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Vagabong posted:Isn't the E.U bank essentially run by France and Germany, the two biggest economies? I'd imagine a UK with the Euro as the currency would have similar levels of pull. Yeah, the real punchline is that the UK had every opportunity to be the big swinging dick of the EU, and arguably already was, and chose to throw it all away in a nationalistic tantrum and inevitably become a third world country.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Yeah, the real punchline is that the UK had every opportunity to be the big swinging dick of the EU, and arguably already was, and chose to throw it all away in a nationalistic tantrum and inevitably become a third world country.
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Comrade Fakename posted:What is #remorsegate? lol poor Boris has to be PM and get married and pretend to be a loving father. Story : PM allegedly told a room full of telegraph journos and other assorted cunts that he was experiencing 'buyers remorse' over his recent marriage and fatherhood. keep punching joe fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Nov 19, 2021 |
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Nov 19, 2021 15:32
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Good thing he chose to get married in a church that's famous for granting quick easy divorces to english leaders
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"Sometimes it’s like watching a wasp land on a stinging nettle: someone’s going to get stung and you don’t care."
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I thought these days you could get thrown in jail for reading the New European
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lol that Boris cucked that Sun oval office and then this enters the news
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So I'm on holiday right now, and have a Halifax Clarity credit card, which is one of those ones for foreign use, because can you imagine if your regular card worked the same elsewhere? Can you? Obviously it's been a while since I've been away so I checked it on the app and changed the PIN at a bank machine. I get here and use it twice no problem, then it starts getting declined. I called them and they say they sent a letter in August that they were going to close it at the start of November due to disuse, but I never got it. That doesn't seem to explain the £17 i was able to spend on it, but I feel like I took reasonable precautions here. Now I'll probably incur a 3% fee paying for the hotel on my regular Amex for starters, hopefully I can pay the rest of the trip with my Post Office card. Is there anything I can do here? They won't reactivate it, so besides looking to change banks when I get home, is there anything I can do? Try to get compo or something?
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BizarroAzrael posted:anything I can do here? They won't reactivate it, so besides looking to change banks when I get home, is there anything I can do? Try to get compo or something? write a posh sounding complaints letter detailing the facts and that you were left at a disadvantage in a foreign country without being properly informed and you feel let down etc and wait a week or so and they will more than likely offer you x amount of compensation, because if you accept that then it doesn't go to the ombudsman and automatically cost them an amount slightly higher than x
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Yeah, the real punchline is that the UK had every opportunity to be the big swinging dick of the EU, and arguably already was, and chose to throw it all away in a nationalistic tantrum and inevitably become a third world country. The EU bank is essentially run by Germany, which as an economy that still actually makes things in factories is not necessarily in sync with us these days. France is in there too, but are sort of famously not necessarily always on our side either. We obviously have less influence out of the EU than in it, but that doesn't mean joining the Euro would have been good for the UK.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Yeah, the real punchline is that the UK had every opportunity to be the big swinging dick of the EU, and arguably already was, and chose to throw it all away in a nationalistic tantrum and inevitably become a third world country. I don't think it'll quite decline that much, but it's going to be a pretty embarrassing reversal when Britons with a pair of degrees start going to drive taxis in Poland to send money home. Except that house prices in the UK can never go down no matter what wages do, so rather than buying yourself a nice little place outside Wrocław after a few years abroad you just manage to scrape together the deposit to rent a house share in Reading.
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big scary monsters posted:I don't think it'll quite decline that much, but it's going to be a pretty embarrassing reversal when Britons with a pair of degrees start going to drive taxis in Poland to send money home. Lol no. Maybe in 50 years if things go really tits up. e: I could maybe see say Finland though, even now it's not a terrible deal. And is almost equally as bleak as Poland, but with less rabid catholicism. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Nov 19, 2021 |
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Nov 19, 2021 17:43
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Yeah, Finland has jobs for IT people especially and the income limit for a visa is 3k€ I think, which is at the very lower end of IT wages. And having lived in the UK for 5 years I can say that housing tends to be better.
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Ataxerxes posted:Finland has jobs for IT people especially
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Having to learn Finnish would be a negative, but potentially coming out the other end being able to speak Finnish would be a plus.
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DesperateDan posted:write a posh sounding complaints letter detailing the facts and that you were left at a disadvantage in a foreign country without being properly informed and you feel let down etc and wait a week or so and they will more than likely offer you x amount of compensation, because if you accept that then it doesn't go to the ombudsman and automatically cost them an amount slightly higher than x Yeah this is the right approach. The second they hear ombudsman they'll give you cash to go away because otherwise it's a ballache
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Counter point : when they HEAR ombudsman they tend not to roll over so they don't look like they're making exceptions for people who threaten them. If you just make them THINK about the ombudsman then you're all good.
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The Perfect Element posted:Counter point : when they HEAR ombudsman they tend not to roll over so they don't look like they're making exceptions for people who threaten them. As someone who's run complaints teams before this is much, much closer to the truth. As soon as you mention ombudsman it's straight off to legal to deal with, because we really don't want to fall foul of the Fair Treatment of Customers TCF measures. Mentioning escalation means that it'll get dealt with even more by-the-book than before because the regulator really, really doesn't like it when you settle to avoid the FOS.
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The trick with complaining to any large corporation is to make it sound like you're not after compensation. Don't put an exact number on the losses you made, don't even mention them other than "this has left me out of pocket" towards the end of the communication. Talk about how their failure made you feel, not what it cost - make sure that "disappointed", "let down", "helpless" are the main line of your complaint. Get specific about the emotional aspect of it - in this particular case that it's a holiday you've been looking forward to for ages (resist the temptation to turn it into a sob story about going to donate a kidney to an orphan or something), you're suddenly in a foreign country with your primary means of payment unavailable, etc. While they're obviously heavily bound by policy the point is to try and make an emotional connection with the person you're dealing with, who after all is having to plough through dozens of these an hour (this is also why it's really important not to get angry or snarky because the person you're talking to isn't the one who put you in this situation) and you want to be put in the "Bung them a few quid for goodwill" pile, not the "Escalate it up to a manager who gets a bonus for telling you to gently caress off" pile. Putting the "left out of pocket" bit at the end *should* mean - assuming you make that connection with the rest of it - they then see that as the quickest way of resolving the issue. If they offer you something less than your losses then you can roll out the "Well that doesn't even cover my losses" and give them a figure (one that you can definitely back up with paperwork if needs be, because you might still end up having to escalate), and hopefully they'll give you that *plus* the original compensation.
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Total Meatlove posted:Well, can’t wait to see the reaction to Rittenhouse from our totally normal press and media Daily mail: "17 year old allowed to gun down protestors attempting to stop him doing a mass shooting but if I was to run over a pregnant green "activist" I'd go to jail for life! The double standards in the UK court system!!"
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I work in customer service/tech support for an american company and if a customer ever starts threatening legal action I have to tell them to contact our legal department and put the phone down. Getting angry with front line agents rarely changes anything, they're following the policies and procedures they're told to and by asking them to bend the rules for you you're asking them to risk their job. Try to escalate to a manager, if they can't/won't help google the company and directly email someone higher up the chain. I had a problem last christmas with Sony that their support were completely unwilling to help with but it got sorted out realky quickly and easily after we sent an email explaining the situation to whoever it is that gets the messages sent to the CEO of customer service's public email.
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I wonder how Starmer really feels about sharing a stage with a woman who thinks his wife is a race traitor for marrying him.
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Mr Phillby posted:I work in customer service/tech support for an american company and if a customer ever starts threatening legal action I have to tell them to contact our legal department and put the phone down. Same. We get the occasional death threat, one guy threatened to get on the next plane and shoot up our US office. US Homeland Security were called in on that one, Turned out the guy did it to a lot of companies he bought things from.
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Vagabong posted:Isn't the E.U bank essentially run by France and Germany, the two biggest economies? I'd imagine a UK with the Euro as the currency would have similar levels of pull. The euro is bad for basically everyone except the Germans, it's also bad for France. And it has really put the EU in a problematic position. It was the EUs biggest mistake IMO.
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One way to super-Karen is to find out the email policy of the company you have an issue with. It's then easy to find out who the current directors/senior managers are and guess their email addresses. I had an ongoing issue with my electricity supplier that just kept hitting brick walls via the standard route, so I sent an email to the directors. It's amazing what a bit of top-down pressure can do. After weeks of getting nowhere, I had the issue solved, an apology and £150 compensation.
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Ataxerxes posted:Yeah, Finland has jobs for IT people especially and the income limit for a visa is 3k€ I think, which is at the very lower end of IT wages. And having lived in the UK for 5 years I can say that housing tends to be better. Man if I had 3k wage I'd consider myself rich.
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Bad news everybody, Dacre won't be making GBS threads up Ofcom. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/nov/19/paul-dacre-pulls-out-of-running-next-ofcom-chair
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His Divine Shadow posted:The euro is bad for basically everyone except the Germans, it's also bad for France. And it has really put the EU in a problematic position. It was the EUs biggest mistake IMO. The rushed eastward expansion without any good checks against them going fash wasn't great either, but that was a Tony Blair idea so it figures.
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Want a good laugh? Watch this, and without googling it, guess what Austria did. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyPtZlUr_j8
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fuctifino posted:One way to super-Karen is to find out the email policy of the company you have an issue with. It's then easy to find out who the current directors/senior managers are and guess their email addresses. The top management never actually have firstname.lastname@company (or whatever the policy is) for exactly this reason. At most places it just goes straight to second or third-line customer service - all you actually do is jump past the first-line reps which, to be fair, can actually be the only way to get some companies to do anything at all. It's ridiculous how many companies deliberately set their contact systems up as a labyrinth and only reward you with actual service if you can escape it. Besides, top-level people never read their loving email even if you *can* get to them (hint - they're normally egotistical enough to just have firstname@ or initials@). If you actually want to get email to someone who can get poo poo done, find out who the CEO's PA is (you can normally work it out via LinkedIn or at a push through a little light social engineering through the press enquiries address), they *will* have firstname.lastname or whatever the policy is, and will just forward it on to the head of the relevant department sight unseen, which has the same basic effect as if you did actually manage to get through to Rupert Murdoch or whoever. goddamnedtwisto fucked around with this message at 22:06 on Nov 19, 2021 |
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happyhippy posted:Want a good laugh? Seriously, who watches this poo poo? 11 minutes of an angry egg shouting at me seems like something from the very deepest depths of OnlyFans, not something that has 100k subscribers.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Seriously, who watches this poo poo? 11 minutes of an angry egg shouting at me seems like something from the very deepest depths of OnlyFans, not something that has 100k subscribers. Meh, must be the masochist in me, I love bad films, I love bad political takes. Jeff (never right about anything) is acting like Austria is rounding up and shooting people. His comment section are the same too, all over Austria announcing mandatory vaccines.
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