Hijack: What’s your advice for a customer who changes their mind about purchasing an item? Put it back (possibly in the wrong place), or give it to a store employee for proper re-shelving? Would your answer change for perishables?
I agree that people who don’t have a payment ready are just holding things up for everyone.
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OMFSM - this!! Car “user interface” designs are now the most inconsistent mess, after almost a century of simple standards. I had a rental car with the speedometer off to the side and blocked by the steering wheel, but centered on the dashboard was a display of engine temperature, and I think the price of bitcoin.
My last rental car I had to google how to turn on the emergency flashers. Not joking! Good thing I had a data connection, it was day light, and it was not a real emergency.
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Yeah. ( chuckles )
My car has a good sized touch screen in the center of the dash, and I rarely touch/interact with it while I’m moving. Every now and then ( every couple of days? ) the tile icon or navigation screen will go black, with a pop-up warning that basically says, and I’m paraphrasing: “Keep your eyes on the road idiot. It’s unsafe to interact with the infotainment system while you’re driving”. You must then touch a big “OK” button/icon to acknowledge it so that you can have your normal display back.
So I’m cruising along paying attention to the road, but a pop-up forces me distract myself by touching a screen. Go figure.
When a tape measure doesn’t quite work - And you need to be in the 1/16" range -
Thanks, but …
I already have a couple of those. Very useful. (I remember as a kid one of my grandfather’s had one in his shop and I was amazed by it. Ah, life back when.)
But I need something that can take up nearly zero space in a small drawer, lying up against the side. And being clear would be a big plus. And metric, too.
I heartily endorse this position, with tremendous vehemence.
Have you considered cutting the extraneous buffer part off yourself?
Otherwise, look for C-Thru Graph rulers. Amazon isn’t the best place, though. Find a local art supply shop or go to Blick.
Okay. The store rules are strictly enforced on this subject.
Any food brought into the store has to be wrapped and taken immediately to the break room before being unwrapped. The only food that can be eaten in the store is the food the store sells, which is all kosher diary or neutral.
Eating anything in the store from outside, except coffee, is grounds for being fired.
Have I considered? Um, reread the post you quoted.
Thanks for the keyword search. “Graph” style generally isn’t going to work. It appears that Westcott has bought out C-Thru. Found some things that are almost right. But still $6 including shipping. But it’s a start in the right direction.
Paying my health insurance bill online.
In theory, I should be able to put my account number here, my credit card number there, hit “Submit,” and be done with it. But no, I have to create an account with a third party payment clearinghouse, with a username that has to be an email address; an address that can’t use an email host like Gmail or Yahoo Mail. No, it has to be an ISP-provided email address. My password must contain at least one uppercase letter, one lowercase letter, one number, a Viking rune, and the blood of a virgin. And I must change it every four weeks, lest some stranger attempt to pay my bill for me.
I’m confused- first you say any food brought into the store has to be wrapped and can only be unwrapped in the break room. Then you say eating food in the store from outside is grounds for firing ( except coffee) Are you using “store” in a way that excludes the breakroom or is the breakroom physically separate from the store or (some other alternative) ?
I see what you did there.
And people wonder why I still write checks and put them in the mail.
You forgot the one about finally getting to the payment screen, hitting submit, and having . . . nothing happen. No order receipt, no confirmation screen. Did it go through? Do I try again, and risk being charged twice?
You also forgot the version in which there’s an error message – and every bit of information has to be entered all over again. On six different pages. All of which are slow loading.
You are right but you forgot taking a bath and sometimes eating an actual meal instead of just candy. You can explain it to them until you are blue in the face but kids will go feral without firm parenting.
So my tale of ruler woes has a couple more twists.
Problem 1a: Some pictures show no extra on the ends. Some show the extra gap. Errgh. Well, which is it? (Also, too many sites cut off the ends of the image in zoom mode. Thanks for nothing.)
Problem 1b: I can find it for as little as 83 cents. Plus $10 shipping. :eek: Nothing under $6 total so far. (And I can get a dozen for $13.) And then I’m still not sure which version I’d get.
(And good old WalMart: I checked to see what they had in-store. Something promising showed up. But marked “not in stock”. If I ask to see what’s “in-store” I really don’t need to see all the products they don’t have.)
This still happens? Doesn’t everyone just get a check for what they ordered?
That works in some situations, where you order what you want, I order what I want and nothing is ordered “for the table” . It doesn’t work so well for family style restaurants , or groups that order appetizers to share, or when ordering pitchers of beer/soda. I’ve encountered people who want to figure out how many people shared each dish and pay only the proportional amount for what they ate - 1/8 of item 1 , 1/6 of item 2, nothing for item 3 and so on. They don’t get invited a second time.
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This. Why in the world would you ever turn off your computer? Set it to hibernate after a few minutes if you must but there is no need to turn it off that wouldn’t add unnecessary time to actually using it.
This goes triple for a laptop/tablet.
I went to a McDonalds for the first time in a great while. How much simpler can it get? Well I found out when the nice young lady behind the counter showed me how I was going to have to ring up my own order on a kiosk screen. Well I think this will be just like ordering off of the large menu behind the cashiers now. No it was not. It seemed I had to select a hamburger and list/unlist everything I wanted on it individually as well as the individual items I wanted along with it. Whoever created this interface should be forced to take and pass 20 UX courses first.
The young lady was not that helpful as of course she whipped through the process to “help” me along so she could get to helping the other “dummies” like me who were expecting someone else to put their orders in.
Also has no one else though of the cleanliness of these things? I don’t know if I want to be touching a screen multiple times after someone has used it after fixing their car, wiping their kid’s nose or picking up their dog’s crap.
When I was issued my current work laptop (Win10), I was advised to reboot it every day. AYFKM? This is 2019! Surely I can sleep my laptop. No, and I shouldn’t call you Shirley.
In addition to the occasional crash or hangup of the laptop, MS Outlook will not access the server if I have it open for more than a few hours. Or more than a few hours out of every 24. Unless the wind is blowing the right way, or tea hits the exact correct price on the Beijing exchange. So no new emails in, no new calendar reminders, and no emails out. A full reboot fixes the problem. My usually helpful company helpdesk did not fix the issue after two sessions of two hours each. It’s faster if I just power cycle the thing every day. Dammit. OTOH, it doesn’t cost me that much, because the time to power up is not much slower than the “wake up enough to actually do something useful” time. :mad:
This is why I drink.
The fact every single website now openly tells you to use it’s APP instead of using the web browser and will sometimes even lock features away that normally would be accessible within the APP (Yelp is the worst for this)
Yes, because I want a dozen different APPs to visit a dozen different websites all taking up memory in my phone.