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Nothing worse than trying to mop up someone else's incompetence.

Hope you get away in holidays ok Deegee, sounds like you need it.

kiwikrasher wrote:Nothing worse than trying to mop up someone else's incompetence...

Actually, fwiw in my experience there is...
Being directed to "take over" from a colleague, and then somehow becoming accountable for the ensuing bloodbath, political fallout & subsequent cost analysis......
The fact that the situation was entirely created by the base incompetence of another becomes somehow irrelevant.????
IMHO it's the Peter Principle, that's endemic in so many UK sectors, that inevitably givesd rise to these muppets.

Hope you have a great holiday Deegee, just the two of you.??

StMarks wrote:

kiwikrasher wrote:Nothing worse than trying to mop up someone else's incompetence...

Actually, fwiw in my experience there is...
Being directed to "take over" from a colleague, and then somehow becoming accountable for the ensuing bloodbath, political fallout & subsequent cost analysis......
The fact that the situation was entirely created by the base incompetence of another becomes somehow irrelevant.????
IMHO it's the Peter Principle, that's endemic in so many UK sectors, that inevitably givesd rise to these muppets.

Hope you have a great holiday Deegee, just the two of you.??

Fair call, I stand corrected!!

Me: "Hello, I tried to book a table online the other day, I haven't had any confirmation yet, can I just confirm it's gone through?"

Restaurant: "You tried to book a table online? I've never heard of anyone doing that before? Are you sure it was for this place?"

"Yes. Definitely used the system on your website. "

"Hmm, never had anyone do that before."

"OK, never mind, can I just book one over the phone then?"

"Ooh no, we don't take bookings on a weekend."

Itchy wrote:Me: "Hello, I tried to book a table online the other day, I haven't had any confirmation yet, can I just confirm it's gone through?"

Restaurant: "You tried to book a table online? I've never heard of anyone doing that before? Are you sure it was for this place?"

"Yes. Definitely used the system on your website. "

"Hmm, never had anyone do that before."

"OK, never mind, can I just book one over the phone then?"

"Ooh no, we don't take bookings on a weekend."

Would it be worth sending an email to the "contact us" address on that website, recounting your experience.? -Someone has enough about them to invest in the infrastructure, & the chances are they may be "alarmed" at the enthusiasm & motivation displayed by their colleague on the phone.

It depends on how we get on when I go there this afternoon. Interestingly enough, they wouldn't take a booking but told me to ring up about half an hour beforehand to reserve a table!

This probably sounds like more trouble than it's worth, but the missus wants to go there and it's her birthday today.

Happy Birthday to Mrs. Itchy...!!!

Mum's who don't work, live off benefits, have enough money to smoke, have very little respect and allow their kids to kick their footy into people's cars and doing sweet FA about it. We need to cut these people from society they are able to show their kids nothing other than live off hand outs

^ that! That makes me want to vent more than anything and I don't mean the single mum.

Monty wrote:^ that! That makes me want to vent more than anything and I don't mean the single mum.

You just know I'm going to agree with Rossgo on this one I'm afraid mate.
Perhaps we could do some sort of a deal, whereby we agree to take in a lot more refugees if we can expel a relative proportion of endemic professional takers.?
Would that work ok for you Monty.?

Monty wrote:^ that! That makes me want to vent more than anything and I don't mean the single mum.

I'm not trying to push people's buttons or offend fella I generally say it as I see it. It's not an argument or anything

Rossgo wrote:

Monty wrote:^ that! That makes me want to vent more than anything and I don't mean the single mum.

I'm not trying to push people's buttons or offend fella I generally say it as I see it. It's not an argument or anything

Not arguing with you, I'm just very sensitive

StMarks wrote:

Monty wrote:^ that! That makes me want to vent more than anything and I don't mean the single mum.

You just know I'm going to agree with Rossgo on this one I'm afraid mate.
Perhaps we could do some sort of a deal, whereby we agree to take in a lot more refugees if we can expel a relative proportion of endemic professional takers.?
Would that work ok for you Monty.?

Yep that could work, how many Syrians do we get for Philip Green?

I would take a million Syrians if we could just drop Farage + May + Boris + Gove + Fox into Aleppo for a week.

duke63 wrote:I would take a million Syrians if we could just drop Farage + May + Boris + Gove + Fox into Aleppo for a week.

Approved.

I've got nothing to vent about today unless I miss my connecting flight later, got 15 mins to get through immigration and to the other side of the terminal to make my flight or it's a 12 hr wait!

I'm with Lord Voldemort and Carl Sagan.

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Rossgo wrote:Mum's who don't work, live off benefits, have enough money to smoke, have very little respect and allow their kids to kick their footy into people's cars and doing sweet FA about it. We need to cut these people from society they are able to show their kids nothing other than live off hand outs

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Monty wrote:[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEQc[/video]

I'm assuming that I may be "very personally familiar" with your target there Monty...