Grumpy Old Man
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Obviously the same IT designers I came across years ago when I worked for Citibank. They ran an in-house, secure email service managed from New York. The idea was secure email access globally - particularly if you were travelling on business.
If you lost your password or couldn't log in, you rang a number in New York and they reset your password but couldn't give you a new password on the phone for security reasons. They either emailed it to you (whwn you had no email) or sent you a new password in internal mail to your home location..... Bloody brilliant if you were in Bangalore or Warsaw.
Morons.
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@r-l said in Grumpy Old Man:
@catogrande so what happened? Did you strike a pose for a pint?
My curmudgeon quotient was very high. Accordingly I went elsewhere. I had a very nice couple of pints in the garden of another pub and the dog was given two bone shaped biscuits. So it got my vote and his.
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@catogrande said in Grumpy Old Man:
I don't know whether to put this in a covid thread or here. But seeing as I'm a grumpy old man and I'm already here, then here it is.
So the story is, Mrs Cato, myself and the mutt went for a walk to a local pub. This entails a miserable bit of walking through housing and then some really nice stuff through fields, over rivers and canals etc so the default position is to drive the 2 miles of shit and walk the rest. So far so usual; however Mrs Cato has been out an about on her bicycle and has a "new route". It seems a little vague to me but I'll go along with the plan because she knows what she is doing. Anyway once parked up and walking we miss the turning even though I had suggested this as perhaps the way to go and ended up waking along a busy road and an even busier cycle path before getting to said pub. Now this pub is in an idyllic situation, between the river and the canal, with a huge garden that has some magnificent trees, which must be over 200 years old. Here is where it all goes wrong and it's Covid to blame, together with over exuberant applications and a dependance upon IT that doesn't always work.
So, sign in, OK, but if I actually want to have a drink I HAVE to order it via the app, which of course I have to download. Naturally the QR code doesn't fucking work, so I have to download it from the app store. Not a big issue but then the fun starts. I can't just download it, I have to get a verification code via my email. I've provided my proper email address rather than my on phone gmail option so now I have to download that fucker and of course I've forgotten my password. Finally I get through this bollocks but lo and behold things can only get more complex. Said app wants me to provide payment details online and, AND provide them with a picture of myself so that their staff know they are dealing with the correct person.
Now, I really wanted a beer by this time but not that fucking much. I realise that much of the problem is my lack of IT nous but for crying out loud, you're just coming out of one of the worst times for the hospitality industry, why not make things easy.
Oh and as a by the way, the pub was about a quarter fulll on the sunniest day of the year when usually it would have been one and a half times over subscribed.
Twats.
Not COVID related, but went somewhere (vineyard cellar door thing) over the weekend where they had one of those QR code ordering app things.
Thought I'd try it.
First up Mrs Boo wanted to try the tasting flight of four of their wines. Not on the on line menu.
Thought I'd try ordering my poncey craft beer, and then had the same issue as Cato having to register and log a credit card... and fuck that I'll walk the 10m to the bar.
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@r-l or stay at home and be safe haha
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@r-l said in Grumpy Old Man:
@booboo what's the lesson here fellas?? Let the women sort it out, we are much more organised. You can still offer up your credit card though...
Mmm. In two posts you find navigational ineptitude, stubbornness and refusal to listen to suggested direction, and a desire to select an item that wasn't on the menu.
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Fucking pricks that that think their name is unique. I have spent a whole day trying to work out which Smith or Jones has put money in my account. Use the bloody account number! I can have up to 5 names going on at one time. Also pay the fucking amount due, don't just make it it up. If I ask for $2000 deposit pay that, don't just think that $1900 is enough and I'll do the job.
I just did the name thing in the WTC thread by calling a player Mitch and it was ambiguous whether it was a first or last name but FFS it wasn't a bill, it was a sports conversation. Mutter, mutter. Apologies @Crucial
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@snowy basement getting a bit full huh?
What a mistake though eh, your captor offers up freedom to the first one to transfer 2k to his account and you cheap out, thus making him even more irate than usual. Not only that, you don't even identify yourself as Captive #8, just go with Captive and wooooah boy have you fucked up.
Plus captor is clearly on 6 figures.
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@virgil said in Grumpy Old Man:
@crucial said in Grumpy Old Man:
@mariner4life said in Grumpy Old Man:
fucking stores that say they can do something when they quite obviously can not
getting some roof racks for the Ranger. Going camping on July 4. Was very upfront with the guy about the date "yeah mate mid-June should be done"
Didn't hear anything. Ring today "yep, parts have just arrived, we'll book you in for the install. I have an opening on July 30"
Excuse me what?
Yeah mate, booked solid until then.
Ah mate, your man out the front assured me this would get done mid-June
Dunno what to tell you there mate, so you good for the 30th?
Mother fuckers!!!
Do it yourself! What are you? A Polish Chick?
Even your memes have bad grammar!
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@bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
@snowy basement getting a bit full huh?
What a mistake though eh, your captor offers up freedom to the first one to transfer 2k to his account and you cheap out, thus making him even more irate than usual. Not only that, you don't even identify yourself as Captive #8, just go with Captive and wooooah boy have you fucked up.
Plus captor is clearly on 6 figures.
Captor is not Gracie. Anything that I earn, I fucking earn, nobody pays me week to week to sit around fucking about on the fern. Captor doesn't just get paid, he has to organise the shitheads that fix your fucking house and business. Captor hasn't made a cent out of 4 years of work doing that. I have other income fortunately. Captor is seriously grumpy. The point of the thread.
Had my first bad debt in four years the other day. I get just as pissed off with people that pay then complain that their account is wrong. Cellar is seriously full of fluffybunnies that don't even want me to know that they have paid me, then they whinge about it when the they get a bill saying that they owe me. Tell me who you are! Fuckwits. Hours wasted while I track them down and lock them up.
Even missing the rugby now because of them.
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@bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
@snowy basement getting a bit full huh?
What a mistake though eh, your captor offers up freedom to the first one to transfer 2k to his account and you cheap out, thus making him even more irate than usual. Not only that, you don't even identify yourself as Captive #8, just go with Captive and wooooah boy have you fucked up.
Plus captor is clearly on 6 figures.
It's a cellar...
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@booboo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
@snowy basement getting a bit full huh?
What a mistake though eh, your captor offers up freedom to the first one to transfer 2k to his account and you cheap out, thus making him even more irate than usual. Not only that, you don't even identify yourself as Captive #8, just go with Captive and wooooah boy have you fucked up.
Plus captor is clearly on 6 figures.
It's a cellar...
No mate doesn't sound like he can sell anything properly.
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@booboo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
@snowy basement getting a bit full huh?
What a mistake though eh, your captor offers up freedom to the first one to transfer 2k to his account and you cheap out, thus making him even more irate than usual. Not only that, you don't even identify yourself as Captive #8, just go with Captive and wooooah boy have you fucked up.
Plus captor is clearly on 6 figures.
It's a cellar...
So you've gone through this list?
https://www.completebasementsystems.net/resources/are-basements-and-cellars-the-same/ -
@nostrildamus said in Grumpy Old Man:
@booboo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
@snowy basement getting a bit full huh?
What a mistake though eh, your captor offers up freedom to the first one to transfer 2k to his account and you cheap out, thus making him even more irate than usual. Not only that, you don't even identify yourself as Captive #8, just go with Captive and wooooah boy have you fucked up.
Plus captor is clearly on 6 figures.
It's a cellar...
So you've gone through this list?
https://www.completebasementsystems.net/resources/are-basements-and-cellars-the-same/Thankyou. Some people just won't learn.
While in GOM mode. People on the other side of the word that you have never met making assumptions about how you manage your companies, how they interact and how much you earn. Just bloody rude.
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@snowy said in Grumpy Old Man:
@nostrildamus said in Grumpy Old Man:
@booboo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
@snowy basement getting a bit full huh?
What a mistake though eh, your captor offers up freedom to the first one to transfer 2k to his account and you cheap out, thus making him even more irate than usual. Not only that, you don't even identify yourself as Captive #8, just go with Captive and wooooah boy have you fucked up.
Plus captor is clearly on 6 figures.
It's a cellar...
So you've gone through this list?
https://www.completebasementsystems.net/resources/are-basements-and-cellars-the-same/Thankyou. Some people just won't learn.
While in GOM mode. People on the other side of the word that you have never met making assumptions about how you manage your companies, how they interact and how much you earn. Just bloody rude.
Some people just like to make an ass out of u and mptions.
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@smudge said in Grumpy Old Man:
@virgil said in Grumpy Old Man:
@crucial said in Grumpy Old Man:
@mariner4life said in Grumpy Old Man:
fucking stores that say they can do something when they quite obviously can not
getting some roof racks for the Ranger. Going camping on July 4. Was very upfront with the guy about the date "yeah mate mid-June should be done"
Didn't hear anything. Ring today "yep, parts have just arrived, we'll book you in for the install. I have an opening on July 30"
Excuse me what?
Yeah mate, booked solid until then.
Ah mate, your man out the front assured me this would get done mid-June
Dunno what to tell you there mate, so you good for the 30th?
Mother fuckers!!!
Do it yourself! What are you? A Polish Chick?
Even your memes have bad grammar!
Not my work!!, a copy and paste job this one sorry.
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All sorts of grumpy this week.
We've mentioned triggering words before. I have a new one to add to my "fermented"...
Flacid? FLACCID?
Jesus I've heard that word too many times today, not in a personal context either before any smart arses pipe up, and Flacid is not a word any girl wants to hear.
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@r-l I feel any jokes may fall limp