Lionel777 
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I too agree that it would have to be spell check not working properly.
Reply #1021. May 20 12, 9:20 PM
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| lesley153
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Contemplated ordering pittas on an online shopping site. Clicked for details.
Allergy information - contains gluten and soya
Ingredients - list doesn't include soya - gluten is expected in a bread product
Dietary information - contains soya
Not "made in a factory which uses soya products" or "may contain traces of soya" - but "contains" soya.
Emailed them and asked them to check the ingredients before I ordered. Got a nice email back in less than two hours, telling me proudly that they provide this information to enable customers to make informed choices. Aaaaargh.
Reply #1022. May 22 12, 5:18 AM
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turbotude
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MotherGoose, does Maynooth hire out for "theatre-shushing" jobs? Noise from rude people (usually it IS teenagers) is the main reason I won't spend money to go to the cinema anymore.
Reply #1023. May 22 12, 11:46 AM
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moonraker2
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Unwanted 'phone calls from Marketing Agencies and more annoyingly from companies suggesting that I may have been given misleading information on ISA's etc in the past, and am possibly due compensation!
Reply #1024. May 22 12, 3:36 PM
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turbotude
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In the States, we can register our phone numbers on a "Do Not Call" list. Marketing companies can pay some really stiff fines for non-compliance. Since I registered my phone number, the telemarketers haven't been bothering me. Does the UK have a similar service?
Reply #1025. May 22 12, 7:39 PM
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moonraker2
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I'm fairly certain we do have similar facilities for blocking these calls. I registered a few years back and all was peaceful until recently ... perhaps I need to renew my requisition?
Reply #1026. May 23 12, 2:24 AM
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| lesley153
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TPS registration is permanent but the callers are getting cleverer. Callers from inside the UK aren't selling anything - ooooh noooo - they're conducting research: or you contacted them for a motor quote and would you like another one? Did I - when was that? Er - three and a half years ago.
There are no constraints on callers from outside the UK though.
Reply #1027. May 23 12, 7:27 AM
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| lesley153
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Shrink-wrapped soap - and cheese. Smoked fish placed on a piece of plastic, and welded to it with a hermetically-sealed bubble. Most packaging, really.
Reply #1028. Jun 01 12, 7:19 AM
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daver852
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Ads on YouTube.
Reply #1029. Jun 01 12, 7:44 PM
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Mommakat
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We have that TPS type registration here and I haven't been bothered since I registered about 3 or 4 years ago, but before that I used to have fun ordering stuff to a fictitious name and address. My phone was an unlisted number but the blighters get around that for the number although they don't have your name. Serve them right if they had to go to expense. What do they think people pay for an unlisted number for? LOL
Reply #1030. Jun 01 12, 10:38 PM
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Mommakat
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The thing that really annoys me is when I sit down for half an hour of my favourite Soap and finish up getting about 18 minutes of Soap and 12 minutes of Ads, ten to 12 of them at a time. Grrrrr!
Reply #1031. Jun 01 12, 10:40 PM
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tom_1
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People who don't use their turn signals to signal what they INTEND to do, not what they already did.
Tom
Reply #1032. Jun 02 12, 1:15 PM
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caparica
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Yesterday I phoned the telephone company because I had more then one question about the bill. I had to wait 29 minutes before somebody was available. Grr
Reply #1033. Jun 02 12, 3:32 PM
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Mommakat
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I can assure you it is the same the world over and you are lucky it only took 29 minutes. Here in Australia I think we are transferred to India of all places because 99% of the people who reply have that accent. It is most frustrating and usually ends up with me giving up in sheer frustration.
Reply #1034. Jun 02 12, 6:55 PM
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caparica
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One thing is that you have to wait a long time on the phone before somebody answers. But since you always have to go through a long menu starting with "You have now 5 choices" why can't they also give you a choice of the music you have to listen to while waiting for 29 minutes?
Reply #1035. Jun 04 12, 4:31 AM
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| lesley153
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A few years ago, a long-established English insurance company sent its call-centre work to India. They've now brought it back because customers "preferred" it. That's probably corporate-speak for we were losing customers hand over fist, but don't knock it!
Reply #1036. Jun 04 12, 10:12 AM
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| lesley153
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PS Have you ever asked - once you do get through, and haven't lost the will to live - if the person you're talking to has ever experienced the option system, or the music?
One said she didn't need to, because she used internal numbers (missed the point!), but the rest said no, and most of them don't even know what the music is. Not one of them has listened to it.
One thing they can't understand is why the people who phone them are all so grumpy. They weren't when the first phoned up!
Reply #1037. Jun 04 12, 10:16 AM
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| lesley153
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Wonderful! Thank you. :)
Reply #1039. Jun 04 12, 11:30 AM
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| presley101
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Mine is spel check too!!!!!!
Reply #1040. Jun 10 12, 7:13 AM
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