Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 6)

[Muzzer79]

I haven't read all 300+ pages of this thread, so my nomination may be duplicated but.....

Recruitment consultants making videos on LinkedIn.

Usually in the driver's seat of their 1 series, or in the corner of an office.

"Hi, I'm Jenny from **** recruitment. We have loads and LOADS of great candidates for you this week.........etc, etc"

This, this...... annoys me beyond reason.

[ro250]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

"No parking. Driveway in constant use"

I hate myself for being annoyed because I know what they mean. But it's just so grammatically incorrect. What they mean us "Access required at any time".

Not just me that has looked at the driveway and repeatedly said in my head "It's not in use now. Or now. Or now. Or now..."

[Fastdruid]

Our oven has broken. This is the second time that it's gone and in exactly the same way. So I told them what I thought the problem was and suggested that they ensured they brought a spare part with them rather than make two trips like they had to last time...

Turned out to be exactly what I suspected and they brought out a spare part...which was the wrong one (thermal cut out, there are three). So now we're without an oven for another week because they didn't order the correct one that I'd told them they need to order.

[DRFC1879]

ro250 said:

Clockwork Cupcake said:

"No parking. Driveway in constant use"

I hate myself for being annoyed because I know what they mean. But it's just so grammatically incorrect. What they mean us "Access required at any time".

Not just me that has looked at the driveway and repeatedly said in my head "It's not in use now. Or now. Or now. Or now..."

Hear hear!

[Lily the Pink]

DRFC1879 said:

ro250 said:

Clockwork Cupcake said:

"No parking. Driveway in constant use"

I hate myself for being annoyed because I know what they mean. But it's just so grammatically incorrect. What they mean us "Access required at any time".

Not just me that has looked at the driveway and repeatedly said in my head "It's not in use now. Or now. Or now. Or now..."

Hear hear!

I think CC has just won the thread.

[nonsequitur]

NapierDeltic said:

Collect Plus!!!

I used their service quite a bit during the height of lockdown as my local Post Office started running erratically. Collect Plus are easy to deal with as you can pay for postage using PayPal, and then take parcels to your local corner shop, get them to print off the label, and then never have to think about the parcel again.

The problem started with one parcel, that hasn't received an update since the 13th of July. I've had to issue a refund to the recipient, as the sale was made via Ebay. Collect Plus have disconnected their phone number, so the only correspondence is with their customer services people via a live chat. Cue people with a limited grasp of English who probably aren't being paid an awful lot for their services.

Having searched their depot for my parcel (!!) they finally acknowledge after four days that it is lost. They email me a claims form to fill in. Having filled it in, I send it back to [e-mail], and I immediately get an automatic response telling me that they no longer accept inquiries via this email address.

I've also spotted another parcel that hasn't been updated since the 25th, so I'm wondering if it has vanished into the void as well. If I can't email them, or phone them, and I can't provide additional email via their crap live chat function, then I'm basically screwed.

If I issue the second refund then I will be down £55, so a slightly costly lesson I suppose.


I'm sick of dealing with half-arsed companies that farm all their customer support to the third world and/or robots. I can't tell if I'm dealing with advanced A.I., thick school leavers or third world dwellers any more on these live chat things. Maybe this is the point? Beyond that, Collect Plus supposedly use Yodel and other cut-price delivery companies to do the actual delivery function, so I have no confidence there either. Absolutely great service until they mess up, and then you're left with no clear line of communication.

Early into working from home, I spied an absolutely battered Fiat Multipla pulling up outside the house with several children bouncing around inside. A fairly rough looking 'Senga' got out the front and started rifling about the passenger foot well, back seats, rear foot wells and finally the boot. It turns out that this shambolic operation was actually our local Yodel delivery driver; a family enterprise!

Yes, lots familiar problems for myself during this crisis, but not the battered Multipla, but I don't beyond reason and am not surprised when there are delays or other problems. I usually take a deep breath and carry on.

There are, of course, many businesses that are unaffected by The Covid epidemic and continue to offer their usual excellent service.

[BigBen]

Lily the Pink said:

DRFC1879 said:

ro250 said:

Clockwork Cupcake said:

"No parking. Driveway in constant use"

I hate myself for being annoyed because I know what they mean. But it's just so grammatically incorrect. What they mean us "Access required at any time".

Not just me that has looked at the driveway and repeatedly said in my head "It's not in use now. Or now. Or now. Or now..."

Hear hear!

I think CC has just won the thread.

My car is currently parked on my driveway. The purpose of the driveway is to provide its owner somewhere to park cars. As long as a car is on it it is in use. Furthermore when a car is not on it it is providing me a space to park my car at any time the mood takes me. Therefore it is in constant use.

[Big-Bo-Beep]

Lily the Pink said:

I think CC has just won the thread.

oh don't please. his ego is massive enough.

[TheInsanity1234]

BigBen said:

My car is currently parked on my driveway. The purpose of the driveway is to provide its owner somewhere to park cars. As long as a car is on it it is in use. Furthermore when a car is not on it it is providing me a space to park my car at any time the mood takes me. Therefore it is in constant use.

When the car is parked in a space at a car park, the car parking space is 'in use'. When you've driven off, the parking space is no longer 'in use', it's just a parking space.

Ergo the same applies to driveways, surely. You're not 'using' the space to park your car when you've got your car somewhere else. You're 'using' some other parking space somewhere else, or 'using' the roads. But not the driveway.

You're not using the driveway all the time, you've just got a driveway which offers you the convenience of using it to park your car as and when you see fit, rather than jostling for a parking space somewhere communal.

[cuprabob]

Big-Bo-Beep said:

Lily the Pink said:

I think CC has just won the thread.

oh don't please. her ego is massive enough.

FTFY

[Clockwork Cupcake]

BigBen said:

My car is currently parked on my driveway. The purpose of the driveway is to provide its owner somewhere to park cars. As long as a car is on it it is in use. Furthermore when a car is not on it it is providing me a space to park my car at any time the mood takes me. Therefore it is in constant use.

I should possibly have clarified, or maybe I used the wrong word. What I actually meant were roller doors, gates, and other entrances, that have "No Parking. In constant use" type things painted on them (or, by way of signage etc). It's clear that what they mean by "in constant use" is "please don't block this as I may decide to come in or out whenever the need takes me and I don't want to find some berk parked across it that prevents me", but the grammatical incorrectness of it annoys me (and also the fact that it annoys me also annoys me. Which is a bit meta, I know).

"Access required at any time" is probably the most grammatically correct you could come up with, I reckon.

Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Saturday 1st August 21:35

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Big-Bo-Beep said:

oh don't please. his ego is massive enough.

As cuprabob points out, it's actually "her" not "his".

It's honestly never my intent to come across as having a big ego - nothing could be further from the truth. If that's how I come across then I sincerely apologise.

[21st Century Man]

I can't say I've ever noticed, obviously not in constant use.

[deeen]

None of you are being pedantic enough about the sign. Ants are using it to walk over. Photons are using it to bounce off. It's slowing soil erosion. You can think of many more... that driveway is in constant use. Of course, someone might also want access to it at all times, but since they never put up a sign about access, I guess we'll never know?

[anonymous-user]

The BBC constantly telling us how ‘hard hit’ Honk Kong, Australia etc are with the virus.

Ignoring completely that cases and deaths in those places and 280 other countries are a drop in the ocean compared with ours, the rate of which and reasons why they choose to leave unreported.

[Big-Bo-Beep]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

As cuprabob points out, it's actually "her" not "his".

It's honestly never my intent to come across as having a big ego - nothing could be further from the truth. If that's how I come across then I sincerely apologise.

I was only joshing, really no need to apologise.

it's a bad habit to assume it's only pale, sad, petrolhead blokes that post on PH

[DoubleD]

V6 Pushfit said:

The BBC constantly telling us how ‘hard hit’ Honk Kong, Australia etc are with the virus.

That was a location for a carry on film I think?

[davhill]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

I should possibly have clarified, or maybe I used the wrong word. What I actually meant were roller doors, gates, and other entrances, that have "No Parking. In constant use" type things painted on them (or, by way of signage etc). It's clear that what they mean by "in constant use" is "please don't block this as I may decide to come in or out whenever the need takes me and I don't want to find some berk parked across it that prevents me", but the grammatical incorrectness of it annoys me (and also the fact that it annoys me also annoys me. Which is a bit meta, I know).

"Access required at any time" is probably the most grammatically correct you could come up with, I reckon.

Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Saturday 1st August 21:35

Errrm...'Keep Clear'?

[Clockwork Cupcake]

davhill said:

Errrm...'Keep Clear'?

Oh yeah. That would probably do it.

[BigBen]

davhill said:

Clockwork Cupcake said:

I should possibly have clarified, or maybe I used the wrong word. What I actually meant were roller doors, gates, and other entrances, that have "No Parking. In constant use" type things painted on them (or, by way of signage etc). It's clear that what they mean by "in constant use" is "please don't block this as I may decide to come in or out whenever the need takes me and I don't want to find some berk parked across it that prevents me", but the grammatical incorrectness of it annoys me (and also the fact that it annoys me also annoys me. Which is a bit meta, I know).

"Access required at any time" is probably the most grammatically correct you could come up with, I reckon.

Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Saturday 1st August 21:35

Errrm...'Keep Clear'?

Or indeed "No Parking" the first sentence of the annoying sign. Although it is difficult to argue that a closed door is not in constant use, my front door is closed at the moment and is very much in use.