Minor Rant Thread part 3

[Glutton4...]

Ok. Coughing. Enough already. I get it. I have crap on me lungs. I know. It's from the thing I had. It hurts me lungs, it hurts me head, it makes me feel sick. So please can you only actually happen when stuff is ready to shift. Otherwise I am just going to be pathetic for days on end. I'm losing patience now...

See! You laughed at me, so I stuck pins in the doll....

[Incy]

Playstation 3's whose bluray players stop working

[Aberdeenplotter]

batteries of portable drills that don't last more than 5 minutes yet take an hour to charge.

[pipscariad]

Car in for service. Apparently bracket on back of exhaust gone and needs replacing. But they don't do the bracket on it's own do they, you have to buy the whole back section for nearly two hundred quid. (Starts thinking must be possible to cobble summat together with a bean tin...)

Oh, and the classroom assistant at DD's school who lives nobbut quarter of a mile (if that) from school, along lovely little country lane with views of the sea, but drives there every morning. ???

[bubblewrap]

Parents who have little control of their children.

Don't you mean parents who wont control their children?

[Snadger]

Cold coffee......well it does say MINOR rant thread!

[Two_Sheds]

eBay again

esp. their new star rating system, and their "customer service" team. I've been complaining about poor behaviour on the part of buyers, eg. not paying, not turning up to collect etc. Under the new (well, newish) rules, sellers cannot leave negative feedback for buyers, even the really bad ones.

I've been on live chat to eBay for an hour this morning, airing my grievances, and just get "manual training" talk in return, ie stock answers that don't answer the question

eg.
ME: "when I've had negative feedback I have been able to contact the buyer and discuss the problem. Quite often it's a fault on the part of the buyer - their audio equipment has been faulty but they've blamed the fault on my CDs, or they've had plants off me and killed them through ignorance, but blamed me

EBAY: silence


ME: As a result I am now using Freecycle or charity shops to dispose of my items, because eBay has become too bureaucratic and biased towards buyers

EBAY: silence

ME: I get emails from you saying I am "below standard" but you are unable to tell me exactly which items were below standard, as the star rating is anonymous - so how can I take steps to improve?

EBAY: I'm sorry for the delayed response. Moving on, please understand that we allow buyers to rate their buyers. We believe that if a seller have good ratings, more members will buy from them.


aaaaaaarrrrrghggggggggggg!

[Glutton4...]

I'm certain that their 'live chat' is a computer - I got really ansty with it one day. These people actually want you to phone them, so they can screw you for the premium rate charge whilst you sit there like a lemon waiting for no-one to answer.

My Rant? Similar, actually; Trying to book a reservation on-line, with a booking system that does not work. Sending two emails so far, and getting no response, other than the automated 'Thank you for your email...' email. They want me to ring their premium rate number. Why the chuff should I? I WANT to do this on-line! Grumble, grumble, moan, moan, whinge....

[tiachica]

One of the managers here (and best friend with the Vice President) telling me when I do my job and point something out to him that's gone wrong that this is nonsense and a waste of company time.

[OverWyreGrower]

The fact it is Friday, 20 degrees outside and I'm sat in my office, designing PowerPoint slides for a presentation to non-English speakers for next week....

[kirsty b]

Just had a phone call from bloke I clean for every other Saturday, he wants to know if I'll clean every week for a tenner less each month...............ermmm..........no.

I'm willing to take a tenner less for the same amount of hours, but not double the hours ffs!

[HotStuff]

Glorious weekend in prospect, lots that needs doing in the garden, especially grass cutting and because of some bladdy virus I feel as weak as a kitten and it takes all my energy to just walk outside & sit in the sunshine. Not a happy bunny.

[Jelliebabe]

The proposed route for the new high speed rail link (HS2) is going to go through Harefield and run just by my allotments... wonderful. It's soooo beautiful and peaceful.. Its going to be ruined. I could weep

[Suky]

Discovering I have a bindweed problem at the allotment! Bummocks

[Jelliebabe]

Suky - Me toooooo .... !