Grumpy Old Man
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
This could go in any number of threads...
We recently bought 100ml of fragrance oil to make some candles as Christmas gifts - sum total of £6.99. It arrived with eight double-sided A4 pages of safety and hazard information to comply with EU regulations.
WTAF?
Is it safety information related to making scented candles or instructions on how to retrieve and reattach your balls?
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@JC said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew Ian Dury had some sage advice about candles.
He wouldn’t like this thread. He always found lots of reasons to be cheerful.
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I'm in a Kafkaesque hell.
Jumped online to order my sister, god daughter, and nieces Xmas presents. All NZ websites. Using my NZ debit card. Push payment and it goes to a secure banking page where it sends a code to my NZ phone number. Repeat it again with my credit card. Same outcome.
So, put my NZ sim in my phone turn it on and I don't have enough credit for roaming. Go to add credit, which I usually do at the airport before flying to NZ with no issue, and yep you guessed it I go to the secure banking page where they send a code to my NZ number.
What's annoying as this seems to be fairly recent as I used the same card to order a birthday present for my sister in August with no issue.
Very very grumpy at the moment.
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@Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:
I'm in a Kafkaesque hell.
Jumped online to order my sister, god daughter, and nieces Xmas presents. All NZ websites. Using my NZ debit card. Push payment and it goes to a secure banking page where it sends a code to my NZ phone number. Repeat it again with my credit card. Same outcome.
So, put my NZ sim in my phone turn it on and I don't have enough credit for roaming. Go to add credit, which I usually do at the airport before flying to NZ with no issue, and yep you guessed it I go to the secure banking page where they send a code to my NZ number.
What's annoying as this seems to be fairly recent as I used the same card to order a birthday present for my sister in August with no issue.
Very very grumpy at the moment.
Another well thought out business process then. Still, it's enabled some compliance officer somewhere to tick a box.
Email the CEO and ask him how he/she'd manage in the same circumstances.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:
I'm in a Kafkaesque hell.
Jumped online to order my sister, god daughter, and nieces Xmas presents. All NZ websites. Using my NZ debit card. Push payment and it goes to a secure banking page where it sends a code to my NZ phone number. Repeat it again with my credit card. Same outcome.
So, put my NZ sim in my phone turn it on and I don't have enough credit for roaming. Go to add credit, which I usually do at the airport before flying to NZ with no issue, and yep you guessed it I go to the secure banking page where they send a code to my NZ number.
What's annoying as this seems to be fairly recent as I used the same card to order a birthday present for my sister in August with no issue.
Very very grumpy at the moment.
Another well thought out business process then. Still, it's enabled some compliance officer somewhere to tick a box.
Email the CEO and ask him how he/she'd manage in the same circumstances.
Oh damn, I'm not that much of a grumpy old man. I think this is pretty much standard practice these days for many retails/banks. I just used the thread to vent.
Plus, I earn part of my living in compliance so I can't complain too much.
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@Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:
I'm in a Kafkaesque hell.
Jumped online to order my sister, god daughter, and nieces Xmas presents. All NZ websites. Using my NZ debit card. Push payment and it goes to a secure banking page where it sends a code to my NZ phone number. Repeat it again with my credit card. Same outcome.
So, put my NZ sim in my phone turn it on and I don't have enough credit for roaming. Go to add credit, which I usually do at the airport before flying to NZ with no issue, and yep you guessed it I go to the secure banking page where they send a code to my NZ number.
What's annoying as this seems to be fairly recent as I used the same card to order a birthday present for my sister in August with no issue.
Very very grumpy at the moment.
Another well thought out business process then. Still, it's enabled some compliance officer somewhere to tick a box.
Email the CEO and ask him how he/she'd manage in the same circumstances.
Oh damn, I'm not that much of a grumpy old man. I think this is pretty much standard practice these days for many retails/banks. I just used the thread to vent.
Plus, I earn part of my living in compliance so I can't complain too much.
Jeez mate, you're getting soft. Make the fluffybunnies share your pain.
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@Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:
I'm in a Kafkaesque hell.
Jumped online to order my sister, god daughter, and nieces Xmas presents. All NZ websites. Using my NZ debit card. Push payment and it goes to a secure banking page where it sends a code to my NZ phone number. Repeat it again with my credit card. Same outcome.
So, put my NZ sim in my phone turn it on and I don't have enough credit for roaming. Go to add credit, which I usually do at the airport before flying to NZ with no issue, and yep you guessed it I go to the secure banking page where they send a code to my NZ number.
What's annoying as this seems to be fairly recent as I used the same card to order a birthday present for my sister in August with no issue.
Very very grumpy at the moment.
Another well thought out business process then. Still, it's enabled some compliance officer somewhere to tick a box.
Email the CEO and ask him how he/she'd manage in the same circumstances.
Oh damn, I'm not that much of a grumpy old man. I think this is pretty much standard practice these days for many retails/banks. I just used the thread to vent.
Plus, I earn part of my living in compliance so I can't complain too much.
You’re dead to me.
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@Catogrande said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:
I'm in a Kafkaesque hell.
Jumped online to order my sister, god daughter, and nieces Xmas presents. All NZ websites. Using my NZ debit card. Push payment and it goes to a secure banking page where it sends a code to my NZ phone number. Repeat it again with my credit card. Same outcome.
So, put my NZ sim in my phone turn it on and I don't have enough credit for roaming. Go to add credit, which I usually do at the airport before flying to NZ with no issue, and yep you guessed it I go to the secure banking page where they send a code to my NZ number.
What's annoying as this seems to be fairly recent as I used the same card to order a birthday present for my sister in August with no issue.
Very very grumpy at the moment.
Another well thought out business process then. Still, it's enabled some compliance officer somewhere to tick a box.
Email the CEO and ask him how he/she'd manage in the same circumstances.
Oh damn, I'm not that much of a grumpy old man. I think this is pretty much standard practice these days for many retails/banks. I just used the thread to vent.
Plus, I earn part of my living in compliance so I can't complain too much.
You’re dead to me.
And yet, it explains so much…😁
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@Catogrande said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:
I'm in a Kafkaesque hell.
Jumped online to order my sister, god daughter, and nieces Xmas presents. All NZ websites. Using my NZ debit card. Push payment and it goes to a secure banking page where it sends a code to my NZ phone number. Repeat it again with my credit card. Same outcome.
So, put my NZ sim in my phone turn it on and I don't have enough credit for roaming. Go to add credit, which I usually do at the airport before flying to NZ with no issue, and yep you guessed it I go to the secure banking page where they send a code to my NZ number.
What's annoying as this seems to be fairly recent as I used the same card to order a birthday present for my sister in August with no issue.
Very very grumpy at the moment.
Another well thought out business process then. Still, it's enabled some compliance officer somewhere to tick a box.
Email the CEO and ask him how he/she'd manage in the same circumstances.
Oh damn, I'm not that much of a grumpy old man. I think this is pretty much standard practice these days for many retails/banks. I just used the thread to vent.
Plus, I earn part of my living in compliance so I can't complain too much.
You’re dead to me.
Shudder what your reaction to an Actuary would be.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Catogrande said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:
I'm in a Kafkaesque hell.
Jumped online to order my sister, god daughter, and nieces Xmas presents. All NZ websites. Using my NZ debit card. Push payment and it goes to a secure banking page where it sends a code to my NZ phone number. Repeat it again with my credit card. Same outcome.
So, put my NZ sim in my phone turn it on and I don't have enough credit for roaming. Go to add credit, which I usually do at the airport before flying to NZ with no issue, and yep you guessed it I go to the secure banking page where they send a code to my NZ number.
What's annoying as this seems to be fairly recent as I used the same card to order a birthday present for my sister in August with no issue.
Very very grumpy at the moment.
Another well thought out business process then. Still, it's enabled some compliance officer somewhere to tick a box.
Email the CEO and ask him how he/she'd manage in the same circumstances.
Oh damn, I'm not that much of a grumpy old man. I think this is pretty much standard practice these days for many retails/banks. I just used the thread to vent.
Plus, I earn part of my living in compliance so I can't complain too much.
You’re dead to me.
Shudder what your reaction to an Actuary would be.
An actuary is a necessary evil. Compliance is a necessary very evil.
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@Catogrande i hate opening my emails and seeing one from our compliance team...I don't even know if we have an actuary but I worked alongside one in the UK, different breed, and to top it off, he was Welsh too....
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Welsh and an actuary is I would have thought a rare one. Nearly all the Welsh guys I've met are far too romanticised and artistic to go down that particular road to hell.
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@Catogrande said in Grumpy Old Man:
Welsh and an actuary is I would have thought a rare one. Nearly all the Welsh guys I've met are far too romanticised and artistic to go down that particular road to hell.
Actuaries are the people who act as Compliance Officers when Accountants go for a night out.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Catogrande said in Grumpy Old Man:
Welsh and an actuary is I would have thought a rare one. Nearly all the Welsh guys I've met are far too romanticised and artistic to go down that particular road to hell.
Actuaries are the people who act as Compliance Officers when Accountants go for a night out.
I always heard that actuaries were people that found accounting too exciting to handle, so doing compliance would be like taking drugs for them.
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@Crucial said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Catogrande said in Grumpy Old Man:
Welsh and an actuary is I would have thought a rare one. Nearly all the Welsh guys I've met are far too romanticised and artistic to go down that particular road to hell.
Actuaries are the people who act as Compliance Officers when Accountants go for a night out.
I always heard that actuaries were people that found accounting too exciting to handle, so doing compliance would be like taking drugs for them.
OK. True, unadulterated story.
About 10 years ago I was doing Due Diligence on a mega-outsourcing deal with a Life Insurer. All going fine until I needed to map out and stress-test the core Actuarial processes. It was seriously hard work with zero smiles and words of one syllable (in a Scottish accent) mostly used, and we really needed to break down the barriers.
We decided to ask them out for dinner to oil the wheels & called in our secret weapon, an uber-friendly, empathetic, people-centric, team-building fellow Scotswoman - the sort of person who would get to know your blood-type within 20 minutes of meeting you.
We met them for drinks at 1930. They drank Coke and Orange Juice, had one course and left at 2100....
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@JC said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Nepia I can PM you my NZ mobile number and you can put it onto your account for a bit. I could ping you the code. I’d even promise not to steal much of your money.
Your fateforly,
Abedala Eze (Prince)Cheers, all this time I thought the Fern was jut Polish hotties but we have Nigerians as well. Such a diverse place.
I got one of the nieces to get the gifts for the others as she'd rather money anyway.
