Now you're giving me memories of the 4 MB IBM PS/ValuePoints at high school with OS/2 Warp 3!

That out of 5 separate parcels from AliExpress the one I ordered first and needed more than any of the others is the only one not to have arrived yet!

msukiwi:

 

That out of 5 separate parcels from AliExpress the one I ordered first and needed more than any of the others is the only one not to have arrived yet!

 

Wait till they start to combine ones for you. And the thing you want is combined and not here yet whereas all the non combined ones have arrived.

richms:Wait till they start to combine ones for you. And the thing you want is combined and not here yet whereas all the non combined ones have arrived.

Had that with 2 (3 in one and 2 in another) of the other 4 parcels, and they still arrived before the first order (Still Waiting)!

richms:

Wait till they start to combine ones for you. And the thing you want is combined and not here yet whereas all the non combined ones have arrived.

Geektastic: The endless boring spiel we are subjected to when we ring organisations now.

“Did you know you can look at our websites blah blah privacy policy blah blah may be recorded for training purposes blah blah busier than usual blah blah etc waffle blah blah “

I don’t want to hear it. I’m not interested. I don’t care. Neither do I want your tinny low quality “music” for another half an hour.

Just put me straight through to a human being please.

Truth.  Like my recent experience calling nzpost for chasing up a parcel that had been bouncing between two depots for the last two weeks.  If you enter the tracking number it hangs up on you after telling you the status that you can already find from the website so you press the "pound hash tag" key five times to get through to another level.  Throw in a whole lot of waffle about international postage delays when you've just selected option 1 for a parcel sent within nz.

How about the ear grinding computerised voice that sounds like faux Chinese and "... we are sorry about this.  You can track your parcel at [FFFFFFORTISMO] DOUBLELOUDOUBLOUDOUBLELOUDOTENZEDPOSTDOTCODOTENZED"

Jase2985:

 

Geektastic: The endless boring spiel we are subjected to when we ring organisations now.

“Did you know you can look at our websites blah blah privacy policy blah blah may be recorded for training purposes blah blah busier than usual blah blah etc waffle blah blah “

I don’t want to hear it. I’m not interested. I don’t care. Neither do I want your tinny low quality “music” for another half an hour.

Just put me straight through to a human being please.

 

1. probably half the calls could be sorted out by people using the website, some people forget to use it or dont know it had that function

 

2. privacy is a big thing so people need to know there data is dafe

 

3. requirement to tell people they are being recorded

 

4. wouldn't you like to know you could be waiting longer?

 

1) Not relevant to me - if I could have sorted it out, I would already have done that....

2) Not really - at least not in this context. Nobody rings up expecting to be fully informed of the privacy policy before they speak to anyone. Privacy policies are like EULA's - everyone has one and nobody reads them or cares

3) Don't record them then - you don't record conversations between staff and customers in shops

4) No. I would like you to answer the call so that I do not have to wait at all

I am not sure if companies are aware how irritating this all is and how it actually turns people off doing business with them.

Geektastic:

 

 

 

1) Not relevant to me - if I could have sorted it out, I would already have done that....

 

2) Not really - at least not in this context. Nobody rings up expecting to be fully informed of the privacy policy before they speak to anyone. Privacy policies are like EULA's - everyone has one and nobody reads them or cares

 

3) Don't record them then - you don't record conversations between staff and customers in shops

 

4) No. I would like you to answer the call so that I do not have to wait at all

 

 

 

 

 

I am not sure if companies are aware how irritating this all is and how it actually turns people off doing business with them.

 

1. they don't know who's calling so cater to the lowest denominator. if it can save them having to talk to someone they will do it.

2. they may be like EULA but they still have to provide that info, even if you dont care for it.

3. it will be some HR or corporate initiative to strive to be better

4. then you would complain because their costs go up because they had to hire more people just so you didnt have to wait on the phone. we are also in the middle of a pandemic where people are potentially off work.

Jase2985:

Geektastic:

 

1) Not relevant to me - if I could have sorted it out, I would already have done that....

2) Not really - at least not in this context. Nobody rings up expecting to be fully informed of the privacy policy before they speak to anyone. Privacy policies are like EULA's - everyone has one and nobody reads them or cares

3) Don't record them then - you don't record conversations between staff and customers in shops

4) No. I would like you to answer the call so that I do not have to wait at all

 

 

I am not sure if companies are aware how irritating this all is and how it actually turns people off doing business with them.

1. they don't know who's calling so cater to the lowest denominator. if it can save them having to talk to someone they will do it.

2. they may be like EULA but they still have to provide that info, even if you dont care for it.

3. it will be some HR or corporate initiative to strive to be better

4. then you would complain because their costs go up because they had to hire more people just so you didnt have to wait on the phone. we are also in the middle of a pandemic where people are potentially off work.

 

 

MadEngineer:

 

Geektastic: The endless boring spiel we are subjected to when we ring organisations now.

“Did you know you can look at our websites blah blah privacy policy blah blah may be recorded for training purposes blah blah busier than usual blah blah etc waffle blah blah “

I don’t want to hear it. I’m not interested. I don’t care. Neither do I want your tinny low quality “music” for another half an hour.

Just put me straight through to a human being please.

 

Truth.  Like my recent experience calling nzpost for chasing up a parcel that had been bouncing between two depots for the last two weeks.  If you enter the tracking number it hangs up on you after telling you the status that you can already find from the website so you press the "pound hash tag" key five times to get through to another level.  Throw in a whole lot of waffle about international postage delays when you've just selected option 1 for a parcel sent within nz.

 

How about the ear grinding computerised voice that sounds like faux Chinese and "... we are sorry about this.  You can track your parcel at [FFFFFFORTISMO] DOUBLELOUDOUBLOUDOUBLELOUDOTENZEDPOSTDOTCODOTENZED"

 

Yeah, didn't get that call back but the parcel was delivered an hour later.

Weather report/forecast on the radio describing the current heavy rain in Auckland as ‘bad weather’. So wrong, after weeks and months of no rain, it’s beautiful weather.

It wasn't that long ago Aucklands dams were 100% full and now they are 80%. Hopefully after today they will be back to 85%!

eracode:

 

Weather report/forecast on the radio describing the current heavy rain in Auckland as ‘bad weather’. So wrong, after weeks and months of no rain, it’s beautiful weather.

 

it is till it starts flooding, we have had about 50-60mm of rain in south central auckland. Doesnt affect us too much but i suspect there will be some that are hit pretty bad

Jase2985:

 

eracode:

 

Weather report/forecast on the radio describing the current heavy rain in Auckland as ‘bad weather’. So wrong, after weeks and months of no rain, it’s beautiful weather.

 

 

it is till it starts flooding, we have had about 50-60mm of rain in south central auckland. Doesnt affect us too much but i suspect there will be some that are hit pretty bad

 

I'm just waiting for someone to catastrophise that it's all due because of climate change. Sometimes heavy rain is just heavy rain :) (It's almost like we never had floods 1000 years ago).

Yep but my wifes work has had dozens of cars that have been flooded because the storm water system couldn't handle the amount. while rain is almost never bad, the share amount that has fallen is the problem.

Niwa recorded the "second-wettest hour" in Auckland between 8am and 9am, with 76.8mm of rainfall.