What grinds your gears?

[aR Que]

programme programme programme!!!

[CCS]

WHY ARE THEY DIFFERENT?

[chiQ]

Programme is the British/New Zealand/etc/non-American spelling of the original word, used to signify a planned regime of activity.

A program is a piece of software or an application, and is the American spelling for the original word.

[StN]

Originally Posted by CCS

WHY ARE THEY DIFFERENT?

Because Webster was a rebel and wanted to adapt things British for the simpler Americans.

[aR Que]

Like meter, they don't even use metres, so why the hell did they change the spelling.

[Jodi]

Originally Posted by aR Que

Like meter, they don't even use metres, so why the hell did they change the spelling.

Cos they're not fucking French!

[MadMax]

Originally Posted by aR Que

Yea, that's them.

do they sound just like a ticking clock and reduce their frequency slightly when there's any noise?

[MadMax]

Originally Posted by Jodi

Cos they're not fucking French!

[xor]

My 33 year old brother asked my wife for some material from the post grad diploma she is currently studying. She said she couldn't do it right then because she'd been studying all weekend and needed a break. He then asked if he could get the material during the week, she said she'd give it to him the following weekend because she's got her visiting tutor come to her work as well as complete her assignments and do a 40 hour working week.
He threw a childish hissy fit and went real dark on my wife. He said he'd never been treated this badly in his whole life and has never 'had this sort of shit' thrown at him ever.
Do you notice how I said he is 33? yeeeeep, that's my big brother - the manchild. He has no understanding that other people have their own things going on.

[p-b]

People who get all angsty during social sport grind my damn gears.

Why the fuck to people play social sport and then go to all the effort of taking it so seriously? Whats the point in having a go at the ref and a big whinge everytime some little thing doesn't go their way?

[Jodi]

Originally Posted by p-b

People who get all angsty during social sport grind my damn gears.

Why the fuck to people play social sport and then go to all the effort of taking it so seriously? Whats the point in having a go at the ref and a big whinge everytime some little thing doesn't go their way?

This.

[chiquelet]

Decided to stop pissing around and put on my big girl pants - went to the dentist this morning. I need two fillings done next week over two visits uuuuugh, but I also have an iffy-looking tooth which will probably need a cap/crown in the next year or two. At least I've got the time to start saving for it, but still, stink.

[Waldo]

Originally Posted by xor

My 33 year old brother asked my wife for some material from the post grad diploma she is currently studying. She said she couldn't do it right then because she'd been studying all weekend and needed a break. He then asked if he could get the material during the week, she said she'd give it to him the following weekend because she's got her visiting tutor come to her work as well as complete her assignments and do a 40 hour working week.
He threw a childish hissy fit and went real dark on my wife. He said he'd never been treated this badly in his whole life and has never 'had this sort of shit' thrown at him ever.
Do you notice how I said he is 33? yeeeeep, that's my big brother - the manchild. He has no understanding that other people have their own things going on.

you need to get your wife in check.

[xor]

No, it's my brother who's never been checked in his life so he has an unreasonable expectation that people need to drop everything that they're doing in order to assist him.

[guest]

Originally Posted by xor

My 33 year old brother asked my wife for some material from the post grad diploma she is currently studying. She said she couldn't do it right then because she'd been studying all weekend and needed a break. He then asked if he could get the material during the week, she said she'd give it to him the following weekend because she's got her visiting tutor come to her work as well as complete her assignments and do a 40 hour working week.
He threw a childish hissy fit and went real dark on my wife. He said he'd never been treated this badly in his whole life and has never 'had this sort of shit' thrown at him ever.
Do you notice how I said he is 33? yeeeeep, that's my big brother - the manchild. He has no understanding that other people have their own things going on.

how long would it of taken your wife to get the material...seconds, minutes, hours?

[Pepsi]

Originally Posted by guest

how long would it of taken your wife to get the material...seconds, minutes, hours?

Irrelevant tbh, the point is, his brother is a cunt.

[MadMax]

govt and their fixation with sending mail

we've had three 'motor vehicle register updated' letters advising that a vehicle we've disposed has been confirmed as being sold or disposed of.

apparently it went into a status of unknown as the yard that disposed of the car denied possession of it (it'll be long trashed by now) - they don't possess it so of course they'll deny it.

why can't a car just be plain old deleted and have no status or have a status of 6 feet under? nzta said we've done everything right ... but they still must have a status of unknown

[Nich]

Lenovo customer service gmg.

TLDR version = Fuck lenovo

So I bought an E520 from their website. thought it was a sweet deal with some good specs, and its IBM so a respected brand.

Within 2 weeks of use, it dies while sitting on a desk doing AutoCAD stuff. Completely dead, who knows whats wrong with the thing. I call Lenovo and they give me a service request number, and a courier is sent to pick the unit up with the promise that the laptop will be fixed and back to me within 4 working days.

4 days pass, then 2 weeks, then a month, then 2 months. Multiple calls to them with no ETA for my laptop. At this stage they say it will be at least 19 days for the part to arrive to fix my laptop.

"Ok," I say "You have had my laptop for longer than me, why dont you keep it and give me a refund."
"Ok Nicholas, the procedure is that you let me find out exactly when your fixed laptop can be returned to you, and then when I return to you with that information you can choose to request a refund."
"Sure thing." ... then i stop and think thats stupid, i want my refund now! I call back and explain I want my refund now.
"Ok Nicholas, I will submit your details now, and if the finance department approve the refund, the process will begin and it will be a matter of days and you will get your money back. We will contact you."

A week passes, no contact. So I contact them and the call centre staff still think I am waiting to get my laptop fixed. I have to explain to them the refund has been requested long ago. Now, after 2 months, they say everything is sweet cos we would like to offer you a complete replacement for your laptop. I say no thanks.

Finally shit starts getting official and i get an email confirming that refund is approved, as soon as laptop arrives back at lenovo, my refund will be paid.

Next thing i get a call from Lenovo asking if my repaired laptop has arrived safely at my doorstep(!) No, it hasn't, and nor do I want it to. The laptop should be sent to lenovo just like the email to me says. I reply to the email to let them know there has been a mix up and they agree.

Fast forward to today, I get a call from Lenovo and now according to them my refund will be given as soon as I receive the laptop, then send it back to them. Also, their records show that the repaired laptop was couriered to me but I rejected it.

And now I have no clue where my laptop is. Someone will apparently call me tomorrow or something. No one has the story straight. I keep talking to new people who each need to read the history log that reads like a badly structured novel. This has been going on since 10th January or something.

Fuck lenovo

[wazza]

that's a sucks story

[crocos]

Originally Posted by chiquelet

Decided to stop pissing around and put on my big girl pants - went to the dentist this morning. I need two fillings done next week over two visits uuuuugh, but I also have an iffy-looking tooth which will probably need a cap/crown in the next year or two. At least I've got the time to start saving for it, but still, stink.

When I was young and just a bad little kid,
My momma noticed funny things I did.
Like shootin' puppies with a BB-Gun.
I'd poison guppies, and when I was done,
I'd find a pussy-cat and bash in it's head.
That's when my momma said...
(What did she say?)
She said my boy I think someday
You'll find a way
To make your natural tendencies pay...

[Rince]

Originally Posted by Nich

Lenovo customer service gmg.

Go FairGo on their arse!

[Ab]

This is what happens when you don't buy Apple.

[FireStorm]

Originally Posted by Ab

This is what happens when you don't buy Apple.

I dunno, Apple repairers aren't exactly perfect. We've had a number of "repaired" iphones returned with faulty home buttons and the sort. Sure it's a refurbished phone that comes back but you'd think they'd check to see if the big ass button on the front works. Had at least 2 come back with this problem, others come back with a weird sounding silent sound (sounds like rattling plastic vs the "silent" buzz they should have).

This is through the official Apple repairers in NZ.

[p01s0n]

Originally Posted by FireStorm

I dunno, Apple repairers aren't exactly perfect. We've had a number of "repaired" iphones returned with faulty home buttons and the sort. Sure it's a refurbished phone that comes back but you'd think they'd check to see if the big ass button on the front works. Had at least 2 come back with this problem, others come back with a weird sounding silent sound (sounds like rattling plastic vs the "silent" buzz they should have).

This is through the official Apple repairers in NZ.

This is what happens when you buy Apple in New Zealand.

[Spink]

Originally Posted by p01s0n

This is what happens when you buy Apple

I am taking what you said out of context.

[p01s0n]

Apple owns btw. A staff member from inside my support scopes mbp's hdd started getting iffy and so I go to the apple site and chuck the s/n in and then it's like "yes! it's in warranty, so we'll do whatever the fuck you want! here, put your number in this box and we'll call you!"

and then a minute later my phone rings, and I explain the issue and the CSR on the other end was extremely apologetic that an Apple product failed and gave me a number and said "just drop it off to the shop on campus and we'll get it fixed up right away!"

and so I took it down to the mac shop on campus and dropped it off with the job number and got a ice cream from the dairy next door and walked back to my building and 3 days later the now nearly 3 years old MBP was repaired and full of life again.

I'd contrast it to the fucking numerous times I have to log HP jobs for their fucking janky pile of shit laptops and the tedious hoops you have to jump through despite us having gold platinum titanium next day support or whatever the fuck it's called, but it just makes me so angry.

[p01s0n]

Calling HP to log warranty jobs.
That's what fucking grinds my gears.

It's not even something I'm supposed to do, but I just can't bring myself to tell the customer they have to log the repair themselves, putting that misery and frustration upon another human being.

[A Corpse]

Combination of shit lines and terrible English make phoning HP a nightmare.

What grinds my gears is when I go out of my way to log it online so that I don't have to deal with their phone support and then 5 minutes later they PHONE ME ANYWAY!

[Stalk3r]

Originally Posted by p01s0n

Calling HP to log warranty jobs.
That's what fucking grinds my gears.

It's not even something I'm supposed to do, but I just can't bring myself to tell the customer they have to log the repair themselves, putting that misery and frustration upon another human being.

This, this right here, pisses me off about nz's computer industry, when something goes faulty 90% of shops say " ring this 0800 number and deal with it yourself" fuck that shit, why should the customer have to go thru that shitty torture, thats pretty much the main reason why i pick and choose what brands i sell, if i dont want to have to deal with their 0800 service every 5 minutes because of a shit product why the hell should my customer have to

[aR Que]

Originally Posted by Stalk3r

This, this right here, pisses me off about nz's computer industry, when something goes faulty 90% of shops say " ring this 0800 number and deal with it yourself" fuck that shit, why should the customer have to go thru that shitty torture, thats pretty much the main reason why i pick and choose what brands i sell, if i dont want to have to deal with their 0800 service every 5 minutes because of a shit product why the hell should my customer have to

I always go back to the place i bought it from, I gave you the money, you made a profit. I don't give a fuck where you got it from, I got it from YOU.
<- worst customer ever.

[Stalk3r]

thats what i expect from my customers, just without the shitty attitude if i sold it to you (hell even if i didnt) im more than happy to help you and deal with it for you

but im not using me and my company as an example, im using companies ive witnessed and heard about as examples i.e. the other 90%

remember, what is law in nz and "how it should be" doesnt necessarily equal reality and "how it is"

[aR Que]

And you probably enjoy a good rapoort with your customers and consumer loyalty.

Sick of those 9 other times, when unless you take the attitude in with you, they'll bend you over the table (my brother always gets done in this respect, he's way nicer than me). I buy locally when I want the assurance of being able to put my foot to an arse if excreament hits the blade.

/repeat.

I'm sure i've said this shit before!

[Stalk3r]

the answer is stop buying from shit places, go somewhere that treats you like a customer not a fucking paycheck, and if price is your driving factor then thats what youre going to get, lowest price, lowest cost/lack of caring staff, remember it costs them to support you so if their prices are so cheap they cant afford to theyll do as much as they can to get out of it

[doppelgänger of someone]

Originally Posted by Nich

Lenovo customer service gmg.

You get what you paid for. It was cheap right?

[p01s0n]

FUCK YOU MICROSOFT

can you get anything right these days?

[Spink]

Originally Posted by p01s0n

This is what happens when you buy Apple.

I'm doing it again.

[p01s0n]

brb putting you on ignore and telling the world about it

[Stalk3r]

User Fault

[aR Que]

Originally Posted by Stalk3r

the answer is stop buying from shit places

Haha, you know where i live, right?

[Rince]

Originally Posted by Stalk3r

thats what i expect from my customers, just without the shitty attitude if i sold it to you (hell even if i didnt) im more than happy to help you and deal with it for you

but im not using me and my company as an example, im using companies ive witnessed and heard about as examples i.e. the other 90%

remember, what is law in nz and "how it should be" doesnt necessarily equal reality and "how it is"

much <3 for stalk3r