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  #3395117 18-Jul-2025 07:51
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Handle9:

 

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Checking in online and getting a decent seat then when I go to board being moved to the arse end of the plane. 

 

 

Having a chat to the crew it was a change in aircraft configuration. Most of the aircraft was moved around. 

 

I was a bit grouchy about a couple of things and I have to say the crew was really great. They really tried to help make the flight better for me and I felt that they took my feedback seriously and didn’t just brush it off. After a week of typically German customer service it was a nice change. 

 

 

Had that on a family Canada trip 18 months ago.  Dad put a lot of time into booking everyone from their various home ports so that we were seated together on the flights.  However, they "changed the plane" a few days out and we were mostly all split up because of the separate bookings required to align Wgtn, Akl and Melbourne "domestic" legs with the AKL-YVR flight.  Some time on calls with the airline managed to get us seated together enough for the out bound flight but not the return flight.  That turned out ok as we were pretty much sick of each other by then anyway.





  #3395220 18-Jul-2025 08:45
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The twat sitting next to my friend and I in the cafe this morning face timing his partner and child on speaker phone. It was a busy cafe which was noisy enough as it was but the speaker on the phone was turned up to 11 so he could hear them over the cafe. We could all hear them!

 

He didn't take too kindly to being told to use earphones. Why do some people think their conversation is more important than other people's enjoyment?

 

 


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  #3395228 18-Jul-2025 08:56
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AirNZ appear to have upgraded their systems in this regard. As is the case these days I've had flight schedule changes but this time my seat allocations have moved with me - a pleasant surprise.


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  #3395618 20-Jul-2025 08:21
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In Outlook, when you accept a meeting request, it asks whether you want to send a response. I typically answer No to avoid pestering the sender with another email. However, it turns out that if you do this, then not only does it not send the email, but it also blocks them from seeing your acceptance. In other words, if they open the appointment and look at the attendee list, it doesn't show that I accepted it despite clicking Accept.

 

In short, the Accept button, by itself, doesn't do anything.

 

I think this used to work back in the dark ages, but apparently I've been doing the wrong thing for the past ~15 years. I figured I should post it here for anyone else who didn't know (when I did a Web search I found a lot of people astounded to learn that Accept doesn't accept!)


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  #3395627 20-Jul-2025 09:45
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johno1234:

 

AirNZ appear to have upgraded their systems in this regard. As is the case these days I've had flight schedule changes but this time my seat allocations have moved with me - a pleasant surprise.

 

 

We had the same with Qantas a few months ago.





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  #3395634 20-Jul-2025 12:32
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Behodar:

 

In Outlook, when you accept a meeting request, it asks whether you want to send a response. I typically answer No to avoid pestering the sender with another email. However, it turns out that if you do this, then not only does it not send the email, but it also blocks them from seeing your acceptance. In other words, if they open the appointment and look at the attendee list, it doesn't show that I accepted it despite clicking Accept.

 

In short, the Accept button, by itself, doesn't do anything.

 

I think this used to work back in the dark ages, but apparently I've been doing the wrong thing for the past ~15 years. I figured I should post it here for anyone else who didn't know (when I did a Web search I found a lot of people astounded to learn that Accept doesn't accept!)

 

 

It "accepts" in as much as it adds it to your calendar.

 

Seems a bit odd that "don't notify" takes that to the absolute extreme and turns you into a stealth attendee.





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  #3395702 20-Jul-2025 15:33
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Senecio:

 

The twat sitting next to my friend and I in the cafe this morning face timing his partner and child on speaker phone. 

 

 

I don't know whether to admit or not but I have used some especially bad words within earshot of people doing that, not at them per se, but loud enough so that the person on the other end of their call can hear!


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  #3395706 20-Jul-2025 16:42
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You could always stand in the background and wave like happens to tv reporters on location.


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  #3395713 20-Jul-2025 17:56
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k1w1k1d:

 

You could always stand in the background and wave like happens to tv reporters on location.

 

 

Having a speakerphone conversation in public is clearly an open invitation to join in.





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  #3395772 21-Jul-2025 09:19
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The lack of responsiveness/customer service from Tradies. 

Heatpump clapped out, got someione in to look at it. 
Needs parts - sent us an email quote over a week ago, with details. 
Asked in that email if we want to go ahead. I responded immediately that we did, as it's cold, it is our only heating option and we want this done ASAP. 
I have heard nothing since. 
Have left voicemails and emails with them. Nothing. 
We had to go and buy heaters from Bunnings to keep the house warm...a pretty futile task, as evidenced by the current temp in the lounge...13deg. 





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  #3395777 21-Jul-2025 09:29
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Needs parts doesn't mean parts are immediately available. Your guy may be waiting for news himself. Should keep you updated but the alternative is probably throw a new unit in if it has to be done yesterday. $$


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  #3395802 21-Jul-2025 11:48
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Bung:

 

Needs parts doesn't mean parts are immediately available. Your guy may be waiting for news himself. Should keep you updated but the alternative is probably throw a new unit in if it has to be done yesterday. $$

 


Yeah it's the communication, not the lack of parts/service availability. 

 

And without warning, he turned up and started working on it just after I'd bought another heater. 





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  #3395809 21-Jul-2025 12:28
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Tradies don't know about customer service and software to help with it. They deal with phone calls and SMS, usually while on the clock for another customer.





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  #3396501 23-Jul-2025 11:22
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The apparent inability of Woolworth's Online Shopping to deliver a fresh loaf of sliced bread. Or the booklet of stamps that they have charged me for but not supplied. Sick of the sub par "convenience" they are supposedly blessing my life with.


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  #3396520 23-Jul-2025 11:58
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We have a big new Woolworth's in Hastings. Presumable under the same management because just like the old one, the new one clearly thinks they are such a god's gift to shoppers that they don't have to offer any customer service. In spite of multiple shiny new checkout counters, only one is ever staffed and the queue winds around the store as shoppers patiently wait to be parted from their money. It has been like this for years and I try to avoid it as much as possible. Unfortunately there are some items I like that I can only get there. 

 

 





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