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yeah its bullshit robbery and the guy shouldn't be crying in parliament he should be raging and marching up to faslane to get to it sorted
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Private Speech posted:As I said it's mostly the local providers who decide how much to charge, among friendly countries you might have negligible costs but large parts of the world it's not really O2 or Three or whoever who gets to decide how much they charge. Oh totally. Someone (possibly not in the UK) has made that decision and should be jailed though
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This has happened to me a few times before, but now it's twice in one week and it's infuriating: My house is #3, and I keep having my post and packages delivered to house #3 the next street over. The guy who lives there, the first couple times he brought it over to ours. Then he said, give me your phone #, I'll text you if anything gets delivered here so you can pick it up, which was fine by me. It happened a couple of times, and then he came to our house again and...got pissed off with me? Told me to "stop having packages delivered by companies who don't know where each house is.". I'm like...it's Royal Mail, and Hermes, and I don't get to pick what service the people mailing me poo poo use? DPD always seems to get the right house, but...what can I do to stop it? I complained to both Royal Mail and Hermes every time it happened, but apart from that and filling out the special delivery instructions on anything I order, I don't know what else to do. Was checking some tracking #s, and looks like I had two packages delivered to his house Monday & Tuesday this week. Going to text him tomorrow and hopefully get them, but: anyone else ever dealt with this? And any advice how I can get them to stop misdelivering?
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Nov 16, 2023 23:11
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Mourning Due posted:This has happened to me a few times before, but now it's twice in one week and it's infuriating: order some darkweb drugs. call the cops. hope the next neighbour is more understanding. repeat as necessary.
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Nov 16, 2023 23:14
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like i used to live on a street called like i dunno hexham road, next one was hexham terrace. all pretty indistinguishable terraced housing. not doing the delivery lads any favours. I guess you could deliberately order him a cheap gift of i dunno Haribo or something cute with an apology and explanation that youve done everything you can and sorry but thanks?
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Nov 16, 2023 23:17
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Just get a PO box and pick stuff up once or twice a week or whatever
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Weird that you don't also get his stuff. If you did it would be a fun mutual thing.
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crispix posted:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67439675
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Nov 16, 2023 23:20
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address stuff as: 3 whatever street, NO YOU MORON THE NEXT STREET townsville england gd9 0no
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crispix posted:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67439675 It's cool, it'll all be fine when Labour get in and uh... Rachel Reeves... gently caress. On the other hand, the Tories have collapsed back down to 20ish points but Labour are about ten points worse off than they were a year ago so maybe we'll get some crazy four-party free-for-all like in mid-2019 again by election time.
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Nov 16, 2023 23:26
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david cameron is game changer, kier needs to bring back in a labour big hitter. I can think of one.
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John Prescott? you'll have to throw an egg at him first
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Nov 16, 2023 23:32
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I added a pin with our block of flats name on it to google maps because the postcode puts the block in the middle of a large field the other side of the river so delivery cos had problems finding us. I reckon any political party with a manifesto of sorting out delivery companies, customer services (I don't mean the poor folk answering the phones - been there done that extremely many moons ago), and associated issues would get loads of votes.
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delivery companies doing the end of the iron giant imho
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I had to change my work address on amazon to 'ONE TO FIVE' instead of 1 to 5 as they kept delivering to 15
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I mean as far as I was aware that was already the case. If you go 18 months without successfully getting a job, you get sanctioned even if you've been doing all the activities they say you should. All they've done is add a job placement that you get sanctioned if you refuse. That's crazy. They can't force employers to give you a job can they? I'm minded to think if jobs are so easy to get, maybe there should be a matching service - here are your skills and experience, here is a job matching at least 70% of them, access to the job is fine (travel/steps/whatever you need), employer here's your new employee. Save all that bother with cvs, interviews etc. New employee - here's a month's pay in advance and a travel pass for the first 3 months.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:That's crazy. They can't force employers to give you a job can they? no i guess? But they can force you to lower/widen your application standards and take away "benefits" if you don't. There are plenty of jobs where they dont care who shows up and you'll be forced to accept one of those or again lose your "benefits". I'm kind of surprised they dont already do that? maybe they do.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I mean as far as I was aware that was already the case. If you go 18 months without successfully getting a job, you get sanctioned even if you've been doing all the activities they say you should. All they've done is add a job placement that you get sanctioned if you refuse.
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crispix posted:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67439675 Glad to hear they’re finally going to get tough on people who refuse to work and just coast on the hard work of taxpayers, i never thought it would be the Tories who did something about landlords
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Soricidus posted:Glad to hear they’re finally going to get tough on people who refuse to work and just coast on the hard work of taxpayers, i never thought it would be the Tories who did something about landlords lol
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:That's crazy. They can't force employers to give you a job can they? If you say you can't do it, you get sanctioned. If you fail the placement you can be sanctioned if the employer says you didn't try hard enough (or the dwp decide they can interpret the feedback that way). If you manage to hold down the placement, even if it burns through all of your resources, they'll take that as evidence you can do it and they put you up for every poo poo job on god's green earth. Last time it was announced it was called Workfare, and there were concerns companies would start using it to strikebreak unskilled labour* and companies would abuse it to get a stream of unpaid temporary labour. *I know ok. Apraxin posted:I think this time they’re specifically expanding these sanctions to ‘people who have suffered an injury and are waiting god knows how long for an operation to relieve their pain’ and ‘the long-term disabled’, two groups who according to jeremy hunt have for too long suckled greedily at the teat of Having the Most Basic of Safety Nets It's horrifying because I really can't see any outcome of those kinds of placements that wouldn't exacerbate those conditions horribly. Hunt yet again proving his absolute inhumanity. Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 00:09 on Nov 17, 2023 |
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I think last time this came up, the Tories basically threatened that people would have to 'work' for free and then every company that expressed an interest got dogpiled by the public until they backed out. I do genuinely think that public opinion is firmly against the Tories on this one and CCHQ is just getting their ideas from GB News and the Telegraph
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Bobby Deluxe posted:What they're talking about here is placements - an employer calls the jobcentre and says 'we need two bodies to stack shelves,' and the jobcentre send you in. You don't get paid by the company, you recieve your normal benefits while you do it and Poundland recieve essentially unpaid labour for (usually) 2 weeks. they wont pay the person working minimum wage?
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cos it isnt work? its work place assesment training or something?
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NotJustANumber99 posted:they wont pay the person working minimum wage? When I did a work placement about 15 years ago at a Matalan, you got no money at all apart from the jobseeker's allowance you were already getting. Also we weren't allowed to tell the higher management who were touring the store on the last day I was there that we were from the job centre. And we were told there weren't actually permanent places available after all at lunchtime on the Friday. When I then told the guy I was going to head home, he was genuinely surprised I didn't intend to finish out the day.
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that is disgusting. but at the same time i reckon if i had some lads on site for a day unpaid they would learn a lot
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NotJustANumber99 posted:that is disgusting.
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I get 12GB of free roaming in the EU per month and when I meet the limit, like I did earlier in the week strangely enough, it just stops working till I buy a data add on. If I go outside the EU I have to skip to the add on directly, but in any case I don't think I can physically rack up a bill because everything has to be paid in advance. I've heard of this happening to people before but you must have to be on some extremely old school PAYG contract.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Why don't people get local data sims when they're abroad if they're going to a country without some deal with their UK supplier? A lot of airports have telecoms booths one you get through baggage/customs into arrival halls. That's old school now. You can just get an eSim from Airalo for€5 for a few gig
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imagine scottish football being like how much? for us?
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Failed Imagineer posted:That's old school now. You can just get an eSim from Airalo for€5 for a few gig Yes if your phone takes those. Mine doesn't. (Or if it does it's not telling me  )
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I got a mandatory placement in a charity shop when I was on jobseekers. The manager was a bit unimpressed when they interviewed me and asked why I wanted to "volunteer" and I said "because I have to in order to continue receiving jsa"
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"Because we live in an insane system where you will die if you don't work" is never a popular answer at interviews.
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kecske posted:tories can gently caress off imho Bunch of cunts if you ask me.
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:Bunch of cunts if you ask me. Concerning
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Just dropping a casual £2.5 billion on some of the worst ideas imaginable.
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domhal posted:Just dropping a casual £2.5 billion on some of the worst ideas imaginable. life goals amirite
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