• Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Wtf kind of shop is only open for 8 hours a day, and business hours at that. I’ve never witnessed that

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        4 months ago

        English isn’t my native language, I thought it referred to business as in office. Because other jobs definitely don’t keep those hours.

        Also I was genuinely curious, id never heard of that. Everything is open at least 8-6 here. Cultural differences I guess.

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          Yeah, in English a “Business” is just an entity that makes/sells/trades goods/services. A shop is typically the location where a business resides. It’s the physical location of the business. Business hours in the USA are typically 9am to 5pm. Sometimes we call them bank hours.

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        I’ve been complaining about banks for YEARS now! I can understand in the 60s why your bank account wasn’t up to the minute accurate.

        I have a debit card. I have money in the bank. Why is a $3.19 slim jim transaction pending for a week??? I tap my chip, I type my pin, transaction goes through…my bank should instantly deduct those funds, and there should never be a “pending” status. It’s all digital! What the god damn fuck?

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          Because of ancient COBOL code from the 3 major banks that nearly all transactions pass through at some point. Oh and they can’t rewrite them because money “CaNt FiX WhAT isNT BrOKe”

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            By ancient, I hope you mean from like the 50s/60s when computers first started becoming a thing, and not like…the 90s. If the 90s is ancient, I’m just going to have to cry.

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            To be fair I absolutely do not trust modern programmers with anything close to that important.

            Unless they’re using rust.

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          I assume the store didn’t close their batches meaning the banks can’t process it so it sits on pending until it either drops off, or the batch is closed.

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          I guess it depends on your bank and location in the world. Where I am you can transfer that, for free, and it is on the receiver’s account in less than 5s or so.

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      It’s quite common in my city. There was an event called “Moonlight Madness” where the local shops would be open late. It was in the paper, there were signs put up, big chalk designs all over the sidewalks downtown. “open late” meant “7:30” to most shops. It wasn’t even dark enough for there to be moonlight, just my madness.