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

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#3204375 8-Mar-2024 10:02

Vendor: here’s this really important thing you must do.
Me: implementing changes
Me: changes don’t work
Me: call useless support line
Vendor: 30 minutes of porkies, conflicting instructions and them telling me I must be entering something incorrectly and five minutes of please hold while I check something and an escalation to another gimp… oh, we haven’t implemented that yet

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#3204380 8-Mar-2024 10:14

neb: If you have your meal of the day at 7:30pm, what's it called?.

Snack! 😄

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#3204569 8-Mar-2024 15:07

Insurance-appointed reinstatement company calls to offer up a progress report on the ongoing (2 years and counting) repairs post-flooding.

New tiles - grout is cracking in one area.

Asks what discussion I had with the tiler. I was vague. Tries to blame our choice of tiles and fabricates a piece of the story - tries to put some cost on us, which I refuse to be drawn into.

I then fill in the gaps with the full conversation I had with the tiler. Suddenly it's "I'll speak to the insurance company and get some advice then come back to you".

I'm over it. This is the sort of thing that Fair Go used to wield a mighty stick at. When they're gone, who is going to publicly name and shame and force resolutions on behalf of consumers?

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#3204616 8-Mar-2024 17:33

I agree, pretty sad to see Fair Go get the chop. We learned a lot from them and they were a public service. Can’t understand why they would cut it.

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#3204714 9-Mar-2024 06:13

The sharp increase in unqualified, uninterested, incompetent employees in the service sector, who were simply hired because they are "cheap" and can be charged expensively to the client. The client in turn charges the customer, i.e. "us".

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#3204717 9-Mar-2024 06:33

Six nights until we fly back to New Zealand and both kids are sick, Miss 12 with a serious fever. I’m feeling a bit run down too.

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#3205216 11-Mar-2024 08:15

First day back from a 10 day beach holiday and all three kids are sick with fevers.

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#3205266 11-Mar-2024 09:38

Senecio:

Geektastic: The idea that breakfast shows in radio end at 0900.

I rarely eat breakfast, but when I do it’s certainly not at such an uncivilised early hour as that!

I’ve usually had my 2nd breakfast before 9am comes around.

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#3205267 11-Mar-2024 09:40

Monday.

That is all.

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#3205270 11-Mar-2024 09:44

Handsomedan:

I'm over it. This is the sort of thing that Fair Go used to wield a mighty stick at. When they're gone, who is going to publicly name and shame and force resolutions on behalf of consumers?

Sadly, I think the real Fair Go went some time ago. Installing a wannabe comedian as a presenter shows how low it has sunk. It's just 7 Sharp in a different studio.

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#3205310 11-Mar-2024 12:33

When the courier tracking says "delivered" but there's no sign of it.

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#3205342 11-Mar-2024 14:02

Behodar:

When the courier tracking says "delivered" but there's no sign of it.

Gotta lie to keep to those targets.

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#3205344 11-Mar-2024 14:04

cddt:
First day back from a 10 day beach holiday and all three kids are sick with fevers.

Could be worse, could have been "first day of a 10 day beach holiday and all three kids are sick with fevers", see @Handle9's post.

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#3205484 11-Mar-2024 19:11

Behodar:

When the courier tracking says "delivered" but there's no sign of it.

This is the main reason why I put a camera at the front of my property.

You're not on Atlantis anymore, Duncan Idaho.

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#3205534 12-Mar-2024 07:11

Handsomedan:
Insurance-appointed reinstatement company calls to offer up a progress report on the ongoing (2 years and counting) repairs post-flooding.

New tiles - grout is cracking in one area.

Asks what discussion I had with the tiler. I was vague. Tries to blame our choice of tiles and fabricates a piece of the story - tries to put some cost on us, which I refuse to be drawn into.

Grout cracking usually implies movement and that suggests the backing.

A friend recently had some renovations done and one of the tilers asked to quote gave a long list of things the builder had done wrongly that could affect the end result. I thought he should have got the job but anyway at least the builder was called back to fix the mistakes.

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