Pet Peeves

[101_North]

Working from home colleagues who are married to their desks! Email sent at 7.30pm yesterday evening, when I was quite reasonably finished for the day, asking which candidate to send a contract offer too as I had done the final round of interviews. She extended the contract offer less than an hour later! Another email sent at 8.45am this morning, while I was on the school run, copying in senior managers and moaning that "...as you have not responded to my email I have had to make a decision without your input. I am concerned that your lack of availability means that there is a real risk of us appointing the wrong candidate".

Unreal 

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Would ye believe the bookseller sent me the Dune trilogy from the latest edition run, the very one that led me to spend over an hour looking for older editions so I wouldn't have to buy that one? Thankfully I had the good sense when ordering to double and triple check the ISBN, so they've accepted their error (no choice, since the ISBN is in the confirmation order). Who knows how long it'll be before it gets sorted now though; they're in fucking Canada!

They just refunded me the price of the order, the price of the shipping, and told me I don't need to worry about returning the books sent in error. Now there's good customer service in light of a mistake made! Will still incur a bit of a delay in me getting what I wanted, but at least I can now re-order immediately once I find them somewhere else and not have to do a "We will refund you upon receipt back of delivery in error blah blah."

[Giggles]

Working from home colleagues who are married to their desks! Email sent at 7.30pm yesterday evening, when I was quite reasonably finished for the day, asking which candidate to send a contract offer too as I had done the final round of interviews. She extended the contract offer less than an hour later! Another email sent at 8.45am this morning, while I was on the school run, copying in senior managers and moaning that "...as you have not responded to my email I have had to make a decision without your input. I am concerned that your lack of availability means that there is a real risk of us appointing the wrong candidate".

Unreal 

"Had to"? Somebody forcing her to make a decision outisde of business hours or something? She sounds like an absolute gowl, ratting you out to senior managers and all! I hope you replied with a justified verbal bashing!

[101_North]

Working from home colleagues who are married to their desks! Email sent at 7.30pm yesterday evening, when I was quite reasonably finished for the day, asking which candidate to send a contract offer too as I had done the final round of interviews. She extended the contract offer less than an hour later! Another email sent at 8.45am this morning, while I was on the school run, copying in senior managers and moaning that "...as you have not responded to my email I have had to make a decision without your input. I am concerned that your lack of availability means that there is a real risk of us appointing the wrong candidate".

Unreal 

"Had to"? Somebody forcing her to make a decision outisde of business hours or something? She sounds like an absolute gowl, ratting you out to senior managers and all! I hope you replied with a justified verbal bashing!

To be honest I just ignored her. She's a pain in the hole but has a track record with this kind of thing. Most of the senior managers have her measure 

[Carnage]

Ugh.

https://youtu.be/PxcVabGx484

[astfgyl]

Ugh.

https://youtu.be/PxcVabGx484

Ah for fuck sake.

Here, for context:

https://youtu.be/0QDKLglEP5Y

[Giggles]

Getting refused Back to Education allowance, and subsequently getting my dole cut off because I started attending college...

...which is going to result in me having to drop out of college, because I now have no income, and then I'll end up signing back on the fucking dole again anyway.

What is the fucking point?

[Kurt Cocaine]

Getting refused Back to Education allowance, and subsequently getting my dole cut off because I started attending college...

...which is going to result in me having to drop out of college, because I now have no income, and then I'll end up signing back on the fucking dole again anyway.

What is the fucking point?

It would make you giggle, wouldn't it?

[Giggles]

Ah to be fair, I can get a giggle out of anything. Even if they are giggles of sadness 

[astfgyl]

The idiocy of red tape knows no bounds. Hard luck there. Have you tried going down the local representative route? My wife was in a similar situation before and contacted the local fella, who got it straightened out for her very quickly, along with an apology.

[Giggles]

Hasn't crossed my mind, but I will look into it.

I got refused because I already have an ordinary degree, from 12 fucking years ago and they won't let me do a higher degree in a different subject.

I can understand if they would refuse me had I been their scheme before, but I wasn't. The only fucking difference between me applying, and somebody else with no degree applying, is a useless fucking piece of parchment.

[Kurt Cocaine]

Yep, your local TD should sort it out. Mine did for my daughter's course a few years ago.
One phone call is all it took.

[astfgyl]

Try use some cunt that has been at it years, they will have way more pull than some lad who got in this year.

[Circlepit]

My fucking neighbours. Why do people need after having some cunt over to visit then decide we better have another guffaw session at  the front door for an hour and a half at full volume. Eat shit and die. To make it worse she had the worst accent know to man. Birmingham. Cunt.

[101_North]

Working from home colleagues who are married to their desks! Email sent at 7.30pm yesterday evening, when I was quite reasonably finished for the day, asking which candidate to send a contract offer too as I had done the final round of interviews. She extended the contract offer less than an hour later! Another email sent at 8.45am this morning, while I was on the school run, copying in senior managers and moaning that "...as you have not responded to my email I have had to make a decision without your input. I am concerned that your lack of availability means that there is a real risk of us appointing the wrong candidate".

Unreal 

"Had to"? Somebody forcing her to make a decision outisde of business hours or something? She sounds like an absolute gowl, ratting you out to senior managers and all! I hope you replied with a justified verbal bashing!

To be honest I just ignored her. She's a pain in the hole but has a track record with this kind of thing. Most of the senior managers have her measure 

She's done it again 

Sends me a message at 8.15pm yesterday asking me to arrange a meeting for 8am this morning. Now she's 'pissed off' that there was no meeting. 8pm-8am is a time when I can reasonably be offline and not responding to emails so she can get to fuck! This was always an issue with certain people but I'm noticing more of a pattern now that folks have been home working for months.