Enough said.
Fake deadlines, fake urgency. Hate it.
HUGE peeve.
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Weather or not…here I come?
Airlines reserve the right to change/cancel flights at a moment’s notice. Yet, if I want to change my flight in advance of bad weather I will incur financial reprecussions.
This winter in the Northeast has been fairly snowy thus far and I am just being proactive, knowing that weather and flights do not equal on-time, if at all. So I’m just trying to change my travel plans in advance of the flying clusterf*ck we all know will happen should there be snowfall.
[US-based discount airline] has not yet determined if they will allow changes free of charge due to the storm’s path. If I decide to make the change and there are no fee waivers in place I would need to pay a change fee and the difference in the cost of the flight as it stands on the day of the change.
Obviously the cost of the flight is going to be much higher if I decide to change the dates withing 24-36 hours of travel.
Suggestion of the day: save the fares for the date I booked the travel and let me pay the difference of what that fare was on that particular day. Not the fare two days prior to travel. In reality, those of us trying to plan ahead would be helping the airlines. The seats we’d be willing to give up for an earlier flight are two less seats the airline would need to get from point A to point B should the weather go awry.
Customer DISService
Since when did it become de rigueur for people working at a retail store to act like they are doing us a favor by doing their jobs? If I behaved that way to my clients, I’d be fired. Immediately.
Earlier this week I went to a local drugstore as I needed to pick up pictures that I had ordered online over the weekend. My order was for just five photos.
I waited at the photo counter for a few minutes thinking that the clerk would be there any minute. When I finally realized someone may not actually be working the counter, I went to the main checkout and asked if someone could help me. The girl there seemed annoyed as she paged the photo tech.
The photo tech shows up a few minutes later but looks pissed that she has to <gasp> work. She obviously hadn’t yet processed my photos (even though I had received an email that my order was completed) and told me she was working on it now. I reiterated that there were only five pictures. As I had worked in a photo lab a long time ago, I know that should only take a few minutes.
Ten more minutes go by. During that time she’s filed her nails, played with her phone and casually wandered around the store. The machine is cranking away, and loads of pictures are printing. I think nothing of this because I figure she hasn’t worked all day so she’s playing catch up and my order must be way behind these other photos.
After what feels like an eternity, she grabs a small stack of photos and proceeds to ring up what she thinks is my order. I stop her and said I only ordered five pictures. With the biggest sigh she could possibly utter, she pulls out five photos. And now I see that she processed each of my five photos, five times.
Thanks. I think.
Disagree without being disagreeable
Much* earlier today there was a horrific shooting / assassination attempt in Tucson, Arizona. It was a senseless act of crime that killed and injured far too many innocent victims.
I heard many things while watching and reading the news. One item that stuck out from the rest was from an official who worked with the congresswoman, she was one of the people who was shot and the possible target. Her coworker said that she could disagree without being disagreeable. That’s how everyone should behave.
We, a diverse country of citizens, are never all going believe the same things or think the same way (I think that would be communism). Of course, we each have, and are entitled to, our own opinions and we may disagree with each other’s beliefs. Whether it’s politics, religion or what’s for dinner. There is absolutely no reason in the world to disagree violently. Or even disagreeably.
As for this murderer and possible accomplice, taxpayer dollars should not be wasted on a trial. I do not support violence but I do believe in an eye for an eye. One of the survivors or their families should be the one to pull the trigger. Realize there may be a difference of opinion here, and I welcome that BECAUSE we should be able to disagree without being disagreeable. One of the victims was engaged to be married later this year. Maybe his fiance should be the one to pull the trigger.
My thoughts are with the families of all of the victims, all of the survivors and all of their families.
Two other things I would like to note: I realize news channels each want to be the first to break news BUT:
1 – Use spell check prior to publishing. Initially, several major news outlets with an online presence spelled Tucson incorrectly – as Tuscon. The errors were corrected within the hour, but REALLY? Spell check is free. You are a major news outlet. Use it.
2 – Check, and double check, your sources. How do you report that someone is deceased before confirming with a reliable source? Congresswoman Giffords was in surgery. Not the morgue.
* I learned how to schedule posts to publish at a later time. This is one of them.
Heads Up!
Peeve of the day.
Texting and driving is not the only problem. Yes, texting while you are operating heavy machinery IS dangerous but so is texting and walking on crowded city streets.
Some people do anything and everything except pay attention to where they are going.
I do not have a car so I walk or take public transportation everywhere I need to go. I’ve walked with people who walk while sending emails and texts. I’ve passed people playing games on their phones (yes, as they are walking and yes, I am that nosy to look), using their iPod, iPad or iPhone, reading books (real ones or ebooks), snapping pictures, checking directions on a smartphone (if you are unsure where you are going, move over and stop walking!) and lest we forget, actually talking on the phone (this is a whole other rant for another day).
I am a self-proclaimed klutz. Yet I am almost always intercepted by these people who just don’t pay attention and think the sidewalks should part because they are coming through. It’s not just limited to tech savvy young ‘uns. Just last night I was in the supermarket, leaving with my groceries, and an elderly man simultaneously texting and walking nearly crashed into me. I was holding three heavy bags so my reflexes to move out of his way were slower than normal.
I am all for texting, surfing, reading and playing if you are traveling on public transport, sitting in a waiting room and even standing in line. Because I do it too! But while you are physically walking or moving on city streets…not so much.
Just like with driving, please move over and let those of us actually paying attention to where we are going, pass you by.
Surely there will be more posts along these lines. Observing people behaving badly is so easy with city living.
simply three cents 