Keystroke reduction
Today I tried to withdraw $1.20 from an ATM (plus $1.50 fee of course). Why? Because an incompetent moron wrote the software. Why should I have to type an extra ".00" at the end of my desired ATM withdrawal? I know it only dispenses $20s. It knows it only dispenses $20s. Yet it wants me to enter in an amount divisible by 20 dollars and it would be of no assistance whatsoever if I was too mathematically challenged to arrive at an acceptable denomination. What it should really be asking me is, "How many $20 bills would you like?" That way I can type 6 instead of 12000 (yes twelve thousand, it moves the decimal over for you - how clever).
4 keystrokes x (1 sec / 2 keystroke) x (1 ATM withdrawal / week) x (52 weeks / year) x (45+ expectant remaining years) x (1 hour / 3600 sec) = 1.3+ hours of my life wasted by this incompetence.
I know... who am I to complain? I'm wasting a quarter of that time just writing this, and I still haven't fully forgiven myself for that time I watched Ernest joins the Army because there was "nothing on," but it's a matter of principle. I can choose to waste my own time, but I don't appreciate having my time wasted by others. Inefficiency is the fingernail dragging on the chalkboard of my existence.
4 keystrokes x (1 sec / 2 keystroke) x (1 ATM withdrawal / week) x (52 weeks / year) x (45+ expectant remaining years) x (1 hour / 3600 sec) = 1.3+ hours of my life wasted by this incompetence.
I know... who am I to complain? I'm wasting a quarter of that time just writing this, and I still haven't fully forgiven myself for that time I watched Ernest joins the Army because there was "nothing on," but it's a matter of principle. I can choose to waste my own time, but I don't appreciate having my time wasted by others. Inefficiency is the fingernail dragging on the chalkboard of my existence.