What grinds your gears? - Page 893

StN · 16th November 2015, 16:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ab

agreed on the first, totally confused on the second.

OldFriends is shutting down - next best for eStalking ex's...

blynk · 16th November 2015, 17:21

Thats easy enough to do with FB. Its amazing the amount of people with open profiles.

Ab · 16th November 2015, 17:42

I liked Oldfriends's database of old school class photos.

MadMax · 1st December 2015, 22:45

oh hai Vodafone, we have a fault with our pilot ntu unit. we've found if we busy up the first unit with out going calls, we can suddenly start receiving calls again. yes, power cycling the unit has cleared the fault.

Vodafone: oh right ok, we'll let chorus know and get them to check it out

...

oh hai Vodafone, no one came to check it out

Vodafone: oh right, yeah um ok, well there's currently no fault so chorus wont fix anything. ps, [bunch of bollocks]

...

oh hai Vodafone, we currently cannot receive calls as the pilot ntu is intermittently faulty ... oh wait the fault has cleared. put monitoring on the lines for a month please, as it seems to occur every few weeks.

Vodafone: ok yup

...

hi Vodafone, i'm calling to check that the month worth of monitoring has been placed on our lines

Vodafone: yup, I can see the request here.

...

oh hai Vodafone, we have monitoring on this line, please provide the fault info as we currently have an outage

Vodafone: um yeah
Vodafone: ahh, yeah
Vodafone: ... i'll put you on hold
Vodafone: ... *click*

...

oh hai Vodafone account manager: [bunch of stuff, oh, so that bunch of bollocks really was bollocks? thanks for that]
oh hai Vodafone: so about that montoring?

Vodafone: oh yeah, so um, chorus did 48 hours of monitoring beginning the next day and found no fault

oh hai Vodafone account manager: get monitoring placed on our lines mkay? and yeah I know chorus don't like doing this as someone has to keep pressing the red button on the ticket every day but it's the only way to catch this fault.

Vodafone: ok yup i'll put that request through

...

oh hai Vodafone, we currently have a fault on our pilot - so hows about that monitoring?
Vodafone ...

...
...
...
...

^ that's the TLDR version as I've left out dozens of calls there. turns out they had their OWN monitoring and didn't need to get monitoring from chorus. They finally find faults through their own logging which they can pass to chorus, and chorus the next day replace the ntu.

the telecomms industry in nz is just a big clusterfuck. there doesn't seem to be a proper connect between the service providers and chorus. Vodafone can put a request through but from the above experience, don't get confirmations?

new connections for example - there seems to be a manual process of a service provider having to manually check their tickets with chorus to see if a step has been completed before the provider can progress.

xor · 2nd December 2015, 08:01

Telco stories, ugh. I feel that pain.

Lightspeed · 2nd December 2015, 08:15

Ah yes, I enjoyed my time working in the industry to support my filthy student lifestyle. My training involved two weeks of watching my senior watch Breaking Bad. It was great, I got a lot of reading done!

Juju · 2nd December 2015, 09:39

Quote:

Originally Posted by MadMax

chorus is just a big clusterfuck.

FTFY.

MadMax · 2nd December 2015, 09:51

It's not limited to chorus, unfortunately. Vodafone didn't help the cause here.

I have a lot of respect for geni/spark managed data however as they always provided follow up calls or else call you before you even know of a fault. Not that the follow ups were needed as their faults were always very temporary, while promptly and professionally dealt with.

Domestic is another kettle of fish where you get slave labour service in return for their third world slave labour rates. Much fun where overseas csrs have very limited access to do any real help, exasperated by ufb where support is provided by dedicated local teams that you must jump through hoops to get help from.

Savage · 2nd December 2015, 12:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ab

agreed on the first, totally confused on the second.

I've landed several quick contracts directly through LinkedIn when recruiters and the normal avenues were a bit dry. It's also resulted in being "poached" by my current employer after they found and reviewed my profile. I can't really complain tbh.

Ab · 2nd December 2015, 21:24

My lifestyle is basically dependent on me being witty and articulate for money and today fuck brain no good talk thing shit.

CUNT

StN · 2nd December 2015, 22:02

Income protection insurance should cover Torettes...

StN · 2nd December 2015, 22:05

Each time a set of Apple //e motherboards comes up on TM they go for a ridiculous amount. The community was pretty unanimous when $15 each was high for a bunch of 5 untested. Now a few weeks later, 3 go for $53 FFS.

There is a limit to how much I can wangle under the old girls nose - I shat myself when she borrowed the car a while back and didn't find the vintage Mac I had stashed in the boot.

No, I don't need an intervention, just a spare motherboard to run tests against!

pxpx · 3rd December 2015, 09:59

Why do news outlets refer to gun-toting murderers as "active shooters"? The un-emotive language really grinds my gears.

CCS · 8th December 2015, 16:28

Standard definition. I hate it. I want to kill it.

spigalau · 9th December 2015, 17:29

Sorry, in order to respond to a support ticket, you want me to upload my photo ID and credit card info to an insecure website.... I don't think so Ivan.

xor · 10th December 2015, 08:03

Ugh, engineers and project management.

Lightspeed · 10th December 2015, 15:17

Half the day I have to put up with the regular beeping of some truck that's involved in putting in new drainage. The other half I have to put up with the tui mimicking that truck.

kRAdENkO · 10th December 2015, 21:24

Fuck-tards that follow too close while driving.

Seriously, grow a brain.

MadMax · 10th December 2015, 22:51

eye ball them in the mirror while slowing down a little

crocos · 10th December 2015, 23:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by MadMax

eye ball them in the mirror while slowing down a little

What kind of a tard are you? Slow down sure, but keep ya eyes on the road. Giving them the hairy eyeball via a mirror? They won't be able to see you're doing that.

Nothing · 11th December 2015, 03:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by crocos

Giving them the hairy eyeball via a mirror? They won't be able to see you're doing that.

My eyes aren't as good as they used to be, but there was a time when I would have been able to see if someone was doing that. A person should still keep their eyes on the fucking road though.

blynk · 11th December 2015, 10:09

Why stare at them. They wont notice that.
They will notice when you randomly brake - not enough for them to hit you but enough to tell them to get the Fuck Off

pxpx · 11th December 2015, 10:17

If they are Asian or female, resting your left foot on the brake just enough to put the lights on generally does the trick.

Dudes who follow too close are just being impatient fuckers so I just get out the way or ignore them and watch out for anything up ahead that might require heavy braking.

MadMax · 11th December 2015, 11:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by crocos

What kind of a tard are you? Slow down sure, but keep ya eyes on the road. Giving them the hairy eyeball via a mirror? They won't be able to see you're doing that.

You totally can do both.

I don't have perfect vision - I wear glasses and can totally tell when the driver of a car I'm following is looking at me in their mirror

Ps, why so serious?

blynk · 11th December 2015, 12:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by pxpx

If they are Asian or female, resting your left foot on the brake just enough to put the lights on generally does the trick.

Dudes who follow too close are just being impatient fuckers so I just get out the way or ignore them and watch out for anything up ahead that might require heavy braking.

If its on any form of open road, or out of the main centres I definitely let them pass. They are likely to be the idiots that will do a dangerous passing manoeuvre

pxpx · 11th December 2015, 12:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by blynk

If its on any form of open road, or out of the main centres I definitely let them pass. They are likely to be the idiots that will do a dangerous passing manoeuvre

This

MadMax · 11th December 2015, 18:07

What a bunch of boring old men.

kRAdENkO · 20th December 2015, 17:47

Sleep training 5.5mo gmg.

MadMax · 20th December 2015, 20:29

defence force?

kRAdENkO · 20th December 2015, 21:21

Hah, not exactly. 5.5 month old son is learning to self settle.. Pretty boring really. =p

MadMax · 18th January 2016, 14:00

Ah, 5.5month old

Yeah, dump them down and give them 10 minutes of crying before fussing again. Ours initially cried for 9 minutes.

kRAdENkO · 18th January 2016, 20:34

Yeah he's sorted for now. Sleeps 12hrs per night in his own room. Its fantastic!

Waldo · 19th January 2016, 10:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by kRAdENkO

Yeah he's sorted for now. Sleeps 12hrs per night in his own room. Its fantastic!

you should totally have another one

Juju · 19th January 2016, 10:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by Waldo

you should totally have another one

Having a 2nd child, especially close to the first, doesn't double your work load. It fucking quadruples it.

pxpx · 19th January 2016, 10:47

^ but would you recommend it?

Waldo · 20th January 2016, 10:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by Juju

Having a 2nd child, especially close to the first, doesn't double your work load. It fucking quadruples it.

My workload didn't change at all...

Lightspeed · 20th January 2016, 13:01

Slap that baby, make him free!

Ab · 20th January 2016, 14:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by Juju

Having a 2nd child, especially close to the first, doesn't double your work load. It fucking quadruples it.

This, and I don't even have a vagina.

Juju · 21st January 2016, 10:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by pxpx

^ but would you recommend it?

Now that the younger one is at an age where he can (kind of) start interacting with the older one... absolutely.

Up until that stage it's just a shitty slog.

smudge · 25th January 2016, 21:06

"trades people", fucken pricks.

1st December 2015, 22:45	#35684
MadMax Stuff	oh hai Vodafone, we have a fault with our pilot ntu unit. we've found if we busy up the first unit with out going calls, we can suddenly start receiving calls again. yes, power cycling the unit has cleared the fault. Vodafone: oh right ok, we'll let chorus know and get them to check it out ... oh hai Vodafone, no one came to check it out Vodafone: oh right, yeah um ok, well there's currently no fault so chorus wont fix anything. ps, [bunch of bollocks] ... oh hai Vodafone, we currently cannot receive calls as the pilot ntu is intermittently faulty ... oh wait the fault has cleared. put monitoring on the lines for a month please, as it seems to occur every few weeks. Vodafone: ok yup ... hi Vodafone, i'm calling to check that the month worth of monitoring has been placed on our lines Vodafone: yup, I can see the request here. ... oh hai Vodafone, we have monitoring on this line, please provide the fault info as we currently have an outage Vodafone: um yeah Vodafone: ahh, yeah Vodafone: ... i'll put you on hold Vodafone: ... click ... oh hai Vodafone account manager: [bunch of stuff, oh, so that bunch of bollocks really was bollocks? thanks for that] oh hai Vodafone: so about that montoring? Vodafone: oh yeah, so um, chorus did 48 hours of monitoring beginning the next day and found no fault oh hai Vodafone account manager: get monitoring placed on our lines mkay? and yeah I know chorus don't like doing this as someone has to keep pressing the red button on the ticket every day but it's the only way to catch this fault. Vodafone: ok yup i'll put that request through ... oh hai Vodafone, we currently have a fault on our pilot - so hows about that monitoring? Vodafone ... ... ... ... ... ^ that's the TLDR version as I've left out dozens of calls there. turns out they had their OWN monitoring and didn't need to get monitoring from chorus. They finally find faults through their own logging which they can pass to chorus, and chorus the next day replace the ntu. the telecomms industry in nz is just a big clusterfuck. there doesn't seem to be a proper connect between the service providers and chorus. Vodafone can put a request through but from the above experience, don't get confirmations? new connections for example - there seems to be a manual process of a service provider having to manually check their tickets with chorus to see if a step has been completed before the provider can progress. __________________ My degree of sarcasm depends on your degree of stupidity. Last edited by MadMax : 1st December 2015 at 22:49.

2nd December 2015, 09:51	#35688
MadMax Stuff	It's not limited to chorus, unfortunately. Vodafone didn't help the cause here. I have a lot of respect for geni/spark managed data however as they always provided follow up calls or else call you before you even know of a fault. Not that the follow ups were needed as their faults were always very temporary, while promptly and professionally dealt with. Domestic is another kettle of fish where you get slave labour service in return for their third world slave labour rates. Much fun where overseas csrs have very limited access to do any real help, exasperated by ufb where support is provided by dedicated local teams that you must jump through hoops to get help from. __________________ My degree of sarcasm depends on your degree of stupidity.

8th December 2015, 16:28	#35694
CCS Stunt Pants	Standard definition. I hate it. I want to kill it. __________________ I just want to understand this, sir. Every time a rug is micturated upon in this fair city, I have to compensate the owner?

10th December 2015, 22:51	#35699
MadMax Stuff	eye ball them in the mirror while slowing down a little __________________ My degree of sarcasm depends on your degree of stupidity.

11th December 2015, 18:07	#35707
MadMax Stuff	What a bunch of boring old men. __________________ My degree of sarcasm depends on your degree of stupidity.

16th November 2015, 17:21	#35682
blynk	Thats easy enough to do with FB. Its amazing the amount of people with open profiles.

16th November 2015, 17:42	#35683
Ab A mariachi ogre snorkel	I liked Oldfriends's database of old school class photos.

2nd December 2015, 08:01	#35685
xor	Telco stories, ugh. I feel that pain.

2nd December 2015, 08:15	#35686
Lightspeed	Ah yes, I enjoyed my time working in the industry to support my filthy student lifestyle. My training involved two weeks of watching my senior watch Breaking Bad. It was great, I got a lot of reading done! __________________ Stay shook. No sook.

2nd December 2015, 21:24	#35690
Ab A mariachi ogre snorkel	My lifestyle is basically dependent on me being witty and articulate for money and today fuck brain no good talk thing shit. CUNT

2nd December 2015, 22:02	#35691
StN I have detailed files	Income protection insurance should cover Torettes...

2nd December 2015, 22:05	#35692
StN I have detailed files	Each time a set of Apple //e motherboards comes up on TM they go for a ridiculous amount. The community was pretty unanimous when $15 each was high for a bunch of 5 untested. Now a few weeks later, 3 go for $53 FFS. There is a limit to how much I can wangle under the old girls nose - I shat myself when she borrowed the car a while back and didn't find the vintage Mac I had stashed in the boot. No, I don't need an intervention, just a spare motherboard to run tests against!

3rd December 2015, 09:59	#35693
pxpx	Why do news outlets refer to gun-toting murderers as "active shooters"? The un-emotive language really grinds my gears.

9th December 2015, 17:29	#35695
spigalau	Sorry, in order to respond to a support ticket, you want me to upload my photo ID and credit card info to an insecure website.... I don't think so Ivan. __________________ Spig.

10th December 2015, 08:03	#35696
xor	Ugh, engineers and project management.

10th December 2015, 15:17	#35697
Lightspeed	Half the day I have to put up with the regular beeping of some truck that's involved in putting in new drainage. The other half I have to put up with the tui mimicking that truck. __________________ Stay shook. No sook.

10th December 2015, 21:24	#35698
kRAdENkO	Fuck-tards that follow too close while driving. Seriously, grow a brain.

11th December 2015, 10:09	#35702
blynk	Why stare at them. They wont notice that. They will notice when you randomly brake - not enough for them to hit you but enough to tell them to get the Fuck Off

11th December 2015, 10:17	#35703
pxpx	If they are Asian or female, resting your left foot on the brake just enough to put the lights on generally does the trick. Dudes who follow too close are just being impatient fuckers so I just get out the way or ignore them and watch out for anything up ahead that might require heavy braking.

20th December 2015, 17:47	#35708
kRAdENkO	Sleep training 5.5mo gmg.

20th December 2015, 20:29	#35709
MadMax Stuff	defence force? __________________ My degree of sarcasm depends on your degree of stupidity.

20th December 2015, 21:21	#35710
kRAdENkO	Hah, not exactly. 5.5 month old son is learning to self settle.. Pretty boring really. =p

18th January 2016, 14:00	#35711
MadMax Stuff	Ah, 5.5month old Yeah, dump them down and give them 10 minutes of crying before fussing again. Ours initially cried for 9 minutes. __________________ My degree of sarcasm depends on your degree of stupidity.

18th January 2016, 20:34	#35712
kRAdENkO	Yeah he's sorted for now. Sleeps 12hrs per night in his own room. Its fantastic!

19th January 2016, 10:47	#35715
pxpx	^ but would you recommend it?

20th January 2016, 13:01	#35717
Lightspeed	Slap that baby, make him free! __________________ Stay shook. No sook.

25th January 2016, 21:06	#35720
smudge Ich Bin Ein Grey Lynner	"trades people", fucken pricks.