start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

I guess there are loyalty cards and membership cards. I was paraphrasing the spiel I have to hear whenever I try to buy something from BOOKS A' MILLION for some reason.

I always bat back with "I know you have to ask us, no thanks."

I find reacting this way works best

http://i1.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/010/853/tumblr_lqx85siK031qdezf9o1_500.gif

Maybe one for the innocent drinks thread but my bank just sent me an email with the subject "tap tap tap" and the body "Tap tap tap" and nothing else.

(My webmail doesn't like HTML and there was no link that would get me a plain version of the text)

It's worse when it's a "confirm your address" email and contains no visible links. I had to forward one to my work email in order to read it last week. It had one line in it but was html so I couldn't see it.

As a sometime retail drone myself, I admire the empathy inherent in "I know you have to ask," but I don't always go that route.

Sometimes it's just "Yeah, no thanks, I already have way too many of that sort of thing," (wave wallet overstuffed with ostensible loyalty and understuffed with actual money).

Maybe one for the innocent drinks thread but my bank just sent me an email with the subject "tap tap tap" and the body "Tap tap tap" and nothing else.

(My webmail doesn't like HTML and there was no link that would get me a plain version of the text)

― koogs, Monday, April 10, 2017 10:02 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

does this dude work for your bank?

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/2-f-5JXZmg4/maxresdefault.jpg

"Did you know that by purchasing the $24.95 loyalty card, you'll save 10 percent off of today's purchase?"

"Which would be $1.60."

"But it's TEN PERCENT OFF!"

At one of my local legal w33d stores:

"sign up for our loyalty program and you can save 10%"
"so give you my name and information which you will now have when the Trump administration inevitably raids all the stores and shuts them down?"
"yes, but you could save 10%!"
"this gram costs $12, I would pay ten times that amount for you to NOT have my information on file"
"but don't you want to save 10%?"

xp no, it's this woman

https://frinkiac.com/gif/S11E20/653560/658760.gif?b64lines=VEFQQS1UQVBBLVRBUEEuCiBUQVBBLVRBUEEtVEFQQS4=

lol joygoat

I can't stand stores that assume everyone already has a "club card" or whatever they call it, and trying to sign up for one seems to involve calling a manager at home

i was behind someone at Winn-Dixie the other day who was signing up for one and it took about 5 minutes because the young lady was mumbling at an almost inaudible volume to every question, only to be asked to repeat herself, and then repeat her answer at the same inaudible volume.

ie "what's your name"
"uhburhburhburhrur"
"I'm sorry, I didn't get that, your name?"
"uhburhburhburhburhbur"

grim reapah

rip burt_stanton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spefM2OjKp4

Looks like i just nearly completed a pair of jeans with a loose zip that doesn't catch.
Maybe better that I caught it at this point since it would have been even more painful if I found out later.
But now got to unpick the waistband i just put on. & step back a few stages.
oh bum.

if you really really don't want me to be your friend, put a photo of some dog as your avatar

double points if it's a maltese staring straight down the lens with its mouth open

people in china keep asking me what time it is here. maybe idk use the fucking same internet that you only just used to ask me that question?

so...you're in favor of universal time?

ha

urgent care clinics that have "pre-registration" online only to ask you to fill out an entire form with teh same info anyway when you show up.

Trying to get a spoonful of peanut butter out of an almost empty jar with a flimsy too-short plastic spoon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y7j0gYIkfw

Anyway, Manischewitz makes me IR. Everything about them. Shitty products for a cornered market. Like, just try a little bit harder than just clumps of flavorless carbs and sugar, you shitheads.

Streit's all the way. Thankfully it's not too hard to find them in DC

Bought a couple cans of Manischewitz pistachio-orange macaroons at a local supermarket's going out of business sale (75% off), and I think they're not bad.

Having to work out how to repair rip in my leather car coat after catching it on a prong sticking out of a wire fence yesterday. Prong right next to entrance to community garden I need to cut through before long walk into town.

Long walk into town being necessary because of extended bus strike. Not sure how long that's going to drag on.
Realisation that I wasn't as beholden to buses as it felt so could have stayed out later in town if I wanted to.
The obstacle of the length of the walk being a daunting onerous task to be put off. People jog further but I don't want to carry shopping that far.

urgent care clinics that have "pre-registration" online only to ask you to fill out an entire form with teh same info anyway when you show up.

oh yeah, and any place that has an online reservation system that no employee ever looks at

there was one theatre here (now closed) that used Paypal for its ticketing system only instead of using Paypal as a merchant, basically it consisted of you just sending the ticket price to them manually. it was never monitored for how many seats were left to sell, was left on after showtime, etc, so you could wind up sending them money and show up only to find out there were no seats left.

I showed up one day saying I had a reservation and they didn't have my name and were like "oh right Paypal, haven't looked at that today"...

wtf that's insane

anger 100% rational and justified in that case

I presume you mean that that theatre closed after it was justifiably set on fire.

closed after nobody saw their garbage productions

I think people should avoid being passive aggressive as much as possible and just be straight up. It's the worst how people can get away with being dicks and then say "just kidding, relax", while every part of their face shows they're full of fizz. If people just cut the bull shit there might be more disarray but there would be way less garbage to wade through.

youtube's recommendations are pathological. i watch three graham norton clips and it throws 900000 graham norton clips at me. i watch a few episodes of only connect and it feeds me everything victoria coren mitchell has ever done.

uber receipts and similar being designed by ppl who never had to actually use a receipt for anything, a simple $6 fare somehow spread over 2 full pages
ppl with college education who put anything about their high school or their frat on a resume
ppl whose linkedin profiles are riddled with typos

people who ask "is this elevator going up or down" - THERE'S AN ARROW FOR THAT

lol I did that a couple weeks ago

even worse-- you're waiting to get on an elevator and when it arrives some guy starts to step on before you then stops and asks if its going up or down. When he finds out it isn't going his way he stands there blocking your way as the doors close.

I left work for the weekend this evening, got home and realised I'd left my phone there. This is the worst thing that's happened to anyone ever.

Passwords. Generally. Fuck.

^ co-sign.

My fucking newspaper channeled all its customer service through the web. My account had nothing to do with money or personal info, yet for access to such mundane services as reporting a lost paper or stopping delivery while on vacation, they required a password of 8 characters or more, with both upper and lower case letters, a numeric character, and "one or more of these special characters". This reeked of some new graduate with an IT degree, zero real world experience, and a boss who had no clue what this kid's job was.

We use Bitlocker at mine before we even get to the main login screen. It saves your invalids over time and eventually you are locked out. And you have to get this long 32 character lockout code to get back in from IT. and the invalid attempts don't reset.

So i called IT to ask them to reset ny invalid attempts to zero once cos i was sick of having to go through that every time i fat fingered one time and dude was like "yeah we can't do that we should probably figure that out cos lotsa people seem to be pissed about this".

Called a week later and got someone else who said "i dunno wtf that agent was talking about. We reset those counts all the time" and finally put me back to zero.

do you mean in a row, or if you get it wrong and then right, it keeps track of the wrong ones in a tally

latter

the thing that really fucks me off is password policies with stupid requirements (at least one upper-case letter, at least one lower-case letter, at least one number, at least one symbol, minimum 8 characters). so of course people write down their inscrutable passwords on post-it notes and your intricate policy is fucking meaningless.

My friend designed a software that's online which allows you to store your password in a database which is highly encrypted. I'm still too stupid to use something that logical

i use 1password, it does the job

I was going to say, most of my passwords are on iOS/macOS and saved unless it's something I have to log into from work. it auto-generates strong passwords and makes them accessible across all my devices as long as I'm logged into my computer