Moon bunny
Judging your grammar
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- Basking in my own brilliance.
Any good jokes ... ?
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Regular.Cyclist
Über Member
- Location
- South West Scotland 🏴
I genuinely had Tesco substitute a lemon (the fruit) for Lemon Fairy washing liquid.
Profpointy
Legendary Member
A friend had their supermarket substitute a bottle of Teachers instead of the rather good single malt they'd ordered!
At least the fairy liquid was something useful
DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
- Location
- Reading, obvs
Or would have been if a lemon hadn't been substituted for it ...
Profpointy
Legendary Member
Ah yes, read that the wrong way round.
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
WHen I worked for a Mail Order company I worked on a new system that recommened alternatives if someone wanted something and it was out of stock
There was an edict that every single item had to have a "recommended alternative"
every single one - no exception
not everything has something you can replace it with
one example that was a bit strange was replacing a pram with a wheelbarrow!
Profpointy
Legendary Member
In a similar vein I worked at a place where we manufactured in small runs a particularly piece of kit. Our engineer had specified 245b chips (made up numbers) but our purchasing dept had spotted that if they bought 245c instead they'd be cheaper so they changed the purchase req (without checking with my oppo) Trouble was the substitute wasn't a lower spec equivalent, which conceivably may have been OK, but a totally unrelated component. We would have been able to return them only goods in, in their wisdom, had removed all the chips from the special antistatic bags, so they were no longer acceptable to return or sell. Must have wasted a couple of grand trying to save a few quid.
