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

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#2649455 8-Feb-2021 14:03

Same Moron AGAIN + 2 others currently parked in the new Hansons Lane, Chistchurch ~~Cycleway~~ parking lot!

Nice to see the $Millions so well spent!

(No - The CCC Parking Wardens are not working today!)

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#2649463 8-Feb-2021 14:23

When did the cycle way in Hanson’s,open as a cycle way? I thought it was still being constructed?

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#2649465 8-Feb-2021 14:33

BlinkyBill:When did the cycle way in Hanson’s,open as a cycle way? I thought it was still being constructed?

The lights at Suva Street are now commissioned. Fulton Hogan have emailed an update to say it is completed.

(The CCC have ticketed one car that I know of.)

It is part of the "Norwest Arc" Cycleway...CCC won't blow their trumpet until all sections are completed.

https://ccc.govt.nz/the-council/consultations-and-submissions/haveyoursay/show/121

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#2649466 8-Feb-2021 14:34

msukiwi:

BlinkyBill:When did the cycle way in Hanson’s,open as a cycle way? I thought it was still being constructed?

The lights at Suva Street are now commissioned. Fulton Hogan have emailed an update to say it is completed.

(The CCC have ticketed one car that I know of.)

It is part of the "Norwest Arc" Cycleway...CCC won't blow their trumpet until all sections are completed.

https://ccc.govt.nz/the-council/consultations-and-submissions/haveyoursay/show/121

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#2649476 8-Feb-2021 14:58

The small hole that appeared in the bottom of my recently purchased, near-full, 4 litre tin of paint. Noticed only after painting for a little while and moving said tin.

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#2649529 8-Feb-2021 15:52

A 1cm crack in our new (15 month old) shower (floor). Then waiting 60 minutes on a call to ANZ who then transferred to Tower Insurance, which made me wait another 30 minutes without answering the call.

Finding out Tower Insurance is not even ANZ's underwriter anymore, but Vero so all that time was wasted.

Thanks for nothing ANZ.

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#2649562 8-Feb-2021 17:19

That news articles featured on RNZ home page are accompanied by 'related' links that may or may not be current. The date is included, but only after you click on the link. I have been caught out by this more than once, thinking the link is about something new that has been added, only to realise (sometimes after reading in shocked disbelief) that it is hopelessly out of date and has no relevance at all.

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#2650104 9-Feb-2021 11:16

Geektastic:

Just lately I am being consistently annoyed by companies for whom "Getting it right first time" appears to be an achievement more complex and beyond their understanding than proving Fermat's Last Theorem would ....

... have been.

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#2650383 9-Feb-2021 14:09

Endless, continuous, constant, near-daily updates. Is it really so hard to just get it right the first time and then leave it alone?

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#2650391 9-Feb-2021 14:36

Rikkitic:
Endless, continuous, constant, near-daily updates. Is it really so hard to just get it right the first time and then leave it alone?

Great quote from a friend of mine who wrote some widely-used open source software, someone emailed him and asked why it hadn't been updated for many years. His response: "Some people get it right the first time".

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#2650434 9-Feb-2021 15:32

freitasm:
A 1cm crack in our new (15 month old) shower (floor). Then waiting 60 minutes on a call to ANZ who then transferred to Tower Insurance, which made me wait another 30 minutes without answering the call.

Finding out Tower Insurance is not even ANZ's underwriter anymore, but Vero so all that time was wasted.

Thanks for nothing ANZ.

This sort of time wasting inefficiency is becoming endemic.

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#2650436 9-Feb-2021 15:35

Geektastic:
freitasm:

A 1cm crack in our new (15 month old) shower (floor). Then waiting 60 minutes on a call to ANZ who then transferred to Tower Insurance, which made me wait another 30 minutes without answering the call.

Finding out Tower Insurance is not even ANZ's underwriter anymore, but Vero so all that time was wasted.

Thanks for nothing ANZ.

This sort of time wasting inefficiency is becoming endemic.

Here is more then.

Got a message from ANZ via Internet Banking saying it is Vero. Later then sent me another one saying it is actually Tower. Then on Twitter, ANZ told me via PM that it's really Tower but only until certain year, after which is Vero.

Anyway, applied for a claim to both Tower and Vero. Got a SMS from Tower this morning they have accepted the claim and will start the process. Then got a phone call from Vero saying they couldn't find an insured property at that address - I then explained to not worry as it is with Tower.

Overall a waste of time for everyone really.

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#2650444 9-Feb-2021 15:51

freitasm:

Here is more then.

Got a message from ANZ via Internet Banking saying it is Vero. Later then sent me another one saying it is actually Tower. Then on Twitter, ANZ told me via PM that it's really Tower but only until certain year, after which is Vero.

Anyway, applied for a claim to both Tower and Vero. Got a SMS from Tower this morning they have accepted the claim and will start the process. Then got a phone call from Vero saying they couldn't find an insured property at that address - I then explained to not worry as it is with Tower.

Overall a waste of time for everyone really.

In a strange way this made me smile - not for the frustration you must be feeling, but in relation to an article I read on the weekend on The Spinoff. Richard Prebble was reflecting on his book I've Been Thinking, which was "celebrating" its 25th year since publication. The foundational thesis for Prebble's book (and much of his political career) was the inefficiency of central government bureaucracy (and, seemingly implictly) the efficiency of the private sector. I find stories like yours instructive, as they illustrate the fallacy of the neoliberal dogma that governmental bureaucracy is inherently inefficient, and should be made to be efficient along private enterprise lines. As we see all too often, government has no monopoly on inefficiency, and private enterprise is just as susceptible to inefficiency and sluggish bureacracy.

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#2650449 9-Feb-2021 15:57

^^^

Truth.

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#2650499 9-Feb-2021 17:15

Lizard1977:

... as they illustrate the fallacy of the neoliberal dogma that governmental bureaucracy is inherently inefficient, and should be made to be efficient along private enterprise lines. As we see all too often, government has no monopoly on inefficiency, and private enterprise is just as susceptible to inefficiency and sluggish bureacracy.

In my business we do about half our work with government, half with private. About 80 clients in total. We do do process work as well as technology work.

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that government is inherently inefficient; and significantly less efficient than private. Over many years I’ve become convinced that this is because governments spend other peoples money, and private spends its own money.

That’s not to say private organisations are optimally efficient, obviously they aren’t, because at some point somewhere humans are involved and humans aren’t efficient.

But I am very regularly horrified at the wastage and inefficiency in the government sector, which I see significantly outweighing the wastage in the private sector.

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