Shit that annoys you

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Originally Posted by Thaleia

Guys cut them some slack, obviously their call volume was higher than normal that day.

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I suppose it’s still a vacation period so staff is not back?
I timed the answer-our-recorded-questions bullshit: 3min 45s answering/confirming before sending me to the next level: actually ringing a line for a CS agent. And then waited 14mins with no one picking up.
I hung up, re-dialed & just talked over the recorded questions like an octogenarian. 1min 16s to get routed by a human to the appropriate CS agent line. Further 1min 30 to actually talk to someone.

Placed an order 14 days ago, FedX estimate given for standard ground shipping was five days, I figured it would take longer with the holiday but not this long. It left Illinois, spent two days in podunk Missouri, a week in Olathe Kansas, then disappeared for days then reappeared in Phoenix where it spent 2 days, now 2 days in Camp Verde, wherever the fuck that is. I didn't realize it was so hard to find Durango on a map.

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Originally Posted by ::: :::

the phone tree when calling health insurance customer service

why the fuck do i have to spend minutes stating my member #, name, DOB & confirming for the goddamn phone computer if you are just going to ask me when I get you on the phone?

and why have the fucking phone tree at all? the reason someone is calling is that they can't solve something via the automated processes online...meaning they want to talk to a human, not get sidetracked by the phone tree trying to dissuade any human interaction

ffs
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So we had to change health insurance companies because the hospital system here dumped our old one. Did all the paperwork to change in November, sent it in, receipts acknowledged. Don’t have insurance cards yet so Ms TBS calls to find out when we can expect them.

Well, the service company (PERS) forgot to forward the paperwork to the carrier. Only the CSR tried to make it out that we had fucked up. Then tried to blame it on the carrier.

Ms TBS shut that shit down politely but firmly - “When were the forms forwarded to the carrier? Don’t you have a record of doing that? You don’t have any record of receiving the forms from me? Would you like me to send you the email acknowledging receipt of docs dated Nov 21, or can you find the docs on your own? You found them? Great!”

We now have a manager working on this and he’s promised we will have cards within the week. Which is good because Ms TBS has a docs appt in 8 days.

Wouldn’t be so bad if they had just said “oh shit we fucked up - will get this fixed immediately”.

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Originally Posted by easyrdr

Placed an order 14 days ago, FedX estimate given for standard ground shipping was five days, I figured it would take longer with the holiday but not this long. It left Illinois, spent two days in podunk Missouri, a week in Olathe Kansas, then disappeared for days then reappeared in Phoenix where it spent 2 days, now 2 days in Camp Verde, wherever the fuck that is. I didn't realize it was so hard to find Durango on a map.

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Was shipping thru FedEx or FedEx Ground? The latter is done thru contractors and delivery times can be “uneven”. I had a fishing reel ship from somewhere in KY, to MO, CO, ID, then within 20 miles of me before it was sent back to MO where it set up residence. Took a month to get it.

And don’t get me started about On Point Express. They are one-for-three getting packages to me.

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Originally Posted by anotherVTskibum

I had a Verizon landline issue years ago. Their service hours overlapped with my work hours (which I'm sure is pretty common), so I kept trying to call on the way home from work.

The day I was waiting in the queue for 40+ minutes and got unceremoniously dropped because it was now outside those hours really pissed me off.

Re: shipping rates, how do you make a table with axes for weight, dimensions, starting and ending ZIP codes, declared value and whatever the other questions on that form are? Some of the questions (like return receipt) are straight cost add-ons that would be easy enough to list separately, but most of them are more complicated and affect each other.

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For simple standard envelope sizes sent 1st class, I don't want to answer a bunch of questions. I just want to know how many extra stamps if it's heavy. It can easily be in a simple chart. You don't need the zip codes for that. The web site sucks for such a simple question. So much so that pre-pandemic I would just go to the post office to have them do it.

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Originally Posted by riser4

For simple standard envelope sizes sent 1st class, I don't want to answer a bunch of questions. I just want to know how many extra stamps if it's heavy. It can easily be in a simple chart. You don't need the zip codes for that. The web site sucks for such a simple question. So much so that pre-pandemic I would just go to the post office to have them do it.

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This one?

https://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/Notice123.htm

(Can't link directly to the First Class table, add session-specific URLs to the annoying list)

He had a handicap tag but this still seems like a douche move.

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I think stacking more carts behind it would be the move here.

Finally got out to the local hill. Today was the first day open since a couple days before Christmas and then the rain/warm weather ruined everything.

Was skiing with my kids for a bit, and two bailed and I was trying to find my youngest. Figured may as well take a few hot laps as a single.

The hill was generally chaos. Lines weren’t actually terrible but there was zero queuing or markers. Just a long line from the bottom of the one open fixie triple that wrapped across the bottom of the beginner area. Also, they were doing nothing to encourage singles to pair up with doubles or even other singles to shorten the line. So I did what I usually do in that situation (pretty common here) and zipped up the line to find other singles to ride with or maybe a competent looking couple. I enjoy meeting people this way.

I got a talking to by the lifty manager. He told me there was no singles line today and I needed to wait at the end of the line like everybody else. I told him I was actually shortening the line and nobody is complaining. Nope. Wait at the end of the line please.

Wtf. I’m not as down on this place as IAS, but they sure do try my patience sometimes.

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Originally Posted by Mustonen

Finally got out to the local hill. Today was the first day open since a couple days before Christmas and then the rain/warm weather ruined everything.

Was skiing with my kids for a bit, and two bailed and I was trying to find my youngest. Figured may as well take a few hot laps as a single.

The hill was generally chaos. Lines weren’t actually terrible but there was zero queuing or markers. Just a long line from the bottom of the one open fixie triple that wrapped across the bottom of the beginner area. Also, they were doing nothing to encourage singles to pair up with doubles or even other singles to shorten the line. So I did what I usually do in that situation (pretty common here) and zipped up the line to find other singles to ride with or maybe a competent looking couple. I enjoy meeting people this way.

I got a talking to by the lifty manager. He told me there was no singles line today and I needed to wait at the end of the line like everybody else. I told him I was actually shortening the line and nobody is complaining. Nope. Wait at the end of the line please.

Wtf. I’m not as down on this place as IAS, but they sure do try my patience sometimes.

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Wow.

I have destroyed pole baskets before, but never lost one before…today was that day…just gone around 11a

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Originally Posted by Mustonen

He told me there was no singles line today and I needed to wait at the end of the line like everybody else. I told him I was actually shortening the line and nobody is complaining. Nope. Wait at the end of the line please.

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WTF? Isn't that kind of the whole point of the singles line? It's great for everyone. Apparently that manager missed that part of his Applied Chairlift Mechanics 101 class. If only you had a quality /facepalm gif handy for him.

The mountain I worked at had a fixed triple. Doubles would see that most chairs were goin up with only two, so they'd split up and jump right on via the singles line. Some customers would grumble about it as a form of line cutting. "Ma'am, I can't help it if those kids are smarter than you."

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Originally Posted by Ted Striker

The mountain I worked at had a fixed triple. Doubles would see that most chairs were goin up with only two, so they'd split up and jump right on via the singles line. Some customers would grumble about it as a form of line cutting. "Ma'am, I can't help it if those kids are smarter than you."

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Srs - I've done this with groups as big as 4 if the single's line is short and rolling.

When they do occasionally make a singles line it’s stupid. They don’t enforce shit, so it just ends up being singles riding up alone more than half the time unless they have some social skills.

Anyways. No singles line today, which I was informed of. It just never occurred to me that riding up with another single further up in line would create a problem or wouldn’t even be encouraged, especially when there’s no rope or anything to contain the line. How do they expect people to form up?

Indeed. Chaos Nirvana - so hot these days.

^^ only excuse might be not enough staff, but want to open hill?
Still points to incompetence from mgmt.

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I dunno. These guys had no fewer that 3 lifties at the bottom and two up top the entire time I was there. One to scan your pass every time. One to bump chairs. The third to chat and throw snow every so often.

I’m not miffed by the chaos. I expect it. I’m miffed that I was called out for trying to jump on with other singles. Felt really bizarre.

Goddammit. I'm annoyed and it didn't even happen to me.

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Originally Posted by ::: :::

I have destroyed pole baskets before, but never lost one before…today was that day…just gone around 11a

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Twist On baskets twist off quickly. Stupid idea from the beginning.

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Originally Posted by powdrhound

Twist On baskets twist off quickly. Stupid idea from the beginning.

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It’s like you were there…

I only accidentally drop my pole before loading on 6 packs. <---- sig worthy

the first time I got on a six pack I was the 7th guy loading

I was with friends

Johnny Mosely was right next to me

he looked amused

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Originally Posted by Mustonen

Finally got out to the local hill. Today was the first day open since a couple days before Christmas and then the rain/warm weather ruined everything.

Was skiing with my kids for a bit, and two bailed and I was trying to find my youngest. Figured may as well take a few hot laps as a single.

The hill was generally chaos. Lines weren’t actually terrible but there was zero queuing or markers. Just a long line from the bottom of the one open fixie triple that wrapped across the bottom of the beginner area. Also, they were doing nothing to encourage singles to pair up with doubles or even other singles to shorten the line. So I did what I usually do in that situation (pretty common here) and zipped up the line to find other singles to ride with or maybe a competent looking couple. I enjoy meeting people this way.

I got a talking to by the lifty manager. He told me there was no singles line today and I needed to wait at the end of the line like everybody else. I told him I was actually shortening the line and nobody is complaining. Nope. Wait at the end of the line please.

Wtf. I’m not as down on this place as IAS, but they sure do try my patience sometimes.

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Common sense on midwest lifts is pretty nonexistent. Just guessing it's because people have never been anywhere where lift lines are actually managed? Place where we were today had a fixed triple, our crew had four so I asked the couple in front of us if they would mind if I hopped on with them, just gave me a blank stare and then looked the other way. At least they had a kid there directing traffic or it would have been a complete shit show.

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Originally Posted by lake_effect

Common sense on midwest lifts is pretty nonexistent. Just guessing it's because people have never been anywhere where lift lines are actually managed? Place where we were today had a fixed triple, our crew had four so I asked the couple in front of us if they would mind if I hopped on with them, just gave me a blank stare and then looked the other way. At least they had a kid there directing traffic or it would have been a complete shit show.

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Whenever things are busy enough that filling chairs is an appropriate response, I usually go with counting feet and join undersized groups.

My local resort has been doing an excellent job filling chairs on the new six pack, almost annoyingly so, because they have lines for groups of 2-3 and 4-6 as well as singles lines. The 2-3 line tends to keep the singles line from moving as quickly as it would, which I find annoying.

I met my wife on the sublette chair at Jackson by getting her and her girlfriend to split up and be the 4th on our chair.
I feel like at Jackson on Sublette and Thunder the regulars would harass you if you didn’t fill the chairs correctly. I mean I do.

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Originally Posted by plugboots

I met my wife on the sublette chair at Jackson.

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Me too!
That chair is magical.

Back to shit that annoys me.
I’m dreading the high speed “upgrade”

Skiing at the local hill a couple days ago, where lack of snow means extra crowds at the one lift that has open terrain. About an hour before the lift closes, one of the liftys starts pulling the ropes for the line. Gets rid of the singles line as well as one of the 4 person lanes. So now the already long line is stacking back up the run, forcing people to try to stop in a spot that's already down to gravel because of the thin cover. And a bunch of chairs are now half full because the singles line is gone. I'm generally willing to cut liftys a fair amount of slack, but some of them are pretty terrible at their job.

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Originally Posted by Mustonen

How do they expect people to form up?

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Are you saying zipper merging doesn't work after all? :fmicon:

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Originally Posted by ~mikey b

the first time I got on a six pack I was the 7th guy loading

I was with friends

Johnny Mosely was right next to me

he looked amused

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I've never done that but I've loaded a 4 thinking it was a 6. Best part was, one of the group of 4 trying to load the chair didn't make it on. Nobody famous though.

Silverado chair at Palisades on a powder day gets huge lines and there's no place to form an orderly maze or otherwise control the crowd so it turns into a melee. If you are on the triple as a group of one or two you can expect to be pelted by a lot of snowballs--and Sierra cement can make some wicked ones. Mustonen might want to try this.

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Originally Posted by evdog

Are you saying zipper merging doesn't work after all? :fmicon:

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A zipper needs at least two sides.

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Originally Posted by evdog

Are you saying zipper merging doesn't work after all? :fmicon:

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Not with a ball sack

This dumbass is teaching other dumbasses to scrape all the snow off your favorite couloir.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1xr-...NqeWJiOG1td3Ey

Getting a letter for fucking jury duty. I’m fairly certain I’d be dismissed though due to my very nature.

I dunno, call it what you want but powersliding/drifting/buttering/sideslipping/falling leaf have been a legitimate technique in terrain management since the beginning of time. There are bullshit off camber firmbird parts of the mountain that I've been buttering for decades.

Slarve.

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Originally Posted by Foggy_Goggles

I dunno, call it what you want but powersliding/drifting/buttering/sideslipping/falling leaf have been a legitimate technique in terrain management since the beginning of time. There are bullshit off camber firmbird parts of the mountain that I've been buttering for decades.

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Sounds like you identify as a snowboarder

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Originally Posted by frorider

Sounds like you identify as a snowboarder

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Is that preferred to crusty fuck! I've snowboarded plenty and yes lots of modern offpiste technique comes from snowboarding. The video doesn't advocate for heelside grooming a pristine chute. Most snowboarders have better style the average chachi skier with their unnecessarily aggressive up and down dork moves.

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Originally Posted by Foggy_Goggles

... average chachi skier with their unnecessarily aggressive up and down dork moves.

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That would be me!

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Originally Posted by Buster Highmen

That would be me!

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No. They are trying to be you. It would be as if your turns were the latest Tik Tok dance trend and many skiers are the no rhythm and coordination interpretation.