Ashley's rant of the day

Wish I could do the same, only the a$$hole quota in this place is so high they need someone like me to run things properly!!

Its Friday Ashley never rants on Fridays she just heads for the Pub 😉 Anna 😀 😀 😀

I tell you what, they’re a wierd bunch up in Ramsey… 😉

something to do with being downwind of St.Ives apparently, strange fumes seem to drift from ‘Surftown East’… oh, and being below sealevel of course may have an effect too.
We’re way too far out of range for :dev2: Snapper :dev2: to have an effect, so we can rule him out.

Well come on then Ashley, how’d the interivew go, and when do you start?

Small fireproof garden statues? I tell you what, they’re a wierd bunch up in Ramsey… 😉

And then it’ll be invites to the “special nights” at the cinema!

Already been there, done that :dev2: Special one coming-up for those with a Nomex fetish, or so I am given to understand 😮

…my underwear drawer for emergencies…

You have an underwear drawer for emergencies? Thats what happens when you go commando once too often!!!! 😀

Flood

…This double whammy resulted in an excessive quantity of wine being drunk when I got home, and the packet of Silk Cut hidden in my underwear drawer for emergencies being raided (I had been really really good for months…even when that naughty Bigglesworth tried to tempt
me…with a cigarette, what did you think I meant you dirty minded people you! :D)

Duh!!!

You’ll have people talking Ashley, you know what they’re like around here 😮
S’ppose you’ll be accusing me of force-feeding you with booze in a pub next… :p

Your underwear drawer is smoking?;) – Nermal

Can I add stupid drivers who don’t look behind them when reversing? The Film and Video Archive’s van is now looking decidedly wonky at the front where an MA decided to reverse into me (in said now wonky looking van) whilst I was stationary yesterday afternoon. Fortunately the damage is repairable (will require a couple of new panels) but my nerves were not further helped by some bint pulling out in front of me without when I had right of way in the Park and Ride carpark last night…This double whammy resulted in an excessive quantity of wine being drunk when I got home, and the packet of Silk Cut hidden in my underwear drawer for emergencies being raided (I had been really really good for months…even when that naughty Bigglesworth tried to tempt
me…with a cigarette, what did you think I meant you dirty minded people you! :D)

Duh!!!

So how did the interview go? – Nermal (Oops – this post slipped back in time from next week…!)

Just call me Dr Ashley, Mike 😀

Biggleworth…the interview is next week, on the 6th…black and cream pinstriped trousers carefully pressed…cleavage enhancing cream top ready and pristine…killer boots polished to perfection…just need a few lashings of mascara and some hot to trot lip gloss and I’ll be ready 😀

I have to say a big thank you to Ashley for starting this thread. It’s given me the opportunity to air some of my pet hates but I would never have thought of starting a thread on the forum so everyone else could get some therapy as well.
Thanks Ashley!!!

Oh come on! Thought everyone knew that thats when tour guides take their holidays!!!

Flood

Aha! that must be the reason 😀 Didn’t for one minute think it was for anything sensible

Dare I ask how the interview went Ashley?

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!!!

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!

Reasons why Ashley is not in a good mood today:

1) Bought tickets to see Joss Stone over the internet last week. Today I discovered **** company has made a second attempt to get payment from me via my debit card, thus taking me over my overdraft limit (hello overdraft fees) Said company disputes making second attempt and Ashley resists a yearning to tell them what she thinks of them…Apparently it is an “outstanding” transaction and according to the nice lady at Barclays (the third person Ashley has spoken to at Barclays today) the money should be returned to her account…providing the company doesn’t try to “claim” it…If they do, it can be treated as a disputed transaction, and action can be taken, but still, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! This is exactly why Ashley HATES paying for stuff on-line, as it ALWAYS goes wrong.

2) People who are adverse to using their indicators when driving…Unfortunately, I do not possess psychic powers (if I did, I would have won the lottery long ago, and would now be the owner of Ashley’s Flying Machines, a fleet of well polished Spitfires) so I rely on other drivers using their indicators to let me know when they intend pulling out in front of me, or cutting me up (gives me more time to hit the horn :diablo: ) But seriously, people who trundle along in the inside lane, with a slow moving vehicle in front of them, who wait until I am nearly level with them (Ashley is allergic to the inside lane) until pulling out to overtake said slow moving vehicle, what a bunch of *******!

3) Continuing the vehicular theme, lorries that trundle along side by side, for miles while the traffic builds up behind them, and the lorry drivers are probably ******* themselves laughing…plus lorry drivers who also are allergic to using their indicators…I know not all lorry drivers are the same, some are extremely courteous and well driven (the same as car drivers, some are good drivers, some should never be let out of their straitjackets, never mind behind the wheel of a car)

4) Still on the motoring theme…stupid bloody girly cars like the Street Ka and that Citroen monstrosity, the Pluriel I think it’s called? (The one you can have in all direction formations) Yes I’m a girl, but I cannot stand girly wheels…and girly drivers…you know the ones who trundle along duel carriageways and motorways at 50mph in their little Micras and Ka’s, no doubt checking their lipstick every 1/2 mile, and listening to Justin Timberlake and Mcfly…the ones who wait until there is no traffic in a 50 mile radius before pulling out at junctions and on roundabouts…plus the ones who drive their kids around in stupid little girly jeeps, and need about 300 metres room to park the **** thing…

5) I have applied for another job with the Museum, and the waiting to hear if I have an interview is already driving me insane (and the closing date was last Friday) Although the post is only a temporary one (my current position would be held open for me) I really really really want the job (of Accessions Curator) as it is my ultimate goal in the Museum, and one I have been working hard for for three years (yes Bigglesworth, I do do some work occasionally ;))

6) I have a stinking headache…which won’t shift despite necking two lots of painkillers so far today…hopefully having a little vent might help :dev2: 😀 :diablo: :p

Rant endeth.

So what’s bugging you today? 😀

So you had a good day then…. 😉 😉 :diablo:

Oh I sure as hell do!

Rant 😉 You lot don’t know the meaning of permanent RANT ATTACKS 😉 Anna :rolleyes: :rolleyes: 😀 Anna 😉 😀 😀 😀

To that list, I will add Dell’s call center. From personal experience:

The french version (apparently one in Southern France, the other one in Morocco): either incompetent, or rude, or both. And always insulting towards professionals, taking us for idiots.
The english verion for Benelux (located in the Netherlands) is better: they are simpatic. Only drawback: they are absolutely incompetent, and usually decide to change the wrong part.

Most helldesks are made in the way that you wait a loooong time, and i can partially understand that, but if, after listeing for 30 min to Coldplay (who can stand *that* out?), you get insulted by a call center drone who I guess never saw what is in a computer, or how it works, I can start to get out of control.

AOL are the absolute cesspit of internet service providers, closely followed by BT. Never really had a problem with Wanadoo, but can fully sympathise with trying to get sometimes even basic information into the evidently empty skulls of call centre employees…

Well, the bloody internet is working FOR NOW – but for how long…??