What cheeses me off

[drron]

Other tourists with no spatial awareness.

 

[JohnK]

People with zero patience on the road.

Going down a residential street with speed limit of 50km/h and 4 speed humps in less than 500 metres at night.

i think I took each one at around 40km/h and the pickup truck was literally on my bumper bar with headlights all over my rear vision mirrors.

 

[bussyboy]

Having to call QFF service centre to "unlink" a lounge pass after being upgraded - surely this could be done better as part of the upgrade process?

Can't wait to get PC+ so I don't have to do this anymore

 

[Lynda2475]

People not doing their job and failing to read/action critical emails.

It is EOFY and I sent out explicit instructions 3 weeks ago, only to find out that 4 days before the books close some numpties decided to guess what they needed to process instead of processing specific journals and invoices provided in email. I've been double charged for multiple things, numpties wont own their mistake and trying to find a competent person to reverse the mistakes is a headache I do not need today.

 

[Forg]

People not doing their job and failing to read/action critical emails.

It is EOFY and I sent out explicit instructions 3 weeks ago, only to find out that 4 days before the books close some numpties decided to guess what they needed to process instead of processing specific journals and invoices provided in email. I've been double charged for multiple things, numpties wont own their mistake and trying to find a competent person to reverse the mistakes is a headache I do not need today.

Also, "not my job"ers.

Answering the 'phone, which rarely rings, isn't anyone's job in particular. And my end of the office doesn't even have handsets. However, the other end has handsets ... every now & again it will ring (say every few days), often by the time I get to where there IS a handset it's stopped ringing, and last Friday when I got there I saw the dozen-odd people sitting at their seats ignoring the handset next to them ringing 'cos well it's "not their job".

Fortunately it rang again, it was the Aus Post guy with the various wines I'd ordered for the office & in particular the event on Thursday. Maybe on Thursday I should make a show of enjoying those cases of wine all to myself ... it might get messy though, there's a lot of it for one person ...

 

[mel-world]

What would you do? Had Row 4 window on MEL-OOL today. Lady in 3F already boarded so had her substantial carry on in bin and had placed her substantial personal item (handbag) under her seat. So when I needed to put my computer bag under the seat in front of me, there was no room so I had to sit for 2 hours with my feet on top of my bag.

My better half does not like to make a fuss so we could not raise it with the crew. On arrival, 3F did have to get down low to retrieve her bag. Small consolation. Looked like Platinum flyers as they had spare seat between them.

Not happy.

 

[dajop]

On the overtaking topic, what cheeses me off is drivers sitting in the right hand lane of a freeway at the same speed as the vehicle they are supposed to be overtaking so it takes forever. What really cheeses me off is when that happens twice in the space of 30 mins. What really, really cheeses me off, is later that night when you are at home, up pops a video in the youtube shorts feed, complaining about people sitting in the right lane and not overtaking. First time you've ever had any sort of driving video pop up in your feed. The former two are mere inconveniences, the later downright sinister.

 

[Lynda2475]

@mel-world you could have removed it, handed it the FA feigning concern that a previous passenger must have left their bag behind given should be empty for you seat.

Or removed it and asked passenger in front were they aware their personal item had somehow slid backward under their set and ask them to stow correctly for their own piece of mind.

No way would I have sacrificed leg room that comes with your seat.

I avoid exit or bulkhead rows precisely to avoid the drama of not being able to have items under set in front.

 

[Pushka]

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What would you do? Had Row 4 window on MEL-OOL today. Lady in 3F already boarded so had her substantial carry on in bin and had placed her substantial personal item (handbag) under her seat. So when I needed to put my computer bag under the seat in front of me, there was no room so I had to sit for 2 hours with my feet on top of my bag.

My better half does not like to make a fuss so we could not raise it with the crew. On arrival, 3F did have to get down low to retrieve her bag. Small consolation. Looked like Platinum flyers as they had spare seat between them.

Not happy.

put my feet on top of her bag? I'm assuming she'd put it in your foot space?

 

[Captain Halliday]

What cheeses me off is having four work flights to book during DSC, but the proposed dates have been “circulated for consultation”.

No way will this be sorted today

 

[TheRealTMA]

On the overtaking topic, what cheeses me off is drivers sitting in the right hand lane of a freeway at the same speed as the vehicle they are supposed to be overtaking so it takes forever. What really cheeses me off is when that happens twice in the space of 30 mins. What really, really cheeses me off, is later that night when you are at home, up pops a video in the youtube shorts feed, complaining about people sitting in the right lane and not overtaking. First time you've ever had any sort of driving video pop up in your feed. The former two are mere inconveniences, the later downright sinister.

And add to that when you are in the left hand lane using cruise control at or just above speed limit and the idiot in the right lane sits 1km faster and does not GAF and not speed up nor slow down when you are approaching slower vehicles in the left so you have to brake to get out of cruise then slow to allow idiot to pass.

 

[p--and--t]

I also work in technology and disagree that it needs to be anymore onerous or expensive. If cloud hosted, you only need to pay for the time the specific election is running a few weeks at best (deploy code, configure data, hold election, archive result, nothing to maintain in between). The voting logic doesnt chnage election to election, just reference data i.e. candiate names.

..you obviously don't work in the environment and have little to no idea of the level of work that goes on between elections

 

[Lynda2475]

..you obviously don't work in the environment and have little to no idea of the level of work that goes on between elections

And you obviously dont understand the funding model for cloud hosting a limited time service which is all an election needs to be. Run the code when its needed, zero infrastructure costs when no elections happening which is most of the time.

I made no commen whatsoever on the work between elections but one would hope between elections government employees would be focused on running government services for the taxpayers who fund their jobs.

IMO it is really pathetic the ivote system was removed. Its the 21st century. Some may be happy to stay stuck in 19th century, id prefer to see things improve.

 

[p--and--t]

And you obviously dont understand the funding model for cloud hosting a limited time service which is all an election needs to be. Run the code when its needed, zero infrastructure costs when no elections happening which is most of the time.

I made no commen whatsoever on the work between elections but one would hope between elections government employees would be focused on running government services for the taxpayers who fund their jobs.

IMO it is really pathetic the ivote system was removed. Its the 21st century. Some may be happy to stay stuck in 19th century, id prefer to see things improve.

..my previous statement stands (despite your incorrect assumptions regarding my background knowledge)- you don't know what you are talking about due to your incorrect assumptions as to the totally it of what is involved.

..goodbye

 

[RooFlyer]

..my previous statement stands (despite your incorrect assumptions regarding my background knowledge)- you don't know what you are talking about due to your incorrect assumptions as to the totally it of what is involved.

..goodbye

kookaburra75 expressed similar sentiment above:

Having worked in this space, technology related, surprisingly the paper-based system is the simplest, cheapest and most secure way of doing it. Given you only have elections every 3 or 4 years (depending where you are), the cost of refreshing technology alone is enormous

 

[Lynda2475]

Well paper voting cheeses me off, paper voting is archaic and resource wasteful, just because you cant imagine a better cheaper solution and want to be a luddite when it comes to embracing electronic voting, wont cheese me off any less.

You know nothing of my technical expertise so are not qualified to comment on what i could make possible, there will never be progress whiile people decide it is too hard.

Also this is a whinge thread, you dont have to agree with my gripe but you also dont need to be condescending.

Bring back ivote it was convenient.

 

[RooFlyer]

Well paper voting cheeses me off, paper voting s archaic and resource wasteful just because you cant imagine a better cheaper solution and want to be a luddite when it comes to embracing electronic voting, wont cheese me off any less.

What happens with your convenient iVoting if - just if - there is an IT cough- up like the census before last, or a hack or attempted hack? Never mind the possible effect on the integrity of the result, the inevitable wide spread alarm/suspicion/ Trumpian conspiracies etc would paralyse any government. Chaos.

Now, you’ll point out that paper voting is subject to cheating and corruption, but it seems to me that the AEC has gotten things pretty well worked out and the public has confidence in the system.

If you find giving up an hour or so of your time every couple of years ( or do a postal vote) for a sound democratic result so inconvenient, then perhaps you should just abstain.

 

[Lynda2475]

then perhaps you should just abstain.

Which is not an option because it is mandatory and you get a huge fine.

i-vote worked brilliantly, and it should be brought back. Under ivote you couldnt vote multiple times (or donkey vote), currently manual methods some people vote multiple times (or under others names as no ID check is done) and informal votes are very common.

Interestingly if you pre-polled they marked name off using a computer but if you voted on the day using manual books so archaic. And I have reason not to trust the manual process AEC once fined me for not voting because the numpty failed to mark my name off properly (partial instead of full line). I had to dispute demand a manual audit to avoid the fine, thankfully had multiple witnesses too. With i-vote you get a confirmation email and can screen shot as proof too.

If you think voter fraud doesn't happen with manual system you are mistaken.

The IT outage is just a cop-out not everyone will jump online at the same time, as with pre-polling youd have 2 weeks to enter your vote and can bypass the crazies who harass you at the polling centre.

 

[JessicaTam]

[mod hat]
A friendly reminder that this is the 'What cheeses me off! thread", not the "What would you know? thread".

Time to move on from discussing voting methods and security of such.
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[Cossie]

Cheeses me off to have to make a doctor's appointment to get new scripts.......