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Mudball

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Neighbour’s 15 yr old kid got mugged in broad daylight in our town centre.. masked & hooded youths picked on him , claimed they had knives and made off with his phone. Loss of phone aside, Poor kid is a bag of nerves.
 

Dando

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People who don’t read adverts.

I put an ad on a Facebook golf page for a driver shaft in x flex.

So far all 6 messages have been for everything but x flex
 

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A supplier, recently taken over, has badly let us down on an order, hidden away from giving bad news. An email came through at 6pm tonight advising of a further delay, one they would have known about earlier on in the week. The person sending the email is going on holiday for a week from today and this would have been their last email before shutting off their computer ??.

We have a similar problem, we have used a British company from Swindon for years, good quality product that they supply in a reasonable time. Suddenly they were taken over by an American multinational that has closed the Swindon factory and moved all production to their factory in Birmingham. It’s been an absolute disaster, orders lost, duplicated or made wrongly! We have had two reps who have come and gone and we now have to direct our inquiries to the main “info” email address.
We have some orders that have been outstanding for more than 3 months and we cannot get any information as to when they will be fulfilled…What a ridiculous way to run a business into the ground! Once we have completed our present projects we will be looking for an alternative.
 

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We have a similar problem, we have used a British company from Swindon for years, good quality product that they supply in a reasonable time. Suddenly they were taken over by an American multinational that has closed the Swindon factory and moved all production to their factory in Birmingham. It’s been an absolute disaster, orders lost, duplicated or made wrongly! We have had two reps who have come and gone and we now have to direct our inquiries to the main “info” email address.
We have some orders that have been outstanding for more than 3 months and we cannot get any information as to when they will be fulfilled…What a ridiculous way to run a business into the ground! Once we have completed our present projects we will be looking for an alternative.
It baffles me how companies can run like this. To be that bad ?. Surely it is only a matter of time for any company who acts in that fashion.
 

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We have a similar problem, we have used a British company from Swindon for years, good quality product that they supply in a reasonable time. Suddenly they were taken over by an American multinational that has closed the Swindon factory and moved all production to their factory in Birmingham. It’s been an absolute disaster, orders lost, duplicated or made wrongly! We have had two reps who have come and gone and we now have to direct our inquiries to the main “info” email address.
We have some orders that have been outstanding for more than 3 months and we cannot get any information as to when they will be fulfilled…What a ridiculous way to run a business into the ground! Once we have completed our present projects we will be looking for an alternative.
And the problem is it'll be the worker's carrying the can in the form of redundancy rather than their brain dead bosses
 

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Anyone fancy a prank call to heathrow saying his smuggling drugs in his stomach?
Better still, switch his plane with one that eventually goes to Moscow, then let them know there's a British spy on board, whos been on TV a lot.
I'm sure he'll enjoy the free dentistry and manicure they would afford him;)
 
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