Captain Colonial Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 It's been a very complicated month for me for many, many reasons, but I'm getting on top of some things now to my relief. However, today's moan is about updating things to make your life "easier". My step-daughter has just completed a move, so it was time to update her address - easy enough, so you think, and it is - except for the sheer number of places it has to be updated. First, her new phone number. There's three portable phones in the house, so all these need updating individually. Then Lady MemSec's mobile. Then my mobile. Then I have to update her new address. First there's a spreadsheet I use as a backup and also to print Christmas card labels. Then there's the old-fashioned paper and pen list Lady MemSec uses. Then the Gmail account info (also updating her new phone number). Then there's the Outlook contact address. Then there's updating my mobile and Lady MemSec's mobile as well. Luckily, the iPad picks up the change from my Gmail account or that would be another computer to update. Oh wait, Lady MemSec's laptop also has to be updated too. Oh, and the satnav to update as well in case we're starting from somewhere unusual to get there. All this because modern technology is supposed to make your life simpler. I've typed it out so often now that I know it by heart and don't need to look at it on any one of a dozen devices or lists to tell someone else. Off for a beer, methinks... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Colonial Posted January 27, 2013 Author Share Posted January 27, 2013 Supplementary moan... Dear Apple: Stop trying to update my iTunes software with a full new version every single stupid time you make a minor change. I keep getting nagged every time I turn my computer on to update from 11.0.0 to 11.0.1, which would take 30 minutes to do and then I'd have to go in to Quick Startup and disable half a dozen idiotic background Apple and Quicktime (ha!) programs from automatically running in the background and slowing my computer down. STOP IT. Thanks. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norman Verona Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 Wasn't it easy when we had a bakilite phone in the hall with a dial and telephone exchanges were names and we had a party line and next to it was a fancy fold down index card thingie with an alphabetic slide to select the page with all the phone numbers in it. Bet not many remember those days. Only problem is HMs logic means I can never find a number in her paper phone book. In theory (and in practice I believe) you can keep your number when you move. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Hurdsfield - Joint Manchester AO Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 You had a phone? toff. We had to out out in the cold and rain to find a public phone box, It was sometime in the 70s before we got a phone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norman Verona Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 I was saying this to HM. I remember getting our first phone, would have been about 1955. She reckons they always had a phone. But, you see, we were affluent southerners and you poor northerners, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s2rrr Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 And if you told the kids of today no one would believe you - haha Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7sRWild Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 I'll get me pot of tea, me pipe and slippers, now gather round while me and all the old farts tell you about the 'good old days '..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveD Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 welcome to my world wuv , try opening a new buisness account with the natwest went into the branch and sat with a very nice man who promissed the earth and a buiness account set up within 48 hours , 2 weeks later and still **** all ,zilcho f***** nothing the useless w**kers they can suck my dangler the ******s , or even dealing with bt 3 weeks to switch on a f***** phone line for **** sake, no wonder this country is f***** ,im trying to open a new buisness you w**kers not bomb the f***** palace , how f***** hard can it be they should be making it easy for new buisnesses not sticking a hot poker up you A*** and butt f***** you ,rant over 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Colonial Posted January 27, 2013 Author Share Posted January 27, 2013 10/10 wuv, hope my envelope in the post cheered you up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norman Verona Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 Steve, you should expect that. It's all the jobsworth brigade. When my daughter-in-law and grandson were taken into hospital on the same day (different reasons) their landline wasn't working. So I phoned the provider and asked if they could get the line tested. I was asked some questions I couldn't answer as I wasn't the account holder. They refused. I asked why, the response was "Data protection act, sir". I explained I knew the DPA inside out and there was no reason they couldn't get the line tested. No, more than my jobs worth. Eventually the little twit agreed it was management orders and not DPA. Banks, well now you've started me off. The gites were originally a limited company. I decided that was a bit OTT so asked the bank to transfer the balance and close the account. I did this through their web site. 6 weeks later I get a letter stating that I had to write in. I duly wrote in and requested the same. 12 weeks later I get informed that as the company has been wound up they have passed the balance to the official solicitor. What a bunch of bankers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norman Verona Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 How's that for thread drift. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveD Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 10/10 wuv, hope my envelope in the post cheered you up oh god i forgot about that with all thats been going on :cry: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain m Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 I went into my Barclay branch to pay in some cheques, I also asked for some cash, the 12 year old counter clerk said " have you proof of identity???" wrong question, I explained that I had just paid cheques in to my account of a higher value than the cash required, she could not understand and this and glazed over so I repeated myself and she got the 17 year old deputy assistant trainee manager who confirmed they would require identity. I explained I had been a customer at the branch for some 30 years as I expect were most of the folk now queuing behind me and perhaps it was more important they should find a member of staff that knew who we all were, Cheering and clapping from behind and I turned as 2 people said they knew who I was and I said I knew who they were, complete capitulation, result. Bonkers really as the last few years of my old mums life ( 96 ) I was drawing cash out for her twice a month on her debit card from their cash machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Colonial Posted January 28, 2013 Author Share Posted January 28, 2013 Oh dear, that's tripped me off... I have a current account with Lloyds for the club expenses. There's a £200 float with a debit card and no overdraft I use to purchase stamps, stationery, printer cartridges, that sort of exciting stuff, then claim it back and it gets paid into the account by the treasurer to top the float back up. Simples. So I'm in the post office and their card reader wouldn't let me pay for 50 second class stamps with the card - "Declined" - when I knew there was plenty in it. It would, however, let me withdraw £55 in cash that I could use for the purchase. So I did that. However, I needed one stamp for my own purposes, so I tried to pay in £1.10 from my personal card - no soap, not a big enough spend. So now I have to go to Lloyds with £1.10 in cash to top up the account to £200 again. Spotty youth then tries to tell me that to top up an account from £198.90 to £200 would be £2.10, not £1.10. There followed a reasoned discussion, including using a calculator, to demonstrate why he was a complete mathematical funt, which he would still not accept. Now irritated to breaking point, I shouted "MANAGER!", and a young lady scurried over and sorted it out immediately, looking at the youth like he was a plague carrier. Fairness restored, I left shaking with anger. Last Friday, I had the account statement, which showed a deposit of £1.10...and a new balance of £201. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norman Verona Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Oh dear, next year they'll realise their mistake, remove the pound AND CHARGE YOU INTEREST. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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