“What is the point?”
Is a constant in middle aged life.
Thought – definitely, said – often (more often as age increases), shouted – a lot!
I hate geeks, with a passion!
I simply do not understand how an individual, supposedly with better knowledge in a particular field, is incapable of conversing, in a manner that is easily understandable to all?
For example, the next piece of writing, I wanted to start with bold text.
A click on the + sign, searching through the drop down list for the option to select BOLD and type.
It is not there. Why not?
Why is it so difficult to understand that while I’m typing, I might want to use text instructions, such as BOLD or UNDERLINE?
This, I would apportion blame to geeks!
Another example:
Quality this one is.
I wanted, “Another example:” in BOLD, simple operation you’d think?
Not so.
I had to write it out using the HEADER setting. All is fine, until you want to continue writing after the colon!
First I tried changing the header size (with the cursor after the colon – stay with me), that simply made, “Another example:” smaller also, even though the cursor was AFTER the colon.
Next I attempted a <shift+enter> move, so that the cursor drops immediately below the “Another example:” line, this failed as the next typing resulted in the same format/size of the previous line.
No problem I thought, if I just press <enter> after the colon, it will start a new paragraph (ie. leave a gap) but at least it will return to the regular text format that I’ve already been writing in?
Nope.
It continued with the header formatting.
FFS!
In the end, I kept pressing enter, then delete, then enter, getting angrier and angrier, until eventually, the new block (+) appeared.
I have not a clue how I managed it.
Now why make text writing so difficult? Geeks!
I should easily be able to choose the format, style, bold or italic or underlining and sizing of what I want to write.
Shove your fancy, gimmicky blocks and menus up your arse!
Make it easy for the user or there is no point to your idiotic, over-complicated pap of a program!
Moving on…
I had a server move around this week, a simple operation involving 42,000 files being transferred over to a new server.
This entailed temporary suspension of emails, while the transfer was made, then reinstating the email provision to the new domain and setting up the emails again.
As I couldn’t remember what was set for the email passwords, I simply assigned a new password, then proceeded to change the passwords in my email program.
All was fiddly, but not too bad, within 15 minutes, the job was complete.
That was until I had to change the email password on a samsung mobile phone!
What a complete ballache this was!
First went into the phones email settings, looked for the option to change settings. There wasn’t one.
20 minutes later, all the options searched through (analytics, cookies, privacy, privacy statements, reset account, delete account and many, many more) not a sausage.
How hard can it be?
On to the PC to search for the answer… BINGO!
Microsoft technician (using that term loosely here) was about to come up trumps, in their answer to the question, “How to change pop3 email settings on an android phone?”
RESULT!
“Scroll down to the left hand cog wheel of the account you want to change, select it and scroll down to the very bottom of this page and you’ll see ‘change settings’ then away you go!”
I click the cog wheel, I scroll down to the very bottom, nothing.
Back to the replies;
“I’ve done this, but there’s only a reset or delete account options. I’ve tried resetting the account, it doesn’t work. There is no change settings option!”
Back comes the microsoft technician…
“Oh well I can’t think of what else could work, I’ve always done this when I’ve been changing settings with IMAP email accounts!”
FFS! (again) (I’ve now found the previously hidden bold button to press – it’s hidden away in the header options bar, who knew!)
Once again, the geek squad, in their haste to be technically knowledgeable, have not listened to (or in this case actually read) the basic question, “How to change pop3 email settings on an android phone?”
NOT IMAP email accounts!
You’ve just wasted his and everyone else’s time with your ineptitude!
In the end, I resolved the issue by deleting the whole fecking lot and restarting a new account from scratch.
This was preferable to fecking around with it all for more than half an hour and getting nowhere.
I strayed out to a shopping place last weekend. I call it a place as it’s one of those out of town/all shops are the same but charge higher prices places.
Nipped into superdrug for a couple of bits, picked them up in a basket (after being threatened with a basket by a store advisor) then headed for the till.
Facing us was a perfume counter till serving people to the left and to the right, four empty tills with no one serving on them. I was stood in the gap in between, following on from the lady in front, waiting patiently.
No problem I thought, just one customer at the till, so I’m next. Not a worry.
The lady wanted something checking, a couple of other customers appeared behind me.
The lady paid then as about to leave, went straight back to the girl on the till with a query on her receipt…
Another three customers appeared behind me in the queue.
More discussions at the till, the girl started talking on her headset…
Another customer joined the queue.
A manager came over (she was around 20 years old – they do get younger these days!) The manager was now in discussions with the customer being served.
Another two customers joined the till and I’d been there, going on for ten minutes now.
When to all customer’s sheer joy, another girl appeared!
After walking over to the manager and perfume girl, talking, she strolled slowly over to the vacant, unused tills.
“Go on love, jump on a till?” I thought in my space-head.
With all the energy of a sloth with a sore foot, she made her way to the empty tills! HURRAH!
She looked directly at me…
“Would you mind queuing in the right queue section please!”
“We are all queuing here love…” I offered,
“No you’re not, you are not queuing in the right system!”
I let the others disappear to the right so they’d be in the “Right system” which got me a dig from the better half (Her exact words were, “Feckin’ ell you should have gone over there we’d have been served by now!”)
I waited another minute and then stepped forward (from the wrong queuing system) to the girl on the perfume counter and finally got served.
Why make life so difficult?
Sod off and serve or don’t bother, customers’ don’t give a rats arse about your systems and procedures, they are not important and worthless.
Have a nice day.