pay some asshole overtime to fix them.
- You won’t need to pay as many MTA traffic cops to sit there and get union benefits and make more pension money after they’re retired than entry level professionals do.
- You won’t cause traffic backups
Everyone wins. Remove the fucking gates and put cameras in. No wonder the tolls go up every 20 minutes. Christ, the MTA is backwards. Port Authority bridges don’t have toll gates. What is this 1950?
Ticketmaster Sucks and Sends Shitty Email Reminders
I fucking hate Ticketmaster and they can blow me. If you want to know why, educate yourself what aboutPearl Jam did 20 years ago. Today, their website is absolutely heinous, super corporate, and not fun to use. The UI looks like asshole. The fees are out of control. They charge you for every little shit. It’s ridiculous. And then they pull this shit:
I look at my Gmail inbox and got super confused:
September 21st? That’s today’s date. This show isn’t today. Knowing that I’m a scatterbrained asshole, did I overbook something? Nope. Ticketmaster just sucks. I open the email and they put today’s date in the header like they’re writing me a fucking letter. For real? Don’t they know Gmail summarizes shit onto one line? It makes it SUPER confusing. Idiots. Put onedate in the fucking email. The date of the event. That’s it.
PS – Eddie Vedder and Mike McCready will probably make me cry
Middle Managers Basiclly Want to Kill Themselves
Nymag – In a paper published online last month in the journal Sociology of Health & Illness, they write that those in middle-management positions are more likely to suffer from depression than either their underlings or their superiors. The team, led by Columbia epidemiologist Seth J. Prins, used a pretty huge sample size for their research: more than 20,000 survey respondents gathered from full-time workers who took part in the National Epidemiological Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions. From that, Prins and his co-authors were able to analyze the responses of owners and executives, managers and supervisors, and low-level worker bees on their experiences with depression.
The results: 18 percent of middle managers reported a bout of depression within the last 12 months, compared to 11 percent of the executives and owners, and 12 percent of the workers.
No shit Sherlock! This is exactly what I expected.
Suits – The executives are usually fucking morons who are washed up idiots and don’t know how to do any useful day to day tasksand don’t contribute anything except bossing people around and coming up with dumbass corporate strategy that usually fails. There are no consequences because they suck each other’s dicks and have job security.They have all the money and have no problem being another idiot exec at another company.
Low Level Workers – The low level workers come in too categories – (1) over eager young people who are happy to do anything to advance their career and have not worked enough in the cube to see the bullshit that really happens. (2) After a few years, they get fed up, mail it in and don’t give a fuck enough to get depressed.
Middle level managershave to deal with the low level over eager happy workers or slackers and the idiot suits bossing them around with dumbass shit. And this is why they want to kill themselves.
It’s very simple really. Don’t need any Columbia study telling me this. Of course, there are exceptions, but really nah.
People: Ya Gotta Stop Jumping in Front of Trains
February 2, 2016
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You know my series of blogs “if you do x, you deserve to die?” Welp. This is the one exception. Because in this case, dying is WAY too quick, painless and easy. How selfish do you have to be to knowingly jump in front of a train and cost thousands of people hours of delays? Of all the places to kill yourself, you have to do it 1) right before rush hour and 2) on the main artery in/out of Grand Central that affects all three train lines. If you’re going tojump in front of a train in the first place, at least use your head about it, like killing yourself some other way. You’re going to make a couple ofthose poor commuters in Grand Central kill themselves next and then this will be a daily occurrence.
SoI have a solution:
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