Other What Makes Your Life, Meh?

Buyer purchased a DARK GREY renovating shoe cream... Had a ton, very popular and fly out most days.

I've given up on humanity now... I really have. Hard to judge the ton of the message but they almost seem shocked by the results??

 

I think they want compensation for doing something stupid.

 

There’s another one, who shouldn’t be allowed to do things alone…

 

Pulled the tyres out of the garage prior to the fitter arriving - found screws in the shoulders two tyres and a slice in the sidewall of another. Faaaaark!!!

Just shelled out £600 for new all seasons/tracking/balancing etc... *sigh*

 

I've just let it be known, on Tom's Hardware's forum, that I think Trump deserves no respect because he is a dangerous lunatic. Any bets on how long it will take them to ban me?

 

Don't think so but, they don't like politics, like other Future sites and, one of the moderators demanded that Trump be addressed, President Trump. Red rag to a bull there...

 

So, Orange man-baby won't fly then?

 

Oh come on now, you know better than to go off gallavanting around other forums...

Just stay here where it's nice, cozy, and comfortable. Go on, put your feet up - I'll put the kettle on and get a brew going.

 

I sold my house. which you would think is a What makes my life great post. But we have been out bid on 5 houses in the last 2 months. So we have 6 weeks left or im living with the inlaws

 

Well that's a surprise, Tom's mods didn't ban me, just deleted the post.

 

Bought a domain from IONOS last year with plans to build a website. Not long after, I got a call from IONOS pushing their "Ranking Coach" product. I was told that if I didn’t like it, I could cancel and wouldn’t have to pay the £12 per month. Thinking I was going to deliver this website in a few months I thought it might be worth a crack.

A few months later, my website plans fell through, so I went to cancel the subscription — only to find that the £12 a month fee was actually a 12-month contract. Cancelled anyway and planned to contact IONOS to complain since I was never told it was a contract, and that cancelling wouldn’t stop the payments.

Today, I’ve just been charged £36 for the same product I still haven’t used. When I contacted customer services, I was told the first six months was a promotional offer at £12 before it jumped to £36 per month. So now I'm locked in for a year, paying £288 in total... At no point was I told about the £36 a month increase — because if I had been, I definitely wouldn’t have agreed to it in the first place.

So now misled about the contractual agreement and the promotional pricing. Customer services have agreed to cancel the contract and payments as a gesture of goodwill but will need it to be open to go down the complaints route. What a load of BS and doesn't seem like an isolated incident on IONOS part.

 

That's not great, I think they have some sharp practice going on.
I signed up for something similar but managed to escape quickly as it wasn't all that it seemed.
Again, more money than initially suggested

 

I work in a HR office as systems admin, had to report myself to HR after telling someone in HR not to get involved in every personal conversation after they tried to get involved in one of mine when I was having a bit of fun with a colleague/friend when she tried to but in being a little rude/aggressive which was not wanted.
She then proceeded to ask if she was allowed to speak when anyone else spoke to her

So amazing how immature HR people act.
The HR manager is happy with my report

 

I actively try not to fall into the “HR is only there to protect the company” trope. But good god the people working in HR make that really hard sometimes…

 

Absolute **** head on ebay. I bought a PCIE 4.0 riser for the FormD T1 and it turns out that, despite being clearly labelled as a 4.0 part, it doesn't work at 4.0. Switching the link speed in the BIOS to 3.o and it works fine - tried this on multiple boards with multiple cards to be sure before I raised a return request.

He flipped out. Called me a clown a said this "will cost you". He then went to say he'd buy items from me using different accounts, then damage them and return them as faulty. He kept reiterating "you will pay", "this will cost you, wait and see" .

Reported to eBay, obvs, but jeez, way to lose your sh!t over a £20 item.

 

Same kind of dudes who write "NO RETURNS" in the title and description as if that somehow overrides eBays money-back guarantee.

 

I once bought a pair of sunglasses described as immaculate or pristine, something to that effect. They arrived with minor scratches and I returned them, at first he refused as his advert clearly stated "no refunds" but I informed him it doesn't work like that. He went off on a rant absolutely certain that I'd bought them to resell for a profit.

m8 you sold them at auction and got what they would have been worth.

 

Losing my ****ing rag lately at this job.

I spend more and more of my time trying to fix poorly-documented garbage; picking apart stuff that only “works” because no one’s had cause to change it in the six years since it was first written; trying to get my head around ridiculously overcomplicated builds and local development environments; constantly running head-first into brick walls because here’s yet another ****ing thing I don’t have permission for, even though I’m supposed to be a senior ****ing engineer and all the other senior ****ing engineers have this permission when I don’t. I’d say I spend less than 15-20% of any given week actually being productive and doing actual work.

We’re continuing to build on a house of damp and rotten cards because no one in our leadership team has the balls to stand up and say “no, you can’t keep giving us new stuff because we need to deal with this before everything breaks and you have no product to sell”. Their answer to the years of unmaintained cruft and bollocks is to throw AI at the problem, even though the engineering needed to make that even remotely feasible is just as complex, just as time consuming, and just as hard as fixing all the broken **** in the first ****ing place. We keep trying to chase shiny new toys, but spend most of our time dealing with all the problems that our crumbling and rotting infrastructure creates.

I’m getting pretty sick of it, and I’m starting to think that nothing is going to change without some serious housekeeping of technical leadership.

 

I bought a box of 35mm cameras described as "mostly all working." I figured that meant about 10 good ones, 10 fixable, and 10 destined for the bin — and I was fine with that. Instead, only one worked. The rest were just battery acid and grossness, with missing bits and pieces everywhere. Ofcourse opened the return stating item was not described accurately.

Divvy: "I bet you thought you'd sell these on, mate, and make a killing, eh!?"
Me: "Yes, that's exactly why I did this... and the whole point of your listing."
Divvy: "Well, you're scuppered then, aren't ya? No returns buddy."
Me: "It's literally just a matter of time. Even if you refuse, eBay will provide me with a return label and charge you extra for it. I'll send them back, you'll probably delay the refund hoping you can get away with it. Eventually, I'll ask eBay to step in, and they'll force the refund."
Divvy: "RANT RANT RANT RANT!"