What cheeses me off

[MARTINE]

Like many, back on the road after the Covid hiatus and straight into the deep end with four trips in 4 months; 2 x Asia and 2 x Europe, next Europe in 3 weeks. But after a two year break my tolerance is even worse than before. Some of my classics over the past few trips;

- Pax walking at a crawl, even stopping, in the airbridge as they disembark so they can read their messages
- The family on the UL LHR flight almost non-stop paging hostesses even before the door was closed, and even after being warned numerous times to give it a break!
- Pax not prepared at customs etc, like "do we need our passports?". Or the families who have their passports in lovely covers and the officer has to open all of them. Then the Pax who, with a line at passport control measured in the hundreds, wants to ask the officer questions on getting out of the airport.
- Absolute lack of thinking when something derails, like the regional train strike in Italy. Communication at its finest, NOT!

more to come as i overcome jet lag, another cheeser I forgot about!

I am heading off soon and think I will be a very grumpy old woman when I encounter the above.

Add those morons who wait right until the last possible moment at security screening to start the disrobe - few coins here ; a belt there ; Oh I forgot my mobile phones in my pocket; what you want my shoes off?
Meanwhile they have taken 20 trays and gone backwards & forwards through the scanner holding everybody up…even worse if they have BO!

 

[Forg]

I am heading off soon and think I will be a very grumpy old woman when I encounter the above.

Add those morons who wait right until the last possible moment at security screening to start the disrobe - few coins here ; a belt there ; Oh I forgot my mobile phones in my pocket; what you want my shoes off?

I’ve admittedly never been to the USA … but I’ve never removed my shoes or belt for security, ever. Never done it unasked, never been asked.

 

[kookaburra75]

I am heading off soon and think I will be a very grumpy old woman when I encounter the above.

Add those morons who wait right until the last possible moment at security screening to start the disrobe - few coins here ; a belt there ; Oh I forgot my mobile phones in my pocket; what you want my shoes off?
Meanwhile they have taken 20 trays and gone backwards & forwards through the scanner holding everybody up…even worse if they

They are easy to deal with. Just do a pretend stumble forward, step on their foot, drop the shoulder innocently in as you fall towards them, apologise profusely and get in front of them in the line. It will provide entertainment value to the security staff at least.

 

[coriander]

Jeez it seems like we've been perpetually hiring, and I don't know how much of a 1000 word response I'd read!

"Selection criteria" has a strong odour of government ... if you've go 10 "selection criteria" each requiring 500 words they probably already have someone who's been working in that role in mind for that job ...

When my wife worked for TAA / Australian Airlines with Frank Ball and later James Strong the rule was "one page, standard thimble in the NEC Spinwriter, clear sentences / bullet points" for all resumes and reports. Binned noncompliance.
Really focussed the mind.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

People who speak to themselves, only for me to see that they are not actually speaking to themselves, but have hands free ear pieces, and are talking to someone on the phone, even though their hands are not holding a phone.
Or someone talking, and you think they are talking to you, but in fact, oh, no, they are talking to someone else on the piece of wire, to their phone.
Worst still, if its someone you already know, and you respond to them talking, only to find out, its not you, that they are speaking to, its the other person on their phone.
Blush... I must learn to ignore at all cost, when people talk to themselves.

 

[Seat0B]

people who get off an escalator and stand there in a daze looking around right at the end. listen, i'm coming and theres noting i can do about it.

Yes, I understand, and its why am afraid of escalators .... so I take steps to avoid them

I once had a very scary experience arriving at AMS late at night from London. We were delivered to passport control by a down escalator. They only had 1 gate open, and there was a massive queue at it, that soon backed up all the way back to the escalator. All other areas were locked off by barriers, and to be fair, the people at the front of the queue were probably unaware of the issue. People started piling up and falling over and there was nearly that crowd stampede panic thing. People coming doen the escalator wer yelling to those below to move out of the way. They were yelling back - nowhere to go. Eventually someone hit the escalator emergency stop. No airport or other official did anything about it at all. It was very scary. The lack of foresight in this situation cheesed me off.

 

[Cruiser Elite]

What Cheeses Me Off are Customers and Service Agents in Banks, Supermarkets, Bakeries or anywhere in general where said people feel its appropriate and acceptable to indulge in extensive and prolonged chin wag sessions discussing any topic imaginable during and post being served totally oblivious to those queued behind them

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Must be in their training manual.
How was your weekend ******** (add your name)...
Sometimes it can get to flirty level, blush.

 

[RealtimeY]

How was your weekend ******** (add your name)..

Was on the phone with the "Myer Experience Centre" (call centre) and after telling me they could do nothing about my missing delivery, they followed up with "Also RealtimeY, I would like to ask you............... how is your day going today?". Couldn't have been any more awkward and tone-deaf.

 

[RooFlyer]

What's cheesed me off today? Australia Post / Startrack. Expecting a delivery today, so check tracking. "Delivered in full" on Wednesday!!

Check at Post Office - not there. Call StarTrack. 15 mins on hold. Ask about status. Apparently its been "delivered" to an agent in Hobart and will be delivered "today". Which courier? Doesn't say. How do I track it? "We can't".

So AP/Startrack has given my stuff to someone they can't identify and don't know where or how it is.

But the phone agent "guaranteed" it would be delivered today.

 

[TheRealTMA]

What's cheesed me off today? Australia Post / Startrack. Expecting a delivery today, so check tracking. "Delivered in full" on Wednesday!!

Check at Post Office - not there. Call StarTrack. 15 mins on hold. Ask about status. Apparently its been "delivered" to an agent in Hobart and will be delivered "today". Which courier? Doesn't say. How do I track it? "We can't".

So AP/Startrack has given my stuff to someone they can't identify and don't know where or how it is.

But the phone agent "guaranteed" it would be delivered today.

 

[Scarlett]

Speaking of yelling at clouds…

<insert airline here> has just given out free stuff, but I personally didn’t get enough/the right free stuff and it’s not fair that I was following the rules…

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<insert airline here> stuffed up my flight/seating/baggage and didn’t provide the service I expected for the price I paid for my ticket. So I’m going to have to fly them again a few more times to get my status up / get my status benefits…

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Does anyone have a good status run for <insert airline here - IAH? > that will cost me a thousand dollars and get me to silver…

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<insert airline here> is on the verge of bankruptcy, but they should definitely lift their game and start/restart flights to 14 new countries/cities, buy new fleets, hire more pilots/crew/ground handlers/contact centre staff in Tasmania/gate agents to enforce priority boarding, serve the most most expensive champagne, open more lounges, offer half their cabin as frequent flyer seats, and cut the cost of their airfares! Or I’m going to go fly with someone else… who is doing exactly the same.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

About AusPost, they will be considering closing post offices too now, but also they want their stamp rates up by $0.10 to $1.20.
Not sure about the post stalls that are located in newsagencies, though, they probably will close their locations that only sells their items, and not in newsagencies.
My post office is now not open on Sat, due to covid, but probably more so cost cutting.
Trouble with the couriers, is that they can say, left in a safe spot, but most people's houses have no fortress gates, so the items are left by the front door, 50% chance it would get nicked.
I bought a puffer jacket from Kogan online, its says, "delivered" but the item was never received by me, asked my family, no one saw the package...

 

[blackcat20]

What's cheesed me off today? Australia Post / Startrack. Expecting a delivery today, so check tracking. "Delivered in full" on Wednesday!!

Check at Post Office - not there. Call StarTrack. 15 mins on hold. Ask about status. Apparently its been "delivered" to an agent in Hobart and will be delivered "today". Which courier? Doesn't say. How do I track it? "We can't".

So AP/Startrack has given my stuff to someone they can't identify and don't know where or how it is.

But the phone agent "guaranteed" it would be delivered today.

I've had parcels delivered by a random bloke in a sedan because that's who the courier passed it to.

 

[kyle]

I’ve admittedly never been to the USA … but I’ve never removed my shoes or belt for security, ever. Never done it unasked, never been asked.

I've never been asked ever even in US, maybe because I was either wearing my minimalist sneakers or thongs.

 

[kyle]

I once had a very scary experience arriving at AMS late at night from London. We were delivered to passport control by a down escalator. They only had 1 gate open, and there was a massive queue at it, that soon backed up all the way back to the escalator. All other areas were locked off by barriers, and to be fair, the people at the front of the queue were probably unaware of the issue. People started piling up and falling over and there was nearly that crowd stampede panic thing. People coming doen the escalator wer yelling to those below to move out of the way. They were yelling back - nowhere to go. Eventually someone hit the escalator emergency stop. No airport or other official did anything about it at all. It was very scary. The lack of foresight in this situation cheesed me off.

When we were departing Zurich, the passport control was downstairs and with a slow moving queue. Luckily the airport staff were smart enough and were blocking people from going down the escalators until the people at the bottom cleared.

 

[kyle]

Customer service going off their script of small talk topics and ignoring what's actually been said or happening.

Latest example. Checking in to Hilton LQS, I have the friendly young dude my Vic driving licence with an address in the burbs, and then he proceeded to ask if I was from Melbourne. Maybe he's asking if I was born in Melbourne?

 

[MARTINE]

When we were departing Zurich, the passport control was downstairs and with a slow moving queue. Luckily the airport staff were smart enough and were blocking people from going down the escalators until the people at the bottom cleared.

Ben Gurion airport has a similar poorly designed set up where you go down as escalator to a reach an elevator door

 

[Seat0B]

Ben Gurion airport has a similar poorly designed set up where you go down as escalator to a reach an elevator door

and similar issue with airbridge off the A380 and lift doors at Dubai - pax disembarking have no idea of the bottle neck at the lift unless someone from aircraft or airport controls the exodus from the plane.

 

[Forg]

and similar issue with airbridge off the A380 and lift doors at Dubai - pax disembarking have no idea of the bottle neck at the lift unless someone from aircraft or airport controls the exodus from the plane.

… and it can’t be as bad as getting all passengers out one front door of an A380 onto a set of mobile stairs, and then on buses, as per the way it was a few years back in Auckland …