• jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 months ago

    This sign certainly came to exist after some Karen was late and complained that the bus didn’t wait for her to arrive.

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      I picked up a package from the post office. They had a sign saying “ring the bell once for service, two or more for a weather report”. I image this has a similar back story.

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        I don’t get it. Is this a play on whether they report to you or not?

        I might have said “two or more to speak with our complaint department.”

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          Customers only get service if they ring the bell once. If Karen comes and rings the bell ten times, Karen won’t get the service she wants. Instead she’ll get an inane conversation about the weather

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    I mean, if people expect the bus to be late, they’ll get flabbergasted when it arrives on time for once

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      I grew up in a smallish town where the bus was ALWAYS 2-3 minutes late.

      Unless you were counting on it, in which case it would miraculously be on time for the first time in months if not years 😄

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        Europe. Busses in my town have a clause that they arrive within +/-2 minutes of schedule.

        However, to correct for this bestial treatment of driver rights to piss on people, sometimes the bus doesn’t show at all.

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      even when i’m late i always go to the bus stop anyway because the chances are the bus hasn’t even arrived yet lol

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      My bus to work has only 2 options, 10 minutes early with no tracking, or the tracking displaying “2 minutes away” for 20 minutes straight minutes after it was supposed to arrive.

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      I barely ever check the timetables for whatever bus I’m taking. The buses are so frequent that I just go wait at the bus stop. I almost always get a ride within 10 minutes.

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      I grew up watching PBS; Sesame Street, Mr Rogers, The Electric Company, 321 Contact, that weird math show with the math cops… all the classroom ASSET programming, and so on.

      I lived in the back-country so I assumed that everyone was into learning and being smart and understanding how everything works. I thought “Wow the future will be grand if so many people my age grew up watching the same things and wanting to learn and read and think!”

      Holy shit, the last several decades have been a massive disappointment. Like, crippling depression disappointment.

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        Yeah, I feel you. I’m in the same boat.

        Hey, you remember that PBS math show—can’t remember the name—where a group of kids go into cyberspace and have to do math shit to defeat this villain dude? Best fucking shit ever. Lol.

         


        Edit: Figured it out! It’s Cyberchase! Like I said: best. shit. ever.

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        I was home taught in the UK. Have a real love for learning that’s kick-started me into a career in computing that I’ve kept going for over two decades. Can’t stop, won’t stop reading, learning and improving. The number of colleagues I’ve had who just want a TL;DR on a new tech, software, plugin or system is too many. It’s our job to understand it, so we can build something so that others don’t have to. If you don’t want to understand, you’re in the wrong job role.

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    I got passed by a bus multiple times, called and complained but they said he probably didn’t see me,

    I waved a torch and stepped into the road to force him to stop, he then let me on but proceeded to yell at me that i shouldn’t take the bus because he didn’t want to stop at my stop, despite it being on his schedule

    So yeah i guess not being at the stop leads to you missing the bus, but being at the stop doesn’t necessarily help

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    What’s really fun is when I’m at the stop (and had been for the past hour) and watch the bus go by without so much as slowing down. Then I have to call my job and explain that the bus skipped me.

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    Yes ish. One could still be there at the scheduled time, but the bus could’ve been slightly early. Or the route/run could’ve fallen out. Or the bus could be full.

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    A hard thing I try to get my kids to understand. The bus time is at [what:ever]. That’s when the bus leaves. Not when you roll up to the stop. Not when you step out the door. That’s butt-in-seat-leaving-time. If you’re walking up to the stop and the bus is pulling away at bus:time - too bad, so sad. That applies to many things that require you to be on time for. 5 minutes early is on time. On time is too late. Astonishing what a difficult concept that is to get across.

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      As a parent with a toddler who seems to be light-years away from understanding this concept, when do you think that understanding starts to kick in? Like, what can I expect at age 5 or 7?

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        26 here. When it does finally happen I’ll let you know. I just hated seeing all the time wasted by my parents as they arrived early so I vowed to never be like them.

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        You gotta start doing it with a bunch of smaller less important things. We started with things like bed time 7pm was lights out not the start or getting ready. We started around age 3 or 4 and after probably 6 months it really sunk in. When planning to leave the house we would give a 45m warning and since day 1 we never had issues. With that said though kids grasp things differently. Some kids thrive on schedules and routines…

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      I’m in the UK, and First basically hold the monopoly in my city. There are so few buses that they often skip stops at rush hour because they’re already full, or because they’ve decided in the moment that your stop doesn’t matter.

      Nothing wakes you up during your commute like listening to a woman get fired over the phone because she’s going to be late for work, despite still being 60 mins early for what should be a 20 min journey.

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    6 months ago

    Do they take regular money or do they make you use credit card? I’m on a fixed income and only deal in cash.