Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

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dicko

dicko

Legendary Member
Location
Derbyshire
Alex321 said:
Huh?

What do you mean by "non medical"?

Do you mean travel insurance that just covers property and maybe delays? And why would you want that?
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Alex321 said:
Huh?

What do you mean by "non medical"?

Do you mean travel insurance that just covers property and maybe delays? And why would you want that?
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Travel insurance for myself and Mrs for 21 days is £950 with medical cover. If we cancel we get back £2000.
If I could insure our luggage, missed flights and cancellations with a payback of £13,000 I would go for that. Trouble is you can’t have two policies for the same holiday.
However if I increase our policy to £1,500 we still only get £5000 for cancellation.
I expect a lot of oldies don’t bother and take the risk. We are travelling to Canada so not too bad a risk they are an OK bunch of people there.
 
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Alex321

Guru
Location
South Wales
Electric_Andy said:
Don't get me started on recycling centres. They ask you to bring ID which is fair enough, only residents can use it. BUT. They never ask females to provide any proof of address. They also ask me every time, but instead of asking to see my ID (which I take each time), they just say "what's your postcode?". I start saying "PL9.......", he interrupts and says "yeah that's fine". If you need ID, you need ID. If I was from outside the region and hence shouldn't be using the recycling centre, I could very easily just state a Plymouth postcode and I'd be let in. What's the point in asking for proof, if anyone can just state a local postcode!!
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With ours, you have to book in advance (can be same day), giving full address at the time, and your car registration number. You are supposed to take some form of ID, but they never check that, just check your reg number is on the list.

But TBH, with the positions of the two in the Vale of Glamorgan, anybody from outside the county would have one closer in their own county.
 
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ebikeerwidnes

Guru
Location
Widnes
When I was clearing out my Mum and Dad's house I always went to the tip some way up the road because they never checked anything

You just turn up and queue if necessary

The one nearer was one you had to book in advance
but as I was clearing a house I had no idea when I would have a car full of rubbish and right after that I would need to take a load of stuff to a charity shop

The place near here still is just a "turn up" arrangement - no checks of any kind

I reckon having appointments and checks just increases fly tipping
 
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Electric_Andy

Heavy Metal Fan
Location
Plymouth
I don't know if this is now a "thing" or just unique to my workplace, but Managers have started to use more junior staff as middle men for emails. It's so annoying and inefficient. e.g. We'll have a query in which only the manager can action. So we forward them the email and basically say "can you action this?". They respond with a long sentence or two, and ask that we send the response to the person. So we then receive the reply, which might be a further question, and then have to forward that to the manager again. They are office based and deal with emails for 95% of the work (apart from meetings) so why on earth wouldn't you just respond yourself!
 
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ebikeerwidnes

Guru
Location
Widnes
On the topic of managers

Managers who decide that they need feedback or some survey or something

and then decided it needs to be on their desk in 2 days time


Worst case was when I was a teacher in a Secondary School
The school got a request (the type of request that might have come from Don Corleone) to get the kids to fill in a form saying how safe they feel at school

Which is clearly an important and delicate subject for a variety of reasons

But they sent it on Monday afternoon

and the responses had to be at the Council by Thursday morning - and this is a written thing then to be physicall there that means it has to be sent Wednesday by lunchtime (internal mail)


But we had a "off timetable day" on the Tuesday so we had lots of visitors coming in and the whole school was tied up and committed
so it HAD to be done in registration on Wednesday

so a very sensitive and delicate "survey" had to be rushed through and done in 10 minutes
in my case with a group of bottom set Year 9 kids (i.e. 14 - i.e. grumpy)


rather than it being thought about and a set of PSE lessons being built around it over a week or two and it filled in a a calm and supportive manner

no idea what the result of the survey was either - no-one ever heard of it again

came to mind due to a similar "we have decided this, and we need the result tomorrow" sort of thing from something different yesterday


sometimes managers seem to totally loose the idea of how the actual organisation works at the sharp end!!
 
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Electric_Andy

Heavy Metal Fan
Location
Plymouth
ebikeerwidnes said:
On the topic of managers

Managers who decide that they need feedback or some survey or something

and then decided it needs to be on their desk in 2 days time


Worst case was when I was a teacher in a Secondary School
The school got a request (the type of request that might have come from Don Corleone) to get the kids to fill in a form saying how safe they feel at school

Which is clearly an important and delicate subject for a variety of reasons

But they sent it on Monday afternoon

and the responses had to be at the Council by Thursday morning - and this is a written thing then to be physicall there that means it has to be sent Wednesday by lunchtime (internal mail)


But we had a "off timetable day" on the Tuesday so we had lots of visitors coming in and the whole school was tied up and committed
so it HAD to be done in registration on Wednesday

so a very sensitive and delicate "survey" had to be rushed through and done in 10 minutes
in my case with a group of bottom set Year 9 kids (i.e. 14 - i.e. grumpy)


rather than it being thought about and a set of PSE lessons being built around it over a week or two and it filled in a a calm and supportive manner

no idea what the result of the survey was either - no-one ever heard of it again

came to mind due to a similar "we have decided this, and we need the result tomorrow" sort of thing from something different yesterday


sometimes managers seem to totally loose the idea of how the actual organisation works at the sharp end!!
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This sort of management is cut and pasted into my department I'm sure! Our chief exec sent a very similar email out to all of the clinical directors, saying that they need to respond by Friday. She got a wonderfully sh!tty reply back that went something like "4 days notice over a half-term school holiday is not sufficient to allow for a meaningful and considered response"
 
nogoodnamesleft

nogoodnamesleft

Senior Member
Maybe sometimes not "trivial" but when couriers e-mail "Your parcel will be with you 11:00-12:00 and cannot be left in a safe place" and then they go leave it at the wrong house on the doorstep or by a garden shed so you have to search the village for a garden shed that looks like the one in their photo and of course nobody is in so can you wander onto their property and remove a parcel?

Maybe trivial as I assume the sender/courier is liable for loss as they didn't deliver to the correct place but maybe not trivial whewn the item is urgent of valuable.
 
alicat

alicat

Squire
Location
Staffs
A gardener not showing up for a one-off appointment and not replying to my messages asking what happened to him. I rushed home to be there in time and could not have a much needed rest in case he was merely late. So now I need to find someone else to do and apologise to my neighbour for my overgrown garden infringing on his views etc. That sounds trivial but given the current state of my health it's unneeded hassle to say the least.
 
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Binky

Veteran
Think I've already said this before but worth repeating :

Vernon Kaye.

What a bell. Yesterday for entire time he was on the radio it was endless and very unfunny crap about "Green dress Wednesday"

I mean say something once or twice but literally 50 times?

No wonder Tess Daly left him.
 
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