The angry thread

Started by findus, March 29, 2011, 09:42:45 PM

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Steamie+

Contracted out contracted in, it is all a con really, the average wage is far more then the weekly payment, if you haven't had a personal pension to top up the government one tough luck, they don't care, so we end up on the breadline. Not all pensioners are well off. I retire this September or earlier if work get their way and i will not get anywhere new what i earn weekly and trying to get extra benefits is like trying to catch the wind, impossible.

ozzie Bill.

#4981
:poop: news from here in Melbourne with some cretin going off, driving through a pedestrian mall and killing at least 3 injuring 20+. Sometimes makes you want to bring back capital punishment!

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Newportnobby

Saw that on the news, Bill :(
Whatever happened to crims 'falling down the police station stairs' etc? >:D

NinOz

Quote from: ozzie Bill. on January 20, 2017, 12:24:05 PM
:poop: news from here in Melbourne with some cretin going off, driving through a pedestrian mall and killing at least 3 injuring 20+. Sometimes makes you want to bring back capital punishment!
A news report said the "alleged driver".  After chasing this guy for hours, video of him doing burnouts and wheelies and running people down then shooting him in the arm; is there a possibility the police got an innocent bystander by mistake?
I really hate news people using "alleged" and "suspect" in totally inappropriate usage.

Amazing that Vic cops only winged him usually they tend to shoot to kill.  Possibly that he wasn't a mentally disturbed person armed with a spoon may explain the lack of multiple kill shots.

CFJ
To be called pompous and arrogant - hell of a come down.
I tried so hard to be snobbish and haughty.

| Carpe Jugulum |

Bealman

Well apparently he was mentally disturbed and also on something. It wasn't terrorist related, but if that ain't terrorism, I dunno what is.
Vision over visibility. Bono, U2.

port perran

Grrrrrrrrrr..... bought replacement handles for our bathroom door today.
Fine....2.5 minutes to fit plus 45 yess FORTY FIVE minutes to extract the handles from the packaging. It says, small screwdriver  needed to remove pakaging. Oh....plus the bigger screwdriver, pliers, pincers and large scissors.
As someone on the B&Q forum said...."packaging obviously designed by someone recently retired from Fort Knox".
:veryangry: :censored:
I'll get round to fixing it drekkly me 'ansome.

Ian Bowden

#4986
Sitting here simmering nicely.

The gas meter at the theatre was supposed to be changed last December. The morning appointment (8.00am to 1.00pm) came and went, at 2.30pm the engineer rang to say he would be with me about 3.30 and it would take 2 hours. I pointed out that it should be a morning appointment and he said it was down for afternoon. I cancelled and told him to rearrange the appointment. It was rearranged for today morning again. The engineer arrived at 12.45 and looked at the meter and said he only had one fitting not the two he needed. He is currently ringing round to find another engineer who has a fitting. Either way he is going to leave and the other engineer will do the job if he has the fittings. Did I meantion they sent someone to survey the job first so should know what fittings were required.

The replacement engineer can doi the job in about two hours time and it will take about 2 hours. Cancelled again as I have other things to do in the afternoon.

10 hours wasted and counting.

TylerB

Double Glazing salesman... need I say more?

Seriously, I need new windows but the thought of having another one of these people sitting on my sofa, pretending to be friendly and then offering a quote of at least double what you should be charged, and then doing that whole 'oh I could shave a few pounds off here', 'I could call my manager and see if he can do a special' etc etc.

Just save the dance and go directly to the final price... or better still, just go away and never return

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Newportnobby

I just got a telephone number for a local double glazing company and got an extremely good deal and excellent service with FENSA guarantee. I wouldn't touch anyone who advertises on the telly with anyone else's bargepole ('cos the punter pays for the ads) :no:

daveg

Some time back I endured the dreaded Double Glazers (humble apologies for any N Gaugers wot do new windows!)

The whole house and a new front door was the pricing challenge.

Much measuring and scribbling on NCR documentation resulted in a quote that prompted me to utter two words, the first being rather 'Anglo-Saxon'."Thought you'd say that." said the salesman and promptly reworked the quote that produced something like 60% of the original price.

More recently we had our current place reglazed but fortunately we avoided the silly prices and got a great deal so there are good guys out there.

Dave G

Skyline2uk

Quote from: escafeld on January 30, 2017, 06:24:53 PM
I had replacement windows and conservatory fitted in 2015. When I phoned up the Double Glazing companies I told them if they wanted any chance of an order then the salesman was to come round measure up, tell me what was good about there product and then leave. Any mention of why I shouldn't use one of there competitors would also mean that they wouldn't get the contract. I also told them that I wanted the quote sending through the post and was only interested in there best price.

I had arranged for 5 quotes, 4 from local companies and one from a National company. On arrival I reiterated my conditions before they came into my house. The four local companies all agreed, the national company salesman told me that was not the way they operated and he would have to produce a quote while he was at my house, I promptly told him I was no longer interested in that companies products and closed the front door.  :D

Each salesman from the local companies seemed desperate to find out who else I was having quotes from but all I told them was four local companies and a national company. The one I choose in the end wasn't the cheapest but the salesman (owner) told me that whichever local company I was to choose I couldn't go far wrong as they all offered quality products and fitting. His honesty in that statement got him the contract.

Noted.

And will be applied for future uses in the Skyline household  :thumbsup:

Oh, right, angry thread.....erm.....booooo it's wet outside....

Skyline2uk

Ian Bowden

Ive had the it will cost X but as you are a member of some group etc we can reduce the price and then the fake call to the sales director who then authorises even more off. The local company came said it will cost a few pounds more that the national company but they would fit the roof to the porch as I wanted in tiles rather than plastic as the national company insisted. No discounts just an honest price.

stevewalker

What is it about double glazing salesmen? Some years ago, one knocked at my parents' house ... while my dad and my uncle were up ladders fitting a new front window  ???

daffy

I have a very wide front window - the main pane is 8 feet - and I would love to replace it to cut out noise and get better draft exclusion. It is an old UPVC double glazed unit, but was badly fitted before we bought the house, the seals are failing and triple glazing would help greatly.
Trouble is the lintel above has cracks, though my brother, an accredited M.I.M.E., says it's okay at the moment but might need specialists if we were to replace it.
I can just imagine the sharks would have a field day.
Mike

Sufferin' succotash!

Sprintex

#4994
When my brother first moved out on his own he kept getting called every week by the same double-glazing/conservatory company, and every time he told them where to go in no uncertain terms!

Finally he gave in and made an appointment for the bloke to come round Thursday evening to quote for a conservatory. When the bloke knocked on the door and my brother opened it, the salesman was confronted with just a flight of stairs  ??? When it dawned on him that my bro lived in an UPSTAIRS MAISONETTE :D he said "I thought you were interested in a conservatory?". My brother replied with "I am, although you'd probably better ask the people downstairs if they mind two whacking great posts in their garden to hold it up" ;D

What the bloke muttered as he stomped away to his car is probably best left to the imagination ;)


Paul

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