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Really minor annoyances


Working in a supermarket there is a list as long as your arm. Though how minor it is to me I don't know. It might seem to others but not to me.

Ok. One Saturday night around just before closing we had a wifey who came in to self service with a massive trolley full of stuff. A huge pile of reduced George clothing and other shopping expected to put it all through and pay for it all within the timeframe of less than a few minutes to go before closing. The task would have taken me well into more like 10:20-10:30 pm territory before I could even think about leaving. She would have had presumably had all day to do it yet chose the 11th hour and the dying minutes of trading to do it. Not only did she not consider the trading hours she did not think about us. How much it would have delayed us from getting home.

Well, she did it again last Saturday night. A huge pile of various stuff well closer to £300. She had the Rewards App. The screen says I had to put a 6-didgit verification code in. But the number she says that was on screen was not hers. It was the colleagues who put her on it. She did not even know her own number so had to go into Contacts to remember it and change the number to it. And when we did we asked her for her email and she said she did not even have one! yet she said she would play hell with us!!!

So one of the biggest annoyances is difficult customers.
 
ShieldsBlackCat2015 said:
Working in a supermarket there is a list as long as your arm. Though how minor it is to me I don't know. It might seem to others but not to me.

Ok. One Saturday night around just before closing we had a wifey who came in to self service with a massive trolley full of stuff. A huge pile of reduced George clothing and other shopping expected to put it all through and pay for it all within the timeframe of less than a few minutes to go before closing. The task would have taken me well into more like 10:20-10:30 pm territory before I could even think about leaving. She would have had presumably had all day to do it yet chose the 11th hour and the dying minutes of trading to do it. Not only did she not consider the trading hours she did not think about us. How much it would have delayed us from getting home.

Well, she did it again last Saturday night. A huge pile of various stuff well closer to £300. She had the Rewards App. The screen says I had to put a 6-didgit verification code in. But the number she says that was on screen was not hers. It was the colleagues who put her on it. She did not even know her own number so had to go into Contacts to remember it and change the number to it. And when we did we asked her for her email and she said she did not even have one! yet she said she would play hell with us!!!

So one of the biggest annoyances is difficult customers.
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People picking stuff from the chiller/frozen sections then half way round deciding they don't want it and dumping it on an ambient shelf so it ends up getting chucked away annoys me more than it should. Proper wasteful scratter behaviour.
 
Becs said:
My washing machine used to beep loudly at the end of a cycle until you went and turned the beep off. That was irritating having to get up and turn the washer off when I'm in the middle of my tea or something and would have dealt with the washing when I'd finished. That sharp got turned off!
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That's the only sound on my washer that can't be turned off, three shrill peeps, repeats for 20 minutes.

Microwave makes the same noise, either 3 or 30 times, it reverts to 30 if the power has blipped or browned out.
 
Paddy O'Dors said:
People picking stuff from the chiller/frozen sections then half way round deciding they don't want it and dumping it on an ambient shelf so it ends up getting chucked away annoys me more than it should. Proper wasteful scratter behaviour.
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People eating and drinking items which they haven't paid for yet. I wouldn't dream of doing it.
 
Don't like people putting up Xmas decorations before December but can see the logic of wanting to get more mileage than a day out of Halloween stuff.
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Another annoyance is getting door knocked to take in deliveries from shops that have click and collect. I'm not a Royal Mail depot; don't get stuff delivered if you're out.
 
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S.S.R.. said:
Don't like people putting up Xmas decorations before December but can see the logic of wanting to get more mileage than a day out of Halloween stuff.
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Another annoyance is getting door knocked to take in deliveries from shops that have click and collect. I'm not a Royal Mail depot; don't get stuff delivered if you're out.
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My recollection of Halloween as a kid is the single, solitary time that a bunch of us gathered together after it had got dark to…. errr…. celebrate Hallowe'en*. I think I might have seen The Broons ‘bobbing for apples’ in the Sunday Post but Halloween hadn’t arrived in Dipton. Apart from an actual witch in the cottage down the road.

I recall distinctly standing on a street corner and each of us being similarly puzzled as to what it was we were supposed to do next. We were just standing there. In the dark.

We didn’t have pumpkins. Has barely heard of them. We had turnips but no fucker could be arsed to carve the bastards for hours and stick a candle in them. What for?

I had no idea, not a scooby, what ‘trick or treat’ was. I might have seen it in an American film but it was all gobblegook to me. All that shit about ‘going to the prom’ and driving to school (!?) or ‘frat houses’ and ‘yearbooks’. All that made a whooshing sound as it went whizzing over my head. Similarly all the Halloween ‘traditions’ that arrived suddenly in the uk around 1998 or something. Including the decorating the house thing.

There’s a house around the corner that’s fully decked out now. It’ll all look like a sodden catastrophe with a fortnight and will remain so until it’s replaced with over the top lit-up reindeer and an inflatable Santa on November 11th ish.

*the evening of which I speak would have been around 1965.
 
Stupid twats who leave their bags unattended on the tube.

1) it’s the tube why would you?
2) I’m way too British to shout to ask if it belongs to someone, I’ll take the risk that it’s a bomb instead
 
S.S.R.. said:
I'm confused. Is this a minor annoyance or some sort of wheeze?
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An annoyance as I couldn't work out how to put the postage with drop off at the Post Office in my basket. I googled and ended up on Reddit where people were complaining about it and said you have to put the postage with a home collection in the basket, then remove the collection at checkout so it gives you a label to print.
 
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