The stress of changes

I resent many of the changes to technology, but for me the biggy is my local Waitrose. Everything has been changed and I hate it. I’m sure if the security man didn’t walk around he’d find himself in a glass cabinet next to the jams and spreads. Meanwhile their stock of pâté has dwindled to give very few options. I’ve joined a tribe of lost souls who wander around desperately hoping that at least one item will still be where it used to be. It hurts

Chat GPT is my new best friend. I use it all the time for just about anything I want to know. It also makes great birthday cards and writers wonderful poems!

I have an eye op next monday and I had a text from the hospital asking me to ring DORA their AI receptionist to confirm my appearance at the hospitsl. She/it was very jolly and said she would like to ask me a few questions. She confirmed my day and month of birth and asked for the year. I told her/it the year . Silence. "I didnt quite catch that could you repeat it".
I repeated it at least 6 times. Each time she had difficulty catching it. My voice was loud enough, clear enough and no strong accent. Finally she got it. Next question went down the same path and the next. I put the phone down. Life is too short to deal with a rather dim robot.
I rang the hospital on the number on my letter and said I would be attending my appointment. I told the female nurse what the DORA service was like. She said it was an outside company and she would note my comments.

Has anyone else had this difficulty with DORA? Weused to have a human ringing to confirm a hospital appt. I expect those days are well past.
Be prepared it looks as though she is coming. Thats not a change for the better!

This is a great thread. I am glad to meet my fellow Luddites.
I used to be good at IT at work, I started using computers back in the 80s, but struggle with things now.

Calendargirl said There again, as someone else said, I don’t understand some of the diagrams they use.

My ds and his wife went to meet her mother at Heathrow airport. She was coming to visit her first grandson and they had the baby in his new pram. When they got back to the car, they could not fold the down the pram chassis for love nor money, because it only had diagrams and no written instructions.

They couldn’t get the uncollapsed pram into the car along with both of them, the baby and the MIL so he had to drive his wife and baby home, leaving the MIL (who doesn’t speak English) at the airport with the pram and her luggage, then go back and get both MIL, her bags and the pram. When he got back he tried again to collapse the pram and it folded up immediately! 🤣🤣