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Old 02-03-2022, 09:46 AM   #31
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what I miss? Is people taking responsibility
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what I miss? Is people taking responsibility
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As in behaving like they ask others how to behave - none of this 'do as I say, not as I do' bull**** that's infected the world
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Good old Customer service ,,

In a lot of places .

Then , there’s having SOMEONE in a place to provide said customer service ,,
Instead of phucking everything being a ,,
“ please jump online to go through the rabbit hole to our labyrinth website , then chuck a tantrum , swear at the screen , punch a puppy ,then give your computer the windows program ,,,
Launch the screen , mouse and pc tower out a bloody window . “

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Servo bowser service checking unda the bonnet and tyre pressures.
Now them were the days of service.
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Old 04-03-2022, 05:26 AM   #37
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Servo bowser service checking unda the bonnet and tyre pressures.
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we have one here that still does that, a BP up the north end of town
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we have one here that still does that, a BP up the north end of town
I bet they still have a workshop attached as well. Underbonnet checks and workshops used to go hand in hand
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yer over the years whilst on travels to the never lands you can still get that nice ol "service".
I used to lol at guys I knew saying when they did some tyre checks they would just make a hissing sound.
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Good old Customer service ,,

In a lot of places .

Then , there’s having SOMEONE in a place to provide said customer service ,,
Instead of phucking everything being a ,,
“ please jump online to go through the rabbit hole to our labyrinth website , then chuck a tantrum , swear at the screen , punch a puppy ,then give your computer the windows program ,,,
Launch the screen , mouse and pc tower out a bloody window . “

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They will grow up to resent you .
yer that good sell long ago, tech it will make life easier yaddayaddayadda......
Service is pathetic today - software systems run everything and most of the humans we need to deal with are like robots - computer says no.
Hopeless.
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I miss the Trading Post (and the prices within)


I miss when you didn't need an account, a password, a phone, a link or an app to do things.
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haha the boomers are here and present
How many friggin passwords, you must have x letters,cap,numbers etcetc......
F right off - I'm scrolling forever in my notes finding username and password for X this X that.
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I miss the days when you could buy mint XD 351's for less than 5k.
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How many friggin passwords, you must have x letters,cap,numbers etcetc......
F right off - I'm scrolling forever in my notes finding username and password for X this X that.
Thats funny. True but funny. I had to laugh when i was at the shop with my brother, the bloke at the till informed the pay pass wasnt working. So my brother scratched his head for a second because he hasnt used a pin code in a while. The bloke behind the till remarked 'this is the dementia test'.
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Thats funny. True but funny. I had to laugh when i was at the shop with my brother, the bloke at the till informed the pay pass wasnt working. So my brother scratched his head for a second because he hasnt used a pin code in a while. The bloke behind the till remarked 'this is the dementia test'.
I get it haha but in my case I'm not there YET
The KISS principle gone out with the tech age, once ID was simply your license.
Funnily its in your ServiceNSW app (and whatever each State its called ) yet we need usernames and copious amounts of b loody passwords.....
I don't mind I have everything logged in but its a PIA just the same.
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How many friggin passwords, you must have x letters,cap,numbers etcetc......
F right off - I'm scrolling forever in my notes finding username and password for X this X that.

Ha, not a boomer, just hate all the e-requirements these days.
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The days when we had a 'weather event' and the electricity supply failed, we still had the the land line phone and the transistor radio to find out what was happening.
Now, no electricity and it is back to 1922. Stuck in the dark ages.
Mobile phone is no use because you can't charge it, the tower batteries have run down, and the solar panels don't work because it is raining.
Your car gets wet, no need to open the doors and let it dry, it is a write-off.

The weather didn't affect us this time, but 7 years ago, that is how it was for a week.
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cant even get service@the supermarket any longer(except Aldi-so i go there)have to serve yourself....@#^&in pain in DA azz , then we wont give u plastic bags any more.....cause its bad for the environment, but hey we will sell them to U & we will still leave them there for your fruit &veg....WTF!!!!
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After listening to Triple M this morning, I miss '80s music. Ok, I kinda don't coz that's probs still my prime era of influence in the music I listen to, but I miss that era.
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Ha, not a boomer, just hate all the e-requirements these days.
yer likewise, a gen of them and I grasp the tech but agree what you quote.

Ira, I live in quiet culdasac area, there is a Place and a Avenue.
One set us a whatsapp group than many have joined, all I keep seeing - is your wifi down ? then you see yep who you with etc, the world stops for all lol.......
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cant even get service@the supermarket any longer(except Aldi-so i go there)have to serve yourself....@#^&in pain in DA azz , then we wont give u plastic bags any more.....cause its bad for the environment, but hey we will sell them to U & we will still leave them there for your fruit &veg....WTF!!!!
I don't rate Aldi either but spouse depends some are better than others.
haha the placky bag were green rhetoric.
Joke, I was asked would I like a .15c placky one yesterday.
Rort.
By the way, love the KSchwantz Pepsi ride !

Another for the Anyone miss ? the green mention was about "weed"
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After listening to Triple M this morning, I miss '80s music. Ok, I kinda don't coz that's probs still my prime era of influence in the music I listen to, but I miss that era.
Fortunately the music is always there.

Sometimes in better shape than when we first heard it.
eg. ....https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/...ppets-reissue/
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i miss a certain little miss I used to know, dang she was beautiful and playful.
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I miss when you didn't need an account, a password, a phone, a link or an app to do things.

"Holden HQ, roadworthy certificate, nothing more to spend, new upholstery Scheel bucket seats, new paint job- gun metal blue, Reconditioned 308, extractors, sports exhaust, 350 holley, waggot cams, yella terra head and valves and ported, balanced and blue printed, - $5,500 ONO"

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yer that good sell long ago, tech it will make life easier yaddayaddayadda......
Service is pathetic today - software systems run everything and most of the humans we need to deal with are like robots - computer says no.
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Makes me wonder if in the future, the real valuable jobs could be something where you need human to human interaction.

The days of customer service are long dead, its not overly valued by business, reason being is humans are expensive and its costly to have them doing menial crap like processing basic transactions.

Mind you at the shops I refuse to use self serve checkouts, even if I've just got a bottle of water I'll jump in line.

Was something I was going to implement at work, you refuse to use email or online, if you want to talk to me on the phone or in person, than you paid +20%, that's the way its going to move, but you need to have everything else in place and sorted first, you need to make it easy for people to figure out what they want without needing to contact you in non efficient manner like in person or over the phone.

Its not good value from a business perspective to be sinking $50K + super + entitlements on someone to answer the phone and process basic transactions, I'd rather have that $50,000 + in extra stock of stuff that people want to buy. Or that person doing 'value added' work in investigating new product markets/opportunities. There's also an 'opportunity cost' to a business, a lot of times its just better off to say no.

To be honest, myself as a consumer, I'd rather not have to deal with other people and just have **** turn up at my door, but I want it delivered either same day or next business day at the latest.

The real MVP in a customer service role is a good driver - worth their weight in gold.

Still have the humans, just utilise them where you can capitalise on their initiative and decision making capabilities, having humans where they're in positions where they can't use their initiative and decision making capabilities such as doing menial crap like processing transactions is a waste of resources.

Something that ****s me is why don't fuel pumps have EFTPOS terminals? Why do I need to go inside to pay for fuel?

Why can't I buy a car and it just turns up in my driveway? (You can and I did this when I bought the Thailux)

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Something that ****s me is why don't fuel pumps have EFTPOS terminals? Why do I need to go inside to pay for fuel?
So you can Buy a Packet of Lollies/Chips/Smokes or A Soft Drink At Rape & Pillage Prices..
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I miss that Aussie toughness when people did not turn themselves into Karens and victims
anytime someone asked them to do something.

The recent floods show us people at their best, something that’s been missing in our country
for the past two years. That Aussie spirit of getting in and helping others and being less selfish.
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I miss...

Aussies looking out for the battler! Instead of being like the American look out for self.

People treating others like they want to be treated.
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That time not long ago :

# before covid 19

# prior to Russia Invading Ukraine

# before Russia threatening the world with nukes when doing badly in a conventional war with Ukraine

# when Grifter Trump eroding democracy in America by inciting insurrection was not reality

# before America going **** weak and having a leader in sleepy Joe who cannot play a game of poker with Puttin

# When there were not this proliferation of revenue speed cameras

# When a bloke could be happy being a hairy armed dirty handed bloke doing bloke things like ripping a powerful engine and chewing rubber, working on their car on the road, fishing, shooting guns, appreciating the fairer sex cause thats what a guy does, and not having to second guess how to behave to be politically correct

AND - when the highlight was going to the magazine stand and combing through the auto mags when new hero models of Falcons and Commodores were in design phase, engineering planning phase and then coming out and finally the performance testing and then if concluding they were horn how they hell you could get one .

God I miss those days....
I miss the days we had before all this woke bull****!, and the days before the new religion of climate change.
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