What grinds your gears?

[CCS]

Hahaha! That's pretty funny! Someone narked to your ISP?!

[Lightspeed]

Originally Posted by mr selfdestruct

I said, "If I had a shotgun I'd shoot you with it."

So yeah I threatened to kill someone pretty much but of course I was joking.

But you're a crim right?

[StN]

He has seen the skidded towels of the big hosue.

[xor]

Originally Posted by Lightspeed

But you're a crim right?

You mean he got snapped for copious amounts of green or whatever? Yeah he's a BIG crim alright. Watch out for that guy

[HardCorePawn]

Vodafone's policy of deactivating your pre-pay sim 4 weeks after your credit expires... I could have sworn it used to be like 6 months or something... and then they tell you that your number is now 'in quarantine' and you cannot have it back!

GMMFG...

[Juju]

Limp wristed handshakes. You feel like a complete poof dude... add some grip to that hand shake and I might trust you more.

[cEvin]

respect to people who don't handshake at all

[CCS]

You go for the high five, yeh?

[Spink]

respect knuckles

[Sp0nge]

Originally Posted by cEvin

respect to people who don't handshake at all

the Once-Were-Warriors-slight-eyebrow-lift-accompanied-by-a-slight-tilt-of-the-head-backwards is my fav greeting.

i prefer the silent version
although saying 'bro' at the same time is almost as good.

[mr selfdestruct]

Originally Posted by CCS

Hahaha! That's pretty funny! Someone narked to your ISP?!

Yeah dude, and yes I have seen the skidded towels of the big house, that's the sole reason I learned to be a champion indoor lawn bowls player to get my OWN towel!!

[BloodDonor]

Originally Posted by HardCorePawn

Vodafone's policy of deactivating your pre-pay sim 4 weeks after your credit expires... I could have sworn it used to be like 6 months or something... and then they tell you that your number is now 'in quarantine' and you cannot have it back!

GMMFG...

used to be you had to top up 1x per 12 month period... last i knew of anyways.. so if your credit ran out after 11 months, and then after another 4 weeks, your number expired, then yeah thatd be usual.. :/

[BloodDonor]

NZ Post's new parcel charge system for courier parcels... $78 for a box, including the cost of the box, from Wanaka to Wellington... all of 5.3KG

[QWERTY?]

the fark,

like a month ago my mum sent me a 7kg box to canada for $145

[BloodDonor]

Originally Posted by QWERTY?

the fark,

like a month ago my mum sent me a 7kg box to canada for $145

yeah was just a motherboard and 2GB ram... i had to send it courier as value > $250... or i coulda had it parcel post for $28 i think she said... and tbh, id rather have the gear covered... bloody dodgy couriers

[DrTiTus]

Originally Posted by BloodDonor

NZ Post's new parcel charge system for courier parcels... $78 for a box, including the cost of the box, from Wanaka to Wellington... all of 5.3KG

Must be oversized bro~

[QWERTY?]

Originally Posted by BloodDonor

yeah was just a motherboard and 2GB ram... i had to send it courier as value > $250... or i coulda had it parcel post for $28 i think she said... and tbh, id rather have the gear covered... bloody dodgy couriers

haha yeh the lion red box was pretty rugged by the time it got to me.

[Cyberbob]

People that are constantly away from their desks, but leave their fucking cellphone, complete with fucking annoying ringtone on a fucking annoyingly loud volume, sitting on their desk while they go into meetings.

[MadMax]

check their contacts and look for 'mum' or somesuch. swap the numbers of the last caller with their mums number

[MadMax]

that if the next govt is national led, they'll claim the likes of http://www.broadbandmap.govt.nz/map as their doing.

[caffiend]

Originally Posted by cEvin

respect to people who don't handshake at all

Fo' real? How so?

[Cyberbob]

Originally Posted by MadMax

check their contacts and look for 'mum' or somesuch. swap the numbers of the last caller with their mums number

I would but it's another teams manager :P

[BloodDonor]

Originally Posted by Cyberbob

People that are constantly away from their desks, but leave their fucking cellphone, complete with fucking annoying ringtone on a fucking annoyingly loud volume, sitting on their desk while they go into meetings.

hmm McDonalds advert with cellphone and glass of water springs to mind

[CCS]

Aspect ratio - 3:4. Right. Go do a job that suits your knowledge, like writing the gossip column for TV Guide.

[[Malks] Pixie]

US Elections - get over it already, sure the black guy won, excellent, but I'll believe in this "change" when I see it, he's not the fucking second coming and he'll have his own cabal of contributers to answer too.

Guy Fawkes - sick of answering stupid questions from stupid people who should know better (not on this board) - councils who can't be bothered so just say it's nothing to do with them.

KPI's which don't actually reflect or capture what you're doing but management seem to not give a shit. For an organisation of scientists I'm amazed that no one seems to have a problem with the methadology behind how the KPI was arrived at.

Pixie

[BathTub]

Originally Posted by MadMax

snips from their website (T&C) :
the HELL website
customer of HELL.
policies of HELL
"HELL" means Flame limited
"Flame Limited" means HELL
agents of HELL
owned by HELL
by HELL to the Customer

It was also just listed as Hell in the 018 database when I worked there.

[cEvin]

#14985 - women on busy streets pushing a prams who park them RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU to look in a shop window or answer a call while you're trying to get somewhere. -note have never seen a man do this.

#4396759 - dumb ass courier drivers who can't work out how to buzz an apartment (despite a huge sign telling them how) and obvious labelled buzzers - so instead they leave a card telling you to pick up the item from miles away (yeh that's exactly why I paid extra for a courier), and upon calling their helpdesk won't redeliver it because that address has been permanently marked as "no access".

[QWERTY?]

haha funny that reminds me of when I bought my engagement ring,

ordered them from a place in dunedin, couriered "over night" so i get up around six to makesure i get to the door, sitting on my pc about 6:30 am see the courier van pull up, hear the door open(tootling on the pc) but then he drives off

the fuck i think, go outside, the pos had left a "not at home, please pick up" card in the letter box....

had to wait until the next monday to fucken get it

g g

pretty sure it was nz courier

[xor]

Yeah, it's what the cunts do when they don't actually have your parcel and have started your drop offs.

You got your engagement ring courierd? fuck that
what sort of ring was it?

[CCS]

A BURGER ring! HO HO!

[Juju]

Originally Posted by QWERTY?

haha funny that reminds me of when I bought my engagement ring,

ordered them from a place in dunedin, couriered "over night" so i get up around six to makesure i get to the door, sitting on my pc about 6:30 am see the courier van pull up, hear the door open(tootling on the pc) but then he drives off

the fuck i think, go outside, the pos had left a "not at home, please pick up" card in the letter box....

had to wait until the next monday to fucken get it

g g

pretty sure it was nz courier

This is exactly why I get all my shit delivered to work these days. The amount of times they wouldn't even try to deliver it and just leave a 'not home' card was way more than not.

[mr selfdestruct]

Originally Posted by CCS

A BURGER ring! HO HO!

HAHAHAHAHHA! *points and laughs*

[StN]

Not my gear grind, but a good read in frustration:

http://biblocality.com/forums/showth...=4718#post4718

I like this bit:

The requested information within reason was supplied so do not sin bearing false witness, because you get judged for that and is not without penalty.

Oh Lordy... poor tech support chaps.

[Ashley]

Canadians. You've lived through snow and ice winters, all your life. Why the motherfuck can you not be prepared before the first snow? Is it really that fucking hard?

There has been hundreds of fucking advertisements, sales, fire sales and free shit, yet you all still cram into the local fucking store when the first snow comes, and then bitch and moan at the poor souls behind the counter when they have no antifreeze left.

[Lightspeed]

Hahaha. This is why global warming is gonna kill us all.

[Juju]

Musicstation not working on my W850i because it's an import. Why the fuck should that matter?

[ZengE]

Companies who round-up an EFT transaction

[chiQ]

Originally Posted by ZengE

Companies who round-up an EFT transaction

That's as cheeky as hell. Which company did that to you?

[Ezekiel 25:17]

girls.

[ZengE]

Originally Posted by chiQ

That's as cheeky as hell. Which company did that to you?

NZ Post-shop in Trentham does it although we no longer use them but two days ago I got stung by the currency exchange at Welly airport who rounded up a transaction. Admittedly it was only 5c but I figure they do that to 1000 people a day and they're making a pretty good income on the side.

I didn't notice it until after the transaction because I asked for an amount of money and was told it would cost me XXX. It wasn't until I'd completed the transaction and gone through immigration and was sorting out all my paperwork that I noticed they'd rounded it up.

So if you're going through Welly-port, I'd recommend checking your receipt before you cough over your hard earned cash (in the form of an EFT). I'm not sure of the legal aspects but it reeks of dodgy to me.