What cheeses me off

Forg said:
It's not an excuse, there is no excuse ... it's an explanation.

Utopia on ABC is horribly accurate. My better-half works in federal government, they actually paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to a consulting firm for re-branding about 2 years ago & they thing they came up with was near identical to the Dark Side Of The Moon logo in the very first episode of Utopia. And of the section managers involved only the better-half noticed ... and they all got the coughs with her when she pointed out (and they all realised) how much of a laughing-stock they would have been if they'd re-branded with the same logo that was a joke in Utopia ...
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But is the milk cold yet? :)
 
Ade said:
Wow ... is it like a local Thai thingy? Or is it something that you choose to do. In any case, how does it taste, generally? - I'm intrigued.. I might try salt in my beer too ...
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No it's not a Thai thing to do.

I sweat a lot at golf and obviously lose a lot of salt via sweat. I do drink lots of water during golf but I'm not into energy drinks like Gatorade and don't like the powder electrolytes either. After golf I may have one or 2 coke zeros and from there its beer for the rest of the night. Beer can taste a little salty but I love the taste and the ice helps to water down the beer and keep it cold.
 
WCMO at coffee (and bars and sales desks and checkin counters and …) are people who Don’t Know What They Want and spend precious time thinking about it. These days we can order a zip-less coffee at our establishment, automatic and without a word tho we don’t because they’re nice ppl, but nobody wastes time..

zipless for the younger readers? Erica Jong ‘’Fear of flying’ was published 50 years ago..
 
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Yep agree - you spend ages in line waiting to order, how can you not know what you want when you get to the front!

When that happens at our local fish and chips shop owner forces them to step aside and goes to next person.
 
Lynda2475 said:
When that happens at our local fish and chips shop owner forces them to step aside and goes to next person.
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Seinfeld Soup GIF
 
dajop said:
I am getting really cheesed off at the moment at the YouTube algorithm. It’s pushing endless amount of anti-(topic not included as politics not allowed) short videos to me, when I just want to be entertained. Not have certain far-xx_-wing views thrust at me continually. I just find it annoying but the worrisome thing is people just eat this all up and let it inform their worldview.
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I think I've mentioned on here before that YouTube has become annoying pushing junk my way. There is a clear agenda and I'm not going to let them succeed.
 
BCons said:
WCMO at coffee (and bars and sales desks and checkin counters and …) are people who Don’t Know What They Want and spend precious time thinking about it. These days we can order a zip-less coffee at our establishment, automatic and without a word tho we don’t because they’re nice ppl, but nobody wastes time..

zipless for the younger readers? Erica Jong ‘’Fear of flying’ was published 50 years ago..
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That was my favorite book when I was at university
 
WCMO is the airline call centre operator letting me know this a one time complimentary no charge change of flight. I’m only changing it because your airline cancelled it on me (for operational reasons more than 6 weeks out from my flight). I now need to fly down a day earlier to make my meeting.
 
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Forg said:
Yes there are cases of bad actors (eg. PwC won’t have an official policy of “scam them” but it won’t hurt any employee if they get involved in scamming GovCo),
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This is exactly the topic of my PhD on corruption in government procurement processes (a pandemic endeavour). My research shows that corruption (which includes conflict of interests such as the PwC example) are not only about bad apples (individuals to blame) but also bad barrels (organisations to blame) and bad orchards (institutions or whole sectors such as the consultancy sector to blame). It's so frustrating to see organisations lay all the blame on individuals when they (the organisations) have set a corporate culture that tolerates, ignores or even encourages that corrupt behaviour, and when a whole institution (eg the military, the police, the public sector) also tries to duck out of its responsibilities for controlling and directing the integrity of its members, both individual and and organisational.

Edited to add: This really cheeses me off. Just to keep it on topic :)
 
Seat0B said:
This is exactly the topic of my PhD on corruption in government procurement processes (a pandemic endeavour). My research shows that corruption (which includes conflict of interests such as the PwC example) are not only about bad apples (individuals to blame) but also bad barrels (organisations to blame) and bad orchards (institutions or whole sectors such as the consultancy sector to blame). It's so frustrating to see organisations lay all the blame on individuals when they (the organisations) have set a corporate culture that tolerates, ignores or even encourages that corrupt behaviour, and when a whole institution (eg the military, the police, the public sector) also tries to duck out of its responsibilities for controlling and directing the integrity of its members, both individual and and organisational.

Edited to add: This really cheeses me off. Just to keep it on topic :)
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WCMO is they sell deals... and always put the new blood on them. You never get what you've actually paid for. That's how they make their money.. and yes, knowing partners in the firms I know that's how they do it.
 
Flashback said:
WCMO is they sell deals... and always put the new blood on them. You never get what you've actually paid for. That's how they make their money.. and yes, knowing partners in the firms I know that's how they do it.
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And being a cynical old ex-public servant who once upon a time got a quote to the effect that my services would be provided by Mr Price, Ms Waterhouse and Mr Cooper themselves, only to find that I got a 22 year old communications graduate from a rural university who literally could not tell the difference between cough and clay (yes it happened to me just the once before I wised up on specified personnel clauses), I know too that that is exactly how they do things if they think they can get away with it.
 

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