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Comedian Al Murray recounts a run-in with industrial-scale stupidity: "Car insurance company rang, without having sent me a renewal letter, asking for money. Made them answer security questions." In the same vein, tell us your stories about pointless paperwork and corporate quarter-wits

(, Thu 23 Feb 2012, 12:13)
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It always baffles me
How, if your phone breaks, the company will invariably refer you to a hotline number.

When my Samsung went last year, I ended up spending about £5 on a payphone getting through to them, to say, "My phone won't connect calls."

There was a pause, then: "So how the fuck did you phone me, then? Don't prank this line. *click*"
(, Thu 23 Feb 2012, 15:48, 7 replies)
this didn't happen.

(, Thu 23 Feb 2012, 15:50, closed)
My thoughts exactly!
Oh my God I am so disillusioned right now. The realisation that someone can just tell a complete lie on QOTW means I now can't trust any of the stories I've read on here.

It's like Father Christmas all over again.

:(
(, Thu 23 Feb 2012, 15:51, closed)
Haha :D

(, Thu 23 Feb 2012, 15:59, closed)
Fair play.
I thought it would make a better story than, "The rather slow gentleman on the other side of the line was rather tardy in connecting the logic of borrowing another phone, and I had to spend an extra 80p convincing him that I was phoning in from a various device and had a valid complaint, to which he suggested that I buy a new TOP OF THE RANGE phone, and didn't really help me."
(, Thu 23 Feb 2012, 15:59, closed)
I doubt this really happened. I'm sure they'd still expect many people to have landlines, or to borrow someone elses phone.

(, Thu 23 Feb 2012, 15:51, closed)
I dount this really happened.
A functional payphone? Ha. A likely story.
(, Thu 23 Feb 2012, 15:53, closed)
you mean THEY realy do exist?
i thought it was all a fairy tale from the old times of employment and black and white tv's
(, Thu 23 Feb 2012, 21:43, closed)

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