Corporate IdiocyComedian 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
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 23 Feb 2012, 12:13)
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There are a few......within 'Waiting to be deflowered Media' that are decent.
Strangely, in my experience they have always been Scottish.
I wonder if someone out there can confirm if there is a special department in Bonnie Scotland, where trapped somewhere deep in the basement are a tiny, unappreciated clutch of engineers who actually give the slightest quivering fuck about what they are doing, and are capable of doing it.
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"Hello, IT. Have you tried turning it off and on again?"(, Fri 24 Feb 2012, 11:25, closed)
Ha ha!...(, Fri 24 Feb 2012, 11:44, closed)
I answered a call (that I was expecting) from a Sales Weasel, and answered the phone with exactly that.
Bloke laughed so hard he had to put the phone down on the desk for a minute.
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Alex Save a Tree, Eat a Beaver!, Wed 29 Feb 2012, 0:32,
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Dealing also with BT......you find the Scots are usually pretty bang on.
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Snappyuk gets BIGGER with free sample., Fri 24 Feb 2012, 18:05,
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