Article index
All 75 articles on SuckButt, by section.
Things That Suck
Section page →- The restocking fee is not a fee for restockingAug 11, 2026
- Unlimited has a footnote, and the footnote is the actual productAug 9, 2026
- Your printer has opinions about which ink you are allowed to buyJul 3, 2026
- The extended warranty is sold at the till for a reasonJun 27, 2026
- Same box, same price, less crisps: a short history of the shrinking packetMay 22, 2026
- Self-checkout: unexpected labour in the bagging areaMay 18, 2026
- The gift card that quietly stops being worth anythingApr 12, 2026
- Some assembly required, and one bag of screws is the wrong bagApr 7, 2026
- The resort fee for a resort you did not want to be atMar 2, 2026
- Your seat, your bag and your boarding pass now cost extra eachFeb 26, 2026
- Glued shut, screwed with a shape you have never seen, and unrepairableJan 19, 2026
- I understand you are frustrated, says the thing that caused itJan 17, 2026
- Lifetime guarantee, for a lifetime defined by the person who wrote the guaranteeJan 13, 2026
Money Suckers
Section page →- Drip pricing: quoting a number nobody will ever actually payAug 5, 2026
- The cancel button is three menus deep, and that is a design decisionJul 31, 2026
- The card machine asks whether you want to be charged in your own currencyJun 24, 2026
- The free trial that needs your card is not measuring your interestJun 22, 2026
- Loyalty is priced as a penalty, and the new customer gets the discountMay 16, 2026
- The tip screen has rotated toward you and it is suggesting twenty-five per centMay 12, 2026
- The ticket costs what it costs, plus the fee for selling it to youApr 4, 2026
- Nought per cent finance, paid for by everybody who misses a paymentApr 2, 2026
- The bundle contains four things you use and eleven you have never openedFeb 24, 2026
- A fee for a paper bill, and a fee for not paying the way they preferFeb 18, 2026
- Declined, and then charged for being declinedJan 8, 2026
- The price changed because of the phone you are holdingJan 7, 2026
- Your points were worth something until the day they were notJan 3, 2026
Tech That Sucks
Section page →- The update that reboots your laptop halfway through a sentenceJul 29, 2026
- When the server retires, your perfectly good gadget becomes a paperweightJul 25, 2026
- The update removed the feature you were using it forJun 18, 2026
- Every app now wants to send you notifications about itselfJun 16, 2026
- Your television boots into an advertisement it downloaded overnightMay 9, 2026
- Locked out by the security system that was protecting youMay 5, 2026
- Bluetooth: two devices that can see each other and refuse to speakMar 28, 2026
- Storage full, and the largest file is something called OtherMar 26, 2026
- This lamp would like you to create an accountFeb 15, 2026
- The battery is fine, it is just that everything is awakeFeb 12, 2026
- Sorry, I did not catch that, said the speaker, four timesDec 29, 2025
- The hardware is already fitted, the subscription unlocks itDec 28, 2025
The Internet Sucks
Section page →- Reject All is one click, unless somebody paid for it to be twelveJul 23, 2026
- Why the recipe sits at the bottom of a short memoirJul 19, 2026
- Infinite scroll removed the bottom of the page on purposeJun 10, 2026
- Only three left, apparently, for the last six monthsJun 8, 2026
- To stop receiving these emails, please remember a password you never setMay 3, 2026
- The first four results are advertisements and the label is grey on greyApr 27, 2026
- Select every square containing a traffic light, including the poleMar 23, 2026
- A thousand words of nothing, written to match a search you madeMar 18, 2026
- The video started playing and then followed you down the pageFeb 8, 2026
- This site is better in the app, insists the site, blocking the siteFeb 6, 2026
- No thanks, I prefer paying full price, and other things you must clickDec 23, 2025
- Your password must contain a symbol, and not that symbolDec 19, 2025
Workplace BS
Section page →- The meeting that was an email, and the three that were the same emailJul 16, 2026
- Corporate language exists to make a decision sound like weatherJul 12, 2026
- The open-plan office was sold as collaboration and delivered headphonesJun 4, 2026
- Reply all: how one message becomes four hundredJun 2, 2026
- The performance review that was decided before the form was openedApr 25, 2026
- Mandatory training: forty minutes of clicking next to prove you were thereApr 22, 2026
- The job advert with a salary range wide enough to park a bus inMar 16, 2026
- Expenses: prove you bought a sandwich, in triplicate, within thirty daysMar 12, 2026
- Hot-desking: booking a chair in a building you already work inFeb 2, 2026
- The green dot is watching, and it thinks you left at fourJan 31, 2026
- Team building: a day out with people you would rather emailDec 18, 2025
- Week three, still no laptop, ticket escalated to the queue it came fromDec 12, 2025
Pains In The Butt
Section page →- Hold music is not an apology, it is a queue management toolJul 9, 2026
- Clamshell packaging: the box that defeats the customer to defeat the thiefJul 6, 2026
- The traffic jam with no crash in itMay 29, 2026
- They moved the bread again, and they know exactly where they moved itMay 24, 2026
- One queue beats five, and the maths is not closeApr 17, 2026
- We attempted delivery, says the card, from a van that never stoppedApr 15, 2026
- You cannot hear anybody in this restaurant and that is the decorMar 8, 2026
- Nine minutes: the snooze button and the sleep you did not getMar 4, 2026
- Shoes off, laptop out, liquids in a bag you have to buyJan 26, 2026
- The hand dryer that dries the wall and the queue behind youJan 24, 2026
- Addressed to the occupier, which is the point of the whole thingDec 10, 2025
- The neighbour has a leaf blower and a strong sense of SaturdayDec 7, 2025
- Why the cable in the drawer tied itself in a knotDec 3, 2025