SPAM random annoying things

[Gwadien]

Get a job, scum!

Anyway, student debt isn't real, you pay it back as such a stupidly low rate its not even worth thinking about.*

*If they don't fuck it up that is.

Am working on getting a job, but got some stuff coming up that will hopefully get me a job in schools and enhance my CV, so don't wanna fuck that up by getting a shelf stacking job...

That being said, I should hear soon enough about it, so if I don't get it, I can get in with the Christmas jobs.

and as you said (if they don't fuck it up)

 

[CorNokZ]

Mmm free university and getting paid for it

Denmark is so awesome

 

[DaGaffer]

copious loan money?

£4k with £3.5k debt that I have pay back at the end of the third year?

Okay.

Peanuts. When YOUR kids are a hundred grand in debt you'll laugh nostalgically.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/europe/article4213550.ece

On a completely related note.

and @old.Tohtori I paid for the whiskey....................

So you can afford whiskey eh? Bloody students...

 

[Gwadien]

Peanuts. When YOUR kids are a hundred grand in debt you'll laugh nostalgically.



So you can afford whiskey eh? Bloody students...

Jim Beam, so not even Whiskey, was like £13 or something, good deal m8

 

[Madmaxx]

It was a good scene in the 1st film as it was unexpected, but wtf is this shit.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY5Ug1OW5O4

 

[old.Tohtori]

Debt collection agency types that can turn a 50€ thing into you owing 650€ by "expenses"(they send you a note).

No idea how that sh*t is legal.

 

[Chilly]

Cos you agreed to it when you took out the loan.

 

[old.Tohtori]

I was talking about collection agency upping the costs whenever they feel like it. Or i guess you think it's reasonable to charge 200€ for sending a paper?

 

[Raven]

Never a good idea to leave it to the point of debt collectors getting involved! Half the time they do what they like.

 

[old.Tohtori]

No option really when you don't have the cash to pay. I didn't plan on being unemployed afterall

 

[TdC]

Heh in the last homeowner's meeting we agreed to raise our monthly contribution by 9 euros, and ofc I promptly forgot about this. By the time it reached letter writing stage my debt had more than doubled and I got a stern letter explaining that my failure to pay made me a child killing terrorist, layabout and generally a bad person. Ofc I paid up, but the insta-doubling of the price was a bit shocking.

 

[DaGaffer]

Heh in the last homeowner's meeting we agreed to raise our monthly contribution by 9 euros, and ofc I promptly forgot about this. By the time it reached letter writing stage my debt had more than doubled and I got a stern letter explaining that my failure to pay made me a child killing terrorist, layabout and generally a bad person. Ofc I paid up, but the insta-doubling of the price was a bit shocking.

Woah, your own housing association wrote in a clause that doubles late payment and you agreed to it? Bollocks to that

 

[sayward]

postal service? sent 1st class letter to my mother last Thursday and where is it? It sure hasn't arrived. and before you all groan it's pointless ringing her she doesn't take anything in. She has an antique mobile and she refuses to even try and text or use a laptop. She is worse than me. There is no complaints procedure for anything that isn't registered or tracked. Why would I do that with an ordinary letter?

 

[Yoni]

Weird random bouts of feeling really blah

 

[TdC]

Woah, your own housing association wrote in a clause that doubles late payment and you agreed to it? Bollocks to that

nope, and to go one further afaik its just normal in the NL to claim "administrative costs" for just about anything. you want a smile from the check-out girl sirrah? that's 2% extra!

 

[mooSe_]

thought i finally had a chance to sneakily play some starcraft but then got some weird bug patching on EU server and the NA server is down for maintenance

 

[old.Tohtori]

thought i finally had a chance to sneakily play some starcraft but then got some weird bug patching on EU server and the NA server is down for maintenance

Rinstal time?

Yeah i'm trying a new term out

 

[fettoken]

Debt collection agency types that can turn a 50€ thing into you owing 650€ by "expenses"(they send you a note).

No idea how that sh*t is legal.

I do actually think you can contest the shit out of it and win if you're good and know your legal-stuff. At least that's a thing in Sweden, you can always contest an invoice at any given moment and they have to freeze it instantly while investigating your claim.

So, yeah, if you want to be a dick back, just call and contest it 24/7.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Have to try that

 

[Gwadien]

So I just rang up Virgin Media for the first time because the internet went to fuckery.

15 mins of automated retarded questions.

I don't understand why they can't just be like 'Phone, Internet or TV'? Okay, thanks, here's what you need to do.

Also, what's with the bullshit 'security' questions, I'm not really going to ring up for Dave down the road to fix his internet, cos im an evil bastard, am I?

 

[Moriath]

patience young padawan all good things come to those who wait.

Every help desk is the same. Just say yes done that or doing that and wait a few secs and say its still the same or some such to jump through the hoops you must.

Unfortunately not everyone is intelligent and their systems must be set up to cater for those at the bottom of the scale

you should have to enter your iq when you dialup so you can avoid half the questions.

Most of the time when i ring up Virgin i say i have rebooted the modem and the PC's i have rebooted the TV, this light is flashing, I have tried a speed test and this is happening. etc etc

just to tick their boxes off before they get to them

 

[old.Tohtori]

Can't decide if i want to shoot bandits with arrows, mutants with bullets, or aliens with lasers.

Big props for anyone getting it

 

[Lakih]

So I just rang up Virgin Media for the first time because the internet went to fuckery.

15 mins of automated retarded questions.

I don't understand why they can't just be like 'Phone, Internet or TV'? Okay, thanks, here's what you need to do.

Also, what's with the bullshit 'security' questions, I'm not really going to ring up for Dave down the road to fix his internet, cos im an evil bastard, am I?

As someone who's been on the other side of that call for quite a few years you'd be surprised at the amount of stupid customers you have to talk to.
"MY INTERNET IS BROKEN! YOU BROKE MY INTERNET! FIX MY INTERNET!"
"Hello to you to mister. You don't have internet with our company, you have to call your internet service provider."
"MY INTERNET IS BROKEN! YOU BROKE MY INTERNET! YOU SELL INTERNET! YOU MUST FIX MY INTERNET!"
"Have a nice day."
[click]
It really is sad, every time you get an intelligent coherent customer who tested things in a logical order you perk up and remember that one call for the rest of the day. They are few and far between. After a while you start to treat all your customers like idiots and that means that the intelligent customers get caught in the "Have you tried turning it off and on again" loop too.
Do what @Moriath do. It helps everyone.

 

[old.Tohtori]

If i ever have to call somewhere, techhelp, bank, whatever and deal with "those workers", i just think of them as people doing their job and try not to step on their turf. So if i call an ISP, i won't go "Oh and before you ask i tried things from A to Z already."

Just let them work, you're not in that much of a hurry to see the latest status update on FB

 

[DaGaffer]

As someone who's been on the other side of that call for quite a few years you'd be surprised at the amount of stupid customers you have to talk to.
"MY INTERNET IS BROKEN! YOU BROKE MY INTERNET! FIX MY INTERNET!"
"Hello to you to mister. You don't have internet with our company, you have to call your internet service provider."
"MY INTERNET IS BROKEN! YOU BROKE MY INTERNET! YOU SELL INTERNET! YOU MUST FIX MY INTERNET!"
"Have a nice day."
[click]
It really is sad, every time you get an intelligent coherent customer who tested things in a logical order you perk up and remember that one call for the rest of the day. They are few and far between. After a while you start to treat all your customers like idiots and that means that the intelligent customers get caught in the "Have you tried turning it off and on again" loop too.
Do what @Moriath do. It helps everyone.

Damn straight, those cat videos don't watch themselves you know.

 

[Ormorof]

Pointless mandatory trainings

I have to spend 3 hours training on a system I will never use because its mandatory for all employees gah


Edit: and no cake or sandwiches! Just machine coffee! Double gah!

 

[TdC]

lol I get this all the time Ormorof. did one this morning in fact.

 

[Ormorof]

annoying part is that im working part time atm while studying so even though i am only at work for 4 hours tomorrow i still have to do the 3 hour training (and im still expected to do all my normal tasks too ofc )

 

[Billargh]

My piece of shit work van breaking down today, while I was parked in a nursery car park.

 

[sayward]

Letter arrived. Only took 7 days!