General Musings

[Cheeky Gnando’s]

Keep challenging it, they will have made a mistake if it's that much out. The fucks insisted that there was no way that they could have made a mistake, and rather than the 20 quid pm I had been paying the previous year which resulted in an 80 quid rebate at the end, I ACTUALLY should have been paying around £250pm All while the boiler was broken

I just kept at them until eventually they sorted it out.

[PHOODLE-OUt]

Probably try and phone them again on Monday. Just seemed convenient that it happened in the last month of my deal. I put my meter readings in once a month or so anaw. Cannae wait until Corbyn sorts these cunts out

[Cheeky Gnando’s]

It's a massive difference when you're giving monthly readings. I think they're trying to fuck you mate

[Floyd]

They are trying to ride you like a Blackpool Donkey VS.

Monthly readings wouldn't result in under billing of anywhere close to that.

[PHOODLE-OUt]

You would think so but they're adamant, I actually warnocked down the phone when he said my usage equates to £80 per month on a new plan fucking mares trying to get through on the phone anaw, "high volumes of calls" pish, stay on hold 30mins then some cunt picks up and puts the phone straight down

[Cheeky Gnando’s]

I had a boy give me the classic move of "you're through to the wrong department to deal with this, let me give you the correct number...*gives me the same number I called*"

They are fucking AT IT and will back down if you take it further and further.

[Floyd]

You would think so but they're adamant, I actually warnocked down the phone when he said my usage equates to £80 per month on a new plan fucking mares trying to get through on the phone anaw, "high volumes of calls" pish, stay on hold 30mins then some cunt picks up and puts the phone straight down

If they try that again, go full on Ali G on them and ask if it's coz you is black??

I guarantee an apology and full refund will be on its way to you right away.

[CritchSmile]

Bit of an 'I'm alright Jack' attitude m8

But i'm not alright and i'm not jack. Hence why i'm trying to save pennies.

[shaun.lawson]

Apologies for this: I'll try not to make a habit of it, I promise, it's just all I have to go on over the past three and a half years - but if by some miracle any of you ever spend some time in Uruguay (or Argentina actually), don't go in winter whatever you do. It's flipping Baltic. The reason is cold humidity - which just goes straight through your bones like nothing else - and the wind blowing in off the River Plate.

Meanwhile, most buildings have eff all insulation. I was in one of those for my first apartment there. And in July 2012, I got a bill of 9000 pesos (at the time, almost 300 quid) for one month of heating in a 30m squared studio flat.

Even in properly heated newer buildings, in the winter, it's 5000 pesos a month easily. Horrendous. So I dunno what any of you are moaning about frankly.

/endofboringUruguaystory

[Cheeky Gnando’s]

I'm b4 Mak makes obligatory "why are you going to this effort to pretend you're in Uruguay. You're not in Uruguay" post.

[Walter Sobchak]

Sounds pretty horrendous. How do the locals afford it?

[shaun.lawson]

Sounds pretty horrendous. How do the locals afford it?

Either with these awful gas heaters which stink the place out (I've hated the smell of gas heaters since I was a kid, so not for me), or by sharing. Like almost any country not in the First World, and increasing numbers that are, Uruguay is not a place designed for single people. Huge numbers of the working age population leave for Europe, Australia or the US because the cost of life is so prohibitive - and as a small country, opportunities will never go beyond a certain level.

I know it's a cliche, but it does lend a sense of perspective on life in the UK for most (though nothing like all). The shanty towns that line the edge of Montevideo have to be seen to be believed; and somewhere like Casavalle, image below, isn't even where the really poor live.



And when you realise that on average, Uruguay has the second best quality of life in South America (behind only Chile), it's almost overwhelming how difficult the day-to-day reality is for most. Lesson drawn from my time there? I need massively more savings to do the things I want to do there; I need to save up for several years to buy a property and have the freedom that'll give me, basically.

[Shuto Makino]

I'm b4 Mak makes obligatory "why are you going to this effort to pretend you're in Uruguay. You're not in Uruguay" post.

He's definitely in Uruguay right now. 100%.

[CritchSmile]

The amount of effort Shaun puts into pretending he lived in Uruguay.

[Roger H. Sterling]

What's with folk having qualms about taking sick days? I've never seen the problem with pulling one if I'm feeling shite, or just can't be arsed. Got pals that wouldn't take one if they were going through chemo.

[dokratrow]

Remote locking front doors should be a thing

[Papin]

It's the cunts who think they are being brave and coming into work when they are not well, then infecting everyone else with their manky germs.

[Roger H. Sterling]

It's the cunts who think they are being brave and coming into work when they are not well, then infecting everyone else with their manky germs.

Exactly. Just take the fucking day off. Got one pal that won't even take a holiday. He's sitting on 30 days leave between now and Christmas. Just can't shirk that high school feeling of guilt for not being in.

[PHOODLE-OUt]

Only had a couple absences in the last 10yr. I had swine flu and had to go to work once, it was fucking awful Usually carry holidays over every year, wouldn't take leave for the sake of it, only if have something to do.

[Roger H. Sterling]

Only had a couple absences in the last 10yr. I had swine flu and had to go to work once, it was fucking awful Usually carry holidays over every year, wouldn't take leave for the sake of it, only if have something to do.

Why? Never understood that. I did when I worked in service, where if I was off, arranged or not, someone else has to cover me. I get why you wouldn't want to put someone out. But in an office, where no one has to pick up your slack, why wouldn't you take time off?