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

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#3309783 16-Nov-2024 21:42

Trying to buy on trade me. Add the credit card I always use and it refuses it as unauthorised. Checked the numbers all correct. Try twice more, same answer. Infuriating.

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#3309796 16-Nov-2024 23:27

neb:
SepticSceptic: Quoting the Sex Pistols, "Can we have everything louder than everything else?"

I believe that was Motörhead, who were quoting Deep Purple.

Also on the Great Rock n Roll Swindle. Just after Malcolm's intro..

Which Deep Purple album ?
One of their live albums? .
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Rummage.

Rummage.
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Mmm. Made in Japan.... I think I'll need to listen through...
See if that phrase is lurking in there ..
Space Truckin,
Time to turn dem 'earin aids up to 75...

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#3309799 16-Nov-2024 23:48

It was Made in Japan.

For an original Motörhead quote: "If we moved in next door to you, your lawn would die".

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#3310177 18-Nov-2024 15:25

Genesis Energy who twice have refused to deliver Gas. Once because of a plastic Rubbish bin in the way (ok).

Today, because there is washing on the washing line.

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#3310178 18-Nov-2024 15:29

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Genesis Energy who twice have refused to deliver Gas. Once because of a plastic Rubbish bin in the way (ok).

Today, because there is washing on the washing line.

They don’t deserve your business.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#3310229 18-Nov-2024 16:08

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networkn:

Genesis Energy who twice have refused to deliver Gas. Once because of a plastic Rubbish bin in the way (ok).

Today, because there is washing on the washing line.

They don’t deserve your business.

I quit them years ago.

"I regret to say that we of the F.B.I. are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce." — J. Edgar Hoover

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#3310230 18-Nov-2024 16:14

Todays one is when customers call up all angry because they have not heard from us at all when they have ordered something and they have given us a completely wrong email address because they dont know their .com from their .co.nz

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#3310231 18-Nov-2024 16:15

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Genesis Energy who twice have refused to deliver Gas. Once because of a plastic Rubbish bin in the way (ok).

Today, because there is washing on the washing line.

Next time it'll be because the cylinders are facing in an inauspicious direction and/or the chakras aren't correctly aligned.

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#3310284 18-Nov-2024 16:26

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Todays one is when customers call up all angry because they have not heard from us at all when they have ordered something and they have given us a completely wrong email address because they dont know their .com from their .co.nz

What I find helps with grumpy customers is taking the attitude that I’m going to get them sorted and by the end of the interaction they’ll be raving about how helpful I was. It seems that the grumpier a customer is the happier they are once sorted. It’s like getting both ends of their bipolar swing.

The other thing I do is to give the customer at least the impression that I’m advocating for them. Even if it’s completely their fault, how could we have done better so that the customer didn’t have this problem?

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#3310287 18-Nov-2024 16:45

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richms:

Todays one is when customers call up all angry because they have not heard from us at all when they have ordered something and they have given us a completely wrong email address because they dont know their .com from their .co.nz

What I find helps with grumpy customers is taking the attitude that I’m going to get them sorted and by the end of the interaction they’ll be raving about how helpful I was. It seems that the grumpier a customer is the happier they are once sorted. It’s like getting both ends of their bipolar swing.

The other thing I do is to give the customer at least the impression that I’m advocating for them. Even if it’s completely their fault, how could we have done better so that the customer didn’t have this problem?

Absolutely agree. Back in the day I sometimes had to deal with customers who were aggrieved with our organisation - sometimes it might have been my fault but often it was a valid beef with the organisation.

Not always, but I often found that if things were handled well, proper apologies made and things put more than right, I could end up with a better and stronger relationship with those clients than I had with them before the incident happened.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#3310594 19-Nov-2024 12:51

invisibleman18: Emailed Aviation Security on the off chance the powerbank might still be available to retrieve. Figured nothing to lose. They said once removed the item becomes the responsibility of the airline so contact them. Emailed the airline and they replied back with the spiel about why some bags get opened and said contact Aviation Security for more info.

I replied back to the airline to say AVSEC had told me they don't hold goods and they are passed onto the airline's baggage services and they replied again telling me to contact Auckland Airport's lost property services as items get passed onto them. They have replied saying this is incorrect as they don't get given confiscated items and it's the responsibility of the airline's baggage service and referred me back to them. They gave me a different email address to the one I'd tried before though so will email one last time in case that goes somewhere else then I think it's safe to give up on it. Kind of annoying to think it might be sitting in cabinet somewhere in the airport but noone can say so.

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#3310598 19-Nov-2024 13:08

Appliances that don't fit into the spaces you measured and expected they did.

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#3310604 19-Nov-2024 13:32

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Appliances that don't fit into the spaces you measured and expected they did.

I have that issue with some dell server power supplies I got that I didn't realize were coming with a whackky power plug and an adapter to normal IEC, so the enclosures I got for them are too small for that and the output board to give me 12v.

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#3310606 19-Nov-2024 13:38

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networkn:

Appliances that don't fit into the spaces you measured and expected they did.

I have that issue with some dell server power supplies I got that I didn't realize were coming with a whackky power plug and an adapter to normal IEC, so the enclosures I got for them are too small for that and the output board to give me 12v.

Mine is that I finally got an induction stove, got a great deal on it, and despite being a 90cm cooktop same as the gas one it's replacing, the elements are closer to the edge and so don't meet the clearance requirements.

Gas fitter is trying to make it fit, but at his hourly rate it feels like this is going to cost a fortune. Not to mention the rangehood will be slightly off centre afterward.

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#3310610 19-Nov-2024 13:47

Inconsiderate drivers. Yeah I know, this annoys all of us but I'll be more specific.

The streets in my neighborhood are plenty wide, and even with a parked car on one side there is still plenty of room for two cars to pass as long as one of them is considerate and moves to the side a little. But so often you'll just have this one car that refuses to accomodate other drivers and just drives straight down the centre line as it is their right to do so.

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