Concert event centers that advertise gate times, and fail to open said gates long after said advertised gate times, while people are exposed to violent thunderstorms.

Web browser sessions that indicate "Done" in the lower-left-hand corner when in fact CPU-hogging information continues to load.

Government-funded, public property beauty bark that is entirely washed away by one thunderstorm.

Diners that get a lunch order wrong, and then return 15 minutes later with the order corrected, but with the same fries, now cold.

Supermarkets with forklifts full of groceries sitting and blocking the aisles.

Restaurants with incompetent and/or careless dishwashers.

Landscapers who require education from homeowners on proper drainage grading.

Online music audio samples that play the least significant portions of songs.

Hyper-sensationalized reviews of GAO reports.

Malfunctioning zip-lock bags.

Jordan almonds.

Parking lots with limb-sized cracks in the pavement.

Higher headquarters agencies who express displeasure with degraded mission effectiveness resulting from their own micromanagement.

Program managers who, out of jealousy, are ungrateful for outside agency help.

  Downward-facing attic vents barely held in place with nails.

Coin currencies with production costs greater than their monetary value.

Restaurant employees who don't understand what you're ordering, despite your reading, verbatim, the exact wording on the menu.

New ball-point pen refills that malfunction shortly after purchase.

Terrestrial television network affiliates that lose High Definition when overlaying local station identification information.

People who confuse "damping" with "dampening".

Shampoo bottle caps that collect large amounts of water when placed upside down.

Online surveys that refuse to process unless all questions are answered.

Managers who react to feedback by mischaracterizing the feedback and then subsequently criticizing the resultantly twisted pseudo-feedback.

Government organizations that mistreat whistleblowers.

Consolidation for the sake of keeping with a fad.

Indecisive FCC actions.

Restaurants with beverage-soaked sugar packets.

Administrative offices whose disorganization manifests at the expense of incovenience for everyone else.

Liaisons who refuse to conduct organizational interactions.

So-called "timing experts" who fail to comprehend Leap Seconds.

States that attempt to legislate morality.

Socialism.

Computers that, when you enter the backspace key to edit text in a URL addresses, confusingly send you to previous websites in those browser sessions.

Non-emergencies treated as emergencies.

The current limitations of the Defense Travel System (DTS).

Government employees who are not busy, and yet resist upholding their responsibilities.

Non-medical doctors who insist on requesting people call them "doctor".

Government agencies who provide misleading characterizations of proposals they author.

Retired scientists who waste other people's time & money with nonsensical "vision"s.

Grossly inaccurate information on the Digital Television transition.

Web browser windows that fail to stop processing after clicking STOP.

People who fail to coordinate, and at the same time criticize inadequate coordination.

Restaurants with defective carbonated beverage dispensers.

Military hyper-obsession with tactical exploitation.

Politicians who contradict objectives of fiscal discipline with budget plans mathematically unable to meet such goals.

Neighborhood construction workers who use private home owner's power outlets without permission.

Flimsy filters.

Contractors disrespectful of Government priorities.

Razors with cartridges more expensive than whole disposable razors.

Unsolicited advertisement bundles delivered as newspapers.

Unnecessary overreaction.

Cultural failure to understand the importance of personal responsibility/accountability.

Businesses lacking adequate fraud identification/prevention offices.

Supermarkets featuring "self-checkout" aisles with clerks who insist on interfering by trying to help.

Digital television channels with poor audio/video synchronization.

Airline representatives that leave messages requesting return calls, but fail to identify whom they are trying to reach, and also fail to identify themselves.

Inefficient Government service centers that cause people to wait wasteful amounts of time.

Requests for assessments on proposals that lack sufficient detail.

Security systems with gaping vulnerabilities.

System modifications lacking accompanying direction for use.

People who write on paper protectors.

Orange juice with excessive pulp.

Supermarket clerks who fail to bag purchased packages of chewing gum.

Public outcry inappropriately influencing Federal investigations.

Expensive televisions without EIA/CEA-909 Standard Interface ports.

Expensive televisions without video outputs.

Airlines unable to honor pre-paid tickets due to bankruptcy.

People unable to see their flaws when everyone else can.

Inadequately-tested software.

Re-heated leftover cafeteria pizza advertised as "fresh".

Businesses that ship the wrong item and ungratefully demand return shipment.

Soiled sweetener packets at restaurants.

People who criticize others just because others are different.

Hotel patrons who, while disrepsecting your personal space in the continental breakfast area, complain when their eyes hit your elbow.

Military organizations that "game" inspections.

Waiters who ask if you're finished, right _after_ they take your plate.

Soggy steak fries.

Auction sellers who get upset when buyers request shipment of different items to different addresses.

Sellers whose auctions fail to meet Reserve price, who attempt to take out their frustrations on bidders.

Managers who make decisions against the advice of experts, eventually realize that they are wrong, but intend on sticking with their decisions purely to save face.

Cafeterias that reduce menu selection based in anticipation of reduced volume, that, as a result, reduce volume.

Workplaces that fail to take advantage of lessons learned.

Legislation that bails out irresponsible flexible rate mortgage home owners.

Unsolicited free sample deliveries.

City counsels that are inept at consolidating utilities charges.

Household detergents that are "double concentrated", yet triple-priced.

Road de-icing chemicals that are so slick that they cause state trooper vehicles to wreck.

Government workplaces that make large sacrifices in products/services for a small convenience to one employee.

Businesses with insufficiently sized lobbies, that force lines of people out the front door.

Cold joints in concrete.

Computers that frequently core because of inadequate memory management.

Co-workers who make bad decisons on your behalf, without making any effort to contact you, while you're out of the office.

Government offices that attempt to resolve office inefficiency by inconveniencing the efficiency of multiple external offices.

Hardware stores with queer schedules for seasonal stocking.

Car owners who complain about puntured tires as a result of driving over someone else's lawn, and in particular running over nails previously planted in the yard.

Product shipments that billow with cigarette smoke when opened.

Poorly-coordinated office cubicle moves.

"Quick-Connect" DSL installation guides that require 19 hours of troubleshooting-laden effort to complete.

Non-universal "Universal" Serial Bus ports/connectors.

Lower level corporate managers who, a) because they are unable to address an employee's concern, recommend that the employee elevate the concern, and then b) after the employee does such, proceed to criticize the employee for "jumping the corporate management chain".

Phone books with cardboard advertising inserts.

Cafeterias that exchange gross milk with more gross milk.

Festivals with insufficient quantities of portable toilets.

Toilet tanks with defective seal designs.

People who, in attempting to mitigate a problem caused by faulty assumptions, proceed to make assumptions about the costs/benefits of the mitigation approach.

Sports bars that, by misunderstanding that a racing event has multiple heats, erroneously turn off the television channel before all heats are completed.

Motels with excessively undersized parking slots.

Mildewy-smelling hotel bathrooms.

Abuse of the "fratricide" card, by military planners, in attempts to unfairly sway technical decisions.

Mexican restaurants with labor-intensive ingredient selection processes for burrito orders.

Managers who fail to practice what they preach about meeting suspenses.

Airport restaurants and shops that are closed in the early morning despite numerous flights with heavy passenger traffic.

- Thanks to Bryan E.

Service organizations that discourage customer feedback.

Government agencies that criticize use of a word or phrase, citing that such use insensitively insults a particular group, such that in the process the Government agency itself ends up insulting the particular group.

Overnight delivery companies that make shipments unavailable for three days because they arrived at your door while you were away from home on a Friday.

People who criticize others for not following rules, who themselves are inconsistent in their understanding of said rules.

People who overlook the obvious.

People who a) criticize others who don't carry cell phones, and b) are invariably unreachable by cell phone.

Managers in Space Operations career fields who have delusions of being pilots.

Managers who direct re-organizations in response to symptoms of their own managerial inadequacies.

  Cafeterias with stale bread.

Department store websites selling products with unsatisfactory item descriptions.

Department stores with sale items "Out of Stock" with no indication of future availability.

Supermarkets with items missing expiration dates.

Managers with leadership blind spots.

Insecure managers who attack employees to pacify managerial insecurity.

Inefficient web sites.

Self-centered contractors who act contemptuously towards customers.

Government organizations that act contemptuously towards customers.

Sales people who, when asked for product and pricing information, instead pretentiously preach.

Grill operators who are easily confused.

Parking lots with "5 MPH" signs, as well as "Speed Bump: 15 MPH" signs.

- Thanks to H. L. Knierim

Standardization for the sake of standardization, at the expense of effectiveness.

State-of-the-art technology centers with 1950's era bus-terminal-quality public address systems.

Businesses that make poor judgments about road conditions, resulting in bad decisions about reporting for work.

Public utilities organizations that attempt to prostitute themselves as welfare agencies.

Operating systems that permit hyperlinks to overwrite already open pages in browser sessions.

Computer image scanners that don't feature on/off switches.

Software patch pushes that force no-notice reboots.

Software installation programs with time bars giving very inaccurate indications of "% remaining".

Salt and pepper packets that fail to maintain structural rigidity and thus malfunction during opening.

Department stores that do not offer rain checks for out of stock items.

Politicians who state, ".....and I approved this message.....BECAUSE.....".

Online auction sellers who refuse to offer a discount for combining shipping, proceed to nonetheless to combine shipping without the buyer's consent, and then complain when the buyer points out to the seller the seller's shipment to incorrect addresses.

Cafeterias with filthy dishes.

People who insist on being in control of decisionmaking, but fail to actually make decisions.

Crowds of people uselessly standing immediately adjacent to baggage carousels.

Vending machines with products well past expiration dates.

People incapable of performing legal interpretation of documentation, who nonetheless profess to be skilled as such.

Garbage cans with flimsy handles.

Bad decisions based on briefings that leave out critically important details.

Establishments that fail to enforce no-smoking policies.

Remastered CDs with "bonus tracks" which turn out to be only mild EQ remixes of tracks existing on the original album.

Humans who make ecological changes that appear positive in the short-term, but cause adverse environmental impacts in the long-term.

Local weather newscasters who fail to complete their report within the time span alloted by the network.

Rusty bolts.

People who forget to follow-up and fail to follow through.

Waiters who serve a slice of pizza onto your plate without asking.

Waiters who attempt to memorize orders without writing, and then get the orders wrong.

Lawn fertilizer spreaders that fail to adequately hold calibration settings.

Organization name changes that don't reflect any functional change.

People who react to problems by not taking time to understand the problem, and as a result making the problem worse.

Impatient waiters.

Misdirected hostility.

Credit card companies advertising longevity benefits, that change benefits right before the realization of benefits for "business reasons".

- Thanks to D. Malinowski

Bandwagon jackasses.

- Thanks to H. L. Knierim

Supermarkets with depleted shelves.

New organizations that attempt to use naivety and ignorance as excuses for inappropriate actions.

Newspaper articles unnecessarily fragmented to multiple pages.

- Thanks to Bryan E.

Brittle plastic.

When attempting to play Paul Simon's "Learn How To Fall" 45, inadvertently playing the flip side, "Loves Me Like A Rock".

People who attempt to tell other people what the other people's needs are.

Systems designed to prevent people from doing something stupid, that have the side effect of preventing people from doing something smart.

Classroom groups with deadbeat members who drag down projects.

"V.I.P. Seating" that's not reserved.

People who attempt to punish initiative.

Terrible decisions resulting from pathetically poor communication.

Discrimination as a result of police profiling.

Dimly lit, earth-toned, stinky health food stores with boringly labeled items.

Dress shirts sold loaded with pins.

People who refuse your offer of advice, and then proceed ask for help in recovering from the consequences of not taking your advice.

People who fail to appreciate new concerns you raise, and instead question why you didn't raise the concerns earlier.

Implementations adevertised as "improvements" that produce degradations.

Aerodynamically hypersensitive garbage cans.

Cafeterias which invoke "cost-saving" measures that prove costly.

Irresponsible news reporting.

People who attempt to take credit for the work of others.

People who volunteer for tasks and then ask you to perform the majority of the work involved in the tasks.

Organizations that require competent people to justify work performed long before those questioning the work joined the same organization.

Violations of civil rights.

Wide-distribution email notifications of current, on-going widespread email outages.

People who lie attempting to cover honest mistakes.

Mis-assembled Oreos.

Reckless decisions based on ignorance.

Negligent disregard for detail.

Obnoxiously complicated workplace checklist changes that serve only to rationalize excessive brainstorming, but don't offer any substantive improvement.

Sloppiness as a result of unnecessary haste.

Bureaucrats who ask successive individuals the same question until encountering one who answers to the bureaucrat's wishes.

Meeting sign-in sheets with insufficient space for email addresses.

Intermittent electrical problems.

U.S. Postal Service stamp prices that are not integral multiples of $0.05.

Natural disaster victims who ungratiously criticize the government.

Natural disaster victims who insist that external aid is an entitlement.

Fraudulent credit card transactions.

Hotels that charge for use of in-room coffee.

Abolishonism of terminology for ethnic reasons.

Policy statements based on misread regulations/instructions.

Soda containers hyperjammed with ice.

People who refuse commitment, and subsequently criticize you for non-commitment.

Easily modelable systematics treated as noise.

"OUt of sight, out of mind" mentalities.

CD cases with poor structural integrity.

- Thanks to Bryan E.

Government employees who express dislike for your advice, but proceed to immediately choose to act upon your advice.

Government employees who cite neglegence on behalf of predecessors as an excuse for their own negligence.

Office cubicle moves planned during the busiest week in over ten years.

CDs not properly stored in disc cases.

Excessive use of environmentally unfriendly packing materials.

Severely unevenly sliced pizza.

Teleconference secretaries who embellish meeting minutes.

Restaurant chili overloaded with vegetables.

Fast-food order-takers who greet you with “Will this be for here or to go?”, and then after you finish placing your food order, ask you the very same question again.

- Thanks to Bryan E.

Push buttons that wear out quickly.

Cafeteria servers who can't speak English.

Supermarket clerks who a) ask if you've found everything you're looking for, b) after you reply in the negative, ask which item, and c) after you identify the item, telephone a co-worker, and d) after five minutes tell you that the item is out of stock, and then e) stare at you.

Supermarket clerks who a) ask if you've found everything you're looking for, b) after you reply in the negative, ask which item, and c) after you identify the item, tell you that they don't stock it, and then d) stare at you.

People who misinterpret questions as threats.

Want ads in non-alphabetical order.

Cafeterias with time-varying variety within the confines of one meal period.

Deli ordering restrictions.

Clogged hotel sink drains.

Deadwood managers who consume excessive amounts of bandwidth, with emails criticizing bandwidth-abusive, excessively large promotion/retirement emails.

- Thanks to Steven T.

Bandwidth-abusive, excessively large promotion/retirement emails.

- Thanks to Bryan E.

  Fast food counter employees who, without asking, assume customers are "dining in".

Supermarkets that attempt to sell products after expiration dates.

Inadequately tested software.

Meetings scheduled in conference rooms with inadequate space.

Companies that accept orders prior to checking available inventory.

Ungrateful recipients who accuse donors of being "stingy".

Tax shelters that encourage fraud.

Stale cookies.

Bureaucratic misprioritization.

Bureaucratic "freeze" mandates.

Government-regulated "minimum wage" standards.

Cafeteria limits on "To Go" tray usage.

Subjective "balk" calls in baseball.

Subjective "Intentional grounding" penalties in football.

Maintenance workers operating leafblowers in 50 MPH wind conditions.

- Thanks to H. Knierim

Retirees who a) haven't gotten a 'flu shot in 15 years, b) decide to get a 'flu shot only because of hearing of a shortage, c) wait in line 14 hours for a 'flu shot, and d) catch the 'flu while waiting in line.

PIzzas with pepperoni slices placed above the cheese.

Government liaisons who don't know what they're talking about, and act as if they do.

Customer service representatives who request feedback, and then question why you're giving feedback at the time requested.

Customer service representatives who request feedback, and then berate your feedback.

"Illegal Operation" software warnings.

Software applications that interfere with other software applications produced by the same company.

Improperly sealed bags of chips.

Disorganized people who blame others for their disorganization.

Emergency power-off procedures without accompanying power recovery procedures.

Volunteer mail surveys without pre-paid postage.

Mendacity.

Blindness caused by anger.