What cheeses me off

[Guvner]

AGL, Origin and Energy Australia - the big three - have recently announced losses of A$1 billion or more. I don't know why you believe they're hugely profitable.

My bad, my limited research was centred around this article: Energy networks garnered $10bn in ‘supernormal’ profits from consumers in eastern Australia | Energy | The Guardian

Apologies if I’ve misconstrued.

 

[VPS]

In my old place, we lived in one of these streets.
One car parked in my driveway local school parent. I came home from night shift and promptly locked the sliding gate.

friend had a flat where someone always parked illegally. He parked behind them then left for his 2 weeks FIFO job.

 

[TheRealTMA]

In my old place, we lived in one of these streets.
One car parked in my driveway local school parent. I came home from night shift and promptly locked the sliding gate.

We had a parent who parked over our driveway with his yacht in tow. I said I was backing out and if his yacht was still blocking the driveway he wouldn’t have a yacht anymore.

 

[Quickstatus]

yacht in tow

Wow the "show and tell" stakes have gone up since I went to school

 

[Pushka]

We had a parent who parked over our driveway with his yacht in tow. I said I was backing out and if his yacht was still blocking the driveway he wouldn’t have a yacht anymore.

There are times when you just wish you had an old massive off roader with bull bars. People expect you to take care of their property when they don't give diddly squat about yours.

 

[Ade]

He asked 'what do you want me to do"

Absolutely appalling behaviour.

At any Woolies/Dans/BigW when you are unhappy with a staff member, ask for either the Duty Manager or the Store Manager and raise a complaint. If the Store Manager is not available (they usually don't work weekends), ask for the store phone number and call the SM on the weekday.

It is bad that staff say things like "what do you want me to do", seriously, after all the training of how to talk/interact with customers, this is a very bad thing. What did the staff expect the customer to do? Pay the incorrect price?!?

 

[Pushka]

Absolutely appalling behaviour.

At any Woolies/Dans/BigW when you are unhappy with a staff member, ask for either the Duty Manager or the Store Manager and raise a complaint. If the Store Manager is not available (they usually don't work weekends), ask for the store phone number and call the SM on the weekday.

It is bad that staff say things like "what do you want me to do", seriously, after all the training of how to talk/interact with customers, this is a very bad thing. What did the staff expect the customer to do? Pay the incorrect price?!?

I did get the store Manager involved but didn't mention this behaviour. I think he got the message and he was a younger person so was more concerned with what woolies are doing overall as it leaves their staff open to issues.

 

[Forg]

I can't believe they aren't given the pathetic solar rebate they give when solar systems pump out four times usage.

They don’t have any way to store that, so they don’t have any way to use it, so the amount they buy it for is pretty much a token gesture. They can’t know how many solar-electrons they’ll get ahead of time, so they need to be (with the current Oz electrickery-generation system) cranking out the coal-electrons regardless in order to ensure continued supply … it’s why they’re so keen for storage technologies to improve!

 

[Hvr]

Asked the attendant to check. He asked 'what do you want me to do".

Eventually Store manager came over and said 'yeah, we were told of the issue this morning.

I actually feel for the attendant in this situation. The manager knows there is a problem and has dumped it on the attendant and probably abused them for good measure. The attendant is copping cough all day because their manager is lazy and probably incompetent.

IMO the manager needs to be reported and given a good talking to by the next level manager.

 

[Gladstone Tim]

Did you get them for free then?

I had a variety of excuses/responses from Woolworths staff when I sought the Scanning Code of Practice remedy:
# “That’s Coles’ policy not ours.”
# “You have to have paid for the items, left the store and then returned to claim the refund.”
# “A staff member missed taking the markdown label off the shelf. No refund 8n that case because it is staff error.”
I got the item free each time.

 

[MARTINE]

Like a sailor’s knot?

Knot that I’m aware their not…
glad you are (you’re) discussing grammar use of this word and not other pronoun issues (leave that one well alone)

 

[Ade]

staff open to issues.

I actually feel for the attendant in this situation.

Me too. Not all SMs pass on the price changes/issues etc properly. That is a whole another issue that service industry (especially supermarkets face). Lot of internal politics, you see! The manager in this case might not have done anything about the issue (which was a known issue, btw) and chances are the manager is clearly in the wrong.

Usually in situations where there is an incorrect pricing issue with the catalogue, that is updated every day btw, the SM's get to know it first thing. They then pass this info on to the DM (Duty Manager), who then passes it on to the floor staff. In smaller stores, there is less people, so the floor staff get the updates firsthand from the SM.

The usual directive is, if a customer complains that a certain item shows variance in pricing, the floor staff are advised to reduce the item price to what the customer says (as long as the variance is less than $5, and of course, depending on what the item is). As a general rule $5 or less, just override the price if you have the access or get someone with access to do the override or call the DM. If the variance is over $10 or so, then it's handled differently. During busy season (Christmas, easter etc), floor staff are authorised to override, pretty much any variance, within reason.

My concern is the floor staff asking, "what do you want me to do?". Assuming that this person is not new, has been given some sort of training in interacting with customers - the staff should have said, firstly, "thank you for bringing this to our attention, sorry about the mix up, let me see what I can do" or "Let me talk to my supervisor" etc.

Now, there are so many more combinations in which price check is done and will definitely be off topic here.

But my point being, I'd have expected the staff say/do/react more than just "what do you want me to do" ...

 

[cove]

Treasurers who love the sound of their voices and are scaring the public at a time that can quickly upset our market place.
i am unhappy with the large increase in shoplifting that we non shoplifters pay for with retailers increasing prices.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Knot that I’m aware their not…
glad you are (you’re) discussing grammar use of this word and not other pronoun issues (leave that one well alone)

"Hello Sailor!"

 

[Ade]

Emergency alarms go off and the airport can't figure out why ... alarms ringing at CBR for the past 30 or so mins and the airport has not figured out what's wrong ... Someone comes on the speaker every now and then and say that we are still looking into what's causing the alarms.

Update: 45 mins in, they have figured out that there is a fault in the alarm system that is causing the alarm to go off. Tech are being called to get it fixed. Until then the alarm will keep on ringing ...

 

[TheRealTMA]

Re traffic cones for builders' access.

One self-imporant teacher from the catholic school up the road has decided that the access for builders is less important than her having to walk an extra 100 mts to the school from her car so she just moves the cones and parks in front of our house.

Good to see such consideration for others <redacted> is alive and well in Brisbane.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Emergency alarms go off and the airport can't figure out why ... alarms ringing at CBR for the past 30 or so mins and the airport has not figured out what's wrong ... Someone comes on the speaker every now and then and say that we are still looking into what's causing the alarms.

Update: 45 mins in, they have figured out that there is a fault in the alarm system that is causing the alarm to go off. Tech are being called to get it fixed. Until then the alarm will keep on ringing ...

EMERGENCY EVACUATE NOW woop woop EMERGENCY EVACUATE NOW woop woop...
Thought that that was supposed to be a common noise in all Aust public places, so people know what to do, ie, "scoot out".
Did anyone actually evacuate.
Was there a PA announcement with the woop woop noise?
I work cleaning a shop, and every few weeks, there an announcement "that this a test", no action is required, but then once a few months ago, it really did happen...
And every one had to evacuate to the "emergency access point".
Or was it just a long wail of the alarm, or a constant wail?

Treasurers who love the sound of their voices and are scaring the public at a time that can quickly upset our market place.
i am unhappy with the large increase in shoplifting that we non shoplifters pay for with retailers increasing prices.

I clean a shop, so I do the find the evidence of the shoplifting, its a sports clothing store, and even the store staff are advised not to confront the shop lifters, and even security guards in Aust are not allowed to chase and run, not like in the US.
Here they gather the evidence of the theft if and when they note it, and cctv is used to back up evidence, and the police then chase up the targetted offenders.
Shoplifters here are now gall enough to separate the dye bomb, and take off the stud, and also take off the magnetic strip, as well as the price tag.
Once they are in the fitting rooms, they act fast, 5 mins and are out.
Some even poop in their old clothing, leave it there and wear the new clothing out of the store.
Or they come in 5 or 6 in a tag team, and use distraction while 1 or 2 do the actual deed.
Some also play the dwaddle game of distraction.
I find tags, studs, price tags, etc, the next day after the offence has occured.
I just pass the evidence to the store people to write off, sometimes they know thefts have occured, as their security or area managers have viewed the cctv.

 

[Pushka]

Ink jet printers. You replace one ink then on cue, go back to printing then the next colour needs replacing.

 

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[Saab34]

I think Woolworths Group must have had a software update, as I was in BIGW, the items did not scan at the marked down price, but at the bottom on the screen was a "Promotion -$XX.X at the bottom combining all the discounts off, but the main line had the full price. The receipt printed out and had a line by line price with the promotion attached to each item on the receipt. The lady in the assisted checkout rolled her eyes when I commented about it and said it is driving her crazy.