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  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,943
    eaststandmike said:
    People that cannot speak English answering the phones in customer care centers.

    Surely when being interviewed for the role the first thing they need to prove is they can speak the language of the country they are employed in.
    They can, I'm sure.

    But they aren't employed in the UK....
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,288
    North Lower Neil said:
    eaststandmike said:
    People that cannot speak English answering the phones in customer care centers.

    Surely when being interviewed for the role the first thing they need to prove is they can speak the language of the country they are employed in.
    They can, I'm sure.

    But they aren't employed in the UK....
    I thought he was talking about the Royal Bank of Scotland ;)
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,943
    Wowcher.

    Never use them, would be my advice.

    Saw a cheap weekend in Budpest advertised, checked online reviews of the hotels listed etc, all fine (not amazing but central and clean), went for it.

    Company that it's actually through, that break is overbooked but you can go somewhere else, or go at 3am on a Tuesday morning and come back at 7am, or you can stay in a hostel 340 miles away and walk in etc etc.  Or you can have a decent break for 3 times the price.  

    So I turn it all down and say no problem, you can't do it, I'll just get a refund.... you can only get Wowcher credit!  

    So we can't fulfill the order but you can order something else through us even though we've just shown we're terrible?!  Piss off.
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,344
    Terms and Conditions.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,943
    The argument is that technically you buy a 'Wowcher'/gift voucher from them and use that the book what you want.

    Despite clicking on the break, buying a 'voucher' for the exact amount of that break, having that break listed as the description of the voucher etc, it wasn't a voucher for that break.

    I also could have got a refund before 'verifying'the voucher, but not after (you know, once I'd actually found out I couldn't book what had been offered....)

    So yeah, wouldn't recommend it!
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,344
    I learned in a similar way. All they kept saying was "it's covered in the T&C's on sign-up".
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,943
    Dazzler21 said:
    I learned in a similar way. All they kept saying was "it's covered in the T&C's on sign-up".
    Yeah.

    I'll end up using it to book a meal in Pizza Express or whatever before blocking the 37 emails a day I now get for them, but always worth spreading the word if it then stops them mugging someone else off in the same way.

    Annoying thing is I knew they'd pull the "Are you sure you don't want to go on a Saturday, or from a different airport, get an upgraded hotel?" etc stuff and thought that worst case I say no and it's a refund....
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    North Lower Neil said:
    eaststandmike said:
    People that cannot speak English answering the phones in customer care centers.

    Surely when being interviewed for the role the first thing they need to prove is they can speak the language of the country they are employed in.
    They can, I'm sure.

    But they aren't employed in the UK....
    They are, not all are call centers outside the UK
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    ForeverAddickted said:
    North Lower Neil said:
    eaststandmike said:
    People that cannot speak English answering the phones in customer care centers.

    Surely when being interviewed for the role the first thing they need to prove is they can speak the language of the country they are employed in.
    They can, I'm sure.

    But they aren't employed in the UK....
    I thought he was talking about the Royal Bank of Scotland ;)
    Very close, I have made a lot of calls to NatWest and the center is in London I am dealing with, shocking trying to understand them .
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,590
    Sweaty fuckers who don't wipe down gym equipment after using it. Used to annoy me pre-covid but pisses me off even more now. 
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  • arny23394
    arny23394 Posts: 1,180
    The way transfers are announced these days - Why all these wanky videos? 
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,943
    arny23394 said:
    The way transfers are announced these days - Why all these wanky videos? 
    So that people send them to each other to watch, click on etc etc, whether they like them or hate them.

    Clicks are everything.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,592
    edited June 2022
    DaveMehmet said:
    Sweaty fuckers who don't wipe down butt plugs after using it. Used to annoy me pre-covid but pisses me off even more now. 

  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,832
    Those poxy flags in the crowd at Glastonbury 
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,482
    The RNLI documentary - The vast majority of the people the crews are saving are in that position through their own stupidity. And the worst about it is, they don't acknowledge its their stupidity that's put not only their lives, but those of the crews, lives at risk.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,972
    Tennis crowds - Basically Screeching middle aged women. 
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,482
    ValleyGary said:
    Tennis crowds - Basically Screeching middle aged women. 
    "C'mon Tim!" 😂
  • Gary Poole
    Gary Poole Posts: 1,874
    Gribbo said:
    The RNLI documentary - The vast majority of the people the crews are saving are in that position through their own stupidity. And the worst about it is, they don't acknowledge its their stupidity that's put not only their lives, but those of the crews, lives at risk.
    That is so true, have watched it a few times and felt the same and the narrator never points out how stupid and irresponsible what they were doing was.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,590
    ValleyGary said:
    Tennis crowds - Basically Screeching middle aged women. 
    A much more expensive version of The Millers
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,482
    Gary Poole said:
    Gribbo said:
    The RNLI documentary - The vast majority of the people the crews are saving are in that position through their own stupidity. And the worst about it is, they don't acknowledge its their stupidity that's put not only their lives, but those of the crews, lives at risk.
    That is so true, have watched it a few times and felt the same and the narrator never points out how stupid and irresponsible what they were doing was.
    Then a local fisherman, well known by the crew, goes in to the North Sea and they can't save him, it brings it home 
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  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    Dazzler21 said:
    Terms and Conditions.
    Especially when you are with a brass.
  • CharltonKerry
    CharltonKerry Posts: 2,955
    Trying to get to see a doctor, managed to get an appointment in 3 flaming weeks and then only by phone, how the bloody hell is he’s going to be able to diagnose if I’ve got long Covid over the phone. That will mean another delay whilst he arranges blood test etc., or of course I could be helpful to them and die while I awaiting the phone call. Seeing a GP face to face just seems impossible at that comment applies to seeing him prior to Covid.
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    CharltonKerry said:
    Trying to get to see a doctor, managed to get an appointment in 3 flaming weeks and then only by phone, how the bloody hell is he’s going to be able to diagnose if I’ve got long Covid over the phone. That will mean another delay whilst he arranges blood test etc., or of course I could be helpful to them and die while I awaiting the phone call. Seeing a GP face to face just seems impossible at that comment applies to seeing him prior to Covid.
    It seems to vary from area to area, thankfully in my part of Kent and from experience it appears to be very easy to get a face to face appointment nowadays.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,943
    CharltonKerry said:
    Trying to get to see a doctor, managed to get an appointment in 3 flaming weeks and then only by phone, how the bloody hell is he’s going to be able to diagnose if I’ve got long Covid over the phone. That will mean another delay whilst he arranges blood test etc., or of course I could be helpful to them and die while I awaiting the phone call. Seeing a GP face to face just seems impossible at that comment applies to seeing him prior to Covid.
    Are there any minor injury/urgent treatment centres your way?

    Half the time they are so badly advertised etc that they are half empty while the GPs are manic, and you can nip into the GP at them evenings and weekends etc.
  • CharltonKerry
    CharltonKerry Posts: 2,955
    Thanks haven’t thought of that, you probably won’t know, but would they be able to diagnose long Covid? Or do you need an appointment at a specialist 
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,240
    GP surgeries in general now 

    I knew some firms were going to take the piss and blame covid but doctors surgeries are the worst. It was hard enough to get an appointment pre pandemic but now impossible. If there is a job that cannot be done remotely it is that of a GP 

    And electric cars, more to the point the owners of electric cars. The same people who bought their home for 25k in 1990 are lecturing kids on why they can't afford houses and how they should fill drinking bottles up from those free water places that are springing up as of doing that and not tangible things like addressing the grotesque imbalance of wealth in this country, especially wealth off the back of what were previously state owned assets but thats another conversation entirely 
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    Carter said:
    GP surgeries in general now 

    I knew some firms were going to take the piss and blame covid but doctors surgeries are the worst. It was hard enough to get an appointment pre pandemic but now impossible. If there is a job that cannot be done remotely it is that of a GP 

    And electric cars, more to the point the owners of electric cars. The same people who bought their home for 25k in 1990 are lecturing kids on why they can't afford houses and how they should fill drinking bottles up from those free water places that are springing up as of doing that and not tangible things like addressing the grotesque imbalance of wealth in this country, especially wealth off the back of what were previously state owned assets but thats another conversation entirely 
    As I said above it must be related to certain areas. I live in Kent and sadly I have had to visit my doctors twice in the last 4 x weeks. Called and got a face to face appointment within 48 hours on both occasions.

    The one thing that did shock me is that our son has just moved locally and we suggested he sign up to our doctor's. He emailed them all his details last Thursday and had a face to face appointment with a doctor the next day, Friday at 11.30.  
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,482
    My GP in Redhill is about a week wait at the moment
  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 7,989
    What a pleasant coincidence that we're on the subject of GPs. I'm going to the Sevenoaks Town Medical Centre this afternoon to unload the sort of rage that I usually reserve for ticket inspectors on South Eastern Trains.

    My mum had a stroke 3 years ago and now has limited speech. About 6 months ago, we finally managed to get her weekly prescriptions organised so that she had a dossete box delivered every Friday. Town Medical Centre managed to cock it up in various ways during the first few months - failing to send the prescription to the chemist, sending it to the wrong chemist, etc. Been okay the last couple of months though, until last week. My mum's medicine didn't turn up - went to the pharmacy, who did an emergency prescription, and told me that Town Medical Centre advised them that my mum had moved to Ashford. They checked her NHS records for me, and it transpires that she's now registered to a surgery in Charing. For the avoidance of doubt, she hasn't moved, she isn't moving, she's never been to Charing and neither have I.
  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 7,989
    Back to generally annoying things:

    1. People that say " yeah no yeah", when what they actually mean is "yeah".

    2. I tie my shoelaces identically. Why does my right shoe lace always come undone?!
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