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AIBU to think doing anything is hard work?

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Mtande · 17/06/2023 19:27

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.

OP posts:
OrionsAccessory · 17/06/2023 22:16

powershowerforanhour · 17/06/2023 21:52

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.

Yes captcha is awful! Why do I have to prove to a robot that I’m not a robot? I got a weird on once that, instead of identifying traffic lights, wanted you to do really fast mental arithmetic to show your not a robot 🤨 as if fast maths isn’t the very thing robots are good at. Thankfully I’ve never had one like that since. Getting dh to do the sums for me was a personal low point.

Hawkins0001 · 17/06/2023 22:17

I use technology but most of the time I prefer the old methods of pen and paper

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