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People who go to gigs to record the event onto their mobile phones.


For god's sake, go and see a band and join in with the experience etc, don't go merely to listen to it through your tinny sounding pc speakers when you get home.


You look really stupid and may get tennis elbow to boot.

dukesdenver Wrote:

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> Ooh, KalamityKel, are you one of my colleagues???

> DO tell me how much milk is left at home and

> whether you think that bag of salad will last

> another day!

>

> :))


Dunno dukesdenver how'd u like ya sludge? :p



I'm slightly peeved with recruitment departments at the mo... Do I really need to receive 3 or 4 letters/emails saying the same thing or being harassed into completing applications by receiving phone calls by people who wont say who they are? AND all this from years ago! ::o

Receptionists at A&E who get your hopes up by telling you that you can expect to be seeing a doctor in just over an hour, when it's actually nearly 5 hours.


Giving false hope of being seen quickly to the injured is silly - better to say it's going to be a long wait and let people be pleasantly surprised if it turns out to be shorter.


Also, when you query the length of wait, telling you that you will be called through to cubicles soon, and not mentioning you'll then be left in cubicles without being seen for over an hour. (I'm sure that's a statistics dodge - get you into cubicles in under 4 hours means targets met, but no measurement made of wait time in cubicle...)


No prizes for guessing what I was doing last weekend!


But seriously, I would get fired if I treated my clients the way they treated me. It's not the length of wait - it's the poor communication. I know Friday night is a bad time to have a minor injury in A&E, but honesty is more appreciated than false hope.

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