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Jul. 5th, 2004
gig last night was great, but I am absolutely fucked after a weekend of rehearsing, then the gig itself. jesus.
NOT as fucked, I'll wager, as Phil, who had to get up at 5:30am this morning, to go back to Leamington Spa to work today. Poor lad.
So, I am staying in bed half the day.
Decided to order some bits and bobs for my Treo, from Expansys.com only to get some arrogant Mancunian slag telling me that I needed to add a company name (despite this being a private order) to my address because it's a business, not residential listing. This was annoying, as it has nothing to do with any company, nor does any company officially do its business here.
THEN she tells me, dripping with disdain, "and you need a proper email address, too, you can't use deathboy.co.uk" ... why the FUCK not?
"It needs to be a company address, a proper one. You can't use that."
Right.
It seems that, simply, the fact it's a non-res address had the order flagged as a business order, and the system therefore wanted a few more bits of information to validate the order and make sure it arrived OK, fair enough, but I could have lived without the snide bitch that dealt with the call.
In the end, I cancelled the order, had a think and decided I did want the stuff, so I should
1) Make the order again, but giving them the information that they think they need
2) Wait until it arrives
3) Give them hell on the phone / via their various complaints channels
Sometimes, I prefer dealing with machines.
They only want the information in the format they're used to and they read no more significance into one string of characters the another. Very rarely do automated systems issue contemptuous smirks. Well. Except for Apple computers.
NOT as fucked, I'll wager, as Phil, who had to get up at 5:30am this morning, to go back to Leamington Spa to work today. Poor lad.
So, I am staying in bed half the day.
Decided to order some bits and bobs for my Treo, from Expansys.com only to get some arrogant Mancunian slag telling me that I needed to add a company name (despite this being a private order) to my address because it's a business, not residential listing. This was annoying, as it has nothing to do with any company, nor does any company officially do its business here.
THEN she tells me, dripping with disdain, "and you need a proper email address, too, you can't use deathboy.co.uk" ... why the FUCK not?
"It needs to be a company address, a proper one. You can't use that."
Right.
It seems that, simply, the fact it's a non-res address had the order flagged as a business order, and the system therefore wanted a few more bits of information to validate the order and make sure it arrived OK, fair enough, but I could have lived without the snide bitch that dealt with the call.
In the end, I cancelled the order, had a think and decided I did want the stuff, so I should
1) Make the order again, but giving them the information that they think they need
2) Wait until it arrives
3) Give them hell on the phone / via their various complaints channels
Sometimes, I prefer dealing with machines.
They only want the information in the format they're used to and they read no more significance into one string of characters the another. Very rarely do automated systems issue contemptuous smirks. Well. Except for Apple computers.