The New Minor Rant thread....

[Aberdeenplotter]

Sky TV.

Appointment to replace box with hd box for this morning was cancelled by SKY yesterday by text and re-arranged for this afternoon between midday and 6.00pm. At 5.15pm today, I was getting twitchy and phoned SKY to check their technician was still coming as I was told I would be phoned to give exact expected time for call beforehand. No, he is coming on Friday afternoon I was told. Oh no he isn't says I. If he's not here today, I'll be cancelling my subscription. Being self employed the aborted appointment cost me a shed load of dosh. WHen told there would be no visit today, I said I wanted to cancel.. I was told it would take 15 to 20 minutes to connect to the cancellation deparment. Bo**ocks to that. I said to the person on the other end of the phone, in that case, I hope this call is being recorded (response was yes) because you can take it I have said to you I wish to cancel my subscription and you can pass that on to your cancellations department. That caused something akin to appoplexy as apparently that just cannot happen but I was then somehow immediately connected to the cancellations department. 35 minutes and 45 seconds later despite trying several times to get the person on the other end of the phone to do what was needed to cancel, I ended up having to say enough was enough. I am going to hang up and I did. I've now signed up with BTfor phone, internet and TV. Free BT sport as well.

Now contemplating a complaint about SKY to OFCOM.

[alldigging]

My large paper bag had to be thrown out so I need a new paper recycling container for next to my desk. The floor is not an option.

[bearded bloke]

How can you have toothache when there's no chuffin' tooth

[Plot10]

Mindless vandalism on our plots, and destruction of a garden of remembrance being constructed next to us. Was in our local paper yesterday and police now involved, but leaves you feeling upset and frustrated.

Same here, not my site but others in Aberdeen along with a school's bottle greenhouse they'd spent ages making.

[Plot10]

web site designers changing things that aren't broken

Herald Scotland, take note!

[WendyC]

Continual stream of negative posts with an accusatory tone.

[Potstubsdustbins]

Just how many times do I have to remind myself....................wear your gardening gloves you daft ha'porth.

[Nicos]

^^^^^Ouch!

My rant....

Nope, I don't want a mouse for my breakfast at 4.30 am

The fact that I threw it out of the window should have been enough of a subtle hint.
I did not expect you to re- present it, tasty as it probably is, to me on several more occasions after I had thrown it out again.

I wasn't playing with you, hadn't you noticed I was half asleep?
And so, when I wrapped it in loo paper and hid it from you I then really didn't expect you to kindly go and fetch me another one.

That too has not been eaten by me but I do appreciate your kind jesture .
The fact that the bedroom window is now closed and you are sitting , looking in with yet another dead mouse in your mouth does not fill me with joy at the idea of breakfast in bed.
I love you to bits, and I do appreciated that you are protecting my peas from being eaten by them, but please....not at silly o'clockinthemorning.fr

[alldigging]

My fault but the jam jar lids didn't pop. So I have a few jars of jam that have to be eaten up quickly.
It set well, looks good and smells absolutely divine.
But am disappointed at my lid skills.

[Bigmallly]

Up at 6am to a lovely morning, bait ready, flask to make. Made flask of coffee, turned around & it's bucketing it down...................yup, back to bed...........

[Lumpy]

No rain - please send some this way BM

[Plot10]

Poor service and wasting my time.

Just been to a large discount store at lunchtime, was in there for around 30 mins and had a trolley load of shopping including stuff I wanted for the weekend. Went to the checkouts, at one the person in front of me had a full trolley so I went to the only other manned one where the operator and the customer in front were faffing about with a selfie- stick, trying to get it to work on their phone. After about 5 minutes there's now a queue of about 4 people behind me and the same at the other till. The operator then turns to me and says "Oh, I'm sorry, I'm only taking returns at this till" "Okay" says I, looking at the queues "Is someone else coming on the tills then?". "Oh no, there isn't anyone just now".

So I took another look at the other queue and said "OK then, bye" and walked out leaving my trolley.

It's not like me to be rude but by then I had only about 15 mins left and if I joined the other queue I probably wouldn't be through the checkout before I should have been back at work. I know someone has to put all that stuff back but it's lunchtime on a Friday, FFS. There were plenty of staff on the floor stacking shelves etc which I know has to be done but surely customer service should come first. I've worked in retail and it can't be a surprise to the branch management that lunchtime on a Friday is busy. Even if someone phones in sick, surely some of the floor staff are till-trained.

Really annoyed now, I lost £1 when I abandoned my trolley, I have no coffee for the afternoon as I abandoned it with my shopping and I now need to go out tomorrow to buy the stuff I meant to get today.

Added:
They're probably bad-mouthing me as a stroppy cow now and in a way I feel a bit daft for maybe over-reacting but I think we British tend to just shuffle our feet and grumble but accept things like that and then nothing changes.

[Nicos]

^^^^ welcome to what is normal for France!

my rant...exactly that- lack of staff is standard- now half of them seem to be on their summer hols

Even our busy local tourist office has one one member of staff on all summer whilst they take it in turns for the other 2 to take their hols. Nope- no cover.

Oh yes- and a 3-4 week summer holiday without cover can be pretty standard here!

[JanieB]

My table is covered by my son's stock for his business so I'm eating on the coffee table in the lounge. I was happily noshing my meal this evening when a lot of it slid on to the floor. Totally my own fault. The plate was only about 2/3 on the table and I hadn't realised that it was partly on a pack of incense sticks so was on a slope. Trouble is that I leave the best 'til last and that went into the dogs. Bonus is that I don't have to clean it up and they had an unexpected change to their diet.

[Potstubsdustbins]

Jump in the shower soap up, boiler shuts down I am in a cold shower. Go to the boiler (how dare it misbehave) pressure down, re-pressurise, reset, NOTHING. Lose temper give it a slap fires up. Give it a darn good talking to and finish my shower.

SWMBO has just this second had her shower no problems amazing what a good slap will do...