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  2. Posted

    I'd still complain. I'd write them an email with my specific points of dissatisfaction -- the point is that whether you were their customer or not they made you timeframe promises that they were not able to keep, which in turn affected your ability to sustain your regular daily routine.

     

    I would simply write them something along these lines;

     

    To whom it may concern,

     

    I recently encountered a series of issues with your service. I recently moved into a home where the previous occupiers had not closed down their account properly. I contacted you on [date] and was told [what I was told]. Subsequently [this didn't happen, called again on this date, another promise made, then another promise broken].

     

    Whilst I am not a paying customer of yours, these exchanges have left me to conclude that I will quite likely never be a paying customer. Your staff's efforts to up-sell to me were transparent and at no point did I feel that your staff understood the situation I was in, nor were they able to offer me accurate resolutions to my problems. I further state that due to the inaction of your company my family and I were unable to rejoin our regular daily routine of having internet access, which impacted our ability to plan weekend activities, keep in touch with friends, family and colleagues, and generally reduce our enjoyment of entering a new home.

     

     

    I am aware that I have a right to offer you the chance to rectify this situation before I pass it on to the regulatory ombudsman. If I do not hear from you within 14 days I will pass this complaint on to their attention.

     

    ____

     

    something like that will ensure you get an eye-roll reaction from their complaints team. They will almost certainly fob you off with a generic response saying "we are sorry to learn you were dissatisfied with our sales team/etc, however please be ensured we do everything within our ability to make sure we maintain a high level of customer satisfaction. We apologise for your experience, and hope that in future should you contact us again we would be able to satisfy your requirements more promptly."

     

    If they simply apologise then reply stating that their apology is not adequate for the disruption that they caused, and demand that they respond promptly with a more appropriate solution.

     

    When they come back with a £10 voucher or whatever, then take it or leave it -- or take it to the ombudsman.

     

    The joy in this is simple; if the ombudsman has to look at the case then they charge the company. It can be hundreds or thousands of pounds just to look at the case. The ombudsman may agree with vodafone's offers of reconciliation -- but they would still have charged them for having to look at the complaint.

  3. Posted

    Last year:

     

    This year I want to lose weight as I'm PODGE-TASTIC. Also want to move into my own place. I've achieved a lot of other stuff that I didn't set up as resolutions so it's not all fail for 2013!

     

    Weeeell... I probably put more weight on, but I don't care. Moved into a house with some chill people - a step forwards. Overall 2014 was an investment year.

     

    2015;

    - go to New York

    - Move out, and in with my lady

    - Get promoted at least two more times (:P)

    - Start, like, saving and stuff. Be better with finances

    - Be a better friend. Spent a year just wallowing and avoiding people

  5. Posted

    I hope you adjust to the pills / the pills adjust to you rapidly.

     

    I think a lot of people see therapy as some kind of failure or admittance of weakness -- therapy is beautiful. It's basically just talking, with someone who will be objective and blunt but ultimately just out to help you help yourself -- and there's no hidden agenda on their part. They take your money to make you feel better.

     

    In any instance, best wishes moving forwards mate.

  6. Posted

    @Cube -- medication and therapy. Those are my recommendations. You've got the meds bit sorted but if you are tangled in a knot of brain-worry and uncontrollable thoughts that are keeping you from just being from day to day then I really do suggest therapy.

     

    Problem is you'll need to see your doctor and really stress with them that you want some therapy. Non-NHS, it can be costly. But I believe everyone should have therapy! You deserve the peace of mind.

  9. Posted

    £5 coin

    Socks

    Shirt

    Crate of world beers (don't like beer so gave it to girlfriend's family)

    Book of 1001 beers to try before you die (doorstop now)

    £20 (covered taxi fare home on xmas day)

    Keychain torch (I now have like 7 torches)

    Hand-made plate by gf (which is cool)

    Jumper

    Chocolate coins

    Inbetweeners 2

    a Ray Charles movie

     

    ... Yeah xmas is about sleeping and I got a lot of that

  14. Posted

    Exactly. The entire thing read like we were being told to go elsewhere for our funny stuff and when you mention being all for locking the thread, its no wonder things get confused.

     

    Still though, this entire thing has been weird and I've never really understood why it came up to begin with. Does it really matter where people come across funny images? :wtf:

    Logically it just makes sense to cut out (one of the) middlemen, but ultimately I was just getting tired of coming in here and seeing a repeat of what I'd seen already a few days ago. But I know now that it's my problem and I can solve it by simply not coming here with expectations, or just not coming here at all :)

     

    The thing I was replying to was pretty much your initial post which appeared to suggest this topic was a pretty poor idea and we should all be using reddit instead (yeah, that's how it reads). You've since said that people should go to reddit instead of 9gag to pull the images to post here, which seems pretty reasonable, and I have no beef with that...
    I definitely failed to present myself clearly, and I get that now. I appreciate that my 'humour' was instead seen as a cutting remark, thus overlooking the (far too hidden) meaning of what I was (poorly) saying.

     

    jayseven-interruption-interlude over!

  15. Posted · Edited by jayseven

    It's this place where you'll see 75% of your facebook feed before it appears on facebook. Or even this forum! Just install the reddit enhancement suite and BAM! At a click of a button you've seen this shit two days before it's posted in this thread!

     

    But reddit is filtered by 'upvotes' and 'downvotes' so the 'first page' is full of the recently most-upvoted items. Being a hipster and seeing it first is a handy by-product of also seeing more funny things. Though you'd have to install reddit enhancement suite to get to just click on "view all images" to get a better user-friendly experience, and I'm sure that's too much effort for many people.

     

    I get that people like to use this place to post funny things - I just figured maybe they'd like to post more funny things from a more recent source than whatever source they're using, or maybe they'd like to know where a funny thing is from in case they want more funny things.

     

    I'm all for locking this thread but I'm just a lurking mod and it wouldn't be fair to start a moan-sesh and not be around to reply to it.

     

    Even better idea, lets just close the entire forum and all move over to Reddit because the conversations are already happening there.

     

    Hey guys I've brought you some videos from this video store across town. Oh it's no hassle they deliver them. Wanna watch them? Yeah this store orders them from this other video store in another town. And we don't wanna move across town because we won't know anyone.

     

    Oh you saw these films last week when they first came out? But our town store didn't stock them yet. How did you do that?

     

    You just ordered from the store in the other town?

     

    ...

     

    All I'm saying is -- reddit has funny stuff. Lots. If you like funny stuff check out funny stuff over there.

     

    If you like cooking stuff they have some cool cooking subreddits.

     

    I quite like chess and their subreddit is a bit sparse but if there's interesting content there I have the option to bring some of that content to this forum here where i can field it to people who have opinions that I trust.

     

    That I am complaining that people are being slowpokes for literally no reason beyond what sounds like complacency or because they dislike change doesn't get negated because I'm now an n-e hating hipster

     

    QFT man. Everything is already happening somewhere else, but that's besides the point.

     

    The reason jay is completely missing is that going elsewhere would mean you guys wouldn't be there. Sharing laughs with a community you're part of is insurmountably more important.

    The reason sheikah is missing is that going else does not mean you wouldn't be here. I've never said go live at reddit I've said go use reddit as your source of these funnies because if you're using 9gag or facebook groups you are likely to be getting the funny a day or two after reddit.

     

    see the bolded bit above.

     

    Does that make sense?

     

     

    inb4 negatives (not aimed at sheikah);

     

    the nature of reddit being a content amalgamater means that reddit sources from elsewhere, so it isn't the first for anything - and it also has reposts.

     

    It also requires you to install Reddit Enhancement Suite, which most people will perceive as too much effort.

     

    Just as rummy found only a few things he found funny in 25 links, it isn't perfect and if you're going there just to prove a point and hate it because jayseven said go there -- then you're going to miss out on what literally millions of people enjoy. And yes I know that just because millions like it does not mean that they are correct...

  16. Posted

    I'm sorry but this is a massive over-reaction.

     

    Firstly, this forum has always had a jovial atmosphere (sometimes bordering on sardonic, but always in good humour). We've always had in-jokes that have run across multiple different threads and boards, often lasting for years (people are still making Rokhed jokes every-time a new member joins, even people who weren't around when Rokhed was present). So to pull Goafer up for making a joke that originated in another thread is ridiculous.

     

    Secondly, whilst you're right that this thread is of a more personal nature, he was replying to your post about housemates using your stuff. Whilst that can be incredibly frustrating, it's hardly deeply personal or highly emotional. It's certainly something a light-hearted joke can be made out of (bob's comment was also of a light-hearted nature).

     

    Thirdly, nobody has stated, or even implied, that you were a bad person. You made a valid recommendation about a different website, and people had valid disagreements with that. That's all that happened (of course, sprinkled with KNee's trademark sarcasm). If you felt it was anything other than light-hearted then I'm sorry to hear that, but I can assure that was not the intention of Goafer, myself or anyone else.

     

    Finally, if you've gone through a rough time in the past ten months then I'm sorry to hear that. But it's not Goafer's fault, and he wasn't making a joke about any of that stuff, just about your housemate's using your toilet paper. This community is incredibly supportive, and whenever somebody does post some serious problems they're experiencing people rush to offer support and help. If you were to post about a serious issue then Goafer, nor anyone else on this site, would not make jokes about it; so it's unfair to bring up that up to Goafer when it's irrelevant to the joke that he made.

     

    I get what you're saying (and it's a good example of an overreaction and why they're tough to avoid - because to be direct about the point is to be wordy), and it's difficult to explain further without it just descending into another essay battle.

     

    For instance, there is a discussion in how the inherent difference between the humour used by bob and the joke by goafer. There is a discussion about perceived sleights, and hypocritical rebuffs. There is a discussion in the difficulties of converting the convinced into realising that they are reading these words with an opinion already shaped in their mind.

     

    I just facepalm at the fact that every two months now I get to enjoy the already-old "go ask reddit" type questions, and the hilarious passive thanks that come with it :P

  17. Posted

    Hey goafer!

     

    That's funny because you're taking the piss out of something I said in a different thread.

     

    Which has no bearing on my personal life. Or yours.

     

    And this thread is a bit more personal.

     

    And you have no idea what I've gone through in the last 10 months.

     

    But it's ok to joke about it because I'm a bad person.

     

    Because I've recommended a different website.

     

    Which is really encouraging for me to post more, on a site I used to religiously use for 14 years, but strangely stopped using as much over the last 10 months. As if something in my personal life changed.

     

    Smart!

  18. Posted

    Currently in a house with 4 other people. Last monday I bought 18 rolls of toilet paper and now there are none. What are people shitting? I also had two unopened boxes of cereal now empty, and 3kg of pasta now less than 1kg and I used it three times. My shower gel is empty too.

     

    Essentially all of them are using up my shit.

     

    I would literally be completely fine with them feeding themselves from my stuff if they ask, it's just so frustrating when I go to use something and it's entirely empty and I could've gotten a replacement earlier in the day had I known!

  19. Posted

    Even better idea, lets just close the entire forum and all move over to Reddit because the conversations are already happening there.

     

    Hey guys I've brought you some videos from this video store across town. Oh it's no hassle they deliver them. Wanna watch them? Yeah this store orders them from this other video store in another town. And we don't wanna move across town because we won't know anyone.

     

    Oh you saw these films last week when they first came out? But our town store didn't stock them yet. How did you do that?

     

    You just ordered from the store in the other town?

     

    ...

     

    All I'm saying is -- reddit has funny stuff. Lots. If you like funny stuff check out funny stuff over there.

     

    If you like cooking stuff they have some cool cooking subreddits.

     

    I quite like chess and their subreddit is a bit sparse but if there's interesting content there I have the option to bring some of that content to this forum here where i can field it to people who have opinions that I trust.

     

    That I am complaining that people are being slowpokes for literally no reason beyond what sounds like complacency or because they dislike change doesn't get negated because I'm now an n-e hating hipster

  20. Posted

    But reddit is filtered by 'upvotes' and 'downvotes' so the 'first page' is full of the recently most-upvoted items. Being a hipster and seeing it first is a handy by-product of also seeing more funny things. Though you'd have to install reddit enhancement suite to get to just click on "view all images" to get a better user-friendly experience, and I'm sure that's too much effort for many people.

     

    I get that people like to use this place to post funny things - I just figured maybe they'd like to post more funny things from a more recent source than whatever source they're using, or maybe they'd like to know where a funny thing is from in case they want more funny things.

     

    I'm all for locking this thread but I'm just a lurking mod and it wouldn't be fair to start a moan-sesh and not be around to reply to it.

  23. Posted

    The whole day at work I could see my colleagues just browsing online clothes stores for bargains. One of them spent over £400...! Another one was on some pet shop online and was part of a queue to actually even look at the goods -- they were 700th in line.

     

    So I was massively stressed and annoyed at everyone wasting their time... then I saw a colleague on steam... and got him to buy me the valve collection for £18.99. I am One Of Them.

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