AIBU to think doing anything is hard work?

[Mtande]

If you want to park your car, download an app, fuck about putting your card details into it, get spammed by every company with access to the details forever, repeat in every car park you go to until death

If you go to a supermarket, download an app so that you don't get charged £29 for a tub of margarine due to not having access to 'loyalty' prices, bring your bags, scan your shopping, pack your bags etc.

If you get your shopping delivered, you have to carry it upstairs and take each item out of the tray individually. You have to check substitutions at some random point during the morning via email.

If you eat out, download a code/app, do your own ordering, fuck around with card details again (I actually said no to Ds request for extra chips today because I didn't want to have to do this work while I was supposed to be eating).

If you want to see a gp, fill in a form, answer a succession of texts, maybe upload a photo or two, take your own blood pressure, all happening at random points over the course of several days, pounce on the unscheduled phone call when it eventually happens and then drop everything to get to the one appointment they apparently have.

If you want to buy clothes, they won't have your size as shops just don't carry stock. So you go in, try on an approximate size, order two or three close other sizes, couple of days later pick them up, try them on, return one or more. It can take a week to complete a single item transaction.

It is all hard work! I thought technology was supposed to make our lives easier. Instead every fucking thing you want to do has multiple stages and nothing is simple. Modern life is rubbish.

Yep, basically all of that! Parking apps give me actual rage

There is a special place in hell for parking app creators.

Plus, there's never any internet. It's the fucking UK. Even in city centres you need to be lucky but go for a nice ramble in the country, park up, and then spend half an hour watching the bloody phone wheel spin round so that you can give peopleyour money.

Loads of notifications on Class charts (half of them irrelevant but need to check anyway). Then parent pay stuff like donations for own clothes day or other stuff.

Getting green compostable bags, used to get from bin man by tieing a green bag to the bins to indicate you needed more and they would leave a roll when they emptied bins. Now have to go in website and enter details to order and that can take weeks to arrive. Backwards step.

The change in the law from a few years ago where you have to click to accept on every website. That was also a backwards step.

YouTube, need to pay for premium to avoid loads of adverts now.

Giving your email address for digital receipts in every fucking shop. Just - nope.

Parking apps, like recycling collection rules, should be universal countrywide. I hate local councils. Does anyone anywhere have anything good to say about theirs? I bet not!

YouTube is shit now, it's true. They put adverts in the middle of songs.

And yy to the cookie permission thing. Especially when it gets closely followed by "add this site to your home page" which you also then click on because you're repeatedly stabbing the cookie button (due to shit internet).

My pet peeve is being randomly logged out of all of these aforementioned apps. Yes, the parking one is annoying but I got logged out of my Tesco Clubcard app and didn't realise until I was AT the checkout!! Couldn't remember the password whilst sweating under the pressure from the glares of the queue so had to pay double the price 🤬

Omg that's awful. That cost you lots of actual money!

Fuckers.

It's easy to forget the benefits of apps etc and dwell on the negatives.

I love ordering meals in cafes/restaurants via an app because you can usually see all the different options that usually aren't on the menus, so it's far easier to "tweak" your meal, substituting items, adding extras you didn't even knew was on offer. Yes, of course, you could always ask the waiter/waitress, but many times they don't know either or are reluctant to let your tweak things, I also have hearing problems, so in a noisy environment, I struggle to hold conversations.

Re parking, yes, can be a pain, but also can be good as you can use some of them to "find a car park" and some even tell you "live" whether a particular car park has spaces etc. And of course, you can be pinged reminders when approaching your time limit with the option of paying more to extend etc thus avoiding a fine or having to rush back before you're ready to.

Not had a problem with shopping apps - I've got the ones I used loaded onto my phone. Re deliveries, I have it set up not to send substitutions. Surely if you live in an upstairs flat, you'd have to take it upstairs yourself if you went shopping in person rather than have it delivered.

But a big yes to cookie acceptance - so many are "accept or bugger off" and won't let you on the site without acceptance, so what is the point?? But that's what you get when politicians/civil servants get involved. It was probably a good idea sat around a committee table having tea and cake, but the usual problem of lack of seeing the unforeseen consequences (which are always foreseeable to people in the real world with common sense!).

Re clothes shopping, I just go straight online and order lots, don't bother going into shops anymore as there's no point when they have such limited stock. I make sure I only buy from online retailers who offer free return postage using a courier that's easy for me to use.

i love parking apps. They are 10x easier then carrying around cash.

Download and enter payment details once then it’s hardly a hassle.

ordering food on a app is simple and quicker then waiting for a server too.

There's a good case for government action on parking apps. A law along the lines of: for 'essential' services (parking, ticket purchases etc) then they must also make available a website that can be accessed by a browser. And for parking, you have up to 48 hours after parking to register on the site and pay. And all parking locations must be registered on a central website, so if you forgot where you parked you can easily find the location and the payment website.

Write to your MP. Firms that operate parking are always going to push the boundaries.

Scanning the clubcard isn’t a hassle and you can always go to a manned til

Don't use apps? I have very few on my phone and don't have any of these problems.

My banking app times out regularly when am transferring money- twice dh has gotten a message saying our internet banking is blocked as a result of my unusual activity/authentication just as the internet gives out!! Supermarket apps drive me nuts!!

I thought the one benefit of Brexit might be to stop the stupid cookies accepting on every website, but here we are brexited and still having to accept cookies. I think the remain campaign should have led with this nugget.

I do agree with you, but thankfully I don't have to do most of the stuff you mention. Shops, restaurants etc. here still do things the old fashioned way if that is what customers prefer - and long may that last! I actually use very few apps on my phone.

Charging electric cars on the worst. I must have five apps for it.

The email for receipts!! It gives me serious rage because they ask "do you have an email address for the receipt?" Which obviously I do, but I just want the bloody paper receipt!!!!!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

Yes, again it's more effort to even get a receipt. It used to just be handed to you.

And Ticketmaster actually charges you even more money for a paper ticket, on top of their fee. It's sold as a 'souvenir' or somesuch, like it's some kind of treat. Such a pile of wank. And more hassle.

Yes to the clothes one, no shop seems to have the full range from their website in and if they do have something you want its never the right size or length. I just don't bother now and order online to pick up or deliver.

This is sooo annoying. They encourage you to download the app then log you out!

Way around it though, I have discovered is you can take a photo of your club car qr code and use that or save the Clubcard to your wallet if you have an Apple phone.

Thing is that online shopping you're so limited because you don't have the physical reality of the clothes - how something looks with your skin tone, in different lights, how the exact cut hangs on you etc. When you're in a shop you get new ideas and a full perspective. It's just not the same as looking at a picture on a screen. I really do find it unsatisfactory but also going into a shop is frustrating now because of lack of stock. You actually have to factor in more time with browsing, multiple orders, returns etc than a if you just went to a shop and bought things.

I get fucking anxiety if I miss an opportunity to use an app for collecting points or some bullshit! As hubby is like could have got a free pasty if you had scanned the app!!

I just want to pay for shit, I don't want discounts or points or be part of some shopping cult. Just sell things normally without over inflating then offering fake discounts.

I nearly keeled over in shock when a parking meter only accepted coins! But then nowadays your buggered as cash seems a rarity.

I actually don't mind cashless for parking, but just let us tap a card. Not have to use time and effort and data to spend money. That's work!

I wanted to vote YANBU but had to login first. Typed the password a bit sloppily, but didn't realise as it had the secret thing on, in case... someone? my dog sitting behind me on the sofa? was reading over my shoulder to steal my MN identity and post batshit stuff as me. So clicked on the eye icon and started again.

So much yes to the "just sell me stuff at normal prices instead of hoop jumping for discounts"

Also, CAPTCHA can go fuck itself. Does the black bit that houses the traffic lights count as part of a traffic light or not? Is that shitty out of focus thing in the distance a motorbike or a pushbike, and is that a bit of handlebar on the adjacent square or not? Who cares??? Except everyone who doesn't want to get locked out of their account for 30 seconds till they can try the whole performance again.

I hate having to use an app for everything and I really really hate how many things want you to pay a monthly subscription! When they changed the Amazon music app so that it was basically completely fucking useless if you didn’t get a special music subscription on top of your prime subscription my brain nearly imploded.

Disney world is the worst place on earth if you don’t want your entire holiday to revolve around an app.