If there is alcohol involved then they can't be back onsite to work after the function because it will potentially be in breach of employment contracts.
Are they shuttling you there or do you have to make your own way? If it's the former then everyone will go home, if it's the latter you got on the wrong bus/tram and ended up home.
Did you cover your arse with logged messages? If so switch off and enjoy the ride (but please support and take care of anyone more junior who may be stressed out and played no part in this decision).
Yeah that'll be why (for ref I've actually architected and built something similar to what you're referring to for a product you may have used). What they've done is still over kill though. The first thing someone should've asked is "do we really need this feature?".
None of my cards are saved by a site when an out of the box Google solution does the same thing backed with biometrics. That app can't compete in that feature space and only exposes users to security risks. I'm betting that costs them millions of dollars to implement and then has cost at least a million to maintain so far all for something to expedite a payment process that could already be expedited whilst also introducing tons risk on their side and a degraded and frustrating user experience.
Yeah I hate today's mail desktop clients. Everything got worse with the introduction of "the ribbon" and that becoming the defacto user experience. I use the web clients too and mobile apps but I still don't like them compared to my old school 2000s "I only want to use a keyboard to solve this most basic of mundane tasks" approach.
Maybe I should build a client for myself, but then that'll fall into the hundreds of other projects I should start...
I was mostly joshing about about Outlook. The thing that bugs me with web based email clients is that sometimes they override default webapp user interactions / don't follow the most basic of common UX.
e.g Scroll click, and ctrl+click. Those two are are critical to how I use the web as someone with "fuck you" amount of screen real estate. Taking things like that away really pisses me off as it's not me that's broken. Also Accessibility is an after thought, although I don't have any disabilities, as a power user sometimes I don't wanna use a mouse and instead just solely use a keyboard and tab + shortcuts, that's not really fully feasible without frustration vs. old desktop clients. Plus don't get me started on specifically emails "back" from search being a different button... The amount of times I just have to re-search for the same thing 😡
Other sites do it too but emails seem to be the worst for it.
For your MIL though, if it's primarily using passwords that's the problem then why not just set up LastPass? You'll then also know that she has a unique strong password for every site as an added security bonus. Tbh I also combine that with just Google's password manager for stuff I don't care about
Woolies will not have an API for this, therefore you have two options, you could do both.
a) Schedule the payment from their card (encryption is easy) and charge a % processing fee, declined payments are charged at y% and no gift card is distributed.
b) Take the payment immediately and hold it in an offshore companies account with one of your subsidiary companies. Sched the payment from that account.
You could offer both, but with b) you get the fun of having their money in your third cousin's business account in Belize to turn that $100 gift card for their gran into $200 before buying buying the gift card and distributing it on time.
If that fails your third cousin's company can go bankrupt I guess. Shame for them, I'm ure they'll land on their feet in their next company.
On the implementation, any website can be scraped / populated with bare basics, so you'd just have to set up a schedule to actually do that to be a legit business without needing to have to get buy in from stores on accepting your special new fooCard.
As someone who is in tech this made me actually laugh. That's absolutely utterly ridiculous, but I understand why those engineers were forced to should implement that.
If you're bored try chatting with their online support as a side task and raise this as an issue. They'll stay typing away as long as you keep talking.
My most recent one was asking them to disable 2FA on my woolies account because it doesn't keep my devices logged in. I mean NetBank doesn't have 2FA yet I need my mobile any time either one of us logs in to woolies? Like I really don't care if someone can see that I cook too many curries at my address. Support person spent about 45 mins with me (I gave them positive feedback, but no they can't fix my account's 2FA everytime or remove 2FA altogether).
You might get them to raise a feature request for you?
Failing that you could script it to buy the gift card at the time you want, maybe even sell that as a service to other users?
I'd ride out the living at home as long as you can and start your career doing the subject you enjoy. It'll make you feel better about working. Although one internship is paid, if by the end of it you feel jaded and fed up because it's not something you enjoy, you're going risk disliking it before you even get the chance of doing it for real in areas you like.
I know it's fun to think about moving out / being independent etc, but it's tough and there's no going back to what you have today (it's never the same). Defo take the gap years too and prolong your youth and lowest level of responsibilities you'll ever have again, for as long as you can.
This was definitely the former; I got a cheery Merry Christmas from the bloke who dropped them off and he handed me one of them was in a Christmas themed temporary pot. Nice touch. Will be buying from them again when I inevitably kill 40% of what I'm doing (85 pots/plants).
If there is alcohol involved then they can't be back onsite to work after the function because it will potentially be in breach of employment contracts.
Are they shuttling you there or do you have to make your own way? If it's the former then everyone will go home, if it's the latter you got on the wrong bus/tram and ended up home.