Saw a cheap weekend in Budpest advertised, checked online reviews of the hotels listed etc, all fine (not amazing but central and clean), went for it.
Company that it's actually through, that break is overbooked but you can go somewhere else, or go at 3am on a Tuesday morning and come back at 7am, or you can stay in a hostel 340 miles away and walk in etc etc. Or you can have a decent break for 3 times the price.
So I turn it all down and say no problem, you can't do it, I'll just get a refund.... you can only get Wowcher credit!
So we can't fulfill the order but you can order something else through us even though we've just shown we're terrible?! Piss off.
The argument is that technically you buy a 'Wowcher'/gift voucher from them and use that the book what you want.
Despite clicking on the break, buying a 'voucher' for the exact amount of that break, having that break listed as the description of the voucher etc, it wasn't a voucher for that break.
I also could have got a refund before 'verifying'the voucher, but not after (you know, once I'd actually found out I couldn't book what had been offered....)
I learned in a similar way. All they kept saying was "it's covered in the T&C's on sign-up".
Yeah.
I'll end up using it to book a meal in Pizza Express or whatever before blocking the 37 emails a day I now get for them, but always worth spreading the word if it then stops them mugging someone else off in the same way.
Annoying thing is I knew they'd pull the "Are you sure you don't want to go on a Saturday, or from a different airport, get an upgraded hotel?" etc stuff and thought that worst case I say no and it's a refund....
The RNLI documentary - The vast majority of the people the crews are saving are in that position through their own stupidity. And the worst about it is, they don't acknowledge its their stupidity that's put not only their lives, but those of the crews, lives at risk.
The RNLI documentary - The vast majority of the people the crews are saving are in that position through their own stupidity. And the worst about it is, they don't acknowledge its their stupidity that's put not only their lives, but those of the crews, lives at risk.
That is so true, have watched it a few times and felt the same and the narrator never points out how stupid and irresponsible what they were doing was.
The RNLI documentary - The vast majority of the people the crews are saving are in that position through their own stupidity. And the worst about it is, they don't acknowledge its their stupidity that's put not only their lives, but those of the crews, lives at risk.
That is so true, have watched it a few times and felt the same and the narrator never points out how stupid and irresponsible what they were doing was.
Then a local fisherman, well known by the crew, goes in to the North Sea and they can't save him, it brings it home
Trying to get to see a doctor, managed to get an appointment in 3 flaming weeks and then only by phone, how the bloody hell is he’s going to be able to diagnose if I’ve got long Covid over the phone. That will mean another delay whilst he arranges blood test etc., or of course I could be helpful to them and die while I awaiting the phone call. Seeing a GP face to face just seems impossible at that comment applies to seeing him prior to Covid.
Trying to get to see a doctor, managed to get an appointment in 3 flaming weeks and then only by phone, how the bloody hell is he’s going to be able to diagnose if I’ve got long Covid over the phone. That will mean another delay whilst he arranges blood test etc., or of course I could be helpful to them and die while I awaiting the phone call. Seeing a GP face to face just seems impossible at that comment applies to seeing him prior to Covid.
It seems to vary from area to area, thankfully in my part of Kent and from experience it appears to be very easy to get a face to face appointment nowadays.
Trying to get to see a doctor, managed to get an appointment in 3 flaming weeks and then only by phone, how the bloody hell is he’s going to be able to diagnose if I’ve got long Covid over the phone. That will mean another delay whilst he arranges blood test etc., or of course I could be helpful to them and die while I awaiting the phone call. Seeing a GP face to face just seems impossible at that comment applies to seeing him prior to Covid.
Are there any minor injury/urgent treatment centres your way?
Half the time they are so badly advertised etc that they are half empty while the GPs are manic, and you can nip into the GP at them evenings and weekends etc.
I knew some firms were going to take the piss and blame covid but doctors surgeries are the worst. It was hard enough to get an appointment pre pandemic but now impossible. If there is a job that cannot be done remotely it is that of a GP
And electric cars, more to the point the owners of electric cars. The same people who bought their home for 25k in 1990 are lecturing kids on why they can't afford houses and how they should fill drinking bottles up from those free water places that are springing up as of doing that and not tangible things like addressing the grotesque imbalance of wealth in this country, especially wealth off the back of what were previously state owned assets but thats another conversation entirely
I knew some firms were going to take the piss and blame covid but doctors surgeries are the worst. It was hard enough to get an appointment pre pandemic but now impossible. If there is a job that cannot be done remotely it is that of a GP
And electric cars, more to the point the owners of electric cars. The same people who bought their home for 25k in 1990 are lecturing kids on why they can't afford houses and how they should fill drinking bottles up from those free water places that are springing up as of doing that and not tangible things like addressing the grotesque imbalance of wealth in this country, especially wealth off the back of what were previously state owned assets but thats another conversation entirely
As I said above it must be related to certain areas. I live in Kent and sadly I have had to visit my doctors twice in the last 4 x weeks. Called and got a face to face appointment within 48 hours on both occasions.
The one thing that did shock me is that our son has just moved locally and we suggested he sign up to our doctor's. He emailed them all his details last Thursday and had a face to face appointment with a doctor the next day, Friday at 11.30.
What a pleasant coincidence that we're on the subject of GPs. I'm going to the Sevenoaks Town Medical Centre this afternoon to unload the sort of rage that I usually reserve for ticket inspectors on South Eastern Trains.
My mum had a stroke 3 years ago and now has limited speech. About 6 months ago, we finally managed to get her weekly prescriptions organised so that she had a dossete box delivered every Friday. Town Medical Centre managed to cock it up in various ways during the first few months - failing to send the prescription to the chemist, sending it to the wrong chemist, etc. Been okay the last couple of months though, until last week. My mum's medicine didn't turn up - went to the pharmacy, who did an emergency prescription, and told me that Town Medical Centre advised them that my mum had moved to Ashford. They checked her NHS records for me, and it transpires that she's now registered to a surgery in Charing. For the avoidance of doubt, she hasn't moved, she isn't moving, she's never been to Charing and neither have I.
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But they aren't employed in the UK....
Never use them, would be my advice.
Saw a cheap weekend in Budpest advertised, checked online reviews of the hotels listed etc, all fine (not amazing but central and clean), went for it.
Company that it's actually through, that break is overbooked but you can go somewhere else, or go at 3am on a Tuesday morning and come back at 7am, or you can stay in a hostel 340 miles away and walk in etc etc. Or you can have a decent break for 3 times the price.
So I turn it all down and say no problem, you can't do it, I'll just get a refund.... you can only get Wowcher credit!
So we can't fulfill the order but you can order something else through us even though we've just shown we're terrible?! Piss off.
Despite clicking on the break, buying a 'voucher' for the exact amount of that break, having that break listed as the description of the voucher etc, it wasn't a voucher for that break.
I also could have got a refund before 'verifying'the voucher, but not after (you know, once I'd actually found out I couldn't book what had been offered....)
So yeah, wouldn't recommend it!
I'll end up using it to book a meal in Pizza Express or whatever before blocking the 37 emails a day I now get for them, but always worth spreading the word if it then stops them mugging someone else off in the same way.
Annoying thing is I knew they'd pull the "Are you sure you don't want to go on a Saturday, or from a different airport, get an upgraded hotel?" etc stuff and thought that worst case I say no and it's a refund....
Clicks are everything.
Half the time they are so badly advertised etc that they are half empty while the GPs are manic, and you can nip into the GP at them evenings and weekends etc.
I knew some firms were going to take the piss and blame covid but doctors surgeries are the worst. It was hard enough to get an appointment pre pandemic but now impossible. If there is a job that cannot be done remotely it is that of a GP
And electric cars, more to the point the owners of electric cars. The same people who bought their home for 25k in 1990 are lecturing kids on why they can't afford houses and how they should fill drinking bottles up from those free water places that are springing up as of doing that and not tangible things like addressing the grotesque imbalance of wealth in this country, especially wealth off the back of what were previously state owned assets but thats another conversation entirely
The one thing that did shock me is that our son has just moved locally and we suggested he sign up to our doctor's. He emailed them all his details last Thursday and had a face to face appointment with a doctor the next day, Friday at 11.30.
My mum had a stroke 3 years ago and now has limited speech. About 6 months ago, we finally managed to get her weekly prescriptions organised so that she had a dossete box delivered every Friday. Town Medical Centre managed to cock it up in various ways during the first few months - failing to send the prescription to the chemist, sending it to the wrong chemist, etc. Been okay the last couple of months though, until last week. My mum's medicine didn't turn up - went to the pharmacy, who did an emergency prescription, and told me that Town Medical Centre advised them that my mum had moved to Ashford. They checked her NHS records for me, and it transpires that she's now registered to a surgery in Charing. For the avoidance of doubt, she hasn't moved, she isn't moving, she's never been to Charing and neither have I.
1. People that say " yeah no yeah", when what they actually mean is "yeah".
2. I tie my shoelaces identically. Why does my right shoe lace always come undone?!