Yeah, I used to work at a grocery store and people putting stuff on the shelves was super common - I’d end up with at least a cart full each shift. Cheese is relatively not so bad. The one I especially didn’t get was people strewing meat on the shelves.
Wendy’s app.
One month ago: order dinner, through app, for 3 people from closest Wendy’s, including apple pecan chicken salads for my wife and me. App says when it will be ready. Pay when order placed.
Arrive. No salads available. And they can’t even cancel the order or refund the difference.
So complain later by phone. Not very satisfactory, but end up with a $20 credit. With salads over $16, and a willingness to get salads in the future, OK.
(To avoid even more tl;dr I’m not going into other reasons that the credit wasn’t so good, maybe not even worth $16)
So today, place another mobile order, at hopefully a better location (we had had other issues earlier with the closest location). Again, for 3 people, again including two apple pecan chicken salads. Again, pay when placed (this time $11.47 after the $20 credit). Again, get told when they would be ready. Again, show up then. And, again, no apple pecan chicken salads.
Except this store can process refunds. Can cancel everything, and get $11.47 refund . Or, can just cancel the two salads and get $16.01 refund (within $1 of, but not quite as much as, the cost of the two salads). Either way, store cannot restore the $20 credit. [Both those are refunds to a different card, with the original order charge still intact. So net charge activity today 0 or +4.54 refund] So naturally I took the larger refund, and kept some food.
GRRR.
Reminds me of when I bought a bag of ice from kiosk in a McDonalds once, and they panicked because they did not sell bags of ice. And since they did not have this as an option on their own screens, could not refund it.
I also ordered food, but did not order fries. I de-escalated the situation by offering to accept an order of fries instead of a bad of ice. They kindly agreed.
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Did the fries keep your drinks cold?
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Nope, but i was on the fence on ordering them earlier.
I went to the gas station next door for the ice.
I spend more than a little bit of money on Google ads. The results are nothing to write home about, but I guess I make some money from the results. Relevant, it’s been sending my leads/sales that are pretty uniformly distributed across my target market’s age demographics.
About two weeks ago, it flipped. Now 95% of the contact information I get is from people who are 60-80yo’s old. That’s not my market, not at all. Definitely not profitable in terms of sales, way too much work, way too much crap. I don’t want to speak to another 75yo who wants $300K permanent insurance but objects angirly because their budget is $25/month. Very annoying to get this crap in my inbox, knowing I’m paying handsomely for it.
In related good news, a guy on reddit gave me a solution today that I think is going to work. So I’ve spent some thousands, but should be fixed next week.
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My husband did a deep clean of our fridge yesterday, which meant keeping the doors open for a very long time. As a result, somehow the fridge glitched and was only cooling when the doors were open, and stopped cooling when the doors were closed.
It took us around 15 hours to figure that out, so we had to throw out a bunch of food. Fortunately, since we had just done the deep clean, the fridge was already pretty sparsely stocked and hadn’t been refilled yet.
Also fortunately, unplugging the fridge seemed to fix it. Thought we might need a new one.
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At the end did you say “we fixed the glitch”?
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…and that’s why we don’t teach lessons!
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Our fridge has been glitching somewhat regularly…I am not sure what is causing it, but about once a week when we close it, all the lights on the front panel turn on, and it will beep 5 times when you close the doors. Flipping the breaker off/on fixes it. I also learned last time to do this right away as it also puts the fridge in a cold or freeze mode. I read there could be a store demo mode, which makes more sense for what NA described, not so much what I am seeing.
The fridge is 20 years old, so it has had a good life. Replacing it comes with the decision on replacing it alone, and keeping the color of the appliances, or switching to stainless, and replacing all of them. I have separate cooktop/double wall oven and those can be quite expensive - probably 10-12k for everything. Or 2k for a new fridge.
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And now another chair has had the same malfunction. 
Sometimes I’m oblivious. Like, not a clue.
My buddy mentioned it would be good to have some young hunters at hunt camp and I agreed.
So I’ve got four students ready to come. Excited. I text my buddy to tell him. And now? everything is off the rails. Because frank, nick, stanis, and Sophie are coming and guess which one of those don’t belong?
Yeah, no girls in hunt camp. I told Sophie that she’d be in a tent with me and a bunch of folks, she didnt care, and I certainly don’t. But some of the other guys….what a pile of ignorant redneck backwoods bullshit. It never even crossed my mind that this would be a problem.
gah.
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What are they scared of? Do they think they won’t be able to control themselves and accidentally assault her? Are their wives going to get bent out of shape about it? It just makes no sense.
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They want their safe place with no women so they can sit around and drink without their wives.
Which is part of where im oblivious because it wouldn’t cross my mind that I’d have less fun or need to modify my behaviour if someone’s wife were in camp. I do understand cameraderie amongst the guys, it’s just that adding a woman into the mix doesn’t change that for me. Hunting moose, a week in a camp in the bush is a guy type of activity so it’ll naturally be mostly guys. But adding sophie in makes it better not worse. Sophie is a hoot.
Any way, I apologized for inadvertently causing problems, and I have a real easy fix anyway (there’s a billion billion acres of crown land, I can set up my own camp anywhere I want).
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I’m buried today.
My calendar goes ding. in 1 hour you have an industry meeting at (name) that is an hour away. except (name) isn’t in that town. geepers
a few phone calls and I have the location figured but geez wrong day to sit in a room full of mouth breathers.
The batteries died in my gate opener. We’ve had to manually open and close them since Saturday. At least I hope that’s all it is, this happened a few years ago and new batteries did the trick. I’ve removed them, heading to the battery shop after my last call.
This did not do the trick. Let the batteries charge all night, oiled up the hinges and what-not, no dice. I called a pro, Google says maybe a bad sensor, possibly one or both arms need a full replacement. Sigh.
Nice humblebrag on having a gate opener.
My new garage door openers kept tripping a sensor and were going back up. Troubleshooting them was a bit annoying.
On one of them, my splice on the wiring for the optical sensor was loose, so when the door got to the bottom, I think the vibration caused it to trip. The wires they provide are cheap single strand crap that break easily.
Second one, I think was detecting an obstruction. I reset the travel limits and lifted it by hand and nothing was obviously catching. I coated the wheels with grease and it seemed to resolve the issue.
Would have been nice if the opener had feedback on what was causing it to not close. It just reverses and the light blinks the same regardless of cause.
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Haha, yeah. It was the only way to fence the yard. I was volunteering at a high school robotics thing once and mentioned it. And one of the kids said ‘you guys have automatic gates, you must live in an ESTATE!’
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