Minor Rant Thread part 3

[bobleponge]

Pull up a chair kids, this is going to be a long one...

For new arrivals there is a system in place. They receive an email from me, telling them what to do on arrival, where I will meet them, a photo of me (poor buggers) and my phone number in case it goes horribly wrong.
What, therefore, possesses someone who has never been to this country before, doesnt speak a word of either language, who doesnt have a dinar of local currency and who is visibly not a local, to get into a taxi and ask him to take him to the poshest hotel in the city?
The hotel refused him access as he had no reservation, they also wouldnt pay the taxi as he had no idea who he was. He did a runner from the taxi with all his luggage (didnt get far obviously) and was given a sound kicking from the taxi driver for his troubles, before being handed over to the feds.
During this time I had entered the arrivals terminal to ensure he wasnt there (his phone not turned on) come back out and headed to his assigned hotel (which he was aware he was staying in) to see if he was there. Nope.
I called and visited every hotel in town to no avail, before going to the feds to report him missing.
Only then did the story come out. He had refused to tell them anything, they only had his passport, but he didnt tell them who he was working for, anything.

I got him out at about 3 this morning, and he will be going home tomorrow, never to return.
I cant put the words I want to use, but I'm sure some of you will have heard them before, G4 probably even used them trying to round up her horses.

[bubblewrap]

I got him out at about 3 this morning, and he will be going home tomorrow, never to return.


He was lucky Bob he could have been going home in a box.

[Glutton4...]

It beggars belief, Spongey, at how totally and utterly stupid some people can be. I bet the idiot doesn't even realize how lucky he is! What a Tit!

[Alison]

The post - how we've not had bad snow here and I know that I have a parcel at the post office cos it says so on the tracking thing. The tracking thing also says that it was held at Warrington DO on 2010-12-18 due to operational issues and will be delivered on the next available day. It's Tuesday now and we've had 3 post deliveries since then and nothing. Have rung the post office and apparently I can't pick it up myself either. Iin the meantime have had something delivered from the same company that was ordered over a week later. Typical that this one is for one of the youngest people I buy for who won't understand as much as the oldies.

[SarzWix]

People with plenty of money, who own a company which makes a decent profit, who promise to pay their workers a week early for Christmas, but then actually can't be arsed to do it, even though certain employess have booked time off to do their shopping. And then when said employee rearranges to do shopping late night, they're told that actually it will be another day before the wages are done, which means 2 days before they clear in the bank.

These f*****g ***kers have NO IDEA what it's like to be down to your last fiver. None whatsoever. I am sooooo angry right now I could do someone an injury

[Two_Sheds]

the OH - - - - - > because I don't drive I don't have an opinion. When I offer my opinion, it's to make the best of a situation, it isn't to be "right" or to have some imaginary upper hand.

If he had listened, we wouldn't have turned down a snow covered B road in the middle of nowhere; we had 2 chances to turn round, first when we passed a policeman but (he) wouldn't stop to ask if the road was treacherous, second when we spotted the 3 cars stranded in front of us.

It could have been worse, much worse: we might not have got out of that icy dip all night
Thank you White Van Man for helping to get us out. I've never been so petrified in my life as when we were sliding backwards down that hill sliding all over the shop

[HotStuff]

Two minor rants,

1) Attention seeking drama queens who change their minds

2) WHSmiths who f****d up my online order

[stella]

Its only 4 o'clock and its dark!!!!!! I want some daylight, I thought it was suposed to start getting lighter

[DarkCrow]

Managment in a small company only need one qualification...an NVQ3 in being a cocksocket (google it)! i'm alright jack...you alright jack? yeah i'm fine thanks for all the promos and jollys even though iv'e done naff all....Blummin salad arrangers

[Florence Fennel]

Son who says he will call in to collect something from me and hasn't and himself who ate the rest of the meat'n'tater pie I was saving for said son who didn't come, but if he had, there would have been no pie. There, proper rant 'cause it only makes sense to me.

[tiachica]

Tesco delivery now late... hope they make it in tonight still... :-( poor drivers though.

[tiachica]

trying to get through to Tesco's on the phone to see if they are even attempting to delivery..... already 20mins on hold.... :-(

[tiachica]

Got through to Nathan at Tesco (Merry Christmas!) but BOOO! that my order has now been cancelled (still appreciate my £20 voucher as compensation though, they will help post-christmas). I really, really did not want to hit the shops tomorrow. BAH!

[vicky]

Having had new gates put up at great expense and fenced entire garden, the puppy was witnessed climbing the 5ft fence to escape....

Logistically impossible now to secure garden - does anyone want a puppy for christmas?

[Incy]

Parsnips! Bloomin' things are sat frozen in the ground 2ft from my back door.
No Christmas parsnips this year then...