[Rant] Minor Rant III: For a Few Hollers More

Dave

Dave

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Got an email from an online store today. The gift we bought for my son that was supposed to be here on Dec. 2, then Dec. 10, then Dec. 17...has been cancelled. So on December 21 - 4 days before Christmas, they tell us it's not going to be here. So we had to go out & get my son something. It's probably not exactly what he'd want, but if we didn't he'd be getting fuck-all.

So if you want to order from Grunt Style...don't unless you have a lot of time to wait.
 
Fun Size

Fun Size

I was just coming here to bitch about "Your package has been shipped!" being sent to me, and then five days later tracking says "We'll update as soon as we receive your package.".
 
Dei

Dei

Dave said:
Got an email from an online store today. The gift we bought for my son that was supposed to be here on Dec. 2, then Dec. 10, then Dec. 17...has been cancelled. So on December 21 - 4 days before Christmas, they tell us it's not going to be here. So we had to go out & get my son something. It's probably not exactly what he'd want, but if we didn't he'd be getting fuck-all.

So if you want to order from Grunt Style...don't unless you have a lot of time to wait.
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Fun Size said:
I was just coming here to bitch about "Your package has been shipped!" being sent to me, and then five days later tracking says "We'll update as soon as we receive your package.".
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Almost everyone is having shipping delays, and I'm really not going to get mad about it. It's what happens when everything gets fucked by the government trying to tank the USPS in the name of elections, and people have to sit home instead of travel and are shipping things in record numbers.
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

Dei said:
Almost everyone is having shipping delays, and I'm really not going to get mad about it. It's what happens when everything gets fucked by the government trying to tank the USPS in the name of elections, and people have to sit home instead of travel and are shipping things in record numbers.
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No, all our packages are perfectly on time. Just ask @jwhouk !
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

So my company has two conference rooms, the big conference room and the small conference room. The small conference room isn't really a conference room, it was basically some extra space left over after all the offices and cubicles were partitioned off, so they stuck a door there, moved a couple of tables and chairs inside, installed a whiteboard, and called it a conference room. Because it's off in a remote and poorly inaccessible location for wireless signals, both wi-fi and mobile phone connections perform very poorly in there.

And yet we just had to have a videoconference in there because the big conference room was in use for an actual conference. We tried the wi-fi, we tried using someone's phone as an access point, but the quality was just painful. The voice quality for the whole 50-minute conference was incredibly distorted, it was like listening to GLaDOS speak in tongues.

Also based on what was discussed in the videoconference, the whole thing could've been done with a couple of emails.
 
Frank

Frank

I've had a stomach bug of some sort for the last three days so this is officially my least favourite Christmas ever.

By myself, shitting my guts out, waiting for the year to end so I can afford groceries and finding out this morning that my nephew is breech and they can't flip him so they've scheduled a Cesarian in a week. My brother's fiance has to go get that done by herself since no one is allowed near her in the hospital. Get the fuck out here 2020. Stay the fuck gone.
 
jwhouk

jwhouk

All right, this one's for our orange-flavored @Bubble181 - Why the heck does your employer require my activation code for Delivery Manager(R) to be physically sent to my home address before I can do anything useful with it - like setting up location info and delivery notifications?
 
Dei

Dei

jwhouk said:
All right, this one's for our orange-flavored @Bubble181 - Why the heck does your employer require my activation code for Delivery Manager(R) to be physically sent to my home address before I can do anything useful with it - like setting up location info and delivery notifications?
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So they can confirm your address, and that you consented for services. :p UPS and FedEx both did the same thing for me, and I think USPS did too.
 
Sparhawk

Sparhawk

jwhouk said:
All right, this one's for our orange-flavored @Bubble181 - Why the heck does your employer require my activation code for Delivery Manager(R) to be physically sent to my home address before I can do anything useful with it - like setting up location info and delivery notifications?
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Short answer: porch pirates
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Sparhawk said:
Short answer: porch pirates
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Long answer: It's fairly common for retail fraudsters to have their ill-gotten merchandise sent for pickup to an address that isn't theirs (or that isn't even inhabited) to function as a kind of dead drop. That way, they can see if the pickup location is being staked out prior to collecting their haul.

--Patrick
 
Tress

Tress

GasBandit said:
Unrelated:

Look, if you interpret professionalism as condescension, that's on you.
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I've told this story before, but I once had a customer file a complaint about me to my manager because I was supposedly being "too polite" and she assumed I was only doing it to make her even more angry. Some people have issues like that.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

Staff member
Tress said:
I've told this story before, but I once had a customer file a complaint about me to my manager because I was supposedly being "too polite" and she assumed I was only doing it to make her even more angry. Some people have issues like that.
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Apparently, hilariously enough, the only reason I am subjected to this person is because no other AV company wants to deal with this particular client. My entire team has had a front row seat in learning why.
 
Squidleybits

Squidleybits

We’re moving (thank god) offices. We don’t have admin support at our office. It’s a shame because our admin chief was awesome. Without her, the only way things like that get done is by head office or local staff volunteering. Usually, it’s me. I am so lucky that someone else has volunteered to help with the move. That being said, there is a ton to do and I have never been trained in any of the logistics.

The people at head office bark orders at me and then get mad when I have questions or when I can’t drop everything to accommodate an immediate request. I have a full time job that isn’t this move.

Grrr.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

Staff member
AshburnerX said:
It's intentional and a sign of bad management!
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If anyone in management was actually involved in the process of creating the SOW, I would agree it's intentional. But it's really just another instance of a certain coworker being lazy and incompetent and never being held accountable by management for reasons I can't fathom.

Dude's screwups have literally cost us thousands of dollars, and he's just made another one that is going to probably cost us $80k+.

How he still has a job here is beyond me.
 
Tress

Tress

We had a student who had not logged in to 5 out of his 6 classes since winter break (ended Jan. 4th).

His mom apologized, and said that they didn't realize that school had started up again. :facepalm:

So the kid tells us that he didn't know how to log in to his classes, and had never been able to. Suddenly the math teacher interrupts and points out that she met with him on Zoom last week, and they did 2 assignments together.

"Uh, that wasn't me. You must be thinking of another student."

"But here's the work you did, under your account. And it shows you logged in. I worked with you for 45 minutes."

"Uh... oh yeah, I forgot."
 
David

David

Tress said:
We had a student who had not logged in to 5 out of his 6 classes since winter break (ended Jan. 4th).

His mom apologized, and said that they didn't realize that school had started up again. :facepalm:

So the kid tells us that he didn't know how to log in to his classes, and had never been able to. Suddenly the math teacher interrupts and points out that she met with him on Zoom last week, and they did 2 assignments together.

"Uh, that wasn't me. You must be thinking of another student."

"But here's the work you did, under your account. And it shows you logged in. I worked with you for 45 minutes."

"Uh... oh yeah, I forgot."
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It wasn't me
 
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