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#3465038 26-Feb-2026 08:01

Well... "Your lack of planning does not constitute an emergency of my part."

At work we are very conscious of this type of thing. It's a good reminder that respect goes both ways, and it's earned.

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#3465043 26-Feb-2026 08:11

freitasm:

Well... "Your lack of planning does not constitute an emergency of my part."

At work we are very conscious of this type of thing. It's a good reminder that respect goes both ways, and it's earned.

My work mug has that exact phrase on it. Prominently placed on my desk. ;-)

I trained the people I work with very quickly on what happens if you schedule a meeting over my lunch breaks (which are blocked out in my calendar). Exceptions can be made but only if that respect has been earned and you'd better ask nicely before you try dropping it on me.

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#3465053 26-Feb-2026 08:33

Behodar:

So when do they move it to? Just over the top of a project go-live and someone else being away at her son's school camp.

Reminds me a little of trying to organise a lads weekend every year to play golf. It's got to the point now where no weekend suits, so that two of us just pick the one we like and say anyone is welcome to join but we haven't booked you anything!

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#3465071 26-Feb-2026 09:09

Halfway through drinking a tumbler of water I discover a bug in the water. Not happy.

Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.

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#3465148 26-Feb-2026 12:22

People mispronouncing words (a really small annoyance). The one I'm hearing a lot lately is "escalating" as "esculating". It's the aural equivalent of a nail down a blackboard...

Another annoyance (with myself) is my brain getting ahead of my fingers when I'm typing and subconsciously typing a word I'm about to write in the middle of the word I'm supposed to be typing...

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#3465168 26-Feb-2026 13:32

My annoyance of the week is one that's been mentioned here before: The use of dark filters in film/television to imitate darkness or dusk/dawn.

It's irritating to watch something that can barely be seen on full brightness in daylight. A proper night shot is harder to do, I freely accept, but none of this is being done on zero budget. Even my son did night shots at night at Film School.

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#3465235 26-Feb-2026 16:16

Emailed a vendor to replace a faulty unit

gets replaced, but with incorrect config

emailed vendor asking them to check the config as it has some errors and is miss-configured

vendor restarts equipment and closes case.

Emailed vendor asking who gave an ok to close the case, and to check the config

vendor replies that the restart and a minor (not sufficient) configuration change cleared the fault

Vendors manager asks why it was closed and to have the configuration checked

vendor replies that the config change cleared the fault.

It’s still not set correctly.

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#3465270 26-Feb-2026 20:13

Cheques. Why do these stupid things still exist?

Yes I know that they don't exist anymore in NZ and that is a good thing.

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#3465275 26-Feb-2026 21:01

I'm sure we could have a whole thread about Siri stupidity, although it'll usually say "I didn't understand" or "I can't do that". Not this time.

I said "Please wake me up at quarter to six" and it just closed itself without doing anything. No error message, no confirmation, just nothing. It did not set an alarm.

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#3465318 27-Feb-2026 08:21

Handle9:

Cheques. Why do these stupid things still exist?

Yes I know that they don't exist anymore in NZ and that is a good thing.

You can literally hand write a cheque on a piece of paper and give it to the bank for them to process. Cheque books just provide a printed convenience of that. It would need banks to no longer accept them, for them to go away.

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#3465321 27-Feb-2026 08:27

MadEngineer:

It would need banks to no longer accept them [cheques], for them to go away.

Which is the case in New Zealand. Banks no longer accept paper cheques. Even if you get paid from an overseas account. Only electronic transfers now.

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#3465327 27-Feb-2026 08:59

freitasm:

MadEngineer:

It would need banks to no longer accept them [cheques], for them to go away.

Which is the case in New Zealand. Banks no longer accept paper cheques. Even if you get paid from an overseas account. Only electronic transfers now.

100% correct.
This happened some time ago.
They were an outmoded form of payment (promissory notes) and needed to be replaced with a more efficient and secure method of payment. So they were.
I'm not sure my 20 year old kids would even recall having seen a cheque...despite the fact that they were around for a large part of their lives. As kids they wouldn't have used them.

Cheques are apparently still a big part of US life and with the numbers of unbanked US citizens, there's also a big "cheque cashing" industry. Or "Checks" as they incorrectly call them over there.

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#3465329 27-Feb-2026 09:00

Behodar:

I'm sure we could have a whole thread about Siri stupidity, although it'll usually say "I didn't understand" or "I can't do that". Not this time.

I said "Please wake me up at quarter to six" and it just closed itself without doing anything. No error message, no confirmation, just nothing. It did not set an alarm.

My experience with Siri is that 25% of the time it does what I ask, 25% of the time it does something different from what I asked, 25% of the time it throws an error, and the other 25% of the time it just ignores me and does nothing.

It's been totally useless ever since the overhyped launch more than ten years ago.

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#3465331 27-Feb-2026 09:13

I have never had any issues with Siri, but that is probably because I have never used it. Probably just confirms that I am just another old fart?

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#3465337 27-Feb-2026 09:35

Companies like Dell, who require you to login to their website when you hit UNSUBSCRIBE on their emails.

It's a dark pattern. It adds friction to the process and makes people less inclined to unsubscribe.

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