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#3487782 5-May-2026 16:35

Rikkitic:

Handsomedan:

Ticketmaster's awful customer service.

What an atrocious "service" they provide

Didn't they just get the crap sued out of them? I don't recall the exact item but I seem to remember if was fairly brutal.

Wouldn't be the first time.

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#3487907 5-May-2026 22:41

Handsomedan:

deepred:

Handsomedan:

Ticketmaster's awful customer service.

What an atrocious "service" they provide

Wouldn't expect anything less from a monopolistic megacorp.

After multiple emails, it turns out it's my fault because I didn't do some trouble shooting first.

Apparently, I should have:

Cleared the cache on my phone
Restarted my phone
Try a different device
Update the app
Restart my phone
Check my device compatibility
Clear the app cache
.......

This is just balls.

Many of my parents generation would be absolutely flummoxed with having to do all this jiggery pokery.

Mother in law constantly has these kind of "problems", and she ain't no dummy. She ran the immigration IBM tabulators back in her day.

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#3488026 6-May-2026 11:33

Misleading stats: https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360974925/nz-unemployment-rate-dips-53-auckland-joblessness-soars-10-year-high

Whilst technically speaking, we can state that unemployment figures have dipped, it doesn't paint the whole picture.

I have two adult sons - one of which is a fully qualified/graduated degree-holding sports scientist, who can only get part time work a few hours a week.
The other graduated from film school to try getting work in his industry for 6 moths, before giving up and going back to university to do a second Bachelors degree in a somewhat related field.

Neither of these young adults is technically unemployed. They don't show up in the stats. Neither is gainfully employed in their chosen field and neither of them is working full time.
They live at home, rent-free and work a few hours a week while either studying or looking for more work.
I worry for our youth.

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#3488159 6-May-2026 15:56

Handsomedan:

Misleading stats: https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360974925/nz-unemployment-rate-dips-53-auckland-joblessness-soars-10-year-high

Whilst technically speaking, we can state that unemployment figures have dipped, it doesn't paint the whole picture.

I have two adult sons - one of which is a fully qualified/graduated degree-holding sports scientist, who can only get part time work a few hours a week.
The other graduated from film school to try getting work in his industry for 6 moths, before giving up and going back to university to do a second Bachelors degree in a somewhat related field.

Neither of these young adults is technically unemployed. They don't show up in the stats. Neither is gainfully employed in their chosen field and neither of them is working full time.
They live at home, rent-free and work a few hours a week while either studying or looking for more work.
I worry for our youth.

The ones that are gainfully employed tend to be in Australia, which is maybe why the unemployment rate isn't higher. Oh the joys of an extractive rentier economy. Or a "housing market with bits tacked on" as Bernard Hickey often refers to it.

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#3488396 7-May-2026 13:09

Kickstarter.

I’ve backed three projects that were fully funded for which nothing was ever received.

I contacted their laughingly ironic ‘Customer Services’ team whose responses can be distilled into “yeah. Nah. Sorry about that. Not our problem.”

I won’t be bothering with it again as a platform.

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#3488398 7-May-2026 13:20

Risks are made clear about it so if you don't want to risk it that's probably for the best.

Richard rich.ms

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#3488754 8-May-2026 14:45

"We need an integration between existing system X and new system Y".

This integration ends up being one of the more complex, although I'm not sure how much time I spent on it.

System Y goes live.

Seven hours and fifty-five minutes after go-live: "Please remove the integration between systems X and Y; we've decided we don't need it".

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#3488760 8-May-2026 15:28

That's incredibly relatable...

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#3488875 8-May-2026 17:23

Here's a list of unsolicited numbers I've received in the last several months alone (links to reverse lookups where available). Who else has gotten calls from them?

03-563-8400 (donations)
03-567-4317
04-886-0148 via Symbio
04-887-8867
04-889-4715
04-901-6966 (Welly Free Ambulance donations)
06-241-8398 (Palmerston North)
06-920-3951 (New Plymouth)
07-245-7177 (Clever Contacts: telemarketer from New Plymouth)
09-304-1513
09-886-7059
09-967-8781 (One NZ telemarketer; I'm a former TelstraClear/Vodafone customer and they're probably asking me to come back)

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#3488877 8-May-2026 17:33

Behodar: Seven hours and fifty-five minutes after go-live: "Please remove the integration between systems X and Y; we've decided we don't need it".

good outcome compared to operating the thing for 10 years because 'politics'..

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#3489035 9-May-2026 00:52

Some idiot taking my rubbish bin, caught him on camera. Anyone know what the bin company is likely to charge me for its replacement?

I have to stew until Monday before they’re open to take phone calls. Hopefully they have a record of its serial number so could track it down next collection day, if the thief puts it out the front of theirs.

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#3489047 9-May-2026 08:30

All the Christchurch bins have RFID tags on them that are read when the truck lifts the bin up to empty it.

Theory is that bins won't be emptied if at the wrong address, but not sure how this actually works in practice.

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#3489050 9-May-2026 08:54

The calibre of thieves has dropped if they are now stealing rubbish bins presumably with the contents still inside. Hallelujah if they didn’t dump the rubbish on your path first.

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#3489116 9-May-2026 11:48

deepred:

Here's a list of unsolicited numbers I've received in the last several months alone (links to reverse lookups where available). Who else has gotten calls from them?

I found that the volume of nuisance calls dropped off to almost zero when I started using the new call screening feature on the iPhone. It seems that time wasters will leave you alone when they discover that you have robust gatekeeping on your phone and there is minimal chance of actually getting you on the line.

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#3489175 9-May-2026 13:22

alasta:

deepred:

Here's a list of unsolicited numbers I've received in the last several months alone (links to reverse lookups where available). Who else has gotten calls from them?

I found that the volume of nuisance calls dropped off to almost zero when I started using the new call screening feature on the iPhone. It seems that time wasters will leave you alone when they discover that you have robust gatekeeping on your phone and there is minimal chance of actually getting you on the line.

Samsungs have an alert when a calling number is suspected spam

Sony Xperia XA2 running Sailfish OS. https://sailfishos.org The true independent open source mobile OS
Samsung Galaxy Tab S6
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