IanM
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Black Friday "month" has morphed into Cyber Monday.... oh goody!
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SwingsitlikeHogan
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Coming soon…Sucker Saturday…
GreiginFife
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Normally I am an advocate for Richer Sounds and they do usually have good service and decent products and prices. But their new mailer tactic has dropped them severely in my estimation.
They have taken to showing prices in comparison to the "tested at" price (normally by What Hi-Fi that don't look at marketplace deals when testing, normally just MRRP) and then showing the "saving". Example, the Cambridge Evo 75 streamer is now £1099 with a £700 'saving' on the "tested at" price of £1799. OK, you may think... except that tested at price was 2 years ago, and I was looking at the Evo 75 for my son for Christmas only a couple of weeks ago and it was... dun dun... £1099! With no mention of savings or price reductions.
It's just disingenuous practice and it saddens me to see them resort to this sort of tactic.
They have taken to showing prices in comparison to the "tested at" price (normally by What Hi-Fi that don't look at marketplace deals when testing, normally just MRRP) and then showing the "saving". Example, the Cambridge Evo 75 streamer is now £1099 with a £700 'saving' on the "tested at" price of £1799. OK, you may think... except that tested at price was 2 years ago, and I was looking at the Evo 75 for my son for Christmas only a couple of weeks ago and it was... dun dun... £1099! With no mention of savings or price reductions.
It's just disingenuous practice and it saddens me to see them resort to this sort of tactic.
backwoodsman
Tour Winner
The lack of 4pint bottles of red-top milk. 1 & 2 pint bottles aplenty, and all sizes of green & blue. But not the 4pint red. Not today, nor the last two times I've looked. (Tried Tesco, Sainsurys and Asda today). I wonder why?
RichA
Well-known member
Our Tesco has lately lacked the 2 pint bottles we prefer and only had the 4 pinters. Mysterious.
3offTheTee
Tour Rookie
I agree. The price for a premium lager at our Golf Club for visitors is £5.70. This is rural Cumbria, not London nor Edinburgh. We as members receive a discount which was reduced last month by 2.5% and will be reduced again by 2.5% in January reducing the discount to 10%£6.20 for a pint
Whereditgo
Journeyman Pro
Car parking charge at the NEC - £17.95 per car! 
bobmac
Major Champion
Post no. 38,712Car parking charge at the NEC - £17.95 per car!
Orikoru
Tour Winner
When you're having an email exchange with someone, and a third party who was copied in replies saying "Can we get this sorted? Regards ___" Cheers for that fantastically useful email. Because we were all dancing around it on purpose until you said that, you pleb.
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Deleted member 29109
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Standard construction project management technique
If someone has time to write an email they have time to use the phone/zoom.
Emails are best used for information exchange, not discussions & decision making. Making decisions via emails takes forever, and in some cases are used as a cop out not to make a decision.
rudebhoy
Q-School Graduate
Sending an email is a classic ploy to shift a problem onto someone else.
So when your manager says "have you sorted it yet", you say "I've asked XYZ for advice / to look at it / whatever, but they haven't got back to me."
Orikoru
Tour Winner
Personally I feel the opposite, but it's more due to how my brain works. With an email I can say everything that needs saying, with time to plan it out and make sure it has all the relevant information contained before I press send - and I don't particularly care what the other person's opinion is at that stage so I can do without the exchange of waffle over the phone.
Over the phone I imagine I sound unsure of myself as I try and remember what I wanted to say - in written word though I'm straight to the point. 
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
Rapidly approaching 350 Black Friday/Cyber Monday emails since Friday morning...............
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Emails tho are brilliant for a record.. phone calls can easily be ignored
Unless someone follows up the phone call with an email for reference
Orikoru
Tour Winner
I don't even have a work phone anymore. Mine stopped working correctly because it was 8 or 9 years old, I put in a request for a new one and twice nobody approved it. So I said sod you then, people can schedule a Teams meeting if they want to speak to me.
Pin-seeker
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Car parking charge at the NEC - £17.95 per car!
that’s ridiculous
IanM
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I don't even have a work phone anymore. Mine stopped working correctly because it was 8 or 9 years old, I put in a request for a new one and twice nobody approved it. So I said sod you then, people can schedule a Teams meeting if they want to speak to me.
You can "phone" people on Teams!
I worked on a site where they binned desk phones and told folk to use Teams.
PhilTheFragger
Provider of Entertainment for the Golfing Gods 🙄
A couple of weeks ago I decided to give walking football a try, fast approaching 62 and a couple of stone of excess blubber, seemed a great way of improving my fitness.
Fast forward to today and I’m in a hospital knee brace with an appointment to the soft tissue department of the fracture clinic sometime next week.
Walking football is surprisingly competitive and I got taken out good n proper.
Hopefully only be out for a couple of weeks
Needless to say, little Chubby Bro is wetting his panties and chortling loudly
Fast forward to today and I’m in a hospital knee brace with an appointment to the soft tissue department of the fracture clinic sometime next week.
Walking football is surprisingly competitive and I got taken out good n proper.
Hopefully only be out for a couple of weeks
Needless to say, little Chubby Bro is wetting his panties and chortling loudly
HeftyHacker
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You can "phone" people on Teams!
I worked on a site where they binned desk phones and told folk to use Teams.
Nobody at our place has a phone any more, it's all done over Skype which is as temperamental as a honey badger after a big night on the sauce.
I'm another advocate for emails though, as others have said it provides a record of whatever actions people have. I don't mind phoning people but if a load of actions have come out of it I'll generally confirm those with a follow up email so that there's some accountability for whatever was just discussed.
