― Ed (dali), Thursday, 28 December 2006 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― suzy artskooldisko (suzy artskooldisko), Thursday, 28 December 2006 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― emsk ( emsk ), Thursday, 28 December 2006 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link
i mean
this will be the THIRD time, stupid dumb fuckers
the depot is in enfield and it is 200 cds so going to get it myself is totally out of the question.
― emsk ( emsk ), Thursday, 28 December 2006 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link
i am still SO FUCKED OFF AT THEM though
― emsk ( emsk ), Thursday, 28 December 2006 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― substitute, mitya for him (mitya), Friday, 29 December 2006 08:58 (seventeen years ago) link
Trust me, thingbringers are rubbish. The worst story I've heard about our staff was one driver who had a big heavy oven to deliver, saw a rather long and step-filled path from lorry to house, so stove in the oven door with his boot before the recipient spotted him. "Sorry love, I didn't think you'd want it like this, warehouse staff must have done it, don't worry they'll get a replacement out as soon as they can."
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 29 December 2006 09:25 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.symbolicforest.com/img/onblog/gcr2.jpg
http://www.symbolicforest.com/img/onblog/gcr5.jpg
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 29 December 2006 09:29 (seventeen years ago) link
ah trains!
― substitute, mitya for him (mitya), Friday, 29 December 2006 09:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― emsk ( emsk ), Friday, 29 December 2006 10:43 (seventeen years ago) link
(although the one time the Management thought valuable stuff was being nicked, it turned out just to be that they'd lost a few pallets - they found them again a few months later. The only stuff they actually nick are the toilet rolls from the loos)
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 29 December 2006 11:57 (seventeen years ago) link
The last time i had to print out on a bit of paper PLEASE RING DOORBELL and stick it to the door.It was a different driver who did indeed ring it.
oh and hello all.
― pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 29 December 2006 13:17 (seventeen years ago) link
FP, sounds like yr firm's guy was proud of stoving in that oven. Did he face any consequences for doing this, or are they in some kind of sick competition WRT who can fuck over the customer most comprehensively?
Often postmen will leave a 'sorry you were out' when you're in because they never had your parcel to begin with.
― suzy artskooldisko (suzy artskooldisko), Friday, 29 December 2006 13:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 29 December 2006 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 29 December 2006 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Friday, 29 December 2006 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― suzy artskooldisko (suzy artskooldisko), Friday, 29 December 2006 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 29 December 2006 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link
and now i missed the start of the pub crawl, all because these twats can't rustle up a fucking brain cell between the lot of them.#
― emsk ( emsk ), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― M Grout (Mark Grout), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 09:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 09:33 (seventeen years ago) link
I ended up here at 02:00 coudn't sleep etc
― M Grout (Mark Grout), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 09:34 (seventeen years ago) link
My new supervisor starts today. I haven't met him yet - he's been stuck in the boss's office since 9am.
Have just found that when we set up the recorded phone messages to say "Happy Christmas! We're not in!", I cocked up. I *actually* set them up to say "Happy Easter! We're not in!" and noone bothered to check.
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 09:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 10:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 10:09 (seventeen years ago) link
Highlight: The kids got a karaoke video camera unit thingy, we plugged it in and they did passable versions of "HotHotHot" and "YMCA".
Amber took the mic for "Girlfriend" by N-Sync. I didn't know the song, let alone Amber, but she read the lyrics in a flat loud monotone in pure classic Drimble Wedge and the Vegetations style (See: Peter Cook in Bedazzled) but much much better lyrics for it..
"He does not love you.He will never love you.."
(we were all crying but thankfully Amber did't notice or wasn;t bothered)
― M Grout (Mark Grout), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 10:22 (seventeen years ago) link
In the middle of the night Is he gonna be by your side? Or will he run and hide? You don't know cause things ain't clear And baby when you cry Is he gonna stand by your side? Does the man even know you're alive?
Leonard Cohen, eat your heart out!
― M Grout (Mark Grout), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 10:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 10:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 10:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 10:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 10:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 10:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― emsk ( emsk ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 10:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 10:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 10:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― emsk ( emsk ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 10:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― emsk ( emsk ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 13:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 13:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― emsk ( emsk ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― emsk ( emsk ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link
Scandalous that I've never seen it even tho I've lived in Oxon for 13 years, but there you go...
― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― emsk ( emsk ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― suzy artskooldisko (suzy artskooldisko), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link