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[Moonhawk]

omgus said:

How about



b.b.but........?!?

[HereBeMonsters]

RenesisEvo said:

I received one of those red Post Office cards indicating I'd missed a delivery. No problem - I decide to head over to the depot the next day.

Next day I arrive, and get to the counter, and present the card, and ID.

Employee: "Sorry but you have to wait 24 hours before you come and collect, it says on the card."

Me: "It has been 24 hours already" and I point to his large wall clock. [A combination of planning and good fortune saw me at the counter about a minute after 24 hours had elapsed from the time written on the card.]

Employee gives me an evil look, wanders off with the card, and lo and behold, returns with the item! Was he just trying to get out of doing his job?

To be fair to those guys, almost EVERY time I'm in there, there's some fkwit who's got the card that day come in demanding his parcel. One recently, the card was less than an hour old. When the Royal Mail chap had to explain to him that his parcel was probably still out on the van, the guy just couldn't fathom it.

[Jamster123]

simoid said:

Literally 6 inches overhang? I'd have told him to fk himself and take it to the ombudsman person.

I did tell him that along with a load of other bad words....pointless I know. I also ripped up the tickets in his face.. Im cringing now, and it also means I lose out on offer to pay £30, but at the time I was absolutely furious.Doing his job or not, I wanted to punch the guy straight in the face, I've never felt that way about anyone, at least when sober!

Absolutely no reasoning or logic with these folk.

Yes, Ill get the chance to "Appeal" but thats just another long headache in which I have no time for.

All appeals must be send by post etc etc , absolute bullst. Why can't I email ?

[HTP99]

Jamster123 said:

All appeals must be send by post etc etc , absolute bullst. Why can't I email ?

Probably because they are hoping that you wont bother as it is hassle.

Oddly when the wife got a parking ticket, we appealed through the local Councils website, we won too, god knows how as her parking was atrocious.

[Supernova190188]

HTP99 said:

Supernova190188 said:

RobinBanks said:

Daniel1 said:

James2593 said:

Ki3r said:

James2593 said:

This happened last year, buying the weekly food shop with the GF and in the with the shopping was some beer. As the old woman at the till scanned it, the conversation went like;

Her: How old are you?
Me: 20, why?
Her: Have you got any I.D for this?
Me: Yeah, [goes into wallet] why did you need to ask me my age if you're going to ask for I.D anyway?
Her: Because if you're younger than 21, I need to see some I.D, and you said you were 20.
Me: I am. But what if I just said I was 22, then you wouldn't want the I.D.
Her: ....[blank look]... Then i'd know you were lying and ask for your I.D.
Me: You wouldn't, because you wouldn't even ask for it if I said I was older than 2..1....... *sigh* Never mind.

Either she was really thick, or taking this challenge 21 too literal. I'm used to being asked for I.D, i've had it for 3 years now, ask for it or don't. Stop fking around with this challenge 21, 25 bks.

To be fair, its not the cashiers fault. They are told if you sell to someone who looks under 21/25 without ID'ing you'll be bent over and fked.

I look under 21, if she asked me for some I.D straight away, there'd have been no problem, the jobsworth bit is the fact she asked me my age unnecessarily.

If I was 17, and when she asked my age I said I was 22, then she doesn't ask for I.D, it makes the whole process flawed.

Sounds to me she was just asking you for ID. The fact she asked your age first was just a way of starting the conversation.

Some people now do seem to believe that legally you must be asked for ID if you look under 25.

A few months ago I was in tesco , the lady in front of me had a bottle of wine , then the girl scans it and turns to the woman on the till behind her and says "do I need to ask for ID" , "umm no, love" replied the other woman. The lady buying the wine was easily pushing on 80. Not a jobsworth , just a dull girl! made me laugh out loud at the time.

She was probably actually under 18 and was getting authorisation to sell it, from someone who is over 18.

I'd say she was 21/22 , but she didn't ask for authorisation , she asked, "do i have to ask for id"

[rehab71]

Another 'tip' story. In the early 80's, before I was born, my parents were doing up their house and had done a lot of garden clearance, as they had so much to move my dad arranged to borrow a Transit tipper from a friend. He rang the council to check it was ok for him to take the Transit to the tip and they said all was fine.

So, come Saturday morning with the Transit absolutely stuffed with garden waste they set off to the tip, on arrival they were told that under no circumstance could they bring in the tipper as it was a comercial vehicle, no amount of arguing with the gypos who ran the tip would change their mind and my dad was told to leave.

Just before my dad got back in the cab he removed the pin on the tipper and whilst pulling away started the hydronic lift a tipped the entire contents across the yard. Apparently the gypos were going ballistic, would loved to have seen their faces!

[Pit Pony]

Supernova190188 said:

RobinBanks said:

Daniel1 said:

James2593 said:

Ki3r said:

James2593 said:

This happened last year, buying the weekly food shop with the GF and in the with the shopping was some beer. As the old woman at the till scanned it, the conversation went like;

Her: How old are you?
Me: 20, why?
Her: Have you got any I.D for this?
Me: Yeah, [goes into wallet] why did you need to ask me my age if you're going to ask for I.D anyway?
Her: Because if you're younger than 21, I need to see some I.D, and you said you were 20.
Me: I am. But what if I just said I was 22, then you wouldn't want the I.D.
Her: ....[blank look]... Then i'd know you were lying and ask for your I.D.
Me: You wouldn't, because you wouldn't even ask for it if I said I was older than 2..1....... *sigh* Never mind.

Either she was really thick, or taking this challenge 21 too literal. I'm used to being asked for I.D, i've had it for 3 years now, ask for it or don't. Stop fking around with this challenge 21, 25 bks.

To be fair, its not the cashiers fault. They are told if you sell to someone who looks under 21/25 without ID'ing you'll be bent over and fked.

I look under 21, if she asked me for some I.D straight away, there'd have been no problem, the jobsworth bit is the fact she asked me my age unnecessarily.

If I was 17, and when she asked my age I said I was 22, then she doesn't ask for I.D, it makes the whole process flawed.

Sounds to me she was just asking you for ID. The fact she asked your age first was just a way of starting the conversation.

Some people now do seem to believe that legally you must be asked for ID if you look under 25.

A few months ago I was in tesco , the lady in front of me had a bottle of wine , then the girl scans it and turns to the woman on the till behind her and says "do I need to ask for ID" , "umm no, love" replied the other woman. The lady buying the wine was easily pushing on 80. Not a jobsworth , just a dull girl! made me laugh out loud at the time.

Wife sent me a text asking me to purchase my own beer on my way home, as she'd been in Tesco, about to buy the beer I'd sent her a text to get her to buy, but she was with our 17 year old son, who had advised her which beer I prefer. They spent another 45 mins getting other stuff and when they got to the til the store detective had been following them, and accused her of buying the beer for him. The assistant manager was called, and it ended with my wife leaving £100 of food at the checkout and going home having purchased nothing.

Strange as it may seem, my son was in his homebrew phase of drinking, and didn't drink 'st like that dad'

[simoid]

Jamster123 said:

I did tell him that along with a load of other bad words....pointless I know. I also ripped up the tickets in his face.. Im cringing now, and it also means I lose out on offer to pay £30, but at the time I was absolutely furious.Doing his job or not, I wanted to punch the guy straight in the face, I've never felt that way about anyone, at least when sober!

Absolutely no reasoning or logic with these folk.

Yes, Ill get the chance to "Appeal" but thats just another long headache in which I have no time for.

All appeals must be send by post etc etc , absolute bullst. Why can't I email ?

"De minimis" might be a useful phrase in said letter

[cootuk]

"When I set my business up it was suggested that I should perform a Risk Assessment on the workplace. I work from home sat in front of a keyboard all day "

Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992 ?

[Buster73]

We had a visit from the local bobby at work advising us to change our route to the night safe at the bank due to some incidents.

The bank is actually next door , the night safe was about three foot from our property but he wouldn't have it , we had to listen to him advising us to change our route taken along with the time we left.

Even after showing him next door he still countered on about it being in our best interests.

[Nardies]

RenesisEvo said:

I received one of those red Post Office cards indicating I'd missed a delivery. No problem - I decide to head over to the depot the next day.

Next day I arrive, and get to the counter, and present the card, and ID.

Employee: "Sorry but you have to wait 24 hours before you come and collect, it says on the card."

Me: "It has been 24 hours already" and I point to his large wall clock. [A combination of planning and good fortune saw me at the counter about a minute after 24 hours had elapsed from the time written on the card.]

Employee gives me an evil look, wanders off with the card, and lo and behold, returns with the item! Was he just trying to get out of doing his job?

I've had this on a couple of occasions, I think the Royal Mail has some of the biggest jobs-worths going, the collection office near me especially.

On one occasion I was responding to a text message after I handed over my red post office card, the guy stood there looking at me blankly, and pointed to one of around 20 signs on the wall, this particular one stating 'staff have the right to refuse service to customers using their phone, please respect our staff'. I put the phone in my pocket, and he collected my parcel.

On another occasion I went in to collect a T-Shirt from the US which apparently needed some customs paying on it. The shirt was $12, the customs was £18. I asked the woman behind the counter
Me: How do you work out how much the customs cost is?'
Her: I'm only doing my job
Me: I'm not arguing that, I just wanted to know how the customs cost could be this high for something so small
Her: There's no need to have to go at me, I don't make the rules
Me: I'm not having a go, I'm going to pay, I just want to know how it came to that figure
Her: Sir, I don't have to put up with this, I don't like you shouting at me (I hadn't risen my voice at all)


I gave her £20, "It needs to be exact change only"

fking jobs-worth.

[WinstonWolf]

cootuk said:

"When I set my business up it was suggested that I should perform a Risk Assessment on the workplace. I work from home sat in front of a keyboard all day "

Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992 ?

Shall I report myself if I don't comply?

[HTP99]

Nardies said:

On one occasion I was responding to a text message after I handed over my red post office card, the guy stood there looking at me blankly, and pointed to one of around 20 signs on the wall, this particular one stating 'staff have the right to refuse service to customers using their phone, please respect our staff'. I put the phone in my pocket, and he collected my parcel.

He wasn't being a jobsworth, he was pointing out how rude you were.

[jdw100]

WinstonWolf said:

Shall I report myself if I don't comply?

Verbal warning as a starting point then if you don't comply with your requests you'll have to scale up to a written warning.

Back when I worked in industry we came in one morning ready to start an all-day production run to find our H&S chap had cut off every single plug in our entire dispensing suite.

Apparently he had been about to leave that evening and seen through the window of our clean-room that the wiring to an electronic balance had a little gap between the insulation and the plug. You could just see the three wires showing...

So, as you would, he let himself in and went round cutting off every plug he could find.

My Production Manager did suggest to him other courses of action he might have taken - remove the balance, leave a note on the balance, leave a note on the door to the suite, raise his concerns face to face the next day..but not go in unattended and cut off every fkin' plug!

But oh no, his view was if this one balance was so badly wired he could not trust the rest of the equipment and it should all be re-wired immediately! Our Engineers were not best pleased, especially as the rest of the equipment was perfectly okay.

We used to joke that at home his kids had to wear harnesses and safety lines just to use the stairs.

This was the early '90s and I think there was bit more 'H&S fever' back then.

[andygo]

HTP99 said:

He wasn't being a jobsworth, he was pointing out how rude you were.

I was in the local post office the other day sending a small flat package. The horrid woman (even my wife thinks she's a PITA) asked me what was in it. I said a bunch of bananas. She said she would have to write 'Perishable goods' on it. Daft cow.

It's the same bint that spent ages narkily trying to get me to pay some extortionate amount to send my driving licence back to the DVLA special delivery in case it got lost. She was most put out when I pointed out that she was expecting me to pay to insure the letter against their own incompetence should they 'lose' it.

[opieoilman]

About 3 years ago, I had to get my passport renewed and went to the post office to get it done and checked by them as I didn't want any mistakes due to needing the replacement pretty quickly. My brother did his at the same time and his came back a couple of weeks later. The next day, I got a letter in the post stating that my application had been rejected due to an incomplete postal address, the same address that the letter had just been sent to. There was a number to call to provide the missing information, so I gave them a call to see what the problem was.

Me: Hi, I've had my passport renewal application returned to me as my postal address is incomplete.
Passport Office guy: Okay, what is missing from the address?
Me: I don't know, you returned it and it got here, so I would assume the address is complete.
PO Guy: Ah............................. um, yes, that would appear a little odd.

[HTP99]

opieoilman said:

About 3 years ago, I had to get my passport renewed and went to the post office to get it done and checked by them as I didn't want any mistakes due to needing the replacement pretty quickly. My brother did his at the same time and his came back a couple of weeks later. The next day, I got a letter in the post stating that my application had been rejected due to an incomplete postal address, the same address that the letter had just been sent to. There was a number to call to provide the missing information, so I gave them a call to see what the problem was.

Me: Hi, I've had my passport renewal application returned to me as my postal address is incomplete.
Passport Office guy: Okay, what is missing from the address?
Me: I don't know, you returned it and it got here, so I would assume the address is complete.
PO Guy: Ah............................. um, yes, that would appear a little odd.

OT slightly; we renewed our passports earlier on in the year, a few weeks after posting it off a message was left on the home answering machine to call the passport office, I rang them and asked for the girl, I was put straight through to her, she wanted to check my DOB, it transpired that when the wife did the paperwork she wrote in her DOB on my application, I gave them my correct DOB which tallied up with my old passport, she said thet was fine and a week later my new passport had been delivered.

I was gobsmacked that it was all sorted so quickly and painlessly, this is also when there was this massive passport backlog just before the summer.

[Ki3r]

Nardies said:

I've had this on a couple of occasions, I think the Royal Mail has some of the biggest jobs-worths going, the collection office near me especially.

On one occasion I was responding to a text message after I handed over my red post office card, the guy stood there looking at me blankly, and pointed to one of around 20 signs on the wall, this particular one stating 'staff have the right to refuse service to customers using their phone, please respect our staff'. I put the phone in my pocket, and he collected my parcel.

On another occasion I went in to collect a T-Shirt from the US which apparently needed some customs paying on it. The shirt was $12, the customs was £18. I asked the woman behind the counter
Me: How do you work out how much the customs cost is?'
Her: I'm only doing my job
Me: I'm not arguing that, I just wanted to know how the customs cost could be this high for something so small
Her: There's no need to have to go at me, I don't make the rules
Me: I'm not having a go, I'm going to pay, I just want to know how it came to that figure
Her: Sir, I don't have to put up with this, I don't like you shouting at me (I hadn't risen my voice at all)


I gave her £20, "It needs to be exact change only"

fking jobs-worth.

Not long ago I had one of the 'sorry we missed you cards', all it had was a surname x 2, there are six of us with the same surname at home. I was expecting something, so popped down with driving licence and whatever else I needed to get my parcel.

I get there and hand the card over, hand my ID, and the bloke says I can only have one as the other is in my step dads name and I hadn't got his permission to pick it up.

He didn't seem to get that we live at the same address, have the same surname, and the sodding card has 'surname x 2' on, which suggests there is more than one.

If one said 'A Surname' and another 'B Surname' fair enough.

[Nardies]

HTP99 said:

He wasn't being a jobsworth, he was pointing out how rude you were.

How exactly? I gave him a card, he goes out the back to find the parcel, I wasn't there to have a chat with him.

[Liszt]

HTP99 said:

opieoilman said:

About 3 years ago, I had to get my passport renewed and went to the post office to get it done and checked by them as I didn't want any mistakes due to needing the replacement pretty quickly. My brother did his at the same time and his came back a couple of weeks later. The next day, I got a letter in the post stating that my application had been rejected due to an incomplete postal address, the same address that the letter had just been sent to. There was a number to call to provide the missing information, so I gave them a call to see what the problem was.

Me: Hi, I've had my passport renewal application returned to me as my postal address is incomplete.
Passport Office guy: Okay, what is missing from the address?
Me: I don't know, you returned it and it got here, so I would assume the address is complete.
PO Guy: Ah............................. um, yes, that would appear a little odd.

OT slightly; we renewed our passports earlier on in the year, a few weeks after posting it off a message was left on the home answering machine to call the passport office, I rang them and asked for the girl, I was put straight through to her, she wanted to check my DOB, it transpired that when the wife did the paperwork she wrote in her DOB on my application, I gave them my correct DOB which tallied up with my old passport, she said thet was fine and a week later my new passport had been delivered.

I was gobsmacked that it was all sorted so quickly and painlessly, this is also when there was this massive passport backlog just before the summer.

Don't get me started! Applied to renew 10 year old son's passport in April, a lot of to-ing and fro-ing and escalation. Culminated in a yet another call to Passport Office on 1st August to ask where the hell it was as due to go on holiday on the 4th. Was told that they couldn't tell me the status but someone would call me with in the next 2 working days to let me know the status of the application, but no chance of getting it before we travelled.

Got off the phone to answer the door to the postman who had the passport. Idiots.