Random Irritations

[rudebhoy]

Mentioned on here a few weeks ago the daughter needed a replacement immersion heater in her flat.

Got one quote which I thought was a bit excessive, so took advice to get 3 quotes.

Since then, contacted one company who failed to turn up. I contacted them again and arranged a new date. They failed to turn up for that one as well.

Rung another company last week who said they would pop in one night after work. They haven't.

Rung a third company who came out yesterday, took one look and said we can't help, you need a plumber (this despite them advertising that they fit immersion heaters). They recommended a local plumbing firm. I tried ringing them, straight to voicemail. Left a message. No call back. Emailed them and messaged them on FB. No response.

So infuriating.

 

[Billysboots]

Wife has spent the last week deciding what make and model to replace it with. No sign yet of a decision ...

Good luck. We recently started hunting for a new sofa. We’d narrowed it down to about half a dozen online before we went to the shop.

An hour after we walked through the door of the showroom my wife had narrowed the choice up to thirteen.

We’re still looking.

 

[Wilson]

"Can we have a quick conversation about introducing x,y,z"

aka - can we circumnavigate the change process as this is about as low priority as it gets and will never get close to being done, and you'll have a tantrum when told that.

 

[Wilson]

We do regularly have to go camera-off and it improves things a bit. I know the problem's not me as I have a gazillion tonnes of fibre to my house, and complaints are common across the company. So, it's either the product or my company, and it sounds like it's the company.

Most of our calls are camera-on. My whole team works from home 99.9% of the time, so it's almost the only time we ever see each other.

Suspect either your devices aren't powerful enough, or you've got a cache issue.

 

[rudebhoy]

Good luck. We recently started hunting for a new sofa. We’d narrowed it down to about half a dozen online before we went to the shop.

An hour after we walked through the door of the showroom my wife had narrowed the choice up to thirteen.

We’re still looking.

We got a new sofa just before Xmas. Spent ages in the showroom. I left the final choice to her, when she picked one I double-checked and triple-checked she was happy before ordering it.

Two weeks after it was delivered, she says "I don't like the colour".

 

[Jimaroid]

Everyone’s experience of these MS products will vary according to enterprise configuration within their organisations and how bleeding edge they dare to be.

I’m envious of this version of Teams that’s good because the last time I used it, it was the worst MS product I’ve ever endured.

 

[srixon 1]

Microsoft Teams. We have to use it as our work comms tool. It's almost unusably bad, and seems to be getting worse every week. We can barely finish a call without the picture freezing or everyone sounding like a Norman Collier tribute act. I've no experience of it outside of my current work context. Is it always this bad, or is it something that my company is doing to it?

Oh, and Sharepoint sucks as well.

We have to use it for meetings and calls to the people in the company that we do contract work for. It is awful. Mic keeps dropping out, you can hear but they can’t hear you. There is some kind of echo. Someone speaks and then you hear the same sentence about 6 times until it fades away. Never had any problems with Skype but IT removed it from all our machines.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Teams - Sounds like it's my company fiddling with it. I find this depressingly easy to believe

Sharepoint - no one will ever convince me that it's the correct solution to any problem.

Sharepoint does the job for proper document sharing, management, audit and configuration control. If all you’ve used in the past is Windows Explorer/Filing for document storage and have employed often random and varied forms of document change control with often inconsistent naming and referencing conventions (if any of the latter), you’ll find the controls that are afforded by the likes of Sharepoint a huge imposition. But that’s because you most likely haven’t been bothered or had to bother about such matters or someone else coming along in the future and trying to find the right document and the right version at any particular time.

Above said wearing my Quality and Risk Manager for a major government service hat…and reflecting on the time I spent hammering into the teams the needs and benefits of proper document management and configuration control. And the benefits are significant…especially on occasions such as when the external security auditor asks for the System Architecture and Security Design documentation signed off when version 1.2.104 was put into Production.

 

[HampshireHog]

Teams - Sounds like it's my company fiddling with it. I find this depressingly easy to believe

Sharepoint - no one will ever convince me that it's the correct solution to any problem.

Where can put this document where no one will look at it?

 

[NearHull]

I can’t even get our Golf Club Board to understand that a Shared Data Environment would be highly beneficial. Currently each Board Member uses their own IT system. We end up emailing documents, minutes, drafts etc with barely any configuration control. I consider it a bit of a failure on my part that I can’t get over the advantages of a SDE to them. Even the three Office staff hold their own versions of documents and data worksheets - emailing them to each other.

 

[Neilds]

We had to change to Teams and share point at work. We had a woman who would nag, moan and educate us to use it properly. We were all sceptical at the time but now we see the benefits and it works really well. When we have to use the sites of other teams, we can see the moaning was very worthwhile

 

[PhilTheFragger]

A couple of weeks ago I decided to give walking football a try, fast approaching 62 and a couple of stone of excess blubber, seemed a great way of improving my fitness.

Fast forward to today and I’m in a hospital knee brace with an appointment to the soft tissue department of the fracture clinic sometime next week.

Walking football is surprisingly competitive and I got taken out good n proper.

Hopefully only be out for a couple of weeks

Needless to say, little Chubby Bro is wetting his panties and chortling loudly

As an add on to the above, I was walking down the stairs at home on Tuesday am, the bad left leg buckles under me and I end up sitting straight down on both ankles

Both knees went pop at the same time, que mucho ouchiness and sweary words, upshot is I am now into my third night in Stoke Mandeville, can’t weight bear on either leg yet and they will probably have to keep me in until one leg is able to bear weight.

Good job the weather is still rubbish, but looking at a good couple of months out

 

[PJ87]

As an add on to the above, I was walking down the stairs at home on Tuesday am, the bad left leg buckles under me and I end up sitting straight down on both ankles

Both knees went pop at the same time, que mucho ouchiness and sweary words, upshot is I am now into my third night in Stoke Mandeville, can’t weight bear on either leg yet and they will probably have to keep me in until one leg is able to bear weight.

Good job the weather is still rubbish, but looking at a good couple of months out

Blooming hell, have they said what damage is done??

 

[chellie]

As an add on to the above, I was walking down the stairs at home on Tuesday am, the bad left leg buckles under me and I end up sitting straight down on both ankles

Both knees went pop at the same time, que mucho ouchiness and sweary words, upshot is I am now into my third night in Stoke Mandeville, can’t weight bear on either leg yet and they will probably have to keep me in until one leg is able to bear weight.

Good job the weather is still rubbish, but looking at a good couple of months out

Oh lord. Sounds horrendous.

 

[PhilTheFragger]

Blooming hell, have they said what damage is done??

Oh lord. Sounds horrendous.

Cheers
X-rays are clear, so soft tissue, but no plans for a MRI which I find a bit strange.

It appears that the standard procedure these days is that 90% of soft tissue stuff gets better by itself in 6-10 weeks, so if it’s still a problem after that, then they investigate more.
Accountants I guess

 

[PJ87]

X-rays are clear, so soft tissue, but no plans for a MRI which I find a bit strange.

It appears that the standard procedure these days is that 90% of soft tissue stuff gets better by itself in 6-10 weeks, so if it’s still a problem after that, then they investigate more.
Accountants I guess

That's ridiculous, x-rays ofc will show nothing. (Had this when I ruptured my ACL) how can they claim your ligaments are fine without doing an mri?

I ended up going private for a scan last year £300 , was paranoid I'd done it again

 

[IanM]

Microsoft Teams. We have to use it as our work comms tool. It's almost unusably bad, and seems to be getting worse every week. We can barely finish a call without the picture freezing or everyone sounding like a Norman Collier tribute act. I've no experience of it outside of my current work context. Is it always this bad, or is it something that my company is doing to it?

Oh, and Sharepoint sucks as well.

That sounds like Network shortcomings, rather than the App!

 

[AmandaJR]

As an add on to the above, I was walking down the stairs at home on Tuesday am, the bad left leg buckles under me and I end up sitting straight down on both ankles

Both knees went pop at the same time, que mucho ouchiness and sweary words, upshot is I am now into my third night in Stoke Mandeville, can’t weight bear on either leg yet and they will probably have to keep me in until one leg is able to bear weight.

Good job the weather is still rubbish, but looking at a good couple of months out

Oh no you really are in the wars Hopefully they'll get it sorted ASAP and you can at least get home x

 

[PhilTheFragger]

Only a matter of time before @Imurg calls me a “Bald Blind Cripple”
It’s a running joke , been going for 40 years

 

[Imurg]

Only a matter of time before @Imurg calls me a “Bald Blind Cripple”
It’s a running joke , been going for 40 years

No,no,no....
I was wondering if you could claim any compensation but I don't think you've got a leg to stand on.......




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