Things that annoy you beyond reason...? [Vol 3]
Discussion
Ice cream. I want to be able to buy things like chocolate, strawberry, banana, mint, vanilla and such and such.
Not cookie dough this and cheesecake that. I wouldn't mind if regular flavours were an option as well. Häagen-Dazs Belgian Chocolate is the dog's b
ks but Asda and Tesco have stopped selling it in anything but a stupid 100ml pot.
Sigh. First world problems.
Not cookie dough this and cheesecake that. I wouldn't mind if regular flavours were an option as well. Häagen-Dazs Belgian Chocolate is the dog's b
ks but Asda and Tesco have stopped selling it in anything but a stupid 100ml pot.Sigh. First world problems.
Drivers who's brains seem to give up when confronted with a mini roundabout! No indication as to which way they intend to go, have no Idea about giving way to the right and some make no attempt to even try to go around the roundabout and just drive straight through the bloody things.
Drivers that drive a 30mph on a country road when the limit is 40mph and hold up a queue of traffic behind them!
And the dirver directly behind that slow moving car who will not overtake which then causes the queue to become even longer! Arrrrrrgh
Drivers that drive a 30mph on a country road when the limit is 40mph and hold up a queue of traffic behind them!
And the dirver directly behind that slow moving car who will not overtake which then causes the queue to become even longer! Arrrrrrgh
GTIR said:
The way Scots say Australia, "Auswawia".
Born and brought up in Scotland, never heard anyone say Australia like that! (Were they sober?)An annoyance of mine stems from working in an open plan office. Women who dress in short sleeves to work, then complain its cold and put the heater on. In summer.
Also news bulletins on the radio where they think I'm incapable of listening to it without backing music. Which then makes it sound like I'm tuned to 2 stations at once.
Banter between newsreaders and weather people. Just get on with it!
Airport security. I had to travel a lot on business last year. The inconsistency of airport security queues was always the difference between being far too early for the flight or running for the plane. Especially arriving at the airport security queue to find one scanner open. Also people who would arrive at the scanner and then decide to remove belts/jackets/take toiletries out after delving to the bottom of their bag. Why not do most of that in the queue?
B&Q AND ASDAs policy of pushing you more and more to use electronic Bar coding robot check out tills.
ASDA on Friday morning, the car park was almost full yet they had at least 6 check out tills closed, trying to force people to use the new automated tills.
Then Today all I needed was a couple of rolls of masking tape, thinking I would support my local high street I drove into town only to find not one parking space available
So think to myself, oh well I will at least be able to park at B&Q in the next major town, I get the tape and am then faced with no members of staff on a till and am forced to attempt to use automated barcode machine, but one of the items is on a handwritten marked down price so the reader tells me to wait for assistant who is trying to deal with other unhappy customers, meanwhile 3 members of staff are having a chat nearby! So I ask them if one of them could man a checkout for a few minutes and am told NO....Result....
I throw product at the Checkout and walk out NEVER TO RETURN TO B&Q AGAIN!
Then drive to yet another town where I know there is an old fashion style Hardwear shop, Im Greeted with a smile, pointed to the direction of what I want and get great customer service, yes the product did cost me more but the customer experience was worth it.
Finally get home 1,1/2 hrs later on what I thought was going to be a 20min round trip
ASDA on Friday morning, the car park was almost full yet they had at least 6 check out tills closed, trying to force people to use the new automated tills.
Then Today all I needed was a couple of rolls of masking tape, thinking I would support my local high street I drove into town only to find not one parking space available
So think to myself, oh well I will at least be able to park at B&Q in the next major town, I get the tape and am then faced with no members of staff on a till and am forced to attempt to use automated barcode machine, but one of the items is on a handwritten marked down price so the reader tells me to wait for assistant who is trying to deal with other unhappy customers, meanwhile 3 members of staff are having a chat nearby! So I ask them if one of them could man a checkout for a few minutes and am told NO....Result....I throw product at the Checkout and walk out NEVER TO RETURN TO B&Q AGAIN!
Then drive to yet another town where I know there is an old fashion style Hardwear shop, Im Greeted with a smile, pointed to the direction of what I want and get great customer service, yes the product did cost me more but the customer experience was worth it.
Finally get home 1,1/2 hrs later on what I thought was going to be a 20min round trip
Edited by fatboy18 on Saturday 19th July 19:17
Sure "compressed" deodorant.
So it's the same price and they claim it lasts just as long. The normal one is 250ml and the new one is 125ml... (So on each spray less comes out or what?)
Well, I can tell you Unilever that it does not last the same time in fact it lasts about 50% less, strangley enough.
Whenever these companies (Basically Unilever, Proctor & Gamble, J&J) re-package their products the price increases but the product stays the same, and in some cases the amount decreases.
So it's the same price and they claim it lasts just as long. The normal one is 250ml and the new one is 125ml... (So on each spray less comes out or what?)
Well, I can tell you Unilever that it does not last the same time in fact it lasts about 50% less, strangley enough.
Whenever these companies (Basically Unilever, Proctor & Gamble, J&J) re-package their products the price increases but the product stays the same, and in some cases the amount decreases.
fatboy18 said:
B&Q AND ASDAs policy of pushing you more and more to use electronic Bar coding robot check out tills.
I get the tape and am then faced with no members of staff on a till and am forced to attempt to use automated barcode machine, but one of the items is on a handwritten marked down price so the reader tells me to wait for assistant who is trying to deal with other unhappy customers, meanwhile 3 members of staff are having a chat nearby! So I ask them if one of them could man a checkout for a few minutes and am told NO....Result....
I throw product at the Checkout and walk out NEVER TO RETURN TO B&Q AGAIN!
Similar experience to me. Had over £1000 of stuff on two trolleys sort out decorating. Nobody on the 6 empty tills. Massive queues for the 4 self service benches with one assistant.I get the tape and am then faced with no members of staff on a till and am forced to attempt to use automated barcode machine, but one of the items is on a handwritten marked down price so the reader tells me to wait for assistant who is trying to deal with other unhappy customers, meanwhile 3 members of staff are having a chat nearby! So I ask them if one of them could man a checkout for a few minutes and am told NO....Result....
I throw product at the Checkout and walk out NEVER TO RETURN TO B&Q AGAIN!
He was, very professionally, dealing with a complete c
t and the cts mate/work colleague. The other 3 self serves are waiting for assistance. Several employees are stood around watching the whole mess.About 5 minutes pass and people in the queue start shouting for other employees to open up the tills. The employees ignore them. People start leaving and swearing at the employees still stood watching.
The two c
ts are still arguing with the lad. One guy tries walking out the store with unpaid goods, stupid but clearly because he's fed up. The alarm goes off and 3 employee gawkers decide to run and stop him. He loses his marbles, throws his trolley into the shop and tells the "useless frs to open a checkout for people queuing". They ignore him and walk off with the trolley.Finally, someone comes over and clears the red lights on self serve and walks off again. Within 30 seconds, all 3 are red again.
Over the course of 10 - 15 minutes the majority of customers walked out leaving a few dozen baskets and loaded trolleys for the employee gawkers to remove and replace items.
I did briefly wonder if it was in aid of some experiment or a "funny" tv show.
Edited by read5458 on Monday 21st July 12:44
read5458 said:
fatboy18 said:
B&Q AND ASDAs policy of pushing you more and more to use electronic Bar coding robot check out tills.
I get the tape and am then faced with no members of staff on a till and am forced to attempt to use automated barcode machine, but one of the items is on a handwritten marked down price so the reader tells me to wait for assistant who is trying to deal with other unhappy customers, meanwhile 3 members of staff are having a chat nearby! So I ask them if one of them could man a checkout for a few minutes and am told NO....Result....
I throw product at the Checkout and walk out NEVER TO RETURN TO B&Q AGAIN!
Similar experience to me. Had over £1000 of stuff on two trolleys sort out decorating. Nobody on the 6 empty tills. Massive queues for the 4 self service benches with one assistant.I get the tape and am then faced with no members of staff on a till and am forced to attempt to use automated barcode machine, but one of the items is on a handwritten marked down price so the reader tells me to wait for assistant who is trying to deal with other unhappy customers, meanwhile 3 members of staff are having a chat nearby! So I ask them if one of them could man a checkout for a few minutes and am told NO....Result....
I throw product at the Checkout and walk out NEVER TO RETURN TO B&Q AGAIN!
He was, very professionally, dealing with a complete c
t and the cts mate/work colleague. The other 3 self serves are waiting for assistance. Several employees are stood around watching the whole mess.About 5 minutes pass and people in the queue start shouting for other employees to open up the tills. The employees ignore them. People start leaving and swearing at the employees still stood watching.
The two c
ts are still arguing with the lad. One guy tries walking out the store with unpaid goods, stupid but clearly because he's fed up. The alarm goes off and 3 employee gawkers decide to run and stop him. He loses his marbles, throws his trolley into the shop and tells the "useless frs to open a checkout for people queuing". They ignore him and walk off with the trolley.Finally, someone comes over and clears the red lights on self serve and walks off again. Within 30 seconds, all 3 are red again.
Over the course of 10 - 15 minutes the majority of customers walked out leaving a few dozen baskets and loaded trolleys for the employee gawkers to remove and replace items.
I did briefly wonder if it was in aid of some experiment or a "funny" tv show.
Edited by read5458 on Monday 21st July 12:44
Needing a crap whilst waiting for Yodel to collect a parcel, knowing full well that if I succumb then they'll arrive at the worst possible moment. I wish the company that booked them used DPD who can quote to within 30mins of when a collection will take place instead of the day-long collection window given by Yodel
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