Vistra's battery storage facility goes up in flames, spurs evacuation orders
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So uh. I guess those coal and natural gas power plants would fare better in a fire. Something seems wrong there but OP clearly wouldn't possibly post something on the Internet that was utterly detached from reality.
Energy storage is just that. Fire is frequently quite good at releasing said energy.
Lithium? poof.
Oil? yup.
Nat gas? mmhmm.
wood? yup.
Coal? dang.
Guess all we got left is water - I'm sure that doesn't have any specific regional requirements...
So tell us champ: what energy storage you got all figured out from that armchair?
Soda fountains keep being brought up here ... The coffee machine in this post evidently measures based on coffee dispensed... If soda were dispensed the same way, it's likely soda with no ice would also give you a less than full cup.
I've worked with those machines before. Most are simply time based triggers. They use knowledge of volume per second to determine pour size. It's functionally identical to a bartender executing a free pour. The difference however is in why they are doing it. A bartender is doing that to ensure proper ingredient amount - the machine at a franchise is most notibly focused on time saving: a server pushing the button until it is full cannot do multiple things and 'at best' can fill two cups at once - (yes, yes, I know you can do more but... let me have this) With the machine a rep can fill multiple glasses unattended and contine working in the background. This is chiefly about efficiency (time is money.) Labor is expensive - coffee is not.
Also, don't go insulting or blaming the worker in this instance. They likely have to follow the guidelines of the job or risk losing it. "Pre-programmed to not be able to problem solve"? Fuck right off with that.
No. The insult stands. I've worked over 10 years in that industry from food service to high dining. I've hosted, served, bartended, managed and assisted in opening two start up coffee shops. I have never, in the history of my work, seen a chain or management that would accept that behavior from an employee. Give me the chain number. I'll call it and speak with the manager - Hell- I'll speak with a district head. That's how confident I am in this. I've seen similar behavior out of employees and coworkers before- and on days when I was being unquestionably a POS I've done it too... it's wrong. Plain and simple. The marginal cost of the additional beverage is non-existent in the face of future business with the patron whom you kept coming back.
It fails the cost vs profit test, it fails the social test, and it fails the service test.
This is simply beyond reproach. If you feel otherwise please, by all means, explain to us all how a baseline employee was empowered to make a judgement call - that left a customer with such a foul taste in their mouth ... that they turned the experience into a social media discussion. That action has now been seen by hundreds of eyes and will effect future purchases. All over arguably pennies in product that likely is thrown out regularly to cycle in fresh coffee.
If the machine is set to dispense a certain amount of coffee, the worker would either need to press the button twice...
(gasp.) Twice? And the problem is solved? See my lack of problem solving statement above. The kid was making excuses and at best was wrong and at worst was being a shit. I covered the machine and the rest of your comments following that above.
I've done my time in those trenches: as someone who's been there: kid was a shit. As a customer, objectively, from the outside: kid was wrong - and likely being a shit. I wouldn't give them my business following that.
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Punctuation and stuff.
What really stings is watching groups and communities which historically have been supportive of each other getting fragmented by overt social media operations. It's asinine and just makes it easier to marginalize and oppress the people that most frequently need a voice.
They probably wouldn't have had to if the school system hadn't dropped language arts from most curriculums ages ago. Students now are getting a markedly shitter education and don't even know they're being fucked over.
I more or less agree. In your juice bar example we're talking about lower margin perishables. Totally makes sense there. The beverage in question was a coffee drink which is, frankly, pretty high margin. Especially with the ice. The problem with this thread is people moving to hypotheticals when a fact check was literally a click or so away.
Facts aside - Anyone who's worked in hospitality or the service industry generally understands doing a solid for a customer will typically pay dividends as they will return to spend more money later. This was clearly an opportunity lost, objectively speaking.
You might be saying it ironically but honestly: yup. This thread is littered with examples why.
Factoring in the actual cost of manufacturing that cup vs the cost of the soda? God yes.
You were in the right and have a valid complaint. The people stating otherwise are making a bad faith argument not even based in fact.
Sorry you had that experience - the cashier was a twat; a number of these posters apparently aspire to be like him.
Turns out OP actually has a valid complaint. Social media warriors CBA to check prices before rushing to defend the poor defenseless corporation. 😅
To be fair Dunkin' is probably a recognizable chain and OPs experience was undoubtedly bullshit.
I'll just get my popcorn for this. Must be some really expensive ice.
You're free to do what you like: I'll happily pass on it. And unseen contaminants frequently make people ill- so I'd stop suggesting otherwise.
It's not fabricated, the machine dispenses a fixed quantity, expecting ice.
Which is customized per drink based on specifications arbitrarily selected by the franchise. It's literally a fabricated value. If you think they don't adjust that and don't think it's configurable I've got a bridge to sell you.
Further: it's a coffee shop. Custom orders are not foreign. Easy ice isn't even that unheard of. There were a variety of ways to approach that situation as the cashier and the 'nope' that OP got was not one of them. Hell they could have offered to cut it with regular coffee to top it off and not used the machine. Kid behind the counter was being lazy and made an excuse. Simple as that.
A subway sandwich is made to have a fixed quantity of deli meat, even if you ask for no other toppings.
This is apples and oranges. Meat is a high cost item with low margin. Drinks are literally the opposite of this. But to your point if someone asked for double meat you'd just tell them there's a charge for it... because it's quite literally built into the POS system. Extra shot of espresso? Yep that's there. 2oz more coffee? Not there. Why? Because it costs more to pay someone the extra 2 minutes pushing the button in the POS system than it does to just pour the drink.
In the case of the coffee, they'd have to mix a second portion of drink in s, m or l, and hope it fits in the m cup.
From what I read it doesn't sound like pushing the button a second time would have overflowed the existing cup and honestly? There's a spill tray. This is low effort and the clerk cba to make even the most basic effort.
Indeed folks should prefer small coffee chains. The product is way better and the servings aren't portioned by a machine, and asking for adjustments at such a place doesn't put the employee in a spot of potentially getting in trouble.
I promise you the manager wouldn't have batted an eye at filling the cup, and would likely be more pissed if a complaint came in over this exact incident. I can almost hear them saying "WTF were you thinking"... and "if you weren't sure come get us."
You don't know the Starbucks employee's life, and them following the rules isn't choicefully being a "drone". They just want their wage, and want to serve customers shit off the menu.
Find me a Starbucks (or any coffee chain) that doesn't take custom orders on... their entire menu... The drone comment was quite frankly accurate. If you can't do basic problem solving why the fuck are you there. The customer could just push the button and... to that point this is why a LOT of drink machines are self serve.
Arguably they have more "common sense" to keep their manager off their ass by just serving from the menu, rather than doing custom stuff
I covered this above. There was more to gain and less to lose over the mere pennies that second button push would have cost... and checking with a manager is quite literally part of the job.
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speaking of fabricated - I checked the prices (see other post)
The iced large late actually costs more than the hot large late lol. The prices are literally made up in this case. Arguably the only difference in cost is... the ice... which he wanted less of so....
You are ordering a drink, ice is there to cool it. If someone orders half ice the drink will still be filled. I could walk into any number of places and ask for no ice and they, without question, and without prompting, would give the full cup. If you genuinely believe what you wrote - man I feel for you.
It's your opinion and you are entitled to it... but you're wrong. I've worked a lot of my earlier life in bars and restaurants: the shit costs nothing and is high margin. Keeping a customer coming back over quite literally the "additional" cost of a few pennies ... so they spend 100s of more dollars with your shop over the course of a year isn't just logical: it's good business. It's as simple as that.
Edit: I actually bothered to look it up online-
A large Late (Hot) - $6.30
A large Late (Iced) - $6.83
That's right: the same drink with less beverage costs more
So please tell me again how this cashier wasn't utterly incompetent.
Just wait till they find the flight sim in excel...
Anti adobe is cool - the recommendation is appreciated... but any software can be the target of a document based exploit and may well be susceptible to the same exploit depending on the libraries used. Additionally, smaller software projects can take longer to update as they have less staff working on them. Absolutely support open software and alternatives... Just a word of caution.
If you view it on your system it's a vector. Large / complex documents which may parse things with different libraries just happen to have a larger attack surface.
Hey! It puts out fires so it's like... better!