[Annoy] What's something small that really annoys you?

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#2886641 15-Mar-2022 17:32

allan:
Is that a "just at the present time" thing? I've certainly had same-day click and collect service in the past - in fact in under an hour on one occasion. Have to admit I haven't used it for a while though.

They're not allowing people into (at least some) stores, you have to ask the few people in there for the items you want and they get them for you, so my suspicion is that they're quite short-staffed and this is the result.

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#2886749 15-Mar-2022 23:27

That @freitasm still hasn't fixed this when geekzone sends forum emails, yet puts emojis in the thread titles he starts ;)

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#2886751 15-Mar-2022 23:32

neb: That's actually pretty poor service from Harvey Norman, particularly given the prices they charge. Compare that to somewhere like Bunnings or Mitre 10, typically an on-the-spot swap for a replacement and they sort out the issue themselves.

Well, bunnings for sure. Mitre10 they tend to like to argue and bicker about returns saying that its not a warranty thing and try every thing they can do to get out of refunding or replacing. Probably because someone that works there and manages them is the owner or related to them. Its why I start next door first and only go to mitre10 for the food in the cafe, and to get things that bunnings dont sell, like plastic storage cubes, sistema bins, lightbulbs in 4000k, some screws from the horrifically overpriced metal draws in bags, etc. Oh and soda stream refills to because I really need to pull finger and look at getting a big tank to plumb into the machine.

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#2886805 16-Mar-2022 00:12

Mitre 10 actually returned (or at least exchanged) an item I bought more than a year earlier, which was pretty good of them. It was in the original packaging and unused, but still, they could have refused the swap if they'd wanted to.

Before people ask, during the Casa rebuild we got some fittings for some of the rooms but ended up putting a small subset in storage due to to delays from lockdowns and materials shortages dragging the build out so one of the intended rooms wasn't finished for a long time, thus the ~1 year gap between buy and use.

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#2886943 16-Mar-2022 09:58

Supplier sending previously opened thin clients. Old courier sticker shows previous delivery and their contact details.

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#2887082 16-Mar-2022 12:00

Annoys me that I keep gravitating back to the right wing rag that is the NZ Herald.

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#2887099 16-Mar-2022 12:28

rb99:

Annoys me that I keep gravitating back to the right wing rag that is the NZ Herald.

ROFL. I saw an article on an open Q&A they had and a few people asked why the NZ Herald is so right-wing leaning, and an equal number asked why the NZ Herald is so left-wing leaning.

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#2887111 16-Mar-2022 12:39

So I agree with half of their readers - thats quite good for me...

Also, I guess a fresh (tiny) annoyance is that I had to google ROFL. And I call myself a geek 😀

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#2887116 16-Mar-2022 12:44

freitasm:

ROFL. I saw an article on an open Q&A they had and a few people asked why the NZ Herald is so right-wing leaning, and an equal number asked why the NZ Herald is so left-wing leaning.

That would suggest they have the balance about ~~right~~ correct if they are annoying both sides equally. I just wish they would improve the quality of the journalism rather than reporting opinion as fact.

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#2887123 16-Mar-2022 12:56

MadEngineer: Supplier sending previously opened thin clients. ...

I used to work for Jenny Craig, they hated thin clients full stop.

(I'll see myself out...)

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#2887170 16-Mar-2022 14:33

freitasm:

rb99:

Annoys me that I keep gravitating back to the right wing rag that is the NZ Herald.

ROFL. I saw an article on an open Q&A they had and a few people asked why the NZ Herald is so right-wing leaning, and an equal number asked why the NZ Herald is so left-wing leaning.

if you read infowars then NZ Herald does seem left leaning.

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#2887243 16-Mar-2022 15:42

freitasm: I saw an article on an open Q&A they had and a few people asked why the NZ Herald is so right-wing leaning, and an equal number asked why the NZ Herald is so left-wing leaning.

How many asked why it's such a rag? I think that's the more important question.

Disclaimer: I occasionally get handed the Weekend Herald when the alternative is to stare at the wall for several hours. The weekday one may be less bad.

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#2887245 16-Mar-2022 15:45

elpenguino:
if you read infowars then NZ Herald does seem left leaning.

Compared to Infowars, almost everything is left-leaning, and that would include the Völkischer Beobachter.

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#2887264 16-Mar-2022 16:22

My parents listen to NZME radio stations and they seem pretty right wing to me.

Last year Hal Crawford wrote a very interesting piece on the commercial pressures that are pushing NZME and Stuff to the right and left respectively.

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#2887268 16-Mar-2022 16:26

rb99:

Annoys me that I keep gravitating back to the right wing rag that is the NZ Herald.

If you think that is right wing you have a very curious definition of right wing....

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