Mini rant: Service providers and appointments.

[youngsyr]

What is it with these cck-munching fcktards? It seems no-one today is capable of making an appointment to within 4 hours of when they might actually deem fit to drag their sorry asses out of their flea-infested pits and actually turn up to do the job which I'm haemorrhaging through my fcking nose for.

Shirley anyone who graduated from playschool can tell the fcking time and operate the internetz with sufficient skill to work out that if they set off at time A and Googlemaps tells them it's B miles to my house, that they'll arrive at approximatley time C?

Apparently not, they need a window, nay an aircraft hanger door of 4 hours to ensure they arrive at my fcking front door within it. And then they're fcking late. The cnts.

I spend a great portion of my brain-numbing life meeting with professionals and even with boozey lunches and cocktail parties thrown into the mix I can confidently say that I've always been able to give an arrival time to within an hour, even when the meeting is on the other side of the fcking planet!

Seriously, how fcking difficult is it to maintain a diary, estimate how long each job is going to last and then give at most an hour slot of when you're going to arrive? The latest one has told us which day they're going to arrive and have stated that they'll turn up anytime between 9am and 1pm. What a fcking liberty!

[elster]

Well if you think about it logically it is not a big issue really.

Surely it depends on what is being discussed previous to getting to yours.

I quite often cancel meetings, as most of the time you can't predict how long something will take. I, unfortunately, was not born psychic.

[WorAl]

I think the best ones are the people who say "it will be delivered (or whatever) on the <insert date>"
you say "any idea of time?"
to which they reply "between 8am and 7.30pm" <-----<< what the funk? thats a bigger time slot than i work!!! so i have to take a day off work to then have the delivery arrivve at 6.45, when i would have been in the house for near on 2 hours anyway if i'd have gone to work.

[Mattygooner]

Well, that will be £300 please.

I do like this online therapy work.

Same time next week?

[youngsyr]

elster said:

Well if you think about it logically it is not a big issue really.

Surely it depends on what is being discussed previous to getting to yours.

I quite often cancel meetings, as most of the time you can't predict how long something will take. I, unfortunately, was not born psychic.

Quite frankly, that's bollcks.

If you don't know how long something is going to take, take a fcking guess, add a safety margin and then give a time slot that isn't half a day long.

Try making an appointment with anyone with a half a brain (or not in the public sector, although that caveat is probably not needed given first criterion) that has a start time that can vary by up to 4 hours - you'll be lucky if they laugh at you before hanging up.

And as for over-running appointments, just what exactly are they going to be doing between 8am and 9am that could take them between 0 time (as they need to travel to arrive at mine for 9am) and 4 hours?!

It's the sign of a dis-organised business that doesn't give a flying sht about the people who are paying their wages. Nothing more, nothing less.

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