Older Folks and Vaping Front Porch - Part Four
- Thread starter MikeE3
- Start date
- th_trl_thread_readers 0
- Status
Jup I was lucky I didn't need that, 24mg did the trick, but unfortunately many do to finally quit or cut way down on smokes. But best not to try it if one doesn't need it.On WTA. Not tried it and getting along fine without it so will not try it. Not needing another monkey on my back
that happens quite a lot!
Great point, but am hoping she meant that was an old pin right after they got married that's not used anymore.
Janet, the "alerting" was a auto correct goof, he was trying for aperitif
That was supposed to be aperitif. You know desert sipper kind of thing, until damn autocorrect got to it.
The deeming seem to be worse than most anybody thought. It's unnerving watching those that have been in the fight for so long be so pessimistic. Those that will be hurt the most are the ones who can't afford to prepare and those that haven't started vaping or haven't heard. Those that have turned a deaf ear, and even ridiculed others for preparing, have little sympathy from many of us. I never used WTAs but know its meant the difference of quitting or not quitting smoking for many folks. I have to agree with the term desk murderers, it'a appropriate.
I don't, I'm sorry, it's their job. They are withholding mail because it's a busy day? Imagine if I said that when I worked in fire or when my husband was an EMT. I didn't even say that when I was a sales clerk. Doing my job was what I got paid for. Bells, very sorry for your loss. Good on you for being a guiding light for vaping despite your grief.
Hope you can get that puppy in the air tomorrow!BTW, when we've had problems with a delivery, we've gone to the PO in person and inquired. They get to the bottom of it pretty quickly. They have far more data then what you get with tracking. Can you imagine how many complaints they get for a package being a day late? Who wants to deal with the whiners? Of course, your mail is only as reliable as those directly responsible for it. There are a number of lemons out there and not holding them responsible only makes the problem worse.
Autocorrect is a blessing and a curse. I've seen people complaining about their raping experiences. Just about flew off the handle. I was livid until I saw how mortified they were about the autocorrections of their thread titles. Autocorrect (auto-correct, auto correct?) has done me in more times than I care to recollect.
It doesn't make it worse for them, only for you. That's why they need to know you're ready to take it higher. Carriers who take shortcuts (like not going to the house for a signature delivery or because the package is too big for the box) are local management heroes because they finish faster and use fewer hours. Local managers who use fewer hours get attaboys up the wazoo, so they gladly turn a blind eye to carriers who take shortcuts. In turning that blind eye, they endorse and encourage the improper procedures.
Higher up managers are more or less indifferent to local kissing-up, and are therefore more interested in adherence to REAL delivery protocols as opposed to magic on paper.
Sometimes ya gotta keep going above the immediate superior. When the conspiracy goes all the way to the top brass in the District, which it frequently does, your US Congressperson can be a fire-breathing ally.
Me too but, it has gotten to the point where I can barely type without at least the autocomplete feature. I turned it off the other day because I was really sick of having to go back and correct the autocorrect stuff. Turned it right back on because I hadn't realized how much it actually got right or how bad my typing on the onscreen keyboards was.
I believe you, it's just that we're had a PO Box for the past (almost) 25 years and they've done a fantastic job--at least after the first few years. You learn the darnedest things on ECF. Now I would go above our local PO if I didn't get good service. Before ECF, I wouldn't have known what to do.
That I can relate to 100%. Now if it could just detect the words I (or my dying keyboard) fails to insert. I think a lot of my problem is also the stokes (not to mention utter failure on proofreading) but sometimes I just scratch my head. What I wrote and saw is not what gets posted. It's embarrassing.Me too but, it has gotten to the point where I can barely type without at least the autocomplete feature. I turned it off the other day because I was really sick of having to go back and correct the autocorrect stuff. Turned it right back on because I hadn't realized how much it actually got right or how bad my typing on the onscreen keyboards was.
It's amazing to me how many time recently I've heard of local delivery folks throwing whole bags of mail away rather than deliver it. I know that it's just one bad apple making the whole bunch look bad but damn! Two cases recently around here come to mind. One was a delivery woman over in Norfolk who was throwing whole bags in amongst the illegally dumped trash in a vacant lot. Only got caught when a local resident shot video of her doing it. They found over 30 bags of nondelivered mail going back almost a year. The other was a guy here in Hampton that had been going home in the early afternoon to have a beer or two and was throwing bags of mail that he should have delivered during that time up into his attic. Not sure how they caught him (they said,I just can't remember), lastly they caught a bunch of baggage handlers over in Norfolk that were sorting out the checks and small packages in the bags that came in via air. They got caught trying to cash folks social security checks. Just horrible how long they had gotten away with it. Don't know how they got around the sealed bag issue.
Yep. Our PO went way downhill starting at the first of this year. By May I'd had it, d started going to the counter everytime there was a problem. Or calling the help # to open an investigation. I always sign up for text notifications & that # they give you is great. Especially when I see I have a package that's been floating around California for a week, or is sitting in North Houston when it should have been on the truck before last.The deeming seem to be worse than most anybody thought. It's unnerving watching those that have been in the fight for so long be so pessimistic. Those that will be hurt the most are the ones who can't afford to prepare and those that haven't started vaping or haven't heard. Those that have turned a deaf ear, and even ridiculed others for preparing, have little sympathy from many of us. I never used WTAs but know its meant the difference of quitting or not quitting smoking for many folks. I have to agree with the term desk murderers, it'a appropriate.
Bells, very sorry for your loss. Good on you for being a guiding light for vaping despite your grief.
BTW, when we've had problems with a delivery, we've gone to the PO in person and inquired. They get to the bottom of it pretty quickly. They have far more data then what you get with tracking. Can you imagine how many complaints they get for a package being a day late? Who wants to deal with the whiners? Of course, your mail is only as reliable as those directly responsible for it. There are a number of lemons out there and not holding them responsible only makes the problem worse.
Last edited:
Very much so. I find myself going back to edit and correct posts all the time in an effort not to look like and uneducated boob. Apparently doesn't work all that well!That I can relate to 100%. Now if it could just detect the words I (or my dying keyboard) fails to insert. I think a lot of my problem is also the stokes (not to mention utter failure on proofreading) but sometimes I just scratch my head. What I wrote and saw is not what gets posted. It's embarrassing.
As you can tell because I'm here, got a little sleeping problem tonight. Went to bed around 8:30pm and Doree woke me accidently when she came to bed. Been up ever since. Might have gone into the hangout for a visit cept I'm in my bathrobe and don't have my teef in.
Yep, we've had one about that long. Ours used to be great, but the entire staff turned over late last year & it started getting nutso in January. I could see the look of horror on their faces when when I'd walk in once I got fed up with it.
I don't use autocorrect, and I'm almost obsessive about proofreading and editing after the fact. I do use the portion of the software that shows me a squiggly red line under any of my typed entries that the software does not recognize as proper words, but I'm free to post those alleged non-words anyway. Usually I look them over, if not before posting, then afterwards. If I'm able to edit within 5 minutes, the post does not show as "edited", but if it's over 5 minutes, then the post will show that I've edited it.
I don't understand why people use a separate post to make a correction rather than simply editing the original post, unless someone has already quoted the errant text. The same bewilderment on my part applies to Facebook posts too.
Don't mean to get down on others. I'm blessed with exceptionally good spelling and writing abilities, and if I insisted that everyone be as good I'd be spending even more time talking to no one but myself. Additionally, I know from experience that, as much as I'd like it to be, spelling ability is not directly related to intelligence.
Geez, Matt, even if you're an uneducated boob (which I know you're not), you're OUR uneducated boob.
I don't understand why people use a separate post to make a correction rather than simply editing the original post, unless someone has already quoted the errant text. The same bewilderment on my part applies to Facebook posts too.
Don't mean to get down on others. I'm blessed with exceptionally good spelling and writing abilities, and if I insisted that everyone be as good I'd be spending even more time talking to no one but myself. Additionally, I know from experience that, as much as I'd like it to be, spelling ability is not directly related to intelligence.
Geez, Matt, even if you're an uneducated boob (which I know you're not), you're OUR uneducated boob.
Last edited:
- Status
Similar threads
