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

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#2495233 30-May-2020 19:00

floydbloke:

This, plus when people (including councils) let their shrubbery and trees overgrow and obstruct the footpaths.

Similarly, planting shrubbery which obstructs your view of traffic in places like roundabouts.

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#2495234 30-May-2020 19:02

Geektastic:

Designers of websites that when you enter a term in the search box, design the system so that you have time to prepare a 6 course meal for 12 people before the results are returned...

And input fields that aren't parsed to strip out extraneous characters...The covid app for example, from memory I had a space on the end of my phone number and the covid app rejected it as invalid.

Very easy to parse phone number fields.

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#2495248 30-May-2020 19:10

surfisup1000:

floydbloke:

This, plus when people (including councils) let their shrubbery and trees overgrow and obstruct the footpaths.

Similarly, planting shrubbery which obstructs your view of traffic in places like roundabouts.

Not as bad as the signage that blocks the view of oncoming cars indicators that they insist on putting on the islands at roundabouts. Those are a choice they actually made rather than someone putting plants that then grow bigger.

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#2495293 30-May-2020 19:49

Racist bigots

They seem to come in a few flavours:

Skinheads
Certain demographics that are miss-informed
The "I'm not a racist but ..."

The third type are the worst IMHO. The others will at least keep their mouths shut on the subject or make their views clear whereas that last one will sit in the middle of a crowd and pout on about how taniwhas hold the country to ransom or make some bollocks claim about we should all be "treated equally" or "as one" while putting on a grating faked accent. Not sure how to describe my reaction when they drop a line like "oh it's probably Asian made" when in the company of Asians.

Then there's me. When I smell a bigot (trust me, they stink) I'll be sure to forever greet them in Te Reo.

It takes a mixture of ingredients to bake a cake I suppose.

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#2495521 31-May-2020 09:52

Receiving a (Genuine) email from 2Degrees Broadband saying I have an overdue amount!

They bill my credit card every month!

It was an "Accounting Error"!!!

How many other people get these? Sheesh!

(Supposedly fixed for me now!)

It annoys me.

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#2495531 31-May-2020 10:17

MadEngineer:

Racist bigots

I wouldn't have said racism is a small thing, but everyone to their own I suppose.

[edit] You should read and listen to Daryl Davis.

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#2495672 31-May-2020 13:55

msukiwi:
Receiving a (Genuine) email from 2Degrees Broadband saying I have an overdue amount!

They bill my credit card every month!

It was an "Accounting Error"!!!

How many other people get these? Sheesh!

(Supposedly fixed for me now!)

It annoys me.

I had the same from Vodafone ... but of course with Vodafone there’s always an extra hilarity thrown in: my account is actually in credit.

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#2495732 31-May-2020 16:08

NZ Post/Couriers tried to deliver my parcel to Pukekohe. It's addressed to me in Albany. They've left a card to call at some place in Pukekohe even though I can't find any comparable address in Pukekohe and the postcodes aren't remotely similar. I don't know how the courier driver can fill out the card to call even though the details are completely wrong. Now it's sitting at a Pukekohe depot until I can contact the call centre during business hours.

I know they're busy, but this seems like they haven't performed even the most basic of actions... like... looking at the address. Incompetence or laziness?

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#2495786 31-May-2020 16:37

Wait till you get the parcel in hand to see how it was addressed

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#2495790 31-May-2020 16:43

It's from 1-day. I've ordered from them several times and the address is always printed as per my profile. It'd be hard to imagine the label coming out in such a way that Albany resembles Pukekohe or 0632 resembles 2677.

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#2496151 1-Jun-2020 14:26

Tried calling NZ Post and Courier Post, got a recorded message saying that I'm calling outside of business hours. It's quite clearly within the hours stated on their recording! Their website states "Unfortunately we are unable to take any website enquiries at the moment.". So they won't answer the phone, won't put me in a wait queue, won't answer if I lodge a query over the website. I've tried tweeting at them, but I don't hold much hope for that.

Fortunately I've found the card to call part of their website and have filled out the form asking them to deliver it to my address! A good thing too, as the physical card to call is at some randoms person's house in Pukekohe. 🙄

Let's see if they can deliver it tomorrow as their website states or if it ends up in Timaru.

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#2496152 1-Jun-2020 14:27

Journeyman:

Tried calling NZ Post and Courier Post, got a recorded message saying that I'm calling outside of business hours.

Are you aware that today is a public holiday?

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#2496157 1-Jun-2020 15:06

Behodar:
Journeyman:

Tried calling NZ Post and Courier Post, got a recorded message saying that I'm calling outside of business hours.

Are you aware that today is a public holiday?

Personally I don’t think businesses like couriers should stop work just for that. They should use shift working to continue getting things done.

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#2496159 1-Jun-2020 15:13

Behodar:

Journeyman:

Tried calling NZ Post and Courier Post, got a recorded message saying that I'm calling outside of business hours.

Are you aware that today is a public holiday?

I wasn't, tbh. I don't work 9-5 Mon-Fri so public holidays mean nothing to me. Therefore I don't bother keeping track of them. Still, you'd think they'd still staff their contact centre given they are under the crunch at this time? With a massive influx of parcels, they just go tools down and don't do anything? Amazing.

Also, 1-day confirmed that the address they have for me is the correct one and that's what they printed out on the packaging label. The tracking number they gave me is correct, I'm told. I guess I'll find out if I get my parcel when everybody decides to do some work again.

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#2496160 1-Jun-2020 15:16

Geektastic:
Behodar:

Are you aware that today is a public holiday?

Personally I don’t think businesses like couriers should stop work just for that. They should use shift working to continue getting things done.

I'm dumbfounded. The company I work for operates 24/7/365. There are plenty of other businesses that operate through holidays just as standard practice. With online shopping being the norm these days, you'd think that NZ Post would change their operating procedures to match the way business is being done now. Guess not!

/throws hands in the air

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