Pedantic email recipients who attempt to tell senders whom to include on cc lists.

Dishwashers that overturn glasses, leaving dirty, soapy water in said glasses upon completion of a wash cycle.

People who attempt to disguise self-aggrandizement as humility.

Rental car locations that offer to upgrade, for an additional charge, despite the fact that only one class of car is available at said location.

Hotels that require guests to telephone the front desk if desiring to activate the landline phone for guest usage.

People offended by the word pronoun.

People upset at others who fail to meet their expectations, despite a lack of conveyance of said expectations.

Bosses who micromanage for reasons of personal gratification.

Poorly engineered construction traffic re-routing.

People who want you to answer a question but won't shut up.

Equal pay for unequal work.

Accusations of prejudice with a prejudicial bias.

Cereal boxes excessively glued to corresponding inner liners.

Public officials who create counterfeit Government forms.

Public officials who commit forgery on official Government forms.

Cafeterias a) that advertise combo specials, yet b) with cash register operators who charge for each item separately.

Public officials who preach integrity but practice cheating.

Sloppy chili preparation.

Managers who fail to delegate only because of a debilitating lack of courage.

People who put on an act when visited by inspectors.

New managers who make decisions based on ignorance of processes established long before their presence.

People in open-seating areas of restaurants who incorrectly assume that others are interested in anything they have to say.

Automatic car wash code entry consoles elevated for high-profile vehicles, and thus inaccessible from windows of standard-size automobiles.

Pizzas with inadequate amounts of sauce.

Excessive use of vague pronouns in technically complicated discussions.

Public officials who, after making short-sighted judgments, spend the rest of their careers attempting to rationalize the judgments.

Document owners who fail to maintain an editable master copy of the current baseline.

Computer pop-ups offering to disable pop-ups.

Bathroom hand dryers with mis-calibrated hand sensors.

Restaurant servers who don't pay close enough attention to the details of orders.

Poorly designed doors that stick after large temperature changes.

Individual retail outlets that refuse to honor nationally-advertised discounts.

People who demand that the Federal Government should interfere with market-based economics.

Incessant pop-ups when attempting to log on to a computer.

Digital televisions with only one (1) virtual channel, causing wasteful time delays during channel surfing.

Soggy steak fries.

Hotel awards programs that operate under a currency of points instead of U.S. dollars.

Public officials who make promises that they are in no position to keep.

Re-invented public programs with lousy transition strategies.

Political campaign junk mail.

Re-worked websites that are an order of magnitude more difficult to navigate.

People who carelessly Reply-All to emails, and as a result end up introducing sensitive information to a large, ill-advised audience.

Pens that shatter during use.

Individuals who send in 9x16 aspect ratio camera-phone photos to 16x9 aspect ratio television stations.

People who a) attempt to email contact info for particular individuals, b) don't copy the particular individuals, and c) provide erroneous information in the process.

Managers who get belligerent to messengers whenever they're not hearing what they want to hear.

Supposed experts who cite regulations in an obscenely incorrect context.

Liaisons who fail to interact between agencies.

Door-to-door sales people that necessitate on-porch fisticuffs to enforce removal from property.

Refill bottles that spill more than refill.

Concert event web pages with inadequate information for purchasing tickets.

Hotels with lousy grading, permitting lobby flooding.

Hotel business centers with inoperative computers.

Hotel televisions with default power-on volume settings loud enough to wake an entire floor of guests.

Hotel doors with unnecessarily excessive return spring constants, causing loud, structure-damaging door slams.

Administrators who profess zero skills in creating redlined [track changes enabled] versions of Word documents.

People who complain to homeowners about getting soaked by residential sprinkler systems as a result of trespassing on said homeowners' properties.

Managers who are receptive to advice in only an a la carte fashion.

Organizations that don't know how to alphabetize text files posted online to an audience of hundreds of thousands of people.

Organizations responsible for establishing standards that cannot meet their own standards.

Corroded potentiometers.

Cafeterias that fail to clearly indicate their hours of operation.

Dark-dye CD-R discs that are incompatible with many CD drives.

Online sellers who a) sell items 1.5 years out-of-warranty as "New", b) send replacements that aren't even in factory packaging, and c) are surprised when left negative public feedback.

Homeowners Associations that mail parking infraction letters to homeowners for illegally parked cars not actually owned by said recipient homeowners.

Items shipped in grossly oversized boxes loaded with packing peanuts.

New store-bought pens with ink bone dry upon purchase.

Inattentive waiters.

Brand new push-pin fasteners that bust upon first usage.

People inconsiderate to when others are busy.

Auction sellers erroneously and/or fraudulently listing used items as "new".

Electronic mail programs that freeze up after copying/pasting from a text editor.

Cereal boxes with flimsy inner bags.

Shipping companies that don't verify what they're sending prior to shipment.

People who schedule meetings coincident with rush hour traffic during blizzards.

Cafeteria employees who waste customer time by attempting, often unsuccessfully, to guess what a customer will order, instead of listening to the customer's order.

Clumsy bank tellers who a) manually enter a wrong account number and b) fail to verify account number against name listed on personal identification.

Inefficient federally-funded postal systems that lack incentive to compete against commercial postal systems.

Word processing software versions that are unable to read/edit files generated using previous versions of the same software.

Safety programs that practice gender discrimination to the extent of degrading safety.

Supermarket display items that obstruct supermarket shelf item access.

Burnt cafeteria pizza.

Customers in line at postal delivery facilities who won't keep their mouths shut and who instead attempt to do the jobs postal clerks are paid to perform themselves.

Postal delivery organizations who fail to follow instructions on packages explicitly stating "Leave on porch if no response," and who instead leave packages at the post office, requiring a trip to said postal station at which 40 minute-long customer lines exist.

Retailers advertising discounted items who fail to program discounted price(s) into cash registers.

Public officials who a) stress caution prior to giving public interviews, and yet b) fail to exercise caution when giving public interviews.

PUblic officials who cite regulations under false contexts as a means of attempting to bedazzle with bull$#!+.

Internet manual entry zones that shift across the page when attempting to enter values.

Hotel business center computers that freeze up every 6 minutes.

Motel room doors that don't open/close without excessive force.

Motel rooms with busted televisions.

Motel rooms with busted telephones.

Networks that print using margins different from those indicated in [print preview].

Waiters who pretentiously assume that previous orders are necessarily an indication about selections for future orders.

Cafeteria glasses with lipstick stains.

Hotel mirrors with concave distortion.

Businesses that fail to verify quantities prior to shipping orders placed on the internet.

Inefficient rental car companies that require clerks to enter seemingly exorbitant amounts of information/data, despite a) a confirmed electronic reservation, and b) vehicles already belonging to the business' inventory.

Doctor's offices with clumsy receptionists who double-charge for appointments.

Wheels dislodging from motor vehicles and bouncing into oncoming traffic on Interstate Highways.

People who make themselves vulnerable to door-to-door salesmen by naively believing false statements of affiliation with security system companies.

Restaurants with websites and telephone numbers that fail to provide hours of operation.

Home-delivered cleaning products that have busted open and spilled all over the inside of the packaging materials.

Cafeteria noodles that smell like shoe stores.

Inefficient public recycling programs.

Door lock mechanisms that pose fire safety hazards.

Overzealous concert patrons who trespass into real estate rented by other concert patrons otherwise minding their own business.

Stinky rental cars.

People who donate to charities solely for the purpose of discarding used clothing.

Cafeterias without signs/labels next to food choices.

Boxes of raisin bran with the vast majority of raisins settled at the bottom of the package.

Flimsy fasteners.

Devices that require batteries more expensive than the devices themselves.

Excessively watery mustard.

Inattentive local news affiliate operators that fail to cut over from national news programs for regional updates at the proper times.

Smug & self-righteous cafeteria chefs.

Flimsy garden hose nozzles.

Used auto dealerships with ads showing the wrong address and listing the wrong phone number.

Light fixtures designed with poor materials that crack from UV damage, allowing glass to fall, crash, and break into countless pieces.

Cafeteria employees who can't give a straight answer about food variety.

Sofa slip covers that fail to stay in place.

Sprinkler valves that fail to shut off on demand.

Epoxy/resin products with suboptimal mixture ratios.

Cookie packages with poor sealing mechanisms.

Neighborhood trees planted so close to sidewalks that they bust the concrete.

Three (3) workplace meetings on the same topic, scheduled at the same time.

Stale peanut butter.

Flimsy decals.

Attempting to recharge NiCad batteries, while accidentally flipping the re-charger's switch over to NiMH.

Dealership car salesmen who won't shut up when you're simply stopping in to purchase OEM parts.

LAN "customer focal points" located over 1000 miles away from LAN servers.

People who send emails with HTML, using Plain Text format.

"1 lb" cans of coffee containing 8.5 ounces.

Municipalities with poorly constructed water mains.

Difficult-to-remove rivets when servicing mechanical equipment.

Municipal snow plows that merely pack snow/ice onto roadways.

Stinky tap water.

Variety show hosts who tarnish their episodes with the stench of their personal political biases.

Computers that fail to format low-write-rate CD-RWs.

Computers that fail to read CD-RWs generated on other computers, unless said CD-RWs are archaically formatted as disc-at-once CD-Rs.

Radio stations playing Christmas music 50 days before Christmas.

CD releases of albums previously available only on LP, that use actual, scratched LPs as master recordings for CD generation.

People who a) borrow money, but b) don't understand compound interest.

Digital television provider systems that induce time delays of multiple seconds when changing channels.

Rental car companies that involuntarily upgrade to obnoxiously larger sized vehicles.

Brittle vinyl.

Hotel showers with improperly installed faucet bezels.

Online auction sellers who can't keep their tracking numbers straight.

Perishable food truck drivers who risk food safety by turning off cargo air conditioners to save fuel.

Residential vinyl windows with defective corner seals.

Software testing that fails to utilize live data.

Weed trimmers that overheat and melt the plastic trimming line, causing the line advance mechanism to fail.

Lack of retail home entertainment salesperson knowledge about the EIA/CEA-909 terrestrial television antenna interface.

Lack of availability of EIA/CEA-909 interface terrestrial television antennas on the market.

Online auction sellers who ship an item different from the item pictured in the listing.

Upper level managers who criticize micromanagement, and yet enable middle-level managers to micromanage.

Upper level managers who direct a clearly-defined activity, and then criticize the clearly-defined details of execution of the activity after the fact.

Hotel business centers with hardware/software no longer tech-supported.

Concert patrons who won't shut up during a show.

Mis-tagged price labels on retail items, inducing sales clerks to spend obscene amounts of time to reconcile during checkout.

Rot-prone residential siding.

Dull-flavored tator tots.

Automated grocery checkout machines with defective scanners.

Poor performing shredding machines.

Failed auto parts that require purchase of larger parts assemblies to repair.

Leaky sprinkler head connectors.

People who take on unrealistic challenges and end up achieving nothing but wasted time.

Managers who can't think more than ten minutes into the future.

People who attempt to niggle over the choices of wording of others, without stopping to question themselves over the appropriateness of such niggling.

People ignorant of their own ignorance.

Hotel room doors that fail to close due to lack of carpet clearance.

Sod planted with inadequate underlying topsoil.

Live intercontinental news reports of very poor bandwidth, in lieu of recorded reports of the exact same information broadcast at high quality bandwidth.

Airborne news footage with artificial helicopter background sound.

Supermarkets with defective weight sensors in self-checkout aisles.

Defective automobile vacuum check valves.

Hotel clerks asleep in back rooms instead of manning front desks.

Hotels bathrooms with spastic fluorescent lights.

Hotels that fail to have available non-smoking rooms for guests who have made advance reservations for non-smoking rooms.

Poor communication between cooks and servers in restaurants, resulting in food served cold.

High failure rates of DVD players.

Fisticuffs between patrons in the dining area of a public restaurant.

Restaurants that ruin their milkshake recipes by jamming copious quantities of whipped cream atop the ice cream mixture.

PUblic officials who attempt to make decisions outside their lane of authority.

Traction control systems with performance inferior to that of human beings.

Businesses that require a non-refundable reservation, but aren't ready to provide service at the time of the reservation.

Sloppy end-of-year rollover software coding.

Sloppy splice jobs during music recording editing.

Document reviews over email using non-editable text documents.

Conferences employing PA systems with dead wireless microphone batteries.

Inadequate product testing.

Auto part assemblies that are non-functional due to one small broken piece that is no longer serviced.

New home window designs that have no replacement parts infrastructures.

Obnoxiously noisy hotel bathroom fans.

Excessively bruised bananas.

Teleconferences of multiple people speaking at the same time at one end.

Gross underestimates of processing time from service organizations.

Flimsy spray can caps.

Press conferences with pre-screened questions, advertised as "open forum".

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People who punish others for volunteering information.

Fan motors with under-tightened setscrews.

News agencies that are self-righteous about freedom of press, who simultaneously criticize freedom of speech.

Hotel business center computers with damaged monitors.

Surveys advertised as anonymous that subject participants to retribution.

Computer programs that fail to abort after several attempts to kill using CNTL-ALT-DEL.

Ineffective lock washers.

Lack of standardization in tire sizing for mountain bikes.

Concert venues that charge $30 a head for tickets and $7 a drink, but are too cheap to turn on the air conditioning.

Cafeteria workers who annoy you by showing personal favoritism towards you.

Toilet paper with inadequate tensile strength.

Homebuilders that damage residential sidewalks during construction.

"System recovery" software loads that create more system errors.

"System recovery" software loads that wipe out data files/folders.

Auction websites that screw around with their operating system often enough to discourage prospective customers.

Hypersensitive public address announcers that over-sensationalize mild weather advisories.

Organizations lax in safety practices.

People who tell white lies in hopes to avoid irritating people, and who thus irritate people in the process.

News tickers with discombobulated sentences.

Management that squanders time by failing to make a decision and then later complains that it needs time in order to make a decision.

Workplaces that don't listen to critical proactive preventative input and then later ask why something has broken.

Waiters who try to guess your order instead of actually listening to your order.

Upper-level managers taking actions for short-term emotional payoff at the expense of medium- and long-term workplace cohesiveness.

Organizations that request reviews of 1510 page document modifications, that fail to identify the modifications.

Customer feedback processes that on the surface purport to encourage input, while behind the scenes show contemptuous resentment for such.

Excessive rationalization at the workplace to try to save face.

480p screens converted from 64:48 to 64:36, and in turn erroneously labeled as "HD".

Co-workers disrespectful of email bandwidth.

480p screens converted to 360p, subsequently horizontally cropped, and in turn erroneously labeled as "HD".

Disbelievers in the Theory of Relativity.

Maintenance personnel who take actions even when they don't know what they're doing.

Managers who confuse the magnitude of risk with the relative magnitude of corresponding benefit.

Digital television tuners with squirrelly responsiveness to channel selection input.

Customer service offices with different employees providing conflicting information.

Fire drills during lunch hours posing risk to cafeteria food safety.

Bundled software deliveries that fail when any one of the components induces a problem.

Managers who attempt to make exclusive use of empirical evidence as a substitute for Operational Risk Management.

Defectively designed shopping carts.

Fragile milk cartons.

Standalone electronic devices that require subscriptions for operation.

Auto dealerships missing brochures on current model-year vehicles.

Inefficient snow shovels.

People alleging stereotyping as a result of themselves making stereotypical assumptions about the meaning of someone else's words.

Managers who don't understand the difference between [chain of command] and [chain of information].

Poor thermal isolation from resistors on circuit boards.

Dinner mints stuck to foil wrappers.

Business establishments selling materials that refuse transactions unless customers bring samples of materials.

Inconveniently packaged DVD boxed sets.

Service organizations with multiple people simultaneously attempting to engage in conversation with one customer.

Aerosol cans that lose pressure prior to dispensing remainder of contents.

Hypocritical coordination practices within organizational structures.

Program Offices that waste money trying to fix flawed equipment, as a result of not addressing concerns raised years earlier.

Managers who criticize employees for complying with mandatory guidance.

Postal clerks who waste your time by offering delivery services more expensive than Priority Mail that a) offer no advantages, and b) take longer to ship.

Lack of transparency in the work environment.

Prejudice. 

Post-teleconference misunderstandings that result in requiring subsequent teleconferences.

Auto dealerships service departments that wash your car despite your request to not wash your car.

Musty-smelling hotel bathrooms.

Breakfast buffets with tortillas stuck together like computer hard drive magnets.

Bartenders who presumptively combine tabs based on proximity of seated people.

Breakfast buffets with biscuits hard enough to bend silverware.