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BrabusMog said:
We work next to a national car rental company and I'm friendly with a couple of the lads that work there - they let me take a new RR Sport FOC for a night a couple of weeks ago, so I think they do have the flexibility if they want to use it.
How did the insurance and premium vehicle deposit work with that?Moonhawk said:
Don't know whether this belongs here but:
I booked a van to move house. Booked from 10am this morning until 10am thursday (specifically to miss the morning rush hour at the place i'm dropping it off).
Just arrived at the van hire place a little early (45 mins) because my wife had a hospital appointment and dropped me off first - so I thought i'd go into the office and get things moving.
Guy behind the desk says that although the van is already here sitting waiting to be collected - if I take it now, I'd have to drop it off at 9:15 or be charged a whole extra day's hire.
Surely it's no skin off their nose to let the van go a few minutes early if it's just sat there?
Anyway - i'm now sat in the office, looking at the van waiting for 10 o-clock to roll around.
Hah - that reminds me of a van hire to move house a few years ago.I booked a van to move house. Booked from 10am this morning until 10am thursday (specifically to miss the morning rush hour at the place i'm dropping it off).
Just arrived at the van hire place a little early (45 mins) because my wife had a hospital appointment and dropped me off first - so I thought i'd go into the office and get things moving.
Guy behind the desk says that although the van is already here sitting waiting to be collected - if I take it now, I'd have to drop it off at 9:15 or be charged a whole extra day's hire.
Surely it's no skin off their nose to let the van go a few minutes early if it's just sat there?
Anyway - i'm now sat in the office, looking at the van waiting for 10 o-clock to roll around.
Got there to pick it up to be declined as I'd had one fault claim in the last 3 years. I was furious as if they are going to be so selective it would be nice to know when booking. Having a house to move this was a little disruptive.
Had to do a swift change to another firm who had a more realistic policy.
The Vambo said:
BrabusMog said:
We work next to a national car rental company and I'm friendly with a couple of the lads that work there - they let me take a new RR Sport FOC for a night a couple of weeks ago, so I think they do have the flexibility if they want to use it.
How did the insurance and premium vehicle deposit work with that?DannyScene said:
funkyrobot said:
I went to see How To Train Your Dragon recently, but the f
ker already knew what it was doing!!!
Is it possible you saw How To Train Your Dragon 2?ker already knew what it was doing!!!How to train a misbehaving dragon?
How to train your dragons offspring?
There's ways around it!
Hooli said:
Moonhawk said:
Wife had a good one yesterday.
She went into the Doctors surgery for a routine check-up that they had requested she attend - they then berated her because according to her medical records she wasn't due that particular check-up for at least another 18 months
I've spent two years trying to get by gp to stop sending heart checkup reminders. I've never had a heart condition ffs, yet they can't remove me from the list they added me too.She went into the Doctors surgery for a routine check-up that they had requested she attend - they then berated her because according to her medical records she wasn't due that particular check-up for at least another 18 months
Edited by Moonhawk on Tuesday 28th October 10:04
2 months ago i get sent a letter saying, please rock up and chat to the nurse about how you are etc.
handwritten on it, was the following 'this is overdue'
the receptionist passes comment about it, and i point out they send out the time and date to me! all i got was an 'oh'
Moonhawk said:
Don't know whether this belongs here but:
I booked a van to move house. Booked from 10am this morning until 10am thursday (specifically to miss the morning rush hour at the place i'm dropping it off).
Just arrived at the van hire place a little early (45 mins) because my wife had a hospital appointment and dropped me off first - so I thought i'd go into the office and get things moving.
Guy behind the desk says that although the van is already here sitting waiting to be collected - if I take it now, I'd have to drop it off at 9:15 or be charged a whole extra day's hire.
Surely it's no skin off their nose to let the van go a few minutes early if it's just sat there?
Anyway - i'm now sat in the office, looking at the van waiting for 10 o-clock to roll around.
As annoying as it is.. Some others have covered reasons but it's probably insurance too, you're on their insurance and paid and booked 10 while 10, that's most probably when their insurance covers you too.I booked a van to move house. Booked from 10am this morning until 10am thursday (specifically to miss the morning rush hour at the place i'm dropping it off).
Just arrived at the van hire place a little early (45 mins) because my wife had a hospital appointment and dropped me off first - so I thought i'd go into the office and get things moving.
Guy behind the desk says that although the van is already here sitting waiting to be collected - if I take it now, I'd have to drop it off at 9:15 or be charged a whole extra day's hire.
Surely it's no skin off their nose to let the van go a few minutes early if it's just sat there?
Anyway - i'm now sat in the office, looking at the van waiting for 10 o-clock to roll around.
If you pull out at 9:55 and cause an accident I can imagine they'd be in a whole world of s
t.If I was the guy at the hire place I'd explain something along the lines of that to you with the hope that I wouldn't get called a jobsworth!
philmots said:
If I was the guy at the hire place I'd explain something along the lines of that to you with the hope that I wouldn't get called a jobsworth!
I didn't call the guy a jobsworth. I already explained why I stated that this particular example may not belong here.Even if there is an insurance issue - surely they don't have to charge you a whole extra day's hire just because you turn up half an hour or so early, especially considering this particular hire company do hire by the hour, so their systems are obviously geared up to handle it.
Fine - charge another £5 or £10 to cover the extra insurance - but to not even be given the option......
Perhaps it's just me.
Edited by Moonhawk on Tuesday 31st March 17:06
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 ?
I did that. The risk assessment I got my kids to do on me declared that I'd need the business to pay for an eye test and if required buy me new varifocals. I also had to pay them out of petty cash for the unbiased risk consultancy. Although to be fair they did the research the subject on google for a good 20 mins, and downloaded a DSE survey from somewhere.Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992 ?
They also found me a "new" desk chair on ebay for £1.87 and found out that I get free eye tests as my dad has glaucoma.
Bloody good job, because if I don't wear the glasses, after half an hour I can't see a bloody thing.
matchmaker said:
We have a prepayment electric meter. A letter came from E-on with a £12 credit voucher on it - addressed to my wife, who is for some reason the account holder. I duly popped into the local post office where I have been topping up the e-key regularly for the last few years. I handed over the letter to the post office lady (who has been serving me for years) but she refused to process it as although she knew me "she didn't know my wife". Fair enough, I suppose, so I duly returned home to collect said wife, who wasn't particularly chuffed about being dragged away from a warm flat and some crap tv movie!
We returned to the post office and we handed over the letter, the key and the wife's provisional photocard licence. Post office lady still refused to process the voucher it as it wasn't a full licence...
So we went to another post office which we rarely use and it was processed no problem!
On my way to work, I needed to post a signed document to the HMRC and I wanted to send it recorded delivery. It needed to get there as soon as possible. It was 7:15 am, and the post office/newsagent was open, so I went in and tried to get the owner to sell me said service. Not until 9am. I could buy a newspaper, cans of pop, a book of stamps from the shop, but not a single stamp from the post office. There was NOBODY else in the place. This meant I had to retrace my steps at lunch , wait in a queue with 15 old biddies, in order to get the service that I wanted. Rules apparently. We returned to the post office and we handed over the letter, the key and the wife's provisional photocard licence. Post office lady still refused to process the voucher it as it wasn't a full licence...
So we went to another post office which we rarely use and it was processed no problem!
I went into a Florist,grocer,card shop and post office about 6:15pm the other night with my "green stick" to buy electric, for the little flat I rent midweek. It was after 6 because I'd been to Asda and they would only add electric with cash, not a debit card. I wanted to use my business debit card as a reminder in my company accounts just in case I mislaid the receipt (not that I would). Plus I didn't like the snotty attitude. I couldn't have cash back as I hadn't bought anything, so I'd have to leave the queue and go to the cash machine. Hence why I was at the post office.
The lady in the post office bit said "I'll just have to turn the machines back on. It would be awful if you ran out. We usually close at 6 but if someone needs something and we haven't locked up, we will serve them" On the way out I gave her husband a hand with getting his flower trolleys into the shop.
Moonhawk said:
I didn't call the guy a jobsworth. I already explained why I stated that this particular example may not belong here.
Even if there is an insurance issue - surely they don't have to charge you a whole extra day's hire just because you turn up half an hour or so early, especially considering this particular hire company do hire by the hour, so their systems are obviously geared up to handle it.
Fine - charge another £5 or £10 to cover the extra insurance - but to not even be given the option......
Perhaps it's just me.
Don't hire companies normally have a 60 minute grace period on the end of hire agreements?Even if there is an insurance issue - surely they don't have to charge you a whole extra day's hire just because you turn up half an hour or so early, especially considering this particular hire company do hire by the hour, so their systems are obviously geared up to handle it.
Fine - charge another £5 or £10 to cover the extra insurance - but to not even be given the option......
Perhaps it's just me.
Edited by Moonhawk on Tuesday 31st March 17:06
So you could've taken it at 9:15 and then returned it at 10 to be within the grace time...
My Mother in Law still lives in her own bungalow. She's 93 now.
Now, not being exactly sprightly, we did a "thingy" with the council so that they will pick up her wheelie bins from near the door of her house as there's no way she could pull the bins to end of the driveway where they are supposed to be for emptying.
Forms filled and signed etc and all well and good except for that her neighbor (being neighborly) would occasionally walk down her drive on bin day and take her bin to the kerb.
Cue the bin not being emptied.
When I eventually got through to a human at the council offices, it was reported as being "in the wrong place" for collection.
We had to tell her neighbors not to move the bins.
Now, not being exactly sprightly, we did a "thingy" with the council so that they will pick up her wheelie bins from near the door of her house as there's no way she could pull the bins to end of the driveway where they are supposed to be for emptying.
Forms filled and signed etc and all well and good except for that her neighbor (being neighborly) would occasionally walk down her drive on bin day and take her bin to the kerb.
Cue the bin not being emptied.
When I eventually got through to a human at the council offices, it was reported as being "in the wrong place" for collection.
We had to tell her neighbors not to move the bins.
STW2010 said:
That defies common sense. How stupid can some people (bin men) be?!?
Not stupid - jobsworthy.The difference between a stupid person and jobsworthy one is that the stupid person doesn't know what rules/guidance are in place or what they should be doing - whereas the jobsworthy one knows only too well and follows them to the letter even if it means being bloody minded and defying common sense in the process.
Moonhawk said:
STW2010 said:
That defies common sense. How stupid can some people (bin men) be?!?
Not stupid - jobsworthy.The difference between a stupid person and jobsworthy one is that the stupid person doesn't know what rules/guidance are in place or what they should be doing - whereas the jobsworthy one knows only too well and follows them to the letter even if it means being bloody minded and defying common sense in the process.
We have the same bin men and I've seen people on my road put an extra black bag out next to the bin and it gets left on the kerb.
It would take 2 seconds to hoy the bag into the back of the lorry but "rules is rules mate"
Of course, I can see that if they took one bag, then people would start leaving 2 or more but there you go.
HD Adam said:
Moonhawk said:
STW2010 said:
That defies common sense. How stupid can some people (bin men) be?!?
Not stupid - jobsworthy.The difference between a stupid person and jobsworthy one is that the stupid person doesn't know what rules/guidance are in place or what they should be doing - whereas the jobsworthy one knows only too well and follows them to the letter even if it means being bloody minded and defying common sense in the process.
We have the same bin men and I've seen people on my road put an extra black bag out next to the bin and it gets left on the kerb.
It would take 2 seconds to hoy the bag into the back of the lorry but "rules is rules mate"
Of course, I can see that if they took one bag, then people would start leaving 2 or more but there you go.
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