I hate

what, like theres a handle but if you pull it nothing happens?

We've all been there.

Your talents are wasted on this forum.

Notes business opportunity for hologram handles.

How much would you be willing to pay for a remedy for your problem.

Late to the party but no! Pick up a pile of forks left hand and a pile of knives right hand, walk round table laying them, done.

People speaking into their phone like this.
I know it’s been mentioned before but it’s worth repeating.

1 Attachment

• IMG_7699.webp

Also my credit union, didn’t register a huge online payment until a day later, after I had made a duplicate one.

I do this but I hate it too

There was an episode of South Park where Cartman was ostentatiously doing that all over the place... Trey & Matt really know how to take the piss.

#thumbsup

Drawerfullash1t

I hate “are you sure?”

Most of my professional life I have acted as a go-between between two official bodies.

One entity will ask me to ask a question of the other. When I return with an outcome that is not what the asker was hoping for, they won’t say; “what a shame” , “how disappointing” or “ok let’s think of something else” . They say “are you sure?” Like I’m lying or too stupid to ask the question. Sometimes they invite someone more senior to take a look at the issue and they ask the question and they say “are you sure?” When I give the response. Sometimes they ask me to go back and ask again and then when they get the same response…”are you sure?”

That sucks. I had that a lot in my career when I was younger, due to ageism and possibly some racism as well as general assumption of incompetence.

Not to offer unrequested advice, but depending on how busy you are and how many fucks you have left to give, are you able to stand your ground? I assume you’re busy or value your work, otherwise you’d could just coast from confirmation to confirmation.

‘Hi Name. Yes: I’ve checked and rechecked the maths/had the conversations/ sought confirmation. Grateful if you’d proceed with X.’ followed by a ‘Name, As discussed, I’ve double confirmed this. I won’t be doing what you’ve asked me to repeat since it places unnecessary pressure on my team for no impact. Please proceed with X.’. Freed up a lot of my time.

Cheers im generally working with C level people, I’m good at my job especially at the negotiating stage. I have a lot of experience there..it’s just a default reaction from people who aren’t used to being told no.

Socks that have a defined L/R on them.

You’d struggle with tabi and toe socks then.

Fucking couriers.

UPS this time.

"Your parcel is arriving today. Scheduled Delivery. Monday 17/06/2024. 10:45 - 14:45"

Of course I stay in all day (I usually want a little break from my desk in order to go to the shops) and nothing. Left home at 5pm to take daughter to sports training and they managed to come by in the 20 minute window before my wife got home.

New email: "Scheduled Delivery. Tuesday 18/06/2024. 10:45 - 14:45"

We'll see if they can keep to that. Don't want to go out before then in case they turn up early.

This is all for a parcel that should be small enough to fit through the letter box anyway.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, self-checkouts that don't work with your own bag. A special shout-out to Sainsbury's who have removed the "Add own bag" button from their checkouts so they fail every single fucking time.

Added to that, supermarkets who are saving on shitloads of checkout staff and still only have one person running all the self-checkouts.

I have a bunch of those fingerscrossed socks that say stuff on the back: hell yeah, and see you. Can be mix and matched for alternatives like "yeah, you!" and "see: hell"

I am currently hating a supermarket worker (against my principles)

I am sure he has his reasons and I’m sure if the reasons are what I suspect they are..I am a very bad person

He speaks very loudly and clearly in a strong westcountry accent. Sort of like a town crier-worzel gummidge-AI .
He always wants to pack your bags and will grab your bag like a pickpocket and the proceed to completely mash up your shopping. He folded a pizza in its box on Saturday. He can crush a near frozen block of butter with his paws

So even if the scales are fucked, I’m not going to the till if Peter is on shift

In my nearest Saino's Local I rarely buy more stuff than fits in a single bag. It's all about whether there is someone by the tills when I'm about to start scanning:

• If there is then I get them to do their magic to allow my bag to be used on the scales = no delay
  
• If not I just scan it all onto the packing area and then, when paying, pack it all into my bag with no interaction required.
  
  

There's also a way you can scan a bunch of items (5 or 6) onto the packing area and then move them all in one go to your bag which is on the floor. The scales think you've been packing into a bag and lifting it off when full.

In the bigger Saino's then scanning with the app and packing as you go is the answer. Very little nonsense and interaction required.

There's also a way you can scan a bunch of items (5 or 6) onto the packing area and then move them all in one go to your bag which is on the floor.

More information required on this witchcraft.

How? Tell us how?

Put bag on floor (rather than fight with the "using your own bag" shit)
Scan a bunch of items, one at a time obviously, and put them in the packing area
Once you've done a bunch then you can lift them all up and put them in your bag which is on the floor.
This should leave the packing area empty ready for your next load of items to scan

What I think happens is that the tills are set to whine/moan if:

• The packing area scales do not increase in weight by the expected amount after scanning an item
  
• The weight goes down a bit, but not all the way back down, e.g. a single item is removed
  
  

but they don't complain if everything has been added one by one correctly and then it relatively quickly goes back to the zero/tare weight.

does that work… sounds like voodoo to me

The scenario it is coping with is someone putting a large shop through the till and using the shop supplied lightweight bags. You scan and load up and when a bag is full you move it off the packing area somewhere else (usually the floor).

All this does is do the same but without the bags.

It's certainly worked for me a few times and some times I've had problems. I guess it's because I haven't moved everything off the packing area scales as quickly as necessary and so it doesn't fit the tiny computer brain's model of "lifting a packed bag off in one go".

[EDIT] If I ever get my fucking UPS delivery I can go to the shops and try it out again.