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Fibre installation in my house last week. Cable came up out of BT ducting then they had a choice, feed it though BT hole in my wall or run it along then straight up into a new hole. But no, instead they ran it at a jaunty angle to which is neither horizontal or vertical. It will now annoy me every time I see it. Given that it is right next to my front door, that will be often.
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Fibre installation in my house last week.
I'd get them back out to that, if only for having unprotected fibre on an external run.
I had a review disallowed because ide reviewed the quick and good service of the retailer not the actual item. I was for something mundane like paperclips
Reviewers that review the seller and not the item.
The amount of times that I've looked at reviews to see if the item's actually any good and it's full of unhelpful garbage like "quick delivery", "slow delivery", "the seller refused my refund" etc etc, aargh. Utterly unhelpful and even more annoying when it's (eg) Amazon and 15 different people are selling the same thing so you don't even know which seller they're referring to.
There must be at least 100 different idiots doing this.
(No offence 😁😉)
The fact my water company is considering increasing our water bills by 50% to cover the cost of them doing their job properly because they've given most of the money we've been giving them for decades to some investors as dividends and lining their own pockets leaving us wading thigh-deep in shit.
So anecdotally our patients tell us they want to phone up and make [what's referred to as a blind] appointment with a GP. We don't allow them to, but they keep on asking for it, so the Partners say to me, send out a survey and see what the patients actually want, I tell them "be careful, they'll ask for blind appt making" but we agree a set of questions, send out survey...non-surprise result comes back.
This is now my fault for sending out the survey....If you didn't want to know the answer.. don't ask the question...
I may have mentioned this before and I'm not overly sure that it's disproportionate but,
In a phone queue to speak to to someone, after five minutes of IVR going "sorry, I didn't get that,"
Doo doo do doo doo click your call is important to us, we know you are waiting click doo doo do doo doo click your call is important to us, we know you are waiting click doo doo do doo doo click your call is important to us, we know you are waiting click doo doo do doo doo click your call is important to us, we know you are waiting click doo doo do doo doo click your call is important to us, we know you are waiting click...
Four fox hake, just play the damn hold music rather than making me go "ooh!... oh" every fifteen seconds.
This is now my fault for sending out the survey….If you didn’t want to know the answer.. don’t ask the question…
I've had this in jobs before.."I told you this would go tits up when you asked me to do it..."
"oh, well you should have put more effort into asserting your point so stakeholders understoood the risks better"
Err, no I get paid to do my job, and that doesn't include trying to convince you of anything, I just tell it as I see it and it's your call, that's why you're the boss..
Next time I'm more assertive - it's: you're being agressive/not a team player/acting as a blocker/not seeing the vision, etc..
Oh do **** off.
Yeah mine were like [paraphrasing] "Could you not have asked the question in a more round about way that told us what we wanted to hear?"
Me; and the point of this would have been..?
My dog there, fails to grasp the fundamental concept of fetch.
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As it is, I throw the ball, he runs after it, he then lies down until I come to him, whereupon he'll then get up and walk 20 feet from me and drop the ball. 🙄
I’ve had this in jobs before..”I told you this would go tits up when you asked me to do it…”
^^ all too familiar.
Me: "If you don't fix this and there's another fault, it will result in catastrophic failure."
inaction
catastrophic failure
"And this is my fault how, exactly?" There's only so many times you can bang your head against a brick wall before you get into the mindset of kicking it over the fence and going to deal with something someone cares about instead.
🙄😂
There seems to be a lot of confusion around percentages these days.
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And apostrophes.
"onehundredthidiot
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And apostrophes"
Yup. All of the little ****ers. Burn them.
Why has everyone started pronouncing new as "noo"?
Hotel beds
Tucked in so tightly that you have to kick and fight to get in which then untucks the bottom sheet as well.
Then wtf are all the cushions and odd bits of cloth all over the bed for?
When you arrange a call on your mobile phone then the hospital randomly decide to call you on the landline even though they have never done that in the past.
🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
And apostrophes.
With apologies to Colin McRae, I'm in the camp of 'when in doubt, leave it out.' I'd rather read "your dogs happy" than "your dog's are happy."
Hotel beds
This 1,000% *
It's always baffled me. What is the point in making up a bed which is fundamentally impossible to sleep in, meaning that the first thing you have to do is strip the entire ****ing thing yourself and start again. Who do they normally have staying, Paper Mario?
(* - 😁 sorry)
I’ve installed the MiPark app now, it seems to be the most common parking app
I’ve never, ever parked anywhere that used MiPark. Ringo, OTOH, is almost ubiquitous. So that’s another thing – there is absolutely no value to the consumer in having a random selection of parking apps cluttering up your phone.
Conversely, I’ve never seen, or heard of the Ringo parking app, it’s certainly not ubiquitous around here. MiPark, on the other hand, is. Which means there’s clearly a point in having a number of parking apps on your phone, just in case, like. It’s also now necessary to have the app for parking in the car parks in Chippenham, because some snivelling little shithead vandalised the cash boxes on all the machines, despite cash being removed regularly.
The same thing happened to the parking machines in the NT car park in Lacock. 🤷🏼😖
So anecdotally our patients tell us they want to phone up and make [what’s referred to as a blind] appointment with a GP.
What is that exactly? GP lottery?
And why are the GPs so averse to it?
And why did they approve the questions?
(I've written hundreds of patient surveys)
Shop bought trifles.
Namely the disproportionate amount of cream to custard to jelly to fruit.
Grrrrrrrrr!
When one* cuts a new chain to match the length of the old chain but forgets that one** has also put a larger chainring on one's*** bike.
*me
**also me
***nobody else to blame here
People using myself instead of I. It really is a petty grievance but makes me automatically assume the person doing it is an idiot. I will forever judge them as such regardless of what else they do. There’s just no need for it. Go listen to De La Soul you fools!
And why are the GPs so averse to it?
Non serious: We all hate patients and if we don't take thier calls, we can all bunk off earlier, obvs.
Serious: We have a total triage system, pats have to fill out a consultation form, and our GPs triage the patients to either same day, this week, safe to deal with in next 10-14 days. Doing it this way we can look at many many more pats requests, we see all the urgent ones more quickly and can divert pats who don't need to see a GP (but will ask to see one anyway) to more appropriate services - minor injuries, prescription queries, travel queries, MSK etc etc. Our pats are older gen, and don't like that they can't just call up and get an appt, like they used to. I'd say something about the entitlement of that generation of folks, but that's for another day, probs.
And why did they approve the questions?
I don't think they really grasped the levels of determination of the patients. I've written loads of Pat surveys as well, and generally I think they're mostly a waste of everyone's time, but they are en vogue currently, so here we are.
We have a total triage system, pats have to fill out a consultation form, and our GPs triage the patients to either same day, this week, safe to deal with in next 10-14 days.
Great idea. Can't say I've ever heard of a Primary Care triage system before but it seems logical
Calling "garden leave" "gardening leave". You can sit in it, you don't have to dig it.
pats
People who use workplace jargon and expect everyone else to understand it. I had this yesterday with a hospital phone call. I had to remind the person that I don't work there so I didn't have a clue what she was talking about 🤦♂️
It's not really that hard to work out. It would be pt or even px if it was workplace jargon.
But yes healthcare is riddled with impenetrable terms and expressions reinforced by a power imbalance that means patients and families don't always feel comfortable to ask "WTF?"
Agreed, it's not hard to work out in that example but why use workplace jargon outside of work? I don't pepper every post on here with comments about aleatory and epistemic risk.
Communication is critical in every aspect of life, not just work, so why make it harder for others to understand you?
took my kiddo to beavers last night. As always, the first driver to get there parks in front of the "no parking" sign, across the double yellow and in the way of the pedestrian gate.
I leave my bike behind his car, cause he's in the way.
Has the CHUFFING AUDACITY to mutter "dont mind me then", as he returns to his car.
Its not me thats "in the way" mate. Annoyingly, i was so impressed by his complete lack of self awareness i didnt rise to it.
it’s not hard to work out in that example but why use workplace jargon outside of work?
My industry is endemic with TLAs but most Techs learn to communicate with normal people. Meanwhile, we had all-hands (ugh) meetings where the CEO would pap on about queue two ebbit dah and most of the workforce are thinking we've just taken on a load of Welsh coal miners.
Even when you know what Q2 EBITDA is, it's still dull but it gives the members of the ExCo* a proper boner
(* ExCo another jargon term I hate - the Executive Committee is usually a group of old white men in the boardroom all demonstrating that they are alpha males and that they are right and everyone else is clueless - BURN THE LOT OF THEM)
Acronyms.
No point in them at all on many an occasion.
Every time someone uses them they tend to say the whole thing, then say or, the acronym.
Always hear it on the news for example, 'today, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, or 'NICE' said that blah blah blah'
You might as well just say the thing lol laugh out loud, rofl rolling on the floor laughing.
You might as well just say the thing lol laugh out loud, rofl rolling on the floor laughing.
Oh, that's one in itself. "LOL" as punctuation. "I've just been to the shops lol" Really? You're saying you've just been shopping BWAHAHAHAHA!!! Are you some sort of maniac? What were you buying, organic fertiliser, a chainsaw and quicklime? Where's the hilarity here?
"ROFL." You're not, are you. "LMAO." I'm fairly confident that your arse is still attached. Are you 12? Stop it.
It's got to a point where if something I read makes me laugh out loud I feel compelled to qualify it, "actual LOL."
I have never heard of a GP practice doing that and imo its shit for patients especially vulnerable ones.
I hope that there is a " prefer privacy" option
My gps still have open surgeries for urgent stuff
People taking to me from another room.
Being asked to do something that I was just about to do
Oof! yes, both of those irritate the shit out of me.
For the first I just ignore it now, if you want to speak to me come and find me, I'm not having a conversation from three rooms away.
2nd one I have to bite my tongue and carry on with the task I was about to do whereas I'd really like to not do it out of pure spite.
To add to the list, people driving who start indicating as they're turning, yes we ******* know you're turning, moron, would have been useful a few seconds earlier.....
both of those irritate the shit out of me.
For the first I just ignore it now, if you want to speak to me come and find me, I’m not having a conversation from three rooms away.
... whilst the Big Daft Telly is blarting away to itself in an empty third room and I've got my head under the kitchen extractor hood. "You never listen..." fox sake. Come and stand here whilst I go and mumble at you from the other end of the building, see how long your patience holds out.
Acronyms.
No point in them at all on many an occasion.
Every time someone uses them they tend to say the whole thing, then say or, the acronym.
Always hear it on the news for example, ‘today, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, or ‘NICE’ said that blah blah blah’
You might as well just say the thing lol laugh out loud, rofl rolling on the floor laughing.
That's something I liked about defence, internally it was unapologetic with their use without explanation. ask the question or go find out.
That and indecipherable abbreviations that don't exist anywhere else.
Being asked to do something that I was just about to do
Likewise is being asked a question about something to which the answer has been briefed on already.
I have never heard of a GP practice doing that and imo its shit for patients especially vulnerable ones.
We have ways of ensuring that our vulnerable patients can get an appointment with a GP or nurse or any one else that they need to.
I hope that there is a ” prefer privacy” option
If you mean can you come to/ring the surgery and make an appt with a GP for a couple of weeks time without having to tell any one what its about? Then no. The reception team will either direct you to online - you can put as much or as little info as you want on the form, or can fill it in for you over the phone, or can do it for you if you come down to the surgery. But you can't by pass it. This is becoming more common, as frankly we're better at managing the incoming daily workload than the patients are.
My gps still have open surgeries for urgent stuff
I don't know any surgery that doesn't have some sort of "On the Day" "On-call" type arrangement for acute issues, we're no different .