• Home
  • Recent
  • Calendar
  • Register
  • Login
  • Home
  • Recent
  • Calendar
  • Register
  • Login
Iron Heart Forum
Iron Heart Forum

New Iron Heart Website - Live Now - Feedback and Bug Report Here Please!

Random Rants

General Chat
396
13.2k
4.0m
Loading More Posts
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • S
    steelworker
    見習いボス
    @Tago Mago
    Joined: 16 Apr 2014

    @Tago-Mago said in Random Rants:

    @steelworker the internet is the great equalizer, in that everyone has all the information available at the click of a mouse. Unfortunately, most people don't know how to use the internet. Critical analysis and appraisal takes time and effort, and who has either?

    Critical analysis? Met many Americans?

    Those are my principles, and if you don't like them…
    Well, I have others.

    last edited by 9 Dec 2024, 00:28 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
    • M
      Mizmazzle
      見習いボス
      @Matt
      Joined: 29 Jun 2021

      @Matt this made me laugh out loud

      In the easy chair with my boots on, melted whiskey in my hand. Could'na been asleep for more than three hours...time to go to work again...

      last edited by 9 Dec 2024, 01:14 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
      • G
        Graeme
        啓蒙家
        Joined: 30 Mar 2012

        I ordered a rucksack from the US in the Black Friday sales. Any imports into the country are tax and duty free if they come in under $1000 (Australian).

        Somewhere along the line, someone declared its value to be just over $1000, which meant that I was due for about $100 in tax and $100 or so in customs fees.

        I contacted UPS after they started hassling me for payment, pointing out that the goods are worth less than the threshold. Things got escalated up the chain of command, and my contact replied that the taxes have been waived, but I still need to pay the $100 customs lodgement fee, because that cannot be refunded.

        Someone has made a mistake, possibly within UPS, and I'm responsible for paying for it. That doesn't seem fair.

        last edited by 12 Dec 2024, 07:25 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
        • G
          Giles
          IHUK Crew
          Joined: 22 Sept 2009

          UPS would not have declared the value of the goods, that would have been the sender surely.

          "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

          last edited by 12 Dec 2024, 08:05 M G 2 Replies Last reply 12 Dec 2024, 13:39 Reply Quote 0
          • B
            Brian
            Joined: 24 Nov 2022

            Commercial cool rooms can fuck off or at least the sliding door they have
            Was on a job yesterday and the bruise and pain I have from the idiot baker slamming the door open onto my back and the fuckwit didn’t even say sorry just a watch yourself

            last edited by 12 Dec 2024, 09:33 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
            • M
              Marty_funkhauser
              Raw and Unwashed
              @Giles
              Joined: 2 Apr 2023

              @Giles correct

              last edited by 12 Dec 2024, 13:39 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
              • G
                Graeme
                啓蒙家
                @Giles
                Joined: 30 Mar 2012

                @Giles it could well have been at the vendor's end. I've dropped the company an email, and I'll see if they come back. Their site runs on the Shopify platform, so I'd guess that would do it all automatically.

                Regardless of whoever made the mistake, it's annoying that I have to carry the cost.

                last edited by 12 Dec 2024, 13:55 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 3
                • G
                  Graeme
                  啓蒙家
                  Joined: 30 Mar 2012

                  It turns out that the customs declaration didn't have the discounted price I paid on it, and the Shopify software was also doing something funny with prices.

                  last edited by 13 Dec 2024, 01:19 M 1 Reply Last reply 13 Dec 2024, 02:27 Reply Quote 0
                  • M
                    Mizmazzle
                    見習いボス
                    @Graeme
                    Joined: 29 Jun 2021

                    @Graeme maybe you can get out of paying then?? Sure hope so.

                    In the easy chair with my boots on, melted whiskey in my hand. Could'na been asleep for more than three hours...time to go to work again...

                    last edited by 13 Dec 2024, 02:27 G 1 Reply Last reply 13 Dec 2024, 07:42 Reply Quote 1
                    • G
                      Graeme
                      啓蒙家
                      @Mizmazzle
                      Joined: 30 Mar 2012

                      @Mizmazzle unfortunately the charge cannot be refunded by the Australian border force once paid. 😢

                      last edited by 13 Dec 2024, 07:42 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                      • G
                        Giles
                        IHUK Crew
                        Joined: 22 Sept 2009

                        But the shop that fucked up should refund you.

                        "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

                        last edited by 13 Dec 2024, 08:16 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 2
                        • M
                          mclaincausey
                          見習いボス
                          @goosehd
                          Joined: 12 Apr 2013

                          @goosehd said in Random Rants:

                          @steelworker The disconnect in corporate culture between profitability and humanity is definitely troubling.

                          Elon Musk said something on Twitter to the effect of a CEO’s role being to maximize profitability and returns to shareholders at all costs and ruthlessly in relation to the assassination.

                          He’s too dumb to realize the logical takeaways from that statement. I won’t say what they are due to the no politics rule but it should be obvious.

                          Think it, be it.

                          last edited by 13 Dec 2024, 14:57 G 1 Reply Last reply 14 Dec 2024, 04:44 Reply Quote 4
                          • G
                            Graeme
                            啓蒙家
                            @mclaincausey
                            Joined: 30 Mar 2012

                            @mclaincausey and how well did that cost-cutting approach maximise shareholder value at Twitter/X? 😆

                            I heard an argument that cutting public sector costs will be harder for Musk and DOGE because the sacked employees will remain on the government's books as social security recipients.

                            last edited by 14 Dec 2024, 04:44 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
                            • M
                              mclaincausey
                              見習いボス
                              Joined: 12 Apr 2013

                              Well they want to cut that too even though we paid into it. One of the ideas floated by Vivek was to base the firings on social security number prefixes and suffixes. That is an incredibly braindead idea for obvious reasons I won’t get into.

                              These are not serious people.

                              Think it, be it.

                              last edited by 14 Dec 2024, 13:46 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
                              • G
                                Giles
                                IHUK Crew
                                Joined: 22 Sept 2009

                                So tomorrow for lunch, we have a couple coming. One of who is vegan, and the other other who does not eat spicy.

                                And Christmas, we have some of my French family coming for a few days. One of the kids is vegetarian, and her partner eats nothing with Eyes.

                                FFS....

                                "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

                                last edited by 16 Dec 2024, 17:11 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 3
                                • T
                                  Tago Mago
                                  Mod Squad
                                  Joined: 16 Jan 2021

                                  last edited by 16 Dec 2024, 17:19 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 2
                                  • G
                                    Giles
                                    IHUK Crew
                                    Joined: 22 Sept 2009

                                    @Mister_Brue said in Random Rants:

                                    eats nothing with Eyes.

                                    Wtf?

                                    As my bother, who surprisingly, is a little less tolerant than me, said, "well that rules out fucking potatoes too...."

                                    "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

                                    last edited by 16 Dec 2024, 17:21 A P 2 Replies Last reply 16 Dec 2024, 18:33 Reply Quote 3
                                    • M
                                      mclaincausey
                                      見習いボス
                                      Joined: 12 Apr 2013

                                      It seems really inhumane to gouge the eyes out of an animal before you harvest it

                                      Think it, be it.

                                      last edited by 16 Dec 2024, 17:51 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 4
                                      • A
                                        ARNC
                                        啓蒙家
                                        @Giles
                                        Joined: 13 Dec 2020

                                        @Giles I prefer to eat potatoes!

                                        Also “eats nothing with eyes” could be fixed by modifying the guest rather than the menu - not a recommendation, just an observation - and picking up from @mclaincausey it could be the more humane option!

                                        “Every day that you survive you get a free sunset“

                                        last edited by 16 Dec 2024, 18:33 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
                                        • M
                                          Mizmazzle
                                          見習いボス
                                          Joined: 29 Jun 2021

                                          Middle school kids the week before Christmas break!! 😡😡😡😡

                                          In the easy chair with my boots on, melted whiskey in my hand. Could'na been asleep for more than three hours...time to go to work again...

                                          last edited by 16 Dec 2024, 20:16 S 1 Reply Last reply 16 Dec 2024, 21:43 Reply Quote 0
                                          12783 out of 13174
                                          • First post
                                            12783/13174
                                            Last post
                                          Copyright Iron Heart 2022.