BS: Jobsworth logic

Subject: Jobsworth logic
From: Mr Red
Date: 16 Aug 03 - 07:59 PM

My brother-in-law is in the UK temporarilly and had to organise things like telephones. Without a payment record in a rented property they force you to accept the deal whereby they only allow you to spend £50 on calls which they bill you for & has to be payed-off before you can make more calls (with another £20 buffer zone).

OK so one day (aged parents panics etc) he needs the phone and it is cut-off so he mobiles them (which has to go via NZ telecom and all the way back to the UK!)
"You cut me off"
"You didn't pay the bill"
"You didn't send the bill"
"I know we are having trouble"
"But if you don't send me the bill why cut me off?"
"That's the rule if you don't pay the bill"
"Well send the bill and put me back on"
"Not untill you pay the bill"
"but........"

so how is he supposed to know when he hits this arbritrary limit? OIn NZ they telphone you and leave a message as a pre-cursor to the bill - and it works.
Anyone with tales as bizzare?

Subject: RE: BS: Jobsworth logic
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 16 Aug 03 - 09:46 PM

I sent a cheque by post to pay a bill and forgot to put the account number on it. It was returned to me by post with a little note saying 'please return to sender, unable to locate address'.....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Jobsworth logic
From: harvey andrews
Date: 17 Aug 03 - 07:57 AM

"Round..like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel..."
When society has stopped manufacturing "things" it has to manufacture jobs. The above cases are classic examples.

Subject: RE: BS: Jobsworth logic
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Aug 03 - 04:30 PM

Franz Kafka lives. And we all thought it was fiction...

Subject: RE: BS: Jobsworth logic
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 04:30 AM

Shops are good.

"Can I have that [insert whatever]?"

"Sorry we don't have any."

"You do you have one on show!"

"Sorry that is for display purposes"

"Why have one on display if you don't have any...?"

Usualy confuses them around that point.

Best recently was the caretaker of our building. The lock to the car park was jammed and no one could get in from outside. You could get in by walking round to the car entrance and walking up the ramps and you could get out through said pedestrian door.

"Why don't you tape the latch open?" I asks.

"Can't do that!" answers the jobsworth. "It is a breach of security."

"But..." I began. Decided to give up rather than start:-)

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Jobsworth logic
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 11:04 AM

Harvey, situations like these always make me think of Tommy Burton's Cesspits of your mind (even though the song itself is not particularly relevant) ...

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: Jobsworth logic
From: harvey andrews
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 03:42 PM

Tommy Burton..there's a blast from the past!

Subject: RE: BS: Jobsworth logic
From: GUEST,marion
Date: 19 Aug 03 - 02:39 PM

You should all come & live in Spain. The above are everyday situations here ... in the end you just give up !

The only funy thing is when you see people that have just come to live here and watch them battle it out for a few months. I mean, don't they know E-Spain is different ?

Subject: RE: BS: Jobsworth logic
From: Ebbie
Date: 20 Aug 03 - 03:34 PM

When I first came to Alaska I had a couple of largish checks with me. I wanted to break one because I wanted to buy a guitar I had found before I left town to go work in a wilderness lodge . Went to one bank and they said they couldn't do it because they had to wait to see if the check cleared. Went to another bank, talked to a sensible woman who suggested that I open an account and just withhold part of the funds. Which I did, bought the guitar and went happily off to the woods.

Nowadays I absolutely hate writing routine monthly checks so I prepay a couple of hundred dollars to each recurring bill. Easy to examine their bookwork. Works for me. And would work for your brother, Mr. Red.