What cheeses me off

[Pushka]

Australia Day peace and quiet shattered by back neighbour with circular saw.

Our next door neighbours did a commercial renovation and commercial builders are not allowed to work on Sundays or PH. One Aus Day long weekend they worked Saturday and Sunday and then started up on Aus Day PH. They'd already overstepped the Sunday so the PH was not going to happen. So neighbours builders were told to stop. They did but they were not happy Jan. Tough Luck as they'd pretty much trashed our Sunday anyway.

 

[Lynda2475]

WCMO yesterday was the selfish smoker who booked a room at a non smoking property and was too lazy to go outside onto streetfor a ciggy, instead lighting up in their room, setting off the smoke alarm which then required whole hotel to evacuate.

Walking down the firestairs wasn't too hard for most BUT one elderly lady was really struggling. Two fire trucks showed up and cleared the building pretty quickly.

The gossipy bar tender told me it was a smoker, I know there are fines for extra cleaning but hopefully also eviction of the offending guest. Zero excuse given the signage and propert status.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Very tempted to report the neighbour. Serial offender.

“If noise from building work can be heard from within the affected building during the following times, the person carrying out the building work may be issued with a fine. any time on Sunday or public holidays (normal Saturday restrictions apply for Saturday public holidays).”

 

[Dmac59]

The gossipy bar tender told me it was a smoker, I know there are fines for extra cleaning but hopefully also eviction of the offending guest. Zero excuse given the signage and property status.

I agree @Lynda2475. Eviction sounds appropriate especially given the inconvenience to other guests.

 

[Gladstone Tim]

WCMO is the forced (or attempted forced) use of online services or self-serve machines. Human interaction, even if only transactional, is important for social and emotional health. For some, the exercise of getting moving to go to Australia Post, motor registries, etc, is motivating for physical health. I also appreciate people being kept in customer-facing roles which, for many industries, becomes the first experience of employment for young people. If a queue has formed it is not the fault of the customer that the business is not properly staffed. My local supermarket has removed the express 12 items or less lanes and expanded the self-serve machines. If the staffed checkouts have too long queues, I just go to the service desk and politely give them the choice: serve me or be left with a basket of products to reshelve. I always explain why and have provided on-line feedback.

 

[Pushka]

I agree @Lynda2475. Eviction sounds appropriate especially given the inconvenience to other guests.

The opening of a door that has been recently vacated by a smoker is horrible. We experienced this in the Novotel in Paris. We'd booked a non smokers room. The stench when we opened the door - we didn't go in but went downstairs and insisted on a change. It's pathetic that the smell would have been obvious to the cleaners but simply ignored.

 

[TheRealTMA]

The opening of a door that has been recently vacated by a smoker is horrible. We experienced this in the Novotel in Paris. We'd booked a non smokers room. The stench when we opened the door - we didn't go in but went downstairs and insisted on a change. It's pathetic that the smell would have been obvious to the cleaners but simply ignored.

Paris. Often the signs mean “Non smokers accepted”