Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 7)
Discussion
Cotty said:
Jonboy_t said:
IT. On the whole, it’s just a massive bag of dicks that has the potential (and desire, apparently) to ruin people’s day/week/life for absolutely no reason other than it feels like it. .
My IT department is s
t. Completely useless. I have six calls logged with them that they are unable to fix. One is over a month old, I chased it on monday, no response, glad im leaving the company soon and they can shove their systems up their ass.k knows what connected through a VPN to the company network. Manna from heaven for Roy and Moss down in the basement.So when I'm experiencing crippling network issues, of course it's nothing to do with the company's now under-specced network infrastructure, it's OBVIOUSLY my home network which I know works perfectly well because I've never had a f
king problem with it in the past, and all the error messages that are popping up explicitly mention the word 'proxy' in it somewhere.Grrr.
On the subject of bank anti-fraud...
Barclays send you a text asking if it's you making a certain transaction, asking that you reply Y or N
Unfortunately the number you have to reply to is a premium rate one which charges for text messages, and my network provider doesn't support sending texts to premium rate numbers...so I have to spend some time in a phone queue trying to get through to a human who can unblock the transaction, while being forced to listed to a recorded message telling me I can do things online
Barclays send you a text asking if it's you making a certain transaction, asking that you reply Y or N
Unfortunately the number you have to reply to is a premium rate one which charges for text messages, and my network provider doesn't support sending texts to premium rate numbers...so I have to spend some time in a phone queue trying to get through to a human who can unblock the transaction, while being forced to listed to a recorded message telling me I can do things online
MartG said:
On the subject of bank anti-fraud...
Barclays send you a text asking if it's you making a certain transaction, asking that you reply Y or N
Unfortunately the number you have to reply to is a premium rate one which charges for text messages, and my network provider doesn't support sending texts to premium rate numbers...so I have to spend some time in a phone queue trying to get through to a human who can unblock the transaction, while being forced to listed to a recorded message telling me I can do things online
At this point, why are you not dumping that bank like the clutch in a clapped out Impreza?Barclays send you a text asking if it's you making a certain transaction, asking that you reply Y or N
Unfortunately the number you have to reply to is a premium rate one which charges for text messages, and my network provider doesn't support sending texts to premium rate numbers...so I have to spend some time in a phone queue trying to get through to a human who can unblock the transaction, while being forced to listed to a recorded message telling me I can do things online
Even if I had a debt with them, I'd still be using someone else for my everyday banking.
People who ignore social distancing markers and stand right behind you at a checkout trying to squeeze their shopping on the conveyor behind your shopping muttering under their breath about why you won't move up behind the person in front of you despite the fact you're observing the social distancing markers, wkers!
kers!MartG said:
On the subject of bank anti-fraud...
Barclays send you a text asking if it's you making a certain transaction, asking that you reply Y or N
Unfortunately the number you have to reply to is a premium rate one which charges for text messages, and my network provider doesn't support sending texts to premium rate numbers...so I have to spend some time in a phone queue trying to get through to a human who can unblock the transaction, while being forced to listed to a recorded message telling me I can do things online
Are you sure you’ve got that right?Barclays send you a text asking if it's you making a certain transaction, asking that you reply Y or N
Unfortunately the number you have to reply to is a premium rate one which charges for text messages, and my network provider doesn't support sending texts to premium rate numbers...so I have to spend some time in a phone queue trying to get through to a human who can unblock the transaction, while being forced to listed to a recorded message telling me I can do things online
I recently binned off Plusnet, because it wouldn’t let me reply to a Barclays Y/N text, resulting in me being stuck on the phone for ages.
My research showed that Plusnet doesn’t let you reply to ‘short code’ text numbers. As far as I’m aware texts to those numbers are charged at normal rate, I.e. free for most people.
It wasn’t the first time I hadn’t been able to reply to Short Code texts, but it was the first one which inconvenienced me enough to make me change phone providers.
Bobberoo said:
People who ignore social distancing markers and stand right behind you at a checkout trying to squeeze their shopping on the conveyor behind your shopping muttering under their breath about why you won't move up behind the person in front of you despite the fact you're observing the social distancing markers, wkers!
Even before Covid that annoyed me. You leave the bread and eggs to last to avoid being crushed. There’s about 3cm of conveyor left and they make a 2 ft high pike of frozen food in it. As soon as the conveyor moves, it tumbles onto you bread and eggs.kers!Or even worse. You’re at the front when a checkout opens, belt completely clear. You have a full trolley but the Richard Head behind starts unloading leaving you about 3 feet for all your stuff.
Cliffe60 said:
Bobberoo said:
People who ignore social distancing markers and stand right behind you at a checkout trying to squeeze their shopping on the conveyor behind your shopping muttering under their breath about why you won't move up behind the person in front of you despite the fact you're observing the social distancing markers, wkers!
Even before Covid that annoyed me. You leave the bread and eggs to last to avoid being crushed. There’s about 3cm of conveyor left and they make a 2 ft high pike of frozen food in it. As soon as the conveyor moves, it tumbles onto you bread and eggs.kers!Or even worse. You’re at the front when a checkout opens, belt completely clear. You have a full trolley but the Richard Head behind starts unloading leaving you about 3 feet for all your stuff.
Dermot O'Logical said:
Cliffe60 said:
Bobberoo said:
People who ignore social distancing markers and stand right behind you at a checkout trying to squeeze their shopping on the conveyor behind your shopping muttering under their breath about why you won't move up behind the person in front of you despite the fact you're observing the social distancing markers, wkers!
Even before Covid that annoyed me. You leave the bread and eggs to last to avoid being crushed. There’s about 3cm of conveyor left and they make a 2 ft high pike of frozen food in it. As soon as the conveyor moves, it tumbles onto you bread and eggs.kers!Or even worse. You’re at the front when a checkout opens, belt completely clear. You have a full trolley but the Richard Head behind starts unloading leaving you about 3 feet for all your stuff.
As for parking. I've long since adapted the habit of parking as far away from the entrance as I can. A little walk won't kill me but it apparently will kill people who bash their door into the side of your car.
Food is one of the few things I don't buy online because when it comes to fresh meat and veg, I just don't trust someone else to pick it for me.
captain_cynic said:
MartG said:
On the subject of bank anti-fraud...
Barclays send you a text asking if it's you making a certain transaction, asking that you reply Y or N
Unfortunately the number you have to reply to is a premium rate one which charges for text messages, and my network provider doesn't support sending texts to premium rate numbers...so I have to spend some time in a phone queue trying to get through to a human who can unblock the transaction, while being forced to listed to a recorded message telling me I can do things online
At this point, why are you not dumping that bank like the clutch in a clapped out Impreza?Barclays send you a text asking if it's you making a certain transaction, asking that you reply Y or N
Unfortunately the number you have to reply to is a premium rate one which charges for text messages, and my network provider doesn't support sending texts to premium rate numbers...so I have to spend some time in a phone queue trying to get through to a human who can unblock the transaction, while being forced to listed to a recorded message telling me I can do things online
Even if I had a debt with them, I'd still be using someone else for my everyday banking.
alorotom said:
Id be dumping the mobile network first (or having the setting activated to allow premium rate messaging) ... for clarity though I use Barclays and have had these messages, they arent a premium rate response, just a short code - I dont even think there is any cost to replying to them other than a standard message cost?! happy to be corrected though(!)
Yep, exactly what I said above. It’s the mobile provider that’s the problem, not Barclays. MiniMan64 said:
Getting my boiler serviced this morning only to be told it’s fked and that’ll be two grand for a new one please.
That’s why you should never take your car to Kwik Fit to “check” your tyres, exhaust and shock absorbers ked and that’ll be two grand for a new one please. 
Appreciate you do need to get your boiler serviced though so you’re knackered really.
shih tzu faced said:
MiniMan64 said:
Getting my boiler serviced this morning only to be told it’s fked and that’ll be two grand for a new one please.
That’s why you should never take your car to Kwik Fit to “check” your tyres, exhaust and shock absorbers ked and that’ll be two grand for a new one please. Appreciate you do need to get your boiler serviced though so you’re knackered really.
Just two grand. My new one is well over 3 for a 1 bed flat.
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