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Post by MartinT on Oct 13, 2020 21:33:22 GMT
Are you going to 'make things easy' again?
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Post by Slinger on Oct 13, 2020 22:23:24 GMT
Are you going to 'make things easy' again? I'm not going to touch it, Martin. True story though, it took me three browsers to get my order recognised. I tried with Chrome as per usual and it wouldn't add any of my discounts, or the £10.00 credit I had. It also told me that one of the things I'd ordered wasn't available from " this supplier" anymore. Bearing in mind it was being supplied by Amazon, that was a bit odd too. I switched to Edge Beta and it seemed OK until I went to check out and half way through doing that the page reverted to chunks of the underlying code and not much else. I finally switched to Opera, and boom, it worked first time. I'm beginning to take this very personally.
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Post by MartinT on Oct 13, 2020 22:33:33 GMT
Edge beta? It's been in production for yonks, now.
Sometimes browsers do that for no good reason. Usually a restart will clear it.
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Post by MikeMusic on Oct 14, 2020 9:11:09 GMT
Browser problems like this should not be around in 2020 Amazon will lose business and serve them right
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Post by Slinger on Oct 14, 2020 13:28:08 GMT
Edge beta? It's been in production for yonks, now. Yes, sorry, force of habit calling it that. I was running the B eta and the D ev versions and never got around to updating the desktop icons. Incidentally, the parcel I specifically ordered for Wednesday, you know, the one that was automatically changed to Thursday delivery... it just arrived.
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Post by MartinT on Oct 14, 2020 14:23:16 GMT
Magic!
Yes, Chrome and Edge are now based on the same engine and behave very closely with one another. Choosing one over another is merely down to preference.
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Post by Slinger on Oct 15, 2020 12:55:21 GMT
Better and better. The latest (and the last, thank Gawd,) three parcels are all saying "Arriving Tomorrow," i.e. Friday, on my "Orders" page. Until, that is, you click on their "Track Package" buttons. Because in "Track Package" the first two are "Out For Delivery," and will arrive between 1:15 PM and 5:15 PM. They've both already arrived... at a quarter past twelve today. The third parcel is also "Out For Delivery," but that's arriving between 2:00 PM and 6:00 PM today. I'm not holding my breath.
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Post by MartinT on Oct 15, 2020 14:21:46 GMT
I'm convinced that there is no difference between Amazon's free delivery and the paid-for version. I nearly always select 'free' as a matter of course, and the packages nearly always arrive a day or two earlier than expected.
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Post by Slinger on Oct 15, 2020 14:56:33 GMT
I'm convinced that there is no difference between Amazon's free delivery and the paid-for version. I nearly always select 'free' as a matter of course, and the packages nearly always arrive a day or two earlier than expected. I agree. What annoys me though is when one makes the effort to synchronise multiple deliveries so as to minimise packaging and drops, and Amazon totally disregarding that and sending stuff whenever they feel like it. It would be all the same if one was intending to be out, and had deliberately tried to avoid deliveries for that day.
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Post by MikeMusic on Oct 15, 2020 15:32:34 GMT
I'm convinced that there is no difference between Amazon's free delivery and the paid-for version. I nearly always select 'free' as a matter of course, and the packages nearly always arrive a day or two earlier than expected. I agree. What annoys me though is when one makes the effort to synchronise multiple deliveries so as to minimise packaging and drops, and Amazon totally disregarding that and sending stuff whenever they feel like it. It would be all the same if one was intending to be out, and had deliberately tried to avoid deliveries for that day. Another thing to consider is different vans from different warehouses We had that at work with Xerox and another I think. Why 2 vans ? 1 came from London 2 from Birmingham
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Post by Slinger on Oct 31, 2020 14:28:24 GMT
Sainsbury's. For the last three weeks I've ordered battered cod. For the last three weeks I've received my usual pre-delivery email stating that it wasn't available, and there was "no suitable substitute." Really? For battered cod? Because when I check availability for my store they not only show the battered cod I ordered this week, but SEVERAL suitable alternatives.
I fired off a stinky message to them and went to get lunch. Just as lunch was ready the front doorbell rang. It was my Sainsbury's delivery, scheduled between 3pm and 4pm. The problem being it was only half past one. The driver's "excuse" was "to be honest mate, I've only got two drops left, and I'd have had to drive past you and then come all the way back."
The phrase, "that's really not my problem, is it," sprang to mind.
I'm still waiting for an answer to my stinky message.
Bloody Sainsbury's!
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Post by MartinT on Oct 31, 2020 17:18:50 GMT
Hospitality companies that continually use COVID as an excuse for anything and everything.
We stayed at a hotel this week that was simply very poor in every measure of service we could apply. It became a running joke between us that everything was due to 'COVID', from the sloppy presentation of breakfast (pre-liquidised, we called it), to electronic door keys that twice stopped working, to the fire alarm going off at 2am, to the sullen and frankly just short of outright rude bar service.
If it's really so difficult to maintain a level of service then just shut down and put us all out of our misery!
Stinky Tripadvisor review left for them to stew over.
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Post by julesd68 on Oct 31, 2020 20:42:43 GMT
Name and shame please Martin.
I'll tell you one thing I can't frickin' stand and that's people letting off fireworks in residential areas. Two or three times I nearly jumped out of my skin tonight - it was like someone firing a shotgun as I walked past.
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Post by Slinger on Oct 31, 2020 21:24:39 GMT
Name and shame please Martin. I'll tell you one thing I can't frickin' stand and that's people letting off fireworks in residential areas. Two or three times I nearly jumped out of my skin tonight - it was like someone firing a shotgun as I walked past. At New Year here it sounds like I'm living in Beirut. There have been a few tonight, but not too many, so far. Just over the fence a way from my place is a bit of green space with the local scout hut built on one end, and as it's quite a big space (big scout hut too, it gets rented out for wedding receptions and the like) all of the local scout troops meet up for Guy Fawkes night there, and have a joint firework display and a huge bonfire. That rattles the double-glazing, I can tell you.
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Post by MartinT on Oct 31, 2020 22:33:13 GMT
I haven't heard a single firework!
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Post by user211 on Nov 1, 2020 9:57:17 GMT
Name and shame please Martin. I'll tell you one thing I can't frickin' stand and that's people letting off fireworks in residential areas. Two or three times I nearly jumped out of my skin tonight - it was like someone firing a shotgun as I walked past. When I used to be a student I lived in St Paul's in Bristol. Not the best area. The kids there used to walk around with long tubes and had rocket fights. I kid you not! You'd be coming back from the pub on a Friday night more than a little concerned...
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Post by MartinT on Nov 2, 2020 14:24:24 GMT
We performed a massive network domain migration over the last two weeks, having planned it since May. We were prepared for the flood of enquiries, support requests and help - it's natural after such a big change (and rebuilding over 480 computers with another 100 to go).
What grinds my gears? Fully half of them would never have been raised if staff had read our e-mails. I walked in at 07:00 this morning and had just got in through the outside door when I was accosted. Dealing with issues this morning, I set off to refill my coffee. Never made it, as even the interruptions were further interrupted. By the time I returned to my desk, I had forgotten my own name.
Jeez, what a day, and it hasn't ended yet!
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Post by Slinger on Nov 2, 2020 14:30:38 GMT
"RTFM" rubber stamp required. Apply liberally to miscreants' hands.
If that fails, threaten them with detention, and lines. They can each write out "I must always read my emails before opening my mouth in future," one thousand times.
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Post by MikeMusic on Nov 2, 2020 15:57:54 GMT
Normal human beings
unfortunately
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Post by Slinger on Jan 13, 2021 7:56:44 GMT
Everybody grab something solid. I'm about to reset today and start it again.
The one I'm cancelling started with a phone call that woke me just before 06:00. It was the people who provide Mum's "life-line" telling me that she'd pressed her "red button" and they were unable to contact her. Instant panic, threw some clothes at my body - most of them connected - while calling a cab. I arrived at Mum's, burst through the front door, turned the lights on... *pop* the breaker on the downstairs ring tripped. I found the camping lantern I bought Mum for power-cuts and other emergencies, made my way upstairs, still no replies to my hollering "Mum" at the top of my voice.
She was cozy and warm, in the bathroom, with the door shut. Being deaf as a post, and being behind a closed door, is not a great combination when people are calling out, let alone when they're ringing you. She wondered what all the fuss was about.
I sorted the bulb that had blown (it was an old incandescent) which had tripped the breaker, put the power back on, and called the life-line folks. Panic over.
Had a nice and unexpected chat with mum, phoned a cab, went out to wait for it, slipped on grass, walking stick went one way, I went the other, face-planted on wet grass. Sore nose.
It's not 08:00 yest and I'm already fed up with Wednesday.
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