Supplemental: noise control taking their sweet time to turn up.

Unhinged Sports Fans making death threats and generally behaving badly. 

The constant stream of brainless disparaging remarks about boomers. Just because someone was born after WWII doesn't mean they are repressive reactionaries. This makes as much sense as dissing someone's star sign.

Rikkitic:

 

The constant stream of brainless disparaging remarks about boomers. Just because someone was born after WWII doesn't mean they are repressive reactionaries. This makes as much sense as dissing someone's star sign.

 

I consider that term to be one of the 10 worst words ever made. It's such a nasty negative and entirely generalising hateful way to refer to a person simply based on age. It entirely disregards the benefits that generation provided that the people using that terminology probably unknowingly benefit significantly from. (Yes I know there are negatives too). 

Absolutely atrocious wifi speeds in an upmarket 5 star nearly new (18 months old) hotel. 

Raised the issue, was dismissed as 'that's just how it is, nothing we can do'. 

Uber. 

1) Was in Brisbane, surge pricing no longer appears to be based on demand, but just specific times AND demand. 

2) Accepting a ride at $32 to get home last night from Auckland Airport at 1am.  Showings finding a driver for 40 minutes, people are getting picked up, even arriving and arranging well after me. I finally cancelled, and was charged $70 for the replacement ride, which arrived within 3 minutes! Such shady practice. If they let me know 40 minutes earlier I was going to have to wait 40 minutes, I'd have done something different. 

networkn:

 

Uber. 

 

And this surprises you why?, 

En$hitification is pretty much the 2.0 business model that all "legacy" tech companies are following as they rush to keep up with the AI cool kids on Wall st.

networkn:

 

Absolutely atrocious wifi speeds in an upmarket 5 star nearly new (18 months old) hotel. 

 

Raised the issue, was dismissed as 'that's just how it is, nothing we can do'. 

 

I was just in Sydney. The ~3 Mb/s connection was leaps and bounds ahead of the 256k I had an Adelaide in 2019, but still not fast enough to do anything useful. I had a TV show I wanted to watch and ended up having to use a stream downloader so that I could actually watch the thing. And then I had to fight with the TV. Built-in Chromecast, but it would play for 20 seconds then freeze up for 5. I'd brought an HDMI cable with me, but the Source button on the remote did nothing. Fortunately Google was helpful and told me to disconnect the Ethernet cable, which worked, but good grief.

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wellygary:

 

And this surprises you why?, 

 

Not really sure the point of your reply. It annoyed me, I didn't say it surprised me (well a 40 minute wait for a ride was surprising). I've been with Uber since they first launched, and honestly, on the whole I've been extremely pleased with it. 

networkn:

 

wellygary:

 

And this surprises you why?, 

 

 

Not really sure the point of your reply. It annoyed me, I didn't say it surprised me (well a 40 minute wait for a ride was surprising). I've been with Uber since they first launched, and honestly, on the whole I've been extremely pleased with it. 

 

I guess its the fact that it seems to have become SOP for companies to mildly annoy their customers in the search for more $$$,  

wellygary:

 

I guess its the fact that it seems to have become SOP for companies to mildly annoy their customers in the search for more $$$,  

 

Hence my post. The topic isn't 'something small that really annoys you (but isn't that surprising). 

Anyways, I am tired, and grumpy. 

2 degrees prepay auto renewal not automatically renewing.

Internal customer builds something in Excel then tosses it at me in an email. "Can you please review this and make sure that my code's correct and all the calculations are right?". This was not logged as a proper ticket or anything, and I have no knowledge of the business processes behind it. I told him that I don't have capacity to do such a thing.

A month later he sends me "How are you getting on with reviewing that tool?"

Behodar:

 

Internal customer builds something in Excel then tosses it at me in an email. "Can you please review this and make sure that my code's correct and all the calculations are right?". This was not logged as a proper ticket or anything, and I have no knowledge of the business processes behind it. I told him that I don't have capacity to do such a thing.

 

A month later he sends me "How are you getting on with reviewing that tool?"

 

ROFL.

@Behodar:

 

Internal customer builds something in Excel then tosses it at me in an email. "Can you please review this and make sure that my code's correct and all the calculations are right?". This was not logged as a proper ticket or anything, and I have no knowledge of the business processes behind it. I told him that I don't have capacity to do such a thing.

 

A month later he sends me "How are you getting on with reviewing that tool?"

 

High chances it was vibe-coded, with the user also giving the non business-managed AI tool full access to his business account, to "help development".

Clarify it, and if so, flag as a security risk and escalate... See how the user likes it.