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OriginalGriff26-Oct-15 6:17

OriginalGriff

26-Oct-15 6:17

Not at Starbucks, it won't! Laugh | :laugh:

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dandy7226-Oct-15 6:46

dandy72

26-Oct-15 6:46

HobbyProggy wrote:
I finally achieved 10k rep points! I am valuable* now

Wait til you find out about the hidden "Redeem Points" page.

But I've already said too much...

HobbyProggy26-Oct-15 20:43

HobbyProggy

26-Oct-15 20:43

I already got a squillion points Smile | :)

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dandy7227-Oct-15 2:39

dandy72

27-Oct-15 2:39

Don't spend it all in one place. Smile | :)

Dan Neely26-Oct-15 8:55

Dan Neely

26-Oct-15 8:55

Valuable, voluble, or vacuous? We're both where we are in rep points primarily for being Master Debaters after all. Laugh | :laugh:

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HobbyProggy26-Oct-15 20:43

HobbyProggy

26-Oct-15 20:43

Yeah we kinda mastered the skills of blahblah $Shucks | :-\$

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Sander Rossel26-Oct-15 9:55

Sander Rossel

26-Oct-15 9:55

Congrats.
I hate to ruin the moment, but you should really use String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace[^] though...

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Yodel

Richard Deeming26-Oct-15 4:40

26-Oct-15 4:40

Here's a suggestion for Yodel (formerly Home Delivery Network): Try having the driver read the address on the parcel, drive to the address, and deliver the parcel to the address.

I know it's a radical departure from your current system of ignore the address; pick a random house; try to deliver to the wrong address; take the parcel back to the depot; lather, rinse and repeat, but if you give it a go, I reckon it might catch on.

You might also want to try not telling someone their parcel's on the van and having them wait in all day, when it's actually sitting on a shelf in your delivery depot being ignored.

While we're at it, if you're going to provide a telephone number, make sure there's a way to speak to a human. Having an automated system that repeatedly tells you "we don't have enough information to help you, please call back" just adds insult to injury.

Faarrrkkkking bunch of useless sunshines! Mad | :mad:

EDIT: The parcel finally arrived this afternoon, with only minor damage to one bottle.

The even better news is that I've heard back from the sender (BrewDog), and they're about to switch to a new courier, so Yodel won't be involved next time I order. Big Grin | :-D

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Mark Parity26-Oct-15 5:07

Mark Parity

26-Oct-15 5:07

Whenever I click the "Tracking" link on something I've ordered and it goes to the Yodel website its better to save time and click the lost item link straight away.

phil.o26-Oct-15 5:02

phil.o

26-Oct-15 5:02

Thought you were talking about Austrian way of singing ^^ Obviously not...

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Richard Deeming26-Oct-15 5:22

26-Oct-15 5:22

Austrian singers would be a better choice for your parcel delivery needs.

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- Homer

Sander Rossel26-Oct-15 9:57

Sander Rossel

26-Oct-15 9:57

Say Australians if you want to piss off people from both countries Big Grin | :-D

Anyway, I went to Austria and didn't even see kangaroos! Frown | :(

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OriginalGriff26-Oct-15 5:23

OriginalGriff

26-Oct-15 5:23

Strange. They always find me easily (which is amazing, given that even the Jehovah's Witnesses haven't worked out where we are yet) and deliver in good time. They've never lost anything for me (unlike UPS who don't even try to deliver but say I wasn't home anyway).

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Richard Deeming26-Oct-15 5:26

26-Oct-15 5:26

Maybe it's just their Gatwick branch.

The parcel finally arrived at 3:10 this afternoon, with only minor damage to the contents. Needless to say, their tracking page still hasn't been updated since 7:30. D'Oh! | :doh:

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Rage26-Oct-15 5:32

Rage

26-Oct-15 5:32

OriginalGriff wrote:
even the Jehovah's Witnesses haven't worked out where we are yet

They did, but all these things you do with sheeps, you know... They have decided that there must be other places where conversion is easier...

OriginalGriff26-Oct-15 5:38

OriginalGriff

26-Oct-15 5:38

Whatever works! Laugh | :laugh:

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F-ES Sitecore26-Oct-15 6:01

F-ES Sitecore

26-Oct-15 6:01

I've been using Amazon for over a decade and only once had an item not delivered. I've been using Amazon for over a decade and only once have they used Yodel to deliver. I'll leave it up to you to imagine what the Venn diagram looks like.

They said a card had been left despite someone having been in all day, no card left. I updated the order when requesting redelivery with instructions on how to find the place, with a mobile they could call if they were having problems, but on re-delivery the exact same thing. No contact from them whatsoever.

I just hope they get so many non-deliveries that Amazon finally drop them.

Richard Deeming26-Oct-15 6:07

How useful is DevOps to small teams

26-Oct-15 6:07

It's not a new problem, but nothing seems to have changed:
Amazon deluged with complaints over Yodel's poor delivery service - 24 August 2012[^]
Yodel: Have lessons been learnt? | BBC One Watchdog Daily[^]

Mine wasn't an Amazon order, but it's the same problem.

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James_Parsons26-Oct-15 4:33

James_Parsons

26-Oct-15 4:33

I mean teams that have like <= 10 - 15 people. Where only 2 - 3 people qualify as Ops. Is it any useful?

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Mark Parity26-Oct-15 4:40

Mark Parity

26-Oct-15 4:40

James_Parsons wrote:
10 - 15 people

10 minus 15 people, what does a team with -5 people look like, your Christmas parties must be a bit quiet? Laugh | :laugh:

James_Parsons26-Oct-15 4:52

James_Parsons

26-Oct-15 4:52

lol, I ment ten to fifteen.

wow m8 gr8 b8 I r8 an 8/8. though it was a little l8 and it seems you h8 f8, it still has that tr8 that makes you acceler8.

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Marc Clifton26-Oct-15 5:09

Marc Clifton

26-Oct-15 5:09

I still haven't figured out what DevOps is. Whenever I read the definition, it just sounds like a newfangled way of describing "communicate between departments effectively."

Marc

GuyThiebaut26-Oct-15 6:21

GuyThiebaut

26-Oct-15 6:21

It's a term used to market "added value"(euhg! there's a bit of puke in my mouth after typing that Dead | X|

) to managers who don't understand how experienced and skilled IT people work.
It's basically what most of us, who have managed to hold down a job in IT for more than 1 year, do.

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Slacker00726-Oct-15 6:23

Slacker007

26-Oct-15 6:23

Marc Clifton wrote:
still haven't figured out what DevOps is.

Software services, basically. DevOps just sounds cooler?