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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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1. Nope.

2. Possibly.

3. Nope. How did you get home?

4. Nope. How did you get home?

5. Invasive search - you mean they looked up your arse, or made you empty your pockets? I'm going with the latter.

6. Nope. This cutting cards up in front of people doesn't happen.

Still, sounds nice and dramatic the way you wrote it.
(, Thu 23 Feb 2012, 12:58, 2 replies)
Nicely
done
(, Thu 23 Feb 2012, 13:02, closed)

6. Cutting up cards does/did happen, I've done it and seen it done, I used to get £50 for every dodgy card I sent back.
(, Thu 23 Feb 2012, 13:41, closed)
Yes
I'm sure they're often confiscated, but did a supermarket cut up a card in front of this person, in plain view of all the other customers?

Nope.
(, Thu 23 Feb 2012, 13:56, closed)
happened to me once.

(, Thu 23 Feb 2012, 13:59, closed)
OK, but I'm talking about
normal people.
(, Thu 23 Feb 2012, 14:11, closed)
oh. fair enough.
carry on.
(, Thu 23 Feb 2012, 14:13, closed)

Yes. We used to get a message telling us to ring for authorisation, the person on the end of the line would usually tell us that the card was reported stolen and ask us to cut the card up. If we had confiscated it people would've refused to leave without their card and stood around arguing for ages.
(, Thu 23 Feb 2012, 22:57, closed)

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