1. Floridian Drivers (I’m from New York)
a. Not sure why this “bug” exists but it does.
2. Assignments that are tedious with no purpose.
a. Professors feel they have to assign work even if there is no purpose to it
3. The cell data service on campus is slow in saturated areas such as the stadium on game day.
a. This bug exists due to the underlying cell technology. As a cell tower has more users connected to it, the service gets slower/worse for everyone using it.
4. Going to a doctor’s appointment and having to wait awhile after your appointment time to see the doctor
a. This exists due to the overbooking of doctors to increase the bottom line
5. Going to the DMV because you’ll be the for hours and accomplish a simple task that should take 5 minutes
a. This happens because they are under staffed and the staff they do have tend to have no clue what they are doing
6. When your flight lands and there are no open gates to park at
a. Poor planning at the airport and by the airlines
7. Driving somewhere and being stuck at a dead stop in traffic and you can see your destination
a. Overcrowding of the roadways and poor infrastructure
8. Food delivery fees from restaurants
a. Not sure why it exists…maybe a lack of competition. In New York most places offer free delivery unlike Gainesville which has delivery fees up to $6.49
9. The chair lift stopping when you are on your way to the top and you sit there freezing
a. This exists because incompetent people fall while getting off the chair lift.
10. Overpriced resale tickets for a sporting event.
a. People buy up tickets at face value with no intention of going and then sell them for a profit.
11. Tickets for rolling through a stop sign when no one is around. On Long Island stop signs are “stoptional”
a. This problem exists when people are very impatient.
12. The weather is completely wrong and says it will be sunny out and it is a complete downpour.
a. There are many variables that are hard to predict making a weather forecast inaccurate many times.
13. Waiting for people who were supposed to be ready at a certain time and can never actually be ready on time
a. Some people are terribly slow and can never be on time
14. The Gainesville busses never arriving at the time the app says they will
a. There are many factors why this happens
15. Working on a climbing route and the next time you are at the gym the wall has been re-set
a. Rock walls are re-set on a random unscheduled basis most of the time. Therefore you don’t know how long you have to work on certain routes.
16. Thinking of things that bug me definitely bugs me
a. This exists due to this assignment.
17. Walking to the kitchen and finding out someone drank the last cup of coffee in the pot
a. Lazy roommates not wanting to make their own coffee
18. ProctorU technical difficulties during an exam
a. This exists because ProctorU is a terrible product
19. When there are numerous checkout lines and only a few are open
a. Understaffing
20. Ordering something on Amazon prime and it doesn’t show up in 2 days
a. Shipping logistical problems tend to cause this.
I definitely found this assignment to be tedious and
difficult. I never actually think of things that bug me until something
actually happens and I decide it is bugging me.
Matt,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your post and awesome name. I'm a New Yorker also and share some of these bugs as well.
I thought you did a good job of identifying your bugs, but could have explained them a little deeper. For example, number 6, "When your flight lands and there are no open gates to park at." Where was the flight going or what time of day was the flight?
The why's seemed to dig in a bit more towards the root cause. Number 3 seemed to get towards the root why of the bug.
Thanks again for your post and look forward to working with you this semester. Number 4 drives me crazy as well.
Matt
Matt,
ReplyDeleteThank you for your post; I think you did a great job identifying your bugs. But I agree with Matt in the previous comment when he says that you could've explained yourself more and included the "why does this problem exist" explanation. Doing the "why" part of this assignment helped me realize there are many different causes to one problem.
Matt, thank you for your efforts in this post. I was able to relate to a lot of the "bugs" you identified. Specifically, the ProctorU bug. I have had many issues with them in the past, including to have to reschedule exams. Like Matt and Catherine pointed out, the explanations could maybe have been more detailed, but I enjoyed your post.
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