When capacity is limited something really needs to be done about pensioners trying to scan their weekly shop at the self-scan things in the supermarket [this is probably a local gripe as most UK supermarkets seem to have massive amounts of them and a mix of the scan as you go things and the scan yourself at the end ones].
Over here we need a bouncer to ID people and send them to the conventional checkouts if they're over 60.
Can use the voter ID card system
Subway. Firstly, nearly £10 for a footlong. Wot? Secondly, why have they got rid of so many of their usual subs from back in the day? Thirdly, have you changed their meatballs or do I keep getting meatless version?
Not sure if anyone has been following my PC repair adventures from the computer thread, but in short form, was chucked a borked PC to fix and sell. Managed to fix it after seeing the price on their site was £226 in credit. Took it to store for test yesterday, passed their test but due to having windows on it they quoted me £123 credit. The listing I viewed online was for Linux.
Got home and rechecked the price I'd seen and it was still the same, so I nabbed it for "drop and go." For that they hold the price for 3 days so you have time to either post it or go to your local store. Later the same night they fixed the price so it was only £54 voucher now.
Got back into store today with it in hand. Soon as manager guy saw the system(he was there yesterday too), he comes over and shoos the staffer away and explains to me the price I got was a misquote that I should not have seen and the actual price is £54. I said but in your email it directly states you guarantee the price for 3 days. He says flatly we will not be honouring that price here. Take it up with customer services.
It's still £54 I didnt have before for a thing that was collecting dust so at least that's something I guess.
You should have smashed it on the floor and walked out.
Yeah, quite a circuitous journey to getting utterly mugged off by some total neckbeard no doubt.
I've got onto their customer service, but that they don't have a line I can actually call says everything I need to know really.
Why didn’t you take it home and post it in?
I'm a twit
Posties don't do Sundays and bank holidays and then it's beyond the 3 day price 'guarantee'
Laddo's had your pants down there, why not just switch OS or make it dual boot?
What company is it? And more importantly, how many reviews do they have on Google/how many reviews would it take it tank their rating?
I considered keeping it, but it wasn't exactly shit hot when it came out in 2013/14. Thing could barely run recent Linux versions.Originally Posted by Lofty
See I know that the original price I "saved" was far too high for the machine it is, but dont guarantee it me if you don't intend to honour it.
The store is informed I'd be taking it in so someone could have got in touch to tell me not to bother. Especially as the manager of the store seemed to be expecting me and had his new price on hand ready to go.
It's CeX, so there's little I could do to move the needle there.
Bought some salmon fillets for dinner tonight from Sainsbury's.
They looked fine in the packaging but I just took them out to marinate them and they've been hacked up. It looks like a dog has been at them.
Buying from supermarkets has always been a mug's game, but more so now than ever. They're all struggling but the shambles that is Coop will be dead within ten years.
Find your local farmer's market and a decent butcher. You'll save time and money.
A little while ago my wife and I went to view a new housing development nearby, the houses were nice but as per usual the pricing was so far above the existing houses in the area it would have been not worth us trading up on the property ladder to pay more than double the mortgage we have now and a smaller house in square footage terms.
My wife has a decent salary job, better than mine, and her boss has just been told they are getting one of the currently unbuilt new homes through the housing association listI thought these things were means tested?
They are, but they keep building new-builds in the middle of nowhere and the uptake among Social / Council tenants is quite low.A little while ago my wife and I went to view a new housing development nearby, the houses were nice but as per usual the pricing was so far above the existing houses in the area it would have been not worth us trading up on the property ladder to pay more than double the mortgage we have now and a smaller house in square footage terms.
My wife has a decent salary job, better than mine, and her boss has just been told they are getting one of the currently unbuilt new homes through the housing association list
At my place we have waitinglists that would take 30 years in Brentwood and Romford, but we struggle to get applicants for the new builds in Maldon.
The problem remains infrastructure. People don't want to live 20 miles from their support network with no busses or trains and no doctors, shops, etc. near by.
The system is broken.
That makes sense with regards to location I suppose but still mind boggling how a couple with a joint annual income of around £80k a year, in the north west, are happily waved into houses I thought would be reserved the most needy. Might get my house on the market and get on that list.
She's driving a 23 plate Merc ffs
The reason being that the gov/councils love the easy cash from developers but hate spending it on infrastructure. Part of the problem is just pure lack of ambition and vision I think and the way that the upper reaches of the civil service operates.
You still have to qualify, but it's not purely down to finances. There must be some kind of vulnerability.That makes sense with regards to location I suppose but still mind boggling how a couple with a joint annual income of around £80k a year, in the north west, are happily waved into houses I thought would be reserved the most needy. Might get my house on the market and get on that list.
She's driving a 23 plate Merc ffs
Also; if they have had trouble renting it to the people higher up the list then I would imagine it's an "affordable" tenancy, which is charged at 80% of private sector rent. That's probably more than a mortgage would cost you each month if you bought it.
Do you know if they're renting or doing "part ownership"? If it's the latter then just lol at them, it's the worst of both worlds. All the hassle of being an owner, with none of the freedom. Nightmare stuff.
Apparently they have got their mum to write them a letter saying she's kicking them out so they'll be homeless, that'll be the vulnerability.
Again though, if it was me I'm sure they'd just look at my earnings and say 'rent somewhere dickhead'.
Use the rollercoaster picture for your application. Top of the waiting list.
Yeah, that and the short-termism of politics. Fixing it today would be an expensive pain in the arse and would probably only benefit whoever is in power 10 years down the road. So why bother? Just keep building on farmland and let the school 7 miles away in the next town build some "temporary" classrooms on the School Playing field. No need for a new school. Problem solved.
They're building a new secondary school in my town at the moment (as in the diggers are in) and let's just say that when said new school was first proposed and the site marked out, I could have attended it.
The whole housing situation in this country staggers belief if I am being honest it's mad. 550k net immigration last year(I'm not anti-immigration) but a lot of the problems come from the fact that we build absolutely fuck all to deal with this immigration then wonder why people get pissy when there are no services in this country.
These people should be made to go into private rental though and what beggars belief here is what the fuck have they been doing with that money they earn to not be in a position to perhaps have a deposit and buy their own place.
Edibles and kebabs.
DS is Mrs Lofty's boss.
Put in a new boiler last year - has worked fine since.
Got it serviced this morning for its annual service to protect the warranty.
It’s now leaking.
Fuck. Off.
First time I had my boiler serviced the mook left some sort of tap open and so all the pressure went out of it.
Had a friend round to look at it thereafter and after showing me how to re-pressure it [I've now nearly killed the valve you have to use a screwdriver to open/close] he said it was of an age that if it was still working it was best to keep service engineers away from it. Think it's coming up for 24 years old now [although I've only had it for the last 7 or 8].
After much back and forth with the customer services guy that got back to me, they just will not have it that they've broken their own guarantee.
We're stuck in a circle of them telling me it was a pricing error on their part and the price will not be honoured, and me telling them that that means they've broken their own guarantee. He's apologised and said flat out they wont honour it and I can have a whole £10 CeX voucher as a goodwill gesture.
Argued some more and the last email was in the tone of 'do you want the £10 or not?"
You should begrudgingly accept and then absolutely raid their £1 DVD shelves.
Just got an email from Fedex saying that my package (Zelda preorder) has arrived. I check the proof of delivery picture and of course that is not my fucking house.
That fucking betfair backstreet boys advert is proper doing my head in at the moment. I was also going to mention the advert where there are some stupid dogs sorta woofing a song (which is so shit I kind of love it), and when I googled it to find a video, I realised it was ALSO for betfair fucking casino. Maybe it's a message from God that I need to deposit my final paycheck from my last job on their website and stick it all on black or something.
NHS dentistry basically no longer exists in Northern Ireland. Last I saw in the news it was 90% of dentists here were no longer taking NHS patients. Is it that bad in England?
Anyway, fine, whatever, I'll go private. I'm lucky enough I can afford it and probably claim back some of it through work. The thing that annoys me here is the number of fucking schemes all these dentists seem to have. They've all got different variations of pay X per month and get Y checkups and Z hygienist visits per year and a certain percentage off any necessary treatments. It's too much choice. I don't want to have to sit down and compile a fucking spreadsheet to see which one is best, I just want to get a couple of checkups a year and a reasonably priced filling if I need any.
On a related note, yesterday I went for an eye test and ordered some new glasses. The health insurance I get with work has dental and optical allowances but apparently the optical allowances don't include the eye tests, only the glasses? How the fuck are you meant to know if you need the glasses if you don't get the eye test?
We are headed down the road of the US with everything being privatised and having to wrestle with these insurance company fucks every time you want something minor and no wonder those lot over there are going fucking postal all the time.
We appear to have had a birds nest on our roof, and another bird has decided to take issue with this. There's just been a load of shrieking and squarking and there's now the remains of the nest, a dead chick and 2 somehow still alive on my patio.
I really can't be arsed to box them up and take them to the vets. They'll just kill them anyway, won't they?
What do I do here? Fuck sake.
There will be local bird nonces on facebook who will have them.
Drown the chicks. Burn the nest. Job done.
The Mrs has messaged one of Lofty's bird nonces.
Disappointed you took the boring/non psychopathic option.
Or option C, train the bird up for revenge. The blackbirds nesting in my garden have all gone without incident. Legends.
Sold a GPU on ebay, sent it special delivery. Buyer complaining tracking is wrong, Royal Mail somehow got it tracking the correct item and a previously delivered item qt the same time. No doubt the buyer will use this to claim his item never arrived and want their money back now.
This isn't really something that fucked me off, but it's probably just about the right thread to share this shit anecdote.
I will say first that I have done my fair share of absolutely bollocks customer facing jobs where you just wanna GTFO asap, and there's stuff that customers are entitled to do that still break your heart (someone coming in with a massive container of coins 20 mins before the bank shut is one that still haunts me), and I imagine it's exactly how people feel in Spoons when you go in and order a load of food 10 minutes before the kitchen shuts.
I've gone into the petrol station twice this week to grab milk and bread (the other day) and a few beers (tonight), both times a solid 30 minutes+ before they shut, and both times there's been this young woman mopping the floor. Last time, she gave me a proper dirty look when I walked over her handiwork to get to the bread and milk (literally the only way to access them), but I thought nah, I'm probably imagining it. You surely wouldn't start mopping the floor 30 minutes before you shut, and get annoyed when a customer comes in and has to walk over the floor?
Tonight she AUDIBLY TUTTED at me, and demanded that I walk to the till a certain way (down the aisle she hadn't mopped yet). I did go that way, but only cus I only wanted the beer. If I'd needed a massively overpriced bottle of brown sauce or something that was on the aisle she'd mopped, we'd have been at an impasse. Again, like I said, I understand the pain when customers scupper your chances to lock the doors and fuck off 2 minutes after you shut, but I feel like starting mopping the floor that long before you shut is a VERY high risk strategy.
Start going in 5 minutes before they shut and pacing round the gaff.
honestly, solidarity forever and all that, but part of me thought about doing that. via some kinda stinky pond.
one thing that makes me retain any sympathy is that the owner is a known massive shithead employer - a friend of a friend was on shift when someone filled up their car then just drove off. cunt took the money out of his pay, which I'm sure is very illegal. not sure how matey on the till could do anything about that.
i'd be willing to bet they don't get paid after the shop shuts, but it's still a massively flawed strategy.
Fuck it. Cleaning is endless. There's no point getting pissy over stuff like that.
Been arsefucked as predicted. Royal Mail said they would investigate, never updated tracking. Buyer got to the end their patience and asked for a refund, I paid their refund and then Royal Mail came back and said 'err we did deliver it, honest, so we will refund your postage but that's it.' £230 out of pocket as it stands
Going to pursue Royal Mail as it has been their fuck up since the start.
Unless you bought cover with the postage you'll get nowhere unfortunately.
The main lesson is never use ebay for anything.
Special Delivery by 1pm has up to £750 compensation. They are trying to say that can't apply as they delivered it, but Special Delivery requires a signature and picture and all I got was the word of some twitter drone, 12 days later.
Most complaint procedures are designed to instil apathy these days so I'd just call it a day if I were you.
Nah, just turn up there in person and smash the place like a Kaiju.
We've been complaining for a few weeks after the wife bought some stuff DIY garden furniture that was absolutely garbage. We were losing the will to live with the faceless drones at Home24 trying to fob us off then giving us the wrong collection details followed by DPD claiming they'd picked it up when they hadn't.
Anyway, long story short, they picked it up today so hopefully we get the refund.
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