What first world problem did you have today?

[Captante]

If I get locked up for committing felonies, I won't be able to post here.

You'd be sad.

Not as sad as you!

(Raman gets old quick!)

 

[pete6032]

My mom went through a series of those things. None of them worked as advertised but she would get annoyed when I rinsed the dishes before loading, insisting that "the dishwasher will handle that." All the dishwasher did was bake the crud onto the dishes.

I bought a Bosch last year. It works great and does get the crap off but the smell you get if you don't pre-wash is horrible. I would much rather spend 5 seconds pre-washing and loading than have my nasal passages assaulted every time I open the door to put something in there. I imagine if I ran it more often it wouldn't be that bad, but it only fills up after 4-5 days.

 

[highland145]

Not as sad as you!

(Raman gets old quick!)

More concerned about being someone's girlfriend.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I was looking at my work schedule and realized I'll basically be alone on my next few shifts. 2 people in training, and the other guy is normally gone half the time or on some kind of conference call, so he may as well not be there. So it's basically me running the show. I guess it's not any different than working a weekend or night shift, but the phones do tend to get a bit more busy on a normal week day.

Guess I can't complain too much for the money I make. I'll actually have to work for once.

 

[lxskllr]

Handwashing dishes isn't hard. If you're gonna prewash before putting them in a machine, you might as well go the rest of the way and just clean the damned thing.

 

[highland145]

Cheap ass products. Handle bolt broke on the table saw adjustment knob. Really? And there are 2, yes 2 set screws. What crackhead does that?

 

[lxskllr]

That's an oldie. Hard to complain about 40(?) years of service.

 

[highland145]

That's an oldie. Hard to complain about 40(?) years of service.

70. 😀😀 1950. Got that and the King Sealy drillpress at the same time. $100 each. Win, win, win.

The set screws got me. Unscrewed the 1 and the handle still wouldn't budge. Applied some persuasion and nada. Put on the headlamp and saw the 2nd screw. Cheap crap....😀

 

[highland145]

OT......and it's nice to be able to cut crap without cutting my crap.

 

[Captante]

I was looking at my work schedule and realized I'll basically be alone on my next few shifts. 2 people in training, and the other guy is normally gone half the time or on some kind of conference call, so he may as well not be there. So it's basically me running the show. I guess it's not any different than working a weekend or night shift, but the phones do tend to get a bit more busy on a normal week day.

Guess I can't complain too much for the money I make. I'll actually have to work for once.

But if nobody else is around how will you make enough noise to drown out the voices!

 

[snoopy7548]

Cheap ass products. Handle bolt broke on the table saw adjustment knob. Really? And there are 2, yes 2 set screws. What crackhead does that?

Looks like a good excuse to buy a new table saw!

 

[IronWing]

One of the cats ralphed this morning and managed to spray puke six feet up a door.

 

[Ajay]

Logged into Win10 this morning. Edge is open in fullscreen mode. I had uninstalled Edge. I am now unable to uninstall it. F*ck Microsoft.

 

[pete6032]

Tried to get breakfast for dine in at a local coffee shop but forgot about the vaccine card mandate. Didn't have my card so I had to get breakfast to go.

 

[Mai72]

I was thirsty.

So, I got water.

 

[BoomerD]

I was thirsty.

So, I got water.

Wow...way to flaunt your first-world privilege.

 

[sdifox]

my nvme 1TB has more GBs than my sata 1TB SSD



I checked non data partitions and the adata (non cheaped out one) has more space used up for those.

 

[snoopy7548]

No blueberries at my usual grocery store, so I had to drive another minute to the other grocery store in town.

 

[pete6032]

Every year January becomes a race to put money into my IRA as quickly as possible and get it invested. Vanguard has a 7 day holding period before I can do anything with it so I miss out on at least one week of investment gais every single year. I should calculate how much I have lost out on because of this rule.

 

[BoomerD]

Ordered 3 new phones on 12/26. One (certified pre-owned iPhone 11) for our grandson got delayed due to snow in Olympia. FedEx 2nd day took 10 days, even though UPS delivered almost every day.
Next, the Galaxy S21 ultra for my wife finally arrived yesterday, (backordered) apparently, the chat agents (fckn 3 of them during the process) who placed my order for me didn't lock in the trade in offer...and that's changed since the order was placed,(less trade in amount) and the phone wouldn't activate...so that required me to spend 3 hours in chat with two more agents to get it activated and set up.
Today, I've been on the telephone with Verizon for almost two hours...talking with 3 different reps, each working from home in a different state, trying to resolve the trade-in discrepancy...the 3rd guy tried to transfer me to customer care...after nearly an hour, they hung up on him...so now I'm on hold waiting for them to hang up on me.
At this point, I'm almost ready to cancel the order and new plans, send EVERYTHING back to them, and find a different wireless solution.

 

[lxskllr]

talking with 3 different reps, each working from home in a different state

If none of those states was Bangalore, you did better than I usually do.

 

[BoomerD]

If none of those states was Bangalore, you did better than I usually do.

I think the chat agents I dealt with were from that part of the world.

 

[pete6032]

Ordered 3 new phones on 12/26. One (certified pre-owned iPhone 11) for our grandson got delayed due to snow in Olympia. FedEx 2nd day took 10 days, even though UPS delivered almost every day.
Next, the Galaxy S21 ultra for my wife finally arrived yesterday, (backordered) apparently, the chat agents (fckn 3 of them during the process) who placed my order for me didn't lock in the trade in offer...and that's changed since the order was placed,(less trade in amount) and the phone wouldn't activate...so that required me to spend 3 hours in chat with two more agents to get it activated and set up.
Today, I've been on the telephone with Verizon for almost two hours...talking with 3 different reps, each working from home in a different state, trying to resolve the trade-in discrepancy...the 3rd guy tried to transfer me to customer care...after nearly an hour, they hung up on him...so now I'm on hold waiting for them to hang up on me.
At this point, I'm almost ready to cancel the order and new plans, send EVERYTHING back to them, and find a different wireless solution.

Mobile phone providers are the shadiest businesses. Worse than cable. Isn't it convenient how every "error" they make leads to them getting more money than if this error was not made?

 

[BoomerD]

Mobile phone providers are the shadiest businesses. Worse than cable. Isn't it convenient how every "error" they make leads to them getting more money than if this error was not made?

You'd THINK that any offer in effect when I placed the order would be effective when I activated the phones...but one chat agent last night told me "no, the offer that's in effect when you activate the phone is the one that you get."
We'll see.

 

[pete6032]

You'd THINK that any offer in effect when I placed the order would be effective when I activated the phones...but one chat agent last night told me "no, the offer that's in effect when you activate the phone is the one that you get."
We'll see.

Sounds like they are bullshitting you. Good luck!