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Things that frustrate us all

Gary Mitchell said:
Were you on the Nimitz when it time traveled back to World War 2? ;)

kidding, I watched The Final Countdown (1980) a few days ago.
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I was stationed on the ship from August 1978 to September 1982, and was aboard when they filmed (1979), but they didn't do any filming in the Reactor Auxiliary or Main Machinery Rooms. Got to meet the actors (Katharine Ross, Soon-tek Oh and Charles Durning) on the second deck aft weapons assembly area in between takes of their scenes in Medical, and I was not on watch.
 
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Kraig said:
On January 2, 1980, my navy ship (aircraft carrier USS Nimitz) left Naples, Italy and instead of returning home from a six-month Mediterranean Sea deployment we were sent around Africa (Suez Canal was still closed). The circumnavigation of the continent took 13 days, so no jet lag, but the amount of daylight increased the further south we went. I liked looking at the different sky at night. We were in a hurry to get to the Gulf of Oman Naval Zone of Operation (GONZO station) so no flight operations. Going up and walking the flight deck in the middle of the night, the ship travelling at 29 knots and looking up at the Magellanic Clouds and the Southern Cross. In mid-May we started the return trip to around Africa to return to Virginia, that took another 17 days. But still no flight operations during the transit, so I got to see the nighttime Southern Hemisphere sky, but in their late Autumn, instead of their early Summer.
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is it true the lighthouse story is just a story and nothing else?
 
SithHappens said:
is it true the lighthouse story is just a story and nothing else?
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If you are talking about telling a lighthouse to move. Snopes is correct.
The story on Snopes says it is about the USS Lincoln. It was commissioned in 1989, by that time most lighthouses in the US were automated. When I was in the service, there were only two Nimitz class Carriers (Nimitz & Ike) serving, and six months before I got out the Vinson was commissioned. Also, east coast carrier operations near CONUS were either in the Caribbean Sea or off the coast of North Carolina.
The story sounds more like a Coast Guard joke than anything else.
 
God, I fucking hate taking the public transport sometimes. I feel I either get people playing their music out loud or people who call with their speaker on or unruly children who can't sit stil and don't listen to their parents
 
So, the District Manager and Corporate are always harping on, "If a customer comes in at 5:45 and wants four tires, you'll sell him four tires and install them. Even if it means staying late."

Today, we get a memo. "We've noticed an usually large number of technicians are not clocking out until 6:30-6:45pm, and stores are not closing until after 6pm. This is unacceptable. Please see to it that the technicians clock out at their scheduled time and the stores close promptly at 6pm."

Well. Which is it?

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DarrenTR1970 said:
So, the District Manager and Corporate are always harping on, "If a customer comes in at 5:45 and wants four tires, you'll sell him four tires and install them. Even if it means staying late."

Today, we get a memo. "We've noticed an usually large number of technicians are not clocking out until 6:30-6:45pm, and stores are not closing until after 6pm. This is unacceptable. Please see to it that the technicians clock out at their scheduled time and the stores close promptly at 6pm."

Well. Which is it?

:brickwall:​
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Used to deal with that BS in retail all the time. They lecture about serving the customer but tell the staff they better have the doors locked and registers closed as fast as humanly possible.
 
DarrenTR1970 said:
So, the District Manager and Corporate are always harping on, "If a customer comes in at 5:45 and wants four tires, you'll sell him four tires and install them. Even if it means staying late."

Today, we get a memo. "We've noticed an usually large number of technicians are not clocking out until 6:30-6:45pm, and stores are not closing until after 6pm. This is unacceptable. Please see to it that the technicians clock out at their scheduled time and the stores close promptly at 6pm."

Well. Which is it?

:brickwall:​
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That just means the customers are the ones to stay late, when you sell the customer four tires and lock the customer inside, because you have to close the store promptly at 6pm, and "the technicians clock out at their scheduled time." The customer stays in the locked store until the tires are installed the next business day.
 
I spent my early career working in retail general insurance.

The business had a rule that while customers were coming through the door we were expected to serve them. Often the closing time would go half hour or more over, I recall one Saturday it was about 3 hours.

No extra pay either.

The customers that showed up with a minute to go really wound me up, they know when you close , it's just rude.

I know they pay your wages but you are still entitled to your down time.
 
I think a bit of clarity for both personnel and customers would hurt no one. Does '6 pm closure time' mean 'when you walk in at 5:59pm, you'll still be fully served', or does it mean 'when you expect you'll need to spend about half an hour to be served/find (out) what you want/etc, don't come any later than 5:30'?
 
My wife and I make it a policy to never go to a restaurant when there is less than 45 minutes left before closing. And we're efficient with our orders... we virtually always know exactly what we want before the wait staff comes to us the first time. Same with everywhere else (grocery store, Home Depot, etc.)... we almost never go if there is less than 20 minutes before closing time. And on the rare occasion it does happen, we know precisely what we need to get and find it quickly. (No matter the situation, I always go to a place very mission driven: get what I need and get out. Never been one for window shopping when I have things to actually get.)

Coming into a place at the last minute and lingering about or expecting a full service well past closing time is just being a douche.


I've always felt that everyone should be forced to work in the retail or service industry (grocery store, electronics, restaurant, etc.) for at least 2 years. People would be more inclined to be better behaved customers once they know just what working in that world is like. (Unless they are simply dicks to begin with. No amount of them seeing what goes on will help them.)
 
Ban electronic devices too in the areas of retail where you are being served by another human being, talking on a phone while someone is trying to serve you, even if it's 'just' a checkout is rude. The person serving you is a human being and deserving of your attention as you deserve theirs.

And the increasingly growing trend of children sat glued to tablets when dining with family in restaurants is annoying, it happens in my family circle and it really gets me when you try and interact with them and whatever game is on screen is more important, it isn't teaching them to be respectful and they will probably end up thinking their is no issue doing what I said in my first gripe

That said I've seen couples out on their own in pubs or restaurants sat doing the same, not just young couples too. What's the point of going out if that's what you are going to do.
 
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