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minor things that make you fume

Still getting physical pay slips in the post every fortnight.. the department of education spends €2.1 million a year posting payslips. Both my wife and I work for the department so at 65c postage per payslip 26 of them each in the year that's €34 spent posting them to us, when we'd both be quite happy to have them e-mailed to us, as would most others.
 
LEONARD said:
TV interviews with England fans who have been on the lash all day. :cheers:

What do they expect, insightful coherent analysis? :coffee:
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They search for and expect half-cut boorish ignorance. It makes the sneering at and generalising those awful working class sorts all the more delightful.

If one of them say's something interesting, witty or insightful it's straight on the cutting room floor.
 
Passing the local Tescos, I stop to get some sweets for the missus as she's bored at work.

I stopped shopping at big Tesco 20 years ago when I found out they were robbing me, consistently over many visits, in my weekly shop, by pricing lower on the shelf than at the till. I gave the manager a chance to explain herself. It was put down to simple errors - errors, I pointed out that were always and consistently in Tesco's favour and never the other way, like a true error might occasionally be.

Gef to the till at the local little tesco with my 3 items and count out my change £1.20 to be told it was £2.10. I pointed to the big yellow sign saying 3 items fir £1.20.
"Thats with the clubcard" I was told.
"Forget it" I said a bit grumpily, dumping my shopping and picking up the change.
"It says it in the label "
"Yeah right. I came out to buy a couple of things, I didn't bring my reading glasses for a protracted contract. "

No doubt if I were buying a bunch of stuff I wouldn't have even noticed, which is what they hope.

Why can't they just price stuff honestly ffs. They've lost this customer for another 20 years.
 
chrismpw said:
Passing the local Tescos, I stop to get some sweets for the missus as she's bored at work.

I stopped shopping at big Tesco 20 years ago when I found out they were robbing me, consistently over many visits, in my weekly shop, by pricing lower on the shelf than at the till. I gave the manager a chance to explain herself. It was put down to simple errors - errors, I pointed out that were always and consistently in Tesco's favour and never the other way, like a true error might occasionally be.

Gef to the till at the local little tesco with my 3 items and count out my change £1.20 to be told it was £2.10. I pointed to the big yellow sign saying 3 items fir £1.20.
"Thats with the clubcard" I was told.
"Forget it" I said a bit grumpily, dumping my shopping and picking up the change.
"It says it in the label "
"Yeah right. I came out to buy a couple of things, I didn't bring my reading glasses for a protracted contract. "

No doubt if I were buying a bunch of stuff I wouldn't have even noticed, which is what they hope.

Why can't they just price stuff honestly ffs. They've lost this customer for another 20 years.
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Tesco club cards, just another suppression of our freedoms to buy sweets at a reduced price.
 

chrismpw said:
Passing the local Tescos, I stop to get some sweets for the missus as she's bored at work.

I stopped shopping at big Tesco 20 years ago when I found out they were robbing me, consistently over many visits, in my weekly shop, by pricing lower on the shelf than at the till. I gave the manager a chance to explain herself. It was put down to simple errors - errors, I pointed out that were always and consistently in Tesco's favour and never the other way, like a true error might occasionally be.

Gef to the till at the local little tesco with my 3 items and count out my change £1.20 to be told it was £2.10. I pointed to the big yellow sign saying 3 items fir £1.20.
"Thats with the clubcard" I was told.
"Forget it" I said a bit grumpily, dumping my shopping and picking up the change.
"It says it in the label "
"Yeah right. I came out to buy a couple of things, I didn't bring my reading glasses for a protracted contract. "

No doubt if I were buying a bunch of stuff I wouldn't have even noticed, which is what they hope.

Why can't they just price stuff honestly ffs. They've lost this customer for another 20 years.
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I just pray for all our sake that they've done with club-cards by 2041 or I can foresee some serious stuff going down Going DOWN.
 
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chrismpw said:
Passing the local Tescos, I stop to get some sweets for the missus as she's bored at work.

I stopped shopping at big Tesco 20 years ago when I found out they were robbing me, consistently over many visits, in my weekly shop, by pricing lower on the shelf than at the till. I gave the manager a chance to explain herself. It was put down to simple errors - errors, I pointed out that were always and consistently in Tesco's favour and never the other way, like a true error might occasionally be.

Gef to the till at the local little tesco with my 3 items and count out my change £1.20 to be told it was £2.10. I pointed to the big yellow sign saying 3 items fir £1.20.
"Thats with the clubcard" I was told.
"Forget it" I said a bit grumpily, dumping my shopping and picking up the change.
"It says it in the label "
"Yeah right. I came out to buy a couple of things, I didn't bring my reading glasses for a protracted contract. "

No doubt if I were buying a bunch of stuff I wouldn't have even noticed, which is what they hope.

Why can't they just price stuff honestly ffs. They've lost this customer for another 20 years.
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Everything in the above spot on. I stopped confronting the duty manager at our Asda over the condoned practice of hoodwinking us as the patronising way I was dismissed was doing my tits in.
 
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Yeah - a great example of what happens when clueless politicians try to interfere with the Internet. Now instead of illegally fleecing you of your data we have to give them consent with infuriating pop-ups.
 
tommytowne said:
Everything in the above spot on. I stopped confronting the duty manager at our Asda over the condoned practice of hoodwinking us as the patronising way I was dismissed was doing my tits in.
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The other week in my local Asda I was buying some beer on the 3 for £20 offer, was surprised to see Peroni was part of the offer so l read the pricing card 3 times to make sure, got to the checkout and it wouldn’t except the Peroni as part of the offer. When I complained to the girl she went to check came back and said no they’re not part of the offer, when I said I’d checked the card 3 times she told me there’s no card there, wen to check myself and the price card was gone, taken by the same girl I suspect.
 

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