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Former main ticket office now an NHS call centre

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  • HantsAddick
    HantsAddick Posts: 2,423
    I don't know why I'm laughing, all this is heartbreaking. You couldn't make it up.
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,034
    This and the nonsense with messing Varney around.

    These people are here for the long haul.
  • iamdan
    iamdan Posts: 2,421
    ElfsborgAddick said:

    This and the nonsense with messing Varney around.

    These people are here for the long haul.

    Don't say that.. :(
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,034
    iamdan said:

    ElfsborgAddick said:

    This and the nonsense with messing Varney around.

    These people are here for the long haul.

    Don't say that.. :(
    It's not looking good amigo.
  • Cardinal Sin
    Cardinal Sin Posts: 5,233
    Clearly the third step in a plan towards putting ticketing all online. The first step was to gradually reduce the availability of the ticket office and the second to serve up such shit first team football as to limit demand. Relegation should be the trigger to make the switch. Brilliance in action.
  • Eynsfordaddick
    Eynsfordaddick Posts: 2,045
    I want to not buy a season ticket next season in protest but how the hell do you buy tickets for a game!? Absolute joke of the once great club. Still, I know where to go with injuries... oh no, that's the players! The NHS call centre CAFC.
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,827
    Let's hope Sparrow's Lane is being built for football purposes rather than being SE London's biggest needle exchange or VD clinic.
  • Addicted
    Addicted Posts: 2,804
    You dont need a ticket office if you dont sell tickets
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,221
    Go to all the bother of building a wall, installing new offices and equipment so you can rent out it for money.

    Dodge an opportunity to meet someone for 30 mins to discuss Kuwait investment.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,352
    Its all fallen into place now!

    Always thought Katrien looked like receptionist... "Dr Fraye will see you now"
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  • Atletico Addick
    Atletico Addick Posts: 5,843
    I remember getting ripped into for dissecting their every move, but it's quite obvious now to the vast majority that their every move is pulling a piece of us away, a piece that will take a long time to rebuild, these things will have contracts.. I mean how bloody stupid is it, we're probably the only FL club with this to earn a few extra quid. Why not just sack the entire playing squad? That'll save some money..
  • InspectorSands
    InspectorSands Posts: 5,188
    Which NHS organisation is renting it out?
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,623
    InspectorSands said:

    Which NHS organisation is renting it out?

    Could it be this?

    http://www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/news/g4s-scoops-nhs-contract-48234/
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,051
    Actually think this could be good for us. They may do a better job of diagnosing all our long-term injuries and get them into surgery within the current 3 month timeline! :wink:
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,418
    guinnessaddick said:

    InspectorSands said:

    Which NHS organisation is renting it out?

    Could it be this?

    http://www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/news/g4s-scoops-nhs-contract-48234/
    G4s........ Anyone wanting to buy tickets, the keys will hanging on a piece of string behind letterbox. Please let yourself in and put cash in honest box.
    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/blundering-guards-lose-keys-prison-4595739
  • DadofExiledAddick
    DadofExiledAddick Posts: 33
    stockportaddick said:

    Where is it all going to stop...

    The decimation of the Health Service will continue until the population stop wanting everything for next to nothing, and start paying a reasonable level of income tax without winging about it all the time!!!
  • Badger
    Badger Posts: 4,842
    InspectorSands said:

    Which NHS organisation is renting it out?

    So how much are the club making from the rental on this deal.
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,827
    Badger said:

    InspectorSands said:

    Which NHS organisation is renting it out?

    So how much are the club making from the rental on this deal.
    It's unlikely to be the club but rather Duchatalet himself making the money from it. As I half jokingly posted before a Belgian billionaire is essentially profiting from our NHS. Salt in the wound.
  • Daddy_Pig
    Daddy_Pig Posts: 496
    carly burn said:

    Can see it now.
    Roland buys hospitals from around Europe, creating a health network.
    Kidneys that don't work, hearts that are bled dry and pickled livers are transferred around the network to aid ailing patients.
    All the 'doctors' are from Belgium and not necessarily qualified to do the job.
    A&E wards do however have the latest trance and progressive house bangin in the background which does help to flood out the noise of screaming customers patients!!

    Will the waiting room have a sofa?
  • stilladdicted
    stilladdicted Posts: 4,307
    Sofa ? It is a psychiatrists couch that is needed.
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  • InspectorSands
    InspectorSands Posts: 5,188
    Badger said:

    InspectorSands said:

    Which NHS organisation is renting it out?

    So how much are the club making from the rental on this deal.
    If we know which NHS organisation is using it, then it should be fairly easy to find out.
  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,734
    InspectorSands said:

    Badger said:

    InspectorSands said:

    Which NHS organisation is renting it out?

    So how much are the club making from the rental on this deal.
    If we know which NHS organisation is using it, then it should be fairly easy to find out.
    Excellent point.
  • mogodon
    mogodon Posts: 3,406
    I would hazard a guess they will be busy most weekends with Charlton fans injured banging their heads on the seat in front as we ship a goal one minute before/after half time. If we get really lucky Miere might be carried in after dislocating her jaw laughing so hard at the protests.
  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 13,169
    F-Blocker said:

    LoOkOuT said:

    F-Blocker said:

    If it's a bit of spare office space & the club can get some incoome from renting it out, I don't see the big issue.

    It's not a spare bit of office space though is it? It's the ticketing centre to an event venue ffs. Surely, you've seen the ticketing issues that this had already caused?
    An event venue that's selling less & less tickets...
    Yeah, it's not like they're trying to increase the attendance to 20,000 or anything..
  • EveshamAddick
    EveshamAddick Posts: 7,014
    LuckyReds said:

    alanscoachdriver said:

    What was the reason for kicking off 5 minutes late as well ? Anything to do with the long queue to buy tickets stretching back to the club shop ?

    How hard is it to sell tickets for a football game ?

    I thought that.

    Typical Charlton, do a "Kids for a Quid" initiative to sell more tickets... but don't bother publicising the fact you can print tickets off at home. So anybody who doesn't know will end up queueing for God knows how long (those queues were huge.) and misses a chunk of the match.
    By all accounts, the match wasn't really worth watching...
  • buckshee
    buckshee Posts: 7,867
    mogodon said:

    I would hazard a guess they will be busy most weekends with Charlton fans injured banging their heads on the seat in front as we ship a goal one minute before/after half time. If we get really lucky Miere might be carried in after dislocating her jaw laughing so hard at the protests.

    One of the things I'm still not sure of is whether the turnstile scanners can read the barcode off your phone rather than having to print them out?
  • iamdan
    iamdan Posts: 2,421
    Can I actually get a match ticket on the day?
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,623
    iamdan said:

    Can I actually get a match ticket on the day?

    Just take a ticket and wait for the doctor to see you.
  • Suthers
    Suthers Posts: 64
    Just to come in on this one; the 'NHS call centre' is operated by CACT and it co-ordinates amongst other initiatives, CACT's 'Kick the Habit' programme: http://www.cact.org.uk/what-we-do/health-improvement/call-centre/
  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,734
    edited December 2015
    Suthers said:

    Just to come in on this one; the 'NHS call centre' is operated by CACT and it co-ordinates amongst other initiatives, CACT's 'Kick the Habit' programme: http://www.cact.org.uk/what-we-do/health-improvement/call-centre/

    Is it funded by the NHS or not? My understanding is that there was a tender process, which CACT won - good on them, but it is hardly a sensible use of the Charlton ticket office from a club perspective whoever has the contract.

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