Random Irritations

[PhilTheFragger]

We are in the year that Thunderbirds is set in


Heck

My fave was The Mole

 

[NearHull]

Tardiness, absolutely winds me up. Arranges to meet someone as was doing them a favour. Meant to meet at 4pm today, it’s now an hour and half later and I’m still waiting for them as they only had the decency to tell me they’d be late after the arranged meet Time and they’d not even left their house at that point. But if I left then I’d have and hours drive back home to explain to Mrs M I couldn’t be bothered to wait even though I’d agreed to help someone for her

Me too. I think the ex military amongst us will recognise being told ‘ If you are 5 minutes early, you are already 5 minutes late’.

 

[Bunkermagnet]

Me too. I think the ex military amongst us will recognise being told ‘ If you are 5 minutes early, you are already 5 minutes late’.

Interesting assumption
I havent served, but my time keeping is a lot better than my brother who did.
I don't think its being in the military, but more a natural approach to time keeping and appointments.

 

[Lucifer MorningStar]

Me too. I think the ex military amongst us will recognise being told ‘ If you are 5 minutes early, you are already 5 minutes late’.

I’m in the fence with that one, whilst many will still feel the need to be on time because it’s drilled into them. I know far for more people I’ve served with that completely went the other way when they’ve left and work to their own timings as they’ve had enough of always being early because the are told to be.

Interesting assumption
I havent served, but my time keeping is a lot better than my brother who did.
I don't think its being in the military, but more a natural approach to time keeping and appointments.

I’ve always been the same the fact I’m still serving is irrelevant, even as a kid it was drummed into me by my dad you always get where you’re meant to early so you don’t let others down and more importantly don’t let yourself down.

 

[irip]

I think the importance of being on time/early is something that is more important to the older generation.
More and more jobs now have flexible start times and I think that’s true in a lot of aspects in life.

Communication is a lot easier as well now which I think makes a big difference.

Certainly my children seem a lot less concerned about being on time than either their mother or me.

 

[Neilds]

I’m in the fence with that one, whilst many will still feel the need to be on time because it’s drilled into them. I know far for more people I’ve served with that completely went the other way when they’ve left and work to their own timings as they’ve had enough of always being early because the are told to be.


I’ve always been the same the fact I’m still serving is irrelevant, even as a kid it was drummed into me by my dad you always get where you’re meant to early so you don’t let others down and more importantly don’t let yourself down.

Without wanting to blame the youths, I think a lot of the bad time keeping has crept in with mobile phones. It doesn’t seem to matter to some people if they are late as they can just call ahead and make their excuses. Before mobiles, you had to make the effort to be on time or you missed whoever/whatever you were supposed to be meeting.

 

[Bazz]

No matter how may times radio stations ask me to, I'm not linking my Alexa account. Just play the music whilst I wash up.

 

[Lucifer MorningStar]

Without wanting to blame the youths, I think a lot of the bad time keeping has crept in with mobile phones. It doesn’t seem to matter to some people if they are late as they can just call ahead and make their excuses. Before mobiles, you had to make the effort to be on time or you missed whoever/whatever you were supposed to be meeting.

I wouldn’t disagree with that at all. My kids think time is some sort of moveable construct that revolves around them and their inability to get off their sodding mobiles.

 

[Imurg]

Ebay Help......

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Always the youth..........the worst offenders on timekeeping I know are all adults, not young adults either. Some people just don't get time as a concept or don't see not being on time as rude.

When I have to meet these people I do it so that I won't be inconvenienced when they inevitably turn up late. Lateness drives me crackers, there is no excuse.

 

[Lucifer MorningStar]

Always the youth..........the worst offenders on timekeeping I know are all adults, not young adults either. Some people just don't get time as a concept or don't see not being on time as rude.

When I have to meet these people I do it so that I won't be inconvenienced when they inevitably turn up late. Lateness drives me crackers, there is no excuse.

Like all things the youth shoulder blame but let’s be honest time keeping is very muck akin to manners. They’re traits often learned from our upbringing, my kids manners are wonderful but their time keeping is horrible. They spend majority of the time with their mum as the live with her during the week and she’d be late for her own funeral, when she picks the kids up I have to give her a time that’s 2hrs before what the scheduled time needs to be as she simply cannot get anywhere on time, her whole family are the same

Mine is the opposite none of us can stand being late. So whilst the youth may be blamed it’s a societal wide issue just like manners and decency there will always be those that are friendly, timely and polite and there will always be self entitled ***holes

 

[Hobbit]

Had a discussion with a retired HR manager, both retired 8 years, yesterday about the attitudes & and abilities of young adults coming into the workplace. We were both in agreement that the young get bad press but that our experiences were, in the main, very different. Yes they lack experience but that’s more than made up for with their energy & enthusiasm.

I think I might have employed 2 or 3 that disappointed but only 1 of those didn’t improve after working for a few months.

To be fair, there’s good and bad in every generation but the youngsters can be moulded.

 

[Patster1969]

Email from Royal Mail at 0705 this Xmas Day morning. Please collect your parcel from the sorting office.

Irritation, it’s from Waitrose wine cellar and contains two bottles of wine that I ordered specifically for Xmas day dinner. Only ordered them on 12 Dec with a 3-5 day delivery timeline.

Talking about that, we had a note through the door from Royal Mail regarding something that they couldn't deliver due to insufficient postage. Had to go onto the Royal Mail website to pay the fee and there is no way of knowing what this item was.
The really irritating thing was that it was only a Christmas card from an elderly relative without a stamp - the fee for this was 5 QUID!!! How do the RM think that that fee is relative to the item?!?
I'm surprised that the postie didn't deliver the card wearing a Robin Hood outfit when it turned up a couple of days later.

 

[D-S]

Bristol Airport increasing drop off charges for 0-10 minutes from £7 to £8.50.

 

[Orikoru]

I wouldn’t disagree with that at all. My kids think time is some sort of moveable construct that revolves around them and their inability to get off their sodding mobiles.

Haha, try having an ADHD wife. Being on time for anything is a myth, a pipe dream. Her brain just doesn't compute it. The only way I could sum it up; if you imagine you had five jobs to do which are all five minute jobs, you know that will take you 25 minutes, but she will believe that as they are all 5 minute jobs, she can do them all in 5 minutes. Similarly, if you know you have to leave at 5pm to drive somewhere, you would start getting ready maybe 15 minutes before that so you're in the car ready to leave at 5, right? She doesn't think of that so she'll start getting ready at 5 to leave at 5 and end up leaving 15 minutes late.

 

[Lucifer MorningStar]

Haha, try having an ADHD wife. Being on time for anything is a myth, a pipe dream. Her brain just doesn't compute it. The only way I could sum it up; if you imagine you had five jobs to do which are all five minute jobs, you know that will take you 25 minutes, but she will believe that as they are all 5 minute jobs, she can do them all in 5 minutes. Similarly, if you know you have to leave at 5pm to drive somewhere, you would start getting ready maybe 15 minutes before that so you're in the car ready to leave at 5, right? She doesn't think of that so she'll start getting ready at 5 to leave at 5 and end up leaving 15 minutes late.

Just tell her different times

Or go without her I do that with my teenagers if they’re not ready they don’t get to go

 

[NearHull]

Talking about that, we had a note through the door from Royal Mail regarding something that they couldn't deliver due to insufficient postage. Had to go onto the Royal Mail website to pay the fee and there is no way of knowing what this item was.
The really irritating thing was that it was only a Christmas card from an elderly relative without a stamp - the fee for this was 5 QUID!!! How do the RM think that that fee is relative to the item?!?
I'm surprised that the postie didn't deliver the card wearing a Robin Hood outfit when it turned up a couple of days later.

An update really to the parcel sage ordered on 12 Dec for 3-5 day delivery. Got anther email this morning to say that if I didn’t collect within two days the package will be sent back to the senders. It seems that the collection point is York, some 45 mins drive away.
After the normal merry dance on the telephone, the very helpful lady identified that the house number was missing on the address label. Soon corrected, they are now trying to deliver on Monday. .

 

[irip]

Bristol Airport increasing drop off charges for 0-10 minutes from £7 to £8.50.

Gatwick have increased their drop off fee from £7 to £10 from yesterday.
From Monday London City Airport will be £8 where before it was free.
It’s just a licence to print money

 

[Lord Tyrion]

We have a Chromecast for our upstairs TV. It's an old TV, 2014, but still works well, good picture. The Chromecast enables us to cast Netflix or Amazon to the TV from our phones.

For reasons unknown it has stopped working. I've followed all of the suggestions but it just won't reconnect. I don't know if it's the Chromecast or the TV being so old, update to the Chromecast not speaking to the TV or similar. Anyway, very frustrating.

It makes the TV semi useless, we might need to replace it with a modern, smart TV.

 

[Lucifer MorningStar]

We have a Chromecast for our upstairs TV. It's an old TV, 2014, but still works well, good picture. The Chromecast enables us to cast Netflix or Amazon to the TV from our phones.

For reasons unknown it has stopped working. I've followed all of the suggestions but it just won't reconnect. I don't know if it's the Chromecast or the TV being so old, update to the Chromecast not speaking to the TV or similar. Anyway, very frustrating.

It makes the TV semi useless, we might need to replace it with a modern, smart TV.

We had this with our Chromecast about a month ago just couldn’t connect or authenticate things. Went into settings did a full reset, then reconnected to WiFi and it did an auto update. Logged back into everything and Voila all working.

Maybe worth giving it a go.