Random Irritations

Orikoru said:
TFL, Oyster cards, bloody ball ache. You would think it'd be easy to transfer a travelcard from one damaged Oyster card to a new one when it's all registered online, but no. Had to purchase new card for £5, top it up with £1.50 on top of that so that I can make a journey with it before they transfer my travelcard to it (why!?), then when I did that and it didn't transfer straight away I had to top it up AGAIN with another fiver so it wasn't in negative amount. So now I'll have to phone up for refunds for journeys, which will leave me with loads of extra top-on money on the card that I don't need. And I'll need to phone for refunds for the journeys I had to make on my debit card on Friday, but that of course will be a different department so I'll have to ring them up twice obviously. :rolleyes:
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Awful. This was always going to happen when they closed the ticket offices. Yeah by all means the ticket offices did need closing in terms of ticket sales but taking away the ability to make changes and refunds to the cards at a station makes it a ballache to call a number who as you rightly pointed out don’t know what their doing.
 
pauljames87 said:
Awful. This was always going to happen when they closed the ticket offices. Yeah by all means the ticket offices did need closing in terms of ticket sales but taking away the ability to make changes and refunds to the cards at a station makes it a ballache to call a number who as you rightly pointed out don’t know what their doing.
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When you login online (having already purchased your new card) it looks like it'll be relatively simple, but the 'transfer to new card' link just didn't work for me. Kept saying I hadn't completed a journey on the new card, or hadn't set my security question - the former of which I just had done (hence having to top up unnecessarily), the latter of which I could only do by phoning them anyway. Such a long process. It seems so stupid to me that you have to complete a journey on the new card before you can switch to, it's such a waste of time and money. They should have a way to simply activate the card in the office before they hand it to you.
 
Orikoru said:
When you login online (having already purchased your new card) it looks like it'll be relatively simple, but the 'transfer to new card' link just didn't work for me. Kept saying I hadn't completed a journey on the new card, or hadn't set my security question - the former of which I just had done (hence having to top on unnecessarily), the latter of which I could only do by phoning them anyway. Such a long process. It seems so stupid to me that you have to complete a journey on the new card before you can switch to, it's such a waste of time and money. They should have a way to simply activate the card in the office before they hand it to you.
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Agreed. They wanted to take it completely away from the old system so left the new system as almost self contained

Half of these problems could be solved in 2 mins at the station but no longer .

Just as frustrating for the people working their when they could help if the machines hadn’t been removed
 
Rachel Riley getting married. To quote "Four Weddings", "Damn I thought I was in there"
 
Not eaten since 8pm yesterday, barely allowed sips of water as got my op today on foot.

Been at hospital since 8am, low and behold just been told by surgical team sorry Mr Wolf you op will no longer be going ahead today we have to rebook due to medical staffing.

Absolutely furious... Missed out in some golf for this, planned things around it and now it's not happening...
 
Near my work there is a zebra crossing that they seem to have repainted in rainbow colours, which I'm assuming is for gay pride. I'm all for equal rights, but couldn't a motorist legitimately claim they didn't know it was a zebra crossing if they fail to stop for a pedestrian now? Seems a bit much.
 
Forgot this one last night (guess I've been irritated by a lot of things recently)... Deliveroo. Absolutely appalling company, just don't bother with them. They lie and say they can bring you food in 30 minutes, an hour and a half later they haven't even found a driver to pick it up. Useless every time.
 
Orikoru said:
Forgot this one last night (guess I've been irritated by a lot of things recently)... Deliveroo. Absolutely appalling company, just don't bother with them. They lie and say they can bring you food in 30 minutes, an hour and a half later they haven't even found a driver to pick it up. Useless every time.
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..or perhaps you didn't.... post #6,122

Hunger can impair memory apparently ;):):LOL:(y)
 
Orikoru said:
Forgot this one last night (guess I've been irritated by a lot of things recently)... Deliveroo. Absolutely appalling company, just don't bother with them. They lie and say they can bring you food in 30 minutes, an hour and a half later they haven't even found a driver to pick it up. Useless every time.
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You could always use your legs to get whatever takeaway your wanting, if you cant cook that is:)
 
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