Things you hate IV

Discussion in 'Taylor's Tittle-Tattle - General Banter' started by hornmeister, Jun 25, 2019.

  1. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    Something like that.
    They built some flats nearby with no parking only providing bicycle racks. The understanding was that it was near to the station so people who bought them agreed not to own cars. What happened? The surrounding roads are now choked up with parked cars, making them single lane only and more often than not the busses on that route have difficulty getting through.

    I'm sick of the increasing densification (is that a word?) of the area with no uplift in facilities or services to compensate. I would make all planning permission new build or extension provide 1 off street parking place per bedroom.
     
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  2. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    It's worth looking at your local council's policy. Seems a bit much to have so many in a small area - some councils limit it. It's also worth finding out whether they're advisory or actually enforceable. The signs themselves are meaningless if not backed up by a traffic regulation order, if I remember rightly. Obviously if it’s not got one then you could park in it if needs must...
     
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  3. Diamond

    Diamond First Team

    Love a Sunday morning Weatherspoons breakfast every now and again in the middle of our walk, unless there's the world's worst family there with the classic fish lipped mother, kids with noisy iPads and a dad who looks like he's in his 90's, complaining about EVERY aspect of their £3.50 breakfast.

    Absolute cun*s
     
  4. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    I used to have a Spoons lunch to avoid the kids in Mcdonalds. Now Spoons is worse than McDonalds but that's been taken over by moped drivers.

    Sick of food delivery drivers being given priority when I'm waiting for an eventually cold meal.
     
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  5. wfcwarehouse

    wfcwarehouse First Team Captain

    We stopped off at McDonalds for a coffee yesterday (there was a queue coming out of the door at Costa, so we thought we were being shrewd), and it's one of the worst experiences I've ever had.

    It was a small McDonalds with limited space in front of the counters and there were probably 25-30 'normal' punters waiting for their orders to be called, then a further 15-20 delivery drivers there waiting for their orders to be handed out. There were probably 8-10 staff working behind the counter cooking, bagging up orders, preparing drinks etc.

    It took 35 minutes for three coffees to be prepared, and then I had to take once back up as it was ice cold. While waiting for the drinks, I saw 3 members of staff shout and swear at customers who were asking why it was taking so long, another one threaten to walk out because they were "overwhelmed", a customer videoing the staff presumably for social media and two customers take their food back up as it was wrong or incomplete.

    It was an absolute shambles and totally defeats the object of fast food. I don't tend to use McDonalds much, and this is exactly why - the staff are awful most of the time.
     
  6. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    They've lost their way. Too expensive, to slow and provide **** jobs. When I was a kid, peers working in McDonalds were relatively well paid and got on a training program if they so wished to progress into management. It's all lowest common denominator now.

    I love a quarterpounder but the last few I've had were cold and underwhelming. Fast food should be cheap and acceptable. Now it's slow, expensive and disappointment.
     
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  7. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    I believe what’s ****ed it is they now make stuff to order, rather than having a load of Big Macs queued up ready to go, and, because Deliveroo etc. orders all involve the request to leave a review at the end of each order, they prioritise the delivery orders to keep the reviews higher. So, ordering a couple of coffees means absolutely no common sense will be applied, they’ll be making each order ahead of it to order, no matter how large, and prioritising all the deliveries.
     
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  8. Diamond

    Diamond First Team

    Funnily enough was up town last week to see a movie in Leicester Square, we had literally no time to eat so ran in Leicester Square Maccies to grab something fast and the service was really quick. I think they're finally working it out.
     
  9. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    People have MacDonalds delivered?! Funny old world.
     
  10. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    Greggs, subway.. Wenzels, you can get it all delivered. Once one does they all have to otherwise they miss out on the trade.
     
  11. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    ‘Customer service’ numbers that are just recorded messages, meaning that you cannot explain the issue.

    ‘Customer service’ email addresses to which no one responds.
     
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  12. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    On a similar vein, emails from "customer services - no reply", so they can tell you what they want to tell you, but you can't respond.
    Like a helpful email from Currys 15 days ago apologising for selling me a software licence that they didn't have "in stock" (back to that in a minute) and that I would receive a full refund in 5 working days.
    I just want to reply to that email and say "I haven't received it !" but no, I have to go back through various unhelpful chatbots.
    The issue 15 days ago was when I ordered a photoshop licence, and didn't receive an activation key, and after chatbot, and speaking to 8 separate humans (yes 8 !! "I'm sorry sir, let me put you through to the sales team" "I'm sorry you need to speak to the technical team""Not sure why they put you through to us, you need the sales team" "Ah , an online, sale, you need the online sales team, let me put you through...." etc etc) the 8th person told me the reason they hadn't sent me a key was they were simply out of stock and would send me a key when they were back in stock. "When will that be?" "No idea". => Refund !!
     
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  13. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    Well, at least you got to speak to a human being. I haven’t been able to track one down yet…
     
  14. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    Good to see Currys have replaced the clueless instore spivs, with clueless online AI spivs. Did they try and and sell you income protection instance for the key?
     
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  15. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    You know what they call a quarterpounder witu cheese in France?
     
  16. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    I wonder if a Leicester square branch has less deliveries as the only nearby residents are Chinese or prostitutes.
     
  17. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    No but they sold me a new laptop which was fine !
     
  18. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    Fewer.
     
  19. Diamond

    Diamond First Team

    Theres a business model!
     
  20. MarlonsCellMate

    MarlonsCellMate Reservist

    Receiving reminders from HMRC about filing a tax return for 24/25, when they haven't even finished calculating my 23/24 income tax yet.
     
  21. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    I was thinking of the volume, rather than the number.
     
  22. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    I would think delivering Chinese persons & prostitutes would constitute a greater volume than the average non Leicester Square Amazon package.
     
  23. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    It's racist to assume that Chinese people would be louder.
     
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  24. I think I might've said this before but places bringing out children's food and saying "careful, the plates hot".

    Then don't bloody bring it out then! Why are you bringing a child's plate of food out on a hot plate?!
     
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  25. Diamond

    Diamond First Team

    Four way temporary lights setup by the hard of thinking giving equal time to all four directions despite two of those directions having NO TRAFFIC . F*ck right off.
     
  26. Diamond

    Diamond First Team

    HR laying off people who do one h*ll of a lot more than HR.
    In fact HR people in general, you're all c*nts.

    No it wasn't me.
     
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  27. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    The way that nothing ever just works the way it's supposed to in the modern world.
    I ordered a reconditioned phone for my daughter on 8th October. They sent the wrong phone. Only got refunded yesterday after 3 weeks of chasing. Ordered a new one and it's arrived and it keeps turning off. Gonna have to send that back too. This is a 'tested and reconditioned phone.' They didn't test that it would stay switched on for more than 2 minutes.

    Bought a pair of jeans as I was forced to go shopping with the kids and desperately needed a new pair. Got home and realised that there's still an exploding ink tag on them.

    It's always the way. Nothing is ever just right first time. Thousands of businesses set up to take our money from us and each of them constantly ******* up and costing us time, energy and effort to resolve it.

    Does nobody ever ******* just do the job you pay them for nowadays?
     
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  28. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    Try big ass magnets.

    Failing that a bit of surgery on it with a knife will sort it:
     
  29. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    Yeah, maybe. But the point is, I shouldn't bloody have to.

    I queued for 5 min at least to pay, as the 3 open checkouts faffed around with some women's clothes. I was then dealt with in about 20 seconds, during which time the cashier clearly didn't check my purchase had tags removed. Surely it's one of only 3 things they need to remember.

    Get paid. Remove tags.

    OK, 2 things.

    It's just ******* laziness. They will Resolve it, sure, but that won't give me back the hour I've lost or the fuel to drive to and from the shop again.
     
  30. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    I had a bottle of Gin delivered as part of a supermarket delivery with the cap security device still attached. Took a while but managed to remove it by drilling out the hinge onf the lockign mechanism.

    You're right they should have dealt with it but retail jobs are horrible and the pay is **** so I'd give them some slack.
     
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  31. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    Yeah I'm mad at the system, not the idiot who muffed up.
     
  32. Since63

    Since63 Squad Player

    Would I be correct in assuming that, unlike Jonathan Richman, you are NOT in love with the modern world?
     
  33. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    Pablo Picasso was an asshole.
     
  34. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    Modern life is rubbish.
     
  35. Since63

    Since63 Squad Player

    No, no, no, that NEVER happened to Pablo Picasso.
     
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