Jun 9
RossRants bob crow, commuter, public transport, strike, union
…guaranteed to have every hard-working commuter seething.
Bob Crow.
The leader of the RMT is obviously living in a parallel universe, where there is no credit crunch. In BC-land, no businesses have undergone complusory redundancy programmes and everyone has received a healthy pay rise this year. Why else would he be pressuring London Underground for a 5% pay increase this year and an assurance that there will not be any compulsory redundancies?
The firm I work for (like many in the City) has lost around 10% of its workforce to redundancy, and has enforced a pay freeze this year. Bonuses are but a distant memory. Yes, it’s tough. But we endure. And the last thing we need is some militant arse-wipe holding us tube-users to ransom. And I know I’ve just started the last three sentences with conjunctions. And I don’t care (see – there’s another).
I’m sure that fact that England are playing at Wembley tomorrow night is merely coincidence…
Jan 23
RossGeekery, Rants mobile, Orange, phone
I don’t know if you’re like me but, when I receive my monthly mobile phone bill I rarely check it line by line. Yesterday, however, I learned my lesson.
I’ve just come to the end of my last 18-month contract with Orange and have realised that, for the last year and a half, I’ve been paying for an unnecessary extra ‘bundle’ of text messages. More fool me, you say, and you’d be right.
I originally started with Orange in 2005; in those days monthly contracts consisted of two ‘bundles’ – one air/call time and one for texts. As I’m not a big texter, I opted for the Text60 plan.
Fast-forward 18 months to 2007 and my upgrade. By this time, Orange had brought out their ‘animal’ plans and I was advised that ‘Raccoon’ or ‘Amoeba’ or whatever was the best match – 225 mins, 100 texts. “Fine,” I said. “Sign me up”.
You may see where this is going… At no point did the operative tell me that my existing Text60 bundle would carry forward – and I only realised last night that I’ve been paying out all this time for something I didn’t need.
So, one quick call to Orange Custard Services and a rant later, I’m now being credited back a large portion of my unnecessary expenditure and have successfully removed the offending item.
Thanks, Orange – but, due to your poor advice, I’ll be jumping ship at the earliest opportunity…
…did someone say “iPhone” just then? No? I must have imagined it…
Nov 13
RossRants news, upset
…I want to get off.
Thanks, 5×5, for putting it so succinctly. As a parent, I find in inconceivable (not to mention incomprehensible) that someone could commit such atrocities in their own home to their own, innocent flesh and blood.
The death penalty just isn’t enough for some people.
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