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Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

It’s a great system

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Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

Lol I saw a commercial for the text keys and that is some Elon Musk dumb car idea poo poo

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

Also I got a yt ad for some scam my project funded by Elon Musk and Bill Gates where Canadians invest $250 and get regular cheques for $1000. It’s a pyramid scheme or something. But no way to report

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

Biplane posted:

my entire feed is all alt-right bullshit, small ben, joe rogan and loving jordan peterson.

I made a fresh account for school and regularly gets these suggestions after I saved a few “intro to debating” videos.

Ben doesn’t debate! I used him as an example of the Gish gallop

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

Outrail posted:

Yeah I got this too.

Mostly identified this as total bullshit scam, but a part of me wondered if Elon and Bill were actually involved in this bullshit scam.

I like to check out my Junk folder that is full of stuff that is automatically identified as scams and a lot of them cite Elon Musk, so I’m guessing no

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

flesh dance posted:

Got a bottle of febreeze to freshen up furniture before friends came to stay (we have pets and even though everything is tidy I worry about it). I sat my cloth grocery bags down on the couch and came back a minute later to find the entire loving bottle leaking into the cushion. I looked at the thing and you barely have to nudge it for the enire spray element to come off, what the everloving gently caress there are NO THREADS holding it in place. It ruined half a pack of toilet paper and an entire box of coffee filters

Now the entire place smells like nauseating perfume and I have never seen such a janky product in all my days wtf how do you gently caress up a spray nozzle, I want to open windows but it's too hot to turn off the AC so I hope no one gets devastating headaches

Email them- I send emails anytime I’m unhappy now.

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

The last couple years I’ve definitely noticed a conditioning of customers to not expect value for their money. It feels a lot like the old warnings and criticisms about Communism that Capitalism made

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

Paint.net is the way to go. I have some students who prefer Photopea, but it’s way less intuitive imo

We should make a How to Less lovely recommendation thread or make lists up here

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

Why would a computer turn off?

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

Actual Satan posted:

I've got to go through a private company to get a copy of my loving birth certificate, it's expensive as hell, and I have to wait 6 months. This used to be a basic government service.

I bet a lot of people would view getting something important with distrust because of Capitalism-poisoning and could not imagine a government service that made life better

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

ThinkTank posted:

It's the same in Canada and no one can really explain why. Half your benefits are insurance coverage for dental care. The government just announced some quasi nationalized dental care plan that will see low income families get a portion of it covered if they don't already have insurance, but the opposition will likely instantly scrap that when they're inevitably elected in a couple years.

On the positive side, I don't feel like dentists constantly upsell me here so that's nice.

No lie, Liberals propped up by an NDP alliance is really awesome and it’s good to see things like Dental and Daycare becoming real issues

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

Canadian specific, but Loblaws aka Superstore used to make really good in-house sour cream glaze and chocolate glaze doughnuts, sold in plastic containers (as opposed to their other ones, which are not as good and in cardboard boxes).

They stopped selling them last year and replaced them with some shittier versions by a brand called “Donut Time”.

It sucks and I emailed them to complain but they would not accept it because I didn’t have an item number for the doughnuts they stopped selling.

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

EBay making their Global Shipping Program nearly required blows. A seller broke down for me what it looks like from his end and I told him what I would have to pay and it’s ridiculous. I really appreciate the sellers (always from the UK?) who offer $3 CAD shipping.

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

Cerekk posted:

Subscription services only work because of electronic banking with automatically recurring charges. Nobody's going to forget to cancel their shirt subscription when they have to consciously go pay for it every month.

Yeah, it’s the gym/ porn site method

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

I was inspired by this thread and complained to the Customer Service then Manager at Superstore about how their cashiers no longer pack groceries following an incident my wife had.

The manager told me I was wrong and they were, that now they scan ALL the items before bagging, however customers start bagging items because they don’t want to hold up other customers.

I wasn’t happy and told her so. She said wasn’t receptive so I complained to corporate.

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

After I did my loud rant a customer actually thanked me and I felt like the Albert Einstein meme

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

I heard back from Superstore. They did the usual apology then said this:

quote:

In an effort to provide our customers with a more efficient checkout experience, we introduced the Bag-Your-Own program.

This process allows us to offer lower pricing due to labour savings, as our cashiers are able to process a greater number of customer orders.

They went on to say that any unoccupied staff could help those in need, which isn’t a thing because they have the bare minimum minus one at the front, and they haven’t done anything to keep food prices down anyway.

I think I may pass it along to the media.

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

The 17 year old cashier is way faster at packing things than I am as they scan the items and then I just put the bags in my cart and go. It’s a convenience that the store used to provide and now expects the customer to do because they’re gradually training their customers to not expect good things

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

Diet Poison posted:

When I shopped at Co-op in like 2018 they still had actual grocery baggers. And I stopped shopping there because the employees went on strike and I don't cross picket lines, but a side effect of that was I realized it was just as easy to get to Superstore on the same bus, and poo poo was cheaper there, and then I moved within walking distance of Superstore. I wonder if Co-op still has baggers, post-pandemic. Those guys are actually unionized so I don't think it'd be easy for management to just cut those jobs out.
Superstore's definitely gotten shittier, jacking up all their prices like every other grocery store in the world. But it's the grocery store I don't have to take a bus to get to.
e: oh and what I was getting at but didn't because I'm an idiot is that I've been going to Superstore since 2018 and they've never had baggers or had the cashier do any bagging in that time, at least as far as I can remember, so I dunno why that one goon was expecting it. Maybe they didn't stop that service all at once nationwide, I dunno.

They only stopped doing it a few weeks ago here

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

The Dorito-like chips that have the super hot flavours like Ghost Pepper that my store only sometimes has have a worse texture but Bette flavour. Would recommend whatever brand it is.

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012


Correct- I ate their Haunted Ghost Pepper chips and they gave me hiccups haha

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

It drives my wife nuts when I turn the tv on mute when an ad comes on. They irritate the hell out of me and using ublock has made me even less tolerant

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

Why should you be able to afford stuff? Just buy it.

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

That is hilariously Capitalism.tm

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012


This cartoon drives me up the wall every time I see it

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

Lol I remember when they had the gold and silver box set releases of Star Wars that came with George Lucas interviews. Even as kids my friends and I picked up on the fact that when talking about positive aspects of the film he always took credit and when talking about negative he always said stuff like “… but they couldn’t do it…”

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

They get angry and vote Conservative to punish people

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

I had no idea they were making that show and now I’m excited for a dumb fun show

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

Aren’t those pour my beer systems the ones bartenders said were really gross because of uncleaned lines or something? I think they used to push them on Bar Rescue

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

My motto when it comes to printers is that printers are a thing that you use at work and that work fixes when they inevitably break

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

I remember the day at the grocery store when I found two carts filled with Campbell’s Chunky soups that had really good dates on for a ridiculous amount off. I was really confused until I got to the aisle and saw the section with new, smaller cans for the same price as the old one. They wanted those things out fast before customers noticed!

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

When I sign anything I break the rules and use my fancy fountain pen to mark outside the lines in my big flourish-y signature that you can see from across the room with garish ink

So I guess anything I sign is worse than it normally would be

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

I had an ad for some church in Canada that started off as a sly anti abortion ad before turning into a young people are wrong and will burn for abandoning the church with stealth shade thrown at lgbtq+ people

Absolute poo poo

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

I never found out what that was I just know it WAS a forbidden thing punished by goonstastrstion

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

euphronius posted:

treat them with patience and respect. You do not know their story or problems.

This is for humans. Brands and corporations ? gently caress them

Agreed. Be a good goon.

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

I don’t get why Boomers love speaker phone

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

I like seafood but a lot of it can kill me

I used to love eating a bucket of mussels :(

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

I updated my iPhone and it turned the new Focus on automatically. Even though I clicked the thing to turn it off and it told me it was off. I had to go through it deleting everything so that I could get alerts again.

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

This fridge is for making questionable, shady profits off drunks and children, do not touch! :mad:

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Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

digitalist posted:

Altering? Do they expect the items returned after having eaten them?

I remember my dad telling me that on work trips people would drink from them then just stop at the liqour store the next day to restock them without the insane markup.

Modern ones don’t do that. They should be illegal.

Armacham posted:

Here's the price list for the lazy



Worse than I expected

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