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« Reply #2027 on: February 19, 2011, 03:57:01 pm » |
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Not being able to find ANYBODY who stocks Boswell pipe tobaccos in the UK.. really bloody irritating, as it means that I'm stuck with what I have for what seems to be quite a while.
Anybody have any ideas? I'm dying to try them out... after everything I've heard about them it's very annoying not being able to get hold of them...
Have you considered contacting them boswellpipes@comcast.net and asking them if they supply to any stores in the UK, surely that must be the easiest method? Also, our customer care team telling a customer travelling today that he was entitled to a discount he wasn't (and technically never has been, however we have only enforced it since August last year) so a call to the head of Ticket Pricing on Monday and ask him to ensure customer care are re-briefed on this as it makes one of our two departments look like idiots and as I'm going off the official briefing, it's not me. |
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« Reply #2028 on: February 19, 2011, 04:01:54 pm » |
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Persons intending to travel by open carriage should select a seat with their backs to the engine, by which means they will avoid the ashes emitted therefrom, that in travelling generally, but particularly through the tunnels, prove a great annoyance; the carriage farthest from the engine will in consequence be found the most desirable.
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« Reply #2029 on: February 19, 2011, 05:53:19 pm » |
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Not being able to find ANYBODY who stocks Boswell pipe tobaccos in the UK.. really bloody irritating, as it means that I'm stuck with what I have for what seems to be quite a while.
Anybody have any ideas? I'm dying to try them out... after everything I've heard about them it's very annoying not being able to get hold of them...
Have you considered contacting them boswellpipes@comcast.net and asking them if they supply to any stores in the UK, surely that must be the easiest method? *facepalm* I can't believe I didn't think of that... Well, I've emailed them now and I'm waiting for their response. Thanks to the Major for that. |
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« Reply #2030 on: February 19, 2011, 07:57:15 pm » |
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So, last night I talked to a friend who still works for the company I just left. The new boss there has lost her mind. She's firing all of the managers who haven't profited overall in the last quarter. While, yes, it is understandable that if you're losing money, you need to change something. But when it's more of a regional problem than one branch, you don't go around firing everyone left, right, and center. Especially if that region has a third of it's branches within eight blocks of each other in an area of town known for prostitution and drug addicts. Loans. Aren't. Going. To. Get. Paid.
Another thing that has me blowing steam out of my ears is the fact that there's a rumor going around that I got fired because I stole money from my location and covered it up. I'm absolutely infuriated by this, especially since the only outage we had while I was there was when a CSR was careless and left the till open and a customer alone with it. However, it was the same CSR that pushed me out of my position, so I wouldn't put it past her to spread something like that about me.
I might not work there anymore, but I'm incredibly disappointed in the people who I called friends within that company. So far, out of the fifty employees in that region, two have come to talk to me about my side of the story. None of them were other managers.
Needless to say, I've lost any and all respect for the women that I worked with. Good riddance. I'm accepting the offer from their competition on Monday. If that's the way they want to play it, so be it.
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« Reply #2031 on: February 19, 2011, 09:45:47 pm » |
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The Chilli I've just made and eaten!
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« Reply #2032 on: February 19, 2011, 09:57:04 pm » |
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The Chilli I've just made and eaten!
Well more of a "HOUUUGGGHHHHH" really - time for some yoghurt to cool the fires
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« Reply #2033 on: February 19, 2011, 10:53:07 pm » |
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I am always somewhat amazed by the fact that people don't quite understand that "Natural History" is not the same as "History". I should be used to it by now, but I'm not.
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« Reply #2034 on: February 19, 2011, 11:52:31 pm » |
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« Reply #2035 on: February 20, 2011, 04:49:51 am » |
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Another thing that has me blowing steam out of my ears is the fact that there's a rumor going around that I got fired because I stole money from my location and covered it up. I'm absolutely infuriated by this, especially since the only outage we had while I was there was when a CSR was careless and left the till open and a customer alone with it. However, it was the same CSR that pushed me out of my position, so I wouldn't put it past her to spread something like that about me.
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« Reply #2036 on: February 20, 2011, 06:02:11 am » |
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To get more small sticks one has to buy a new mini gun as the package has sticks inside, but there are no others in the store in question, or anywhere else for that matter, while you have to go somewhere else to get a larger gun to use the massive amount of sticks they do have...
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« Reply #2037 on: February 20, 2011, 06:49:27 am » |
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Another thing that has me blowing steam out of my ears is the fact that there's a rumor going around that I got fired because I stole money from my location and covered it up. I'm absolutely infuriated by this, especially since the only outage we had while I was there was when a CSR was careless and left the till open and a customer alone with it. However, it was the same CSR that pushed me out of my position, so I wouldn't put it past her to spread something like that about me.
So is there you can do to stop this accusation? Not really, as far as I know. I'm not within the company anymore, and the only people that I associate with outside of it don't believe the rumors, so it really doesn't affect me personally. Ultimately, I just think it's extremely unprofessional. |
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« Reply #2038 on: February 20, 2011, 05:04:25 pm » |
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God almighty, JMU. If you're going to put your library catalogue on a computer, at least link it up to your intranet. And, you know, use a computer from before 2001.
Or at least put the cards where I can get to them? Pleeease?
It's not like WHS will sell me a copy of the geological society's 2010 special edition tectonic book now, is it?
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« Reply #2039 on: February 20, 2011, 05:09:32 pm » |
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Not having the lovely Master Seabear to stay until the last weekend of March.
Also not being able to afford to see him for more than a couple of hours a fortnight, if I am lucky.
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« Reply #2040 on: February 20, 2011, 07:22:39 pm » |
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« Reply #2041 on: February 20, 2011, 07:26:30 pm » |
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« Reply #2042 on: February 20, 2011, 07:38:13 pm » |
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Would that be a cunning plan?
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« Reply #2043 on: February 20, 2011, 07:50:26 pm » |
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Would that be a cunning plan?
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« Reply #2044 on: February 20, 2011, 08:05:21 pm » |
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God almighty, JMU. If you're going to put your library catalogue on a computer, at least link it up to your intranet. And, you know, use a computer from before 2001.
Or at least put the cards where I can get to them? Pleeease?
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« Reply #2045 on: February 21, 2011, 11:36:53 am » |
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Gah for the past day. Having the power (and heat) go out for 14 hours when I need to be working on projects for family gifts to be presented 15 hours later. Projects requiring light enough to create appropriate gradations of colour, and also drilling and cutting through interior sections of 3/4 ply sheets. **SNIP** In response to rovingjack...you may have already said this, so I apoplogize if this is redundant, but have you considered just going vegetarian? It sounds like it may be easier than trying to judge which meats can and can't be eaten. Also, for someone in your circumstances, I don't think eating insects is odd at all. You've got to eat to live, and you can't eat what makes you ill, so the next logical step is to find food that doesn't make you ill. If that means insects, that's what it means. Plus, fried grasshoppers are delicious. There are very few vegatable I can safely eat, in fact 5 of them that we know of right now. Green beans, carrots, Squash, Avacado, and cucumber. All need to be without skin and no seeds before steaming them soft. That rather puts a damper on getting everything my body needs to fuel it from plain veg. Add to that the issue of too little or too much more than small portion can make me sick too. I need to eat ever 4-5.5 hours if I am to avoid sickness as well. It's really rather restrictive and thus the Gaaaah when things that actually work and that I depend on to keep me alive get changed. |
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« Reply #2046 on: February 21, 2011, 03:54:57 pm » |
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I don't get paid 'til Wednesday and the ol' rhino is running a bit low. I've budgeted myself £6 a day for Monday and Tuesday for food (brekkie and lunch) at work in our subsidised canteen.
Left my house at 7.45am. Should normally be in work by about 8.20am
This morning I get to the station only to discover my annual season ticket expired yesterday!! D'OH!!
I knew it was due for renewal and re-applied last week (the company supplies the dosh and it's deducted in instalments from my salary) but it hasn't gone through yet and it completely slipped my mind over the weekend. So I need some cash to buy a ticket. Nearest cashpoint is a ten minute walk away (back past my house in the opposite direction). I then remember I have a lottery ticket in my wallet that has a £6 winning line on it. I figure I'll cash that at the newsagents. Nearest one is again back past my house but not as far as the cashpoint. However..it's one I bought in Tesco and it's like a till receipt rather than a regular lottery ticket. Which means only Tesco can cash it. So now I have to walk up to Tesco which is a bit further than the nearest cashpoint.
I cash the ticket and figure that rather than walk all the way back to the station I'll get the bus to Liverpool St and the tube from there. The bus took forever!!! Road works and congestion all the way. Of course being a season ticket holder it's been a while since I paid a proper fare and was shocked to discover it's now £2.20 on the bus and £4.00 to Euston on the tube!
Didn't get into work 'til 9.25am!! Still, I think, I'm not rota'd to go on the Admissions Desk and deal with 'The Public' until 12noon so I can at least ease into the day now. I'm then told that a staff member is sick and I'm required to go on the desk as soon as we open at 10am.
To put the icing on the cake I have to work til 6pm tonight instead of finishing at my usual time of 5pm!
So I'm going to have to get a bus all the way home tonight and to and from work tomorrow and probably Wednesday morning (as it will be cheaper at £2.20 each journey rather than £6.20 if I incorporate the Tube as well) but it is going to take me over an hour each way for what is usually a 35 min commute.
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!
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« Reply #2047 on: February 21, 2011, 04:21:43 pm » |
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"Tell me why...I don't like Mondays..Tell me why..I don't like Mondays..."
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« Reply #2048 on: February 21, 2011, 05:31:45 pm » |
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I hate the renewal process also... but from an entirely different angle.
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« Reply #2049 on: February 21, 2011, 06:23:54 pm » |
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"Tell me why...I don't like Mondays..Tell me why..I don't like Mondays..."
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