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roadrunner_0 · 21 Mar 2005, 11:01

well, its monday, and as if thats not bad enough, 2 things have already made it worse

1. getting a lift to work today, a silver BMW appeared in the rear view mirror, this is whats knows as never good as i am firmly of the belief that silver BMW drivers are the worst drivers on the road.
He then stayed glued to our blind spot for about 3 miles, looking for the chance to overtake, before overtaking so stupidly that we had to brake hard, and he had to go onto the verge to avert a crash, as what he obviously hadnt realised was, we were slowing down as the car in front of us was turning right (across the other lane for those of you who don't know britains roads)
Stupid Arrogant Bastard!, if he had had the misfortune to be heading towards anywhere near where we were parking, i would have got out and punched the stupid ****.
The best bit was, where he overtook, we were into a 30, and he was sat ahead of us, not being able to get any further ahead, for the next 5 miles! yes, that saved you soooooo much time didnt it you wanker!

2. Got to work, to find a note from the royal mail, saying that i owe them a £10 customs charge for a package from america, now, this wouldnt bother me, but, as my friend bought that same thing, from the same company a month ago, and got charged nothing, i think i'm understandably upset, and am going to have to waste my dinner hour walking the mile to the sorting office to get this sorted out

all in all, a crap start to the week

xtrasyn · 21 Mar 2005, 11:19

I had a broken coffee machine. Took my money without giving coffee.

I ´tried to get the money back´ and now they have to replace it.

Madina · 21 Mar 2005, 11:20

First thing - Nissan Micra drivers are the worst drivers on the road. They win hands down.

Second thing - i have no idea how you can sort out the import charge, i doubt they will let you off

. But think of the great exercise you will get from walking 2 miles on your lunch break.

xtrasyn · 21 Mar 2005, 11:22

IME the customs charge depends on the value of the package.

I have everything sent to and from the US with the stamp ´replacement - commercial value less than 2€´ to avoid this little problem.

CamelToe · 21 Mar 2005, 11:24

I just checked my cell phone bill, and apparently I ran up some excess minutes. They want $354 bucks from me

xtrasyn · 21 Mar 2005, 11:26

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Originally Posted by CamelToe

I just checked my cell phone bill, and apparently I ran up some excess minutes. They want $354 bucks from me

some excess minutes you made :\

Phalon · 21 Mar 2005, 11:32

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Originally Posted by Madina

First thing - Nissan Micra drivers are the worst drivers on the road. They win hands down.

I'll second that, although they are only mildly worse than Ford Ka drivers, who are themselves closely followed by any woman in a 4x4 on the school/shop run.

xtrasyn · 21 Mar 2005, 11:41

The absolute worst are (older) british people renting a car on the costa del sol. They are so utterly confused that they do EVERYTHING wrong, from signaling, passing taking roundabouts, straight to driving on the left hand side and thinking they are on the slow lane.

LOS ODIO

CrashTester · 21 Mar 2005, 11:52

Boo Hoo dude, Im crying into my frigging cornflakes here.

Madina · 21 Mar 2005, 11:55

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Originally Posted by Phalon

I'll second that, although they are only mildly worse than Ford Ka drivers, who are themselves closely followed by any woman in a 4x4 on the school/shop run.

Couldnt agree more about the women with the 4x4s. What annoys me even more is that they seem to not want to drive anywhere near the curb. So you are forced to squeeze through a tiny gap whilst muttering naughty words about how shit they are at driving.

I read an article about 4x4s involved in crashes. Over 50% of the crashes wouldnt of happend if the person in the 4x4 knew what their car was capable of. (e.g. going into a hedge with their massive bull bars instead of a little mini)

Ste · 21 Mar 2005, 11:56

i took my car in for its MOT this morning.
I have to ring them in a bit to find out what the damage is...
I'm hoping there's nothing too wrong with it...

EDIT http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=184147

Demon Dave · 21 Mar 2005, 12:57

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Originally Posted by roadrunner_0

1. getting a lift to work today, a silver BMW appeared in the rear view mirror, this is whats knows as never good as i am firmly of the belief that silver BMW drivers are the worst drivers on the road.

I crash into BMWs on purpose. That'll show the twats

Tis · 21 Mar 2005, 13:03

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Originally Posted by CamelToe

I just checked my cell phone bill, and apparently I ran up some excess minutes. They want $354 bucks from me

Fall asleep during a phone sex call again?

KoeN · 21 Mar 2005, 13:09

today i woke up at 5:00, had to switch trains 5 times and was travelling for 5,5 hours to reach the island.
my week could have started better aswell.

i had a very nice weekend though.

Structural Integrity · 21 Mar 2005, 13:18

Well... surely Suzuki Swift drivers are shit too.
I did some stupid overtaking the other day.
But I swear to god the guy accelerated when I was overtaking him.

Yahwe · 21 Mar 2005, 13:18

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Originally Posted by CrashTester

Boo Hoo dude, Im crying into my frigging cornflakes here.

at 10 to 11?

lazy slob.

Radical Edward · 21 Mar 2005, 14:01

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Originally Posted by roadrunner_0

2. Got to work, to find a note from the royal mail, saying that i owe them a £10 customs charge for a package from america, now, this wouldnt bother me, but, as my friend bought that same thing, from the same company a month ago, and got charged nothing, i think i'm understandably upset, and am going to have to waste my dinner hour walking the mile to the sorting office to get this sorted out

wonderful isn't it. I remember when I was buying some anime. It was split into two lots, becaues a couple of DVDs were unavailable at the time. one week I got a huge box with about 250quid in DVDs in it. no charge. next week, I get charged for the remaining two. I did say to the guy on the counter though, that I was pleased they didn't catch the previous weeks' order or it would have cost me a fortune. Customs seems pretty random with these things to be honest.

Stew · 21 Mar 2005, 14:35

I've just been to the dentist and had a (milk) tooth out. I'm not very good with injections and apparently even worse when the dentist grabs pliars and starts wrenching it out. I felt all faint and had to sit down with water before paying. I'm such a wimp

I also cannot drink [alcohol] for 24 hours.

Before that I was in my local library which was full of screaming kids, so I came home to work instead.

On the plus side, the 1st part of my loan for accepting my job went in today, although I need to check that noone used my Maestro before I cancelled it...

Ebany · 21 Mar 2005, 14:49

As I understand it, customs randomly check parcels, and the ones they check get charged, so its all down to luck.

My Monday has been pretty good, I'm on the late shift so I had a nice long lie in, and now work is fairly quiet today.

Stew · 21 Mar 2005, 15:10

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Originally Posted by Ebany

As I understand it, customs randomly check parcels, and the ones they check get charged, so its all down to luck.

So the more they open, the more money theay earn and the less that get through the net?
From their point of view, why do they not employ more officials?

Phalon · 21 Mar 2005, 15:38

Less work for you surely? Or are you now in some shite situation in which you have to contact hundreds of people in case they contacted you?

xtrasyn · 21 Mar 2005, 15:52

´woops´

And all those people who will say you are a shit company because you don´t reply etc.

****up ++

What will you do now? Make a newspaper publication or something?

Stew · 21 Mar 2005, 15:55

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Originally Posted by Flavius

The emails weren't mine.
I work for a large internet-based travel agency.

No emails = no business = no money

understand how serious this is ?

Yes, 3 days lost earnings.
Unless people get in contact again.
Not too serious for you though unless some part of your remuneration is profit related. That and people going mental all the time.
Still, this'd never happen in a well run business

Stew · 21 Mar 2005, 16:02

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Originally Posted by Flavius

we also have 25k emails stuck in the queue for external emails.
it doesnt affect me direectly paycheck wise, i still get my money.
it does affect me when i'm having lunch with the gf and my boos calls me saying he's in deep shit

I appreciate the repercussions for you but if it's not your fault (now Flav, are you sure it's not?

)then there seems little point in stressing too much.

Stew · 21 Mar 2005, 16:06

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Originally Posted by Flavius

not my fault true, but I'm the one that gets all the complaints

Set up an out of office e-mail saying you are away for the next week.
Take your phone off the hook.
Place feet up on desk.
Look at something good on the internet.
Think about the anal sex you had last summer.
Open a beer.
Smoke a large cigar.
Realise the world is not too bad afterall.

Marv · 21 Mar 2005, 16:13

I was getting out of bed at 6.30am and tripped on my way to the bathroom and smashed my head on the wall :/

My head hurts. Alot.

Structural Integrity · 21 Mar 2005, 17:07

I hate mondays...

And tuesdays, wednesdays, thursdays and fridays.

Luckilly it's almost weekend again.

NEWSBOT3 · 21 Mar 2005, 17:10

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Originally Posted by Flavius

I'm not stressed.
In fact, I rarely stress.

And the people complaining to me are 20-30 years old girls that work at the call center here, wearing spring-summerish clothes.

It's all good.

we still lost shitloads of emails though

you shouldnt have lost anything, if the servers sending you mail arent shit.
most mail servers will re-try after 48hrs then 1 week, and then give up.
edit : you should also have > 1 mail server listed on your domain, would solve such problems.

Deepflow · 21 Mar 2005, 21:50

first my housemates computer wouldnt work so i couldnt print my essay

then i left my bag on the bus, with all the uni work i need to do through easter

then some twat killed himself at wimbledon and my train was delayed for an hour

so not THAT great a day for me

Structural Integrity · 21 Mar 2005, 22:09

My boss called me at work while he was at a customer telling me that some error occurred in something I made (I checked it, the error is technically not possible unless something is up with the database). He told me on the phone I had to test these things before releasing them and I asked him how much further I should test this in the little time I have when this only happens once in a blue moon. He said he doesn't know or care.

Now, I'm not the worst person, and I admit a mistake when I make one, and I'll look into this problem first thing tomorrow, but the whole general tone of this makes me kind of sick. Pointing his finger when he doesn't know the technical ins and outs of this all.
What really made my day is when he told me that he told the customer that I'd come by at around 16:15 to quickly fix things. 15 minutes before I'm off. He's promising things on MY behalf. And that's what I REALLY hate. When people put pressure on me by making promises that I might not be able to fullfill.

So... yeah... I had a bad day... another one... I've only had bad days for the past few weeks... and they were all work-related.
I need to become more assertive. People are just walking over me

Tomkat · 21 Mar 2005, 22:11

I found it it takes me an hour to walk to school every morning.

And an hour back.

How much does a bike cost? Seriously. Mine is old and in Jersey.

NEWSBOT3 · 21 Mar 2005, 22:14

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Originally Posted by Tomkat

I found it it takes me an hour to walk to school every morning.

And an hour back.

How much does a bike cost? Seriously. Mine is old and in Jersey.

school ?

Phalon · 21 Mar 2005, 22:16

He's a teacher wannabe i think.

Get a second hand bike for like £30. They were selling quite a few in the last issue of the fabulous 'Loot'.

NEWSBOT3 · 21 Mar 2005, 22:28

oh.

i feel a need to add that my monday was great, i slept in till 1.30, got up, played computer games all day and night.

JammyJim · 22 Mar 2005, 01:24

i was in bed until 1pm but my excuse is that i was recovering from jetlag and 14hours of travelling.

apart from that its been a relatively lazy day with sparodic moments of work taking place.

Dace · 22 Mar 2005, 03:32

I went into work today to discover that the strike due to be held on Wednesday has been called off.

This means no date with girl from office on Tuesday night (cause she has to be in for work wednesday morning now).

This means a pissed off Rankin.

Deepflow · 22 Mar 2005, 03:49

you had a date?

CamelToe · 22 Mar 2005, 06:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tis

Fall asleep during a phone sex call again?

well, technically, I don't count talking to your mom as phone sex :eek:

roadrunner_0 · 22 Mar 2005, 10:52

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Originally Posted by Dace

I went into work today to discover that the strike due to be held on Wednesday has been called off.

This means no date with girl from office on Tuesday night (cause she has to be in for work wednesday morning now).

This means a pissed off Rankin.

yeah, i was meant to be on strike too

i will lay money at any odds that you want to call that as soon as labour get re elected, they try and change the pension scheme again

Dace · 23 Mar 2005, 14:11

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Originally Posted by roadrunner_0

i will lay money at any odds that you want to call that as soon as labour get re elected, they try and change the pension scheme again

I was thinking much the same thing.

Saying that tho pissing off the Passport Office during the summer months is maybe not somethng they wanna do.

*shrug*