FineWine: At the check out they ask “do you want a receipt” and you say no, but their cash register still prints one out and they scrunch it up and throw it in the bin.

It's not a receipt, it's someone's coupon that they're contractually obliged to print.

allan:

 

The press's ongoing inability to notice, that the domestic portion of the new combined terminal at Auckland Airport is for jet aircraft only. For those flying to or from the provinces, it will still be the same crappy old terminal that is currently in use and will presumably still require a walk in the rain, or a bus to get between the two.

 

Don't get me started about AIAL. Their arrogance/ignorance is pretty well unparalleled.

AIAL delivering a second rate outcome while charging for a first rate service. 

I don't think the domestic terminal itself is too bad. Pity about the third world walkways though.

Guaranteed you'll have to walk (more likely run) or catch the bus to get from a domestic jet flight to catch a connecting turbo prop flight and vice versa. It's my bet that those that don't travel often won't know/realise whether their flight is on a jet or turbo prop and attempt to check in at the wrong terminal having been used to just one domestic terminal in the past.

neb:

 

It's not a receipt, it's someone's coupon that they're contractually obliged to print.

 

Yet this has been a problem for 10+ years. Has the contract really never been updated since then?

Speaking of supermarkets; the stock control at both the Countdown's nearest to where I live seems awful when it comes to milk.

My wife prefers trim-milk (green cap) in her tea; 95% of the time we go to shop, the green-cap milk is only a couple of days away from expiry; whereas the other (both blues, yellow, etc) is often as much as 10 days from expiry.

Surely it can't be that hard for the stores to buy smaller amounts of green-top so the stock rotates quicker?  They must throw so much away currently...

jamesrt:

 

Speaking of supermarkets; the stock control at both the Countdown's nearest to where I live seems awful when it comes to milk.

 

My wife prefers trim-milk (green cap) in her tea; 95% of the time we go to shop, the green-cap milk is only a couple of days away from expiry; whereas the other (both blues, yellow, etc) is often as much as 10 days from expiry.

 

Surely it can't be that hard for the stores to buy smaller amounts of green-top so the stock rotates quicker?  They must throw so much away currently...

 

Those egotistical LinkedIn users who write posts using single-line sentences and end with a selfie.

Also, those one-sentence paragraphs should be multiple-sentence paragraphs. You break a paragraph when you change the idea.

But then, how would you take more than two pages from someone's life?

 Most of those are entirely unrelated to business or their business personas. (Note I didn't paste the entire post below, it continues).

LinkedIn is just turning into Facebook.

Aholes who use the offfensive term 'boomers'. I can't recall a more revolting word created in recent times. 

No, I am not in the age demographic, I just don't think people should be referred to with the type of vitirol that is associated with that term. 

freitasm:

 

Those egotistical LinkedIn users who write posts using single-line sentences and end with a selfie.

 

Also, those one-sentence paragraphs should be multiple-sentence paragraphs. You break a paragraph when you change the idea.

 

But then, how would you take more than two pages from someone's life?

 

 Most of those are entirely unrelated to business or their business personas. (Note I didn't paste the entire post below, it continues).

 

LinkedIn is just turning into Facebook.

 

Looks like more of the same old motivational snake oil from the usual pseudo-meritocratic peddlers.

networkn:

 

Aholes who use the offfensive term 'boomers'. I can't recall a more revolting word created in recent times. 

 

No, I am not in the age demographic, I just don't think people should be referred to with the type of vitirol that is associated with that term. 

 

I sometimes use the term "gammon" instead. Not every Boomer is a gammon, but gammons tend to be Boomers and Gen-Xers.

This thread from the former bird site comes to mind:

"The reason there are so many conservative boomers is the poor ones die sooner.

This isn't even a joke. If you want to know why an older generation seems like a bunch of out of touch rich bastards, it's because more of the wealthy than the poor survived.

Think of how many boomers we lost to poverty, ableism, the AIDS crisis, racist violence and murder."

Behodar:

neb: It's not a receipt, it's someone's coupon that they're contractually obliged to print.

 

Yet this has been a problem for 10+ years. Has the contract really never been updated since then?

It's like the crapware that's shovelled onto laptops, the vendors make money from it so it's not going to go away no matter how much it annoys the livestock.

FineWine:

At the check out they ask “do you want a receipt” and you say no, but their cash register still prints one out and they scrunch it up and throw it in the bin.

The point of me saying no is my “little bit” for the environment.

Surely it would just take a very small line of code: yes or no for the till operator.

🤬

 

Senecio:

FineWine:

 

At the check out they ask “do you want a receipt” and you say no, but their cash register still prints one out and they scrunch it up and throw it in the bin.

 

The point of me saying no is my “little bit” for the environment.

 

Surely it would just take a very small line of code: yes or no for the till operator.

 

🤬

 

I reckon I’ve responded to posts like this about 5-6 times in this thread over the years.

I’m assuming you paid with a credit card?

If so then the vendor must provide you with a transaction receipt. It is a legal requirement and can’t be opted out of. You are only opting out of the purchase receipt when you click no.

Granted, the POS systems should do a better job of explaining this.

Credit Card, debit card, cash or Russian worthless it still prints. 

Ge0rge: That Woolworths appear to have removed the option to mute the drivel that eminates from their self check out machines.

I didn’t know there was a mute option. The sing-songy voice soon after you’ve started, saying “Do you wish to continue?” is really annoying. I hate their self-checkout and avoid it whenever I can - but unfortunately it’s not always possible.

When I’ve paid and it asks “Do you wish to print a receipt?” I just ignore it, pick up my stuff and walk out leaving it hanging - as my little childish protest. I also leave my basket at the terminal.