Grumpy Old Man
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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.
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Grumpy at myself at what could be considered a "how I failed today" event. Didn't bother charging phone and buds overnight as I decided to take my 27,000 MAh battery pack to work, only to find it's dead flat too...
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@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
Reporters on the scene.
Sky News' Kay has gone to Turkey to do her breakfast show from there. What the fucking fuck is the point in that?
Hone her ability to appear empathetic when asking "gotcha" questions?
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@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
Reporters on the scene.
Sky News' Kay has gone to Turkey to do her breakfast show from there. What the fucking fuck is the point in that?
Türkiye you mean? ABC going full on with Türkiye, even pronunciation on radio reports.
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Actually one thing that's annoyed me recently is when people say they have "no regrets" about their life, often accompanied by the I've made mistakes, done or experienced bad things but it's made me who I am today blah, blah...
To my way of thinking you could only say you have "no regrets if you"...
- Lived a padded, zero risk or adventure existence, which in itself would make a case for regret right there or
- Your so narcissistically oblivious as to your own behavior you lack any sort of self awareness
It's the patronizing slew I guess in a pitiful attempt to not come across as a complete twat the "my mistakes have made me who I am" that annoys me.
So it's like, ok provided you got something out of it for yourself you couldn't care less about how much misery of suffering you bestowed upon humanity to get there you got to develop yourself - bravo!!
Sure we learn from our mistakes, that's a sign of character and development undoubtedly, but FFS after it became apparent you'd made a mistake were you you expect me to believe you were filled with pride and enjoyment?? Didn't once think "gee I wish I hadn't had done that"?? Yeah sure you lying asshat...
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@Windows97 regrets are for people with time machines
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@antipodean Or for people who have a brain that can recall memories, which thankfully is 99.9% of us
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@Windows97 It seems to me your argument is based on a faulty premise; that people that don't dwell on events they can't change pretend they didn't happen. You can acknowledge them, learn from them, but wishing they didn't happen is wasted emotional energy. Adjust accordingly, and invest in the future is my suggestion.
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@antipodean also wishing something didn't happen is subtly different to regretting it.
I wish I hadn't gone for the big 6 and got bowled when we needed 60 off the last 8 overs but, on balance I don't regret it, as it meant Jim, who is a much cleaner striker of the ball than me, came in and saw us home. Something I was never going to be able to do.
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And to add another one to this topic - what really grinds my gears is people offering unsolicited life coaching advice in a thread entitled grumpy old man.
Is nothing sacred anymore
It's not so much that they "pretend it didn't happen" (though I would argue that saying it happened in the past, there's noting I can do to change it, I'm not going to think about it is literally wishing it didn't happen anyway) more so that they absolve themselves from any wrongdoing in the process.
In short - it's the people that use that line as an excuse for acting like a complete asshat that annoys me.
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when did supermarkets start doing their shelf stacking during the day? i had friends that did shelf stacking whilst at highschool and it was always at night...doing the shop yesterday and every isle had 2-3 people either stacking shelves or fulfilling online orders...blocking the isles just makes things even more unenjoyable
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@Kiwiwomble said in Grumpy Old Man:
when did supermarkets start doing their shelf stacking during the day? i had friends that did shelf stacking whilst at highschool and it was always at night...doing the shop yesterday and every isle had 2-3 people either stacking shelves or fulfilling online orders...blocking the isles just makes things even more unenjoyable
Agree with this one. It's bad enough having to deal with middle aged women who think it's the 1980s and therefore it's their god given right, and only theirs, to shop during the day and everyone else needs to make way for them. Now we have to contend with boxes in the aisles as well.