What's mildly irritating you today?

[ZenGum]

Dumb-arse major retailers.

Twice in the last few days I have browsed a junk-mail catalogue, seen something I wanted, gone to the shop, and found they have sold out. In one case, didn't get that product sent, in another have had it four four weeks and have sold out, even though the catalogue only went out today.
In both cases these were major national retail chains. All decisions are made centrally and well in advance. The staff at the store had nothing to do with ordering or delivery, had no idea if or when any more such products would come in, had no way of finding this out or requesting a product, and had customers like me fairly often.

So what is bugging me is partly the inconvenience of not getting what I wanted, but also the failure of the system. This is supposed to be a capitalist system with efficient markets connecting me, consumer, with manufacturer, via retailer. What a load of FAIL. In reality it is like a soviet command style economy with no responsiveness to demand or bottom-up feedback.

[Lamplighter]

Twice in the last few days I have browsed a junk-mail catalogue, ...

Thank you for your order.
Your business is important to us.
Immediate shipping from our primary source in
Please allow 2-13 weeks for delivery
.

[Trilby]

Zen - I have noticed that even in a lot of upscale catalogues (and stores) they are tightening the reigns with smaller and smaller inventories and when something is sold-out it is, more likey than not, gone forever, never to be seen again.

Everyone is keeping inventory to a bare minimum.

[Griff]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

Thank you for your order.
Your business is important to us.
Immediate shipping from our primary source in
Please allow 2-13 weeks for delivery
.

Ouch. Totalitarian capitalism brought to you by the Peoples Army.

[Sundae]

Stupid bloody place where I work (not the school).
I provided a LOT of info when I applied.
But was impressed because I had interview, induction and started work in the same week.
Well worth the lengthy application process I thought.

Oh nononononononono says the no cat.

STILL being chased (3 emails now) for info I have already provided.
I responded to the first email with an explanation.

Last time I phoned and was advised only one form was outstanding - I handed that in in-store last Sunday.

This time I emailed again (HR don't work weekends, even in retail, that's why they're all so smug).

Apparently I have THREE forms outstanding including the tax form I filled in three weeks ago, the form I handed over last week (which is a duplicate of one I completed on my induction) AND a History of Work form never requested previously, but I did give references and permission to contact them in my original application.

Arse? Two hands? Torch?

[ZenGum]

Originally Posted by Sundae

Arse? Two hands? Torch?

That really does need the verb specified.

Or maybe you intended it both ways.



My gripe was not related to mail-order catalogues but those "what's in-store right now" brochures big shops send out. And our economy (Aussie) is fine so there is no reason to be stingy with ordering.

But look at the same organisational incompetence that Sundae is experiencing. These are all private corporations, the supposed paradigm of profit-focused efficiency. They're running a level of centralised stupidity reminiscent of the soviet system.

Dear capitalism, please get your shit together. It's embarrassing.

[monster]

I'm guessing find. but I haven't heard that before either.

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

That really does need the verb specified. Or maybe you intended it both ways.

Torch was meant as a noun.
As in they can't find their arse with two hands and a torch [perhaps the American flashlight is more common].
Although if I was meaner, I could have suggested that I wanted to torch (set fire to) the hands and arseholes of the HR team.

But that would be pretty extreme.

[ZenGum]

I was thinking of "shove" as the verb.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

My gripe was not related to mail-order catalogues but those "what's in-store right now" brochures big shops send out.

I worked in a camera shop as a youth and our store's tagline was
"If it's in stock, we have it!"

We often got calls from people asking if we had a certain item, if we replied that it was out of stock the customer would get irate and quote our tagline to prove that we were lying.

But your ad says "If it's in stock, we have it!" and we'd reply, yes, but it's not in stock, therefore... (you are probably too stupid to operate the camera anyway)

[ZenGum]

BS continues. Now it is a mobile phone battery. Just WHY did paypal just screw up on me?

[infinite monkey]

Jibber jabber jibber jabber jibber jabber jibber jabber jibber jabber jibber jabber jibber jabber jibber jabber.

It's a jibber jabber kind of week at work. Jibber jabber makes my head hurt. I tried to tune out jibber jabber with I Fart Radio but there is a whole lot of effing christmas music and the easy listening I've tried all sounds like the same jibber jabber that every other radio station is playing.

Jibber jabber jibber jabber jibber jabber jibber jabber.

Please to develop an anti-jibberjabber device.

[Trilby]

Vile day today.

All morning the day has been darkening.


It's only 5:30 and we are well past the gloaming and into full dark.
Creepy.

[Undertoad]

All the animals come out at night.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

Never underestimate the stupidity of people in decision making positions.

It's only a few more years before the IRS starts hiring thugs to just shake you down on payday as you leave the office.

Yo! Gimme your lunch money AND your trainfare, bitch.

If Obama has his way it will get much worse before it gets better. When they start to go after inheritance taxes that shit pisses me off to no end. Who the hell gave the Gobberment the power to redistribute wealth of the dead????