by dedja » Thu Nov 16, 2023 11:16 am
by Booney » Thu Nov 16, 2023 11:38 am
Pseudo wrote:Pseudo wrote:Virgin Australia, notifying me of a cancelled flight mere hours before it was scheduled to take off.
No explanation given, outside of the ambiguous phrase "for operational reasons".
Re-scheduling me on a return flight via another city on the next day, leaving me stranded with no accomodation.
Their helpline requiring me to spend 5 minutes punching numbers before I get to a human, who speaks with a semi-comprehensible accent and only knows how to book flights, not handle issues.
There being no listed way to directly contact a local virgin office, not even at the airport.
Things that don't give me the shits:
My adelaide-based travel team who had me rebooked on a Qantas flight in quick time.
Virgin: you get what you pay for. Serves me right for agreeing to fly with them.
So it goes...
"Hundreds of Coldplay and Robbie Williams fans have been left furious after several Virgin flights were cancelled overnight, throwing their concert plans into chaos. A Virgin Australia flight headed to Perth on Wednesday was abruptly cancelled after passengers began boarding the afternoon flight in Adelaide."
by Jim05 » Thu Nov 16, 2023 12:08 pm
Virgin are having massive crew issues and staff are about to strike so I’d steer clear of them until it’s sorted. Some flights they are not getting enough rock up and flights that are fully boarded are being cancelled and passengers unloadedPseudo wrote:Pseudo wrote:Virgin Australia, notifying me of a cancelled flight mere hours before it was scheduled to take off.
No explanation given, outside of the ambiguous phrase "for operational reasons".
Re-scheduling me on a return flight via another city on the next day, leaving me stranded with no accomodation.
Their helpline requiring me to spend 5 minutes punching numbers before I get to a human, who speaks with a semi-comprehensible accent and only knows how to book flights, not handle issues.
There being no listed way to directly contact a local virgin office, not even at the airport.
Things that don't give me the shits:
My adelaide-based travel team who had me rebooked on a Qantas flight in quick time.
Virgin: you get what you pay for. Serves me right for agreeing to fly with them.
So it goes...
"Hundreds of Coldplay and Robbie Williams fans have been left furious after several Virgin flights were cancelled overnight, throwing their concert plans into chaos. A Virgin Australia flight headed to Perth on Wednesday was abruptly cancelled after passengers began boarding the afternoon flight in Adelaide."
by RB » Thu Nov 16, 2023 12:32 pm
by Lightning McQueen » Thu Nov 16, 2023 2:17 pm
Pseudo wrote:Pseudo wrote:Virgin Australia, notifying me of a cancelled flight mere hours before it was scheduled to take off.
No explanation given, outside of the ambiguous phrase "for operational reasons".
Re-scheduling me on a return flight via another city on the next day, leaving me stranded with no accomodation.
Their helpline requiring me to spend 5 minutes punching numbers before I get to a human, who speaks with a semi-comprehensible accent and only knows how to book flights, not handle issues.
There being no listed way to directly contact a local virgin office, not even at the airport.
Things that don't give me the shits:
My adelaide-based travel team who had me rebooked on a Qantas flight in quick time.
Virgin: you get what you pay for. Serves me right for agreeing to fly with them.
So it goes...
"Hundreds of Coldplay and Robbie Williams fans have been left furious after several Virgin flights were cancelled overnight, throwing their concert plans into chaos. A Virgin Australia flight headed to Perth on Wednesday was abruptly cancelled after passengers began boarding the afternoon flight in Adelaide."
by Pseudo » Fri Nov 17, 2023 11:44 am
by Booney » Fri Nov 17, 2023 11:46 am
Pseudo wrote:The dearth of actual physical human tellers in bank branches.
Went to a branch this morning to deposit ~ $150 of coins which had accumulated over the last few years. Last time I went to this particular branch there was a rack of tellers; not anymore. The job would have taken 2 minutes with a human in the loop. Not anymore. A human might have done all the coins in a single transaction; the ATM barfs once a certain number of coins is added, requiring multiple transactions. More disturbingly, a human could doublecheck when over $100 of coins, including a couple of bags of gold coins, is tallied as $35. Transaction cancelled, left the bank with a bag full of loose coins, no longer sorted into their respective denominations. Spent ten minutes to achieve nothing, tying up the time of the sole human "attendant", while a queue of punters grew ever longer and grumpier behind me.
This particular bank just posted a 7 billion dollar profit - would it really hurt the bottom line to spend some of that on a few menials to staff the branches?
Oh well. Tonight for giggles I might order a stack of pizzas and pay for them with 5 and 10 cent pieces...
by dedja » Fri Nov 17, 2023 11:52 am
by am Bays » Fri Nov 17, 2023 12:41 pm
Pseudo wrote:The dearth of actual physical human tellers in bank branches.
Went to a branch this morning to deposit ~ $150 of coins which had accumulated over the last few years. Last time I went to this particular branch there was a rack of tellers; not anymore. The job would have taken 2 minutes with a human in the loop. Not anymore. A human might have done all the coins in a single transaction; the ATM barfs once a certain number of coins is added, requiring multiple transactions. More disturbingly, a human could doublecheck when over $100 of coins, including a couple of bags of gold coins, is tallied as $35. Transaction cancelled, left the bank with a bag full of loose coins, no longer sorted into their respective denominations. Spent ten minutes to achieve nothing, tying up the time of the sole human "attendant", while a queue of punters grew ever longer and grumpier behind me.
This particular bank just posted a 7 billion dollar profit - would it really hurt the bottom line to spend some of that on a few menials to staff the branches?
Oh well. Tonight for giggles I might order a stack of pizzas and pay for them with 5 and 10 cent pieces...
by MW » Fri Nov 17, 2023 12:53 pm
Pseudo wrote:The dearth of actual physical human tellers in bank branches.
Went to a branch this morning to deposit ~ $150 of coins which had accumulated over the last few years. Last time I went to this particular branch there was a rack of tellers; not anymore. The job would have taken 2 minutes with a human in the loop. Not anymore. A human might have done all the coins in a single transaction; the ATM barfs once a certain number of coins is added, requiring multiple transactions. More disturbingly, a human could doublecheck when over $100 of coins, including a couple of bags of gold coins, is tallied as $35. Transaction cancelled, left the bank with a bag full of loose coins, no longer sorted into their respective denominations. Spent ten minutes to achieve nothing, tying up the time of the sole human "attendant", while a queue of punters grew ever longer and grumpier behind me.
This particular bank just posted a 7 billion dollar profit - would it really hurt the bottom line to spend some of that on a few menials to staff the branches?
Oh well. Tonight for giggles I might order a stack of pizzas and pay for them with 5 and 10 cent pieces...
by dedja » Fri Nov 17, 2023 12:54 pm
by Pseudo » Fri Nov 17, 2023 8:43 pm
Pseudo wrote:The dearth of actual physical human tellers in bank branches.
Went to a branch this morning to deposit ~ $150 of coins which had accumulated over the last few years. Last time I went to this particular branch there was a rack of tellers; not anymore. The job would have taken 2 minutes with a human in the loop. Not anymore. A human might have done all the coins in a single transaction; the ATM barfs once a certain number of coins is added, requiring multiple transactions. More disturbingly, a human could doublecheck when over $100 of coins, including a couple of bags of gold coins, is tallied as $35. Transaction cancelled, left the bank with a bag full of loose coins, no longer sorted into their respective denominations. Spent ten minutes to achieve nothing, tying up the time of the sole human "attendant", while a queue of punters grew ever longer and grumpier behind me.
This particular bank just posted a 7 billion dollar profit - would it really hurt the bottom line to spend some of that on a few menials to staff the branches?
Oh well. Tonight for giggles I might order a stack of pizzas and pay for them with 5 and 10 cent pieces...
by gadj1976 » Fri Nov 17, 2023 9:11 pm
by whufc » Mon Nov 20, 2023 9:20 am
by dedja » Mon Nov 20, 2023 9:42 am
by Wedgie » Fri Nov 24, 2023 2:35 pm
Armchair expert wrote:Such a great club are Geelong
by MW » Fri Nov 24, 2023 4:06 pm
Wedgie wrote:When instructions say "Don't fully tighten yet" at the end of a paragraph.
FFS out that at the front of the paragraph!!!
I've already tightened the shit out of them by the time I reach the end of the paragraph!
by Wedgie » Fri Nov 24, 2023 4:07 pm
MW wrote:Wedgie wrote:When instructions say "Don't fully tighten yet" at the end of a paragraph.
FFS out that at the front of the paragraph!!!
I've already tightened the shit out of them by the time I reach the end of the paragraph!
Shouldn't you read the full paragraph before you start the process anyway?
Armchair expert wrote:Such a great club are Geelong
by mighty_tiger_79 » Fri Nov 24, 2023 5:19 pm
Wedgie wrote:MW wrote:Wedgie wrote:When instructions say "Don't fully tighten yet" at the end of a paragraph.
FFS out that at the front of the paragraph!!!
I've already tightened the shit out of them by the time I reach the end of the paragraph!
Shouldn't you read the full paragraph before you start the process anyway?
You should but I'm male.
It's being femine enough just reading them at all!
Anyway I got the bastard together, lucky the BBQ itself was easy enough compared to the stand!
Then it starts raining so I come inside, don't even get to admire it.
by RustyCage » Sun Nov 26, 2023 8:54 pm
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