Thumbs up, for understanding where the fault lies. And, I'll give you the other thumb up too, for making the effort to get the kid what he wanted. But, you get a half thumb down for waiting so late in the season to do your shopping!!
I suppose you completely missed the point. You are in no position to judge the conditions that the driver faces on the road. My boss was never in a position to judge those conditions, nor my wife, and most certainly not the customer. I once sat outside of the city of Buffalo New York for a week. Yes, an entire WEEK. When the cops finally opened the city to inbound traffic, I still didn't move. The wreckers were out, late into the night, towing away cars and trucks that got into trouble. The FOLLOWING DAY, I finally ventured into the city.
I decide when my wheels will roll - and you live with it.
If I were flying an aircraft, and decided that conditions were unsafe to take off, would you still feel that you had some right to bitch? Hey, put YOUR ASS in the pilot's seat, and see what it's like! When a mistake is going to end your life, are you going to worry about some pussy's fucking WAAAAA?
That extra capacity carries with it some benefits, as well as a price.
I've some experience in trucking. I know that some companies only have enough trucks to meet commitments. Other companies have a few extra trucks sitting around the yard. I don't mean 30 or 50 percent extra capacity - but maybe 10 or 15 percent.
What good are those trucks? Well - a driver who is coming through the yard with a truck that is due (or overdue) for maintenance can bail out of his truck, and take one of the spares to complete his run. Preventive maintenance, done on schedule, can prevent breakdowns and accidents.
That extra 10% of vehicles can pay for itself in fairly short order, really. And, when you DO have a surge, all you need is to pick up a few temporary people to put those trucks on the road, to meet the surge. I've seen it done. We had a contract come up that required tens of thousands of tons of rebar to be moved, and all those extra trucks were put on a dedicated run to help meet the deadline.
BTW - those extra trucks are usually older, nearly worn out vehicles that have already paid for themselves, many times over. They are still roadworthy, they are paid off, they are still insured, they still pass inspection - why get rid of them? Keep a few around for whatever emergencies might happen. They've already been depreciated, so on the books they are valueless, and cost next to nothing.
"But they could have I think, for a nominal fee, booked more charter flights"
I'm afraid that extra flights, contractors, etc are just not available.
You are entirely correct that it is a management failure. Management should have their own extra equipment, and they should have sufficient personnel already hired to operate the equipment. But, you're simply not going to find a lot of planes, trucks, and temporary personnel to contract right at Christmas.
Ancient beers. I'm afraid to ask what the recipes are. I've heard of (but not verified) fermented milk from various animals. People ferment anything from potatoes, to wheat, to barley, to rice. I'll wager that if a group of people couldn't find anything else to ferment, they'd ferment their own urine.
I'm sure as hell not paying for some untested recipe that some egghead has extrapolated from a bunch of broken pottery dug up at an ancient dig site. Let those eggheads drink their own brew.
That is perfectly true. I could have pointed that out, because I already knew that. But, it sort of side steps the point I was trying to make. The retailer should be smart enough to understand that stuff happens during the Christmas season. They shouldn't be encouraging these last minute purchases. It should be the retailer's goal to have all Christmas purchases out the door, and aboard trucks on or before the 20th of December. Any purchases made after midnight of the 20th should have a disclaimer attached. "The Christmas shipping season can be quite hectic, and no one can guarantee that purchases made at this date can be delivered on time for Christmas morning."
Oh, it's definitely complicated. A lot of that nonsense is easily fixed though. You have kinda indicated as much. Each of the state legislatures can easily pass a law that forbids those cash-back refunds, and sets a limit to transaction fees. Or, if the CC companies want to take all those laws to court, then congress can address the issue with a similar law.
Actually, I think I prefer a law passed by congress. Credit cards are pervasive in our society, and few of us live in insular communities today. Just pass a federal law, so that all CC transactions are governed the same. If I should drive from New York to Miami, to Seattle, to Bangor Maine, and save all my receipts for gasoline, every one of them should show a small fee for using a credit card.
xx.xxx gallons of gasoline at y.yyy per gallon plus 3% surcharge for credit card purchase.
I do that sometimes. That is, after all, the morally correct thing to do, if the book proves to be worth anything. So much that is published proves to be worthless though. Much much more proves to be worth only a fraction of the author and/or publisher's expectations.
I would go with the flip side of that. They shouldn't be advertising 3-5 business day shipping this close to Christmas. Instead of making empty promises for fast shipping, they should be stressing the fact that the longer you wait to order, the more likely it is to be late.
I don't know how in hell you got that "insightful" moderation. Oh - the title of your post? "Fucking WAAAA" That's how I see you and the million or more Americans crying about your late deliveries.
Over the course of my own driving career, I seldom made a late delivery. But, when I did, there was a good reason for it. Reason number one, "I'm out of hours on my log book." Reason number two, "It's unsafe to drive in this weather."
If some cry baby at the other end cried to damned hard after being given one of those two reasons, then he could expect that he wouldn't get his goodies for an extra day or six. I can always stop off at home to take care of personal business.
Sure you can believe them. Retards are allowed to believe any damned thing they like. Children are allowed to believe any thing their parents encourage them to believe. Fools can believe in Utopia. Progressives can believe that they are evolved. And, you can believe that your Christmas order, placed on December 22nd, will be personally, and lovingly handled by a Christmas elf so that will arrive at the stroke of midnight on Christmas day.
"The tracking log showed that it went aboard a delivery truck on the guarantee date; returned to the shipping center that evening; and went back out the next morning."
I can't help wondering if that is true. Is it possible that you don't read the tracking log correctly? Or, is it more possible that someone logged it incorrectly?
Simply fucking hilarious. You finished your work before going home for Christmas. And, what line of work are you in? We're all happy that you finished sucking out that septic tank before you called it quits. We can only hope that you took a shower before going upstairs to unwrap the gifts your Mom bought for your basement Man-cave.
At least part of the problem is, not that UPS or other delivery companies promise you, the customer, delivery on time for Christmas. It is Amazon* and other bulk suppliers who are making these promises.
As AC states below, UPS and Fedex were making warnings to those retail suppliers. Amazon, or whoever, didn't pass those warnings on to you, the end user.
Do we expect that Amazon is going to make a public apology to all those children who had to wait until the day after Christmas for their presents? I don't think so. Amazon has your money, and they are going to keep as much of it as they think they can. They'll pass out a few gift certificates, and refund some shipping fees, but they are going to keep as much money as possible.
All of my shipments came in on time.
There IS a shipment which UPS intends to deliver today. Comparing notes, no one in the family seems to have any outstanding orders. Maybe it's a gift from one of the grandparents from several years ago? A gift from the afterlife? Oooohhh - a supernatural gift! More importantly, UPS is going a little extra to deliver whatever the package might be, by calling the house to see if anyone will be available to receive it. We have never before been contacted prior to delivery.
Bottom line here - if you wait until the last minute to place an order, you can expect to be disappointed. Any adult should understand that. Any adult should be ready to explain it to a child. Life is life, and stuff happens. I've had late deliveries in off-peak seasons, after all.
* I am using Amazon here as an example - replace Amazon with your motor sports supplier, or whatever.
If I had the answer to that question, I would be in politics. The public is pretty apathetic regarding digital rights, freedom of the press, or any number of issues that we might take seriously.
Different jurisdictions have different laws, of course. You must have seen MacDork's post above. The state of New York seems to have passed a law the imposed criminal penalties on retailers who charged for credit card use. The courts have placed an injunction against imposing that law.
When I was growing up, my home state did indeed make it illegal for merchants to add any credit card surcharge. In the decades since, I've seen those "cash discount" prices you mention. I would be hard pressed to remember just when, or where. I don't see them in my present day home state. I really don't know the legality, here in Arkansas.
It should be perfectly legal, and publicly known, that credit card transaction fees are charged to the person making the purchase. If your credit card issuer charges the vendor $3 per transaction, then you, as the purchaser, should pay that $3. If the credit card issuer charges $10 or $15 per transaction - then you, as the purchaser pays that fee up front.
And, yes, some of those cards do indeed have fees that high, or possibly higher. Those interstate truck drivers almost all carry cards for fuel purchases. The last time I used a Comm-Chek the fee was $12 for each transaction. Typical transactions were between $300 and $500 and some truck stop owners would refuse to process a transaction for less than $50. It's hard to say how much things have changed in the years since I last drove.
I have zero respect for any such arrangement. I have equal respect for life + anything copyright terms. And, ultimately, I have zero respect for copyright law, because such absurd arrangements are upheld by corrupt legislators and judges.
I don't give a damn about any of them, except the militant fucks. The unshaven fat fucks you describe are beneath contempt, just as any other fat fucks who are to impotent to make a difference in the world. The militant assholes who file a court case every time the hear the name of Christ (or Allah, or Buddha, or Jehovah) are the ones who need to be dragged out behind the barn, for an appointment with a.22 long rifle behind their ears.
That would be exactly the proper cure. The chances we see it are negligible.
Remember when credit cards came out? Retailers marked their products with two prices - cash, and credit. Credit card companies went to state legislators and to court to have that practice curtailed. The end result was, we all pay more, so that credit card users can pay the same price as everyone else.
" That's why we have Blu-Ray/DVD Region Codes and Cell phones that have regional lock-in."
You say that as if regional lock-in is a good thing.
Torrents don't have that nonsense.
Please explain how region codes benefit the consumer. Then explain how those cellphones differing technologies benefit the consumer. I see zero benefit for me. All the benefits accrue to the distributors, just as all benefits from DRM accrue to the distributors.
Apparently, you know how to force the system to boot to 3.8.0-32. You just don't know how to edit the grub boot menu. So, look up the solution now, and put it onto some media that the remote computer without internet access can read. Or, put it onto your pad or phone, so that you can read it as you work on the ailing computer. Or, just print it out an tree flesh, and carry it along with you.
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" well, OS/X *is* UNIX."
Easy there, Cowboy. You don't want all these pilgrims to just drop dead of coronary arrest, do you? Break the news to them gently, please?
People - the Unix-likes advanced far beyond command-line utilities ages ago.
System administrators rely on command line utilities, on all platforms. That isn't a Unix-specific thing. Windows administrators do the same thing.
Thumbs up, for understanding where the fault lies. And, I'll give you the other thumb up too, for making the effort to get the kid what he wanted. But, you get a half thumb down for waiting so late in the season to do your shopping!!
LMAO, don't worry. I'm not applying for a position in Human Relations, either. ;^)
I suppose you completely missed the point. You are in no position to judge the conditions that the driver faces on the road. My boss was never in a position to judge those conditions, nor my wife, and most certainly not the customer. I once sat outside of the city of Buffalo New York for a week. Yes, an entire WEEK. When the cops finally opened the city to inbound traffic, I still didn't move. The wreckers were out, late into the night, towing away cars and trucks that got into trouble. The FOLLOWING DAY, I finally ventured into the city.
I decide when my wheels will roll - and you live with it.
If I were flying an aircraft, and decided that conditions were unsafe to take off, would you still feel that you had some right to bitch? Hey, put YOUR ASS in the pilot's seat, and see what it's like! When a mistake is going to end your life, are you going to worry about some pussy's fucking WAAAAA?
That extra capacity carries with it some benefits, as well as a price.
I've some experience in trucking. I know that some companies only have enough trucks to meet commitments. Other companies have a few extra trucks sitting around the yard. I don't mean 30 or 50 percent extra capacity - but maybe 10 or 15 percent.
What good are those trucks? Well - a driver who is coming through the yard with a truck that is due (or overdue) for maintenance can bail out of his truck, and take one of the spares to complete his run. Preventive maintenance, done on schedule, can prevent breakdowns and accidents.
That extra 10% of vehicles can pay for itself in fairly short order, really. And, when you DO have a surge, all you need is to pick up a few temporary people to put those trucks on the road, to meet the surge. I've seen it done. We had a contract come up that required tens of thousands of tons of rebar to be moved, and all those extra trucks were put on a dedicated run to help meet the deadline.
BTW - those extra trucks are usually older, nearly worn out vehicles that have already paid for themselves, many times over. They are still roadworthy, they are paid off, they are still insured, they still pass inspection - why get rid of them? Keep a few around for whatever emergencies might happen. They've already been depreciated, so on the books they are valueless, and cost next to nothing.
"But they could have I think, for a nominal fee, booked more charter flights"
I'm afraid that extra flights, contractors, etc are just not available.
You are entirely correct that it is a management failure. Management should have their own extra equipment, and they should have sufficient personnel already hired to operate the equipment. But, you're simply not going to find a lot of planes, trucks, and temporary personnel to contract right at Christmas.
Ancient beers. I'm afraid to ask what the recipes are. I've heard of (but not verified) fermented milk from various animals. People ferment anything from potatoes, to wheat, to barley, to rice. I'll wager that if a group of people couldn't find anything else to ferment, they'd ferment their own urine.
I'm sure as hell not paying for some untested recipe that some egghead has extrapolated from a bunch of broken pottery dug up at an ancient dig site. Let those eggheads drink their own brew.
That is perfectly true. I could have pointed that out, because I already knew that. But, it sort of side steps the point I was trying to make. The retailer should be smart enough to understand that stuff happens during the Christmas season. They shouldn't be encouraging these last minute purchases. It should be the retailer's goal to have all Christmas purchases out the door, and aboard trucks on or before the 20th of December. Any purchases made after midnight of the 20th should have a disclaimer attached. "The Christmas shipping season can be quite hectic, and no one can guarantee that purchases made at this date can be delivered on time for Christmas morning."
Oh, it's definitely complicated. A lot of that nonsense is easily fixed though. You have kinda indicated as much. Each of the state legislatures can easily pass a law that forbids those cash-back refunds, and sets a limit to transaction fees. Or, if the CC companies want to take all those laws to court, then congress can address the issue with a similar law.
Actually, I think I prefer a law passed by congress. Credit cards are pervasive in our society, and few of us live in insular communities today. Just pass a federal law, so that all CC transactions are governed the same. If I should drive from New York to Miami, to Seattle, to Bangor Maine, and save all my receipts for gasoline, every one of them should show a small fee for using a credit card.
xx.xxx gallons of gasoline at y.yyy per gallon plus 3% surcharge for credit card purchase.
I do that sometimes. That is, after all, the morally correct thing to do, if the book proves to be worth anything. So much that is published proves to be worthless though. Much much more proves to be worth only a fraction of the author and/or publisher's expectations.
I would go with the flip side of that. They shouldn't be advertising 3-5 business day shipping this close to Christmas. Instead of making empty promises for fast shipping, they should be stressing the fact that the longer you wait to order, the more likely it is to be late.
I don't know how in hell you got that "insightful" moderation. Oh - the title of your post? "Fucking WAAAA" That's how I see you and the million or more Americans crying about your late deliveries.
Over the course of my own driving career, I seldom made a late delivery. But, when I did, there was a good reason for it. Reason number one, "I'm out of hours on my log book." Reason number two, "It's unsafe to drive in this weather."
If some cry baby at the other end cried to damned hard after being given one of those two reasons, then he could expect that he wouldn't get his goodies for an extra day or six. I can always stop off at home to take care of personal business.
Sure you can believe them. Retards are allowed to believe any damned thing they like. Children are allowed to believe any thing their parents encourage them to believe. Fools can believe in Utopia. Progressives can believe that they are evolved. And, you can believe that your Christmas order, placed on December 22nd, will be personally, and lovingly handled by a Christmas elf so that will arrive at the stroke of midnight on Christmas day.
"The tracking log showed that it went aboard a delivery truck on the guarantee date; returned to the shipping center that evening; and went back out the next morning."
I can't help wondering if that is true. Is it possible that you don't read the tracking log correctly? Or, is it more possible that someone logged it incorrectly?
Simply fucking hilarious. You finished your work before going home for Christmas. And, what line of work are you in? We're all happy that you finished sucking out that septic tank before you called it quits. We can only hope that you took a shower before going upstairs to unwrap the gifts your Mom bought for your basement Man-cave.
At least part of the problem is, not that UPS or other delivery companies promise you, the customer, delivery on time for Christmas. It is Amazon* and other bulk suppliers who are making these promises.
As AC states below, UPS and Fedex were making warnings to those retail suppliers. Amazon, or whoever, didn't pass those warnings on to you, the end user.
Do we expect that Amazon is going to make a public apology to all those children who had to wait until the day after Christmas for their presents? I don't think so. Amazon has your money, and they are going to keep as much of it as they think they can. They'll pass out a few gift certificates, and refund some shipping fees, but they are going to keep as much money as possible.
All of my shipments came in on time.
There IS a shipment which UPS intends to deliver today. Comparing notes, no one in the family seems to have any outstanding orders. Maybe it's a gift from one of the grandparents from several years ago? A gift from the afterlife? Oooohhh - a supernatural gift! More importantly, UPS is going a little extra to deliver whatever the package might be, by calling the house to see if anyone will be available to receive it. We have never before been contacted prior to delivery.
Bottom line here - if you wait until the last minute to place an order, you can expect to be disappointed. Any adult should understand that. Any adult should be ready to explain it to a child. Life is life, and stuff happens. I've had late deliveries in off-peak seasons, after all.
* I am using Amazon here as an example - replace Amazon with your motor sports supplier, or whatever.
If I had the answer to that question, I would be in politics. The public is pretty apathetic regarding digital rights, freedom of the press, or any number of issues that we might take seriously.
Different jurisdictions have different laws, of course. You must have seen MacDork's post above. The state of New York seems to have passed a law the imposed criminal penalties on retailers who charged for credit card use. The courts have placed an injunction against imposing that law.
When I was growing up, my home state did indeed make it illegal for merchants to add any credit card surcharge. In the decades since, I've seen those "cash discount" prices you mention. I would be hard pressed to remember just when, or where. I don't see them in my present day home state. I really don't know the legality, here in Arkansas.
It should be perfectly legal, and publicly known, that credit card transaction fees are charged to the person making the purchase. If your credit card issuer charges the vendor $3 per transaction, then you, as the purchaser, should pay that $3. If the credit card issuer charges $10 or $15 per transaction - then you, as the purchaser pays that fee up front.
And, yes, some of those cards do indeed have fees that high, or possibly higher. Those interstate truck drivers almost all carry cards for fuel purchases. The last time I used a Comm-Chek the fee was $12 for each transaction. Typical transactions were between $300 and $500 and some truck stop owners would refuse to process a transaction for less than $50. It's hard to say how much things have changed in the years since I last drove.
I have zero respect for any such arrangement. I have equal respect for life + anything copyright terms. And, ultimately, I have zero respect for copyright law, because such absurd arrangements are upheld by corrupt legislators and judges.
I don't give a damn about any of them, except the militant fucks. The unshaven fat fucks you describe are beneath contempt, just as any other fat fucks who are to impotent to make a difference in the world. The militant assholes who file a court case every time the hear the name of Christ (or Allah, or Buddha, or Jehovah) are the ones who need to be dragged out behind the barn, for an appointment with a .22 long rifle behind their ears.
That would be exactly the proper cure. The chances we see it are negligible.
Remember when credit cards came out? Retailers marked their products with two prices - cash, and credit. Credit card companies went to state legislators and to court to have that practice curtailed. The end result was, we all pay more, so that credit card users can pay the same price as everyone else.
" That's why we have Blu-Ray/DVD Region Codes and Cell phones that have regional lock-in."
You say that as if regional lock-in is a good thing.
Torrents don't have that nonsense.
Please explain how region codes benefit the consumer. Then explain how those cellphones differing technologies benefit the consumer. I see zero benefit for me. All the benefits accrue to the distributors, just as all benefits from DRM accrue to the distributors.
It's all hog shit.
At least SOMEONE is offering some resistance. Maybe just token resistance, but still better than none.
Apparently, you know how to force the system to boot to 3.8.0-32. You just don't know how to edit the grub boot menu. So, look up the solution now, and put it onto some media that the remote computer without internet access can read. Or, put it onto your pad or phone, so that you can read it as you work on the ailing computer. Or, just print it out an tree flesh, and carry it along with you.
http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/grub-2.html