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    • MizmazzleM
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      @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...

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      • GraemeG
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        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.

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        • GilesG
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          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

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          • BrianB
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            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

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            • Marty_funkhauserM
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              @Giles correct

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              • GraemeG
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                @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.

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                • GraemeG
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                  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.

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                  • MizmazzleM
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                    @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...

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

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                      • GilesG
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                        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

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                        • mclaincauseyM
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                          @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.

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                          • GraemeG
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                            @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.

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                            • mclaincauseyM
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                              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.

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                              • GilesG
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                                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

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                                • Tago MagoT
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                                  • GilesG
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                                    @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

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

                                      Think it, be it.

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                                      • ARNCA
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                                        @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“

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                                        • MizmazzleM
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                                          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...

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                                          • SKTS
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                                            @Mizmazzle I feel this pain albeit in a different way. Good luck this week!

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