It grinds you down
Sep. 13th, 2005 07:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
peterbirksDoes there exist a pepper mill and a salt mill that doesn't cease operating within a month of you buying it? I had this really cool pepper mill, and I thought that I had cracked it, but tonight it just upped sticks and stopped grinding properly. Is there some intrinsic constituent of pepper that negates the grinding process? Buggered if I know.
I went into grumpy old man mode this evening with my bank. I e-mailed them saying "please cancel this direct debit forthwith. I am paying the bill in one annual amount from now on".
Reply arrives today. "Dear Mr Briks. Do you want us to cancel this direct debit?"
I promptly fired off a missive mentioning not that I thought I had made this request fairly clear (this point came later) but going into one because they had misspelt my name. "This indicates carelessness", I ranted, soon getting into full flow about carelessness being one thing that I will not tolerate in a bank, and that if they can't spell names right, who knows where my money might end up, blah blah blah. Oh, and please pass this to your superior and ask him or her to contact me.
Well, I DON'T want people dealing with my account who happily transpose letters in a surname.
What drugs should I take to make me lighten up?
I went into grumpy old man mode this evening with my bank. I e-mailed them saying "please cancel this direct debit forthwith. I am paying the bill in one annual amount from now on".
Reply arrives today. "Dear Mr Briks. Do you want us to cancel this direct debit?"
I promptly fired off a missive mentioning not that I thought I had made this request fairly clear (this point came later) but going into one because they had misspelt my name. "This indicates carelessness", I ranted, soon getting into full flow about carelessness being one thing that I will not tolerate in a bank, and that if they can't spell names right, who knows where my money might end up, blah blah blah. Oh, and please pass this to your superior and ask him or her to contact me.
Well, I DON'T want people dealing with my account who happily transpose letters in a surname.
What drugs should I take to make me lighten up?
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Dear Mr Bricks
Date: 2005-09-13 09:27 pm (UTC)Get over yourself mate. I diagnose a post-Ashes win euphoria dip. Rather like eating 500gm of jelly babies you've had the sugar high of the cricket and now you're on a downer and taking it out on the nearest mild offender.
To be honest, I'd be flattered to get a letter that is mis-spelt in the way that yours was. Think about what this means - a human being has actually received your communication and typed a response. You haven't been computer processed and given a compter-generated response. Actually I suspect that your correspondent has merely got a flag next to the Direct Debit that shows an indication of cancelling and they just have a procedure of not cancelling DD's willy-nilly.
Mind you I have never had this sort of crap out of Smile before - just an email from a human confirming the cancellation. Mind you they've sometimes mis-spelt something in their emails.
I'd better run the spell-checker before I submit this hadn't I?