Minor Rant Thread part 3

[Snadger]

Brakes went on car again last night and I just haven't got the time to sort it!

[hailtryfan]

bloody useless emergency services when a flood closes a road but theirs no diversion signs, policemen, traffic wardens, highway agency or anyone else to stop people queuing to find out the road is closed and so causing 5 miles of grid-locked roads!

(A belated rant as this happened yesterday)

[bobleponge]

A brief phone call from my office yesterday, "the client are complaining about X and X and X."
That I can deal with as thats all they ever do.
Just as my boss was hanging up though I heard, "oh and by the way, they are cutting your daily expenses by half."
Thats a fair amount of cash to be losing over a year, not impressed at all.

[bobleponge]

Computers. I HATE THEM!

[Mikey]

Bookface, had a telephone call from someone selling advertising space on this site, I pleasantly said no thanks. Line goes dead.....

Does it really cost anything to say thank you goodbye!!!

Never going on Bookface again, well actually I wasn't before so no loss there!

[Flummery]

Phone scams!
Three times in the last 2 days I've had foreign sounding gentlemen with impenetrable accents telling me I have been paying charges for my Visa card which the High Court say are illegal so I have over £1,000 due back. The first one wouldn't be told that I didn't pay charges for my card, he just kept reading off his script and going back to the point where I interrupted him. He asked did I want a cheque or ... at this point I put the phone down.

Second one didn't actually speak to me. Long pause (the give-away that it's from abroad), foreign sounding English in the background then the phone was disconnected.

Third one, yesterday evening, got through the spiel again, was told again that I didn't pay any charges, but seemed to have better English. He said that I was paying an annual fee for my card. He wanted me to confirm my date of birth. I said my bank and card providers already have my personal information. I asked him which card. He said my Visa. Wishing to inform him that his pants were on fire, I began with, "I don't believe any of this because ...." at which point HE PUT THE PHONE DOWN!

I lost the opportunity to tell him that
a) I don't in fact have a Visa card (other card types are available!)
b) I used to have one many years ago on which I paid NO annual fee
c) The company decided to charge a fee so I changed to another which didn't
d) The fee they proposed but which I turned down was £10 per year, meaning that I'd have needed to be using the card for 100 years to accrue £1,000 back!
e) I wasn't born yesterday - see d) above.

The mendacious toe-rag didn't even let me appraise him of the facts once he realised he was rumbled. My rant is really about the many people, like my elderly mum, who would believe all this rubbish and give their personal information out on the phone (mum is too deaf to hear it now anyway).

Take care out there people, and warn vulnerable friends and rellies not to tell anyone stuff on the phone.

(Himself got a call on Wednesday. He told them to put it in writing - never thought of that!)

[Two_Sheds]

The rain. Soaked again today (why does it wait until 9am, 12.30pm or 3pm to belt down?)

[binley100]

Saturday working when I've already done my weeks hours.......I'm all for a bit extra but not every flamin' Saturday

[Florence Fennel]

I can't have a cat because Himself hates them. He is threatening to move out if I get one. Mmmm, might be an incentive there then.

[binley100]

Tell him you found it in a bin............

[FionaH]

Don't make me delete you for chatting

[binley100]

........and I suppose that would make you very happy ........

my rant......

We're taking on extra staff to cover the three that's left........loss 30 hours a week , gain 10 hours a week ( and that's from 2 new people)

[HotStuff]

Trolls, why do they bother?

[Florence Fennel]

Men who can't cut themselves a piece of pie, like it's rocket science.

[taff]

immediate boss in work who seems to think that if we managed our time better i.e. miss every break, 5 people can do the work of 9. And then spends all night chasing us to see if we're slacking, @rse!!!