Water cockup
Posted: Tue 9 May, 2006 Filed under: Customer Services, Cynicism 1 Comment »(via Pete)
Oh, fantastic – a “natural spring” that’s been running for 16 years turns out to be – um – a dripping tap.
Yet a spokeswoman still insisted: “The leaks in the past were spring water, but the spring water seems to have gone and this is a proper leak. It’s just a coincidence. The present leak is not spring water.�
Aye, right.
Movies “Unrealistic”
Posted: Tue 9 May, 2006 Filed under: Cynicism, News Leave a comment »Well, like duh.
In other news, “Coma specialist makes himself look like a right dickhead“.
(Yes, they both link to the same story. It’s not a mistake)
Bad Day
Posted: Mon 8 May, 2006 Filed under: Cynicism, Domestic, Weirdness 1 Comment »You know it’s going to be a bad day when you get woken up by the dog, crawling under the bed, because it’s raining hard outside and she thinks it’s going to thunder.
You know for sure it’s going to be a bad day when, walking through the trolley-stoppers (i.e. fairly narrow “one person at a time” walkways) you get run into by three-year-old hellspawn, and then blamed by the mother for walking into the little shit…
Bombs?
Posted: Fri 28 April, 2006 Filed under: Cynicism, Thoughts 1 Comment »I must admit, I really find I have to wonder about someone who plants nailbombs (or replica nailbombs, anyway) in London and then tries to make out it’s “Art”.
I’m sorry, but “It’s Art” doesn’t cut it as an excuse. “I’m sorry, I was being fucking stupid” might do, but “It’s Art” has no chance.
Carphone Whorehouse
Posted: Fri 21 April, 2006 Filed under: Customer Services, Cynicism, General 1 Comment »Herself has a mobile phone on O2 through Carphone Warehouse – up ’til recently she’s had a Samsung D500, but then about a fortnight ago upgraded to the flashy new one with iMode and 3G stuff on it. All well and good.
However, because it’s a 3G phone, she needs a 3G-capable SIM-card. Not previously having had a 3G-capable phone, the SIM wasn’t a 3G one either. However, the upgrade twunts at Craphone Whorehouse didn’t bother mentioning this. At all. Not once.
Last weekend we spent a good half an hour on the phone to their customer “services” department, explaining six times to six different people that we needed an upgraded SIM card. Oh, we don’t deal with that, I’ll put you through to someone else. Not once did person a explain to person b what the problem was, or why we were calling, or why they were putting us through, so we had to explain it – and go through the ID procedures – six fucking times.
Eventually, I ended up getting through to the right person. Who had to authorise sending out the SIM card with her manager. Supposedly they normally have a cost attached to them, but because this was an upgrade, we wouldn’t have to pay, so she needed the manager to provide a code to reduce the price to zero.
The card arrived last night. I put it in the phone…
“Unregistered SIM”
So today Herself is going to call Craphone Whorehouse (again) and try to get them to register the fucking SIM card that they sent out in the first place, already knowing we’d been stuffed about once. I’m currently not optimistic about getting a resolution to this one just yet…
Motivational Debt?
Posted: Wed 12 April, 2006 Filed under: Cynicism, Getting Organised, Thoughts Leave a comment »I’ve just re-found this piece, from the Observer back in February. I’d forgotten about it, until a conversation with Herself last night. There was one section in particular that agreed so much with my general philosophy about mortgages etc…
The usurers in charge have encouraged us all to get in debt by blanket promotion of a spend, spend, spend mentality, with ad slogans like “don’t put it off, put it on!”
Now, from an idler’s point of view, debt is an evil sister to the work ethic. It works as an invisible slave driver, a mill owner of the mind, driving us on to do jobs we don’t like in order to pay usurers the interest on objects we didn’t need.
It is rather like indentured labour. Work for seven years to pay off your debt. Then you will be freed. Debt is enslaving.
The entire piece is so well worth reading. Enjoy.