Things that frustrate us all
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@Jax and @flandry84 , I’m not sure what this is in reference to, but just in case, I’m giving the usual reminder that this thread is not to be used to complain about goings-on in other parts of the board.
Also, we’re not supposed to talk about having other members on ignore, it is considered trolling.
Also, we’re not supposed to talk about having other members on ignore, it is considered trolling.
I get a robocall, email and text informing me my prescription is ready to be picked up. I don't go to the pharmacy until I am notified the prescription has been filled.
One pharmacy chain (Rite Aid) in the area has closed due to bankruptcy, and Rite Aid has sent their former customers prescriptions to the pharmacy (Walgreens) that I currently use to pick up a medication. Walgreens has 4 places behind the counter where customers can get their filled prescriptions. Three were vacant, and only one had a technician getting the prescriptions for the customers. This was at 2:30pm, not during a lunch hour.
I got to wait for one hour lining for my prescription, while most of the nine people in front of me came in for prescriptions, that had NOT been filled yet. The technician has to go back and look for about 5 minutes for a prescription that isn't there, then checks with the pharmacist to confirm it isn't filled yet. When I left, there were 9 people behind me standing in the queue.
I will contact my primary care physician's office and have all my prescriptions moved to Costco. They are a lot faster at filling and distributing prescriptions than Walgreens, and they are on next year's list as the preferred in network pharmacy on my new Medicare Part D plan.
One pharmacy chain (Rite Aid) in the area has closed due to bankruptcy, and Rite Aid has sent their former customers prescriptions to the pharmacy (Walgreens) that I currently use to pick up a medication. Walgreens has 4 places behind the counter where customers can get their filled prescriptions. Three were vacant, and only one had a technician getting the prescriptions for the customers. This was at 2:30pm, not during a lunch hour.
I got to wait for one hour lining for my prescription, while most of the nine people in front of me came in for prescriptions, that had NOT been filled yet. The technician has to go back and look for about 5 minutes for a prescription that isn't there, then checks with the pharmacist to confirm it isn't filled yet. When I left, there were 9 people behind me standing in the queue.
I will contact my primary care physician's office and have all my prescriptions moved to Costco. They are a lot faster at filling and distributing prescriptions than Walgreens, and they are on next year's list as the preferred in network pharmacy on my new Medicare Part D plan.
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Along with cops and ambulances, you'd be surprised at how often that happens.
Some of them can actually manipulate traffic lights. I can see how that ability would be... used questionably.
I have had a mobile 'phone service contract for many years with a company that's now closing its service. I don't want much - I'm a small user of texts and 'phone calls and I don't use data. I assumed it would be easy to find an alternative even if was never going to be as cheap.
That turned out to be famous last words! There don't seem to be any SIM-only contracts with small amounts of data for longer than a month. That's not really a problem as you can usually just set them to roll over...BUT...
The cheapest options only accepts payment by electronic wallet (fair enough, I suppose, as they don't do credit checks) which I don't have. I ran into a small problem with Sky and, in attempting to get the answer to a simple question, got to experience the full horrors of Sky's legendary customer service (and eventually cut off with no answer). My broadband provider has closed their mobile service and their recommended alternative is one of the most expensive around.
As it happens, I live in a large city and a couple of supermarkets offer basic SIM with cheap deals that you can top-up in store (and I can use cash!). If I lived somewhere smaller, that might not be an alternative.
There's a lot of talk about digital exclusion yet the drive is towards making it worse by putting public services as well as private ones online, and by making mobile 'phones essential whilst, at the same time,making no provision for making sure that access to the services is within everyone's reach. Companies with no concerns but profit are not good providers of essential services. They have no interest in people with small needs and/or small incomes because they cannot make enough money out of them.
That turned out to be famous last words! There don't seem to be any SIM-only contracts with small amounts of data for longer than a month. That's not really a problem as you can usually just set them to roll over...BUT...
The cheapest options only accepts payment by electronic wallet (fair enough, I suppose, as they don't do credit checks) which I don't have. I ran into a small problem with Sky and, in attempting to get the answer to a simple question, got to experience the full horrors of Sky's legendary customer service (and eventually cut off with no answer). My broadband provider has closed their mobile service and their recommended alternative is one of the most expensive around.
As it happens, I live in a large city and a couple of supermarkets offer basic SIM with cheap deals that you can top-up in store (and I can use cash!). If I lived somewhere smaller, that might not be an alternative.
There's a lot of talk about digital exclusion yet the drive is towards making it worse by putting public services as well as private ones online, and by making mobile 'phones essential whilst, at the same time,making no provision for making sure that access to the services is within everyone's reach. Companies with no concerns but profit are not good providers of essential services. They have no interest in people with small needs and/or small incomes because they cannot make enough money out of them.
People who go out to stores and stuff while sick. I wear a mask for my own health... but these people make me want to scream. I mean the mask less fools who sneeze randomly. 
Outlook lets me sign into my email on one computer but not another. Gives me:
"Please retry with a different device or other authentication method to sign in. For more details, please see this link"
Never seen that before. This is annoying.
Never seen this before either..... Went to website I hadn't been to in years to look for something, but when I tried to do a search it gave me a blank page that said: "You hit the rate limit."
"Please retry with a different device or other authentication method to sign in. For more details, please see this link"
Never seen that before. This is annoying.
Never seen this before either..... Went to website I hadn't been to in years to look for something, but when I tried to do a search it gave me a blank page that said: "You hit the rate limit."
Six minute TV commercial breaks for ''revolutionary'' products in which the ''secret'' is simply renaming common implements like fly-swatters or porch lights and treating them like Second Coming salvations.
We are NOT cretins, though the jury's still out on these ad-creators.
We are NOT cretins, though the jury's still out on these ad-creators.
People who go out to stores and stuff while sick. I wear a mask for my own health... but these people make me want to scream. I mean the mask less fools who sneeze randomly.
They might just have allergies.
Hypocrisy is one of the most annoying things in the world, and it's everywhere. Especially in US politics.
I used to go to the walgreens that was a 5 minute drive. When I'd go there lines would be long, with few pharmacists or techs around. (Thank you for cutting costs along with customer service!!). Now I have everything sent to the family owned pharmacy an 8 minute walk from my house and oftentimes they"ll deliver same day if i get the script in early enough.
I would do that, as well, if the local pharmacy was "preferred in network" on my Medicare Part D prescription plan.
My Part D plan in 2024 was 40 cents a month and Costco was preferred in network. That company was increasing their 2024 plan monthly cost from 40 cents to $104.40 for 2025. So I switched to a different plan that was the lowest cost in my county for 2025 and had to switch one of my medications to Walgreens, because Costco wasn't preferred in network.
For 2026 the plan that I was on in 2024 is reducing their monthly cost down to $5.70 in 2026 from 2025's $104.40. I have already switched plans for next year, back to the same plan I was on in 2024, and will switch all my medications back to Costco. With the plan I am returning to in 2026, my 28 days of Mounjaro (list price $1759) copay is $11 after I pay my $615 deductible.
That doesn't just happen here, but happens on lots of places. Reddit's kind of the worst place for that, from personal experience.
People who go out to stores and stuff while sick. I wear a mask for my own health... but these people make me want to scream. I mean the mask less fools who sneeze randomly.
UGH!!!! The bane of my day sometimes as I rely a lot on public transport, and the amount of people coughing up their guts in the open without a mask, yes I know we don't have to wear them anymore but that was a lovely time when people did wear them and didn't do the whole coughing up their guts thing.