‘Give me a break…’: Hotel employees driven to breaking point by demanding guest who treats them like her personal nannies

It may be said that working as a customer support agent is really challenging. If you stop to think about it, your bosses’ opinion of you, or at least their general impression of you, is entirely dependent on your capacity to manage challenging clients in a cool, collected manner. In other words, performance evaluation only takes…

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Programming Memes for Coding Geeks (March 3, 2024)

Greetings, coders and coder wannabes! This week, the world of programming survived a potentially problematic situation: it got past the latest leap year. No doubt some tech people had a nightmare day on Thursday when various systems decided that they couldn’t recognize the 29th. If that was you, congratulations on getting through it. If not,…

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AirBnB host refuses to fix wifi, disgruntled guest changes settings and locks them out: ‘I simply reset the router and changed everything’

There are few things less mildly infuriating when traveling than ending up with accommodation where the wifi doesn’t work. For one thing, if you’re traveling internationally you’re going to be on one of various cellular data roaming plans, which are usually overly expensive for the limited amount of data they offer, leaving you dependent on…

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