Just to keep it short and <3 copy/paste
And anger management? lol
So (hehe), mega pissed today. With amazon.co.uk…….co.yuck more like.
There is a EU law, about electronics and returning/disposing of them. I suck at explaining this (I already tried to someone else and lost them!) so I’m going to quote from a website, http://www.weeeireland.ie/legislation.htm
The WEEE Directive 2002/96/EC is an EU Directive founded on the principle of “Producer Responsibility” and its general objectives are:
- to prevent waste of electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and to promote the reuse, recycling and recovery of such wastes
- to improve the environmental performance of all operators involved in the life cycle of electrical and electronic equipment, e.g. producers, distributors and consumers and in particular those operators directly involved in the treatment of waste electrical and electronic equipment.
Got it? OK.
Off I go today to amazon.co.uk to order something in particular, and do a little browsing. When I browse I spend a lot, a LOT. hehe.
Anyhoo, found the thing I wanted to order defiitely first (screen covers for the iPod Touch/iPhone) and added to basket. Went off browsing, found a couple of funny posters that’d be hilarious at work, ordered them. Then a random link got me onto bed linens, which I have a habit of buyiing a lot of whenever I ge the idea that I need a new *one* :p Find a few I liked and added to basket.
Went to the checkout and got told that half the things I just ordered including BED LINEN and SCREEN COVERS could not be added to my order as they couldn’t be shipped outside the UK.
What. The. Fuck.
Seriously, why? That makes 0 sense. They’ve nothing to do with the Wee charge. This happened before, funnily enough on bed linens also. The supplier was Textiles Direct, so I went to their homepage and I ordered the SAME ones from them NO PROBLEM.
And screen covers? boggles the mind.
Anyhoo, amazon got a letter from me just now. Very disappointed. Amost everything I browsed (Man United poster?!?!?!) couldn’t be shipped outside the UK.
It wouldn’t be *that* bad if fucking amazon.ie didn’t redirect to amazon.co.uk. I mean, seriously.
@Amazon:
Good afternoon,
I’d just like to comment on how awful I’ve found Amazon.co.uk to be for Irish customers. I can’t order half of what I want to order due to this delivery restriction you now have in place. The site is really gone downhill and does not faciliate for Irish customers whatsoever.
It wouldn’t be too bad if your amazon.ie site didn’t redirect to the amazon.co.uk site, giving false hope as to what you can order.
I was just trying to order bed linens, and it can’t be shipped outside the UK? That’s ridiculous. I previously tried to order bed linens from your site, where the supplier was Textiles Direct, but you wouldn’t ship that time either. I went to Textiles Direct website itself and ordered from there which shipped to me, in Ireland, the next day. How do you explain this?
I can order from every other UK site I deal with (and it’s a lot which, since this restriction, has grown let me tell you) and even from the US!!!! But not amazon.co.uk.
And I just looked, I can order half the stuff .co.uk wouldn’t let me order from amazon.com!!!
You lost a customer today. Very disappointed at what this site has become.
So stupid.
I need to stop starting all my blog posts with the word “so”
Habit 
So we have this church behind us, some foreign nations, unsure where from or what their religion is, but in the evenings and on sundays they gather and sing their hearts out. It’s actually quite lovely but the other guys here hate it. Anyway, I met their pastor today, he introduced himself to me, think he was trying to convert me Which, would be a matter of him needing to get in the que.
My grandmother is trying to save me also. She is very religious, and while we’re the same religion and all, she has this massive collection of religious artifacts, statues, pictures, etc. Anyway, she has this cork board with her favourite (I think) religious pictures on it, and stuck right in the middle is one picture of only one grandchild, me. Right in the middle! 23 grandkids and she picks me! I should take a picture of it someday.
Someone here keeps stealing the water from the kettle. Like, I’ll fill it up to make tea, go back 2 mins later and the kettle is empty. When I find them, I will inflict damage.
So ok, a tad (tad) worked up over the stuff in the previous post, bit of an oopsie.
For big events, like Euro2008, the boss doesn’t mind us watching at work – once we don’t forget/neglect to do our jobs.
I’m on the phone to a customer, watching France v Romania in the background (I’ve got Romania remember) and Romania nearly score. What do I do? Yell “Oh fuck off!”, right down the ‘phone. Yep, only me.
Thankfully, the guy saw the funny side and was just laughing and will probably make fun of me for the next 3 months over it.
People who harp on, and on, and on, and on and on about money you owe them, from 2 days ago, when you told them you’d give it to them on a certain date.
Unibrow OFFERED last week to get me gear in the Man United store, since he was going to be over in Manchester. We AGREED that I’d pay him however much it was when it’s charged to his credit card, so I’d know how much they charged him in sterling due to the ever changing currency rate.
He checked his statement on Friday and it had the amount. So I went to write him a cheque but like an idiot, my cheque book had only 2 slips left, one being a “Reorder now!” slip, and the other a ledgement slip, yay. So I ordered one from my bank right then and said I should have the book by Tuesday and he’d get it then. All fine, right? No big deal? Not to me, and certainly wasn’t to him at the time either.
This morning, we’re doing a sweepstakes for Euro2008. We each have 2 teams and everyone gives 5euro and whoever has the winning team gets the lot. So I make a comment about needing that money since I’m collecting it, and gobshite over there makes a smart comment about how wonderful it’d be if I paid my debts. What the fuck.
Fuck off, we had an agreement.
I pretty much told him that. And if he makes one more comment about it I’d kill him, or at least yell a lot or something.
15 mins ago, I’m talking about the match that just started – France v Romania – how it’s me v “the rabbit” in the office as those are our teams (I got feckin’ Romania, typical) and I tell “the rabbit” in a joking way to pay up already. In comes Unibrow with the stupid fucking comment again.
Like seriously. Argh.
I use way more f words in talking to him about bringing it up again than I did in this post. A lot, lot more.
So, someone here used the bathroom, and oh my god.
Now, it’s mostly men here and at times it can be yuck, but whatever happened today – mega gross. It’s all over the place. We’ve even sprayed the place tons of times, but no luck.
I think a pipe burst or something, ’cause this is mega bad.
I discovered a new peeve this weekend – people using the towels in the bathroom and not replacing them. God I hate that.
REPLACE THE DAMN TOWELS!
What’s so hard about that?
On a sad note – R.I.P. Martin.
