What grinds your gears?

[crocos]

But he's Maori by adoption into the iwi, cobber!

No paperwork or anything like that reflecting that though.

[crocos]

Nightcrawler: Complain to the Commerce Commission.

[Nightcrawler]

Originally Posted by crocos

Nightcrawler: Complain to the Commerce Commission.

Hmm that's actually a pretty good idea Myself and friends have been building this small repository of bullshit about AUT staff and the administration there

[crocos]

Of course it's a good idea: I thought of it

[Spink]

crocos is sure posting his colon a lot on this page

[^BITES^]

Originally Posted by Cyberbob

Any suggestions for getting 4gig+ files to work on ps3?

http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver/

One I use .. does re-encoding on the fly also .. very cool.
Linux and windows etc etc...

[Luse]

Someone tried to break into my car on friday night and only succeeded in breaking the passenger door handle in half and making the lock fall out.

In the past 3 months I've had someone open their door and hit mine in a carpark then bail on 3 occasions, someone else has tried to park and just driven into my drivers side door and left an almighty dent then bailed, and now this with the lock. Grr

People suck

[Cyberbob]

Maybe it's the same person, and they just really don't like car doors.

[Thomas Meatball]

Originally Posted by Luse

Someone tried to break into my car on friday night and only succeeded in breaking the passenger door handle in half and making the lock fall out.

Cunts. Where did this happen?

[Luse]

Royal Oak

[Thomas Meatball]

Ah good, nowhere I go then

[Juju]

Originally Posted by Nightcrawler

AUT AUT AUT AUT

I think I found the source of your problems sir!

Good to see they haven't changed in the 7 years since I was there.

[yaksman]

Man I have had some GMG's today. Not only idiotic people saying idiotic things, but to cap it off here's one that's a real baffler:

Dear Mac,

Regarding the listing for EXCLUSIVE! WOLF WHEELS S36R BR
Listing no. 238308338



It's come to our attention that you may be offering 'extra' items that aren't included in the reserve price on the following listing/s:238308338



This is a breach of our terms and conditions because many sellers have used this practice to avoid paying success fees.

Please ensure that the reserve price you set takes the value of all items of the listing into account. We appreciate your cooperation with this request.

You can’t reply directly to this email but if you have any questions regarding this policy, decision or any other issue, we’re happy to discuss this with you. Please contact us using the below link:

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Help/Contac...px?help_id=516

Alternatively, to have your questions answered instantly, you can contact Trade Me via 0900 TRADE (0900 87233). Please be aware, calls cost $1.99 + GST per minute.

Regards,


Trade Me Support
********************************
Trade Me - Where Kiwis Buy and Sell
www.trademe.co.nz
********************************

So, the auction is here:

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/List...x?id=238308338

Soo many things annoy the shit out of me with this.

1) Someone bothered to complain about nothing
2) Big Brother. You have no way to reply to this at all. Ever. It's like someone going on TV during the first ad break during the 6pm news and saying "Mr XYZ, at 1234 High St, Somecity is a thief". Ok, perhaps a hyperbole but you get the point
3) The thing that really GMG is this. Trademe is insisting that I've breached the T&C by selling, er, um, I've done nothing wrong! They're implying that they are losing out on success fees because, er, er, errrrr, I'm selling a package deal with free items?

How the *fuck* exactly is this a breach of any terms and conditions, and how is it detrimental at all to Trademe? Seriously? The extras are *free*. FREE! If I remove the *FREE* extras, the sale price comes down and Trademe make *LESS* money.

Who the fuck is in control of these things? The same stupid people that had me grinding earlier in the day? I don't drink, but I seriously need a flagon on JB after a day like today..

[Thomas Meatball]

Just ignore that shit. It's probably sent by some fuckface bureaucrat who has had many years experience as a public servant.

Anyway, it reads to me like they're saying "it looks like maybe you're breaching T&Cs so YOU BETTA WATCH OUT!", rather than "You've definately breached T&Cs and we will fuck your ear."

So... ignore that shit.

[yaksman]

/filed in the ignore folder...

This Big Brother shit really is getting out of hand. First there was electronic dog chips, then there was anti-smacking, now there's "we can't make money off free stuff so we're going to warn you not to give stuff away for free"..

[Thomas Meatball]

Oh noes, the dog chips!


Seriously though, it's not as though you can't reply to it. They did provide a method of doing just that, after all.

[chiquelet]

Yaksman - just remove the word "free" from your auction.

[yaksman]

Sure $2 / minute or to an anon form that goes to one of their plebs. Guilty until proven innocent huh

[Thomas Meatball]

Pretty much. TradeMe = pedos.

[crocos]

Originally Posted by Spink

crocos is sure posting his colon a lot on this page

Gutted

[Spink]

Originally Posted by SickBo@Work

Video of the 'cunt' in action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-Ug3...eature=related

lol are these the same Socialist Aotearoa trying to use Hell's marketing blunder to gain popularity.

[p01s0n]

Originally Posted by yaksman

Man I have had some GMG's today. Not only idiotic people saying idiotic things, but to cap it off here's one that's a real baffler:



So, the auction is here:

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/List...x?id=238308338

Soo many things annoy the shit out of me with this.

1) Someone bothered to complain about nothing
2) Big Brother. You have no way to reply to this at all. Ever. It's like someone going on TV during the first ad break during the 6pm news and saying "Mr XYZ, at 1234 High St, Somecity is a thief". Ok, perhaps a hyperbole but you get the point
3) The thing that really GMG is this. Trademe is insisting that I've breached the T&C by selling, er, um, I've done nothing wrong! They're implying that they are losing out on success fees because, er, er, errrrr, I'm selling a package deal with free items?

How the *fuck* exactly is this a breach of any terms and conditions, and how is it detrimental at all to Trademe? Seriously? The extras are *free*. FREE! If I remove the *FREE* extras, the sale price comes down and Trademe make *LESS* money.

Who the fuck is in control of these things? The same stupid people that had me grinding earlier in the day? I don't drink, but I seriously need a flagon on JB after a day like today..

those wheels would look so fucking boss on the rx7.

[crocos]

Originally Posted by Spink

lol are these the same Socialist Aotearoa trying to use Hell's marketing blunder to gain popularity.

Sadly, yes.

[A Corpse]

Usually that form letter is reserved for people selling 1 wheel and saying "Auction price is for each wheel in a set of 4" or some shit like that. Ignore it, or, if they've nerfed your auction, hit that feedback link and tell them their auction-checking monkey is on the fritz and to withhold its bananas for a while as punishment.

edit: Remove this bit.

As an added bonus, the new models from Wolf Wheels are available for a limited time at an introductory special prices shown below with free shipping anywhere in New Zealand and free center caps.

[Helious]

True Blood's running an hour or so late.. GMG.

[Luse]

Originally Posted by SickBo@Work

Video of the 'cunt' in action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-Ug3...eature=related

I got 2 minutes through that and was clenching hard. Can't someone just have accidentally dropped a pile of scrap metal on him?

[crocos]

Originally Posted by A Corpse

edit: Remove this bit.

What? The bit saying that "For now the auction price is what they're selling for"?

[A Corpse]

Originally Posted by crocos

What? The bit saying that "For now the auction price is what they're selling for"?

No, the bit where it looks as if he's trying to direct prospective buyers to another location (below, whereas the auction price is above) for other models. There is no other location, he's just lazily copied and pasted the text from somewhere else, but it was enough to make it look, to retarded Tardme staff, that there's a price for something else elsewhere outside the auction process...

[Whiplash]

Originally Posted by SickBo@Work

Video of the 'cunt' in action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-Ug3...eature=related

@ 1:03... is that Peter Gibbons?

[Lightspeed]

Went and saw D9 again today. People were sitting in our seats, explained this to them and stood there until they moved on... just before the movie started a group of about five people came to sit in the row ahead with the same situation, however the people sitting told them to get lost and sit somewhere else cause they were already sitting down. Dicks like this grind my gears.

Still, it oiled my gears when a staff member told them to push off, not before I leaned over and called them a bunch of dicks for not moving to their own seats.

[QWERTY?]

top man
nothing worse idiots sitting in your allocated seats, I've got no issue with people moving into untaken "better" seats after say 15-20mins but sit where you are meant to.

sucks that nowhere in toronto uses allocated... so you have to turn up 1-1.5 hours pre movie wait inline and rush in to get a decent seat, totally stupid system.

[crocos]

Lightspeed, I'd say you deserve a DB, but that's a fairly crap beer so...

[Vrtigo]

no beer? handjob for that man. i heard that helious enjoys giving them on the side.

[Nightcrawler]

Originally Posted by crocos

Nightcrawler: Complain to the Commerce Commission.

Originally Posted by Juju

I think I found the source of your problems sir!

Good to see they haven't changed in the 7 years since I was there.

Had our Quality Review for our project today at 2pm. Basically present regarding a specific aspect of our project and ask for feedback regarding our quality checks etc. "Is our quality assurance plan that's in place good enough?"

Our consistently fucking retarded group member (3 students in the group) txts us at 1.30pm saying "Have big thing to talk about. See you at 2pm, don't be late". He shows up 50 minutes late (luckily another group presented before us) with extensive changes to our presentation and project. Told him we don't have time to incorporate these changes - I get called out as "sabotaging" the project and being unreasonable.

Anyway: review was a fucking flop. Got told it was a joke, that we're failing this project unless we produce something substantial, and that we obviously have serious group conflict issues. Supervisor talks to us after, criticises the guy for making changes without communicating etc, tells us we need to redo the presentation and produce something substantial.

5 minutes later, the fail group member is proposing we make further changes to our portfolio (exactly what we were told not to do), I call him out and disagree. I get called, again, a saboteur. Get told I'm a child, and get interrupted every time I try to speak.
We have brought up the communication problems before with our supervisor, but he basically just told us to sort it out (when we specifically told him we have tried and it's not working). We told him me obviously can't work it out in the group as there's too much conflict, but he just threatened to cancel the project if we didn't..

Our supervisor and client are refusing to meet with us, we're not getting the guidance we've requested for months, and we're basically just wasting time before the year ends and we fail.

Currently writing a nice long letter to the head of the project tutors regarding how fucked this project has been. I don't want to fail this paper due to shitty group members who can't communicate (he's Russian, and his work ethic is completely fucked heh). I believe if I'm going to pass this paper (it's a year long, and I HAVE to pass it), it's going to be based solely on my reflective report of how fucking horrible it has been.. which is an interesting concept! "Hey, I didn't really complete my project and fulfill my client's requirements, but I learnt an endless amount regarding group communication and conflict"

/wrists

[flic]

in the real world you just have to find a way to get along. It's part of work and part of learning how to communicate with people that are different to yourself.

I doubt your boss will fire every russian you end up working with

[Nightcrawler]

Originally Posted by flic

in the real world you just have to find a way to get along. It's part of work and part of learning how to communicate with people that are different to yourself.

I doubt your boss will fire every russian you end up working with

You are correct, we do have to find a way. The problem we've faced is that we've tried that for 8 months now, and we are still having the same conflict and breakdowns that we experienced in the very beginning.

I guess it raises the question (in my mind): how do you deal with this in a productive way when the member(s) in question are so unreasonable and stubborn that any solution attempted ends up failing? I've never dealt with this type of conflict, and especially over such a long time, so I'm lost. The group has communicated their issues with the person(s), our client and supervisor have expressed the same, and still the conflict/breakdowns continue

[Lightspeed]

One word: Mediation.

[p01s0n]

Originally Posted by Nightcrawler

You are correct, we do have to find a way. The problem we've faced is that we've tried that for 8 months now, and we are still having the same conflict and breakdowns that we experienced in the very beginning.

I guess it raises the question (in my mind): how do you deal with this in a productive way when the member(s) in question are so unreasonable and stubborn that any solution attempted ends up failing? I've never dealt with this type of conflict, and especially over such a long time, so I'm lost. The group has communicated their issues with the person(s), our client and supervisor have expressed the same, and still the conflict/breakdowns continue

you need to fucking explode at that shithead. like, meltdown spec explosion. when he tries to interrupt your spergsplosion you just need to raise your voice and continue. get as red faced as you can. make sure he knows the project is the plane, he's the snake and you're Samuel motherfucking Jackson.

[Nightcrawler]

Originally Posted by p01s0n

you need to fucking explode at that shithead. like, meltdown spec explosion. when he tries to interrupt your spergsplosion you just need to raise your voice and continue. get as red faced as you can.

Haha, sounds fun He did interrupt me today while we were talking. I told him fairly strongly that we've asked him before to stop interrupting us. He then interrupts me again while I'm asking him not to interrupt me

[Helious]

rofl, if you're unable to tolerate one another, you're fucked in general. life's all about picking up the slack with no reward. flic's message is pretty on the mark.