To take this a step further, "progress indicators" suck when they don't actually give you any indication of how much progress is being made. My personal least

To take this a step further, "progress indicators" suck when they don't actually give you any indication of how much progress is being made. My personal least favourite example ever is Windows Explorer when it's trying to connect to a network share that isn't there. It looks like an actual progress bar until you realise that it's only asymptotically approaching "done."