People fucking praying on the weak. I do think this does matter in the slightest tbh. So my sister just sent me this link and said I need to read it as it will disappear soon.

https://squareone.chrisbeatcancer.com/first-things-first/

As soon as I looked at it without even reading it I could tell I was marketing landing page 101. The bullshit countdown. The secrets we can only tell you if you pay $97 (odd numbers are more believable) and the massive saving (by who’s standard??).

What a fucking snake oil selling cunt. Selling shite like this when there is so much free information and help available.

b0r1s wrote:

Selling shite like this

Yo, I eat carrots, apples and spring onions! Don't see why I should buy.

"I dislike stupid application form questions"

Blue Swirl wrote:

Interview/application form questions that are just "Tell us about yourself". TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT TO KNOW. Seriously, give me a framework to get started in. "I had a wank this morning." "Sometimes my internal monologue is one long scream." Ask me something specific, FFS.

Be just as deliberately vague back in your answers. "I like watching tv, I like music. I like reading"

"I enjoy hobbies."

Yeah - I'd be putting in shit like "I love focussing on [problems relevant to kind of things you'll face in job] and am a self motivated blah blah always looking for ways to improve things [which may or may not be related to things in the job] blah blah"

Patients.

Couple days back I went to pick up a patient and take them for an XR. Everything started off well, doing my usual script, you okay to get into this wheelchair pal, yeah fine, etc. Then, the nurse comes into the room with a face mask and explains to her that she'll need to wear it while we're travelling and the times she's in Radiology. Then all hell breaks loose. Shes crying, in hysterics, screaming IT'S EMBARRASSING, THIS IS WHY I NEVER CAME BEFORE BECAUSE I KNEW I'D BE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST, WHY ARE YOUS ALL SO NASTY ABOUT THIS

Whoa nelly, here, forget the mask and just take a seat pal. I go into full nice porter mode as we go, reassurance and understanding, just trying to get her to calm down. Getting some amount of eyeballs as we go through the main foyer on the way there. I get to XR and luckily the guy running it is a fellow Staunchman so I explain the situation. As far as I'm aware they will not xray you if you don't wear one, but big man Drew was sound, he said just to drop her off and he'll deal with it. Phew.

I carry on with my day.

Yesterday I'm back in that ward and the nurse who brought the mask was chatting away to us. I ask so what happened to that girl. Was she discharged? Is she okay?

She was constipated.

All that, over a mask, cos she needed a jobby. Fuck me.

Anyway,

So she was literally full of shit? Poetic justice ...

Hahaha nice.

Don't think so. Slate wiped clean then.

Diluted Dante wrote:

"I enjoy hobbies."

Dante and I are on the same wavelength.

poprock wrote:

I dunno. I’d try looking at such an open-ended question as an excuse to say anything I wanted. Like a politician being interviewed. That box is crying out to be filled with an argument on how perfect for this job you are.

Funkstain wrote:

Yeah - I'd be putting in shit like "I love focussing on [problems relevant to kind of things you'll face in job] and am a self motivated blah blah always looking for ways to improve things [which may or may not be related to things in the job] blah blah"

See, this is why I'm a reasonable facsimile of a human being. You guys are basically wizards.

Narrator: “Sadly, it was.”

Sold my car this week and the new owner went straight over the Dartford Crossing, generating a £5 payment from my account. I've called them up and they've outright refused to refund me, despite me not being the owner. They've said that, as the car was still on my account, it's a valid charge. However, they've also accepted that I couldn't remove the car from my account, as you need to put another on there and (as of yet) I don't have a replacement.

It's just a fiver, but why are people so goddammed unhelpful? If they didn't know who the owner was, they'd do a DVLA check and write to them instead, so it's really not a big deal for them.

According to this page you can escalate your complaint to National Highways complaints, who have a dedicated team overseeing the Dart Charge. Might be worth the hassle, in case the new owner of your car keeps doing this.

There has to be a way of deleting your account, or removing ‘car ownership’ from your account. Otherwise how do the Council deal with all the other people who don’t own cars?

Tyne tunnel fines! They've changed the tunnel payment late last year, so instead of toll booths where you can pay for the journey, you just drive clean through and there's no option to pay there...you then have to remember to go online and pay for the passage the next day...or get a £60 fine (PLUS the £1.90 for using the tunnel!), though that's reduced to £30 (PLUS the £1.90) if you pay within 14 days.
It's a right fucking rip.
Anyway, week before christmas and my satnav took me through tunnel on way back from a football tournament, diverted away from the a1 for traffic. I rarely use the tunnel so forgot about the online thing initially, tried to do it a couple of days later and it wouldn't let me pay. I did 'prepay' for a few future journeys and thought that at least shows some willing and maybe they'd take the charge out of that.
Anyway, 3 months later and just when I think they might have let me off, i get the fine notice.

Could be worse i suppose, my mate's wife went back and forth through the tunnel twice on the same day, forgot about the payment....and netted £120 fines plus 4 lots of £1.90!