
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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And the retail drone held every note under his UV light to check if they were real.
So when he gave me my £15-ish change, I just bent over the counter and checked them as well.
If you don't trust me, I don't trust you. Simple.
( , Mon 27 Feb 2012, 14:57, 17 replies)

I read that as Waaaaahhhhhh waaaaaahhhhhh.
You are just playing devils advocate again.
( , Mon 27 Feb 2012, 19:01, closed)

this might make the tiniest bit of sense.
Did you also check the clothes they sold you weren't counterfeit?
( , Mon 27 Feb 2012, 17:00, closed)

1. Hate their job
2. Hate their employers
3. Hate you.
Don't be a cunt to some poor bastard who is just doing what their fucker of an employer has told them to do.
( , Mon 27 Feb 2012, 18:22, closed)

( , Mon 27 Feb 2012, 19:52, closed)

surely they would have been checked already?
( , Mon 27 Feb 2012, 18:41, closed)

as s/he takes the opportunity to pass dud notes s/he brought into work.
( , Mon 27 Feb 2012, 20:40, closed)

When such easily forged banknotes are concerned (I'm referring to '90s English notes, not the far superior Jockinese ones, golly those produced by the Clydesdale were a real U.V treat), you downright needed to check 'em all. Personally I tended to use the rub method, far more certain.
( , Mon 27 Feb 2012, 21:59, closed)

as much as I like this the people above are right. It is not the poor till monkeys fault that they have to do things like this.
( , Mon 27 Feb 2012, 19:03, closed)

... he took it in good humour and said something along the lines of "fair enough"....
... and I don't blame him.
( , Mon 27 Feb 2012, 23:33, closed)
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