Things you hate

'Waiter, Waiter! My butter is too cold!'

'Yes sir, thanks to the huge amount of Chinese investment in our country we can now properly chill and preserve perishable dairy products'

 

Do kikuyu have any room temperature butter?

 

If you do, can Masai have some please?

 

Cut your nails.

 

Clients that phone up with 2 1/2 hours to deadline in a panic because they haven't used their ISA allowance this year and expect you to drop everything to sort it out for them.

 

Like times a million!!!!

 

As they are already your clients, then you should have already rang them up first!
:naughty:

 

Being stuck at work until 7pm on a Friday to set up a call with The US whilst everyone around you HAS to leave because they are moving offices over the weekend.

 

Out of hours conference calls are a farking pain. Yesterday I had a 7am call with someone in Australia and then had a work all evening waiting for a call with someone on the west coast of the USA. So yes, overseas and out of hours conference calls are on the hate list.

 

the way you become a man in demand when you get a bird

 

Servilism. I hate to see people being servile.

"ooh yes sir, no sir" running around stooped and tugging their forelock. "have a nice day sir". "Anything else I can help you with today?" It's something that's been foisted on the poor working class over the past few decades and of course, like so many great things, it's come to our shores fresh from America.

Now we have to monotonously parrot pre-scripted, cheery greetings and enquiries about whether you actually want to buy more. Now we have to wear big smiley face badges with our own private first name printed on it.

It's not enough to keep us in our place with poverty wages, expensive crapppy substandard housing and surveillance every damn where. You also want us wringing our hands and kow-towing after you.

I would put a ban on all these 'customer service initiatives' if I could.

Let's have a bit of respect and dignity back.

 

They get a reminder with their review, as it's difficult to get a fee for an ISA we'd rather they didn't do one to be honest. A couple of hours work, to apply for, years of servicing and no fee.

 

Fee?

The FCA and the general public think that your advisers should be giving advice for nothing, don't they?

TBF, it is partly why I left the Regulated world.

 

People who don't acknowledge a courtesy when you slow or stop to allow them to use a zebra crossing or pull over to allow them to drive through on a narrow road.

Usually posh women, who have their nose in the air or are simply myopic.

 

When people go in the lane with the shortest que, then cut back into the other lane at the last minute ahead of the people who've been waiting patiently in the right lane for ages. *****.

 

Corporate motivational blurbs/acronyms eg Together Everyone Achieves More

 

Jim Carey. Has he ever made anybody laugh? Ever?

 

Cable TV. There is less to watch on 200 channels than there was on 4

 

Mods. Like the police and politicians, the very people who want to be one are usually the last people who ought be one.

 

Yup. I had one last week that I had to set up for a 5am start. Meant leaving the house at 3:30am and working through to 6pm. Was not fun.

 

The fact that I've worked in this place for a year and a few months yet I and around 70% of the workforce are temporary workers not entitled to the job security, notice period or other non monetary benefits of those who are on permanent contracts.

 

People who join forums and slate the mods within minutes of doing so, (probably because they can't post spamming links I'd guess). Explain the username m8? Is it an acronym of ex Watford players?

 

I thought they were referring to anorak wearing scooter riders. Sir Bradley Wiggins for example.

 

A lack of links to rivers which are live on the internet.

 

I thought for a moment I'd found a kindred spirit, looking for geography porn on the net, then I realised what you were on about.

 

That would be "Horn Meister and SM Can Lick My A***".

 

If you've got a problem with the way this site is run, why do you post here?
If you're invited round to someone's house who asks you not to put your feet on the table do you still do it and then argue that you should be allowed to, critisicing the people that paid for the table and the way they've asked you?

Original admin put a considerable amount of time as well as his own money in to set this site up. SM#16 kindly took over the site , which is now at last self funded through the adverts that many people block, when original admin could no longer dedicate the time and resources he did.
I have been a mod since day one and spent thousands of hours of my free time along with others, helping to run this site. We now have nearly 5000 members and banned less than 10. We are doing something right.

When you **** on the Mods and admin staff you **** on the whole website and insult the people that have dedicated their time and effort. If you think you can do better, then stop moaning, set up an alternative and see how popular it becomes. We'll even give you a sticky thread to advertise it if you want. Call it a parting gift.

On the other hand, maybe you'll set up another troll account and come back after a few days a whinge a bit more.


Apologies, gone a bit off topic there.

 

Not knowing what made one poster so mad that he had to create a troll account and lambast the mods.

 

Idiocy surely?

 

Same.

 

In order to get the sort of reaction he/she got.

That's what trolls do.

 

There are two sides to every story. That said...life is short. Let's move on.