What cheeses me off

[Cruiser Elite]

..................... is any cafe / coffee shop / bar or any other hospitality venue where customers are expected to scan a QR code and order online - not for me - no hard copy menu* and wait peoples to take orders then I am outa there

*Exclude SQ R / F / J which also went with the 'no printed menu' concept as it's kinda hard to step outa there at 30,000 ft

(Prolly already posted above - I don't follow every post)

 

[Forg]

..................... is any cafe / coffee shop / bar or any other hospitality venue where customers are expected to scan a QR code and order online - not for me - no hard copy menu* and wait peoples to take orders then I am outa there

*Exclude SQ R / F / J which also went with the 'no printed menu' concept as it's kinda hard to step outa there at 30,000 ft

(Prolly already posted above - I don't follow every post)

What's amusing to me is the fact that there will soon likely be a whole bunch of people saying that if they get into an establishment that doesn't offer online ordering from their seat then they're outta there ...

I only say "soon" because not enough places will be doing it now to allow said people to eat anywhere.

 

[drron]

One of our favourite restaurants in Launceston, Kosaten, is an upmarket sushi place and you order from an KIpad and the food delivered by a train of sorts. loved the place.

 

[cove]

Ok i just left busy Changi Airport in Singapore. People walk across your path and can stop in the middle of a busy pathway, Yes those folks are back and it is running at about 75% of pre-pandemic numbers of travellers.

 

[drron]

Ok i just left busy Changi Airport in Singapore. People walk across your path and can stop in the middle of a busy pathway, Yes those folks are back and it is running at about 75% of pre-pandemic numbers of travellers.

Don't need to go to Singapore to experience that behaviour. happens all the time on the Sunny Coast.
An extreme example last friday. A grey haired women with an electric scooter was looking at all the shops as she zoomed along. Ran down a young man who must have been a wonderful fellow as he asked her if she had been hurt.

 

[Matt_01]

At the moment what cheeses me off is what seems to be the increasing number of websites that will not allow me to reuse a password that I have ever used before. When logging in I am a big fan of entering an email address or phone number (most sites require these to sign up) and then use SMS or authenticator codes as the MFA.

 

[coriander]

At the moment what cheeses me off is what seems to be the increasing number of websites that will not allow me to reuse a password that I have ever used before. When logging in I am a big fan of entering an email address or phone number (most sites require these to sign up) and then use SMS or authenticator codes as the MFA.

Or organisations (Quicksuper I'm looking at you) that make you change your passwords every 3 months in the name of security - no, if you keep making me change it, I'll probably have to write it down somewhere.

 

[drron]

At the moment what cheeses me off is what seems to be the increasing number of websites that will not allow me to reuse a password that I have ever used before. When logging in I am a big fan of entering an email address or phone number (most sites require these to sign up) and then use SMS or authenticator codes as the MFA.

Though some sites have no problems with it. On the sites that require a change every 2 months I have 2 passwords which I rotate.

 

[coriander]

Though some sites have no problems with it. On the sites that require a change every 2 months I have 2 passwords which I rotate.

I get the "you have already used this password, please select another".

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Though some sites have no problems with it. On the sites that require a change every 2 months I have 2 passwords which I rotate.

That’s fine Ronny except for those sites that do not allow passwords used b4 - OMG they do my head in

 

[Pushka]

Though some sites have no problems with it. On the sites that require a change every 2 months I have 2 passwords which I rotate.

The Qantas Business account seems to remember the last three if not 5. I'm constantly resetting it because I can never remember it.

 

[RealtimeY]

Password managers can be of great help for these. You do away with having to memorise passwords, and it also auto-fills for you.

 

[whughes3]

These kinds of password rules were utterly discredited at least 10 years ago; any organization that still requires them has frankly pretty lousy standards of IT governance. I have occasionally sent emails to such people pointing this out but rarely get much/any response.

 

[drron]

That’s fine Ronny except for those sites that do not allow passwords used b4 - OMG they do my head in

I did say some. The one that amuses me is the Norton website. It allows you to go back to the old password. For me anyway but my computer does have a history of doing things differently to most.

 

[cove]

A late gate change at Singapore Changi where we went C23 to A3 which is from terninal 1 to terminal 3. Now that is quite a distance.

 

[drron]

A late gate change at Singapore Changi where we went C23 to A3 which is from terninal 1 to terminal 3. Now that is quite a distance.

Good cardiac exercise.

 

[cove]

Yes my shirt collar was soaked thru when i made that walk. My cardiologist would have been pleased if I told him.
Singapore humidity is something that cheeses me off so I don’t bother going anywhere other than straight to my room at Crowne Plaza at Changi.

 

[Cruiser Elite]

C23 technically only B13 - but when we’re you advised of gate change? Didn’t call for a cart?

 

[serfty]

Hey, I slept quite well last night at C24 lounge.

C23 to A10 is a hike, but at least you can employ the "train" for much of it.

But arriving at KLIA2 walking the marathon to the espress to miss the 9pm by two minutes and having to wait longer than it took to be in the air between SIN and KUL for the next really cheeses me off.

 

[leadman]

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!