[MENTION=20829]Hard[/MENTION], [MENTION=7254]Wind Up Rex[/MENTION]
I had to sleep on this for a while, as I understand all the functions relatively well. Because of this, it's not a matter of what took me the longest to understand, but a matter of what frustrates me the most in practice.
Ti: I really resent it when people make things complicated. I want to make life easier to deal with, and as such, my mantra for life is "Keep it simple, stupid." The Ti(Ne) users I come across have this habit of asking a lot of irrelevant questions, without any action on their part. Case in point: I got an understudy at work who's supposed to learn what I do and work with, and he'd ask why doesn't it work this way or that way. I would tell him that it simply doesn't work that way, that the system engineers were too lazy to make it an intuitive system or that you would get an error when you try. But he'd just keep pressing me for answers. It's like... umm, I don't know, why don't you try it for yourself?
I don't care about the 'why' of what I'm working with. To me, it's a tedious and detail oriented job, and I want to make it as quick and as painless as possible. I'm teaching you how to finish it quickly and accurately, because you're going to be doing this EVERY MONTH, and each list takes about 3 days to complete.
Fe: Similarly, I resent it when people make me try to feel what they want me to feel. Especially if it's something somber. For example, when my grandmother was on her deathbed, my mother made me repeat after her, and I refused, because I felt that it was inauthentic, and the worst part was that I couldn't come up with something better because I didn't feel anything for my grandmother. To put it bluntly, why would I utter words of false affection for someone that I don't even have feelings for in the first place?
Ne: This one just annoys me to no end. In small doses it's fine as I find it entertaining, but it gets old. Fast. Especially the IEEs/ENFPs I've met. I hate that they almost always give you an oblique answer, and when you try to get them to explain something, they would totally avoid it or give you some short answer like "I don't know". When that happens I feel like stabbing them on a cross like Jesus and then mercilessly interrogating them.
And omg don't even get me started on their indecision! The ones I've met cannot ever make up their minds on something because they want to consider all the possibilities in their heads, and spend lots of time on that fruitless search, down to simple things like eating out. And I really can't stand their irresponsibility in decision making, because they just push the decision to someone else and retort with an "anything goes", and then later on they complain about how it's not what they had in mind.
Fuck you??? There was a time to make decisions earlier but you chose to avoid it and now you're whining???
Si: This doesn't annoy me as much as Ne does, but it's really irritating when you try to make changes for the better -- like to make things more efficient or easier, and they would stubbornly hold onto their perceptions of seeing and doing things. Like I said, I want to keep things simple for stupid, and this roadblock just gets in my way and is a very good way to make me angry. For example, at work we have different templates for different lists. I said that I want to change the layout of the lists so that every list has the same columns (because they all have same columns, just in different order), but my boss shot it down immediately because it messes with her pattern of doing things.
Um, lady, I'm making your job easier to deal with in the future so you don't have to juggle so many different perceptions of the same thing. Can you not be so stubborn??
That concludes my rant about the functions I dislike the most. Let me know your perspectives.