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» Council Cunts
Cambridgeshire CC
I once temped for Cambridgeshire CC. I would arrive to start at 9am, and by 10.30 I would be done for the day. I would then have to almost beg for work, normally to be told to browse the intranet and read about the council’s policies.
After about 2 weeks I notice the empty desk opposite me has an in try full of handwritten letters. I enquire as to what they are only to be told that it is my job to type them up (thanks for telling me) I ask why the people who spent 15 minutes writing each letter long hand could not spend that 15 minutes typing them themselves. Too which I was told they don’t like doing it, you have to understand these lazy bastards who did not like typing there own letters spent most of the day talking about there pets, hardly busy, I then said in a rather loud voice “That’s a complete waste of resource and tax payers money, employing a temp to type their letters” I was pulled to one side and told not to rock the boat!
When someone was off, no one opened their post, dealt with their in tray or checked their emails.
Lazy complacence bastards.
(Sun 29th Jul 2007, 10:39, More)
Cambridgeshire CC
I once temped for Cambridgeshire CC. I would arrive to start at 9am, and by 10.30 I would be done for the day. I would then have to almost beg for work, normally to be told to browse the intranet and read about the council’s policies.
After about 2 weeks I notice the empty desk opposite me has an in try full of handwritten letters. I enquire as to what they are only to be told that it is my job to type them up (thanks for telling me) I ask why the people who spent 15 minutes writing each letter long hand could not spend that 15 minutes typing them themselves. Too which I was told they don’t like doing it, you have to understand these lazy bastards who did not like typing there own letters spent most of the day talking about there pets, hardly busy, I then said in a rather loud voice “That’s a complete waste of resource and tax payers money, employing a temp to type their letters” I was pulled to one side and told not to rock the boat!
When someone was off, no one opened their post, dealt with their in tray or checked their emails.
Lazy complacence bastards.
(Sun 29th Jul 2007, 10:39, More)
» How nerdy are you?
Mostly Geek
A few years back I was working in Credit Control. One day a customer calls up to dispute an invoice, after explaining that as per the T&Cs of the contract the charges were correct he had to pay. He retaliated with "I've been trying to resolve this for 3 weeks" in a word I said "tough shit, pay up". However, all through the conversation I was thinking the customer's name was familiar, obviously I will not state it here. Anyhow, I get him off the line, he's going to pay but is pissed off.
I google his name and low and behold the name of the customer is the same as that of a computer programmer from the 80's. So I call him back on the grounds that I had had a word with my boss (lie)re the poor customer service and we would like to offer him a 50% credit to the invoice, to which he said thanks and excepted. As the call was winding to an end I asked
"Err, did you write XXXX" to which he replied "Yes" you could then here the tumble weed as neither of us had anything else to say. I then ended the call. Geek? Yes because it was not Mathew Smith or Jeff Minter.
I would like to state now I am sorry for not buying your game back in the 80's, but a friend copied it for me so with interest the 50% credit makes up for my theft.
PS: Lenslok was shite.
(Sat 8th Mar 2008, 19:12, More)
Mostly Geek
A few years back I was working in Credit Control. One day a customer calls up to dispute an invoice, after explaining that as per the T&Cs of the contract the charges were correct he had to pay. He retaliated with "I've been trying to resolve this for 3 weeks" in a word I said "tough shit, pay up". However, all through the conversation I was thinking the customer's name was familiar, obviously I will not state it here. Anyhow, I get him off the line, he's going to pay but is pissed off.
I google his name and low and behold the name of the customer is the same as that of a computer programmer from the 80's. So I call him back on the grounds that I had had a word with my boss (lie)re the poor customer service and we would like to offer him a 50% credit to the invoice, to which he said thanks and excepted. As the call was winding to an end I asked
"Err, did you write XXXX" to which he replied "Yes" you could then here the tumble weed as neither of us had anything else to say. I then ended the call. Geek? Yes because it was not Mathew Smith or Jeff Minter.
I would like to state now I am sorry for not buying your game back in the 80's, but a friend copied it for me so with interest the 50% credit makes up for my theft.
PS: Lenslok was shite.
(Sat 8th Mar 2008, 19:12, More)