Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[ebikeerwidnes]

APologies if I've mentioned this on here more than once, but it really does grind my gears. My ongoing saga with the NHS payroll form continues, and this time I have found the (un-editable) field for "status". I can only choose between single/married/divorced/widowed/civil partnership. Well, the only one of those that is true is "divorced". But that was 8 years ago. Why must I define myself in this way? It is my understanding that insurers ask this because divorcees might be higher risk (obviously we all go around keying our ex's cars, doesn't everyone?). But I don't know how this is still legal, let alone moral, to define someone's status by something they did 8 years ago, and what's the point?

I presume there is a possibility of "complications" due to legal arrangements and stuff like that

but if you defined yourself as "single" then they could have the same problems due to children or whatever

so it does seem pointless

people who have actually worked in areas that use this data might be able to give some proper reason

 

[gbb]

Not trivial but..
I got a letter from NACEL / NHS asking me to answer a questionnaire forllowing recent bereavement, focusing on their time In hospital.
Quite annoyed because once through it I hoped there was a section to give some more personal feedback...but no, it's one of those 'dumb' surveys, asks a preset few questions with the usual strongly agree through to strongly disagree...and I call them dumb questions because you just know they're asking the right questions to get the right results

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Not trivial but..
I got a letter from NACEL / NHS asking me to answer a questionnaire forllowing recent bereavement, focusing on their time In hospital.
Quite annoyed because once through it I hoped there was a section to give some more personal feedback...but no, it's one of those 'dumb' surveys, asks a preset few questions with the usual strongly agree through to strongly disagree...and I call them dumb questions because you just know they're asking the right questions to get the right results

contact the hospital via their "customer service" team - it is probably on their website at the bottom

my wife used to work in a local hospital and the complaints and comments team was next to hers
apparently they took comments like yours seriously, as so few people actually said anything and just complained to friends (etc)
but they were constantly trying to improve based on very little data

a proper comments, well-thought-out and expressed, might just help people in the future

Anotehr point is that people who have just "lost someone" often just don;t comment on things like this because they have otehr things to deal with
So every comment/complaint they got was very valuable to them in trying to improve


That was her hospital - others differ but you never know

 

[gbb]

contact the hospital via their "customer service" team - it is probably on their website at the bottom

my wife used to work in a local hospital and the complaints and comments team was next to hers
apparently they took comments like yours seriously, as so few people actually said anything and just complained to friends (etc)
but they were constantly trying to improve based on very little data

a proper comments, well-thought-out and expressed, might just help people in the future

Anotehr point is that people who have just "lost someone" often just don;t comment on things like this because they have otehr things to deal with
So every comment/complaint they got was very valuable to them in trying to improve


That was her hospital - others differ but you never know

Yes, the hospital staff were (on the whole) brilliant but inevitably there were 'fustrations' particually with day to day communication. Nothing too major but did cause irritation and confusion during my wife's stay there.
I just came away from the survey with a comparison to my former works surveys, they were heavily weighted to illicit favourable comments on the good stuff...no mention of the problems staff / people faced day to day.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Yes, the hospital staff were (on the whole) brilliant but inevitably there were 'fustrations' particually with day to day communication. Nothing too major but did cause irritation and confusion during my wife's stay there.
I just came away from the survey with a comparison to my former works surveys, they were heavily weighted to illicit favourable comments on the good stuff...no mention of the problems staff / people faced day to day.

Hospitals are difficult

When my mother-is-law died she had been treated badly by the hospital
basically ignored as an alcoholic
when she hardly drank at all and just happened to have liver cancer so was put in the ward with the people who had destroyed their own liver with drink

But it certainly meant that her treatment was not taken seriously until we got through to someone and got her moved to another ward

But it was all so upsetting to my wife that she couldn;t face making a complaint

so the people trying to improve the place and how it works did not hear about that
so every comment/complaint is worth far more than in normal circumstance because they get even fewer important comments than normal companies

 

[Chislenko]

Clare Balding.

 

[travellingwest]

People who cannot read notices or signs in a shop

Their lives would be less stressful and mine less annoying if they did.

 

[katiewlx]

Clare Balding.

Crufts ?

 

[katiewlx]

Anotehr point is that people who have just "lost someone" often just don;t comment on things like this because they have otehr things to deal with
So every comment/complaint they got was very valuable to them in trying to improve


That was her hospital - others differ but you never know

it sounds crazy to me that anyone would even consider sending someone who was just bereaved with a family member to want to fill in some customer survey form, theres a time and place and it isnt when youre dealing with that kind of stuff.

 

[Chislenko]

Crufts ?

Every time I switch on the TV she is there, I feel sure there will be a Clare Balding channel soon!

 

[Moon bunny]

Cutting into quarters as part of a salad makes sense... but just a single tomato, eat it like an apple.

She may possibly be suffering from a dental problem, or even good manners.

 

[MontyVeda]

She may possibly be suffering from a dental problem, or even good manners.

it was definitely manners... an eleven year old girl and very middle class!

 

[colly]

Every time I switch on the TV she is there, I feel sure there will be a Clare Balding channel soon!

Don't give them ideas !

 

[lazybloke]

Every time I switch on the TV she is there, I feel sure there will be a Clare Balding channel soon!

I've no problem with Clare Balding, but you're deluded if you think a dedicated channel would keep her away from your viewing habits.

I find football extremely tedious but for some reason it still inhabits the main channels at prime time despite there being all manner of dedicated sports channels!

 

[lazybloke]

And the reason i came onto this thread...

Just came in from the sunny garden, having mown the lawns for the first time this year... And SOMEONE has been ****ing about with thr thermostat; the boiler was running, the rads were hot!!

Honestly, don't people know about the impending energy crisis?